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- Comment on Bytom, Poland 3 days ago:
Lost fediverse-er?
Not sure why this is a shitpost, but here’s the translated article:
On May 13, at 02: 20, the post of the head of the municipal Department of State Fire Protection in bytom received a message about a bus fire on the territory of the depot on St. Elizabeth Street.
Upon arrival at the scene, the area was cordoned off, and as a result of reconnaissance, it was established that ten buses were burning in the depot. On the square there were several dozen more buses, there were no injuries.
In order to avoid the spread of the fire, the employees who were on the spot left on three buses. It is established that buses with internal combustion engines (without electric vehicles) are burning.
The actions of the guards consisted in giving two water currents when attacking burning buses and two water currents when protecting the rest of the buses. Sewer wells were filled with sorbent to prevent fuel residues from entering the sewer system. The fire was extinguished and searched by the victims, there were no injuries.
- Comment on Did Obama Becoming President Make People Hide Their Racism? 3 days ago:
There it is. The other shirt I couldn’t find, but I remember seeing it on a shirt someone had photographed on a motorcycle rider.
- Comment on Did Obama Becoming President Make People Hide Their Racism? 3 days ago:
Plenty of internet photos of white people wearing shirts that said things like “put the white back in the White House” or “It’s called the White House for a reason.” Racism was rampant and on public display.
- Comment on Womens fashion guide 1 week ago:
It’ll never change. No more than the implication that men should have physiques like Chris Evans’ Captain America.
Not saying it’s right, just that society has always demanded beauty standards from men and women throughout history. However, the age we live in has devolved into throwaway fashion that places ridiculous emphasis on shifting styles to drive consumption. Driving that is criticism and judging women if they fail to adapt by spending tons of money on the current trends. IOW we’ll probably always have beauty standards, but the real crime is the criticism of women driven by the fashion industry desire for profits.
- Comment on Womens fashion guide 1 week ago:
They cut off your arms when you get that suit. It’s fine.
- Comment on Womens fashion guide 1 week ago:
Dress like grandma going to a Catalina Wine Mixer?
- Comment on Too soon? 1 week ago:
Was this drawn by AI? Some weird shit happening with those bodies.
- Comment on Maggots 1 week ago:
Pftephen?
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 1 week ago:
Not entirely true. I lived in a house that was just over a century old. The framing was exactly what it said it was, a 2x4 was 2” by 4”. Same for all the structure. These were mill cut, but still pretty clean. It was WW2-ish and after that we started to get planed lumber that gave us 1.5x3.5. It wasn’t even until probably the early part of the 1900s that lumber started to become “dimensional”, as in the standard sizes we know of today.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Because of the trope that vegans are pretentious twats that publicly chastise anyone not vegan.
Like most things it’s one of those situations that’s blown out of proportion and the vast majority of us will never interact with a preachy vegan. I’ve encountered many vegans in the wild and they’ve most all been decent people, and I love picking their brains for decent vegan or vegetarian foods. I don’t mind vegan/vegetarianism, it’s just not easy to do well, so it helps to talk to people who do it for real. That said, I have encountered a few that are on the preachy side, but whatever. They’re no different than the tool who has the “eat tasty animals” bumper sticker and the like.
- Comment on Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for putting it at a scale I can grok. If we could create such a device it would just be a literal (digital) brain.
- Comment on Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human? 2 weeks ago:
Did OP mean accomplishing the connectivity and with software rather than hardware? No, we don’t have hardware that can modify itself like a brain does, but I think it is possible to accomplish that with coding.
- Comment on Which is the best Lemmy app for mobile? 2 weeks ago:
Voyager an Mlem on iOS.
- Comment on Poll: 61% of young adults confess they are not saving for retirement 2 weeks ago:
Where did you get 10 million from?
- Comment on I fell into a burning ring of fire 2 weeks ago:
Dollar Tree Elijah Wood.
Damn, dude, still chuckling over this. Funnier the longer I think about it.
- Comment on The ad in the middle of this article about conspiracy theories 2 weeks ago:
Well, you could land on a bad site full of nasty ads or wind up downloading software that offered you the finest of malware or viruses.
And you could just not go to them, or not download sus programs or warez.
Now the sites and apps hunt you down and shove it in your face. They follow you, rat on you, sell your info, and constantly try to sel You stuff every page you land on.
Yeah, Old Internet wasn’t great, but it wasn’t institutionalized malice like we have today.
- Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 3 weeks ago:
I think I’d keep my current job. 40/wk is the grind I worked to get away from.
- Comment on How did we get humans on the moon in 1969 and are still struggling to get the Starship rocket to launch properly? 3 weeks ago:
They are more efficient.
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They are more efficient moving money from the bottom to the top and making investors and CEOs rich.
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They are more efficient at making the minimum product for the price while suppressing labor, reducing customer service, and enshittifying the product as the lifespan of the company progresses in order to do #1.
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- Comment on If TikTok in the US is spun off as a separate entity, how hard would it be for the current company to put in a back door to still access the data. 3 weeks ago:
Exactly.
No need for conspiracy or back doors. The only downside is ByteDance having to pay for data that they got as part of running the platform. Heck, they can probably even find a way to run control through shell corps or other means like being a big shareholder of some intermediate investment and nothing will change.
- Comment on Had me for a while there 3 weeks ago:
Just like real life.
Don’t forget American Samoa, too.
- Comment on How Greed Ruined Gaming 3 weeks ago:
In before the capitalist apologists telling us how bad all the other systems are that nobody suggested we use and how great capitalism is while rejecting any suggestions to how it could be reined in.
- Comment on What happens when every time your browser sends data to a tracker it makes a beep sound? 3 weeks ago:
Seconded.
All the ad-blockers and privacy plugins.
- Comment on Why exactly are raisins toxic for dogs and not humans? 3 weeks ago:
Yep. We grew grapes too, multiple varieties. Dogs ate them and had zero ill effects. One of them even stole one of those 1 lb chocolate bars and ate it, the worst effect was a little diarrhea.
Some of these things are way overblown on the internet. OMG your St Bernard ate a grape?!? I’m sure a lot of it has to do with dog weight vs quantity consumed, so a bunch of chocolate for a Chihuahua is a different story vs a German Shepherd. I’m not suggesting it’s OK for dogs to eat these things, just exercise some judgement and call a vet, but the internet freakout is unreasonable.
- Comment on B R E A T H E 3 weeks ago:
Stress Free Zone billed by the 1/4 hour, payable on exit.
- Comment on banaynay 3 weeks ago:
Interesting that the flavor profile says nothing about the flavor, only the texture.
- Comment on Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app 4 weeks ago:
Ticket stubs as a souvenir are a thing of the past, unfortunately. It’s laughable they want to charge for “commemorative” stubs, of course the want to fuck people out of even more money for already ridiculously priced events.
- Comment on They really want people to RTO 4 weeks ago:
TIL “bed rotting” is a TikTok term for avoiding the world as a way to deal with burnout until you decide to come out of bed. Doesn’t sound bad on the face of it, but obviously being immobile for long periods isn’t great.
How that transitioned to essentially working from bed and the problems with immobility I don’t know.
- Comment on Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app 4 weeks ago:
AXS is no better as far as ticket scalpers go. Used them for Cruel World fest last year, they’re just another version of Ticketmaster. Maybe marginally less invasive app-wise, but as far as jacking up event prices they’re the same.
- Comment on Progress! 4 weeks ago:
I can’t imagine anyone coming out sane.
- Comment on Progress! 4 weeks ago:
Demolition Man.