halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on At 1% 2 hours ago:
Just need another adapter.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
All platforms are notorious for that. Moderation is expensive, and consistent free user moderation is extremely hit or miss, mostly miss.
Unless you have enough admins dedicated to moderating every community regularly, like weekly at a bare minimum, shit will get out of hand in the places they don’t visit.
For places the size of Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Lemmy, YouTube, etc. that’s just not feasible without an army of paid moderators. User submitted reports are only useful if the users aren’t partaking, and that’s the first tier of nearly every online moderation system because few companies could even consider staffing a moderation team even remotely large enough to begin to tackle that problem.
- Comment on Microsoft reportedly estimated that Game Pass led to $300 million in lost sales of Black Ops 6, with 82% of copies sold being on the Game Pass-less PlayStation 5 3 days ago:
Not really. They can see how many people play on Game Pass. 100% chance they’re just taking downloads from Game Pass accounts and multiplying it by the retail price though, which isn’t a perfect comparison, but good enough for this type of general estimate.
- Comment on Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’ 5 days ago:
Google Maps reports are just for “police”, which is a generic term that ICE would be either way.
- Comment on Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses 6 days ago:
This is one of the weird aspects of games that seems to make no sense because of archaic laws that never entered the 20th century, nevermind the 21st. It seems to be about manufacturing new copies of the already made game, not selling them. So it only affects digital sales, I would assume because of their “creation” on a new sale, every physical game copy was already manufactured and out there, nothing changes there.
- Comment on My (incredibly divisive) dessert choice 1 week ago:
There’s a difference between having guests that are politicians, and politically charged monologues.
- Comment on My (incredibly divisive) dessert choice 1 week ago:
Latest target, because Trump groups all late night shows together. Despite Fallon avoiding politics as much as possible, and not going after him at all.
- Comment on Does more expensive phones have better reception? 1 week ago:
It could, but realistically not much in most cases. Only if you’re on the very edge of losing a signal entirely.
The specific network chip and device antenna design could play a significant part on reception, but realistically there won’t be much of a difference in the real world, lots of research and development has already gone into the technologies we use now.
Higher end phones will often support more frequency bands, and thus support more signals, but no carrier uses all of them. Just make sure the phone you pick supports the bands your carrier uses.
Now when new technologies come out, that’s when you can see real world significant differences between devices because there isn’t as much real world experience with a new technology yet, but everything out now and in the near future has already gone through that phase.
- Comment on Zelenskyy says he knows exact target of Hungarian spy drones in Ukraine 1 week ago:
Hungary has been on that side of things for a while. This isn’t exactly new or unexpected really.
- Comment on [Any Austin] Do Red Dead Redemption 2's Power Lines Connect to Anything? 1 week ago:
His videos answer the questions I’ve never thought to ask, but desperately want the answer to once it is brought up.
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 1 week ago:
Did anyone actually think the IHOP rebranding was real? That looked like a promo trying to force itself viral from the second they announced it.
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 1 week ago:
Discovery is fine. It takes some weird turns, sort of a necessity since they chose to make it a prequel with a unique propulsion system. And it is not like the 90s shows. And there’s a vocal group of fans that hate it just because it’s different, it was the first show coming back from the long show hiatus, and many are simply incapable of admitting that.
Picard’s seasons are all weird in their own way and with their own flaws, totally separate from Disco.
Watch the first season and make your own decision. Star Trek fans are some of the worst for having outsized online hatred of shit that doesn’t matter.
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 1 week ago:
That is entirely possible. Make a shitty logo you never intend to actually use widely and use the backlash as basically free publicity.
It makes sense, and fits with modern society’s social media dynamics.
But I refuse to give the marketing fucks that sort of recognition. It’s more likely they just fucked up because they get paid either way and simple logos are the hot trend right now, and the corporate suits went with the marketing consultants blindly, as most of them usually do.
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 1 week ago:
Why do you assume that having an opinion about something means I was solely invested in it? Because clearly having an actual opinion on something must mean I’m making it my entire reason for doing things in my life. Of course.
Is that how you live your life? Only able to focus on one current event at a time? If so that’s extremely depressing. But being unable to think about more than one thing at a time would explain a lot about why people are so easily manipulated by this sort of shit in the first place.
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 1 week ago:
Making non-political things political means people aren’t looking at other stuff that actually matters. People have a limited attention span, and a limited amount of time to look at things outside work and family. Fill that with bullshit that doesn’t matter and they can’t stay educated on actual current events.
