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- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 6 days ago:
And yet you are saying this in a thread about the US restricting access to some vaccines. It was all nonsense a few months ago.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 1 week ago:
Why not? I’m not willing to provide links for everything I’ll list, so do what you want with it.
Democracy has failed in the US. They have a king with a dictatorship. They ignore their own laws. They kidnap law abiding citizens, on the streets, at work, in the schools, and send them into concentration camps. They kidnap people from other countries at the border. They invade their own cities with the military. They are sending a flotilla to Venezuela. They are renaming the Department of Defence to the Department of War. They have openly discussed invading Mexico. They have mentioned in the past that Canada should be part of the US. Maine’s Senator sent an open letter to Western Canada and invited them to join the US, like, a week ago.
All this shit is normalized in the US. They just do it little by little and so far people don’t react. They always say “Trump is joking” and “this will not happen” but it ends up happening every time.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 1 week ago:
At the rate that things are devolving, if you have the means, you may consider emigrating somewhere else. And maybe not Canada because we’ll probably be invaded by your country in the following years, or months.
- Comment on kansas can get fcked 1 week ago:
- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 1 week ago:
The English speaking world should be isolated. Rupert Murdoch made it sick.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 2 weeks ago:
Sadly, it’s been a good part of IBM’s business model for years. They call it Capacity Upgrade on Demand.
Inactive processor cores and inactive memory units are resources that are included with your server, but are not available for use until you activate them.
I learned this when I moved into a corporate IT environment with Power servers. I couldn’t believe that some companies would pay a quarter of a million for a server that is intentionally stunted/limited unless you pay even more.
But cars are computers now. “Everything’s computer!”. So they will follow that subscription model.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Why is it a bad thing?
- Comment on Thinheritance 4 weeks ago:
There’s a song about this phenomenon in Québecois French called Dégénération, from Mes Aïeux.
It starts with your great great grand father clearing the land, your great grand father plowing the land, your grand father making a profit out of it, your father selling it to be a white collar, and you, living in a one room apartment, owing debts to corporations.
The lyrics are pretty conservative and portray a rosy past, but it goes with the traditional style and the fact the band’s name means “my ancestors”. This being said, the song is still pretty spot on about this phenomenon. Here’s a link to the translated lyrics, and the song.
- Comment on It would get old fast 4 weeks ago:
It would get old fast because I don’t drive a car and would turn crazy in such a neighbourhood.
- Comment on The computer is making that noise again 2 months ago:
I was working as a level 1 tech for a consulting company. I had to take calls and monitor the systems.
We had a ticketing system in place where we received alerts and various alarms in there. But because some of my coworkers didn’t do anything with these and some systems (and clients) suffered from this, people in management thought it would be a a marvelous idea to have those alerts and alarms make a notification in Teams.
So when some random location lost internet for a few minutes, we sometimes had hundreds of Teams notifications.
I quit last month. I couldn’t take it any longer.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I usually do. This was from my google news feed, which opens in Chrome. I could have opened it with FF, which has uBlock origin, but it’s not worth it.
I just got mildly infuriated when this crap appeared.
- Comment on W H Y 2 months ago:
Und dann es gibt wann und wenn.
I’m a native French speaker that learned English in school, and we had to get used to words spelt the same but with a different pronunciation and sometimes a slightly different meaning.
Don’t worry, you’ll probably get used to it.
- Comment on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup 3 months ago:
A bit ironic given the fact that they want to push everyone on the cloud and run Office apps in a browser. Or is this just corporate?
I’ve been doing tech support for a few corporations and they were literally removing the local applications like Word, Excel and Outlook to force users to use the web versions because it was costing them less money for licensing.
- Comment on /c/NotTheOnion post got downvoted because people didn't like the (real) article title 5 months ago:
Honestly, I wouldn’t have thought that something with that title could have been an Onion article. And to me that’s what “Not The Onion” is all about.
It doesn’t suffice that it’s simply a real article, it must make people wonder if it’s satire or not.
In your case, maybe if it was worded differently, but the way it is, it doesn’t make me think it could be something I confused for an Onion headline.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
He just changed his reason to “Make America rich again”. Apparently he forgot about the drugs thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Or when you try to use contactless only to be asked the amount of tip to give to the cashier, before being able to pay.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Ok then. What’s the gender of Nutella?
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 6 months ago:
From what I have seen when she orders doordash, it’s also a hassle to get something fixed (because it happens often), and half the people will not eat at the same time than others, because the order is half wrong and they will deliver the rest, eventually.
I guess if you’re always ordering alone it’s not a big issue, but she’s always ordering multiple meals and I can’t recall one time where it all went smoothly. There is always something wrong that has to be fixed, gotta contact them, get it fixed, it takes time and not everyone has their food at the same time.
From my perspective, it just sucks to order for a group with doordash. It would be better to just have one or a few people of the group to go get the food directly at the restaurant.
I really can’t understand people that live in a city with restaurants close to them, and still being unable to get off their ass and walk/cycle/drive to get their food.
The only time I order food directly from restaurants is when I’m in the countryside or a rural area with friends or family, and the to and fro time would be unacceptably long if I’d go grab it myself.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 6 months ago:
My sister uses doordash and there’s always something wrong. Yet she insists on trying again and again, and I can’t understand why.
I have never used them or Uber or others like this, and refuse to do so. They exploit their workers, they charge exorbitant fees, and when something’s wrong, it’s nobody’s fault.
If I want food, I go get it myself. I’m my own delivery boy! And contrary to a lot of people delivering food, I will not park on a sidewalk or in a bike lane.
- Comment on Relevant advertising 🤪 8 months ago:
Yep. He could have been driving an F-150, bump over the sidewalk, drive over the CEO, then said “ooh, sorry, I didn’t see him, he must have been wearing headphones or something”, and it would probably have been a valid defensible position for the system.
- Comment on Diamond dogs 9 months ago:
You can also start an orgy instead of killing, but I guess the sex can also happen while slaughtering.
- Comment on ‘Shameless’ MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski blasted for hypocrisy over Trump visit: ‘Bending the knee’ 9 months 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 9 months ago:
Sad to hear but… GaS pRiCeS aRe ToO HigH!
- Comment on What positive things do you expect from Trumps upcoming four years? 9 months 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? 9 months 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 10 months 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? 11 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... 11 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 11 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 1 year 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.
