NutWrench
@NutWrench@lemmy.world
- Comment on Tacos. 20 hours ago:
Agreed. If the only that stops some people from committing crimes is the threat of supernatural punishment, then they have the morality of an insect.
- Comment on RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address 23 hours ago:
Elmo thinks the “X” makes it “extra cool.”
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 5 days ago:
Yeah, if it’s in “The Cloud” it’s NOT yours and it can disappear or be modified without your knowledge or consent at any time.
Buy some external storage and keep copies of everything you care about.
- Comment on EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again 1 week ago:
There are many independent developers who deserve your money more than EA. Vote with your wallet.
- Comment on Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad 1 week ago:
These are the kind of ads you make when you have a profound lack of self-awareness.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter 1 week ago:
Musk probably thought calling it “X” made it sound edgy and cool. I bet it really annoys him every time it’s called “the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.”
- Comment on EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again 1 week ago:
Once these companies have your money, they don’t care what you want. Don’t give your money to companies that abuse you like this.
- Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 1 week ago:
Company-wide email: “We’ve had our best year EVER and it’s all thanks to YOU!” Me: “Great. Can I have a raise?” Company: “Oh, we can’t afford THAT.”
- Comment on Innovation or Overreach? UH Research Casts blame on OceanGate's Submersible Design says: Low quality carbon fibre lead to the accident 1 week ago:
Stockton Rush got a bargain on the carbon fiber he bought from Boeing because It was approaching the end of its shelf life and it was no longer acceptable for use in aircraft, let alone submarines.
Rush also made a number of claims about the involvement of Boeing and other companies, claiming they were “involved in both the design and construction” of his submarine. Those claims were not true. Boeing made it clear that they had NO involvement in any part of the sub’s design or construction and they had simply sold Rush the carbon fiber.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 1 week ago:
Google has also gotten lazy. Their first dozen or so searches are either YouTube or Reddit results. (And that’s only when they want to pretend they’re a search engine).
- Comment on Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel? 2 weeks ago:
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It let’s the US government waste taxpayer money on military hardware to make the billionaire class even richer. Money that would be far better spent on US taxpayers.
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It panders to evangelicals, who need Israel to exist in order to fulfill their Book of Relations, End of The World, apocalyptic jerk-off fantasies.
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- Comment on What’s happening at Tesla? Here’s what experts think. 2 weeks ago:
All Musk wants is that bong-hit of attention he gets from getting his name in the news. This is why he blew 44 billion on Twitter. He really doesn’t care if Twitter or Tesla succeed or not. He gets bored with his toys quickly if they don’t provide him with the attention he craves.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 2 weeks ago:
If it links to your Steam account, I assume it’s going to get all the info in your Steam account.
- Comment on Which is the best Lemmy app for mobile? 2 weeks ago:
Another vote for Connect.
- Comment on Tractor-trailers with no one aboard? The future is near for self-driving trucks on US roads 2 weeks ago:
This is a terrible idea.
- Comment on Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants 2 weeks ago:
Such a “clever businessman.” Embezelling $17 million in taxpayer dollars to enrich himself.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 3 weeks ago:
“self-driving cars” are not going to be a thing within our lifetimes. It’s a problem that requires MUCH smarter AIs than we currently have.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 3 weeks ago:
Ads are a way for corporations to steal your life from you, 60 seconds at a time.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 3 weeks ago:
Damn. YouTube is just SO desperate to squeeze every bit of ad revenue they can, wherever they can.
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 3 weeks ago:
Given how easy it is to create shell corporations, how does any of this prevent the CCP from running TikTok through another proxy?
I.e. is all this posturing just a colossal waste of time?
- Comment on Tesla profits nosedive as more job cuts announced 3 weeks ago:
Elon doesn’t care about making the companies he owns work. He’s just looking for that next bong hit of attention he gets from keeping his name in the news.
He burned through tens of billions to buy Twitter, turned it to crap (well . . . crappier than it was) and he doesn’t care. He gets bored with his toys quickly if they don’t get him the attention he craves.
- Comment on Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes 3 weeks ago:
“We’re gonna ban Internet stuff” is something said by people who have no idea how the Internet works.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 4 weeks ago:
Star Trek TOS episodes (1 hour show) were about 52 minutes long, with 8 minutes for commercials. By the time of TNG, episodes were down to 42 minutes. I regularly see ads every 5-6 minutes on YouTube.
Businesses never understand that it’s THEIR obnoxious, sh*tty advertising that kills something profitable, and when it finally dies, it’s surprised Pikachu faces all around.
- Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov 1 month ago:
Google has also gotten lazy and is prioritizing YouTube and Reddit results, instead of webcrawler results.
- Comment on humility 1 month ago:
“Just imagine that I turned in a really good paper.”
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 1 month ago:
The pirates will simply move to another Lemmy Instance and re-create the group there. This is the advantage of having a decentralized platform: so one person or small group of people can’t ruin things for the rest of us.
- Comment on SpaceX is reportedly building a $1.8 billion network of spy satellites for US intelligence 1 month ago:
This. Musk disabled Starlink to fark over the Ukrainians. He should not be trusted with any military contracts. Ever.
- Comment on SpaceX is reportedly building a $1.8 billion network of spy satellites for US intelligence 1 month ago:
" . . . for U.S. intelligence."
Yeah. Sure. Right. Musk will sell Intelligence to ANYONE who pays for it and US taxpayers will foot the entire bill for constructing the satellite network.
And then all the contractors and politicians will all pretend to be surprised by this and Musk will get the finger-wagging of a lifetime.
- Comment on Tech Titans Are the Robber Barons of Our Gilded Age 2 months ago:
Yup. News sources have been consolidating for the last 50 years. It used to be that every news outlets you watched was ultimately owned by one of 40 companies. Today, that number is 5. So if five billionaires get together and decide something is not going to be talked about, then it DOESN’T get talked about. This is why the Internet has them so freaked out. They can’t control it (yet) so it’s a threat to their version of reality.
This is also why our “liberal news media” does such a terrible job of speaking truth to bullsht. It’s not necessary to report “both sides of an argument” if one side of the argument is insane, woo-woo dipshterry. What they’re doing there is gaslighting you into thinking that babbling nonsense is “just another point of view” It’s not in the interest of billionaires to have informed citizens, capable of critical thinking, so the point of this exercise is to keep us fighting with each other about where the REAL source of our problems come from while they . . . the rich . . . run off with all the f*cking money.
- Comment on Is TV Dead? Global TV Shipments Hit a Decade Low in 2023 2 months ago:
Agreed. You shouldn’t have to trust that some third party software built into your TV won’t abuse your trust and shut everything down until you do what it’s owners want.
I’ve got an external Roku and if it starts being a dick, I can just unplug it and toss it in the trash and I still have a working TV.