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- Comment on ‘Shameless’ MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski blasted for hypocrisy over Trump visit: ‘Bending the knee’ 3 days ago:
In the past two years, Trump has called for every major American TV news network to be punished, according to a CNN review of his speeches and social media posts.
He has imprecisely but repeatedly invoked the government’s licensing of broadcast TV airwaves and has said on at least 15 occasions that certain licenses should be revoked
- Comment on Ladies and Gentlemen, the Northeast [US] Is Burning 3 days ago:
Sad to hear but… GaS pRiCeS aRe ToO HigH!
- Comment on What positive things do you expect from Trumps upcoming four years? 1 week ago:
The slow death of the American empire. It may push the rest of the world to a geopolitical realignment that excludes the US. This could allow international organizations to proceed without having the US veto human rights, actions against climate change, or things like that.
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure about the circlejerk thing. I am vehemently anti car and would like to circlejerk on one of the many “fuck cars” communities, but any post that gets some attention gets filled by comments of people not from those communities.
So I very often see posts where I agree with the content but the discussion and the comments are all over the place, from car apologists that are like “but IIIIIIIII live in the woods therefore public transit is not feasible for anyone”, and it makes “circlejerking” difficult.
Like, if you have a community about mushroom and want to have enthusiasts discussing mycology, it’ll be fine until a thread becomes popular and fills with users not from that community, asking what is mycology and why they should care.
To be honest, I had the same issue on reddit too and that’s a major reason why I stopped going there.
- Comment on International Woof 1 month ago:
I don’t know for dogs but I read that other species have different “accents” depending on their group and where they live.
Apparently, animals like dolphins, orcas and whales have different “accents”. And birds apparently also sign differently depending on their group and location.
Like, some ducks quack differently, from one region to another. I don’t think this can hamper simple communication, but there is apparently variation in their calls.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 months ago:
And those same people were thriving and doing much better when Trump was president?
- Comment on "Quick" security check... I had to do 15 of these... 2 months ago:
Microsoft uses some of these. I remember having to do something like that to setup a minecraft account and at some point I thought I would just give up and lose my money.
- Comment on Scientists Travelling 2 months ago:
I smoke my cannabis with a pipe. I’ve discovered that grinding it and putting it in a travel bottle makes it easy to carry around and as a bonus, also easy to dispense it in my pipe’s bucket.
- Comment on they keep ruining it but I persist 3 months ago:
Yeah, I usually start hoping I won’t need it but after hitting a few sticky webs I grab a stick and start waving it in front of me. But then I don’t go low enough or do a bad job and catch a few more with my legs or my head. Sometimes I just kind of forget and start using it as a walking stick only to be reminded why I was carrying it in the first place.
It works, but its effectiveness varies.
- Comment on they keep ruining it but I persist 3 months ago:
That’s what I like a bit less about being the first hiker to walk the trail in the morning.
- Comment on Save money 3 months ago:
Or just a joke. I live in a city with a metro system, I use it, and as much as I’ve never personally seen a fight in the metro itself, they obviously happen. Some users are stabbed a few times a year. I’ve seen people jump over the tracks. I’ve felt a bit threaten by a beggar that I’ve once said I recognized.
Just a few examples from here:
montrealgazette.com/…/two-men-stabbed-during-braw…
…ctvnews.ca/man-stabbed-outside-lionel-groulx-met…
And I’m not living in a very criminal city. I’m not saying the metro isn’t safe, or that you’ll see fights and brawls for the price of a ride, but it could happen. Like, take the metro when bars are closing and there’s probably gonna be higher chances to see a brawl or a fight. I imagine it’s similar in bigger cities with metro/subway systems as well.
And I want to stress that cities where this can happen are not inherently dangerous. There are much smaller cities that have a highest crime rate than the metropolis around them, but they don’t have the density for a metro/subway system where you can thus see drunk people fight about something they already forgot.
- Comment on Animals are not gifts. 3 months ago:
You’re right that their lives may not have been that bad compared to being in nature, but in the end, they probably should not have existed in the first place. They were not meant to be in nature from the start. They were meant as temporary living toys, for profit. At least they were not stuck in a key chain or something like that.
