givesomefucks
@givesomefucks@lemmy.world
- Comment on I can calf raise as much as I can squat, yet I have pretty small calves relative to my thighs/glutes. What's the deal? 3 days ago:
Moving the weight 3-4 inches compared to 12-18 inches…
It takes more effort/power to move it a bigger distance
- Comment on Tesla profits plummet 71% amid backlash to Musk's role with Trump administration 3 days ago:
Elon Musk attributed some of Tesla’s struggles to “rapidly evolving trade policy” and “changing political sentiment.”
Considering how much he paid to get trump in office…
I feel like both those problems are things Elmo is personally responsible for
- Comment on The Terrorist Propaganda to Reddit Pipeline: how an ultra-leftist network hijacked some of the biggest non-political subreddits to censor its ideological enemies — and distribute terrorist propaganda 1 week ago:
Just right wing tech bro shit
Pirate Wires leans right-wing and anti-establishment, often framing progressive policies and government regulation as threats to innovation and individual freedom. Its coverage often favors the tech industry, advocates for free markets, and opposes centralized authority, often using provocative headlines to convey its critiques. For example, the article “Listen Up, Bezos: Shut Up and Pay Me” takes an aggressive approach toward Amazon’s wage policies, while “Sucks to EU” mocks European regulatory measures. The language is highly informal, provocative, and laced with sarcasm, which aligns with Pirate Wires’ broader editorial style. The article uses mocking rhetoric, exaggerated phrasing, and conversational snark to frame the EU as an overreaching bureaucratic entity that stifles free speech and innovation.
mediabiasfactcheck.com/pirate-wires-bias-and-cred…
And not a fit for this sub on top of it
- Comment on This is real 1 week ago:
They’re actually not.
A lot of them are, and definitely the ones online 24/7.
But trump having the actual official White House communicate like this does add up and will hurt Republican votes.
trump isoving to fast and it’s what’s gonna end up stopping it. It’s why I hate when people act like trump is the problem, if he died today Vance takes over and they do the same evil shit, just smarter about it
- Comment on Becoming more and more normal 1 week ago:
The links are technically in the picture, but can you edit to include clickable links in the body text of the post?
I know the point is the frequency of articles about the topic and not the specific articles, but you should still provide the actual links
- Comment on What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere? 1 week ago:
Sarcasm
- Comment on Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey Call For Abolition Of All Intellectual Property Laws, Arguing There Are 'Much Greater Models To Pay Creators' 1 week ago:
The debate has drawn a mixed bag of reactions. Tech evangelist Chris Messina supported Dorsey’s stance. He wrote on BlueSky social, “Jack has a point" as “Automated IP fines/3-strike rules for AI infringement may become the substitute for putting poor people in jail for cannabis possession.”
Yeah, good thing that’s not still happening or anything…
/s
- Comment on The use of lunar calendar might be the reason why days start at midnight. 1 week ago:
The first way to tell time was the sun dial, and because sunrise varies and starting a day at noon is crazy, they picked the opposite of noon even tho there was no timekeeping mechanism that would ever read midnight.
- Comment on Fintech founder charged with fraud after 'AI' shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines 2 weeks ago:
Amazon tried this at Whole Foods…
They told investors AI was keeping track of what shopper picked up and charging them when they left, turned out it was just people in India or something individually following every shopper via security cameras. Obviously mistakes were frequent
- Comment on Meditation in a Dystopian Landscape: A 2 hour Sci-Fi Futuristic World with Dark Ambient Music 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, not what this is for
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 weeks ago:
You can get mad at everyone else or you can start playing to the lowest common denominator.
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- Comment on PC's for millenials (and Gen Z somewhat) is the same thing as cars to boomers 2 weeks ago:
Has been for 30 some years…
- Comment on Simon Pegg Tried To Get Nick Frost Cast As An Iconic Star Trek Character: "I've Pitched It Multiple Times" 2 weeks ago:
My comment could also be read as rationale supporting a version of that character based on serious horror…
But yes, they’re a joke to me. And yes I’d love to see him a tribble monster
- Comment on Simon Pegg Tried To Get Nick Frost Cast As An Iconic Star Trek Character: "I've Pitched It Multiple Times" 2 weeks ago:
Dude has a lot of range…
His new horror movie was really good, and he was legitimately scary.
Into the Badlands was still in his main lane but he did an amazing job in that as well. He’s funny, but he doesn’t have to be comic relief.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Go to a comment you think shows he’s “fake banned” from.
Then go look at it from that instance instead of a 3rd party instance.
Their comments won’t show there, so they won’t get any engagement from people viewing from that instance.
Because they’re making the comments on that 3rd party’s copy, but it doesn’t federate to the main one that they’re banned from
- Comment on Elon Musk's X/Twitter to clamp down on parody accounts. 2 weeks ago:
Who cares what the nazis on Twitter do?
At this point it’s safe to write off anything that happens there. And anyone that still makes the decision to financially support a fucking nazi can be written off as well.
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections 2 weeks ago:
HOW does this genocidal state have such an insane stranglehold on our country?
Before AIPAC there was another Israeli organization that donated to politicians.
