MargotRobbie
@MargotRobbie@lemmy.world
On the internet, nobody knows you are Australian.
I’m on strike now, but go watch my dumb movies and say nice thing about them, including, that one, you know.
Reject cynicism, embrace New Sincerity, burn reddit down.
- Comment on Country music 1 day ago:
No. There’s also “The Rocky Picture Horror Show”, starring esteemed Tony Award nominated actor Tim Curry.
I like musical theater.
- Comment on Like most normal human males… 1 day ago:
He’s so normal, I’m in love! 😍
- Comment on Country music 1 day ago:
- Comment on The second matchup of the tournament 2 days ago:
RIP Harambe. 😭
- Comment on The Patriarchy 4 days ago:
Even though this is an obviously AI generated picture (which makes it funnier BTW), this seems like a fun shenanigan to pull on the weekends.
The best part is that nobody will recognize you with the velociraptor masks on.
- Comment on Honestly, I couldn't even imagine living in such a country lol 4 days ago:
For your information, “we are not here to fuck spiders” is actually a pretty common Australian (well, QLD) saying.
- Comment on People are realizing celebrities are unnecessary 5 days ago:
But then what if some particularly clever celebrity shows up on a social media platform where you never expect them to, like that velociraptor in Jurassic Park?
- Comment on People are realizing celebrities are unnecessary 5 days ago:
That’s a nice thing to say.
- Comment on US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week 5 days ago:
Although the BYDs and GWMs and MGs are getting popular in Australia, I have literally never seen a Chinese EV in the States outside of locally built BYD busses, and BYD cars have distinct designs that are fairly easy to spot. So this feels like posturing to me.
- Comment on People are realizing celebrities are unnecessary 5 days ago:
Jokes on you, you can’t unfollow me on Lemmy because followers aren’t a thing here.
Also, esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie is always necessary.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter 5 days ago:
If you are absolutely locked in to someone else’s service, then there really isn’t anything you can do if they do something object able, better to rip off the Band-Aid now than later.
X Formerly Known As Twitter isn’t functionally irreplaceable, and I do hope the higher up at Nintendo will realize the only way that the only way to make sure they have full control of their publishing platform is by owning it and start a Misskey instance or something.
- Comment on No, you don't need a 'very bespoke AOSP' to turn your phone into a Rabbit R1 — here's proof 1 week ago:
The manufacturer has to release the phone’s kernel source code before any custom ROM development can happen for the phone most of the time for that reason.
There is a reason that GrapheneOS only works on a couple of Pixel phones.
Could be just like windows in that it has every driver for every piece of hardware in the package, just bloating it unnecessarily.
Google specifically designed the Android kernel so that the driver are excluded, unlike the normal Linux or Windows kernel, because, long story short, Qualcomm did not want it to happen.
- Comment on Rabbit was once an NFT company that it wants you to forget about 1 week ago:
That’s a good point. Cryptocurrency and NFTs are not good things to be involved in.
- Comment on No, you don't need a 'very bespoke AOSP' to turn your phone into a Rabbit R1 — here's proof 1 week ago:
Technically, every Android phone uses a “very bespoke AOSP”, because the Android kernel is customized for the hardware of every single phone model, which can include things like hardware drivers and carrier services.
This is the reason that there is no universal Android ROM that works across every Android phone, unlike Windows or normal GNU/Linux distributions.
- Comment on Rabbit was once an NFT company that it wants you to forget about 1 week ago:
Plenty of companies pivot when their initial business plan doesn’t work out or if the market changes.
For example, did you know that American Express used to be a shipping company like FedEx and UPS? Or Mattel used to sell picture frames before they started making toys? Or Nintendo started out as a playing card company and still sells them today?
- Comment on Remember when the body washes contained literal micro plastics and were advertised as such? 2 weeks ago:
It is as Benjamin Franklin once said: “Life is microplastics, it’s micro-fantastic.”
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 2 weeks ago:
We highly recommend only mentioning the brand name of your product since mentioning links in posts makes the post more likely to be reported as spam and hidden.
Like Barbie™, now available on Blu-ray and select streaming service!
- Comment on The Sims movie in the works from Barbie’s Margot Robbie and director of Loki and The Last of Us Season 2 1 month ago:
Yay
- Comment on Liking an OS isn't a personality trait ❌ 1 month ago:
I will have you know my entire online persona on Lemmy is basically a 24/7 “Barbie” movie advertisement, thank you very much.
I use Arch BTW.
- Comment on Reddit introduces a new ad format that looks similar to posts made by users | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
Organic advertisements that looks similar to user post on reddit? How could they do such a thing?
Anyways, fellow lemmings, for no apparent reason, Today I Learned that Academy Award and Golden Globe nominated movie, “Barbie”, is now available on Blu-ray and select streaming services.
- Comment on Boeing: Last Week Tonight 2 months ago:
I think a lot of people would actively refuse to fly on a 737 MAX in the future.
