TootSweet
@TootSweet@lemmy.world
- Comment on Americans will find a new way to ruin their tastebuds every single day 3 days ago:
Yes, Officer. That one right there.
- Comment on Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term? 3 days ago:
“They go low, we go high.” Translated “they break the rules and try to overthrow the government, we roll over and beg for more.”
- Comment on New Drake Diss just dropped 3 days ago:
pooping in the fridge
- Comment on How to report trolly/scammy account 3 days ago:
There’s a report feature for user accounts and for posts and for comments. For user accounts specifically, click on their usename to go to the user details page and select “report user.” On the web interface, it’s just a button. On Jerboa, it’s in a menu that pops up when you click the triple dots button at the top right. I’d imagine most Lemmy clients support that feature.
- Comment on Pray they don't alter it any further 3 days ago:
At least with streaming services, you don’t have to call every year to get a decent price.
- Comment on My favorite photo from my vacation! 5 days ago:
It’s how many Pokemon there were in the first generation.
But more importantly, this masterpiece.
- Comment on My favorite photo from my vacation! 5 days ago:
Ordinarily I downvote AI-generated content outside of AI-specific communities, but a) by posting here OP’s admitting it’s shit, and b) the current score is 151 and I don’t want to change that.
- Comment on histories mysteries 2 weeks ago:
My mother got really interested in these things a while ago. I think she mostly buys into the glove-knitting theory. Whatever the case, I 3D printed her a model of one and it’s sitting on the mantle over her fireplace.
- Comment on What do companies get out of rewards programs 3 weeks ago:
Anyone who says I’m a Nestle spam bot is a dirty liar.
I’m actually a Nabisco spam bot.
- Comment on What do companies get out of rewards programs 3 weeks ago:
First, more business. (If you get “rewards” like discounts or whatever, you’re psychologically more likely to return more often. Or at least some customers are and it’s not like they can really offer rewards only to the ones who are more likely to return.)
Second, and probably more significantly, data about you that they can use to do targeted advertising at you or sell to others (for a profit) who want to do targeted advertising to you.
If the rewards program involves a phone app or web app, that can get access to a lot of information on your phone or information about your browsing habits. And that can also be directly used or sold to someone else who wants data on you.
You’re definitely justified in being paranoid. It’s very much the kind of thing where if you stop buying Oreos regularly, Facebook will start sending you Oreo advertisements. (Oreos are just an example. It could be any company/brand that they advertise to you this way. But you know what I mean.)
- Comment on Somebody do something. Somebody? 4 weeks ago:
Wait, wtfhappenedin1971.com doesn’t answer the question? Damn.
- Comment on sleep paralysis 5 weeks ago:
Sleep paralysis is just the summoning ritual for the Hat Man.
- Comment on Does YouTube Shorts resemble Tiktok? 5 weeks ago:
Yup.
- Comment on Llamas with Hats: Epilogue Kickstarter 5 weeks ago:
Oh god I hope they’re good. I do not want to see Llamas With Hats retroactively ruined.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Oh look. A 12 year old.
- Comment on happy spring :) 1 month ago:
Many years ago, my grandmother asked me to plant a potted plant for her. I took the spade to the designated spot and stuck the tip down atop the ground cover there and something underneath screeched.
Turned out to be a clutch of rabbits much like the one in the picture. All of them were fine. Just startled. I wouldn’t have known rabbits ever made any sound whatsoever if I hadn’t happened to disturb them.
- Comment on How do I stop wanting to be on a relationship? 1 month ago:
Hopefully it ends up helping! Best of luck. :)
- Comment on How do I stop wanting to be on a relationship? 1 month ago:
Look into “avoidant attachment styles”. (And, really, attachment styles in general.)
Perhaps even look into avoidant personality disorder and/or schizoid personality disorder. (I’m not diagnosing you or anything, but what you’re talking about is something I’ve heard frequently in relation to schizoid personality disorder. I’m not quite as familiar with avoidant personality disorder, but it’s sometimes described as “a lesser kind of schizoid personality disorder.” Also, don’t confuse “schizoid” and “schizophrenia.” They’re very different things.)
This isn’t the answer you asked for, but perhaps a relationship with someone who likes their personal space as much as you do would work out. It might not be the most “traditional” sort of relationship you could find, but it might work out well.
But more to your question, the best answer that I can come up with is therapy.
- Comment on A face only a mother could love 1 month ago:
I think the OP i mage is a chihuahua. Not sure about yours, but doesn’t say chihuahua to me. (Or at least not entirely chihuahua.)
- Comment on Alpha life 1 month ago:
The first generation were the best.
- Comment on Totally hiring this guy instead of a eulogy. 1 month ago:
How to make sure the ghost of Aunt Gertrude haunts you for eternity.
- Comment on What horrible errors are people like you guilty of? 1 month ago:
I work in software. If you go to college for a bachelors in Computer Science, (I hope) you’ll be taught the story of the Therac-25.
Beyond that, blockchain, LLMs, stable diffusion/DALLE/etc.
- Comment on every comment section 1 month ago:
Can you share examples of this happening?
(I mean, obviously this thread has lots of “you should use Linux”'s in it, but those are clearly satirical.)
- Comment on Placebo Méme Forte, now twice as efficient 1 month ago:
I can’t read the word “placebo” without hearing it in the voice of Dale Gribble from King of the Hill.
- Comment on There is one uncleared level remaining in Super Mario Maker, with 18 days to go before the servers shut down 1 month ago:
I know I’ve seen “cryptographically secure” levels (as in, you can only possibly beat it within a human lifespan if you know the specific “combination” or “cryptographic key”), but maybe only in Super Mario Maker 2.
And I’m not sure if in 1 you can inspect the whole level. The SMM2 cryptographically secure ones I’ve seen rely on mechanisms that must remain off-screen the whole time or else it’s trivial to derive the key.
- Comment on What would happen if all of humanity don't need to work any more ? 1 month ago:
What makes you think we “need” to work now?
- Comment on Nerding out in group is fun tho 1 month ago:
You asked for it. ;)
"Actually, Sonny wanted the term of copyright protection to last forever. I am informed by staff that such a change would violate the Constitution. … As you know, there is also [then-MPAA president] Jack Valenti’s proposal for term to last forever less one day. Perhaps the Committee may look at that next Congress."
- Mary Bono
The line in the Constitution that justifies the existence of copyright law in the U.S. specifically requires that copyright last “for limited times.” The “proposal for term to last forever less one day” Mary Bono referenced basically meant that Congress should extend copyright every time anything ever gets too close to entering the public domain.
- Comment on Nerding out in group is fun tho 1 month ago:
Guy enthusiastically explaining something to bored girlfriend in stands of a sports arena meme.
And then in 1998 Congress passed the so-called “Sonny Bono” Copyright Term Extension Act extending the term of copyright to 95 years for work-for-hire works and life plus 70 years for other works and you wouldn’t believe what Sonny Bono’s widow Congresswoman Mary Bono said about how long copyright terms should last.
- Comment on Rusty little xenomorphs in the trash today 2 months ago:
I’m getting Bionicle vibes and it’s awesome.
- Comment on mycology 2 months ago:
The coolest. (That’s a pretty big list, but still barely scratches the surface!)