Aggravationstation
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- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 day ago:
All devices have parental controls which can be enabled. If watching porn is bad for a child’s mental health and parents are allowing their children to use a device they have neglected to enable those controls on, how can that be considered to be anything other than child neglect? Why put the onus on providers when even the most non tech savvy parent could spend a few hours learning to stop their kids from encountering it in the first place? This is all going to go very wrong very soon.
- Comment on sponsored by raycon 5 days ago:
I use Pinebuds. They have a woman’s voice that very enthusiastically says “ready to pair” in an American accent. But what sounds like a Chinese woman’s voice saying “phone disconnected”.
- Comment on Going back to play Mario Kart 8 on my Switch 1 when everyone else has a Switch 2, FOMO 5 days ago:
Playing 8 on my totally legit not Valve related machine is still a great experience.
- Comment on Debatable 5 days ago:
A robochomo if you will…
- Comment on If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras? 5 days ago:
Now the kilt was only for day-to-day wear. In battle, we donned a full-length ballgown covered in sequins. The idea was to blind you opponent with luxury.
- Comment on PARTY TIME 5 days ago:
Add some broth, a potato. Baby, you’ve got a stew going.
- Comment on Is that why he's always smiling? 6 days ago:
Grimace is Ronald McDonald’s autistic friend.
- Comment on Live Facial Recognition technology to catch high-harm offenders 1 week ago:
Hi I’m Officer Johnson, the dedicated overseer, I mean officer, for your sector, I mean neighbourhood.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If you mean should you be embarrassed about being set up on a date by your parent then no, as others have pointed out in these comments it’s been happening since the dawn of time. I’m 38 and I’d love to be set up on a date by my parents or frankly anyone. But I think I’d find not being consulted about it a bit annoying.
- Comment on Anon updates GNU/linux 1 week ago:
Yea that’s something that I thought about when I rewatched Serial Experiments Lain recently. It was made in 1998 and they correctly predicted that in the future the internet was going to become mainstream, but because the only way to access it then was with PCs they also assumed that would mean that everyone would become super interested in computers too and most of the characters have rigs that would put mine to shame. Fascinating how one didn’t require the other, which I think would have seemed unbelievable at the time.
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 1 week ago:
- Comment on Anon updates GNU/linux 1 week ago:
Oh please Christ tell me that kids these days aren’t that dumb when it comes to computers.
- Comment on Infinite knowledge 1 week ago:
- Comment on Anon looks into cults 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes. Just seen it was the Hale-Bopp comet, not Hailey’s.
- Comment on Anon looks into cults 2 weeks ago:
The guy pictured, Marshall Applewhite, wanted to fuck dudes and was ashamed of it so he got castrated. Then, after his best friend and cult’s co-founder died, he convinced a bunch of people that the world was going to end and the only way they could survive was by committing suicide so that their souls could leave on an alien spaceship hidden behind Hailey’s comet as it passed by. Nobody can know what he was thinking but I’d wager he was just depressed and didn’t want to die alone.
- Comment on This is a real machine in Romania. Do 20 squats in front of it, and it prints you a free bus ticket. 2 weeks ago:
That would be Balkan traditions darling.
- Comment on Jack Black 2 weeks ago:
Please tell me this some garbled AI slop that nobody checked.
- Comment on HOOOOONNNNKK-snewewewewwew 3 weeks ago:
Any men here tried sleeping in a night gown? I have and it rode up to my shoulders, might as well have just slept nude.
- Comment on eggs 4 weeks ago:
Superfluous and masturbatory is a pretty good description of my life up to this point.
- Comment on My GF tried them and said they were tasty 4 weeks ago:
No news on whether they were big or brown either.
- Comment on UK's most powerful supercomputer comes online 4 weeks ago:
Can it remake Doom?
- Comment on UK's most powerful supercomputer comes online 4 weeks ago:
I’d like to ask what OS it’s running and also ask you to bear in mind what the correct answer is.
- Comment on Well, I mean they probably... Maybe they... 4 weeks ago:
Or an anti-fertility ritual
- Comment on who up wasting their youth 4 weeks ago:
Yea, just not on here
- Comment on who up wasting their youth 4 weeks ago:
Lol, my youth’s be done wit
- Comment on National Crime Agency officer jailed for stealing £4.4m worth of seized bitcoin 5 weeks ago:
Police recovered an iPhone that linked Chowles to an account used to transfer bitcoin as well as relevant browser search history relating to a cryptocurrency exchange service.
Several notebooks were also discovered in Chowles’s office that contained usernames, passwords and statements relating to White’s cryptocurrency accounts.
Lol, yea. Total dipshit.
- Comment on What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now? 5 weeks ago:
More people will over time but I don’t think the average person ever will. Most people I’ve tried to explain the concept of open source software and initiatives like the Fediverse to either won’t shake from their belief that they must be a lame imitation of proprietary offerings or in a lot of cases outright don’t trust them for not being direct for-profit endeavours. The only interactions these people have had with the digital world have been as part of the modern data scraping hellscape that was once termed “Web 2.0” and became the norm as the internet went mainstream in the '00s. They weren’t part of the internet when it was a niche interest and more open so they know no better. Whilst they might agree that it’d be a better world if software and services didn’t track or manipulate you when you ask them that question directly, they can’t truly conceive of tech that doesn’t. Better the devil that you understand the motives of than one that you don’t who must have some sort of Machiavellian scheme going on behind the curtain, because everyone does deep down, right? I’m not an expert in psychology but I don’t think it’s overly dramatic to say it puts me in mind of those poor individuals who were abused as children and never received therapy so go on to seek out other abusers in adulthood.
- Comment on Jell-OH MY GOD! 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Oatmeal 1 month ago:
Mini roll. Appropriate.
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 1 month ago:
So making access to information free is helping scientific progress? Wow, who could have imagined that!
