bob_wiley
@bob_wiley@lemmy.world
- Comment on Redditor when women 1 year ago:
I wasn’t aware you wanted a list of everyone woman I’ve ever met. I’m not going to provide that, as it’s insane. That’s why I simply mentioned just the most recent. I also didn’t say anything about the entire female population in the world, that’s a bunch of spin you made up in your head. Stop being so sensitive and trying to make things out to be worse than they are. I don’t know you, nor was I thinking about you when I made the post; you don’t need to take it personally.
- Comment on Redditor when women 1 year ago:
I have. The most recent woman I saw was my sister, who does literally all the things I mentioned, and has probably never been on reddit. She might not even know what it is.
- Comment on Redditor when women 1 year ago:
It’s not that people don’t think women have the capability. There is just a general assumption that they’re smart enough not to waste their time with it and they have better things to do, like actual hobbies and friends/family to see.
When I have time to kill I dick around online and usually ignore anything else I could do. Every woman I know is making scrapbooks, knitting her own hats and some more for others, taking care of some kids, building and maintaining relationships with people in the real world, cooking amazing food just because they want it, getting involved in the community, working some extra side jobs, and generally doing stuff to make their world and the world around them better.
Why do you assume the assumption that everyone is a guy online is somehow the result of a negative view on women?
- Comment on Maybe AI won't be taking all of our jobs after all? 1 year ago:
Cooked using monster extract.
- Comment on Why would the immune deficiency foundation do this? 1 year ago:
Only in the rare occurrence of a draft, not a normal way of being. The last time was 50 years ago.
- Comment on Milk 1 year ago:
Someone ordering oat milk is surprised by the number of milk options?
- Comment on World EV Sales Now Equal 18% Of World Auto Sales 1 year ago:
The idea is that day to day charging is done at home. The charging stations should really only be needed on road trips… hence their locations at hotels. For those without a living situation that allows for home charging, it’s probably best to way until that piece of the puzzle is figured out and more mature.
- Comment on Windows 12 May Require a Subscription 1 year ago:
We used to have a lot idle PCs at work back in the day. I brought in a bunch of live CDs with some Linux distro that had a bunch of games on it (Quake, UT I think, and 4 or 5 others). We’d fire them up and have a lan party in the office, fragging each other for hours… all powered by Linux and leaving no trace. It was great.
- Comment on Bye biiiittttchhhh 1 year ago:
It’ll be interesting to see how it plays out. They do have some interesting utility. They can be used of power tools directly off the battery. The front trunk can allow for tool storage when the bed is full of whatever. They can be hooked up to your home to provide power during a grid outage. These are all pretty cool, but there will still be a lot of anxiety around running out of power, and the things you mention.
- Comment on The truth about Canada 1 year ago:
- Comment on Master baiter 1 year ago:
Yeah, this stuff isn’t really slang though. They’re replacing the slang with ever more technical replacements in an effort to make something non-offensive, when the idea behind the words is inherently offensive. Then shame is used to drive adoption. Slang I get, this other stuff… it’s just annoying.
- Comment on Master baiter 1 year ago:
I don’t see a point of constantly shifting the words. It’s the meaning that matters. I’ve heard people use “mentally challenged” the same way people used idiot and retard. Now if I look up “mentally challenged” it’s directing me to “Intellectual disability”, which still means in the same thing, so it’s only a matter of time before people start using that and the words have to change again. It all seems so pointless. No one likes being called an idiot, but it’s there will always be a word to cover that meaning. We might as well just use the words we had.
- Comment on Master baiter 1 year ago:
Everyone thinks it’s the other person that needs to change their mind when presented with the new information. Both sides feel like they are right and the other side is stupid for not understanding.
- Comment on Bye biiiittttchhhh 1 year ago:
To be fair, the F150 has been the best selling vehicle in America for something like 40 years. If the Lightning can hold on to that market, that will be a lot of vehicles, even if all it does is that one.
That being said, I’d rather we invest in better infrastructure and transit that reduces the dependance on cars. I don’t know exactly how many jobs that would create vs the auto industry. But across infrastructure, bikes, trains, potentially getting people back into retail shops and out of online everything… It’d image it would be a lot of jobs.
- Comment on Bike Riders of lemmy, you okay with me riding my eScooter in the bike lane? 1 year ago:
I’ve seen people ride Vespas on the sidewalk.
- Comment on Bye biiiittttchhhh 1 year ago:
Ford has plans to build a battery plant in the US which will bring about 2,500 jobs with it. Not doing anything and letting the rest of the world make an deliver the cars to the US would be much worse for the economy than doing nothing at all.
- Comment on Google’s claim that search users have choice is “bogus,” Microsoft CEO tells judge 1 year ago:
When I moved to DDG, I had to go back to Google all the time.
With Kagi I never have to go back to Google. And on several occasions people who use Google asked me a question they couldn’t find an answer to and I found it in just a few minutes using Kagi. This saved the day at work once. We had 30 people on a call trying to solve some issue. They had been working for hours with no results. I joined, asked what was going on, did a couple searches in Kagi, and found an answer that was implemented and fixed the issue. 30 people on Google for hours couldn’t find anything useful.
