Beryl
@Beryl@lemmy.world
- Comment on YouTube Seems to Be Cracking Down on a VPN-Powered Discount 4 months ago:
I don’t disagree but it seems to me it’s going crescendo, with de facto monopolies running the show and buying anything that could be an obstacle, be it other companies or policymakers.
- Comment on YouTube Seems to Be Cracking Down on a VPN-Powered Discount 4 months ago:
That there are such wild variations in price between countries shows how little that subscription is correlated to any actual costs.
At best subscribers in richest countries are subsidizing poorer ones, but most probably, Google is just trying to maximize the amount of money they can extract from everyone’s pocket. The repeated seemingly random price hikes seem to confirm this hypothesis. It’s just the MBAs enforcing terminal stage capitalism and ruining everything that is good.
- Comment on where's my fur coat smh 6 months ago:
Whiskers don’t make sense on a creature that doesn’t walk on all 4 anyway. They are only useful if they have a chance to contact something in front of you before the rest of your body.
- Comment on Medieval Doomsday Weapon 6 months ago:
Flail of Atomic Smiting, +7 against organic lifeforms.
- Comment on I just heard about Brazilian Butt Lifts which is a procedure where they take fat deposits from somewhere on your body and place it in your butt? 6 months ago:
When fat is used, it’s usually not turned into glucose, but rather into fatty acids, that can then be used by the mitochondria to power the cells. The signaling that triggers this is in fact done by a bunch of hormones that do indeed circulate in the blood to reach the cells specialized in storing fat, called adipocytes.
Depending of what triggers the transformation of fat into fatty acids( a process called lipolysis), those hormones could be insulin, epinephrin, growth hormone, etc.
- Comment on trains 6 months ago:
“Once I put this salve on a small wound, and a couple of weeks later it was healed, which proves it’s basically a panacea that probably also cures cancer.”
- Comment on figs 1 & 2 6 months ago:
More like fig . 1a and fig. 1b
- Comment on xkcd #2923: Scary Triangles 6 months ago:
But aren’t the seas the sharks of the seas ?
- Comment on why did the eclipse not darken proportionally? 7 months ago:
You’re probably right, I have edited my comment to reflect this.
- Comment on why did the eclipse not darken proportionally? 7 months ago:
I think it has to do with atmospheric diffusion of the sunlight. Even if the photons coming straight down at you are blocked by the moon, a lot of them bounce around in the atmosphere and end up reaching your eyes. Kinda like when it’s not complete darkness at sunset even after the sun has gone over the horizon.
- Comment on "Permission is Hereby Granted" -- MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI 7 months ago:
- Comment on it works! only 99.99$! 7 months ago:
You should try DDG’s “bangs” then. They are shortcuts you can type to narrow your search or use another search engine from DDG’s interface.
!gm Singapore will search for Singapore directly in Google Maps !w Singapore will search for the word in Wikipedia !g will search in Google, etc.
- Comment on it works! only 99.99$! 7 months ago:
Presenting to the emergency room with hyponatremia, from hypo meaning low, natron meaning sodium, and hemia meaning presence in blood. Low sodium presence in blood ! Image
- Comment on it works! only 99.99$! 7 months ago:
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for a few years now, and I never went back to Google. Maybe give it a try !
- Comment on More and more people are ditching carrier roaming in favor of travel eSIMs 7 months ago:
Beware of Swizerland
- Comment on Eight million UK households to get £299 cost of living payments from Tuesday 9 months ago:
Or you could just you know, enforce a decent minimum wage, or maybe basic universal income ?
- Comment on Frog game 10 months ago:
All glory to the Hypno Toad !
- Comment on Check mate atheists 10 months ago:
To be fair to him, this type of variations could also be due to epigenetics, although he obviously has a rather fuzzy understanding of what he’s talking about.
- Comment on YouTube Premium's price is going up in yet another country 11 months ago:
If you have an Android TV or Android box hooked to it, there’s SmartTube, which is pretty much reVanced for the big screen. It works great !
- Comment on Is there something like F-droid, but for windows software? 1 year ago:
It wouldn’t necessarily be surprising, but I’ve used both and I honestly couldn’t say which one I prefer. That’s why I hoped you would elaborate.
- Comment on Is there something like F-droid, but for windows software? 1 year ago:
How so?
- Comment on Amazon to introduce ads on Prime Video in 2024 1 year ago:
The enshitification will continue until there isn’t any cent left to transfer to the shareholders.
- Comment on Melbourne driver Alisha Fagan, who killed grandfather then blamed crash on 'African men', jailed 1 year ago:
If you want to kill someone with minimal consequences if you’re caught, do it with a car.
- Comment on Is charging electric car at holiday house "theft"? 1 year ago:
A smartphone battery is usually operatibg at 3.7V. so a 4500mAh cell would give you about 17Wh.
