jeffw
@jeffw@lemmy.world
- Comment on Skin pocket 23 hours ago:
“Jimmies”
So… Philly? Boston?
- Comment on is there any way to invest ethically as a sole individual? 1 day ago:
All hail the quarter earnings report!
- Comment on Why doesn't the Trump administration simply edit the Epstein files and release them? 2 days ago:
Most of the “files” they are hiding are CSAM fwiw. Most of the rest was released with redactions
- Comment on Why is it called independence Day tomorrow? Shouldn't it be undependents day? At any rate we screwed it up. 1 week ago:
The US wasn’t a colony. It was 13 colonies that united.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It this a weird jole#
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Most local politicians I know don’t get paid (school board, commissioners, etc) or they get paid very little for the time they put in.
If you count up all the expected folks in the USA, less than 1% are what you think of as “politicians.” They are mostly just people you see at the grocery store
- Comment on What is with the obsession with gender neutral language on relationship topics ? 3 weeks ago:
PSA: you don’t have to start every post with “I cheated on my boyfriend,” especially when it’s irrelevant to the post
- Comment on when is "cool" fine and when is it rude? 3 weeks ago:
I’m a millennial and I think that
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
We have more people than we used to. Being too close to people causes cancer
Q.e.d.
- Comment on "workers" is a dehumanizing term 4 weeks ago:
When I am at work, I am a worker. This reeks of “whataboutism”
- Comment on Almost every heterosexual has more often pleased someone of their own gender than the opposite one 4 weeks ago:
Huh?
- Comment on Should I apologize to this person? 5 weeks ago:
It’s been 5 years. Let it go
- Comment on Frequent TikTok users in Taiwan more likely to agree with pro-China narratives, study finds 5 weeks ago:
Like you said, it’s not new information that Tik Tok hides posts on certain topics and promotes posts on other topics though, so it isn’t surprising either way. I’ll add that they do it with more than just pro-China content
- Comment on YSK Post Follow up: People Defended Ars Technica in my Previous Post, Here is a Proof That Ars Technica Parent Company Secretly Manipulate Reddit for Their Own Benefit. 5 weeks ago:
I’m not seeing the evidence that you are claiming.
There are many reasons that unpaid volunteer mods delete content, including reposts, issues with the OP, etc.
- Comment on Ross Ulbricht Got a $31 Million Donation From a Dark Web Dealer, Crypto Tracers Suspect 5 weeks ago:
His pardon cracks me up. There’s little “law and order” logic to it.
And I know he’s basically guilty of the charges because i-errr… some close friends of mine…. Used his platform and got highly quality drugs
- Comment on Is this "artist" on spotify AI generated? 1 month ago:
If discogs has no record, it’s likely fake:
- Comment on The movie cars is crazy 1 month ago:
Yes, my favorite scene is when the villain grabs them and slams them into a tree to murder them.
Wait… did you say Cars? I thought you said Friday the 13th VII
- Comment on My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so? 1 month ago:
It’s extreme if it continues. Lashing out emotionally in response to being hurt isnt that crazy.
- Comment on How to get to Santa Claus beard status 1 month ago:
Some people grow thick beards, others grow gross pubey beards. There’s no magic fix, no matter how much beard oil you use.
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 1 month ago:
What you’re really asking is “why do some drugs work for me, while others don’t?”
I’d bet there are some prescriptions that would work for you and probably a number of other “recreational” drugs too
- Comment on How can I properly learn deaf sign languages? 1 month ago:
Do hearing folks teach classes? My ASL classes were immersion by default because all the profs were Deaf
- Comment on How can I properly learn deaf sign languages? 1 month ago:
Maybe try Gallaudet? More Deaf folks, as it’s pretty much 100% Deaf from top to bottom
- Comment on How can I properly learn deaf sign languages? 1 month ago:
ASL can be pretty regional. Just find local Deaf folks
- Comment on Bros, check it oooutt 1 month ago:
Did you steal this from a post that was made a few hours ago?
That’s meta bro
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The maximum size of a hemisphere is half of a planet…
- Comment on Social nuke 1 month ago:
Ah, so you’re downvote farming
- Comment on Social nuke 1 month ago:
That’s why you stopped replying to the other user lol
- Comment on Social nuke 1 month ago:
Darn, someone else beat me to it, but as they said, this was largely debunked. We already knew that data is collected every time you say “Siri”. That’s not the same as constant and passive data collection without activation.
- Comment on What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with? 1 month ago:
Download a book? Illegally? Online? Through a popular torrent website?
I would never do such an illegal and terrible thing!!
- Comment on Social nuke 1 month ago:
Your phone isn’t recording you, you’re just more predictable than you think.