thesohoriots
@thesohoriots@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons? 1 day ago:
MA/PhD full time is all afternoon/evening classes, usually one day a week per class. I don’t think we ever started before 1pm, though it was typically closer to a 3-6pm/6-9pm schedule. The idea was we’d do our assistantships and teach the undergrad courses in the mornings (8-10ams) and have the world’s most inconvenient office hours in the space after that (between 11-2ish).
- Comment on AI chatbots are becoming popular alternatives to therapy. But they may worsen mental health crises, experts warn 1 day ago:
“That’s an interesting worldview you have, Trish! Let’s actualize your goals! I’ve located the nearest agricultural stores with fertilizer and some cheap U-Haul vans you can rent!”
- Comment on AI chatbots are becoming popular alternatives to therapy. But they may worsen mental health crises, experts warn 1 day ago:
I used to think of it that way; however, one day, you may be the person who is in urgent need of help. It’s better to be in the system with an established history for if that day comes.
- Comment on When the government forces you to act like a clown for no apparent reason 1 week ago:
Agent Richard Fondler strikes again
- Comment on Hackers prove age verification systems on pornography sites can be bypassed in seconds 1 week ago:
HaXX0rz
- Comment on Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter 1 week ago:
Totally slapped but oh the motion sickness
- Comment on It's not just kind, it's kinder 1 week ago:
Ah yes, the thinking man’s “R-worded Animal Babies”
- Comment on US | FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices 1 week ago:
An FCC inquiry in September 2024 sought comment on how the FCC could add more pricing data to its annual analysis, noting that the March 2024 report lacked “granular price information, especially for rural areas, limited the analysis to overall patterns of affordability.”
Easy. Ask the main players (AT&T, Spectrum, Comcast) how much for internet. When they don’t give a straight answer, because they’ll say it depends on bundles, that means it’s too much.
- Comment on Single Serve Pudding Cups And Yogurts Are Too Fucking Small. 2 weeks ago:
I just found some that were double-size! Someone got a promotion.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
A number of kids also don’t know “file system.” The filing cabinet is a foreign concept, as are many of the now-antiquated technologies referenced/adapted for desktop computing (the address card for your Rolodex, the floppy disk save icon). Tablets and phones are culturally moving us towards stuff being contained within its respective singular app, like all your word documents being within the word app rather than meticulously sorted through layers of folders (even though on the backend, it is). So returning to your first step: why have a browser as the first step when you could just skip having to search for anything because there’s an app? Plus, the delicious unskippable metrics.
- Comment on Elon Musk Floats a New Source of Funding for xAI: Tesla 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t he just pull a similar move with X/twitter to xAI? Sounds like his companies are an endless money pit and he’s desperately playing 3-card monte with them.
- Comment on Why doesn't the Trump administration simply edit the Epstein files and release them? 2 weeks ago:
But have we tried brrrrrrrt
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 2 weeks ago:
What kind of degenerate do you think I am? That’s 36 hours to back up my walrus porn collection.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally Is $700 And Xbox Ally X Is $1050 3 weeks ago:
roflwaffle perchance
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 3 weeks ago:
I can only dream of FireWire’s return
- Comment on Financially rewarding and you will always have a job 3 weeks ago:
Nah, they decided to buy a more affordable car with only a 3-star crash rating because they decided to get stressed about their only financing option being complete dogshit because of a wrecked economy, because they decided to have a job that required going into the office.
- Comment on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon 4 weeks ago:
Prices mysteriously go up about a week before prime day sales, then drop to a few dollars below normal, scream “39% off” and you feel like you beat the system.
- Comment on Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk? 4 weeks ago:
“I know what I got”
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 5 weeks ago:
Ah, the ol in haec verba Tarantino rule
- Comment on Microsoft extends free Windows 10 security updates into 2026, with strings attached 5 weeks ago:
tl;dr
opt into Windows Backup
spend 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points
- Comment on We solved the Smartphone Keyboard problem back in 2013… It’s time to bring this concept back 1 month ago:
Unironically enjoyed mine. Sure it was a barren app store and support got dropped quick, but it was a neat little device.
- Comment on Senators Call for The FTC to Launch an Investigation into Spotify for Forcing Subscribers into Higher-Priced Subscriptions Without Their Consent. 1 month ago:
The Federal Toothless Commission at this point?
- Comment on Melon-chicken-Aspic 1 month ago:
Surely it could be stuffed into the cavity of yet another larger and equally bizarre choice of thing.
- Comment on A reboot of the X-Files but this time Scully is always right. Everything has a totally rational explanation and Mulder slowly looses his believe in the supernatural. 1 month ago:
“Swamp gas”
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 1 month ago:
An em dash — when used properly — is perfectly fine, but a little academic. iOS will do one automatically with two hyphens and a space.
- Comment on Button fly's 1 month ago:
I loved them back when they were popular in the mid-late 2010s. Why? Confused people at the urinals.
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 1 month ago:
The MussoliniPad, doesn’t get WiFi at gas stations
- Comment on Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone 1 month ago:
Top features:
PATRIOTIC bloatware with Mahjong
Lee Greenwood and Kid Rock ringtones
“Starlink GPS” on the box but it’s hastily scratched out in tear-stained whiteboard marker
- Comment on What??? 1 month ago:
If you got a free hand, it’s for the homies
- Comment on It must vex him 1 month ago:
Please, Mr. Music, will you play?