chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on The artificial gravity generators never seem to get destroyed in space battles. 1 week ago:
They also made amazing computerized wire rigs for the actors they used in conjunction with motion-controlled cameras. The production of the show was super impressive.
Also - everyone should read the books. They’re fantastic.
Ty Frank, one of the authors and the Amos actor Wes Chatham had a really fun podcast (“Ty and That Guy”) that did lots of fun deep dives on genre stuff.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 2 weeks ago:
The best progressive writing Trek did was when they addressed a social issue by having the actors pretend it wasn’t an issue at all.
Uhura was a bridge officer who was a black woman, and nobody cared or even noticed because in-universe there was nothing special about that.
- Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information 2 weeks ago:
But meeting the US’s requirements doesn’t prevent products from being sold in Europe.
It’s the same reason film studios started pandering to China and why frying pans sold in Florida have a cancerous materials warning label that’s only required in California.
Companies cater to restrictive regulations in major markets because those products are still legal in less-restrictive territories.
- Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but the US is a huge, profitable market. And companies will bend over backwards to appease Nazis so long as it’s more profitable to do so than not.
Within the US we have issues with all the US History books being written to comply with Texas’s “slavery was actually good for black people” bullshit because Texas is such a big market and everybody wants in on it.
- Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information 2 weeks ago:
If the US government bans Graphene, Motorola will drop them in 1/1000th of a heartbeat.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
Works on both my phones. Samsung Fold 6 and Razr 2024+
- Comment on meat honey 2 weeks ago:
Because regular honey tastes just like pollen?
- Comment on Dumb glasses 3 weeks ago:
I was kinda down with that already.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 3 weeks ago:
The daylight thing is accurate, but almost all cameras pick up IR.
You can point an IR TV remote at your phone’s camera and see the lights blinking when you click buttons.
- Comment on I want, nay *need*, to see your favourite pet photos 3 weeks ago:
Zoey hated leaving her bed:
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Or expectations!
Or are you a doctor?
- Comment on 8 characters? How about we make it 16? 3 weeks ago:
Lots of employees did keep the stipends as a pay bonus, but then it was on them if they used their personal phones for work and they got caught up in Open Records.
- Comment on 8 characters? How about we make it 16? 3 weeks ago:
Fun fact: I work in municipal government and they started making us use 2-factor that sent messages to our cell phones. That came back to bite us when we got an Open Records request that included a request for text messages between staff containing specific keywords. Employees who didn’t have a city-issued phone and hadn’t been using their personal phones for work got pretty upset when I had to take their phones and search their text histories.
And that’s how every remaining employee down to the guys running the lawnmowers in the parks department got a monthly phone stipend.
- Comment on Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users 3 weeks ago:
Between this and Dex, there’s little reason left for me to keep using Samsung.
- Comment on This community in one meme 4 weeks ago:
My even-more-pedantic take is that poisonous is correct, but imprecise. There’s lots of ways to be poisoned. Ingestion, inhalation, dermal contact, and, yes, injection. But it’s all poison.
A poison is a harmful substance. A toxin is a poison created by a living organism. A Venom is a toxin that’s delivered subcutaneously.
Poison is the parrallelogram to venom’s square.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 4 weeks ago:
I cut my teeth on bulletin boards. We actually ran a 2-node bbs with 2 dedicated phone lines out of our house.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 4 weeks ago:
I absolutely remember Trillian. It’s what convinced me to finally make an AIM account to talk with my “mainstream” friends who didn’t have ICQ or IRC, since I wouldn’t actually need to run any new software.
- Comment on Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect." 4 weeks ago:
You don’t know if you’re sane. Millions of people aren’t aware of their mental illness and manage to live normal lives. LLMs can trigger delusional states in vulnerable people that have never experienced them because they are essentially delision-generating machines.
- Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace 4 weeks ago:
Not having to keep pace. They just get the competitive cars banned in the US, then charge so much fucking money here for their shit products it’s worth losing the rest of the world.
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 4 weeks ago:
“You need to use the app to reserve a space for the public park.”
- Comment on I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age 4 weeks ago:
1/1/however far back the wheel scrolls before I click the year.
And it’s distressingly common for it to under-report my age.
- Comment on what does your "workshop" look like? 5 weeks ago:
I have an old garden shed I converted.
- Comment on Dear Faith II 5 weeks ago:
Yeah. My conditional formatting makes some of my Excel tables look like I’m defragging my harddrive.
- Comment on Happens when you always think the worst of people 5 weeks ago:
Could just be Milwaukee or Cleveland. They kinda froze in the 80s.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 5 weeks ago:
They gave no grace period and invalidated licenses during elections.
- Comment on he forgor 5 weeks ago:
College degrees demonstrate you can complete a long-term project with disparate, often competing priorities while meeting deadlines and milestones.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, but then they tried going all woke in the late 90s with the CD-RW stuff and data reassignment procedures.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Just throw hard enough to trigger fusion reaction then.
- Comment on Don't we all hate this 1 month ago:
Write-offs are deductions from income, not reductions in taxes owed. They only get to deduct the taxes they would have paid if they had kept the donations.
Let’s imagine their annual income was $10,000,000. Their nominal tax rate would have them owing $2,100,000.
If they received a $100,000 in donations, that would make their income 10,100,000. But with the donations they could write off the 100 grand, reducing their tax bill by $21,000, for a total of $2,100,000.
Either way, they pay the same in taxes with or without the donations.
- Comment on Don't we all hate this 1 month ago:
That’s not how tax deductions work. All the write-offs allow is for them to not count the money donated as income, so they make the same amount of money on the sale whether or not you donate.
The benefit to the company is PR or donating to a non-profit with a mission that aligns with their corporate goals. For instance, Bass Pro may ask you to donate to wildlands preservation non-profits that maintain environments in which people fish and hunt.
