SocialMediaRefugee
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- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 month ago:
So basically it is more what twitter was really worth anyway
- Comment on "Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely 1 month ago:
Those compensation requirements would basically make it financially impossible to have someone on-call or they’d just have to hire people for those hours and say they are normal working hours.
How would you force someone to take time off?
- Comment on YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50% 1 month ago:
Streaming in general is approaching the old cable prices. Once you’ve subscribed to the fractured marketplace to find the shows you want you are spending far more than you expected.
- Comment on Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers 1 month ago:
I’m no fan of Hezbollah but how is this different than spreading land mines? Even if you kill civilians in an air strike at least you can claim there were enemy combatants there. Here it is just “Eh, we’ll just kill people at random and see what happens.”
- Comment on is this copium or hopium or schizophrenia? 8 months ago:
Approximately 1/3 of all food produced is wasted.
- Comment on Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes 8 months ago:
Maybe I want you to peek in…
- Comment on Christians think gay people are trying to convert them to being gay *because Christians try to convert people to being Christian*. 8 months ago:
Only the big evangelist types which isn’t all Christians. I know plenty of Christians who are quiet about it and only talk about it if you bring it up, unlike people really into politics.
- Comment on Why is living with your parents considered a bad thing? 8 months ago:
No, that isn’t it
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I always price compare regardless of the search results. Mindlessly clicking isn’t a good idea.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
People have to do due diligence to check that they are getting the best value. I don’t assume what is presented to me is automatically the best. This suit seems like they expect the seller to promote the best deal without them doing any price comparisons which is ridiculous.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 8 months ago:
They don’t produce anything except some numbers. A total waste of energy. I had to laugh when this guy I know who is very “progressive” and environmentally concerned got pissy when I pointed out how much energy was wasted on bitcoin mining just because he was into it.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought 8 months ago:
He only has 6, he needs 1 more for Sundays
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought 8 months ago:
“Just park it next to the others.”
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought 8 months ago:
I’d hope you’d know what you were spending this much money on if it wasn’t just for online attention.
- Comment on ‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24 9 months ago:
The situations that drive me nuts are the conspiracy idiots who zoom in super hard on some heavily compressed image they pulled off of the web. They then proceed to claim that compression artifacts, optical flares, noise, etc are evidence of whatever crap they are pushing.
- Comment on The man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy case 9 months ago:
IP gets more protection than human beings
- Comment on The man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy case 9 months ago:
Won’t someone please think about Nintendo!?
I wonder if they send a person out to make sure he is eating gruel.
- Comment on Chinese hackers ready to ‘wreak havoc’ on critical US infrastructure with 50-to-1 cyber personnel advantage, FBI director warns 9 months ago:
Well a powerful economic base is the foundation of a superpower. The US leans on General Dynamics, Raytheon, countless contractors, etc. China has no base as extensive as that.
- Comment on Chinese hackers ready to ‘wreak havoc’ on critical US infrastructure with 50-to-1 cyber personnel advantage, FBI director warns 9 months ago:
Well the Japanese took Taiwan from China and then the nationalists fled China and took it over during the handover. No one asked the Chinese natives originally there if they wanted to separate from China.
We fought a civil war to keep the nation together.
- Comment on Chinese hackers ready to ‘wreak havoc’ on critical US infrastructure with 50-to-1 cyber personnel advantage, FBI director warns 9 months ago:
China is still mostly poor and rural. For all of their economic expansion things are still basic there for most people.
- Comment on Chinese hackers ready to ‘wreak havoc’ on critical US infrastructure with 50-to-1 cyber personnel advantage, FBI director warns 9 months ago:
I can’t blame China for wanting Taiwan back. Imagine if we had a civil war and a foreign military invaded and occupied Alaska during a war just before it. Then at the end of the war one side fled to Alaska and declared it independant but we couldn’t retake it because we were so debilitated from the civil war and the war before it. Now a foreign government steps in and says you can’t retake your territory because they said so. I’d be pissed too.
- Comment on Chinese hackers ready to ‘wreak havoc’ on critical US infrastructure with 50-to-1 cyber personnel advantage, FBI director warns 9 months ago:
The US wants a fight with China to justify our perpetual military buildup and foreign reach.
- Comment on Chinese hackers ready to ‘wreak havoc’ on critical US infrastructure with 50-to-1 cyber personnel advantage, FBI director warns 9 months ago:
America always needs a boogeyman. Maybe having all infrastructure connected to the internet and letting security sloppy contractors open access isn’t a good idea either.
Meanwhile US citizens go without healthcare.
- Comment on Comcast reluctantly agrees to stop its misleading “10G Network” claims 9 months ago:
“Zillion G”
- Comment on Thank the EU there’s a prominent “Reject” button nowadays 9 months ago:
Put a button saying accept all or make you go into a 2nd screen where you have to pick what you want. Guess what most people do to get it out of the way?
- Comment on Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find 9 months ago:
How so? Genuinely curious.
- Comment on Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find 9 months ago:
Google has gotten really bad with the sponsored links. Not only are they only identified with a small “ad sponsored” disclaimer that is easy to miss on a phone screen but I’ve run into sponsored results that are blatant scams that I’ve had to report to google. Seemingly no effort on their part to screen these before they let them get posted.
I’ve also had to resort to altering my search engine results to always filter out quora and pinterest because they have gamed SEO so badly that they choke my results with garbage. Both demand you open accounts to see much (nope) and quora is a cesspool of bad answers and trolls.
- Comment on Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees 9 months ago:
That will cause some discord
- Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession 9 months ago:
I use it as a cache for chunks of text I want to move around
- Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession 9 months ago:
Bring back clippy. “I see you want a barebones, simple text editor. Let me ruin that for you.”