Steve
@Steve@communick.news
- Comment on Which wired earbuds do you recommend? 3 hours ago:
Maytak audio is fantastic.
- Comment on Why are Clark and Lois such terrible people and parents in Superman & Lois? 14 hours ago:
You mean the Homelander who told his son: It doesn’t matter if you kill people, they’re just humans? That Homelander is a better father than Clark? Because Clark is a hypocrite?
- Comment on Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger? 15 hours ago:
There are no real alternatives to Google Messages. There are lots of SMS apps. None of them support RCS, because Google won’t let them. So any alternatives will be a downgrade at lest in that regard.
I’ve used most of the SMS apps out there, none are nearly as nice a Google Messages. It’s a shame, but it’s true. I’ve kinda settled on Textra for now, but I’m always looking for something better.
- Comment on Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger? 15 hours ago:
No we were talking about Signal.
That’s what the comment you responded to mentioned. - Comment on Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger? 15 hours ago:
You can do all that using any other SMS app and Signal.
Literally the only gain is having one app instead of two. - Comment on Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger? 15 hours ago:
If you don’t evangelize all your contacts into using it, you wouldn’t get any benefit from using it for SMS anyway. That’s they removed SMS support, it confused people about the privacy of SMS messages.
- Comment on Why does the colour blonde apparently only exist in human hair? 1 day ago:
Blond hair isn’t a single color. There are lighter and darker individual strands.
What color would pick? Give us a hex code.
- Comment on Times sure have changed 2 days ago:
Stop exaggerating. That TV weighs barely more than half that.
- Comment on Times sure have changed 2 days ago:
Stop exaggerating. That TV weighs barely more than half that.
- Comment on Dumb stance 2 days ago:
It could be possible.
But what objective moral framework exists? One that doesn’t depend on any observer. - Comment on Do all wealthy people in LA drive Supercars? 3 days ago:
All? Of course not.
When using all or every in a question, the answer is pretty reliably, no.
- Comment on Dumb stance 3 days ago:
Something objective is independent of interpretation or observation.
Using morality and objective together, means you’re using at least one of those words wrong.
- Comment on Dumb stance 3 days ago:
Which is exactly why it’s subjective.
- Comment on Dumb stance 3 days ago:
Then it’s not objective. It’s subjective to attributes of whats involved.
- Comment on Dumb stance 3 days ago:
You didn’t evaluate the morality of the rocks.
- Comment on Dumb stance 3 days ago:
Claiming morality is objective, requires a moral judgement for one rock falling on another and crushing it.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
It’s also not left wing architecture. It’s the cross roads of a left wing housing initiative, and a right wing refusal to spend money on the public good. What you get is something akin to unsecured prison architecture.
- Comment on When if ever did "Throw Money at The Problem:" actually work? Instead of being about 75 percent useless? 4 days ago:
Exactly. You need more money to have that problem.
And like I said they’re exaggerating how much more money they need. - Comment on When if ever did "Throw Money at The Problem:" actually work? Instead of being about 75 percent useless? 4 days ago:
Because their money already fixed all the kinds of problems you have. They have new problems now. They’re also exaggerating those problems.
- Comment on When if ever did "Throw Money at The Problem:" actually work? Instead of being about 75 percent useless? 4 days ago:
Every moment of every day, money solves peoples problems.
It’s kind of amazing how money realy is a problem solving superpower. - Comment on Is Kagi Worth It? 6 days ago:
I don’t know where you are. But in the US or most of Europe. Again it’s a single lunch. A cheap fast food lunch. If you have a hard time affording fast food once a month, I get it. But I’d easily skip one meal for a month of better internet.
- Comment on Is Kagi Worth It? 6 days ago:
It’s not expensive. For the price of a single cheap lunch. Your main gateway to the internet is no longer trying to use you to make money from advertisers. It has the largest most capable feature set of any search provider. Again for the price of a single cheap lunch. It would be the last subscription I cancel.
- Comment on Is Kagi Worth It? 6 days ago:
It’s totally worth it. And you hit the major reason for me also. “Ranking” results is fantastic. And lenses to narrow down results academic sources is too useful anytime you want real info.
I started with the 300mo. I was able to keep under the limit without too much effort. But eventually I upgraded and it’s nice to not think about it anymore.
- Comment on People Who Love Corporate BS Are Bad at Their Jobs, New Cornell Research Confirms 1 week ago:
This article cites a meta study of 4 others.
- Comment on What is hubris as an adjective? 1 week ago:
Your saying they aren’t arrogant assholes?
- Comment on Lets say the Dems found a canindate with a criminal history and backed him or her who would it be or you like to be? Taking a page from Republican playbook. 1 week ago:
A Dr. providing compassionate euthanasia assistance.
- Comment on What is hubris as an adjective? 1 week ago:
Hubris is un-earned arrogance.
Some people are appropriately arrogant. It’s annoying as fuck, but you can’t argue with their results. - Comment on Has anyone tried making a free software, federated, advertising system? 1 week ago:
People need to be okay paying for things online.
Communick is a paid fediverse provider.
I pay $30/year because I believe it’s worth paying for.It makes sense for different servers to have different financing models. Ads I’m sure will have their place. But I imagine they won’t be popular.
- Comment on Taxes are cool 1 week ago:
NO TAXES!?!
I never said anything close to no taxes! I said the opposite of no taxes!I said the purpose of taxes isn’t what people think it is.
Governments don’t need to take money so they have money to spend.That doesn’t remotely mean I don’t want taxes, or taxes aren’t necessary.
Taxes are absolutely necessary!
Taxes are the flip side of government spending.The government spends into the economy with one hand, and taxes out of the economy with the other hand. Taxes are the real inflation control.
- Comment on Taxes are cool 1 week ago:
99% of that is correct. That is exactly what governments do.
The part that’s wrong is tiny, but absolutely foundational to what I’m saying,
What governments do, doesn’t necessarily correlate with how things work. What they do, and have done for centuries, could be wrong.
I’m arguing that it is wrong. I’m saying that everyone has been running their economies and making monetary policy decisions based on wrong ideas, since fiat currencies were invented.