FredericChopin_

@FredericChopin_@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever felt a imaginary switch click that changed the trajectory of your life?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll preface by saying I have done some bad things I’m not proud of in life.

  I was an failure relative to my peers and just never felt like I would progress, so I did things to people I am not proud of doing in times of need.

  One of these came back to bite me when I started a new job at the same place as two people I’d wronged. Suffice to say I was recognised and one of them made a complaint.

  So during my training, the last week, I was taken aside and confronted by HR and subsequently canned. I was canned for discrepancies in my application as they could hardly can me on hearsay.

  Well, that spurred me to apply for a job, not my ideal job, at a better company. Which to cut this short basically enabled me to grow as a person, get a neurodivergent diagnosis with medication. Re-train and now I work in my dream field.

  The moral is good things happen to bad people i guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community | Fees of up to $0.20 per install threaten to upend large chunks of the industry.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How does that even work if say I buy a game at $10 and then I uninstall and install 51 times?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity Software Inc's President and CEO John Riccitiello Sells 2,000 Shares⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I’m not one to defend CEOs but don’t they usually have these orders in place years in advance?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I be less competitive about social media engagement?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I did that when I left Reddit. In a thread with lots of people doing the same.

  It’s an empty feeling as you have no idea how many people saw that comment, not that it matters but damn social media hacked my brain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is more likely.

  The majority of consumers giving a shit about anything that doesn’t affect them.

  Stopping the production of things we actually don’t want people to buy anymore.

  It’s much easier to regulate a handful of companies than it is to educate several billion people and try and get them to change buying habits.

  That’s like excusing a serial killer because victims are plentiful. You wouldn’t blame the victims and tell them to stay away from serial killers. You would punish the serial killer no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech firms’ power⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Most likely but we could say that FB and the rest are literal American spyware.

  We shouldn’t be using anything of this shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don’t we use radiators as heat sinks in the summer and pump cold water through them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What does deltas mean in this context?

  I know I could search it but eh I’m creating content right!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Then wouldn’t we regulate the imports.

  No Asda you can’t import from X because they do Y?

  Not trying to argue here, just want to be more informed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it is helpful.

  Consumers can only buy what’s on the shelves. If we limit production then the former isn’t an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I would shift the onus on the people buying the shit (consumers) to the people making it (producers).

  Maybe we could look at fishing nets, plastic bottles etc.

  To be clear I am all for doing more for the planet but I take issue with the blame being misplaced on consumers when the producers are polluting orders of magnitude more than we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Straws a literal drop on the ocean compared to what corporations are doing to the oceans.

  I am happy to have paper straws if it helps the planet, but they chose the smallest thing they could do and as always put the onus on the consumers and not the producers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that these things came out after banning plastic straws shows nobody knows what the fuck they’re doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch a swarm of drones autonomously track a human through a dense forest⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right honestly on the whole stereotypes thing and I do think I just got up today in a more pessimistic mood and made these comments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch a swarm of drones autonomously track a human through a dense forest⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe not but the cia have definitely renditioned people during the war on terror.

  The CIA have certainly destabilised more governments that any other organisation I can think of.

  I’ve said in another comment that yes what goes on it chinas bordered is fucked up and should be condemned. What I’m talking about is all the hate about the stuff outside it’s borders when to my stupid Brian they don’t do too much.

  What is it with you people that are quick to criticise other places but will not take criticism of their own country.

  To be abundantly clear, I am not trying to defend China at all, fuck them and their treatment of Uyghurs and citizens in general etc. I am merely trying to find out why China is in vogue, why not NK, Russia, Syria, Sri Lanka etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch a swarm of drones autonomously track a human through a dense forest⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The first actual response with the actual crimes that china commits.

  I guess it depends on current morals or the uk of the past. After all we did colonise half the world.

  Currently we have some pretty draconian views and removal of a lot of rights. Plus the way the government thinks about ex-pats (sorry I meant immigrants, ex-pat is when we go elsewhere). We invaded Iraq under false pretences.

  I just don’t see how we are so hypercritical of one country and any view that questions it is usually (not here,today) condemned as a plant, shill, or Winnie the Pooh himself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch a swarm of drones autonomously track a human through a dense forest⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude the CIA and GCHQ were found to be spying on their own citizens too.

  Like shit I get it china bad but also we are bad too. It’s insane all the posts of avoid Chinese tech as they spy, but it’s cool to buy this American tech as the cia are privacy advocates just like apple. Ffs.

  Glass houses and stones is all I’m saying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch a swarm of drones autonomously track a human through a dense forest⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And?

  You don’t believe that the USA and other counties are working on the same thing?

  You don’t think there might be articles in China right now about the CIA and there drone swarms?

  If I recall the USA literally murders people with drones and a certain level of collateral damage is acceptable. Or that we dropped two nukes on a country as a flex to Russia.

  We littered Laos with enough bombs that people still die today.

  All I am saying is we should maybe throw less stones from our glass houses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch a swarm of drones autonomously track a human through a dense forest⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes in that country and often with act of rendition.

  Again, what are they doing on a global scale? Selfish or not m, what goes on in China has little effect on me, but when countries like mine and the USA invade counties under false pretences and people then set off bombs in my country then that does effect me.

  All I’m saying is we seem to throw a lot of stones from inside our glass houses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch a swarm of drones autonomously track a human through a dense forest⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does China always get these kind of comments. I’m from the UK and I have seen my country and the USA do more to destabilise the world than China ever does?

  Sure china is fucked if you live there and they have too much power with the manufacturing, but I’m genuinely curious as to why Reddit and Lemmy really like to shit ok china when we most likely live in countries with just as dubious morals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I never know when I can use ironic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X/Twitter has updated its Terms of Service to let it use Posts for AI training⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re most probably correct and I was just being overly pedantic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X/Twitter has updated its Terms of Service to let it use Posts for AI training⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I take issue with literally zero percent.

  How many of us came here over the reddit debacle? I can tell you for certain it isn’t zero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla is reportedly under investigation by the DOJ and SEC over it's mysterious 'Project 42'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well the shareholders have a right to question company being spent on side projects that do not work to increase the value for shareholders.

  Sadly you can get away with a lot as a business just don’t piss of your share holders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is raising free-shipping minimums for customers without a Prime membership⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I stopped buying from Amazon a while back. The service went downhill quickly and the prices are not really competitive anymore, and for the few items they are cheaper I’d rather source it from a more reputable company than give my money to these fucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Print failed successfully!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a BLTouch but still have issues. I do feel maybe a sturdy table is needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Print failed successfully!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You kinda get used to them failing.

  Part of the reason my printer just sits there not being used, aside from I collect hobbies for fun, is that it’s a nightmare levelling the bed and getting things dialled in.

  Resin printers don’t have these issues but it depends what you’re printing I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Print failed successfully!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How is that even possible that’s awesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robbing Delivery Robots Is Now a Thing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you think about it’s easier to steal higher value items that have a good resale value, rather than a complete food shop.

  Sure, some people steal out of more than necessity, whether that be drug addiction (which should also be fixed at the root) or other issues.

  The fact is quite simple that the more we give people prospects then the more crime will go down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robbing Delivery Robots Is Now a Thing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Care to explain why crime is more prevalent amongst poorer people?

  Or do you just want to be hyperbolic with your comments?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robbing Delivery Robots Is Now a Thing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It really pissed me off how people don’t seem to realise that most crime is due to a failure of society and that if we give people prospects then crime will go down.