Limonene
@Limonene@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 5 days ago:
Turn signals are not optional.
- Comment on Release the kraken 1 week ago:
How can you tell if this one is? The text differences within and between panels 1 and 2 are indistinguishable (to my eyes) from JPEG artifacts.
- Comment on How to get rid of Whatsapp? 1 week ago:
I can’t seem to upload images, but if you image-search for:
“we’ve completed our review and found this account’s activity goes against whatsapp’s terms of service”
You will find screenshots you can download and use as fake proof that you are banned.
When I had to contact Facebook to get an account unlocked, they took about a month to respond to each email, and never did unlock the account no matter how much proof I sent them. I expect WhatsApp is similar, since it’s owned by the same company. So just say that they hardly respond, and they say things they’ve already said, ask you to try things you’ve already tried, or they ask for documents you’ve already sent them.
Why were you banned? Maybe you accidentally signed in on a phishing page, and they sent spam using your account. Maybe you created an account, and your first action was to contact a person you hadn’t contacted before (obviously), and it was marked as spam. Maybe you signed up on an IP address previously used by a spam-sending datacenter (this happened a lot to me at my old house). Maybe your phone number was banned from WhatsApp before you got it, but you already gave it to too many people to be able to change it.
- Comment on Can't solve the captcha because I don't know what `undefined` is 3 weeks ago:
“Your computer is sending automated requests.”
- Comment on Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind? 3 weeks ago:
If you’re trans: Start making plans to flee. You don’t have to carry them out right now. But do get a passport, even if it has to have your deadname. Canada or Mexico probably wouldn’t accept a US refugee just for being trans right now, but that will change in the future.
If you’re an immigrant, or even a permanent resident: It’s unsafe in the US right now. I wouldn’t fault you if you left today. However, everyone’s circumstances are different. Maybe you want to stay and support your spouse and kids who are citizens, and you’re willing to risk your life to do it. It depends on the circumstances.
Anyone else: Stay and fight.
- Comment on You better say "Thank You"! 4 weeks ago:
This looks like AI. I wish you would label it if it is.
- Comment on I don't envy the humans pre-dentistry 4 weeks ago:
Pre-dentistry, a bunch of your teeth would have fallen out before your wisdom teeth came in. There would have been space for the wisdom teeth so they wouldn’t need to come in sideways.
- Comment on This whole "Sign in to prove you're not a bot" thing is pissing me off 5 weeks ago:
In incognito or private browsing mode, you are way more likely to be blocked or forced to fill out a captcha, because the site won’t see any tracking cookies you would otherwise have.
To Google, preserving your privacy looks the same as being a bot. Using a VPN, clearing cookies, using private browsing, being signed out of a Google account, are all things that improve your privacy but look like bot activity. Google can use the excuse of blocking bots when their actual goal is tracking.
- Comment on This whole "Sign in to prove you're not a bot" thing is pissing me off 5 weeks ago:
OP isn’t trying to post, just trying to view. There is no justification for a captcha there.
- Comment on What’s the difference between pansexuality and bisexuality? 1 month ago:
One woman told me that she identifies as bisexual, even though she is attracted to all genders including non-binary, because she has two “modes” of dating. When dating women, she prefers to be the pursuer. When dating men, she prefers to be the pursued. I’m not sure which way she usually went with enbies.
- Comment on Between Linux or Windows which do you think will be first to have a viable OS for quantum computers? 1 month ago:
I think quantum computers may be impossible. But if they are possible, they will be a USB/PCIe accessory that works alongside an ordinary processor running an ordinary operating system.
I expect Linux will have a driver for quantum computers before Windows.
- Comment on DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million. 1 month ago:
The amount saved was actually negative, because the contract would have brought in more than $8M in value.
- Comment on Anon wants $3 million 1 month ago:
Pretty much any tool with a cutting surface made of tungsten, high speed steel, or industrial diamond.
But one source I found says they only let people use their feet.
- Comment on "Washington Recession Begins": DC Active Home Listings Soar, Jobless Claims Spike As DOGE Drains Swamp 1 month ago:
This doesn’t seem like a reliable news source. The article claims to be “news”, and is not marked anywhere as “opinion”, yet is clearly full of opinion:
What may unfold is an economic downturn that could rip through the unaccountable federal bureaucracy in the DC Swamp that won’t get a bailout this time from taxpayers.
I would recommend not linking to zerohedge.com .
- Comment on If I’m mostly attracted to men, is it «wrong» to consider myself pan? 2 months ago:
Calling yourself bisexual/pansexual would not be inaccurate. I think “Kinsey 2” or “Kinsey 1” might be good concise descriptions to use, but only you can decide what is best.
(The Kinsey scale is a model, and therefore imperfect, but useful.)
- Comment on Why do some people assume all immigrants are illegal and should "go back to where they came from"? Shouldn't that logic apply to all non-Native Americans? 2 months ago:
A lot of people are influenced by alt-right news (Fox News, Newsmax, OAN) who keep repeating the false claim that undocumented immigrants are mostly gangsters and violent criminals.
Trump said, regarding the first deportation flight:
Three hundred people sitting on a plane. Every single one of them is either a murderer, a drug lord, a kingpin, the head of the mob, or a gang member
Yet none of those deportees had any criminal conviction in either country (according to Newsweek, a slightly-right news source).
- Comment on I liked Star Trek before it got woke. /s 2 months ago:
Don’t forget The Measure of a Man. We literally watched that in 9th grade American History, as a commentary about slavery.
- Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit 2 months ago:
You get more protection from your credit card company than Paypal. If your item doesn’t arrive or doesn’t work, you can file a chargeback and get a full refund. It’s worked for me every time I tried it (Visa card from Royal Credit Union).
- Comment on gottem 2 months ago:
What is this?
- Comment on The words "diversity", "equity" and "inclusion" seem to be blocked from NIH website's search function 2 months ago:
Yeah, the search terms seem to have an HTTP 302 redirect to the domain’s home page.
Searching for “diversityy” shows unredacted results for the word “diversity” as if it had automatically corrected the spelling, bolding the corrected search term.
- Comment on Sure. Whatev's 2 months ago:
A vitamin is any essential dietary component, which is organic (otherwise it would be a dietary mineral), and is not a fat, protein/amino acid, or carbohydrate (although carbohydrates are considered non-essential).
Vitamin D is conditionally essential. If you have enough sunlight, your body can synthesize it.
- Comment on Sure hope my landlord *loves* pizza 2 months ago:
Same here. The pizza ran out in the first 10 minutes, and many employees got nothing.
- Comment on Solidarity amongst the instances! 2 months ago:
Feudposting? What does that word mean?
- Comment on GPD WIN 4 handheld plans to support Valve's SteamOS in 2025 3 months ago:
Those are pretty nice specs. I would buy one right now if I didn’t have a Deck already, and if it didn’t come with a Windows tax.
- Comment on new laptop :3 (plus windows xp pc) 3 months ago:
You may not like it, but the rules say “any operating system is fine”. I don’t like Windows either, but this post is technically correct.
- Comment on New social experiment 3 months ago:
.local
- Comment on New social experiment 3 months ago:
fstab
- Comment on Hurry 3 months ago:
debian-live-12.8.0-amd64-mate.iso
- Comment on Amazon: The same 31 products you don't want, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again 3 months ago:
I didn’t collapse or uncollapse anything on the page before taking the screenshot. On loading, all the spam sections are uncollapsed, and the “specifications” section is collapsed.
- Comment on Amazon: The same 31 products you don't want, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again 3 months ago:
The “specifications” section is a collapsed section about a quarter of the way down. It starts out collapsed on every page, even if you open it up every time.