dylanmorgan
@dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
- Comment on „If companies were to do the right thing, they would lose the most valuable customers on earth, preteen kids” 2 weeks ago:
This is what keeps being ignored in these studies, and it seems like the only reason is that copping to the real reasons young people are showing higher rates of mental illness would require admitting that the status quo is unsustainable and frankly evil.
A report that said “gen z is profoundly distressed by the reality of global warming” means admitting we need to fix the climate or see our kids suffers deaths of despair in unprecedented numbers. The same is true if we admit that the economy won’t provide most of them a job that allows basic survival, much less a comfortable fulfilling life; or that these factors have combined to cause a turn to fascism.
- Comment on animals you need to know 2 weeks ago:
If only for a little extra oomph in your scrabble game.
- Comment on Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits 4 weeks ago:
It’s like they saw “oppression Olympics” mentioned somewhere, completely misunderstood what it meant, and decided “let’s go for the gold.”
- Comment on Safety first 4 weeks ago:
You have to click the tongs every time you pick them up!
- Comment on Am I going fucking crazy? (Regarding explicit songs being censored on various music streaming services.) 5 weeks ago:
Same. The other day I mistakenly told a trans woman early in her transition “thank you sir” as a reflex and all that happened was she gently said “I’m not a sir” and we moved on.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That’s a lot of words to say “I am a human tapeworm.”
- Comment on Google Is Killing Retro Dodo & Other Independent Sites 1 month ago:
Better Offline (www.betteroffline.com) had an episode recently talking about how private equity has been killing journalism. This seems like a case for the site offering a subscription rather than just giving up. Video game journalism is kind of uniquely positioned to move to that model, especially something niche like a site that covers retro gaming. If they do it well, and I assume they do, their audience is likely willing to pay a few bucks a month for their work.
- Comment on is this copium or hopium or schizophrenia? 2 months ago:
That sounds like the general consensus from most SW engineers.
- Comment on is this copium or hopium or schizophrenia? 2 months ago:
It’s grifting, pure and simple. All those things may be possible but Sam Altman is spewing this line of bullshit to keep the venture capital flowing into his company.
- Comment on How many times will I tell you? 2 months ago:
Yep, mathematically people sit more often than stand when using a toilet.
- Comment on This should be fun 2 months ago:
What kind of thing would an asshole say?
- Comment on EU to fine Apple about $500 million for anticompetitive App Store policy in music streaming market 2 months ago:
If they want it to have an effect it should be $500 million every 3 months until it changes.
- Comment on State your music taste chat 2 months ago:
I’m horny, sad, and misanthropic, but I’m not a misogynist and I still like Neutral Milk Hotel. Clearly this chart is a farce, a scam!
- Comment on State your music taste chat 2 months ago:
Misanthropic means hating humanity. Misandrist means hating men. Trent Reznor is absolutely a misanthrope, or at least the character he is when writing/performing NIN songs is.
- Comment on Are We Transitioning From Capitalism to Silicon Serfdom? 2 months ago:
They get yelled at by old men in procedures that typically make their interrogators look foolish at best, then are fined what amounts to a minor rounding error and change nothing. Because for the time being, congress and the donors that get congress elected benefit from the absurd profits being collected.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
According to some versions of the myth, Medusa was beautiful and terrifying. So pretty much half of the women DD dates.
- Comment on My pick is Rubberband Man by the Spinners. 3 months ago:
Or the entirety of Rite of Spring to give me plenty of time to curbstomp all those fuckers.
- Comment on My pick is Rubberband Man by the Spinners. 3 months ago:
Tire Me by Rage.
- Comment on Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 3 months ago:
Thunderbird will do RSS.
- Comment on Half of recent US inflation due to high corporate profits, report finds 3 months ago:
You can’t really stop buying food. There’s a reason that (say) a laptop costs the same now that it did in 1998 but eggs went from $2.50 a dozen to $8 a dozen in a few weeks with no actual change in supply or demand outside of a very brief constraint on shipping.
- Comment on How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity 3 months ago:
The article’s point appears to be an ad for the book written by the same dude whose byline is on the article.
- Comment on When people say the phrase "Don't hate the player, hate the game", it removes responsibility from the player 3 months ago:
My first thought after hearing that saying 20-something years ago was “the player perpetuates the game.”
If people refuse to play, there is no game to hate.
- Comment on Apple faces tough challenges against antitrust regulators in the U.S. and EU - gHacks Tech News 4 months ago:
Tough challenges from US antitrust would be a nice change considering for several decades they’ve been showing their belly full time.
- Comment on How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit 4 months ago:
“We don’t want other AI to train on this data, only one we’re involved with.”
- Comment on Who pulled it off better? 4 months ago:
Malcolm Tucker would have won the dominion war with pure vulgarity.
- Comment on How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media? 4 months ago:
Way more thoughtful and open to discussing matters.
- Comment on A long and distinguished family 4 months ago:
They are all calzones: cuberule.com
- Comment on Researchers warn that Windows 11 restrictions could send 240 million computers to landfills 4 months ago:
Time to start a nonprofit that cleans up old machines and installs Linux on them for deserving poor folks.
- Comment on San Fran tech founder is accused of forcing his assistant into a 'slave contract' that called him 'Master' before trafficking her for sex around the world 4 months ago:
It’s not the same for everyone, but for some there is a relief in not making any decisions for themselves. It definitely doesn’t appeal to me in either role.
- Comment on Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time 5 months ago:
That is just the fine, the families are suing the driver and Tesla. Here’s hoping the Tesla suit gives them the real prize: the death of a company.
(I know it won’t happen but a guy can dream.)