Dozzi92
@Dozzi92@lemmy.world
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 3 days ago:
It used to be so much more Linux, but replacing that with politically charged statements parading as memes isn’t a much better alternative. My two least favorite parts of Lemmy are how every conversation is somehow just one degree of separation from Linux or Nazis. Meme about dogs? Now the conversation is about genocide.
- Comment on Put him on the cart. 6 days ago:
You know, it should be obvious, but until you brought it up here, I was guilty of thinking of it as just some colloquialism (which it very well may be). But if you think of the suffix -oid, taking “humanoid” for example, you get something that isn’t presenting itself as a human. But I didn’t come to that conclusion, I just was like, wow, they bop the Pope with a hammer.
So thanks.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 1 week ago:
I love two towns over from Manville, which was the asbestos capital of America, and I can unequivocally say those morons would vote to bring asbestos back if they could.
- Comment on Stuck 2 weeks ago:
Have a daughter also, so I know it all too well! Our focus is “It’s normal but private.” We will see how that goes.
- Comment on Stuck 2 weeks ago:
My wife texted me the other day:
You know that yellow slide out son carries around? Well, he started sticking his penis in it, you have to talk to him now.
He’s 4. It’s just what boys do.
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 2 weeks ago:
I think that definitely sounds reasonable, and I think, if there’s any hope for these tariffs to actually meet their stated purpose, the government of the US would need to just say, if working conditions don’t meet the same standards, there will be additional tariffs. I think that’s exactly where tariffs ought to be applied, when some country takes advantage of, essentially, human rights. We don’t have the right to stop them, but we do have the right to tax their products for it, to the point it’s not worth it.
Obviously, that’s not how things will go.
- Comment on That's normal, right? 2 weeks ago:
I fast between all my meals, so yeah.
- Comment on That's normal, right? 2 weeks ago:
Nah, must be something else, can’t be my own poor decisions.
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 2 weeks ago:
That last part for sure resonates. I can’t remember if I said it here or elsewhere, but our prices have been subsidized by substandard working conditions in China, there is no way around it. And all because large corporations wanted to make more money. And we, as consumers, shouted a resounded “hell yeah” to those Chinese suicides at Foxcon, because we wanted cheaper components and cheaper phones.
And so I basically don’t know how I feel about anything. I try to be more cognizant about what I buy, where it’s from, how it’s made, but the speed and ease, and basically not having to think, sometimes trumps those thoughts.
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 2 weeks ago:
The only silver lining I see to the tariffs is that it could end up sticking it to all these large corporations who fought hard to move operations out of the US, to places they knew couldn’t meet US worker standards, in order to save money. Obviously, US consumers will feel the pain, but we’ve been buying products subsidized by Chinese suicides in Foxcon factories, and so perhaps it’s a comeuppance.
Disclaimer: I don’t know what’s going on.
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 2 weeks ago:
Decade old specs for decade in the future price.
I have not looked beyond the front page of the link you shared here, and I don’t mean my criticism to be more than tongue in cheek, but oh boy, $2k for that is… Something.
- Comment on Based on a true story 3 weeks ago:
I have a three year loan at 1.9%. Why would I cough up an additional $20k now, when I could hang on to my cash and, at the very least, leave it in an account that earns twice that (and then some) in interest?
- Comment on We are so cooked 3 weeks ago:
Say what you will about RFK, but he’s broken clock right on a couple of issues, pesticides being one of them. Sure, maybe his rationale isn’t right, but his end game may be a benefit. Unfortunately it’s at odds with Trump’s complete destruction of regulation, but he (RFK) seems to be chugging along. I think making America healthy is good; I don’t think pesticides or ultra processed foods make kids transgender.
- Comment on Call it an excuse. I call it therapy 4 weeks ago:
Ha, I told a joke in middle school and they had to call the police, so I feel ya. It was 25 years ago.
- Comment on Call it an excuse. I call it therapy 4 weeks ago:
How about humor?
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 4 weeks ago:
That’s great. I’m glad and I would love for it to be the case here. Legalization can, at the very least, open up the doors to the glories of capitalism as far as industries to help people with drug addiction, and presumably we’d get the benefits of good clean drugs and all that.
None of that has to do with smuggling fentanyl into a foreign country and your (deserved) deportation afterwards. Also has nothing to do with an administration who thinks it’s funny to post an AI generated image satirizing it. Both of those things are no-nos, in my uneducated opinion.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 4 weeks ago:
I’m all for drug legalization. It’s not legal, and trying to somehow justify someone coming to America to traffic in fentanyl, which is a straight up killer, is incredibly disingenuous. And Oregon decriminalized drugs and had to walk it back because it became a problem.
Like I said, I’m in favor of it, but that’s not what we are dealing with. Someone who crosses a border to sell a deadly drug isn’t out here to help people. And if some American rolls into Portugal and starts selling fentanyl, I can assure you it ends up in that person getting removed from Portugal.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 4 weeks ago:
Yeah lemme go to my local fentanyl shop. Because she trafficked fentanyl.
- Comment on ^_^ I just think skibidibi sounds neat :3 4 weeks ago:
Are you from the generation of email chain letters that asked you to scroll down and it’s be neat ASCII designs?
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 5 weeks ago:
Scrolled far too long to find even a mention of Zebra. Uniball is the intro to good pens, but Zebra is where you land.
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 5 weeks ago:
As it should be!
- Comment on I've done it again... 5 weeks ago:
left over spaghetti
!!!
But yeah, there’s that whole thing with blood sugar and leftover pasta, I dunno, I’m not a scientist and I have a bad memory, but it’s basically healthier on day two.
- Comment on I've done it again... 5 weeks ago:
The last thing I want is to make spaghetti and still be hungry after I eat it. Whole box it is.
- Comment on Be honest and tell us what you see 5 weeks ago:
Poop back and forth, forever.
- Comment on A warning and an experience with termites 5 weeks ago:
Got a new roof for this reason. Had a leak around chimney flashing. Got it fixed. Leaked again a few years later, got a new roof. I have no mental tolerance for catastrophe, I will lose sleep over it until it’s rectified. I can live with cosmetic shit, but anything that could potentially jeopardize the structure will kill me.
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 1 month ago:
I was in the Marines and I had to buy some of my shit on my own, so yeah, agree 100%.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 1 month ago:
I mean, sure, maybe in the ensuing lawsuit they could be like hey, her doctor said it was cool, but it doesn’t change the fact that there’s a baby being born on an airplane in transit. Nobody wants that, airlines will shut that down, and it’s not discrimination, it’s just a good decision.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 1 month ago:
I’m curious what the difference between how America went about giving slaves citizenship versus countries in Europe. There’s the obvious difference of birthright that’s an issue today, just curious why America ended up here and Europe did not.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 1 month ago:
Jus soli is conditional, and doesn’t include hopping on a plane and just visiting a country, the birthing parents have to have established residence in the country. There’s also citizenship granted to children born to parents who are from whichever country it is.
None of these represent what we see in the US. No country in Europe grants automatic citizenship to children born of foreign parents.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 1 month ago:
Sure they can. “My doctor said I can!” Well, they say you can’t. Why would a doctor’s note get you on an airplane?