halcyoncmdr
@halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
- Comment on Proof you don't have to wait for the new year for self improvement 3 days ago:
Don’t know why. Even his wife stopped giving a fuck a couple weeks after.
- Comment on Asking the right questions... 4 days ago:
Animals haven’t been able to go war and prove that they can beat us. With the notable exception of The Australian Emu.
- Comment on Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns 4 days ago:
Not really… According to Pew Research Approximately 45% of Republicans report owning a gun, compared to about 20% of Democrats. Considering the parties are often roughly equally sized when it comes to these statistical models, that’s not actually a massive difference. There are plenty of armed Democrats, they’re just not vocal about wanting to worship their tools.
- Comment on Do you ever feel like your life is "scripted"? Like everything is written by some entity controlling your life? Like you live in a fictional universe? Is this feeling normal/common? 4 days ago:
People claiming a personal relationship with the goddamn creator of the universe are hella conceited.
I’d say even prideful, you know one of the 7 deadly sins, often considered the worst of them and even the root/source of the other 6. The sheer hubris needed to believe you have a personal connection that others don’t is ridiculous.
- Comment on Microsoft spent two years and $1B developing the Kin mobile phone line, which failed after just 48 days in 2010(May 14-June 30) due to poor sales. They blamed Verizon for not promoting it enough 1 week ago:
Well considering the article is about a product launch in the US… seems relevant. Carrier locking isn’t illegal at all in the US.
They didn’t even used to have to unlock it once a contract was over, not that most carriers at the time would allow unlocked phones on their network anyway, they do at least have to do that now.
- Comment on Microsoft spent two years and $1B developing the Kin mobile phone line, which failed after just 48 days in 2010(May 14-June 30) due to poor sales. They blamed Verizon for not promoting it enough 1 week ago:
Granted this was 15 years ago. The market was a lot different than it is now.
That being said, most people still buy their phones through their carrier. So whatever the carrier sales reps get paid the most to sell is what they push people towards.
- Comment on Condoms and contraceptives to become more expensive in China as Beijing accelerates push to lift birth rate 1 week ago:
36 years of government policy with harsh penalties for having more than one child doesn’t disappear quickly (1979-2015). They’ve trained two generations not to have kids, and the looming global climate disaster affects everyone worldwide. And while I haven’t looked into it, I think it’s a safe bet that in large Chinese cities the cost of living has also outpaced wages, like in nearly every other major city in the world. None of that is conducive to wanting to have kids.
- Comment on UK jury trials for crimes with sentences under 3 years to be dropped 1 week ago:
Ah yes, the best way to remove the backlog is to get rid of having the community of peers decide. No other way.
- Comment on Microsoft spent two years and $1B developing the Kin mobile phone line, which failed after just 48 days in 2010(May 14-June 30) due to poor sales. They blamed Verizon for not promoting it enough 1 week ago:
Eh. Apps were still fairly new in 2010. It launched around the same time as the iPhone 4. Heck, the iPhone was still officially only available from AT&T at the time. Lack of apps and social media weren’t what killed the Kin.
- Comment on As AI wipes jobs, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says it’s up to everyday people to adapt accordingly: ‘We will have to work through societal disruption’ 1 week ago:
That’s socialism. Can’t have that. Can’t even have part of that. Then people want more. And you can’t exploit them anymore.
- Comment on As AI wipes jobs, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says it’s up to everyday people to adapt accordingly: ‘We will have to work through societal disruption’ 1 week ago:
I like the idea of setting maximum wage as say 50x the lowest wage. Including bonuses and stock.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 1 week ago:
Oh look a Canadian that can’t see their own descent into the far right fascist rabbit hole on the horizon. Somehow even watching the US, you seem to still be headed that direction as if it couldn’t possibly happen in Canada. Because… reasons?
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 1 week ago:
We look like fucking morons on the world stage.
The only sort of solace to this, is that many other countries are clearly following the same path, so its not something inherent to just the US. Idiots are everywhere, and they vote.
Everyone is pointing to the US, but the same initial precursors are happening under their own nose.
- Comment on Air travel disrupted over Airbus A320 software switch 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, they already did that like they always do, when the solar storm was at its peak weeks ago.
