OldWoodFrame
@OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
- Comment on Ripperonis 1 week ago:
The most interesting part is…what constitutes “him”? What if he became a prince by having his DNA from his father replaced?
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees 1 week ago:
I really like my job but if they started monitoring my data like that I’d absolutely quit. There’s already a monitoring mechanism, it’s called your boss needing you to complete tasks on time. If you’re doing that, the only thing data monitoring does it falsely call out people who are doing their work.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 week ago:
If by “they” you mean Elon himself then yes and it sure is getting dumb.
- Comment on With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant 2 weeks ago:
Or it’s a coincidence. N=2
- Comment on How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone 2 weeks ago:
Videos that don’t compress to hell when there’s both iOS and Android in a chat, that’s the main feature.
- Comment on How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone 2 weeks ago:
What is this about?
The main RCS benefit is sharing videos between Apple and Android that don’t look like potatoes. Can’t imagine what is being shadily blocked there.
- Comment on @pixelfed: Loops is a new platform for sharing short videos, and it's open source + federated Using #ActivityPub 2 weeks ago:
Makes me wonder if we could get an open source Google-style ad platform that only works in the fediverse and directly funds whoever’s server is being used.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 3 weeks ago:
For money. Whoever buys it has to pay you for it. Shutting down just means leaving a gaping hole in American social media that some other company will fill and you’ll be in the same position but with less money.
- Comment on MKBHD - Do Bad Reviews Kill Companies? 4 weeks ago:
I think bad reviews can kill companies. If they are objective and honest, the review is not the core issue, the bad product is the issue.
But it is possible to have biased reviews, or dishonestly framed reviews. MKBHD is honest and objective, but you can’t take for granted that every reviewer is.
- Comment on barn owls 5 weeks ago:
There are two main lineages of head lice that split up right around when humans left Africa. Theory I heard is that one probably came from Neanderthals and went back to humans as the two groups…met up.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
The app has 100% ruined porn accounts. Every third post is trying to redirect me to AmIOverreacting or similar and I keep reading wondering when things are gonna get sexy.
- Comment on I used to be with it, then they changed what "it" is 5 weeks ago:
I mean people didn’t entirely stop using them but those seem like 90’s terms to me.
- Comment on I used to be with it, then they changed what "it" is 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like you got pwned, noob.
- Comment on and they were roommates 5 weeks ago:
It started off with a kiss, how did it end up like this?
- Comment on bioluminescence 1 month ago:
What’s concerning is figuring out the evolutionary advantage of being able to hide from predators who have eyes 1000x more sensitive to light than anything on Earth…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
But like, you and I didn’t buy those TVs. If people who needed TVs used the checks for that, great. Everyone else used it for car payments or food or whatever they needed.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That only works if literally every landlord is conspiring together. If they’re not, then people will flock to the landlords that don’t increase the price, or only increase a little. Meanwhile, you think car salesmen will see an extra $1000/mo and not try to take advantage? Why do you think landlords will successfully take all $1000 and nobody else will get a penny?
Everyone will try to get that $1000/mo, but they will have to compete with each other and the people with the money are rational actors who will pick the best use for their funds.
Meanwhile, the question of whether it’s inflationary will depend on where the money comes from. If it’s matched by a tax that pulls money out of the system at the same time the UBI puts money in, then it won’t be inflationary it will just redistribute wealth from the taxed (in every plan I’ve seen, the wealthy) to everyone else.
- Comment on aral sea 2 months ago:
But it disputes the implication that the dissolution of the USSR was the cause of the problem.
- Comment on oc based on a true story 2 months ago:
If you ever see me in a sincere political hat, feel free to strike me down. It’s just so weird.
Wear a cowboy hat if you want people to assume you’re conservative.
- Comment on Are there Yankees among us? 2 months ago:
Jir Jordans
- Comment on Lemmy Active Users looking good 2 months ago:
It doesn’t need to take down reddit. I’d like to see Lemmy at 1 million active users though. Just need enough critical mass to be able to branch into more smaller sublemmys which draws in the fans of those subs specifically and creates better curated content.
- Comment on Lucid Motors drops the price of its cheapest EV by more than $8,000 2 months ago:
Boy I’d hate to be the last person to buy the car before the price drop. That happened to me with the PS2 back in the day and it sucked, that was like $200.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 2 months ago:
The paradox of tech right now “we are going to build the most complex technology known to man into our product in the next 12 months. Are we hiring record numbers of people to get it done? No. We fired a bunch of people and everyone else will just have to be extremely hardcore.”
- Comment on me_irl 2 months ago:
Humanity for the millenia before Harvey Ball: 😐
- Comment on Fearing social media backlash, companies are using all kinds of euphemisms to avoid being straightforward about layoffs — ‘right-sized’, ‘org changes’, ‘simplified operating model’ 3 months ago:
Because over hiring is not a fireable offense and it wouldn’t make sense that it would be? Say you have a manager of 10 programmers and company sales projections day you’re getting 20% more business that year, so you get approved to hire 2 new programmers. Turns out you only increase by 10% and more there’s nothing for 1 new programmer to do.
Do you fire the hiring manager? They were just going by the corporate plan. You still need sales guys. The only one not doing anything is the programmer. Doesn’t have to be the new person fired but the worst programmer needs to be moved somewhere where they’re needed, or fired.
- Comment on One of capitalisms biggest tragedies 3 months ago:
This is way more the problem than people missing out on going to medical school when they really wanted to.
Most people who are in the United States and want to go to a high paying career, can take out student loans and achieve something close, assuming good grades. Not that there aren’t problems with that scenario, but everyone wants kids to get high paying jobs, society is organized around helping those kids.
Meanwhile, some people would be great authors or philosophers or artists if they didn’t have to spend time making the money to survive. Those are valid goals that are being oppressed by the system.
And in the same way the global system is oppressing billions of people who are born as the rural poor and just not able to do much beyond subsistence farming.
- Comment on [Politics] Have phobia, will travel 3 months ago:
Yeah whoever made this is young. The anti gay rhetoric was so much worse 1970-2000. Obama was against gay marriage in 2008.
Before 1970 it was barely controversial and everyone thought being gay was a literal mental disorder. Famous actor Rock Hudson had a sham marriage to a woman in 1955 because it couldn’t publicly seem too likely he was gay or it would ruin his career. He later got AIDS and asked his friend Ronald Reagan to save his life in 1985 but was rejected because helping a dying gay friend survive was seen as too politically controversial.
Calling any year when gay marriage was legal nationwide the bad year for gay people is absurd.
- Comment on ‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything 3 months ago:
Colgate
- Comment on ‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything 3 months ago:
I agree that running other companies out of business by losing money with VC funding is anticompetitive and bad, that just isn’t what I’m talking about here.
I disagree that the increased prices is from some newfound monopoly power. They didn’t succeed in becoming a monopoly, they just made the business decision to become profitable by charging more, and they did that due to the new interest rate environment.
- Comment on ‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything 3 months ago:
Anti competitive behavior does suck. Stuff like million dollar taxi medallions being required before you can drive people around, or using your VC funding to drive taxi businesses out of business. But that’s not where the price increases are coming from. Do you know any city that doesn’t have taxis anymore? They’re still here, and so is Lyft. Some cities have their own local rideshare apps.
The price increases are from Uber deciding to stop losing money on their rideshare services anymore.