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 1 week ago:
Nah pretty much everyone was in agreement that the new logo was worse, what do you me-
Right? I’m definitely not right wing in any way shape or form, but I enjoy Cracker Barrel and the atmosphere once in a while. The logo doesn’t need to be updated to the bland bullshit modern marketers want to force just so they can make millions in bullshit consulting fees. There is no way in hell the new logo was better than the old one to represent the company, but someone got paid a ton of money to convince them that it was a good decision clearly without any market research to back it up. A blind idiot could tell that logo was a worse choice objectively without any politics involved.
- Comment on Before modern-day authoritarian regimes, did people living under abosolute monarchies talk criticize the monarchs? Or did they just stay silent in fear of persecution? 1 week ago:
Those were the days. The idiotic crackpots were kept separate. They didn’t know there were others like them. They couldn’t discuss and coordinate their insane theories together easily.
The Internet allowed them to find each other, and recruit others to their cause one by one, bringing people down to their insane level of stupidity until they found their way into politics.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
In general, media companies usually target a 5th grade reading level to ensure most can read and understand the stories.
His tweets definitely aren’t a 5th grade level, because they’re clearly below that level.
- Comment on Or the common cold! 2 weeks ago:
We could. But think of the shareholders.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Eh it used to be that you didn’t fuck with the Mouse. Trump’s admin has shown that they’re actually a paper tiger and have no bite.
- Comment on Is it possible to move the three buttons at the bottom to the side? 2 weeks ago:
You would be looking for the Navigation Mode setting. The other option is for gesture navigation, which can take some getting used to but is superior in my opinion, and gets you a little more screen real estate back as well.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Give you one guess.
- Comment on Justice Department Sues Uber for Denying Rides to Passengers with Service Dogs, Wheelchairs 3 weeks ago:
Is Uber saying no? Or are drivers cancelling rides when they realize there’s an animal that wasn’t disclosed previously, and they aren’t part of Uber Pets?
Because there’s a distinct difference there.
- Comment on Justice Department Sues Uber for Denying Rides to Passengers with Service Dogs, Wheelchairs 3 weeks ago:
But it’s up to the driver whether to allow an animal in their personal vehicle.
- Comment on Justice Department Sues Uber for Denying Rides to Passengers with Service Dogs, Wheelchairs 3 weeks ago:
It’s not about training. People lie, and there is no way to verify service animals. Lying about pets and claiming they are service animals is already an issue for places like restaurants and hotels.
- Comment on Justice Department Sues Uber for Denying Rides to Passengers with Service Dogs, Wheelchairs 3 weeks ago:
That does happen, usually that’s more how traditional cabs operate, and even then in many places they own the cab and contract to a company for fares.
The vast majority of rideshare drivers in the US use their own vehicle.
- Comment on Justice Department Sues Uber for Denying Rides to Passengers with Service Dogs, Wheelchairs 3 weeks ago:
So this is obviously complicated, but I don’t see Uber being at any sort of fault here unless their policy is no animals, which it obviously isn’t because Uber Pet exists. Only possibly by not routing service animal rides through Uber Pet exclusively since those drivers are already expecting animals.
Do we really want to say that in order to participate in rideshare driving at all that you must allow animals in your private vehicle?
Uber drivers use their own vehicles, they are not Uber’s property or responsibility. If an owner doesn’t want animals in their vehicle, they cannot and should not be forced to. A lot of people don’t want animals in their vehicles, trained or not. They may be worried about damage from things like claws to the fabrics, etc. and don’t want to deal with that possibility, whereas the Uber Pet drivers are prepared for that.
And this doesn’t even get into the bastards that lie about their pets and “emotional support” animals being service animals causing problems for those that actually do need the assistance. There’s no penalty for lying about it, and no verification system to filter those out.
- Comment on Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show 3 weeks ago:
The article mentions other documentation about primary residence, but doesn’t link to it as far as I can tell.
To play devil’s advocate a bit, plans and decisions change. At one point in time you can have one property a primary residence and later decide that you would rather use a different one as a primary.
Were these around the same time? Were they years apart? What are the legal requirements if you want to change your primary residence? None of that seems to be covered here as far as I can tell but is directly related to the topic and legality.
The fact she has 3-4 homes all over the place is excessive honestly, but neither here nor there about the legality here.
- Comment on Poor pugs 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
You seem to misunderstand. We don’t negotiate. We supply them because they’re killing people we want killed, or we blow them up.