After years of fighting a committee ruled that it had to register as a foreign agent.
So Israel created AIPAC and then gave Max donations to the people on the committee that decides who has to register as a foreign agent.
Which is why AIPAC has never had to register.
As both parties continually got rid of campaign finance law, AIPAC kept increasing what they gave, and started throwing insane money at anyone critical of Israel in the primary when it’s cheap.
Over decades they’ve bought the only two options and ensured the only two options were peo-Israel over anything else
The worst part …
They’re not the only organization, even foreign country. Doing this to ensure they always win.
Luckily while Ken Martin does have a pro-Israel bias, while running Minnesota he was one of the few state chairs who refused to work against anti-genocide Dems. Which resulted in Minnesota being one of the progressive strongholds despite no one guessing it would shake out that way a decade ago.
So I want to be clear:
The people fucking up the DNC for decades is gone, we need to support the new DNC to keep it out of their hands. The people running the DNC six months ago wants the current DNC to take the fall so they can move back in.
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections 2 weeks ago:
Part of why it’s so ridiculous some Americans are legally prohibited from participating in BDS, is people only know if you tell them.
You can just not buy it and never mention why.
And unfortunately, lots of people aren’t even aware it’s illegal:
- Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 3 weeks ago:
The price was announced first… So it’s not related.
Adjusted for inflation though, and $80 is the normal price it’s been for 40 years.
I just don’t know why people are shocked Nintendo is doing this, they’ve always been one of the first companies to increase prices.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 3 weeks ago:
Do it, fuck up Twitter, Amazon, meta, and everyone else that shared a stage with trump.
The only language they know is $, if trump is bad for their money, they’ll go against trump.
These are people obsessed with wealth over every thing else, it’s not hard to manipulate them, but when rational adults regain power, we need to tax the ever loving shit out of them because no matter what happens, they’ll always choose “more money”.
- Comment on What are some ways by which disabled people can discover and volunteer for stem cell treatment? 3 weeks ago:
Direct with researchers.
Usually thru universities but grants are drying up.
Studies by companies sometimes take participants from volunteering, but usually they start with lists from healthcare workers.
So talk to their doctor and make sure they know about desire to volunteer, check “local” universities and hospitals
- Comment on How much human individuals resemble cells 3 weeks ago:
Are we enslaving the cells in our body
Whoever wrote that must have slept thru every biology class they’ve ever taken…
Like, there’s some decent questions in there, but they’ve all been asked for over a thousand years.
It reads like someone used a chat bot and told it to try and sound like a philosopher.
- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 3 weeks ago:
Remember when American tax payers gave billions to telecoms to install fiber in rural America?
It’s actually happened multiple times…
I remember two off the top of my head, but it’s possible there was a couple more
- Comment on US prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione 3 weeks ago:
Trump is going to fuck around and make this an inflection point with his voter base.
I knew he wouldn’t be able to stay out of it. And it’s only going to get worse during the trial when mainstream media keeps trying to demonfy this guy while the vast amount of Americans view him as Robin Hood.
This is going to be a bigger trial than OJ or Casey Anthony, and this is going to be one of the rare cases where the people side with the defendant. Other big cases most people wanted the defandent guilty but they got off.
But Luigi is either going to get off and likely get into politics, or lose and become a literal martyr.
There’s no path for the wealthy to win, especially since everyday thousands of Americans cross the line to “nothing left to lose”.
- Comment on The rise of far-right political support among the rich is partly a diversion, so that people start getting more upset at the far right than at being exploited by the rich 3 weeks ago:
Right/left only exists to stop us from realizing it should be top/bottom
- Comment on We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing. 3 weeks ago:
It was William Caxton about 600 years ago who owned it.
Everything I found just now talks about how great a historical figure he was.
But if you dig deeper you should be able to find reference to the Dutch workers he brought with the press who knew how to use it and actually set the type on the presses.
I don’t have the time at the moment, but if you’re interested then that’s enough to start researching
- Comment on We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing. 3 weeks ago:
Is this an English grammar rule
English grammar and spelling rules were made up on the fly by Dutch workers with a tenable grasp on the language themselves.
They just operated the first English printing presses and the owner valued quantity over quality. So they just did fucking whatever.
- Comment on Just found an interesting quote from buffy the vampire slayer for our technodystopia. 3 weeks ago:
Meh, the evil was usually based on humans.
Steve Bannon made a lot of gold selling virtual wow gold, but even worse he learned how toxic and impressionable young male gamers were. Which lead to Gamergate and the radicalizing of a lot of the current generation…
If anything, Gile was underestimating the dangers.
- Comment on Greenland’s new pm rejects Trump’s latest threat to take control 3 weeks ago:
Ah, so one Kevin Bacon away, thanks!
- Comment on Greenland’s new pm rejects Trump’s latest threat to take control 3 weeks ago:
The largest shipping company in the world (and the one the dod relies on) is based on Greenland.
If they stop DoD shipping it would fuck us. If they stopped performing any stops in America at all it would basically make us reliant on using Canada and Mexico as a go between, and Trump’s already fighting them.a