Chainweasel
@Chainweasel@lemmy.world
- Comment on At what age do we switch from measuring a human by length to by height? 1 day ago:
About the time they start walking.
Once they’re standing up, they’re tall.
While they’re still laying down, they’re long. - Comment on Are illegal streaming sites really getting shut down a lot lately or has it always been like this? 3 days ago:
It’s more or less always been like this.
p2p services like Napster were getting a shut down and replaced with limewire, then limewire was shut down and replaced with FrostWire. The Pirate Bay has been shut down at least half a dozen times, demonoid was shut down 6 years ago, Grooveshark was once an ad free music streaming service but tried to go legit at some point to save themselves, every few years the movie and record industries get a burr up their ass and go for the piracy and streaming websites. But these websites have always been like a Hydra and when one of them is killed, several more eventually pop up to take their place. - Comment on Why are laptop adapters so much larger than phone adapters of same power rating? 3 weeks ago:
Voltage is the same but wattage is not.
Most of your phone chargers will be 65w or less while a laptop isn’t going to charge on fewer than 100w most of the time. - Comment on Why do I feel sick every time I go out to eat with my gf? 1 month ago:
Placebo effect?
Maybe you got a touch of food poisoning one of the first times and now you subconsciously associate it with date nights? - Comment on If Donald Trump was black, would he have made it this far in politics? 2 months ago:
Not as a Republican.
- Comment on Can I run mint Linux from an external drive? 3 months ago:
The “superior OS” is whichever one meets the users needs the best.
For most people Windows works just fine because a PC is an appliance to them, and an important feature of an appliance is simplicity for the user.
But for others Linux works better, especially if you want to do anything server related - Comment on What if Dinosaur is the most common form of life, and they sent their DNA here in a galaxy wide seeding operation? 3 months ago:
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- Comment on Could President Biden fully legalize cannabis before he leaves office? 3 months ago:
Trump also could have won in 2020 and we’d already be living in the dictatorship with no prospect of an election this November, so does the “you” in this time realize how lucky you are?
- Comment on Are cars with AWD worth it compared to FWD. 4 months ago:
Depends on where you live, does it snow a lot? If so then AWD is absolutely better.
- Comment on $500 aluminum version of the Analogue Pocket looks like the Game Boy’s final form 4 months ago:
Why won’t anyone make these with a GBA layout?
My old GBA was my favorite way to play Gameboy and GBC games because it’s just easier to hold. - Comment on Microsoft asks many Game Pass subscribers to pay more for less 4 months ago:
$16.99 was pretty steep for how much I used it, I just cancelled.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
Fucking Internet lefties
Ah, there it is.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
That’s a long way to go to avoid a question, several paragraphs and you can’t even come up with one name.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
Who do you have in mind?
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- Comment on Is 0.3 quarts extra too mich oil in a car? 4 months ago:
Some of that oil will be used to fill the filter so you’re fine.
- Comment on Sex work would probably be less stigmatized in a currencyless society 4 months ago:
It wouldn’t really be “sex work” if they weren’t doing an exchange for something would it?
Yes, we have currency as a placeholder for trading goods directly but people who perform sex acts for other goods like drugs are just as stigmatized and no currency was involved.
And the people are just having sex with a fun of it then it’s not sex work either, it’s just sex, which is less stigmatized now then it was 30 years ago but it still has a stigma attached to it, otherwise slurs like “skank” and “slut” wouldn’t exist. - Comment on New Crazy Taxi title will be an open-world, massively multiplayer AAA game, according to Sega 4 months ago:
So they’re turning it into a Driver/GTA clone?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
So you’ll know it’s supposed to be funny.
If you’ve ever watched the the videos of the Big Bang Theory sitcom with the laugh tracks removed, you’ll notice it feels a lot more like a group of people being shitty and verbally abusive towards each other and it’s not all that funny without being told to laugh.
Why go through the trouble of writing an actual funny dialogue when you can just tell the viewers it’s funny and they’ll laugh? - Comment on A new survey found that almost 40% of companies posted a fake job listing this year (2024) 4 months ago:
“Nobody wants to work anymore” say the companies that deceive people into thinking they might get a job with postings for positions that don’t exist.
- Comment on How come there aren't any moral geniuses? 6 months ago:
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant Who was very rarely stable
- Comment on ASUS breaks your ROG Ally if you don't pay $200 for warranty repairs: SCAMMING COMPANY! 6 months ago:
I think Gamers Nexus also did a video on it recently.
- Comment on The best way to keep feeling young is to remove all of your mirrors. 6 months ago:
Looking young is very different from feeling young.
I could never look at myself in the mirror ever again and it wouldn’t make my knees feel any better. - Comment on Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel? 6 months ago:
I don’t disagree at all, But I feel like the only reason why the United States has any interest in controlling the Middle East is because of the oil.
- Comment on Remember when the body washes contained literal micro plastics and were advertised as such? 6 months ago:
Yes, they all used micro plastics for a long time, charcoal and coffee grounds are a fairly new advent in the last few years.
- Comment on We don't really work 9 to 5 but still call our job 9-to-5 7 months ago:
And that’s for the people lucky enough to be able to work 8 hours a day, I’m 5a-6p lol
- Comment on What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use? 7 months ago:
Use us as cheap labor to produce products intended to be sold overseas, just like China has been doing for the past 40 years or so.
Do you really think the people that made your iPhone will ever be able to afford an iPhone? - Comment on I am going to miss the mute and power buttons when they take them away. 7 months ago:
I meant they used to me, I understand their use for it.
- Comment on I am going to miss the mute and power buttons when they take them away. 7 months ago:
I have a 4K dumb TV with no Wi-Fi at all and I’ve never had any image issues.
- Comment on I am going to miss the mute and power buttons when they take them away. 7 months ago:
Exactly, what’s the use of a smart TV when I have a game console capable of streaming everything a “Smart TV” can AND playing games/browsing the Web?
9/10 times people use a fire stick or cable box to watch TV anyway, all I need is volume, input selection, and power.