remotelove
@remotelove@lemmy.ca
- Comment on A bit of salt makes it taste more savory 1 day ago:
I guess you are saying that everyone on Lemmy is on the spectrum. That kinda tracks…
- Comment on God is a dick. 2 days ago:
And that is scary. If the is one takeaway from observing the universe it’s that there are always bigger and stranger things out there somewhere.
- Comment on God is a dick. 2 days ago:
Something tells me this isn’t a bad thing. If there is an edge of the universe, it’s probably going to be a very strange place.
- Comment on Zuckerberg had a 'crazy idea' to boost Facebook's relevance: Make everyone start from scratch 3 days ago:
It would force everyone who still wanted to use Facebook to upload more fresh data and get hooked again in the process. It’s not a relevance play. It’s a “we want all your new data” play.
- Comment on I think there's a bigger issue here 6 days ago:
See, that is what I thought at first until I thought about the proportions.
(FYI, my comments are ~50% /s)
- Comment on I think there's a bigger issue here 6 days ago:
That_s the right arm, not the umbilical cord, my dude.
- Comment on The good old days 1 week ago:
Nothing better than a match in a high oxygen environment.
- Comment on Seeing a lot of copium but am I fucking crazy? The market would have to do more than just recover for people to recoup their losses? 1 week ago:
This is my opinion, but yeah. It’ll take some time.
The biggest issue is that money has moved to safer for investments. Those new investments may take time to mature and/or avoid tax penalties.
Another component is that hedge funds are likely the ones taking money out of the market in a huge way right now. Hedge funds normally specialize in short selling and there is no better time to close or massively reduce those short positions. (They have other strategies, but their main function is in their name.) They can’t close their positions rapidly, or it will trigger a faux rebound in stock prices. (Short sales are weird like that. It may be one of the reasons you see short bounces in price as a stock price is cratering.)
Unfortunately, the tarrifs are shifting investment policy against the US now from other countries. This will take years to recover from.
What will really suck is that I have always speculated that these tarrifs are just the worst kind of insider trading strategy you will ever see. If the intent was to temporarily dump stock prices for the benefit of a few, I really don’t think it’s going to work like it did during COVID. COVID didn’t force massive global policy changes against the US the same way. Even if orange man decides to reverse course and lift tarrifs tomorrow, the damage has been done and there is no reason to restore previous investments. The risk is too high.
- Comment on Minecraft movie spawns ‘annoying’ cinema trend that viewers claim ‘ruins’ the film 1 week ago:
The term is “read the room”, I think. Rarely, some movies are just like that. Classic showings of Rocky Horror aren’t exactly done for serious movie gowers as a prime example. While I am not attempting to put RHPS and a Minecraft movie in the same class, I would go to a Minecraft movie with the same mindset.
- Comment on POV: You're too shy to tell the medical staff that you just woke up during surgery. 1 week ago:
Just thought I would add that there is nothing to be embarrassed about having a probe going where you typically wouldn’t want one. The doctors should have a very mechanical view of the human body and they shouldn’t care about anatomy. I am a huge proponent of getting a colonoscopy when needed. They can save your life. Most of all, you need them at regular intervals. Thankfully, they should be a few years apart.
I actually woke up during my last colonoscopy, to the weird feeling getting poked at from inside my body. (Get your giggles out of the way, kids.) My recovery time from anesthesia is super-quick usually, and will mention that for my next colonoscopy. I’ll be on my feet in about 10mins from when I open my eyes. The experience is always different from person to person. (I also was a serious drunk for a number of years, so operating at 25% was kinda normal, I suppose.)
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 2 weeks ago:
I actually like the audio. (I’ll leverage faux tape recording effects and plate reverb on occasion with music I write.)
And honestly, it was kinda refreshing to watch Charlie Chaplain again.
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, I couldn’t quite get the feeling you described. It’s partially because I have seen that before and partially because it still looks old and the sound quality was reminiscent of a cylinder phonograph.
