aesthelete
@aesthelete@lemmy.world
- Comment on The land before time 2 hours ago:
I was in the burbs so we all covered the whole thing.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 14 hours ago:
I downloaded jiggler on my MacBook and never looked back.
- Comment on The land before time 15 hours ago:
I really liked being a pizza delivery driver pre-GPS. It did require some skill, but you learned quickly about how things work:
- Is it a complex of some sort (e.g., trailer park, apartment, condo)? Look for a unit map.
- Evens on one side of the street, odds on the other
- You learn all of those weird roads that have the same name in two disconnected parts of town
It was easily the best “shitty job” I’ve ever had.
- Comment on It's not about physical vs digital games, it's about ownership 4 days ago:
That’s a bingo
- Comment on PlayStation’s Physical Media-Free Future Isn’t Just Concerning, It’s Offensive 6 days ago:
It’s not the physical media that makes this suck. It’s the fact that there are no protections in place for ordinary customers to prevent them from being abused like this.
Virtual digital media is just fine. The problem is that it’s all DRM-wrapped garbageware that is “licensed” not owned. It ought to be fucking illegal to sell this kind of shit.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 2 weeks ago:
Almost but not quite. If he would’ve stayed here and faced the music then it’s an unqualified yes, but his fleeing to Russia and hiding out there makes it a maybe to me.
I understand that he still was brave and gave up a lot to expose the information, but I think it may have had more impact, and would’ve been more heroic had he stayed here.
- Comment on Al is coming for your backup plan as well 3 weeks ago:
Am I the only one that thinks that robot sports would be pretty badass if it could exist?
Like I know they have the battle bot arena and shit, but it would be pretty awesome to have like American football with robots. Instead of injuries, you’d have field technicians, engineers trying to repair the bots on the sideline after major collisions. Seems awesome to be honest.
- Comment on There was a time when people had to deal with all of these being separate 4 weeks ago:
I don’t remember having to deal with USB-C earbuds before the iPhone.
- Comment on This place is a prison 5 weeks ago:
These people aren’t your friends
- Comment on 99% of CEOs Expect AI-Driven Layoffs in the Next Two Years 1 month ago:
I suspect this is kinda like outsourcing which they similarly couldn’t manage because they’re bad at management.
If a human cannot make sense of your directives, how will a chatbot?
- Comment on Dress for the job you want, not the job you have 1 month ago:
Witchya candies
- Comment on Channel 5 found Gen-z "looksmaxxing" influencer Clavicular is funded by Peter Thiel 2 months ago:
It’s always the guy you most suspect
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 2 months ago:
The basic idea is the same. No state needed. People function to help each other, etc.
Sorry, I’m a big David Graeber guy and he made a point to discuss this in some of his work.
I don’t know if you’re in software, but IMO communism is like agile. It works well at small scale, but once a community loses autonomy and division of labor becomes a thing…it’s over.
Socialism is an attempt at SAFE (scaled agile framework for enterprise). IMO it doesn’t really work, but I do like the idea of having markets where it makes sense, and having social programs that are not profit motivated…so basically Bernie’s position.
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 2 months ago:
Communism of a sort existed…in tribes.
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 2 months ago:
🤞
- Comment on I'm nit sure tbh 2 months ago:
Both. It’s both.
- Comment on Some neighbors have no chill 2 months ago:
Ok so after another reply it was then. Bye!
- Comment on Some neighbors have no chill 2 months ago:
I’d recommend you bow out of this one, it’s abundantly clear that you’re in over your head here.
I’d recommend you see a shrink because you’re escalating the importance of yourself and of one of the stupidest arguments I’ve ever seen.
Should I block you now, or after the next wall of text you produce?
- Comment on Some neighbors have no chill 2 months ago:
That a particular post “sounds” fake as hell is indeed a specific, qualified claim.
I’m not saying that nothing similar ever happened at any point in time. I’m saying that this particular post sounds fake as hell.
- Comment on Some neighbors have no chill 2 months ago:
That is not what I commented.
Why are so many arguments on the Internet started like this where a specific, qualified claim is made and then the response tries to pretend a universal, unqualified, ridiculous claim was made instead?
- Comment on Some neighbors have no chill 2 months ago:
Sounds fake as hell tbh
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 2 months ago:
They lock essential things (e.g. food, water, shelter, medical services, etc.) behind a paywall because they know it is not true that people do not always—or even usually—want money.
But people do need essentials to live, and if they’re the only ones who can give you money to get those things, then they can order you to do what they want instead.
- Comment on Strange are afoot at the Walter Reed 2 months ago:
They did open the strait though, just to anyone who will pay a $2 million bribe in not USD.
- Comment on Woke 3 months ago:
People say I’m weird. Okay, I was raised by a very weird family in very weird circumstances, doing my best to be sane and normal in a weird situation.
I feel for you. At least some members of my family are either psychopaths, have narcissistic personality disorder, or both. I think the comorbidity there is pretty common.
The lifelong damage caused by being raised by a pack of wolves is real.
- Comment on Woke 3 months ago:
Having empathy in this society run by psychopaths is depressing and anxiety inducing indeed.
It bleeds into everything in this whole place. You know when you’re using something — a government system, a website, a support line, an application — and it feels like nobody thought about how shitty the experience would be for you? That’s what it feels like to live in a society that has no empathy. The people that design these systems do not give a shit about how you’ll feel being subjected to them, because they have no empathy.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 3 months ago:
We’re finally learning that it indeed sucks to suck
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 3 months ago:
I remember ratio FTP sites
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
It makes more sense to me conceptually if I just imagine that most people in this country in the last decade had the tops of their skulls removed, had someone take a dump in there, and then seal it back up.
Seems like there are a lot of 💩🧠s floating around nowadays.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 4 months ago:
I wondered what Nathan Fielder was up to lately.
- Comment on meanwhile on instagram 4 months ago:
What even are these platforms? Why would anyone use them?