chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 12 hours ago:
People don’t buy them for the price they’ll buy bigger phones. That’s it. That’s the whole story.
They have to make the phone cost $300 less to sell in meaningful numbers. Why do that when they could just not make them at all and sell fewer models at higher prices?
- Comment on What is the best looking retro console or PC? 20 hours ago:
The PC Engine/Turbagragix 16 also had a handheld (PC Engine GT/TurboExpress) that was way ahead of its time. It had the same power as the home console, was color, had a backlit display, and even had a TV tuner attachment. And it was released in 1990. The Sega Nomad basically copied these features in 1995, and Nintendo didn’t have a colored, backlit handheld until 1998.
I loved mine.
- Comment on Meow 2 days ago:
For some reason I have the sudden urge to built a carpeted tower…
- Comment on Chad rule 5 days ago:
No. But aside from failure to show up on time or theft it can be hard to document cause.
- Comment on Chad rule 5 days ago:
“Being toxic” is hard to define in an employee handbook.
“We don’t like you” isn’t not considered good cause for termination. It’s 100% legal to fire someone for that, but they get to claim unemployment.
- Comment on Chad rule 5 days ago:
That’s true in the US too. If someone is fired without cause, the company has to pay unemployment.
I’ve been the manager of completely shitty, toxic people who cause harm to the company and lead to massive turnover of other staff, but was unable to fire them because they showed up on time and met dress code, and corporate wasn’t gonna pay for unemployment.
- Comment on Mastodon and Pixelfed got a short mention on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 6 days ago:
Closest thing we have is people really hating Windows.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 1 week ago:
It used to be better. The subtitles were all in 13375p34k if you turned them on, but it looks like they got replaced by the YouTube automated subtitles at some point.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 1 week ago:
Found someone who can help you.
- Comment on The priorities of life 1 week ago:
It’s not zoning.
It’s when places developed. The super spread-out metroplexes of the US are in areas that developed after the invention of the automobile.
Europe isn’t more enlightened when it comes to development. They’re just older. Cities tend to develop around most people living within an hour of where they work. When the US urbanized, that was a much larger area due to technological advancements. Rolling that back is almost impossible.
- Comment on The priorities of life 1 week ago:
Believe it or not, not everyone lives in dense urban areas or the suburbs.
And the scale of the US isn’t something most Europeans understand. How long does it take you drive across your country? In the US, a drive from Southern California to Maine is over 48 hours and around 5000 kilometers.
The Texas Triangle megalopolis (Houston, Dallas, San Antonio) is bigger than lots of European countries.
- Comment on The priorities of life 1 week ago:
I tried saying “bippity bopping boo” just now, but it didn’t move my house 20 miles closer to the grocery store.
- Comment on The priorities of life 1 week ago:
Peope can’t just say “I don’t like the weather” and leave.
Wednesday things like housing, Healthcare, and food, which depend on jobs. And those can be very difficult to find in a new place.
I work in municipal employee and an expert in Texas development regulations. If I leave Texas, I lose most of my value as an employee.
- Comment on The priorities of life 1 week ago:
Most Americans buy a lot of groceries at once because most Americans don’t have quick access to grocery stores, and buying smaller portions of groceries costs a fortune.
I can buy a week’s worth of groceries for a family of 4 for about the price of 10 days of groceries for one person. But it requires being able to haul a lot more than can fit on a bike. And for many of us, the store is also a long way away with no public transit and in a place where the temperature may be lethally hot for months at a time.
- Comment on The priorities of life 2 weeks ago:
Good thing they won’t need to bring back a bunch of groceries.
- Comment on my version is better 2 weeks ago:
That could fit with the film.
- Comment on Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website 2 weeks ago:
“Why do we have all these IT people? All the tech works fine!”
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 2 weeks ago:
The suit should be by an American cartography company over the proper US Board on Geographic Names’s official process not being followed for the name change.
I’m actually submitting a name change to the board. But since the USGS added a bit on the process saying that resetablisglhing historical names isn’t a reason for a name change, I’m going to recommend it be changed to “The Gulf,” since it meets all criteria for a name change - most importantly that it be a name in common usage by locals. Lots of people refer to it as “The Gulf,” while “Gulf of America” isn’t in common usage.
The most we can do outside of lawsuits is at least try to take the “America” part away.
- Comment on Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X? 2 weeks ago:
He doesn’t deny the holocaust. He sees it as a good idea.
- Comment on ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 2 weeks ago:
Nobody is holding a gun to your head
Give them a few months
- Comment on Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months. 3 weeks ago:
But at least that’s honest. They’re saying, “This is the real product” instead of “The real product is coming later if you give us money now.”
- Comment on US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek 3 weeks ago:
That order lasted about 10 minutes before a judge appointed by Ronald Fucking Reagan.
- Comment on US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek 3 weeks ago:
Ex post facto laws are expressly prohibited in Article I, so they can’t pass a law criminalizing downloads from before the law was passed.
They can, however, criminalize possessing a copy of DeepSeek. In that case you’d be legally required to delete it after the law passed.
- Comment on We still have three eggs up for auction. 4 weeks ago:
That’s what you get from Biden’s DEI egg-laying policies. A bunch of mud blood filth instead of AMERICAN eggs.
- Comment on Brazil condemns US after deportees arrive handcuffed 4 weeks ago:
Fuck that noise. I’m going down swinging at the fascist fucks to protect not only myself, but also the idiots who voted for them.
They may have elected monsters, but that doesn’t mean they don’t need protection from those same monsters.
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 1 month ago:
The last 3 elections were the oldest ever
- Comment on FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court 1 month ago:
Put hundreds of them in a pretty boxes, form an LLC, get a few VCs to sign on, flip the switch, then charge a monthly fee to “open previously-inacessible service areas to cellular customers” and you’ll have a successful startup!
- Comment on Amazon worker who was ran over and shot during NO attack denied medical leave. 1 month ago:
Insurance claims process?
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 1 month ago:
Is the poop something that has to be done in-person?
Does it have to be assigned to an individual, or can you decide that everybody who uses the word ‘rizz’ regularly will now poop?
Or is it like Death Note where you have to have a specific person in mind? I would totally be down to be the Kira of pants-shitting. I’d be the God of a stinky new world.
Problem is that in the US I’m fairly certain our leaders are already forced to wear diapers. The President who was elected 32 years ago is younger than the President who was elected 2 months ago.