OldWoodFrame

@OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t know.

  The US came back from a US president hiring private goons to spy on his political opponents.

  The US came back from a US president illegally selling weapons to Iran to fund right wing militias in South America.

  The US came back from a US cabinet member taking literal bribes from oil companies to give them oil drilling rights on federal land.

  The US came back from a US president illegally firing a cabinet member and installing his own lackey.

  But it didn’t HAVE to.

  I don’t think there’s really such a thing as a ‘point of no return’ for a Democracy. But it is possible to get to a point after which you don’t return.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But monkeys never ask questions.

  Science has yet to determine if monkeys would be able to type “wherefore art thou Romeo?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Source: Father, H. , Son, H. Spirit, H. (2024). Visions from God⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ramanujan Aiyangar, Srinivasa, 1887-1920: (1927). Collected papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan. Cambridge [Eng.] :The University Press.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s doing what the Board wants, stock price is up. If there was a worker advocate on the board, maybe things would be different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fruit Flies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When we’re having fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  5 day RTO is a stealth layoff. This is a feature, not a bug.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Jeb! is a hole in the theory, not every major states governor who is the son of a former president can become president themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Overall kind of a lot of turnover actually…only one Clinton became president, and he was never VP. The other Clinton got beat out by the first black president for the nomination in 08, and then she lost to some guy who had zero political experience.

  If anything, we learned that being black doesn’t exclude you from being president, being female doesn’t exclude you from being a major party nominee, and you can still become president even running for office for the first time at age 70. The promise of the statement is more true than ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨every damn morning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My body can take the sugar from one energy drink a lot better than it can take 6 shots of espresso.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oxygen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Amun-Ra approves this message.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow I had no idea the subscription was that much. He mentioned it in a video without saying the price and I still wouldn’t do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate change⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In closing, Carthage must be destroyed.

  -Trump the Elder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Female Anatomy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked her hit single Chalupitating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit is like this too on the app. Some of the worst algorithm recommendations I’ve ever seen. “You like (your local city subreddit), you might also like (some city you don’t live in subreddit).” Why?

  The worst is that is has ruined my porn account because it doesn’t recommend NSFW subs so I have to scrape past random unrelated garbage like the Pokémon card valuation subreddit and /r/cement, I counted and it went 40 posts between NSFW posts once. On my account that is exclusively subscribed to NSFW subs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Social Engineering⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The most charismatic man I know is my uncle, he worked right near the WTC on 9/11 and even though they closed his bridge home because it was 9/11 he sweet talked his way across.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SanDisk introduces the first 8TB SD and 4TB microSD cards - Liliputing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I paid $100 for a massive 1TB hard drive when they first came out years ago. Thought a TB was essentially unlimited and wasn’t sure if it could ever be used.

  What a crazy advancement to get to 8TB the size of your pinky nail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gabby Thomas⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mods plz remove this post, it makes me feel insecure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨62% of Funded Blockchain and Web3 Companies Attract Fewer Than 100 Monthly Organic Visitors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But either the government blockchain can get forked/modified by people with enough resources, in which case it’s not reliable, or it is certifiably controlled by the government in which case there’s no point to it being blockchain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨62% of Funded Blockchain and Web3 Companies Attract Fewer Than 100 Monthly Organic Visitors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Turns out the one thing Blockchain is good at, building out decentralized strings of commonly agreed upon immutable transactions, is actually not that useful. For small items we need an “undo” button because people make sloppy mistakes or get scammed, for large items we want the government to act as enforcer of the property (house, dollars, car) in question so it doesn’t actually help us to decentralize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technically Correct⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemme Google the freezing temp of whatever explodey juice they think we all have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Google antitrust ruling could be an existential threat to the future of Firefox | Financials show 86% of Mozilla's revenue came from the agreement keeping Google as Firefox's default search engine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On the other hand, might also be good for Firefox to not be 86% funded by the maker of its top rival (Chrome).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta Reportedly Unhappy With How Much Money Its VR Division Burns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn. Sorry to feel about that emotion a soulless corporation is having.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*doing my best google impression* Did you mean: turn in up?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For a while they were like Maroon 5 level over exposed. I don’t think I’ve heard a song from them in a while though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heritage Foundation insists it was not hacked by “gay furries”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you think there’s a real link between furries being gay, like the type of person who is a furry just tends to be disproportionately gay and online?

  Or a sociological link like people who are open enough about sexual preferences will tend to be open about all of them?

  Or a news bias link like plenty of hackers are gay but you don’t hear about it, but if they are

  Or is this always just the one gay furry hacker group?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Real answer, Elon made it more friendly to the far right (the racists and Nazis) and unbanned a bunch of them who had previously been banned for being too racist and Nazi. Then he introduced a subscription service where you pay to have Twitter spread your content.

  So that started a doom loop: The far right bought the additional views, people who didn’t appreciate the extra racism and Nazi views on their timeline left Twitter, but the view boost was paid for so it kept pushing those views to the fewer people who remained, then THAT volume of hate pushed more people away, etc.

  It probably got to the point that they couldn’t keep paid views high enough with just people who care about politics and they had to just push at all costs, eventually to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I genuinely feel like I wouldn't live that differently even if I suddenly became ultra-wealthy. Am I kidding myself?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all a hypothetical, feel free to just decide you are that type of person. No harm in it.

  In real life though, if money is no object, the difference between a 2017 normal car and a 2025 luxury car is literally just “do you want extra features and a bigger screen on a car that will last longer?” It just doesn’t make sense to get the cheaper version, unless you are giving up something else because you only have a limited amount of money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take a gander at this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, obviously, people don’t generally change their legal gender for an advantage somewhere. But if they do, that’s a pretty good sign, not that it’s too easy to change your gender, but that there’s a gender bias in the law.

  So arguably, the easier it is to change your legal gender, the less of a problem gender-based affirmative action is. Conservatives must love this! End liberal overreach in one easy step!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uncovering Every Lie in MKBHD's Softball Interview; a scathing critique of 'brand safe' influencers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s clear he’s a fan of Apple and Tesla but he does make negative statements about them, the Cyber truck was not a positive review and he always criticized the fit and finish of Teslas. And he critiques Apple’s idiosyncracies like the proprietary charger and lack of calculator app on the iPad.

  I guess my point is that he’s not a journalist he’s a reviewer, we are tuning in for his judgement, his opinion. If he personally likes the products from a certain company, that’s not a bias that impacts his capacity to do his job well.

  Like movie reviewer giving Pixar a bunch of 10/10 reviews, and then criticizing Cars 2 as a mediocre cash grab. Maybe they are biased for Pixar, or maybe Pixar just puts out a lot of good movies. As long as you’re calling out the bad moves, that’s what we want from a reviewer.

  The fair concern is when he gets exclusive access like this, I don’t necessarily care about the puff piece interview but you hope it doesn’t influence his future reviews.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uncovering Every Lie in MKBHD's Softball Interview; a scathing critique of 'brand safe' influencers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The last time he was in the wider media discussion was because he negatively reviewed the Fisker Ocean and the Humane Pin and people were calling him a company killer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨jeff⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He somehow monetized being a Trump reply guy back in 2016, every Trump tweet you’d see this guy with a snarky little “well actually I prefer an X that WASN’T Y” or whatever. Within seconds.