Soggy
@Soggy@lemmy.world
- Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace 5 days ago:
There was a while when the US was on top, revolutionizing automotive manufacturing. Ford’s Model T and later Model A sold like crazy.
- Comment on Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law 5 days ago:
Damn near the entire internet is “social media” but people usually mean “social networking sites”.
- Comment on Heavy snow when you're a kid is a dream come true, heavy snow when you're an adult is a nightmare. 1 week ago:
Yeah, how dare we live in an even slightly collectivist society! I should only have to maintain/pay for the infrastructure I personally use!
- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 1 week ago:
Do you furnish your concrete bunker with concrete furniture? Or is it full of wood and plastic and paint and other flammable materials?
- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 1 week ago:
What do I do? Landfill. Nobody near me wants the ABS housing even if I pried out the electronics and the radioactivity of ionization alarms is too low to need hazardous waste disposal. There are so many more impactful things to care about than recycling two or three smoke detectors every ten years.
- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 1 week ago:
Photoelectric smoke detectors also need to be replaced every ten years or so, and the radioactivity of ionization alarms is well within safe levels as long as you aren’t taking them apart to eat the ^241^Am. They’re sensitive to different things but the photoelectric ones are probably better suited to modern home fires (but they’re more prone to false-positives from kitchen smoke).
Pointless America Bad and radiation fear-mongering.
- Comment on Loops is a new short form platform created by Pixelfed creator Daniel Supernault. 2 weeks ago:
When did I say anything about banning drugs? I just said I don’t think it’s a good idea to make more addicitive substances for the sake of addiction.
- Comment on Loops is a new short form platform created by Pixelfed creator Daniel Supernault. 2 weeks ago:
Someone with a vested interest in s healthy, functional society of educated adults.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 3 weeks ago:
What, and lose an opportunity to funnel tax money to private interests?
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 4 weeks ago:
Nestle is Swiss. The Doritos are called that because Euro countries call our “ranch” dressing “American” dressing. Turkiye is on the Eurasian border with parts in both continents. I can’t easily find where the pizza was first marketed but that’s not even relevant to the point: the rest of the world is using our country’s name as an adjective for food so fuck you we’re doing it too.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 4 weeks ago:
Don’t kink shame, let them have piss.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 4 weeks ago:
Which is accurate, but Philip Chiang (cofounder) is a first-generation immigrant whose mother helped bring other-than-Cantonese Chinese cuisine to American restaurants. It’s not like a bunch of white dudes were sitting down to appropriate a foreign food culture.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 4 weeks ago:
Pizza Americana. Torta Americana. Amerikan Salatasi. Cool American Doritos.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 4 weeks ago:
I’m really trying to think of a single upside to putting it in space. Unfiltered solar power, does that matter at all? Not that you would ever break even on the cost.
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 4 weeks ago:
It was a pretty standard anti-corporate satire that would not have stood out against films like Brazil or Joe vs the Volcano.
- Comment on ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants 1 month ago:
Do not come to the USA until we’ve gotten rid of these guys.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 1 month ago:
Solar power is not a feasible solution in all parts of the world, though, and large-scale storage is still very much an issue.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 months ago:
Alright, well, I don’t believe in ghost stories.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 2 months ago:
I prefer “naughties”
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims 2 months ago:
The comics were pretty good too.
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims 2 months ago:
Team Fortress was not an “extremely popular existing franchise” even among dedicated PC gamers. What the Orange Box did was let Valve experiment with marketing materials like the teaser videos for Portal and “Meet the Heavy.”
- Comment on The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek 2 months ago:
When I was in grade school we had multiple lessons on using Boolean search terms to find useful information. Google-fu used to mean something.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 2 months ago:
Aichteeteepee, colon slash slash, doubleyoudoubleyoudoubleyou dot…
- Comment on Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content 2 months ago:
Sometimes I like to think about what the world would look like if Columbus sank in the Atlantic. How long until another European sailed West?
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 2 months ago:
Well it started with a genocidal colonial project. Then it started with the repression of class revolts like Bacon’s Rebellion. Then it started with the framing of a union of states that gave extra representation to rural slave-owners because their economic production was important. But it all started when those rural slave-owners wanted to make sure that new territorial expansions (remember, genocidal colonial project) also allowed slavery. Later it started when Lincoln was assassinated and his successor, Andrew Johnson, gave up on Reconstruction so the seditious slave-owning traitors weren’t held accountable for the sedition or slavery and were allowed back into seats of political power.
- Comment on What's going on with Quentin Tarantino? 2 months ago:
And it’s different from all the times other directors have an actress take her top off?
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 2 months ago:
Other than that it’s work that junior coders could be doing, to develop the next generation of actual good developers.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 2 months ago:
Yeah but we can’t possibly hold people accountable for the actions of their company, think of the shareholders!
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 3 months ago:
Honorless swine! Screen-looking is an offense of the highest order!
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 3 months ago:
This is kind of the plot of Armored Core if you also made it a cyberpunk corporate dystopia.