4shtonButcher
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- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 2 days ago:
You’re not in the EU then it seems. The EU is mandating USB-C now. I personally think it should have come earlier but at least we’re safe from port chaos with new purchases
- Comment on YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead 2 days ago:
Gizmodo still exists 😲
- Comment on My world is so much better because of immigrants 4 days ago:
Who let this racist in here?
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 5 days ago:
Calm down. It’s pretty well-known in economic circles that increasing taxes on a good will reduce consumption of said good, unless it’s absolutely lime maybe baby formula. Even then some poor people are likely to be priced out of the market or at least forced to reduce consumption.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 6 days ago:
The income from a tax is generally not tied to a specific cause in most countries. If all it does is reducing meat consumption that would be a net benefit for the climate. And in this case also be beneficial for the economy as res meat isn’t healthy and contributes to a lot of disease among the population.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
The ballpark numbers seem well in line with similar studies I have seen elsewhere. So while I don’t doubt there might be minor flaws in this particular source material, the point still stands.
We shouldn’t nitpick too much about stuff that’s generally trying very hard to get facts right while the right or making up shit left, right and center and call fact-checking a limitation of their free speech.
Suggestion: point out flaws but also confirm that it’s definitely not just made up and probably largely correct
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
I might be able get behind this argument when you talk about the rules on plastic straws. But red meat is terrible for the environment. As is driving cars. Especially ICE and especially when it’s just one person, i.e. most work commutes. Another thing is heating/ cooling homes btw.
I personally think there are a lot of small things we should do as individuals but I understand not everyone might want to do them. I also agree that it’s up to governments to do a lot of heavy lifting. That can be things like establishing district heating or improving public transport. But maybe it can also be adding higher taxes on red meat.
- Comment on Oink 4 weeks ago:
Not what I expected to find in this thread but I’m happy I watched it.
- Comment on I've hated donald trump since day one but then I saw this and thought.... 5 weeks ago:
Germans against Nazis wouldn’t use the German flag. If you brought one to the protest you’d probably be considered an intruder from the Nazi side
- Comment on $1.5 Billion AI Company That Reportedly Used No Actual AI Goes Belly Up 1 month ago:
Interestingly it loads today. I have AdAway on my phone and PiHole in my home network
- Comment on $1.5 Billion AI Company That Reportedly Used No Actual AI Goes Belly Up 1 month ago:
Archive Link or alternative source? This crappy site refuses to load due to my AdBlock
- Comment on We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
There’s this one Nazi CEO that I hope we can agree either has no soul or at least one that we could do without. Yet we’re not killing him.
Killing people is wrong and while there may be factors that make it seem more warranted, nothing will ever make it right.
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 2 months ago:
Tried that many times. It has given me the exact same place for slightly cheaper than AirBnB once. Other times it was more expensive but most often of simply had worse choices.
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 2 months ago:
I guess: great concept, shitty company.
Like with so many “tech giants”, they had a great idea but greed is spoiling it. I wish we had more “public infrastructure” for this. I’d love to have OSS, tax-funded or at least heavily regulated SoMe, video sharing, home swapping/renting, local marketplace, … Those should not be industries, they should be part of our society’s fabric like the fire department or trash pick-up.
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 2 months ago:
I share a lot of of the criticism towards AirBnB. However, I’ve often ended up using them either way. We travel with a dog and a toddler. They need to be allowed in the first place. And ideally we get a kitchen, a separate room so we can still have normal noise and light when the kid sleeps. Often we even find Airbnbs with toys, kids books, dog beds, treats on the table when we arrive, …
You simply don’t get that in hotels. At least not in a price range I’ve considered so far
- Comment on Do it 2 months ago:
Good Riddance in my ass.
- Comment on First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80 3 months ago:
Arrrr!
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 3 months ago:
I think we all lose by supporting Amazon 😜
I get it though, I used to use it too a few years back. Honestly never played anything I claimed through it
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 3 months ago:
Same.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 4 months ago:
Did you see the Hyundai Ioniq 6? Or the very new Kia EV4? They look very “modern” but then again I’d say ICE cars are constantly changing design too.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 4 months ago:
Well, out Kona is a weird crossover-y thing but otherwise literally identical to its ICE brothers.
Maybe Peugeot, Citroen and similar are what you are after? The new Peugeot 308 electric is pretty “boring” - it’s not an amazing EV but better than what they had before
- Comment on This Cybertruck shaped man is destroying our government 4 months ago:
Putin is a violent, ruthless dictator supported by a corrupt oligarchy. While he might claim to borrow ideas from communism, 9/10 people I have heard supporting communism hate Putin.
And while I don’t really like conservatives, I also think it’s unfair to most conservatives to pretend Trump is “just conservative”.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 4 months ago:
Apart from China, Hyundai/Kia is producing really great EVs. And the German brands have viable ones that might eventually catch up to Korea and China now that they’re taking it more seriously. Renault is really getting it lately and even Stellantis is coming with new platforms that are pretty good. The Japanese have invested more in anti-EV-propaganda than in EVs.
We have a Hyundai Kona from 2019 and it’s an amazing car. Every single person who ever tried it never wants to drive an ICE again. And this is an old low-to-mid-end vehicle. Our next EV is definitely going to be a lot better.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 4 months ago:
I’m sure batteries would have progressed more quickly if they had been chosen as the preferred path 100 years ago.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 4 months ago:
Big oil forced that shit onto you instead of going the far superior EV route from the beginning. Now EVs are finally taking over and I’m happy my kids never have to get fuel grease on their hands and suffer those nasty fumes at gas stations. Shifters were needed for an inferior technology to work. I liked it as an experience when I learned to drive. But cars are mostly transport due to failure of better public transport infrastructure. I don’t care whether they’re fun. I drive for fun on the Xbox or maybe in a GoKart every few years.
Oh that felt good to rant.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 4 months ago:
At this point being banned might be a good thing to drive home the point that also my favorite of the old corporate internet platforms should be avoided. I’m doing quite okay on staying away from Meta and have long deleted my Twitter account. I can’t get myself do drop Reddit somehow. Seems like they’re only helping me get off my addiction
- Comment on This Cybertruck shaped man is destroying our government 4 months ago:
What commies? This makes no sense?!
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News 4 months ago:
Lemmy is becoming better and better and people like you are giving a major contribution to that! Thank you!
- Comment on Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC 4 months ago:
Now, can we have a cool European company doing similar stuff? At the rate it’s going I can’t decide whether I shouldn’t buy American because I don’t want to support a fascist country or because I’m afraid the country might crumble so badly that I can’t count on getting service for my device.
- Comment on Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming 4 months ago:
They better release a new one before I break down and buy a new “gaming laptop” because I sometimes game.