JohnnyCanuck
@JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Sometimes I think Back hole Sun by Soundgarden, just singing about anilingus 1 week ago:
Did you have “Back Hole Sun”?
- Comment on iCarly was a streamer before streaming was even really a thing. 1 week ago:
iCarly was just a follower of JenniCam and AmandaCam from the late 90’s and camgirls/camboys/cammers in the early 2000’s.
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 2 weeks ago:
Oh this is perfect. Thank you. I was just gathering numbers and had discrepancies, but this shows it perfectly.
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 2 weeks ago:
I did it really quick, and just looked up the numbers from searches. There might be some difference from different sources, but it’s in the ballpark.
That said, I’ve been following up on a bit and (for example) I’m changing the 1980 housing price to 62k, but the 3x still shows the issue.
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 2 weeks ago:
I agree that buying your first home takes some sacrifices. But the sacrifices even 20 years ago were significantly less than they are now, let alone 40 or more years ago. I would hope that someone in her position would understand that it’s not about saving $5 or $10 a day on Starbucks, or even buying a cheaper phone. The disparity between income and home price is just completely different.
Median household income in the US in 1980: $21000
Median home price: $47000 (2x)Median household income in the US in 2000: $42000
Median home price: $163000 (4x)Median household income in the US in 2020: $67000
Median home price: $327000 (5x)It doesn’t take a genius to see the discrepancy here. That’s a lot of fucking Starbucks coffees to not buy to make up the difference.
Note: I’m using US numbers because of the context.
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 2 weeks ago:
I like my coffee black, like a hole.
- Comment on Zombies!! 2 weeks ago:
Try again.
- Comment on Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover' 2 weeks ago:
I get what you’re saying (and saw your other comment) but I didn’t come away from OP’s write up thinking DHH was only a casual racist. So if they were attempting to defend DHH’s racism they did piss poor job. The language used was soft, but the quotes speak for themselves.
I was actually confused for a minute by your big comment, because I couldn’t figure out who you were saying was defending racists.
The article definitely glossed over the racism though. That might be why OP’s language was soft. They were responding to the article’s accusations - which were almost in passing - and in that context the language kind of matches. By pulling that out of the article and making it prominent in their write up, i think OP made it much more clear and couldn’t possibly be doing it to defend DHH.
- Comment on Zombies!! 2 weeks ago:
What’s with the number ordering!?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Communication is Paramount
Yeah, so you shouldn’t use a well-established term like “heat death” in your own way just because you feel it’s appropriate. Words have meanings. That’s how we communicate.
If I call you a nincompoop to say you’re really smart, just because I think there’s no clear etymology for the term, so it isn’t “linguistically relevant through uniqueness” (whatever the fuck that means) to say it means you’re foolish, you probably wouldn’t understand that’s what I meant. You might even take it as an insult. So our communication would have broken down through my misuse of a word with a well-established meaning.
- Comment on Why do video game leaks (such as the huge GTA VI videos leak) cause "low morale" for the staff working on it? 3 weeks ago:
I love that some asshat was triggered by you calling them an asshole and downvoted you.
- Comment on We'll never have anything like the DVD screensaver ever again 3 weeks ago:
Plex screensaver isn’t far off. Though now you reminded me I have to get myself off Plex. Sigh.
- Comment on For a while Microsoft was the King of PC stuff. How come they didn't just cozy up to the PC but had to do the XBOX and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs? 3 weeks ago:
and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs?
In 2017 Microsoft’s gaming division had about 9 billion dollars of revenue.
In the last fiscal year (ended in July) that revenue was 23 billion dollars.
Sony: 31 billion dollars
Nintendo: 9 billion dollars? (harder to find numbers)Microsoft still has 95% of the market share for PC operating systems for gaming: …steampowered.com/…/Steam-Hardware-Software-Surve…
I think they’re doing okay. Just because they’re not number 1 in consoles doesn’t mean they’re dead. 30 million units sold of Series X/S isn’t exactly losing their ass. And all console fans should cheer for MS to keep going. It’s great that Steam Deck and the like are pushing into the market now, but losing Xbox would be terrible. Price, innovation, and quality would suffer if Sony didn’t have MS nipping at their heels.
- Comment on How the hell are there already shirts, hats and even jerseys made for the winning teams of some championships? 4 weeks ago:
It’s not really important history to be fair.
The bigger deal is it can fuck with local economies:
The International Impact of Donated Clothing borgenproject.org/the-international-impact-of-don…
While exporting used clothing helps repurpose material from the U.S., it can seriously undermine the textile industries of developing countries.
And still harms the environment:
Your used clothing donation may be doing more harm than good news.mcmaster.ca/used-clothing-donation-garments-…
In addition to clogged drains, each day about 154,000 lbs. of used clothing leaves Accra’s main garment market bound for a dump on the banks of the Korle Lagoon.
- Comment on How the hell are there already shirts, hats and even jerseys made for the winning teams of some championships? 4 weeks ago:
What Really Happens to the Losing Team’s Merch After the Super Bowl? people.com/what-happens-to-losing-team-merch-afte…
- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 4 weeks ago:
You answered your own question. Are you master baiting us?
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 5 weeks ago:
Yes but when you ask a question in no stupid questions you are prompting a discussion. And now we’re discussing how water changes the taste of food for you, and you’re willing to drink sugary, unhealthy drinks with your dinner instead.
It sounds like you’re extremely addicted to sugar.
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 5 weeks ago:
Sorry, water makes your food taste weird, but energy drinks are just fine?
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 5 weeks ago:
Other things give you energy…
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 5 weeks ago:
Watch out for the random cans with alcohol though 😉
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 1 month ago:
It’s marketing making them think they want to own that stuff.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 1 month ago:
Developers rarely control the tools budget; their managers do.
So this whole article is a moot point
Developers detest marketing. If you want to sell them a tool, make it easy for them to find the information they need and leave them alone to try out your tool.
So marketing does work, just not “traditional” or “mainstream” marketing. We’ve had shareware since the beginning times, which was the ultimate try before you buy. Now we have the subscription model (fbow).
Yeah I’d like to think I’m better than marketing, but really, it just takes the right marketing,and I’m putty in their hands.
- Comment on Psychonauts, 3D platformer with a big heart 1 month ago:
I don’t remember that level.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Your father might be a witch.
- Comment on Dia and Arc maker The Browser Company is being acquired by Atlassian for $610 million 2 months ago:
I haven’t been following Atlassian recently and was wondering if you were just tossing that out there… But no, that is literally their plan:
This deal is a bold step forward in reimagining the browser for knowledge work in the AI era,” Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian’s CEO and co-founder, said in a statement.
“Together, we’ll create an AI-powered browser optimized for the many SaaS applications living in tabs – one that knowledge workers will love to use every day,” he added.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 months ago:
Yes, that’s what I meant with my “for now” and “for the moment”.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 months ago:
Microsoft has already said it doesn’t matter where your data is stored, it isn’t safe from the United States.
But you can change this behaviour in settings, it’s just the default for now.
So, if you don’t trust Microsoft to handle your documents, but still somehow use MS Word and OneDrive, for the moment you can still stop it from saving your Word documents to their servers.
- Comment on Doctors hate these simple tricks. 2 months ago:
Here, I made a screenshot so someone else can repost it.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 months ago:
Well shit, now I understand the picture!
- Comment on 0°mg 2 months ago:
They only use Kelvin
