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- Comment on Welcome. You have now entered Minnesota. 8 months ago:
Ole to Lena: “I was thinking on my feet today.”
Lena asks, “Why, were you too lazy to sit down?” - Comment on Why is living with your parents considered a bad thing? 8 months ago:
Please go back to reddit and stay there if you can't stop trying to police my grammar.
- Comment on Why is living with your parents considered a bad thing? 8 months ago:
My family is from Venezuela but thanks for pointing out my poor phrasing as if I don't know the difference.
- Comment on Why is living with your parents considered a bad thing? 9 months ago:
Somehow this became a cultural thing in the US. In some other countries like South America it’s perfectly normal for 3-4 generations to live under 1 roof.
My guess is it’s tied to making people spend more money for capitalism. The effect it’s had on families is not very positive. It leads to things like elderly people draining thousands from their savings or family members a month for nursing homes. People have to hire child care when otherwise family members could watch a child. Children grow up with more distance from older relatives. Buying additional homes and cars is way more expensive than sharing them. Additional cable and utility bills. More appliances. More food waste.
- Comment on Security researcher charged with defrauding Apple out of more than $2.5 million, company thanks him two weeks later 9 months ago:
I’d reverse it. “Security researcher who has been thanked by Apple for helping fix bugs in MacOS found to be a serial fraudster”
Absolutely no reason to suggest that Apple “forgave” him, or that it was a mistake. I hate whoever wrote this article.
- Comment on Security researcher charged with defrauding Apple out of more than $2.5 million, company thanks him two weeks later 9 months ago:
Well, that was a pretty cluelessly written article. The two things are entirely unrelated. The headline seems to imply that Apple changed its mind about the fraudulent activity and was wrong, but that is not what the details support.
- Comment on Where does E Jean Carroll stand in the list of creditors if Trump dies? 9 months ago:
That's fine, since he'll lose the appeal and have to pay her. I doubt the Supreme Court, as lame as they are now, cares to hear this.
- Comment on how did "step" porn become so popular when we did such a good job keeping scat and insest porn out of the mainstream for so long 9 months ago:
I see, so you summed it up poorly. This is also, you're right, one of those bullshit right-wing hit job 'journalism' things where they edit the shit out of footage to make it fit the pre-existing agenda they're trying to prove. Correct that people here wouldn't take that seriously, since we're not the target market for that kind of manipulative tripe.
It's also misleading to say that most porn sites are owned by one company. You could say that one company has majority market share of one type of site - streaming video.
- Comment on how did "step" porn become so popular when we did such a good job keeping scat and insest porn out of the mainstream for so long 9 months ago:
Can you specify what company you mean and provide a citation for the 'what 12 year olds want to see' part?
- Comment on How Quora Died 9 months ago:
Yep, I can’t speak on the decline of quality because it was a site that was early to dark pattern bullshit. It would show up prominently in Google search and then tease “you have to sign up to read the answers”. Uh, no. Reminds me of expert sexchange or whatever that site was that got smashed by stackoverflow for similar reasons.
- Comment on How is it possible to start a business if you have no money and skills, but have an idea? 10 months ago:
That would be fine. If the “idea people” I talked to were proposing a partnership where they brought valuable skills to the table, like anything - salesmanship, advertising expertise, accounting, investment, financial knowledge, graphic design - that would be totally different than just “I have this killer idea”.
- Comment on How is it possible to start a business if you have no money and skills, but have an idea? 10 months ago:
If people wanted to pay me to make their project, I’d consider it. But usually I’ve gotten people who think I’m going to work on their “idea” for months with no investment or compensation, then release it and cut them in.
- Comment on What is wage theft exactly? 10 months ago:
It's more complex for salary jobs and why sometimes it's worse to go salary if you're hourly. Some salaried positions are exempt from receiving overtime, some aren't.
- Comment on What is wage theft exactly? 10 months ago:
Wage theft is when they don't pay what you agreed on, or are violating laws about things like overtime and minimum wage. For instance if they make you clock in and be basically at work but they're not paying you, that's wage theft. Or if they have you work 55 hours a week but don't pay you time and a half for the extra 15 hours over 40, that's wage theft.
- Comment on Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button? 10 months ago:
Google offers an analytics package that a huge amount of sites embed. Many other companies like Facebook have software available as well. Mostly people have these to track performance of Google-published ads, but it gathers a LOT more data than that. You also don’t need to use their ad system to put it on your site.