The design of the MAX was flawed to begin with. Essentially, the Boeing 737, designed in the 1960s,could not compete with the newer A320Neo on fuel efficiency due to Airbus redesigning the A320 around the much larger, state of the art CFM LEAP engines (Neo stands for “New Engine Option”), Boeing choose to jerryrig the CFM LEAP engines on their existing 737 airframe instead of redesigning another plane around the engine.
Now, since the engine is oversized with respect to the airframe, the newly christened 737 MAX has a tendency to tip upward due to too much lift when flying. Boeing opted to correct this in software by having the plane automatically correct its flight by tipping downward if it senses the plane was tipping up, which they called the MCAS. And of course, since one of the selling point of the 737 MAX Boeing promised was that no additional training was needed for the 737 MAX, the pilots did not know about MCAS, much less have a way to have a manual override for it.
So what if the sensors made a mistake and tipped downward when it’s not supposed to, you ask? We found out in 2018.
It is not something that is fixable barring a grounds up redesign. But that’s not going to happen.
- Comment on Midjourney Accuses Stability AI of Image Theft, Bans Its Employees 2 months ago:
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
AI generated images are not, and should not be considered copyright able, and they don’t own the right to the image they generated, as I understand it.
Otherwise, Midjourney are certainly very welcome to start paying royalties to certain popular celebrities whose images they are profiting off of. You can’t have it both ways.
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 2 months ago:
So TikTok is sending out app notifications that they are at risk of being shut down and urging their users to call their representatives right now. They are not going down without a fight.
The 165 days time limit would land the deadline in August-ish, right before the most intense phase of election season in the States, and I do think TikTok would be a very influential part of the election strategy this year.
- Comment on Lemmy Active Users looking good 2 months ago:
Part of it could be that people post less during the holidays and there is a significant portion of people who browse sites like reddit/Lemmy during their downtime at work.
- Comment on The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same 3 months ago:
I will offer an alternate explanation:
Restaurants (and by extension, coffee shop) are inherently very risky businesses to start and operation, I think over 90 percent of them fail in the first year. So, to increase the chances of survival, you have to make sure your business is ran as efficiently as possible, things like rent and location is outside of your control, so you always want to maximize the value of every dollar you spend.
The first people notice when they go into a new restaurant is cleanliness, nobody wants to eat at a new place that looks dirty, you can only get away from that if you are a decades old local hole in the wall. Ease of cleaning, therefore, is the number 1 priority over everything else.
So, why the “industrial” concrete/tiled floor and metal chair? Because you can just hose them down at the end of the day. Same thing with big open wooden tables and sparce renovations, ease of cleaning.
The second thing is you have to avoid major renovations, make the with the space you have and maximize the amount of interesting decorations for the minimum money/work.
Why put subway tiles on white walls for decorations? Because you don’t have to hire painters, and subway tiles are cheap and interesting looking.
Why use big open windows and only dim Edison bulbs for lighting? Because hiring electricians to rewire the place you rent for lighting is a lot more expensive than using the big windows you already have.
Why avocado toast? Because coffee is your main focus, the food is important but secondary, and a piece of fruit on a piece of bread pretty much doesn’t require any cooking.
It’s really the operation efficiency, rather than some trend following “Instagram” asthetics that led to all these coffee shop looking the same, I think this is a better explanation than what this article proposes.
- Comment on Instagram finds that AI Mr beast scams do not go against community guidelines. 4 months ago:
Depends on if you’ve seen ‘Dreamland’ or not.
- Comment on Instagram finds that AI Mr beast scams do not go against community guidelines. 4 months ago:
We still have a work account, along with fan pages and memes, etc.
Hoping the Lemmy shitposting meme magic will work again, I don’t understand how it works, and it did backfire during the Golden Globes when your favorite esteemed character actress to you got her own Lemmy bit turned around on her:
Koy continued: “The key moment in Barbie is when she goes from perfect beauty to bad breath, cellulite, and flat feet — or what casting directors call ‘character actor’
- Comment on Instagram finds that AI Mr beast scams do not go against community guidelines. 4 months ago:
It is exactly because Instagram is at the scale that it is that caused moderation to be difficult. Facebook has relied on using bots to moderate for so long due to its scale, and using bots that are specifically designed to detect AI generated contents is really not possible without introducing a ton of false positives, since the Instagram of the 2020s at its core IS celebrity/influencer advertisement, and there is honestly very little that differentiate what constitutes as "content* and “spam” there.
Since influencers will be the first to be automated by machines, I just don’t really see a point in having an Instagram account any longer, the inevitable conclusion of creating a fake reality of your life on Instagram is being replaced by a machine that can fake it more efficiently.
- Comment on X removes support for NFT profile pictures 4 months ago:
I would imagine the sheer embarrassment of having an really ugly monkey NFT profile picture is enough of an incentive.
Credit to where credit is due, good for X Formerly Known as Twitter, though this is mostly because Musk only used crypto as a grift, whereas Jack Dorsey is a True Believer in crypto.
- Comment on Well, it looks like verification photos might be useless now. 4 months ago:
Shitposting on obscure Internet technology forums is my true passion.