The normal mitigation for those events was not enough this time apparently. A plane was affected and had an in flight issue after the solar maximum was done and there shouldn’t be issues from it.
That’s why this is such a big deal. This hasn’t happened before on this scale. They’re making sure that every plane that might have been affected by storm damage has known good software loaded now. That’s why its not every A320, just the ones they’ve determined were potentially vulnerable. Most likely those actually flying around during the maximum time, with the Earth’s magnetic field 30k feet less thick above them.
- Comment on Air travel disrupted over Airbus A320 software switch 2 weeks ago:
None of the articles specify… my guess is yes. Because of how serious the issue is, and relatively easy it is to fix. Its only the remote areas that will take longer, and that’s a small number of planes in the grand scheme.
- Comment on Air travel disrupted over Airbus A320 software switch 2 weeks ago:
That’s exactly what they mean. The planes cant fly until the software ia reloaded onto them. For many, they are located at hubs and technicians can go through them overnight.
But some of the planes are not located at hubs with full maintenance crews. Those planes will need more time to get taken care of.
- Comment on The Supreme Court Is About to Hear a Case That Could Rewrite Internet Access 2 weeks ago:
Most people don’t know extensions exist. Because they don’t care and have never been shown.
Pissing someone off is a strong motivator for them to start searching though.
- Comment on AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, only one major change allowed at a time. They phased out DEI last month in exchange for tax breaks.
- Comment on Dry Shampoo is the teenage girl equivalent to teenage boys' Axe Body Spray 2 weeks ago:
Oh people have definitely used corn for that. It is a phallic shape.
- Comment on Dry Shampoo is the teenage girl equivalent to teenage boys' Axe Body Spray 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, corn is native to the Americas. And it can be made into virtually anything: food, fuel, cleaning products, even plastic (PLA).
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 2 weeks ago:
the asker must know and trust the one providing the answer.
This is possible if there’s a central authority for that that everyone can agree to trust, like the government records directly. The issue is ensuring the rest of the chain remains anonymous so the only thing the authority gets is the request that an undisclosed service is verifying John Doe is 18+ and nothing else. And that’s not something many governments are going to want to allow with the increasingly alarming amount of authoritarian leadership.
- Comment on Burger King now selling "Mystery" menus 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t a new concept by a long shot. This type of mystery bag is a staple in Japan. Gacha systems are everywhere.
Hell, you have to enter a lottery just to get a chance to stand in line to buy launch products for almost everything.
- Comment on Burger King now selling "Mystery" menus 2 weeks ago:
You’re an idiot woth a death wish if you have food allergies and are going to a fast food place. Everything contaminates everything in those kitchens.
- Comment on 3rd-person shooters optimized for controllers? 3 weeks ago:
Not by a long shot. There’s a reason Steam has an entire section of the library page that shows controller compatibility. Not to mention Big Picture mode and all the living room gamers. Keyboard sand mouse on a couch is terrible, no matter what hardware you have or how you try to convince yourself it’s not.
I personally use a controller 99% of the time. In both casual and competitive games.
- Comment on Games that I finished this year so far. Probably the best year of gaming for me since 2007 3 weeks ago:
I totally forgot about the Guardians game. I don’t think I ever finished it. Got lost in the hustle and bustle of life.
Gonna have to go back through that.
- Comment on Is your weed too strong? This scanner can tell you in an instant 3 weeks ago:
Kitchen scales measuring accuracy and to a hundredth of a gram for instance.
- Comment on ‘Jmail’ is like any other inbox, except this one has Jeffrey Epstein’s emails 3 weeks ago:
It’s always been that way. The ones ones that ever claimed differently were those people. Because they couldn’t comprehend the thought that they didn’t earn and deserve what they were actually handed.
- Comment on Ahead of her time 3 weeks ago:
Of course not. Just pointing out that it’s probably bullshit just like previous similar claims. The exact thing its making fun of.
- Comment on Ahead of her time 3 weeks ago:
There were plenty of articles claiming similar for her dogshit. Where’s the peer reviewed studies?
- Comment on "All I want to do is get off work and go have maximum BroTime at the Make America Gay Again rally." 3 weeks ago:
Note this is not ICE. This is the Diplomatic Security Service, the State Department’s agents.
It’s not just ICE that get the dipshits nowadays apparently.