Art3sian

@Art3sian@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I disagree. I didn’t touch Reddit for a year and finally went back about a month ago.

  • THE ADS. Fuck me, the ads now! • The corporate plug-ins. I had a legit, verified business comment on my post and then PM me after it. • The videos freeze more often than makes me comfortable clicking on them. • The pop-up trash now; “follow this”, “click here”, “did you know”, “ICYMI”. The U.I looks like Yahoo’s home page now.

  Is it dying? I don’t know. Is it exhibiting every square inch of desperation, turning the corner from what was once cool, to what is now every pixel monetised and sponsored? Yup!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you stick it out here for long enough, three things will change.

  1. You’ll begin to really like it here. It’s different but it grows on you, and it’s growing with its users.
  2. Your addiction to these noticeboard-type socials will dramatically reduce. There’s something about Lemmy that’s less addictive in a good way.
  3. You’ll eventually go back to Reddit and see it with new eyes, realising just how quickly it’s dying.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If frozen embryos are considered as children, then it must be acceptable to freeze children.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, I think every woman should go to jail for keeping her eggs in her ovaries. That’s child imprisonment.

  How dare they.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s still worth $200B.

  Spending $44B? $88B? $100B. Doesn’t matter. The dude never, ever has to think about money again. If he lives to 85 and doesn’t earn another cent between now and then, he can splash 6 billion dollars a year every year until he dies.

  To give you some understanding of that kind of money, he could roughly buy two Lamborghini Diablos every single day for the rest of his life.

• How is Russia not Financially Crippled?
  Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨81⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  New research is suggesting caffeine’s stimulant effects are caused by the placebo effect anyway. The idea of decaf is kind of void if true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's web is the opposite of what early Internet utopians had in mind. Now the situation is somewhat similar climate change: even committed activists can no longer turn the tide for the better.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been saying this for years. The internet was better when you had to be a little bit more intelligent to access it.

  Back when you needed knowledge of computers and software, modems, anti-virus, hardware etc to access the net, it kind of meant you needed a brain in your head to gain access. I’m not saying that made the internet an overtly-intelligent space, but it was more intelligent and measured than it is today.

  As soon a smart phones and data plans entered the game, you could be as dumb as a second coat of paint and gain access with a single button. That opened the flood gates for stupidity. Now the internet is just a dumpster fire full of retards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we have an internal monologue?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can offer you a very small example of a difference in thinking that I experience.

  I’m a grown ass man and I can’t easily tell my left from right. The best example of this is when I’m gaming and the tutorial tells me to press ‘left thumb stick’, I usually fuck it up. It took me a long time and a lot of thinking on it to realise what was going on. For me, left and right is not instinctive like up or down, but rather, it’s either a feeling, or not a feeling.

  The reason for this is because when I was 5 I nearly lost my left index finger in an accident. It was reattached, but during the healing process I was constantly told my left finger was the one I hurt, so I conditioned myself to attribute left to pain.

  So now, when I have to choose left or right, my brain has to remember an injury and where it was, then kind of feel that injury to know if a( yes, I feel it so that’s left, or b) I feel nothing so that’s right.

  And that delay is why I fuck up left or right because when I’m forced to make a quick decision like ‘press left bumper’ or ‘make a right turn here’, it’s not instinctive and I don’t have the time to process the memory of the injury and then the feeling, so I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I said I’d leave Reddit on July 12 and July 22 is when I left. Sure, I miss it, but it was an unhealthy, 4 hour per day/8 year addiction that’s been broken.

  Now I scroll Lemmy for maybe 30 mins a day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno man. The Wiki link provided says LinkedIn is heaps less than Twitter, but this dude’s bubbles say the opposite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this right?

  Twitter and LinkedIn don’t match the Wiki data and should be inverted, and is the Wiki link correct pointing to 2021?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dude, get out of here⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I tend to tell the difference by which one I will see later vs. which one I will see in a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that chiropractors are not medical doctors and "Systematic reviews... have found no evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People should also be aware of the growing number of alternative mental therapists popping up everywhere due to the shortage in actual psychologists.

