crystalmerchant
@crystalmerchant@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 1 week ago:
Can’t wait for Dan and Jordan to cover this
- Comment on Few truly shocked that NFL player used illegal stream to watch his own team 4 weeks ago:
nflbite.com
- Comment on China debuts world's largest floating wind turbine: 20-MW giant set to power 37,000 homes 4 weeks ago:
“Float-ovoltaics” has been around a long time, with significant challenges and limited success. This doesn’t look that different. Very challenging mechanical and chemical environment
- Comment on UK's first 'teacherless' AI classroom set to open in London 2 months ago:
Lmao does anyone actually think this will have effective educational outcomes??
- Comment on Is the US finally getting ‘all aboard’ with electric trains? 3 months ago:
I don’t understand this article. It talks as if these trains in California are the US’ first electric trains.
Our light rail here in Portland OR is electric.
- Comment on LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells 4 months ago:
Physical locks, physical keys. We are collectively becoming too “smart” for our own good
- Comment on CrowdStrike downtime apparently caused by update that replaced a file with 42kb of zeroes 4 months ago:
This guy ELI5s
- Comment on AAAAAAA.... This is so hard!!! 4 months ago:
I’m stupid
- Comment on HP forced to ditch popular printer range following user backlash 4 months ago:
So… not popular?
- Comment on California achieves incredible new milestone with its power supply: 'It is the new reality' 5 months ago:
No no no, you need to pay us a flat fee of $500 monthly no matter what, else how do we make profit for our shareholders. Because we can all agree on at least one thing right?? That a basic necessity like electricity definitely should not be publicly owned
Oh and yay for NEM 3, super beneficial to customers
- Comment on The return of pneumatic tubes 5 months ago:
I remember seeing these Costco tubes as a kid in the 90s. Thought it was the coolest fucking thing, the vertical pipe going up from each cashier and making a maze of pipes all heading somewhere on the ceiling
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 6 months 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 6 months ago:
Anything with your hands, really. I do cross stitch and used to build scale models
- Comment on Taylor Swift at the Beach 8 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 9 months ago:
My lower-down comment is an even better use of energy
- Comment on Disney Plus begins crackdown against password sharing 9 months ago:
So what exactly constitutes this crackdown? Do they tie the login to your phone’s MAC address?
- Comment on dotnet developer 9 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 9 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago:
Wait, in real money? Or like video game money?
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
DeWalt gang rise up
- Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads 10 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 10 months ago:
Which one
- Comment on "Trust and Safety" departments exist to protect the company, not users. 10 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 11 months ago:
Jesus fuckin Christ I was today years old when I learned about HP Instant Ink. Good gracious what a scam