TommySalami

@TommySalami@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virginia is shrinking!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  West by God Virginia. I spent a lot of time there reminding people we fought for the north.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: Don't eat cicadas if you're allergic to shellfish... or at all⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know what, I’m here for it. Anytime I hear about the cicadas coming back it’s always over the top dread. People freak out, and there’s so much acting like seeing a cicada is going to grind life to a halt. Everyone seems to lean into the bit.

  The fact that the growing answer to the cicadas this year is a wildly different “fuck it, we’ll eat them and then they can’t get us” could not be more beautiful to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ will start cracking down on password sharing | CNN Business⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interestingly enough, 2/3 of those are subs I dropped within the last year or so based on a lack of quality/content for what they cost (never bothered with ESPN, NHL games are easy to find). Seems like streaming is starting to collapse a lot quicker than TV did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yep, makes sense⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Find Egress; Aquire Ride. That kinda works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is just cruel⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That has happened to me so much in recent years, both with clipped songs and bands/artists I like becoming popular. I don’t hold myself with any music pretention, and the vast majority of my “underground” discoveries are just random chance and Spotify algorithm. There is no way I have found to explain “no, I’ve been listening to them since [insert album]” that hasn’t been met with some form of hipster comment.

  Arctic Monkey was the biggest one for me where I didn’t recognize their

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redditor when women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t even have mothman as number 1, what are they even doing. That bizarre being is a hero, and he deserves respect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube ads finally got me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure the comment calling for regulation is a corporate shill. It’s a pretty level-headed look at things imo, because the truth is YT cannot afford to operate for free. We live in a system that just doesn’t allow that, for better or worse. Unfortunately, the way we went about funding things on the internet (outside of ridiculous amounts of capital flowing to startups for years, which doesn’t really apply to YT/Google) was ads, and they have gotten wildly out of hand. This is on top of an insane amount of data harvesting. We have to face the reality that any major, data-heavy platform like YT is going to need significant revenue.

  We need a solution to either lower the cost of (opening things up for individuals to host), or more efficiently fund, services we like if they’re going to stick around in the current state of the world. Even if we say “google can eat the cost” we’re still putting all our faith in the goodwill of an entity that is designed to do the opposite of what we’re asking. That’s begging for issues.

  Peer-to-peer stuff is the best solution I’ve seen, or self-hosting. I’m far from an expert, but from what I understand the tech just isnt there yet for it to become the norm. All that data has to go somewhere, and storage is prohibitively expensive at a certain point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Madden should not be 70$⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Jokes on them, my limit is wildly low compared to this. Most sports games are worth 20 bucks at this point, the main content is just reskinned gameplay with updated stats and an unnecessary twist on controls. Its DLC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spider-Man: No Way Home Director Confirms What We All Suspected About the Ending⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s honestly wild, and ranges from stuff that I can only assume is due to people playing on their phones and half-watching to a level of ignorance about storytelling that basically requires the plot being exposition dumped for them to grasp it. I genuinely don’t get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robert Reich on the Hollywood Strikes, Tech “Leviathans” and a Second Gilded Age⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one of those weird family connection I’ve known about for a while, but have to keep reminding myself its real. My brain refuses to associate those two people.