braxy29
@braxy29@lemmy.world
- Comment on Tacos. 14 hours ago:
unfortunately, this is often true in big cities as well.
things are a lot better in that regard than they used to be. dv is no longer by default regarded as a “private matter,” laws and resources have improved.
on the flip side, dv can be hard to prove, especially to a busy cop or judge. and policing is also not a profession adverse to abusers.
- Comment on Amazon Customer Service has become awful 1 week ago:
i thought you were serious. and then i thought you weren’t. honestly, now i’m not sure, but i’m impressed either way.
- Comment on Amazon Customer Service has become awful 1 week ago:
what the heck… you’re really super into amazon, huh?
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 2 weeks ago:
i mean, a great many people don’t appreciate being told they are murderers. it provokes defensiveness rather than an openness to pro-vegan arguments.
- Comment on YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream 4 weeks ago:
the bad news is that, despite growing up with pc’s and having had some level of troubleshooting skill as a result, i have forgotten most of it in the last 10 years as computing/tech has become pushy and handholdy. i suspect this is not uncommon.
- Comment on Progress! 4 weeks ago:
i’m not sure how this could really work. good therapy requires the person of the therapist, and i think it additionally takes place within the context of a client’s living. are there therapists willing to give up subjective years over and over and over? how does the client try new things, gain understanding without the feedback of their life between sessions? also - therapists seek information and process their work with clients between sessions.
on top of all this, i’m not yet convinced this would be psychologically healthy for either.
- Comment on sleep paralysis 4 weeks ago:
this was me about six hours ago! thanks, brain.
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 5 weeks ago:
i like the idea of AI as a tool artists can use, but that’s not a capitalist’s viewpoint, unfortunately. they will try to replace people.
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 5 weeks ago:
i think you’re missing the point, which i took as this - what arts and humanities folks do is valuable (as evidenced by efforts to recreate it) despite common narratives to the contrary.
- Comment on Please contribute your 3DS and Wii U SpotPass data before it's too late! 1 month ago:
based on memory, so a little vague, but examples - access to various merchants in Bravely Default required you to have passed others. i remember this because i was sick with flu and spent a couple days with my 3ds and my daughter’s running/“passing” each other repeatedly so i could unlock everything.
to the best of my memory, some turn-based rpg’s (Persona? SMT? Etrian Odyssey?) would allow you to access customized personas/demons/teams? others had made available. like maybe someone had a really great high level persona (basically a pokemon) with a really great selection of skills on it and you could use it instead of trying to build the same thing yourself, before you might have normally had access to it.
so the latter type thing was cool and fun, but i didn’t get many of those. the first example is a situation where the game doesn’t really fully work without spotpass.
- Comment on Millions of research papers at risk of disappearing from the Internet 2 months ago:
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 3 months ago:
but… if you really like your shampoo, why not buy $35 worth at once?
- Comment on Goodbye MatPat, thanks for everything 4 months ago:
WHY DID YOU REMIND ME 😢
- Comment on Chick-Fil-A staff in the rain. 4 months ago:
can’t speak for the bigots, but as a non-bigot who buys it for my kids a couple times a year -
there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. i say this as someone who doesn’t shop at amazon or wally world, but it’s really difficult to avoid every single brand/company with an asshole owner/ceo. additionally, my impression is they are one of the better employers in the area for people who just need a job and lack skills/ability to do something else.
- Comment on Crunchy. Delectable. 4 months ago:
mmm, forbidden snacks! (some of the rocks at the gift shop definitely look like candy)
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free 4 months ago:
wow, wtf. what a scam.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free 4 months ago:
this is one reason why i have never had prime. not that i order much from amazon anyway (very rarely, in fact).
i think people think amazon is a lot more indispensable than it actually is.
- Comment on Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV 5 months ago:
i will give you that one. 😮💨
- Comment on Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV 5 months ago:
what? i can’t speak specifically to crunchyroll (not willing to pay for it), but i watch a lot of movies in languages other than english with english subtitles on roku.
if roku is insisting on this (?), they aren’t insisting on it for other services like hbo.
- Comment on Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV 5 months ago:
the ads on roku do not impact my experience, they go away as soon as i open anything.
- Comment on Pavlov's conditioning 5 months ago:
i suppose it’s that his intent was to train (essentially to control) something apart from himself, but he likely trained himself in the process (created something within himself that he did not control, at least for as long as the response was conditioned).
- Comment on Does anyone feel like an actual adult? 5 months ago:
i mean, i’m no fan of capitalism, but when i take my car to the guy who has been servicing it for 10 years, i don’t mind that he’s itemized the work to ensure that he and the guys who work for him are paid fairly for their expertise and time.
we do, unfortunately, exist in a system that requires money at present.
- Comment on A lot of societies problems would be solved if they taught about forming healthy relationships in school. 5 months ago:
maybe it’s not a lie if you have grown and changed into a new version of yourself.
- Comment on Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hostage until Mexican government stepped in - YouTube 6 months ago:
agreed. big fan of his work on right-to-repair, but find his libertarian pov tiresome.
- Comment on Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hostage until Mexican government stepped in - YouTube 6 months ago:
supposedly we’re super business/small business friendly. not a business owner, but i expect there are significantly fewer fees and very significantly lower taxes for someone doing business here compared to new york. also a lot less regulation.
it’s the same reason a lot of big businesses come here.
- Comment on All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan 6 months ago:
i would be more bothered about knowing i will never be able to afford any life-saving meds that get developed with my DNA than not getting a cut of the profit.
but anyway, i haven’t given them mine, for whatever that’s worth (since i know at least one family member did).
- Comment on Max users grandfathered into $15.99 ad-free plan lose 4K, HDR next month 6 months ago:
also, my $15.99 plan went up to $18.99 in the last year or so anyway
- Comment on Redditor when women 6 months ago:
there’s at least the two of us
- Comment on ‘It scars you for life’: Workers sue Meta claiming viewing brutal videos caused psychological trauma 6 months ago:
probably there is a disclaimer of some sort, and people think they can handle it. but also, even people who worry they can’t may be desperate for a job.
i work with people who have experienced terrible things, but it’s a little easier to manage because i am hearing about it (only to the extent that people want to talk) and not seeing it, so i get a little psychological distance. my environment is very supportive and i’m hearing things sometimes, not watching it hundreds of times in a day. even then, people in my role are at decent risk of burnout.
like, you never know when you’re going to hear a thing that just gets to you.
doing what these mods do for hours and hours a week without support seems like a recipe for secondary trauma and burnout.
- Comment on Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors 7 months ago:
so if we were the player characters right now, who the heck picked me, why would they play me this way? couldn’t they have rolled again for better hair? i dunno, interesting thought experiment. 🤔