PoopingCough

@PoopingCough@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My partner was once given an employee appreciation gift of a $5 Ben & Jerry’s gift card. This was after being furloughed for a few months during covid. She worked at a hospital which posted record profits that year. There aren’t even any Ben & Jerry’s in our city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI are like shitty palm readers/fortune tellers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This might be relevant to your interests

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmmmm⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure but I think that comment might be clever satire

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alan Wake, Control developer agrees €15m convertible loan from Tencent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  K. Nor do industry traditions invalidate my opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alan Wake, Control developer agrees €15m convertible loan from Tencent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  News headlines aren’t limited by space on physical paper anymore. If your headline is confusing because of traditions based on outdated limitations it’s not a good headline imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK how to eBay - in depth⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of curiosity, what did your consignment deals look like? Like were you consigning on behalf of the shop or customers looking to sell their stuff? And you did you split the net?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Your Phone Listening to You? | NOVA⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know a lot of people won’t believe it happens, because the simpler and more mundane explanation (which is usually the true one) is that it isn’t necessary because of all the data that we know is being collected like browsing habits, searches, etc but my partner has a few times tried to test this as a party trick. Normally her ads are for like kitcschy knick-knacks or like funky flower pots but one time we were hanging with friends talking about this discussion and we decided to all repeat out loud “lab grown diamond engagement rings” for about 15 min. Not 1 hour later she had an Instagram ad that said word for word “lab grown diamond engagement rings.” I know it’s anecdotal and isn’t proof but we’ve done this a few times and it’s seemed to work about half the time; each time we get an ad that’s both hyper specific to what we’re taking about and also not something close to anything we’ve been advertised before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our friend is going to jail.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True ANZAC spirit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually in ID4 there was an explanation. Basically all of humanity’s computer tech came from reverse engineering alien tech. So our computers worked with theirs because they were based on theirs. Maybe this isn’t this best logic, but they did at least have an in universe explanation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even worse than that imo is ‘quarter of’. I swear to god it’s been used to mean both before or after whatever hour they’re talking about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Game Boy game do you love that you never hear anyone talk about?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For ebay prices are sometimes meaningless unless you filter by “sold items”. But yeah looks like they’re going for around $100-$170

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kroger introducing AI at self checkout to lower both accidental and organized crime theft.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I like curbside in theory but I’ve been burned enough times with either items being out of stock or weird ass/ more expensive substitutions makes it feel not worth that hassle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked Microsoft Email Reveals Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Really Wants to Buy Nintendo -⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  and the version locked exclusives in each generation are day 1 dlc

  I can see how it would be seen this way, but imo the intention from the beginning wasn’t that people would buy both/all three versions per generation, it was to encourage people to trade with each other. Which absolutely worked when it came out. It was a totally new idea that definitely helped sell more people on the games, because they could connect with friends and trade or battle, with later gens adding even more features for when you connected.

  I could see making the dlc argument these days, but at this point you could also argue it’s just out of tradition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American bully XL dogs to be banned by end of year - Sunak⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Because when they do attack they are capable of doing serious damage; enough to be reported. No one is gonna report a dachshund attack for example so statistically it looks like dachshunds never attack people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothesis: Insufficient moderation tools lead to instance protectionism, which leads to a decline in the overall discussion quality on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t see really any questions relating to mod tools or moderation outside of the one that was talking about the join-lemmy lists. Is that what you are referring to or do you mean the lack of mod tool discussion on that AMA?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Writers Guild East Leader Says This 100-Day Strike Is Different: Studios More “Obstinate” Now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I watched that movie ‘65’ with Adam Driver and the whole time I was thinking this has to be a movie written by AI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is ruining the internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure about the technicals, but there are some services that are HIPAA compliant, which I assume means something similar to the end-to-end encryption you’re describing. WebeX is the one I know one of my local hospital systems uses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gonna be a whole generation of artists and musicians who think their art isn't good because of the way algorithms work online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who has been in the professional music scene for over a decade trying to ‘break through’ and has seen many others trying the same, sometimes it’s about how good people are at their instrument/songwriting/art but more often it’s about luck and what connections and/or funding you have. I’ve seen people who are truly creative and work hard build impressive success from basically nothing. I also know plenty of people who are just as creative and hardworking spin their wheels and get nowhere. Frankly, i suspect this has always been the case. Ability alone has very very rarely been enough