Seeing how one would probably not have survived in nature, it’s probably best he ended up with me. But the one that died this spring was fierce, energetic and inquisitive. Frankly, she was a jerk and I could picture her being “happier” chasing fish in a lake rather than pellets in a small tank.
Maybe it’s a very human and pretentious judgment to make for them, but I can’t help but try to put myself in the place of another living thing. You can live safely in a small container with unlimited protein cakes but nothing else to do for all of your life, or you can go explore the world to your own risk and excitement. I know what I’d choose, for my physical and mental health. And I know some animals can get bored and depressed, but I’m not a turtle.
- Comment on Animals are not gifts. 3 months ago:
Back in the middle of the 90ies, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were a big thing and my mother thought it would be a good idea to gift my sister and I, a pair of red-eared sliders. I kept mine for years and eventually my sister gave hers to me. So I kept two turtles for decades. I have been known as “the guy with turtles” since I’m a teenager now.
One of them just passed away this spring, after more than 27 years, and she was not that old for her species, in captivity. The other one is still alive behind me, basking under the UV light, and it could be alive for another decade. And I like Mittens (his name) but he’s taking a lot of space in my apartment. It’s obvious both of them would have had a better life outside, in nature, rather than in my sometimes depressive care.
Don’t gift animals.
- Comment on White House Announces Strategy to Keep Edible Food Out of Landfills 5 months ago:
The last proposition to reduce food waste is
urge companies to donate more food.
Before that we’re gonna try to make it last longer, and compost more of it, then maybe companies could think aboit donating more of it.
But they have to be careful because if they donate too much nobody is gonna want to work to buy food anymore!! Or people could sue if they get sick from old food. Better send it to the composting site instead of giving it away.
Obviously we can’t force companies to give unsold food, we can only urge them to do so.
No money to buy that tempting watermelon about to expire? Ok then, we’ll send it to the composting site to reduce food waste.
Aaah sweet capitalism!
- Comment on The current state of auto insurance: shit that belongs on a shady Kickstarter from 2013 5 months ago:
Meh. I have a cabin in the countryside 130 km away from my apartment and I can cycle the whole way, or take a coach with a foldable bike and pedal the 30 km left.
It’s actually in the region where I grew up so I have to get there frequently to see my family. It’s a hassle sometimes but it’s only because my government can’t adequately fund and maintain a decent transit network.
I also bike to national parks nearby, and sometimes haul my inflatable kayak with a bike trailer.
People overestimate distances and think the country side justifies a car but it’s usually just excuses. I did move in a big city eventually but I lived in small towns and cities for a decade before that. I still hated cars and didn’t have one.
For example, my mother lives on a rural road outside a village of less than 2000 people. And she works in the next town that is 7 km away. Meanwhile I live in a city and work in the same city but I have to bike 9 km to get to work.
So sometimes distances are shorter in smaller cities and towns but people still insist they need a car. People will give any excuse to use their car. It’s like cocain.
Also, here Uber is only available in major cities where it’s competing with public transit anyway. AFAIK you can’t take an Uber to a small town or a rural road.
- Comment on The current state of auto insurance: shit that belongs on a shady Kickstarter from 2013 5 months ago:
I prefer to be compared to Diogenes of Sinope, thank you.
- Comment on The current state of auto insurance: shit that belongs on a shady Kickstarter from 2013 5 months ago:
Jokes on them, I hate cars, don’t have one, and would never take an Uber.
- Comment on Futuristic movies timeline 5 months ago:
Babylon 5 (The Gathering) is set in 2257 and the following years. To my surprise, it’s pretty close to The Fifth Element’s timeline. However the date is about the same thing they have in common.
- Comment on Exploration 5 months ago:
🎵 We’re whalers on the moon, we carry a harpoon. But there ain’t no whales so we tell tall tales and sing a whaling tune. 🎵
- Comment on Ascended to Spanish 6 months ago:
I never realized this but it seems logical. I grew up in a French speaking area of Canada, English is the second language, but the provincial TV was broadcasting Spanish lessons. From the earliest moment that I can remember watching TV, there was Spanish lessons on it.
