crystalmerchant
@crystalmerchant@lemmy.world
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 week ago:
Look up thos congresspersons’ donor history
Bet my bottom dollar they’re getting donations from groups that tie back to the auto industry
Get the fucking money out of politics
- Comment on Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software 1 week ago:
Anything with your hands, really. I do cross stitch and used to build scale models
- Comment on Taylor Swift at the Beach 2 months ago:
I don’t get it pls halp
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 2 months ago:
My lower-down comment is an even better use of energy
- Comment on Disney Plus begins crackdown against password sharing 2 months ago:
So what exactly constitutes this crackdown? Do they tie the login to your phone’s MAC address?
- Comment on dotnet developer 3 months ago:
Man it is HARD to believe this jabbering orangesicle was ever the president of the fucking United States
- Comment on Chinese hackers ready to ‘wreak havoc’ on critical US infrastructure with 50-to-1 cyber personnel advantage, FBI director warns 3 months ago:
…now give us billions please kthanks
- Comment on Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ tool over the long term 3 months ago:
Yeah no shit. Any media hack who tells you otherwise is misinformed, on some hidden payroll, or willfully ignorant
New technologies are eventually used to disenfranchise and disempower people.
- Comment on Lasers reveal ancient settlements hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest 3 months ago:
Cool cool now do the Nephites
- Comment on Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service 3 months ago:
Yeah no shit, and you do think I have a single goddamn bit of influence over my corporation’s choice of email client??
- Comment on NASA, Lockheed Martin Reveal X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft 3 months ago:
“Across both teams, talented, dedicated, and passionate scientists, engineers, and production artisans have collaborated to develop and produce this aircraft,” said John Clark, vice president and general manager at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works.
What the hell is a production artisan?
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 3 months ago:
How old are you now?
- Comment on Star Citizen Introducing a $48,000 Ship Bundle, but Only for Players Who Have Already Spent $10,000 4 months ago:
Genuine question my friend lmao
- Comment on Star Citizen Introducing a $48,000 Ship Bundle, but Only for Players Who Have Already Spent $10,000 4 months ago:
Wait, in real money? Or like video game money?
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 4 months ago:
DeWalt gang rise up
- Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads 4 months ago:
Lol I was just in Utah and on a home wifi there, pornhub was blocked (100% blocked, like you cannot access the site).
But if I switched to data, it was not blocked
Lol – how’s that working out for ya, Utah??
- Comment on U.S. intelligence officials determined the Chinese spy balloon used a U.S. internet provider to communicate 4 months ago:
Which one
- Comment on "Trust and Safety" departments exist to protect the company, not users. 4 months ago:
Trust and Safety? Is this the new buzzword for HW, a la People Empowerment?
- Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly 4 months ago:
Jesus fuckin Christ I was today years old when I learned about HP Instant Ink. Good gracious what a scam
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 4 months ago:
ELI5 federation on Lemmy
- Comment on Thousands of private camera footages from bedrooms hacked, sold online - VnExpress International 4 months ago:
LMAO don’t put a fucking camera in your bedroom you dummies
- Comment on Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation 5 months ago:
gotcha biatch
- Comment on Detroit's newest road can charge electric cars as they drive on it 5 months ago:
Yes
- Comment on Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated 5 months ago:
I work in tech. AI is overrated.
- Comment on It would have to be a VERY lazy dog to allow a fox to jump over it anyway. 5 months ago:
it’s jumps not jumped
- Comment on Apple’s China ties under Congressional scrutiny after Jon Stewart cancellation | Lawmakers demand that Apple commit to not censoring content critical of China. 5 months ago:
Ties to China?? Uhh how about “hundreds of millions of people in China buy our phones” and that’s a lottttttt of money"
- Comment on Now that cars are like smartphones, we don’t really own them 5 months ago:
whatttttt
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I agree, you’re spot on it’s around $12B
- Comment on Microsoft develops ultra durable glass plates that can store several TBs of data for 10000 years 6 months ago:
Gonna need a full 10,000 year UAT period thanks
- Comment on Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome 6 months ago:
I don’t get why everyone is appalled by this. They’re just quantifying user feedback. Long as they don’t stop you from downloading chrome, and the feedback is optional, I don’t see the harm