- Comment on Google’s claim that search users have choice is “bogus,” Microsoft CEO tells judge 1 year ago:
Kagi factors them in, but then goes beyond that to produce much better results.
- Comment on Google’s claim that search users have choice is “bogus,” Microsoft CEO tells judge 1 year ago:
If someone offers you a meal of food for $5, or a punch in the face for free… do you think the punch in the face is a better deal too?
- Comment on Immune to marketing 1 year ago:
I hate them passionately, and will often note the brand in the advert so I can avoid it.
I’ve been getting a letter from State Farm Insurance every week (sometimes multiple per week… sometimes multiple per day) for over almost 20 years. I’ve moved 15 times and they still follow me. All this has done is guarantee I will never sign up for their shitty insurance. I’ve been thinking about calling them just to try and get the letters to stop. I had to do this with XM… it worked, until I got a new car and another free 3 months. Now I guess I need to call and yell at them again.
- Comment on Immune to marketing 1 year ago:
I don’t know if I’m on the spectrum or not, but I always focus on the details (if not ignoring the ads completely), because my first question is always, “how are they trying to fuck me this time?” The more obvious the emotional appeals and other tricks, the more I think they’re trying to screw people. If they are too over the top I write them off completely without even looking any further into it. If if they have to use that much manipulation, the product probably sucks.
I had a lot of math problems in school that were all about ignoring all the superfluous information to pick out what was needed to answer the actual question. I’m sure stuff like that helped too.
- Comment on Coca-Cola's New AI-Generated Soda Flavor Falls Flat 1 year ago:
Hopefully the first few attempts will all be hilariously bad, so the companies give up.
I saw this Coke at the store and it seemed like a shameless hype play. I assume someone just asked ChatGPT some nonsense, and then they could say AI helped.
- Comment on Some people crave the flat 1 year ago:
That guy’s story made no sense. He wanted a hotdog with a flat side, so he made a giant hotdog that’s still cylindrical to cut off chucks from?
I feel like there are infinitely better solutions to his, hotdogs rolling off the grill, problem. A couple of skewers, for example.
- Comment on Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher’s ‘Stoner Cats’ NFTs get smoked by the SEC 1 year ago:
I have to assume this is all Ashton and Mila is just trying to be supportive of whatever the fuck he’s doing. He wants to be some sort of tech investor and either doesn’t have the smarts or the morals to avoid NFTs.
- Comment on Apple forced to ditch iPhone lightning charger 1 year ago:
The person said they were forced by necessity to move the MacBooks to USB-C in 2015 and brought up Lightning as the reason. That’s not even remotely accurate. I don’t see how anything is relevant after that. USB-C as the only ports on laptops was never a necessity, it was a choice they made, which they have since rolled back, further showing it wasn’t a necessity. Having the option to also use USB-C to charge doesn’t mean anything. And as I recall, USB-C is slightly underpowered for charging the high end laptops, so if they were working hard on USB-C, there would be some battery train to cover the gap. Not exactly a selling point for a power delivery system.
- Comment on Very, Very Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole | The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that 1 year ago:
I noticed when I went to a hotel that the recommended videos for a logged out user were drastically different than my own. For example, I always found it a bit odd that Mr Beast is the #1 person on YouTube, yet I almost never get recommended his videos, but they were all over the TV in the hotel.
I decided to try a hard reset. I deleted my entire watch history, start at 0 again. I also deleted all but maybe 5 of my subscriptions. Almost nothing changed.
- Comment on During the beginning act of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Link ends up losing an arm to what is basically a gangrene caused by Ganondorf's "gloom". Which is to say, a "Ganon-grene". 1 year ago:
Then throughout the whole game the gloom hands taunt him. It’s like they’re just popping in to say, “got your hand, got your hand.”
- Comment on Really, ….. it's my fault they built a terrible system? 1 year ago:
I like to give people more credit than that. No one needs a formal education to make a budget or emergency fund. Having good examples going up helps significantly. But even without that, the internet, or a library, is an amazing resource to learn this kind of thing, where maybe someone can learn so they can teach it to their kids and stop the cycle. If we collectively throw up our hands and say no one can do anything about what they were born into and there is no upward mobility over the generations… then things can only get worse, because we’ve artificially closed off a main path for improvement.
This is basically what my dad did, and what someone along the lines had to do in every family tree with some level of “privilege”. People can be this person on their own family tree. It doesn’t mean they’ll go from broke to billionaire in one step; that’s not the goal. The goal would just be to start creating some stability and solid footing so if/when some shit happens there is a little cushion and people aren’t at the whims of the currently government to try and save them, as that’s never going to happen. And to create some education and habits around this finances in the home, as most schools are teaching this stuff.
- Comment on Do you remember the tv show Dark Angel with Jessica Alba? 1 year ago:
I remember watching it every week when it aired. My main memory of it was the barcode on the back of the neck…. Pretty sure it was from that show.
- Comment on What is wrong with some of you? 1 year ago:
Thanks!