- Comment on True Love 6 months ago:
- Comment on So close. Once again missed the mark by a mere 1%. I was at 68% at this time last year. 6 months ago:
Maybe you can go back in time with some kemocite and by venting warp plasma into the cargo bay and catch it at the right moment.
- Comment on A bad influence 7 months ago:
There are modern IRC clients like TheLounge and Convos that support media and video. And push messages. You can also have your own internal server not exposed to the internet, this eliminating the problems of takeover, splits and whatnot…
Also the protocol has evolved and there’s been integrated options in the servers to hide IPs for at the least a decade.
You may remember those issues and problems when you abandoned it, but it contniues to evolve and endure. I have a private server for my friends and it’s been the most stable and direct way to chat and share images for years.
- Comment on wise 7 months ago:
“My parents were Starfleet officers and I’m at the top of the evolutionary ladder!”
- Comment on Duo out here teaching me the essentials 11 months ago:
Today I learned that a giraffe in Greek is a spotted camel.
- Comment on How do people understand each other? 11 months ago:
[Foreign language]
- Comment on Microplastic overdose 11 months ago:
Ask me how I know we’re not gonna reach our climate change reduction goals.
- Comment on OK Microsoft... trying to log into Teams while work lapop updates to Windows 11. No longer works in any iPhone browser, including Edge. The app will not authenticate my work login... 1 year ago:
I work in the tech support field and Microsoft is making me want to quit and find a work that doesn’t involve using Teams. I’ve never liked them very much and been a Linux user for over 20 years, but I still have to deal with them for work. However they’re becoming increasingly difficult to tolerate.
They really really want Windows users to have a Microsoft account. I avoid that and prefer local accounts. But Microsoft likes to link my local account with my Microsoft account anyway, because I need to give it to them to play Minecraft on Windows. So now even if I didn’t want to, my Windows account is showing the picture of my Microsoft/Windows Gaming account profile because I must have passed over a box to uncheck somewhere while logging into Windows Gaming to play Minecraft… mildly infuriating Microsoft.
I used a personal laptop for work a few times and accidentally connected my OneDrive to my corporate account. Again, I must have misunderstood the configuration and login process because it synced (more like moved) all my personal files on my work’s OneDrive. Mildly infuriating Microsoft.
Same personal laptop used for work sometimes. I use Edge specifically to separate work from personal browsing and somehow, again, I logged in somewhere with my work account and it synced all my personal browsing history and saved passwords from a different browser, into my “Edge for business” online thigny. So when I was using Edge at work, on my work computer, it was suggesting me logins and passwords from my personal browser that I use on different computers. Mildly infuriating Microsoft.
Teams, OneDrive, Edge for business, their subscription model, forcing Microsoft accounts… individually they are mildly infuriating but combined together, let’s say it’s a powerful generator of rolling eyes.
- Comment on Bye biiiittttchhhh 1 year ago:
I don’t drive a car, so where’s my money for saving the planet? Where are my rebates for shoes and bikes?
Subsidizing the car industry is indeed dumb. I don’t think it’s hurting the economy though, as the goal is to continue to sell and replace millions of cars. Still, the infrastructure for cars is probably costing us much more on the long term though. Maintenance of expressways, space for parkings, and other infra for cars costs billions.
Just replacing a single expressway interchange in my city cost 4.3 billion! For ONE interchange.
So again, where are the rebates for people taking public transit? Where are the investments in public transit? Why is it only on the condition of BUYING A CAR?
- Comment on But my WiFi is just fine! 1 year ago:
In perfect conditions for Wi-Fi. I live in a high rise and the 2.4 Ghz band is hardly usable. My previous phone didn’t have dual band Wi-Fi and it was much faster on 4G than WiFi.
Plus, modern routers and APs often rely on band aggregation and so even with devices that have dual band, crowded airwaves will have a negative effect on speed.
Wi-Fi is very fast when I’m in my cabin in the countryside. But when I get home with the same devices, it’s barely usable.
You could argue that I need a better router with the newest protocol and gizmos but so far, even with new bands and protocols, Wi-Fi is still a competition of which router and devices will shout louder than their neighbors.
