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- Comment on ISPs fear wave of state laws after New York’s $15 broadband mandate 6 days ago:
Corporations fear they can’t afford another yacht. News at 11
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
I’m doing my small part.
Went from 100% lurker on Reddit to regularly active lemmy commenter
- Comment on Titan submersible implosion apparently captured in new audio 2 weeks ago:
It’s the sound of hubris
What is remarkable is that implosion sound clip was recorded 900 miles away
- Comment on Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging 3 weeks ago:
There’s also Wire
E2EE and can be used as desktop or phone app interchangeably. No phone number required for signup.
Family has been using this for years now
- Comment on We need a more active admin. 3 weeks ago:
In the meantime posting about this chud is good for bringing attention to it. The other thread about this is why I just blocked the guy so I can get back to wasting my time on my own terms.
- Comment on Library 3 weeks ago:
This is why I don’t bother buying games, much to the bewilderment of my partner who participates in this ‘buy 100, play 5’ thing.
Accept that you’re basic and save that cash for something else
- Comment on Anyone ever look at pictures of themselves as a child and feel no connection to them? 4 weeks ago:
Your sentiments are appreciated and we need more reminders like this out in the world in these dark times.
Yeah, family and loved ones will always have that bias because people are more than their physical appearance. Thoughts, attitudes, habits, feelings, kin. You love someone for all of those reasons and more.
But if I saw a doppelgänger child I’d be lying right to the parents faces to remain cordial.
YMMV. Highly subjective and all
- Comment on Anyone ever look at pictures of themselves as a child and feel no connection to them? 4 weeks ago:
All babies looks ugly to me
Yeah this is in line with how I see babies and kids, so that’s gonna explain some of it. It’s definitely an unwritten rule to say babies are cute.
Though my cousin had a couple kids and the youngest was the exception to the rule when he was like 2-6, just the cutest little thing.
So I don’t know.
- Comment on Anyone ever look at pictures of themselves as a child and feel no connection to them? 4 weeks ago:
It goes a step beyond for me.
I look at kid pictures of myself and think I was an ugly looking baby. Everyone else thinks I was cute. Which I take to mean everyone is being polite, but I couldn’t care less because I don’t remember being that kid whatsoever.
- Comment on Israel Is Blocking 11 American Doctors and Nurses From Leaving Gaza 5 weeks ago:
Nothing will change until we stop giving them carte blanche to do whatever they want. Daddy America would have to cut off their allowance and we know orange Mussolini has no intention of doing that.
So don’t expect ceasefires or international laws or citizenship status to matter one bit
- Comment on New Year's fireworks accidents kill five in Germany 1 month ago:
Hey that’s our job! Us Americans are supposed to be the ones maiming or killing ourselves from fireworks, it’s practically an American tradition
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For 1 month ago:
They see Reddit pulling off having bots steer discourse and they’re green with envy. I can’t imagine it not being something like this
- Comment on Israel must face consequences over Gaza campaign: UN experts 1 month ago:
UN rights experts are independent figures mandated by the Human Rights Council. They do not therefore speak for the United Nations itself.
Well there’s your problem.
Not that it would matter if the UN itself acknowledged anything remotely close to this being genocide, they’re a toothless collection of bureaucrats
- Comment on New bird flu mutation discovered in US as cat infections cause alarm 2 months ago:
This is more of a don’t let your cats outside and don’t feed them frozen raw meat foods. Even though that diet is healthier for them as obligate carnivores
- Comment on DUHH 2 months ago:
- Comment on Stress 3 months ago:
I mean yeah that’s true.
But on reddit reposts were everywhere and it was very common for bots to karma farm by doing so, so calling it out had a purpose.
- Comment on Stress 3 months ago:
My first instinct was to call this a repost as I remember seeing this like 4 years ago on reddit but this is a different platform altogether.
Though it Is worth the reminder to Treat yo self
- Comment on Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump 4 months ago:
Thanks for making a great app purple man
- Comment on Sony, Ubisoft scandals prompt California ban on deceptive sales of digital goods 5 months ago:
About god-damned time someone did something about that.
Not great that it had to be California legislating it for the rest of the country but we’d pass out if we held our breath on Congress doing anything useful
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I would downvote this if I could.
This kind of shit is what’s actively making the internet a worse experience.
No human wants to read generic drivel written by a machine, let alone being fooled into clicking on this asshole’s website because they gamed the search engine to get their garbage ranked higher on the list
- Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious 5 months ago:
Oh that’s why no videos would load.
Damn it
- Comment on The US Navy Is Going All In on Starlink 5 months ago:
Oh I’m sure they are especially the poor saps on nuclear submarines. But now the guys on ships can get the fresh stuff off onlyfans and whatever the new fmovies is. Hooray for living in the future!
- Comment on The US Navy Is Going All In on Starlink 5 months ago:
Perfect now they can sit on the toilet while scrolling through their phones in the middle of the Atlantic now too!
- Comment on Twitter/X CEO Linda Yaccarino Files Antitrust Suit Against Advertising Groups Over "Systemic Illegal Boycott" 6 months ago:
So Twitter is suing because they’re no longer getting money from people who are boycotting them 🤔
- Comment on The only thing that is preventing basic living essentials for costing more is whether the capitalist class feel like rising the price or not. 1 year ago:
Do we know who is setting the price higher? Is it more like it’s 6% higher but so is everything else or more of the manufacturer selling to the storefronts at a higher cost thus forcing grocery stores to set the price higher by 6%?
Because it informs who we should be mad at
- Comment on Climate crisis could contribute to a global food shortage by 2050, US special envoy on food security warns 1 year ago:
Right? News headlines are all Faster Than Expected these days.
We’re already seeing crop failure in bits
- Comment on Wisconsin Pushing Bill That Requires Websites To Treat All Users As If They’re Children 1 year ago:
And that would mean most sites would ban Wisconsin addresses. Hopefully Evers vetoes that because we all know what party pushed this unrealistic idea
- Comment on Watching TV shows or movies that display Russia as a military superpower is almost surreal nowadays. 1 year ago:
I recently saw the Rambo movies for the first time, and yeah I laughed about how they portrayed the russians.
Really goes to show that perception management is an effective strategy as long as thats all you do.
- Comment on Can I faraday cage my ISP-issued router in order to use my own? 1 year ago:
Have tried that one. They are now collecting dust on a shelf somewhere. She got used to just letting it blare when she lived alone and doesn’t seem willing to change that now that she’s not. I tolerate it because she’s family and like her otherwise.
- Comment on Can I faraday cage my ISP-issued router in order to use my own? 1 year ago:
I don’t know the full history of my isp but this sounds about right, looks like I could pay a little more for a good bump in speed.
I’ll probably just go ahead with that but set up my own router anyway because there’s other benefits besides prioritizing traffic
