Tyfud
@Tyfud@lemmy.world
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 2 days ago:
This.
Back in the day this in his the internet worked. Every forum host was just some guy or girl hosting a platform so they cloths build a cunning with the people and hobbies they love.
We need to go back closer to that works. The fediverse bridges the gap between the centralized experience, and decentralized management.
Optimistically, it’s the best of both worlds.
- Comment on There is only 1 choice 2 weeks ago:
Whoever downvoted you, has never seen actual Robin Williams Standup or knows much about his political views.
Robin hated Bush Sr. and Jr., especially Jr., with a passion.
- Comment on There is only 1 choice 2 weeks ago:
He was also doing statutory rape things with a minor.
- Comment on How to improve your Lemmy experience 2 weeks ago:
But then I’d only be viewing 5% of the content Lemmy makes available for me today.
- Comment on The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books 2 weeks ago:
I suspect it’s the loss of attention span, in this case.
- Comment on Seriously good cold-climate heat pumps are headed to the US market 2 weeks ago:
Not for much longer, at least.
- Comment on Elon Musk's X further squeezes developers with apparent new API fees 3 weeks ago:
Yup. It was bought as a tool to disrupt the next election. In that respect, it’s a hell of a good buy.
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 3 weeks ago:
Closer to 96/95% now ;) But yeah, your point stands. What’s even worse about this, is I’m working on a dual citizenship with Portugal, so I should have had more self-awareness than I showed ;)
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 3 weeks ago:
Ok, I missed the sarcasm and allusion to the US as the country you were talking about. That’s fair.
I assumed the OP was asking the question for the US. Which of course, is the thing people in my country do. Assume everything is about us ;)
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 3 weeks ago:
There’s “hard” caps, and there’s “soft” caps. When you hit the soft caps with many of these ISP’s, they start throttling your internet usage by a substantial amount.
Relevant Screenshot of caps as of Sept 2024. Image
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 3 weeks ago:
Home Internet usually doesn’t have unlimited internet. There’s usually caps baked in somewhere. Don’t believe me? Read the fine print. At some point, at some bandwidth usage in the monthly cycle, they will throttle the living crap out of your connection. It’s written into pretty much every contract I’ve ever signed, and I’ve been with over a dozen carriers of landline internet over the years.
The reason being that they don’t want you serving websites or business class functionality with residential level internet. They didn’t build their network with those constraints. They want you paying for and using the business internet package, which has dedicated bandwidth and no caps because you’re paying for a dedicated line to be run.
For mobile phones? Old pricing models still trying to be relevant. There’s no technical reason.
- Comment on Half as Hot 3 weeks ago:
Half Kelvins?
- Comment on Elon Musk’s legally problematic $1 million voter giveaway 3 weeks ago:
It only matters if Harris wins.
Go vote.
- Comment on What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up? 3 weeks ago:
The only correct answer in the thread.
- Comment on Get good. 3 weeks ago:
Are you attacking my cultural heritage of slurring words like a drunk ferret?
- Comment on Get good. 3 weeks ago:
I mean, California, and other states, are 4 syllable words.
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 3 weeks ago:
While true, most enterprises have ways to silo and encrypt their data on non company controlled devices.
Android does something like that when you install ms office apps with administrator controlled policies
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 3 weeks ago:
Indoctrination is a hell of a drug.
Not saying these guys should be absolved, but they’re doing this because they think they’re the good guys/helping out.
We should be lamblasting their leadership and all of Israel’s parliament that’s enabling this.
But sometimes, soldiers are just soldiers/grunts. US Soldiers have similar PTSD after Afghanistan and Iraq. Not absolving them of sins, but when you’re trained for most of your adult life to take orders and not question them, and then those orders include killing innocents, it’s difficult to break from the indoctrination/control a group has had over you in the moment. Usually it’s not until you’re finished with your tour and you’re back home and had time to decompress that you realize the horrors you witnessed and perpetuated.
Again, not justifying it in any way, but if we don’t humanize Israeli soldiers, we run the risk of turning them into boogeymen like we did the Nazis. They were human too, and by not acknowledging that and how far humanity can go when they are supporting nationalist movements, we do great harm to any attempt to catch and correct these sort of things early.
There’s no switch that gets flipped that turns people into monsters. The worst atrocities ever committed upon humanity was by other humans. We need to acknowledge that they’re all human, or we risk repeating history.
- Comment on Magic Mineral 4 weeks ago:
Asbestos is notoriously cancer causing, dangerous, EPA damning material that many, many homes, farms, buildings, etc. in America (and a few other countries) used heavily because of the properties espoused in the advertisement above.
And many people have suffered premature deaths as a result.
Asbestos was even used in the Wizard of Oz for the snow falling on the cast.
I had Asbestos in my ceiling in a home I purchased and had to pay $12k to remediate it. They wore masks, had negative pressure ventilation suits on, had to get EPA certifications, checks, etc.
It’s brutal stuff.
- Comment on GRIZZLODILE 4 weeks ago:
That’s not true. And another one.
TL;DR;
They can run up to 35mph over short (20-30ft) distances. Then they can run at a slightly slower (though faster than most humans) pace for a sustained period of roughly 100 feet (30ish meters for the non-'mericans).
In every scenario they can and will catch every human on earth except an Olympic sprinter. And even then, it wouldn’t be a comfortable race for them.
The reason they don’t chase you down and eat you on land, is because they’ve evolved to be ambush predators from water transitions to land. They are lazy. Simple as that. And their food comes to them in most cases. Why would they want to spend all those calories just to maybe get a un-tasty human? They conserve energy so they can perform several ambush attempts for prey, rather than one long chase.
In the end, their current approach gets them more calories for the efforts, which is why they’ve evolved that way.
But they can, on paper, absolutely wipe the floor with you in a sprint over solid, flat land. For 100 feet.
- Comment on GRIZZLODILE 4 weeks ago:
Alligators can already outrun a person on land.
They just choose not to. Because they’re lazy and they don’t like running after their prey.
I suspect the same was probably true of whatever it was we killed off back then too.
- Comment on If Biden wanted to could he have people kill Trump since he is in office and SCOTUS said it was ok? 1 month ago:
Then the same rules apply, but for the people looking to arrest him.
- Comment on Lousy Smarch weather... 1 month ago:
Those idiots.
They spelled Febtober wrong.
- Comment on Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds 1 month ago:
Porn POV
- Comment on I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences 1 month ago:
It’s required for contrast detection.
Also, if it was placed on something with a black background, the borders would bleed into the background and be unrecognizable when scanning.
This is why graphic artists don’t get to determine functional standards.
- Comment on Musk’s X blocks links to JD Vance dossier and suspends journalist who posted it 1 month ago:
He has praised certain Democratic policies, opposed some core Republican policies like the 2017 tax cuts, and supported higher taxes for businesses and individuals without children.
- Comment on oh shit 1 month ago:
That’s not how people work in these situations. Neither pay is going to act reasonably here, I can pretty much guarantee that from personal experience on both sides of that scenario.
- Comment on Platypuses 1 month ago:
Evolution was all like: Ok, so which mutations would you like to advance? The venomous thing? The aquatic thing? The electrocuting enemies thing? The no stomach hack? The “Fun at parties” hack?
Platypus: Yes.
- Comment on Make this thread look like it's your first day on the internet 2 months ago:
Press ALT + F4 to open up the administrator window.
- Comment on I think I am socially ostrasized, what should I do? 2 months ago:
This is good advice. I was going to type something up, but this pretty much covers it. Listen to this person please OP.
