YurkshireLad
@YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 1 week ago:
It’s all about portraying authority and trying to give off the “trust me” vibe.
I’d love to see an interviewer respond with a bizarre hand gesture in response.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 2 weeks ago:
I worked in a couple of pubs in england back in the 90s and there were definitely regulars that would come in every weekend night and quite often, some week nights.
- Comment on OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn 1 month ago:
Another platform to avoid.
- Comment on Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it. 2 months ago:
It’s sad. You can avoid dying in a Tesla by not buying one. But you can’t do much about someone else’s Tesla hitting you.
- Comment on advertising and headers take up 50% of screen space 2 months ago:
Can you use uBlock Origin to remove the DIV for the ad? Or is it using randomly generate IDs?
- Comment on How does HTML actually run on a computer? 5 months ago:
HTML is the content and CSS is how to display it, or the formatting and styling required to display it.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 5 months ago:
Wtf??? That’s insanity…
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 5 months ago:
How many dollar stores are required for it to be classified as a town?
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article 5 months ago:
This is real? Holy crap….
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 5 months ago:
I find it very strange that so many American women vote to reduce their own rights.
- Comment on Gaming Website Polgyon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Layoffs 6 months ago:
Layoffs is the precursor to adopting LLM generated content?
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 7 months ago:
“Mental landscape”?
- Comment on Technology isn't fun anymore 7 months ago:
Yes! And Windows is anything but.
- Comment on Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website 8 months ago:
Why are we not surprised?
- Comment on How do I realistically get out of the US? 9 months ago:
University fees for foreign students can be very high. For example, I think the fees at Edinburgh university for a foreign student are 3 times the cost for English students, and almost 9 times compared to Scottish students. I’m going from memory here so I could be off a bit.
- Comment on Meta to End Fact-Checking Program on Facebook Ahead of Trump Term: Live Updates 9 months ago:
Meta knows they don’t have enough CPUs and memory to run fact checkers on all the Trump supporters.
- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 10 months ago:
This was during the summer. The only thing might be bird poop?
- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 10 months ago:
One of my neighbours sometimes hoses down her driveway in the pouring rain. Who knows why neighbours do the things they do.
- Comment on Pringhouls 1 year ago:
Geez where’s your sense of humour today? 😁
- Comment on Pringhouls 1 year ago:
Our universe is but one Pringle in a can.
- Comment on Pringhouls 1 year ago:
Wouldn’t it be bizarre and ironic if the universe is shaped exactly like a Pringle?
- Comment on Suddenly firefox on ios shows ads on homescreen 1 year ago:
The android version has had this for a while.
- Comment on Downfall at 20: A Sobering Take on the Final Stages of World War II 1 year ago:
Is it available on a streaming service?
- Comment on Walmart's use of digital price tags signal the future of retail shopping, but consumers are worried 1 year ago:
That’s exactly what this is. All stores will eventually do this and prices will fluctuate throughout the day.
- Comment on Is this just how it’s gonna be till Election Day? 1 year ago:
I keep getting emails from some republican Colorado group and I don’t even live in the US!
- Comment on X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm 1 year ago:
Can’t have a woke water pistol on Musk’s manly website!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Why? Because the platform is owned by Elon Twitler, and he’s opened the floodgates to anyone who wants to help destroy the world.
- Comment on Dyson job cuts: One third of vacuum company's UK workforce to go 1 year ago:
Well that sucks.
- Comment on A live ranking of airlines by how much luggage they are losing 1 year ago:
Historically for me, the Canadian table is reversed to - Air Canada 1, WestJet 0.
- Comment on What's the worst hacking scene from any movie or show? 1 year ago:
Independence Day.