For people developing or running a site, it really gives you a ton of useful information - where your visitors are from, what pages people viewed, how they got to your site (search terms, ads, referrers), how long they spend on your site, even a “heat map” that shows what parts of the page people hovered on with their mouse pointer. The tradeoff is that Google gets all of this information too.
- Comment on Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button? 10 months ago:
They’re constantly tweaking it, partly to stay ahead of the blogspam farms who make thousands of low quality or total bullshit pages just trying to get clicks for ads.
- Comment on How is it possible to start a business if you have no money and skills, but have an idea? 10 months ago:
There’s a maxim in the startup community that ideas are worthless. Tons of people have ideas. The value is in executing them. As a former entrepreneur I talked to a dozen people with a plan like “I have this amazing idea! You do it, then give me half the money!!” Uh, no. I’d rather work on my own plans, thanks.
- Comment on People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why? 10 months ago:
It seems like OP is talking about an espresso drink. Yes, that’s typically espresso in water or milk, maybe steamed milk/froth. The decaf would contribute flavor but little caffeine. I’m not sure why OP is confused about this.
- Comment on People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why? 10 months ago:
I’m aware of how espresso drinks work. I was picturing the decaf being brewed decaf, not an espresso drink. So in terms of flavor, it contributes, in terms of caffeine, it does not.
- Comment on People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why? 10 months ago:
I don’t get any sort of milk in my coffee, so it would be strange for it to taste like milk. But it’s true that a lot of people want a coffee milkshake with a ton of sugar, like a Frappuccino.
- Comment on Kagi search engine releases a "lens" to search lemmy/kbin instances 10 months ago:
Another classic kbin photo bomb. Is that Chris Christie?
- Comment on X removes support for NFT profile pictures 10 months ago:
Right… the technology conceivably has value as a way to digitally trade ownership and track authenticity. It just happens that it was used for a bunch of truly worthless algorithmically generated art that people got suckered into by hype.
- Comment on FTC bans X-Mode from selling phone location data, and orders firm to delete collected data 10 months ago:
Many agencies do that but it’s been established that the NSA simply takes data from companies of almost any size, domestic or foreign.
- Comment on People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why? 10 months ago:
I don’t really understand either. Caffeine wise, I’d think decaf + a shot = 1 shot, not 3.
- Comment on FTC bans X-Mode from selling phone location data, and orders firm to delete collected data 10 months ago:
More like FBI or DEA. If the NSA wants it they just hack them.
- Comment on Tesla is recalling 1.62 million vehicles in China over autopilot safety controls 10 months ago:
People said the same thing recently when Tesla was required to do an OTA update in the US. The thing is that while they don’t have to physically work on each vehicle, it’s labeled a recall because it’s a regulatory action that compelled them to do it. Tesla didn’t decide to do these updates on their own, rather, they were directed to do so by the government, first in the US and now in China.
- Comment on Does anyone wish they could go back to the beginning of schooling and re-live their education/school experience from the start? 10 months ago:
The experience was torturous overall, but considering it’s basically time travel and I’d know everything about the future up to 2024, I think I’d do a lot better at everything a second time around. I’d be amazingly good at BASIC and Pascal when I was 7, and would definitely buy that Amiga C compiler this time. I’d be pretty bored with all the 8 and 16 but Sega games since I already played them but I’d also get an SNES, since I missed all that last time. School would be easy af, and i’d feel like a pervert dating middle and high school girls so might as well just test out and get a PhD when I was 12 or something.
- Comment on To prevent mashed potatoes from being gummy, boil the potatoes whole. 10 months ago:
I bake the potatoes a long time, like an hour, then mash them up and add milk, butter and sour cream. Seems pretty good to me.
- Comment on The fediverse in a nutshell 10 months ago:
Ah, right! The post is, amazingly, from today. Maybe even on 4chan posted by OP.
- Comment on The fediverse in a nutshell 10 months ago:
It kinds of works like shadow banning because defederation means one instance doesn't get updates from the defeded one... but the defeded one can still be federated with the one that defeded them, so users on that can still see and comment on posts, but they aren't displayed to people using the defeded instance. So they're just posting into the void. But people on their instance and I guess other instances can still see them of course.