Good try though. ;)
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 2 weeks ago:
I have been working through my “must watch” list with my teenage daughter recently. While all the movies are absolutely new to her, that hasn’t stopped the occasional snickering about how “old” some of the stuff is. (And honestly, I can’t disagree. I had a few “ah fuck I’m old” moments rewatching Predator and Blade Runner recently.)
So, in spirit, I 100% agree with you. In reality, nobody can quite escape how old some actually movies feel.
- Comment on Lemmy.world is blocked in UAE and you don't allow using VPN/Tor to post. what is the solution here? 2 weeks ago:
RFC 1149 / IPoAC
- Comment on Singer Rick Astley dead at age 59 2 weeks ago:
Here is the follow-up post on the joke, btw.
- Comment on If these mother fuckers are trying to make me pay for Healthcare to talk to fucking ChatGPT I swear to god ChatGPT is going to write me so many scripts for opioids its won't be funny. 3 weeks ago:
Medications must be taken with a full glass of wine.
- Comment on Hehe 3 weeks ago:
A Chevy is still an American brand and the ecotec engines were also used in a variety of European cars.
- Comment on Hehe 3 weeks ago:
Did you miss the first bit where it said 2011 Chevrolet?
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 3 weeks ago:
Wild hogs live in “packs” (“sounders”, actually. Lulz.) as well. On all fronts, the hogs should win. Some of the bigger hogs could easily outweigh a wolf 5:1.
These creatures are what nightmares are made of and I wish I could say I was joking or being sarcastic.
Could a pack of wolves separate a hog from its pack and kill it? Sure. Not all hogs are hell-spawn. Regardless, we are also talking about mother nature’s true version of Medusa.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 3 weeks ago:
I admire your creativity, I seriously doubt that would help. You would only get really pissed off mutant hogs after the dust cleared.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 3 weeks ago:
Give the kids guns too.
That was intended to sound sarcastic, but most kids I knew in rural America have been around guns since they were big enough to carry them. I personally started shooting a .22 when I was in kindergarten and was just hardly big enough to shoot a 30-06 when I was about 10 or so. (I am very much the liberal gun owner type, btw.)
While I can’t change the past, I do find myself questioning the logic of my experience at times. For yet another direction shift, my girls are both trained in gun safety, but that started years before I let them even touch a gun.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 3 weeks ago:
A 9mm would just piss them off.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 3 weeks ago:
Wild hogs would destroy a wolf. These creatures are no joke.
- Comment on The late 70s Trek series we never got to see 🥹 3 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on I kinda do know but I'm posting this as a joke. 4 weeks ago:
What a coincidence! She is my girlfriend too.
- Comment on Fuck Nuance 4 weeks ago:
Not going off-site to download a PDF.
- Comment on Google changes Chrome extension policies following the Honey link scandal 5 weeks ago:
I installed it and tried it on occasion, but it never worked for finding any coupons. It was the only extension I had that I kept disabled because I always thought it’s interaction with the browser and web pages was sus as fuck.
TBH, it was more of a curiosity I kept around to explore one day. I also dissect and detonate malware a few times a week, so I just treated Honey as such.
(That folder named “malware” on my computer is actually real. I pitty the poor soul who steals it thinking its just a joke to store my private data.)
Unrelated: I finally got my first .SVG downloader today, actually. Whoever the fuck thought it would be a good idea to add a script tag to SVG needs to be put down.
- Comment on Fire Damages 4 Tesla Cybertrucks in Seattle 5 weeks ago:
I do my own night photography, thanks… Take pride in your work. ;)
(Your idea is valid, just not my style.)
- Comment on Fire Damages 4 Tesla Cybertrucks in Seattle 5 weeks ago:
Just remember, IR flashlights will blind most cameras. Reflective tape has its uses too.
This is a night photography community, right?
- Comment on Don't know if this is the right place to ask but is there another well known asklemmy besides asklemmy.ml? Or an AMA place? 5 weeks ago:
There is one on .world that is just as big.