Icaria
@Icaria@lemmy.world
- Comment on Map of the different climates in Australia 7 months ago:
Given how specific they get with “Coastal Washington”, put a $1.50 on them being from Coastal Washington.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 7 months ago:
I’m as much at a loss for what you’re saying as the guy above you. No, this is baffling. It’s like when non-native English speakers or kids use conjunctions incorrectly and try to connect two entirely unrelated things.
- Comment on I feel old 7 months ago:
Rap got popular in the 80’s, like NWA and Run DMC, right as GenXers were entering their formative years. Really not hard to figure out before posting pointless replies.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 7 months ago:
This post is inaccurate. Neither WiFi nor GPS use FHSS, nor is Lamarr anything close to singularly credited with FHSS’ invention (the earliest patent is credited to Nikola Tesla). This also implies that the Allies used her parent - they did not.
Also Richard Easton is the son of the man who invented GPS and had every right to be skeptical of this claim, and it looks like Internet dipsh*ts have bullied him into deleting his twitter account over this.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 7 months ago:
This is one of the strangest sentences I’ve ever read, even with context. In the history of the human race, has anyone specifically accused good actresses of not being good with tech?
- Comment on I feel old 8 months ago:
The whole trend is nothing new. Millennials and some GenXers were stealing all their slang from American rappers when they were young, too.
- Comment on This toilet paper at my work 1 year ago:
Thin toilet paper is one thing, just use more layers.
Narrow toilet paper is another. Fuck places that use non-standard width toilet paper.
- Comment on Every Franchise Xbox Now Owns After Buying Activision 1 year ago:
So many dead franchises. The videogame industry really went in an unexpected direction…
- Comment on Reddit is a shithole 1 year ago:
Speaking of people who start shit for no reason, invent grievances, etc…
Scroll up, the last guy tried your latest tactic already. Insults and comebacks =/= arguments.
- Comment on Reddit is a shithole 1 year ago:
Siiiigh, would it help if I said penis? The last time this happened, it happened to be a woman.
And it’s pretty obvious when someone starts shit with people on the Internet for no reason, then posts their uglies all over the net, that they’ve got a pretty juvenile issue with attention-seeking behaviour in general.
- Comment on Reddit is a shithole 1 year ago:
What argument? I said insults and comebacks. You’ve tried very hard to miss the point.
- Comment on Reddit is a shithole 1 year ago:
More than once I had someone being an arse to me on reddit, I took a gander at their profile to see what kind of fucko I was dealing with… and it was full of their nudes.
One time it was someone who lived in the same town as me.
Yeah… your insults and comebacks don’t hit quite as hard now that I know you’re desperate for people to see your vagina.
- Comment on If bullshit jobs are *really* bullshit, how do businesses justify the expense? 1 year ago:
A lot of bullshit work is administrative, jobs that exist to meet regulatory requirements (compliance jobs).
Or contract requirements (eg. sometimes one company will be contracted by another company to produce X amount of Y, then the other company will go bust and have no real need of Y, but the first company still needs to produce a minimum amount of Y for several more years to avoid being in breach of the other company’s creditors and get sued, or a specialised worker will be given a 4-year contract on a project that gets cancelled, and it’s cheaper to pay him to do nothing than it is to pay him out of his contract early).
Or as a result of a freak accident or screw-up that the company over-corrected on, at which point you’re basically being paid out of the marketing budget to perform security- or QA-theatre, or being paid by another company or govt department to confirm that the security/QA-theatre is taking place whilst taking really long lunches.
A lot of the time a business or govt department will be too organisationally complex for anyone to figure out where the bullshit jobs are. You could have 5 departments under you, all of which justify their existence with a bunch of dense jargon, and any one of them could be operationally useless. And if enough time passes without you figuring it out, the personal cost to your career in just playing along will be less than if you admit that you had your bosses pay 12 people for 5 years to push and rubber-stamp papers that could’ve just been handled by two other departments knowing how to email each other.
- Comment on PSA: the largest piracy community is blocked from lemmy.world 1 year ago:
I don’t understand, what data from other instances is cached, exactly?
And usenet has existed since before the Internet itself, has been used for piracy almost as long, and yet I don’t see many concerns there.