cobra89
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- Comment on Rare White Grizzly Dies After Being Struck on Canadian Highway 6 months ago:
All because social media fame and the attention made the bear used to cars and highways. Leave animals the fuck alone, we shouldn’t have wilderness social media stars FFS.
Shit like this is the reason we have to keep the locations of the oldest trees a secret as well.
- Comment on Edison 6 months ago:
Lol yes! Came here to post that, and this link: screenrant.com/burns-simpsons-phone-joke-clever-h…
- Comment on Don't let your dreams be memes ✨️ 6 months ago:
After a certain height your weeds aren’t providing any extra value to pollinators and are just inviting creatures that carry disease to hold up there. That’s why the city insists on cutting them. Just keep your weeds to a reasonable height, it still helps the pollinators and keeps rats from breeding incessantly. Untended to yards are shown to increase rats in the area. You don’t want the plague do you? Cuz that’s how you get the plague. (The last two sentences are hyperbole obviously.)
- Comment on Justice 6 months ago:
livescience.com/64012-antarctica-stabbing.html
According to this it was fake. And seems likely since I’ve never seen a follow-up.
- Comment on New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC 6 months ago:
How does this work with local laws regarding 2 party recording? If you’re on a video call and this records the other party without their permission, that is AFAIU illegal in many states in the US. I’m sure in parts of Europe as well.
- Comment on Iron 7 months ago:
Id love to see the math on the amount of iron in a person’s blood, because I find it HIGHLY questionable that there’s enough iron in only 300 people to make a full iron sword. I’m too lazy to do it myself though.
- Comment on Oxygen 7 months ago:
I mean it’s not wrong, there’s a reason antioxidants are a thing.
- Comment on Aliens 7 months ago:
Now I’m really disappointed because their Wikipedia article basically doesn’t even mention their nose. Just that there’s some markings on the nose and people used to wrongly believe they drank through their noses.
- Comment on Men Use Fake Livestream Apps With AI Audiences to Hit on Women 7 months ago:
On the flip side, if the genders were changed in this situation and the guy only wanted the woman because of superficial reasons like she was attractive or popular, how many people would be saying “he got what he deserves”
This is definitely one of those double standard situations. While we shouldn’t be victim blaming, I think there’s something to be said for calling out people who are willing to throw away an existing relationship because an “influencer” came up to them. And I think that’s what the poster you are responding to was getting it.
- Comment on How Abrupt U-Turns Are Defining U.S. Environmental Regulations 7 months ago:
Exactly. It seems to be the smart business decision here is to stick with the policies that abide by the stricter regulations.
Realistically an MBA is gonna have some accountant do the math to determine if switching every 4 years would result in cost savings and do it based on that.
- Comment on Woaaaaa 7 months ago:
Yeah it’s definitely not a real projection. If Antarctica looked like that (taken top down) then the rest of the continents would not be oriented like that.
- Comment on Brb 8 months ago:
While yes it has a bird sound ID, you can also use it to ID birds visually by giving your location and answering a few questions, after which it gives you a list of birds from the most probable to least.
- Comment on PROOF 8 months ago:
Lol did the ice wall “theory” even exist before game of thrones?
- Comment on It’s time for a hard reset on notifications 8 months ago:
Yeah I feel like they neglected to show how much more of a problem on iOS this is than Android.
On Android apps typically have their push notifications divided into different types and can almost always turn off the marketing notifications for an app while leaving the important ones on.
I dont see even half of these notifications on Android.
- Comment on Uv saves Home Assistant 215 compute hours per month 8 months ago:
Lol these time savings are so ridiculously good they don’t seem real. That’s amazing. Proof how bad python and pip are.
- Comment on Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers 8 months ago:
I mean it is but it isn’t. I think Nilay wanted to get the Verge back at the top of the search engine results but also wanted to make a point about why he had to do it. It’s funny because it’s really 2 paragraphs about it and then the rest of it is a normal article about the best printer lol.
- Comment on Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers 8 months ago:
Lol again, everyone in this community loves to call The Verge corporate shills but then has no problem upvoting and commenting on posts like these. Like if the Verge were truly biased by corporate interests, wouldn’t an article like this be the place most ripe for that bias to show through and be a problem?
I get that the community is not a hive mind and is made up of many different people, but on posts where people are criticizing the Verge because they don’t like the way they show the corporate viewpoint you’d be drowned out completely if you were to argue anything otherwise. The irony just kills me.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games — An initiative to stop publishers & developers killing games 8 months ago:
Nah fuck that, that’s not a deterrent and businesses will just see that as the cost of doing business. They should be forced to refund everyone for the entire game no questions asked. There was no disclaimer when purchasing this game that says “we may completely disable this game and render it useless, even single player, on short notice at any time.” What are you supposed to do, buy the game, then read the terms of service, maybe, interpret it as them having the ability to do that and then return the game? Absolute BS.
I don’t think any reasonable consumer would purchase a game if they knew it could be made completely unplayable in the next 3 months. Which is exactly what happened here. It was still on sale in December and was shut down in March…
This puts undue hardship on the consumer to make sure they’re not getting ripped off and there’s not even a clear way to be able to do that. This is the exact situation regulations are for.
- Comment on Been wishing this community was more active, decided to be the change. Anyways I felt cute, running Arch KDE on a Thinkpad. 8 months ago:
They’re right. The latest kernels have a safe guard and you need to type
–no-preserve-rootto force it to delete /.You can also just do
sudo rm -rf /*and let shell expansion do the rest.WARNING: DO NOT RUN THESE COMMANDS. THEY WILL DELETE EVERYTHING ON YOUR ROOT PARTITION. - Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Lol love how no one is shitting on The Verge when it’s a topic they agree with.
- Comment on CFCs 9 months ago:
We definitely did something. It just would have been a lot worse if we didn’t. In fact so bad that BBC says the planet would have been “uninhabitable.”
According to some models, the Montreal Protocol and its amendments have helped prevent up to two million cases of skin cancer yearly and avoided millions of cataract cases worldwide.
Had the world not banned CFCs, we would now find ourselves nearing massive ozone depletion. “By 2050, it’s pretty well-established we would have had ozone hole-like conditions over the whole planet, and the planet would have become uninhabitable,” says Solomon.
- Comment on Malaria 9 months ago:
So imagine there exists a charitable billionaire that wants to do good. How in your eyes would a billionaire go about donating their money without drawing this same criticism?
Hasn’t Gates already pledged pretty much his entire fortune to charity after he dies?
I guess the Devil’s advocate argument here is would you rather trust Bill Gate’s charity to spend the money or the US Government? Because from what I’ve seen, any time there is excess money in the US government it is not spent on social programs but on enriching government contractors and tax breaks for the wealthy.
- Comment on Martin Scorsese urges filmmakers to fight comic book movie culture: ‘We’ve got to save cinema’ 1 year ago:
Wow this is the first “pro-marvel” response that actually put some thought into it, and while I don’t personally agree you’ve made the only compelling argument in this entire thread as to why these marvel movies being constantly regurgitated makes any sense.
- Comment on Rare spotless baby giraffe born at Tennessee zoo needs a name 1 year ago:
Knowing the Internet it’ll end up being “Spotty McSpot Spot”