thawed_caveman
@thawed_caveman@lemmy.world
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 1 week ago:
True, but this design philosophy is currently omnipresent in electric vehicles. I guess i shouldn’t say never, maybe someday they’ll make an electric Lada and i’d buy that in an instant
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 1 week ago:
Imagine being in a burning car and needing the manual to open the doors. And then you can’t find it so you start googling “Tesla model S manual”, find a PDF, then start scrolling through it trying to find out how do you open the doors.
Here’s an idea, how about just make it so the handles mechanically open the damn doors? This is why i’ll never own an electric car, they’re full of bullshit like this where things are done electronically for absolutely no reason. I hate this fucking design phylosophy where everything has to be more complicated, less reliable and less functional.
- Comment on I don't trust like that. 3 weeks ago:
I mean it’s a known fact that WASPs rule the media.
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 5 weeks ago:
I can’t believe i’m saying this, but… I think mosquitos don’t deserve this. There’s basically no life form that deserves our cruelty more than mosquitoes, but this is too cruel.
- Comment on How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse 1 month ago:
When did you buy the M570? I bought mine 6 years ago and it doesn’t require software, if yours is recent then that’s a new thing
- Comment on The four horsemen of the dogpocalypse. 1 month ago:
The beauty of capitalism
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- Comment on How did people poop before smartphones were invented? 1 month ago:
Bathroom books are absolutely a thing. My boomer aunt has dozens of Andy Capp booklets.
- Comment on Name generator 1 month ago:
You’ll get my boot in your reer in a minute if you carry one like that
- Comment on Google has been blocking many tools/IP ranges that try to synchronize with YouTube 2 months ago:
So now the problem is sharing your IP with every member of the P2P swarm.
- Comment on elucidating 🤌🏼 2 months ago:
I fucking love “thereto” and “therein”, such simple words that make sentences less awkward
- Comment on Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words? 2 months ago:
You know “disc” is actually a weird word.
Like say it a few times out loud
D I S C
- Comment on Words truly matter 2 months ago:
The more people hate blue cheese, the bluer it gets
- Comment on How come it seems for the past decades the Catholic Church has been plagued with sex crimes especially among young boys? How long has this been going on? Or did I just miss something up. 2 months ago:
The best explanation i’ve seen is this:
Places that put children under the authority of adults (schools, camps, etc) are appealing for child predators; but where most will kick them out when/if found, the Catholic Church makes it easier for them to stay in.
This is because of a religious belief that God judges men for their sins, eventually rehabilitates them, and the job of mere mortals is to forgive and forget.
I really like this explanation because it doesn’t flatter my atheist sentiment and provides a very neat and rational cause-and-effect relation, it’s a thing that’s specific about the Church compared to other institutions.
Priests also take a vow of chastity, in people’s minds they’re supposed to be above sexual desire; and they have an extra aura of authority compared to the average teacher or summer camp instructor. Both of these things makes it harder for children and parents to question them.
And once they do question them, the Church gets a similar behavior to other institutions where they’ll try to protect their reputation by burying the case. I’m not sure which positions are supposed to be held for life, i assume most of them, and so that makes firing someone (or whatever the right word is in this context) a bigger deal.
Thems my attempted explanations
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 2 months ago:
Yeah, i was way late to this thread and yet i still got seen a bunch, and this has happened in a lot of threads.
Though i think that might be because comments are sorted by Hot by default, and i assume the “Hot” algorithm is designed in a way to surface new comments
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 2 months ago:
You’re coming at this from the design and community aspect. I don’t think Lemmy makes significant improvements over Reddit on those fronts, it’s designed the same, has the same benefits and drawbacks. As of right now the small size of the community makes it lacking in diversity and impractical for niche interests (aside from tech-related ones).
My case for Lemmy being better is a business case: Reddit was a for-profit corporation backed by venture capital, and is now a publicly traded company. They are extremely susceptible to enshittification, and are in fact already deep in that process.
Meanwhile, Lemmy is an open source software that enables users to host their own social media. It’s not even a business at all, i’m not even sure if the developer (LemmyNet) is a business or a person or some other legal entity.
Fediverse social medias (Lemmy, Mastodon) are structurally resilient to the enshittification that we’re seeing from corporate social medias, and i like that a lot.
- Comment on I'm just gonna stick to slotted, thanks 4 months ago:
So square is a close second in terms of quality, while being vastly simpler and cheaper to manufacture. Seems to me like i’d prefer square.
Also i’d be terrified of getting dirt in a torx screw, good luck cleaning it to make it usable again. Though i haven’t actually had this problem personally so it’s just a hunch
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I don’t understand how people use the For You feed and still stay on Twitter.
My approach to Twitter is the same as every other social media: follow accounts that i’m interested in and browse the Follows feed in chronological order, completely ignoring algo recommendations. So i’m counting on accounts i follow to either post goot stuff or retweet it, which they do. They also retweet crap sometimes, but not nearly as much as i would get in For You.
- Comment on American Pride Remains Near Record Low 4 months ago:
I haven’t seen Tropic Thunder and the way this comment is written makes me completely unsure if it’s paraphrasing a line from the movie
- Comment on Yep, defintely not a bad person 8 months ago:
I know we are the BetterThanReddit website, but let’s not act like Lemmy is immune from this
- Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models 8 months ago:
Well no, because the old sub will continue to exist and will therefore always be where everyone goes until Reddit itself dies. I really doubt admins would let me delete the sub.
- Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models 8 months ago:
I feel like AI companies have been scraping Reddit for their datasets already since the beginning and without permission. In fact, unless there’s been a regulation change that i’m not aware of, i’m not sure why they would have Reddit “sign away” the data when they can just scrape it.
Also dubious if the current form of AI has a future. They seem like they should revolutionize every sector when you look at their capacities, but in practice their applications might be more limited than we thought?
- Comment on Can you survive on pickles alone, for a while? 10 months ago:
So dry them thoroughly before eating?
And then you DIY distill the pickle juice to get as much water and as little acid as possible
- Comment on Can you survive on pickles alone, for a while? 10 months ago:
Question answered OP, this will be your daily life until the sweet relief of death
- Comment on Can you survive on pickles alone, for a while? 10 months ago:
And the acidity makes normal tap water taste sweet as if it has sugar in it, it’s pretty neat
- Comment on Can you survive on pickles alone, for a while? 10 months ago:
But in this situation you can drink water and wash it down, preventing acid damage to your eusophagus. The author of this greentext can’t get water into their intestines.
- Comment on This 10 months ago:
I’m gonna be 100% honest here. I would do this if i were president.
- Comment on Sales technique 10 months ago:
As a bi man, they may kinda be for me but not really. There’s such a thing as too shredded, many of these are close to that territory.
And for fuck’s sake, you’re not too cool to crack a smile. I’m sure these guys are great IRL but i don’t like those stone faces that they hold in every picture, it makes them look like they care too much about their macho image and would yell at me if i asked them to bottom.
In general i wonder how many of these are supposed to be hot and how many are supposed to represent a powerful male hero. That’s the thing with shirtless dudes.
- Comment on How to keep a man 10 months ago:
c/shittyfoodporn
- Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads 10 months ago:
I feel strongly that we should defederate, but i really like your reasoning for being neutral. The fediverse is currently a small community of advanced internet users who see themselves as separate from mainstream users, and the temptation is to gatekeep.
