DemBoSain
@DemBoSain@midwest.social
- Comment on Plans to build Project Blue data center near Tucson are back 1 day ago:
Another major concern was how TEP [Tucson Electric Power ] would meet the center’s significant energy demand without shifting costs to residential consumers. Earlier this year, the company asked for a 14% rate hike.
Corporate welfare for a data center the public doesn’t want.
- Comment on Most people don't have boxes of USB flash drives sitting around 2 weeks ago:
I detest USB flash drives. Most unreliable form of data storage I’ve ever owned.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 weeks ago:
Everywhere I talk about some corporation removing features thou bought and paid for, someone says that “they personally would never used that feature”, or “serves them right for buying from that company”.
In other words, go fuck yourself.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 3 weeks ago:
They shortened the name of PTFE to Teflon because they wanted to sell it. Once there’s a market for frontotemporal dementia it will get a short name too.
- Comment on Do farts at least nominally increase the overall temperature of the room in which they are extruded? 3 weeks ago:
BTW, If one was already profoundly hypothermic, would it be unwise to fart?
Assuming the ambient air temperature is cold enough to induce hypothermia, farting is fine. Bringing cold air into the body is the problem. You’d be better off if you stopped breathing.
- Comment on New to printing, not sure how to diagnose issues 4 weeks ago:
This helped me in the past, and of a good place to start.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 4 weeks ago:
You’re tipping too much.
In Michigan we passed a law requiring minimum wage for all tipped workers by 2030(?), and they FLIPPED THEIR SHIT. Said they would lose too much money in tips if they made minimum wage. The republicans rolled it back below minimum (still a small increase), and I’m not sure where it stands right now.
If tipped workers are going to fight against wage increases so much, then I’m okay reducing their tips.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 4 weeks ago:
We should also dump passenger trains for…electric car tunnels?
- Comment on LAPD Eyes ‘GeoSpy’, an AI Tool That Can Geolocate Photos in Seconds 5 weeks ago:
Heinen said “My job as a leader in my space is to build the best technology that customers are asking for. It’s not my job to play the ethics game because our elected officials will eventually figure that out. I have full faith in the American people to decide who to elect and what to vote on.”
- Comment on Can I put a cold oxygen plasma generator in my fridge? 1 month ago:
Oxygen plasma sounds like something that could very easily set something else on fire.
- Comment on Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings 1 month ago:
It’s not only “more”. The company I work for had “record profits, far and beyond anything we were expecting” in 2021. In 2022, we were told that the company made more than in 2021, but didn’t meet the earnings projections. That’s still record profits, but phrased like a loss.
Not only must the line go up, but it has to go up faster than it did before. Nothing less than exponential growth.
- Comment on If you were reincarnated, wouldn't it be elsewhere in the universe? 1 month ago:
I’ll probably be just another Boltzmann Brain.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 1 month ago:
“I KNOW WHAT YOU DID!!”
- Comment on "A guitarist who's also an astronaut" sounds more impressive than "An astronaut who plays the guitar", despite both meaning the same thing. 1 month ago:
Is this a Buckaroo Banzai post? I feel like this is a Buckaroo Banzai post.
- Comment on Thingiverse uses AI to block production of ghost guns 1 month ago:
This is really just a way to save money on human moderators. I’m pretty sure Thingiverse has always forbidden functional weapons. Now they don’t have to examine each one, they’ll just let the machine deal with it.
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- Comment on Zelensky hopes US will buy up to $30 billion worth of Ukrainian drones 1 month ago:
I find myself in need of a quad/hex-copter capable of dropping a large amount of thermite on a target. How much for one of those?
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows 1 month ago:
You’ll still be able to access content you own
Haha yes, that was never in doubt.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m going to tell you what I did. Don’t take mental health advice from some asshole in the internet.
I had two extra voices in my head. One would wait for me to be alone, and then bring up all the minutia in my life I was embarrassed about. The other would bring up my most depressing moments and just groan in my ear and distract me.
The first one I built a cabin for, and put him in it. Whenever I would think about one of those embarrassing moments, I’d put it in a plastic garbage bag, open the door to the cabin, and throw the bag as hard as I could into his face. Gradually I needed him less and less. Eventually he disappeared, so I just put the garbage bags in a can outside the door. Nobody lives there now, and the cabin has decayed into just a rough mound of dirt. The flowers from the window-box are growing in the mound.
I was more viscous with the other one. Every time he showed up, I imagined grabbing him by the neck and just pummeling his face bruised and bloody. Eventually he disappeared too.
I can remember those embarrassing moments or the causes of my depression without hurt now. They don’t have power over me anymore.
- Comment on What do you call the first person with a new genetic mutation 2 months ago:
Cancer patient.
- Comment on Google Plans To Combine ChromeOS and Android Into Single Platform 2 months ago:
Didn’t Microsoft try this bullshit with Windows 8? I don’t want a phone interface on my laptop, and I don’t want a laptop interface on my phone.
- Comment on Which ia better etiquette? 2 months ago:
Just suck up each grain individually with a straw.
- Comment on North Korea opens massive beach resort: state media 2 months ago:
Nork-a-lago
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Already Knows Your Life. Now He Wants His AI to Run It 2 months ago:
ONLY if I’m in total control of it. I barely trust Alexa to turn off my lights. Any AI I invite into my house will live on my own hardware.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 2 months ago:
I fucking hate Microsoft search. Microsoft controls the OS, they control the file system, why the fuck do they suck so bad at file search?
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 2 months ago:
Not when the lab and the hospital are owned by the same company. Promedica (local hospital) sent my sample to Promedica (lab) and I got a bill from the lab. Because Promedica (lab) didn’t have my insurance information.
- Comment on Even in space it's possible to get hit by a self-driving Tesla. 2 months ago:
I would argue that one is driving much better than one in self-driving mode, because it can remain on course.
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- Comment on If copyright existed in the classical antiquity, half the wars of the period would be fought over people illegally copying others' gods 2 months ago:
When I decide to worship Gandalf, I’m declaring a fair-use exemption.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 2 months ago:
It’s getting downvoted because it’s not realistic.
