Railing5132
@Railing5132@lemmy.world
- Comment on What is the longest discontinuous marriage? 3 days ago:
Oof.
- Comment on Lightning bugs 1 week ago:
They are as dumb as a bag of buckles and can be hunted with a hammer. I don’t get the appeal of “big game” hunters making a deal out of deer - they’re fucking speed bumps! And I’ve hunted!
- Comment on Lightning bugs 1 week ago:
And aggressively stupid.
- Comment on It's time to let go 2 weeks ago:
The zest from those sucks! XD
- Comment on What do companies get out of rewards programs 2 weeks ago:
They’re associating it with your debit/credit card, unless you’re buying with cash only. Also, the “identity” isn’t so much the target as the “profile”. Don’t get me wrong, if they are able to personally identify you, the communication will be much more… personalized… (good english) - mailings, texts, emails and coupons for stuff either you’ve bought or adjacent to your stuff (with better margins for the store) addressing you by name, grouped with other purchase-history items. But back to the profile: building a profile of your likes, dislikes, brands and such is valuable data that gets more $ for corporate as the fidelity gets higher. And as it does, the messaging to you gets more targeted.
- Comment on Brow raising article 4 weeks ago:
Oof, that stung.
- Comment on Progress! 4 weeks ago:
Would Demolition Man count, due to the subliminal programming while frozen, or would the “put in cryostasis for 500 years” part kinda be the antethis of OP?
- Comment on Anon launches a space program 4 weeks ago:
And keeping it cool enough for human comfort would be super cheap too!
- Comment on Uranium 🤤 1 month ago:
Confirmed. The one ‘reference’ book I have on my desk. Page 3. The font and line layout is completely changed. The last sentence reads: “and the wolf was like, “dude.””
- Comment on Uranium 🤤 1 month ago:
I can’t remember the # of the original, but I’m certain that’s not what it said. Randall wouldn’t use that, and that’s not his font.
- Comment on temperature 2 months ago:
OK, yeah, that’s fair…
- Comment on temperature 2 months ago:
See that’s my issue with degrees C. It’s not as fine a measurement as degrees F. A difference of 5F is not terribly much, but it is noticeable. A difference of 5C is substantial (to me) and would make me very uncomfortable. So with F, I can know with more precision how uncomfortable I should expect to be :)
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
As long as first-past-the-post elections are the norm, any political scheme will distill to two opposing factions, because that’s the only way to effectively compete. We must push for ranked choice voting.
- Comment on When people say that apps are stealing your data, what exactly does that mean? 4 months ago:
To your last point, yes. The average user doesn’t even glance at the permissions before blindly accepting them. It is also true that an alarmingly high number of users/consumers /don’t care/ about basic privacy concerns that affect things like targeted ads, PII, and information that could be used to affect things like credit score.
- Comment on A lesson in Input Validation 4 months ago:
An old trick you could do on old physical fax machines was to tape a couple of sheets of black construction paper together, feed them into the machine and tape them into a loop. Dial your special person and burn through all their toner. Of course, now it would just generate a bunch of emails.
- Comment on I knew it all along! 4 months ago:
What in the schizophrenia word salad did I just read?
- Comment on Facepalm 6 months ago:
Revanced forums are straight-up toxic. Any setup questions are smugly redirected at the unusable documentation, as you pointed out. For some reason, there’s an elitist attitude in that group.
- Comment on lol 6 months ago:
A poll out today shows 307 electoral votes for Trump.
- Comment on Facepalm 6 months ago:
Setting aside the conflation of “5 minutes” to “5 seconds” for a bit just to say: setting up ReVanced is a gigantic pain in the ass. I’ve only ever been on the android platform. I’ve sideloaded apps. Also been in the technology industry for almost 3 decades. The documentation is dog shit. The official user forum r/revanced, (iirc) is a fucking circlejerk. Their own faq and top pinned “definitive install guide” post is out of date and just plain wrong. Down thread, whenever someone has questions (inevitably, because the documentation is fucked (see previous)), some smarmy asshat has the audacity to direct the confused newb to the same flawed docs.
I swear, fanatics are their own worst enemies. Now, I’m not saying you’re a fanatic. But sideloading that app in 5 mins (or seconds, depending on which sentence you’re relying on)? Yeah, bullshit.
- Comment on dont call me Shirley 6 months ago:
I’ve been using Sync since The Great Exodus. One feature I like is the “everything across the fediverse” view, but I’m not seeing that so readily in Connect.
- Comment on dont call me Shirley 6 months ago:
What the shit?!? Where does this live?
- Comment on This concept for budget double decker airline seating 6 months ago:
The moment of inertia on that upper deck is going to snap those seats like a twig. While I’m sure there’s airline execs foaming at the mouth and lobbyists pushing wheelbarrows of money, I’ll drive before I get in one of those.
Also, more passengers plus less overhead bin storage means less cargo hold capacity, meaning air cargo (a valuable income stream, particularly on transcontinental or transoceanic flights, where the widebodies would be most used) would be cut back by more checked bags. And more discontent by pax that now have to pay for checked bag fees.
I dunno, I just don’t see the benefits.
- Comment on This concept for budget double decker airline seating 6 months ago:
“would not be in that position”?!? What version of reality are you smoking where these seats are gonna freaking move to vertical? Have you ever been in an airliner? “upright an locked in their vertical positions” - ever heard that? Putting goddamned laz-e-boys in the middle of an airliner is gonna lead to corpses in the event of a catestrophoc accident. (not that it would stop the airline industry, if it could)
- Comment on This concept for budget double decker airline seating 6 months ago:
These will not see the light of day until the industry coughs up enough money to buy off enough legislation oversight to make the FAA egress rules “agreeable”.
- Comment on Please stop the ride, I want off 7 months ago:
On the flip side, the world found out there was a big hole developing in the ozone layer, determined that it was a Bad Thing™, figured out the cause, and came together to reverse it for the betterment of humanity. Raising awareness of the problems with CFCs was a big part of that. Did each individual with a can of hair spray or a freon-based air conditioner have to make the conscious choice to select different products? No, but public sentiment and market pressure eventually became overwhelming and global accord was realized. (greatly simplified for brevity).
- Comment on Please stop the ride, I want off 7 months ago:
“nothing bad happened to me that I can tell so it must not be a real thing.”
- Comment on The fact that people this stupid exist 8 months ago:
And men mostly spread it to women, who develop cervical cancer.