DeceasedPassenger
@DeceasedPassenger@lemmy.world
- Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content 3 days ago:
They tell their manager. That’s it. Enough of them tell their manager, that manager has to tell their superior. It goes upwards from there.
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 1 week ago:
Well I doubt they’re volunteering, probably paid. And not everyone has the luxury of being able to quit a job based on how it clashes with their own values.
If they’re volunteering though, then I agree with you 100%.
- Comment on (Laser) Printer go brrrr 1 week ago:
My home office used to be extremely cold in the mornings, somewhat humid. And printer lives by the window. Meaning if I printed in the morning as the sun rose, I could see just a bit of steam coming off the page at the rollers as it was printing. Along with the warmth of the paper, and a cup of coffee… Nirvana.
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 3 weeks ago:
Fwiw, my mom had a similar debate and decided classical music instead. Came from some company called baby beethoven. So I’m biased but I think music is probably best. Words won’t really be understood anyway just tones. No angry sounds around baby.
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 3 weeks ago:
Agreed, for the features included the premium is genuinely worth it. Much better company to give money to than spotify.
The UI has lagged behind a bit but there are firefox and chrome extensions to improve/customize the web experience to a pretty decent extent. I do wish they could get their shit together with the placement of stations on mobile. Still as you said it consistently finds new music. When I try to look at a song’s “radio” on spotify, it gets me angry 0-100 real quick. Why? Well I ran a small experiment.
I started by going to a song radio playlist. From there, go to the radio playlist of the first song. Now add every one of those songs to another playlist. Back up, go to the next song radio, repeat while excluding duplicates, for 10 songs.
Each of the radio stations had about 180 songs. So the final playlist would hopefully have in the neighborhood of 500, accounting for duplicate overlap. But how many songs did I actually end up with? 195. The recommendation algo is not designed for discovery it’s designed for comfort and familiarity at every angle. And i hate it.
Sorry this turned into a spotify rant aha I just needed to share that experiment after seeing my own results.
- Comment on Ahem, well well 4 weeks ago:
That’s why I specifically try to avoid saying that, and instead say “important question”. Almost always interchangeable, gets the point across, and you don’t sound like a subservient AI.
- Comment on A very curious situation indeed 4 weeks ago:
Immediately kill myself as quick as possible. That’s genuinely one of my worst fears is being entered by a bug. I have an obsessive habit of wiping the inside/underneath the lip of the toilet every time I use it just in case there could be a spider. There has never been a spider. Yet I’m compelled to do it every single time.
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t seen anyone mention Pandora but it’s still around. I kept using it even when I was paying for spotify. Over and over again Pandora has played new (to me) artists that have really caught my ear. I listen to a lot of different things and it’s been responsible for probably 50% over the last 15 years that I’ve been using it. The ads are less invasive than spotify and can be easily removed with uBlock origin in the web player. Can’t recommend it highly enough.
- Comment on Ed Sheer-enough 1 month ago:
Seriously. It’s peak reddit behavior. Part of what made lemmy feel like such a breath of fresh air when I migrated was the distinct lack of karma-farm-esque posts. I’m unfortunately speaking in the past tense now.
- Comment on Stunt Performer Sues Kevin Costner and ‘Horizon 2’ Over Unscripted Rape Scene 2 months ago:
Unions are about collective power, and power brings many things, one of them being survival.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 months ago:
They are hollow, only a couple millimeters thick. They melt in less than a minute.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 months ago:
The deletion is absolute (all atoms, creates a true void), and infinite in size vertically. Your first use of this power results in massive tectonic shifts and (admittedly low-key) global chaos.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 months ago:
Everyone within 100 meters feels an urge to look in your direction as soon as you think about using your power.
- Comment on Me too 2 months ago:
Rest in peace, Terry. That type of person is always the most interesting to be around. The best conversations I’ve ever had have all been outdoors.
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 2 months ago:
Weird as in outside of the norm? Sure, just a bit. Weird as in dangerous or creepy? Not in the slightest. If I were out for a walk and saw someone juggling at the park, that would make me happy. I wish I felt as comfortable to do things outside.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Your prof is incredibly turned on by your hot hairy pits and needs you to tone it down so he can educate properly, lmao. That’s my guess (best explanation for hairiness comment)
- Comment on And because you deserve it, here's one from the top shelf 6 months ago:
Making a good Overly Cropped is like a fine art. To crop a piece that leaves the reader wanting more is to create a story and a mystery. Great stuff.
- Comment on Let someone what I is asian girl 8 months ago:
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- Comment on Microsoft Layoffs Hit Call of Duty Warzone Mobile, Which ‘Didn't Hit as Big as Hoped’ 10 months ago:
Would you mind sharing a link? Piqued my interest
- Comment on Community solves homelessness... By paying cops over 3 million dollars 11 months ago:
I think you’re being intentionally obtuse. The article is anything but vague. Are they supposed to name the exact agencies and businesses involved, or can we reasonably assume that Laydon is referring to state funded assistance? Here’s some select bits of the article since you don’t want to read.
Douglas County had created a team of experts, known as the “Homeless Engagement, Assistance and Resource Team," to help tackle the issue. The HEART team, as county officials call it, is made up of experts in behavioral health and who are deployed in branded vehicles to help people living on the streets.
Here’s how the county handles it. When a report is made about a panhandler or a homeless person, a HEART vehicle is deployed to the area and make an assessment.
Laydon called Douglas County’s approach “housing plus,” which, he said, is a balanced approach to “trauma-informed practices.”
“For us,” Laydon added, “‘housing plus’ means wraparound. So, it is housing, but it is also food, shelter, job counseling, mental health counseling. It’s treating those substance abuse issues that we know often come hand in hand with a lot of the issues that the unhoused face.”
- Comment on Community solves homelessness... By paying cops over 3 million dollars 11 months ago:
Did you read the article? The actual details of the program are pretty far from what you say here. Don’t have time to bullet point at the moment but please trust me and just take a full look. As someone with deep personal experience around this issue, their method might be a genuine answer to the problem, when properly scaled. Not the first time a plan like theirs has been tried either; Olympia, WA has a similar program for direct outreach.
- Comment on Do "chest pillows" hurt for women to do? 1 year ago:
Where are we again?