  They are nothing more than life coaches with a six-month certificate in whatever-the-fuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE DAY HATH COME⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pol Pot and probably OP’s ex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big blob of hot water in Pacific may be making El Niño act weirdly⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your mumma’s so fat she makes El Niño act weirdly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big blob of hot water in Pacific may be making El Niño act weirdly⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s your mum doing in the middle of the Pacific Ocean?

  Zing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
  1. Morrowind
  2. World of Warcraft (2004-2007)
  3. God of War (2018)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any way I can stop seeing sports posts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Blocking a handful of something hasn’t worked for me. I must have blocked about 100 anime porn sites and I still get a dozen every day in my ALL feed.

  Even when I sort HOT, they still come up constantly with no comments and no upvotes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the Israel thing going on?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh, fair. I got some WW1 and WW2 details mixed up. I’ll edit so I’m not feeding false info.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the Israel thing going on?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How long do you have? Here’s the very brief summary, and full disclaimer, I don’t have dog in this race.

  1. Jerusalem is an important place for both Jews and Muslims.

  2. They’ve been fighting over this space for two millenia. The Roman’s had it for a long time (Christian), the Ottomans had it for a long time (Islamic).

  3. After WW1 and the Ottomans were defeated, it passed onto the Turkish (Islamic).

  4. After WW2 the Turkish were defeated and they lost it. In the same war the surviving Jews were displaced worldwide and had no country to live, so the League of Nations (U.S, Britain, Canada, France mainly) decided to give Jews a new home and call this new place the State of Israel. They put Israel right in the middle of the British controlled Palestine, which no Islamic nation could object to because they were all defeated in war.

  5. Since then, Jews call Israel their home country. Surrounding Islamic countries don’t recognise Israel and want the Jews to leave.

  6. Islamic nations including Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Iran, Syria have all gone to war with Israel to kick the Jews out. They’ve all lost because Israel is militarily back by world powers. Israel is now a military powerhouse and have full control of the region.

  7. Israel allow Muslim Palestinians small areas to live in the area, namely Gaza and the West Bank, but they’re not particularity nice to the Muslims living there. This is the Palestinian/Israeli war that’s been going on for almost a century.

  8. This space is now two main religions crammed into a very small space. Both claim that it’s their ancestral land. Islamic nations don’t recognise Israel as a country. Most of the rest of the world does.

  9. Israel has become a defensive fortress with nukes, and is surrounded by five countries that hate it. No Islamic national is strong enough to beat Israel. Skirmishes and shit fighting continues. Sometimes is gets serious. This week it got really serious.

  10. This fight will probably go on forever because of the religious significance of Jerusalem which neither the Israelis or Palestinians will ever give up claim to.

  11. So who’s right and who’s wrong? Probably neither. Probably both. Probably humans are just shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one | With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So is the Google Home.

  It cost me around $600 and has a known splash-screen issue which I just woke up to one morning.

  No fix available when it happens. Nothing I did causes it. You just have to bin it.

  It’s either planned obsolescence or just shitty design.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Webb finds molecule only made by living things in another world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh shit.

  I deserve this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Webb finds molecule only made by living things in another world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Enceladus for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Webb finds molecule only made by living things in another world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha, you guys just love moving your own goalposts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Webb finds molecule only made by living things in another world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be pretty happy to put $100 right now on life being found on almost every planet and moon throughout the galaxy where liquid water exists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Webb finds molecule only made by living things in another world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Time for a new version of the Bible. The Adam and Eve thing is about to look pretty silly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The mist Texan of all expressions - Y'All - is ungendered and therefore woke⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re very inclusive and in Australia also.

  ‘G’day you bunch of cunts’ means hello to everyone male, female, known and unknown.

  We’re very polite over here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I fixed the new Twitter logo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Close.

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix Gains Six Million Subscribers After Password Sharing Crackdown⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  People don’t give big business enough credit in this space. Things like this are market tested and simulated long before they are rolled out.