Hazor
@Hazor@lemmy.world
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 3 days ago:
Egads, that poor child is probably going to have significant scarring around the cuts. Assuming he didn’t get a massive infection that they didn’t bother to get treated until amputation was necessary.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Pro-business/anti-regulation types teamed up with the anti-abortion types around 50 years ago in order to get votes for their unpopular ideas, then they did everything they could to conflate the two ideologies to where Christians now think Jesus was a capitalist instead of anything that’s in the bible.
Tl;Dr: propaganda.
- Comment on Get your new PebbleOS watch 5 weeks ago:
It was really only the OG Pebble and the Steel. It was resolved by using a different screen connector in the Pebble 2 and Time.
I’ve had multiple OG’s over the years and each have developed the tearing issue. It’s a fairly easy fix if you’re comfortable opening electronics.
- Comment on Get your new PebbleOS watch 5 weeks ago:
No moving on here. I still wear a OG Pebble daily, and I’m super excited about this. I just wish they hadn’t chosen ‘Core 2 Duo’ like it hadn’t been the name of another product…
- Comment on Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying 1 month ago:
Most phones support multiple regions’ frequency bands, especially these days. Some don’t, probably mostly older ones. Manufacturers used to make different versions of the same model for different regions.
- Comment on When You Block the Internet on Your Phone, Something Astonishing Happens Mentally 2 months ago:
Are you me? Because this is me.
- Comment on Why do people see me as far older than 19 when I type the way I do sometimes?/Why do people think full stops are rude? 2 months ago:
The iPhone keyboard requires 2 taps for punctuation, including periods. Americans (and iirc especially younger ones) use more iPhones than Android phones (don’t know about other countries, but OP indicated in a comment that they’re in the US). I’m not some old guy saying the youngsters are just lazy, but I do think the iPhone keyboard is a factor in how text-based communication has evolved.
- Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books 2 months ago:
Pleasing the copyright holders. I don’t know how it is for the Dutch national library, but with a system used by many libraries in the US there’s a cost to the library based on the number of times it’s checked out, so more revenue for the copyright holder and the digital middle man. Allowing you to have the e-book indefinitely would be, at least in their minds, no different than giving it away. 🤷
- Comment on I find it funny that American republicans seem to want a king, when the definition of republicanism is a government without a king. 2 months ago:
They also call themselves “the party if law and order”, but made a convicted felon their king. They also say they favor “small government”, but try to use the government to dictate what people can do with their own bodies. They also say they’re defenders of free speech, but then call the news media “the enemy of the people”. They also portray themselves as the party of Christianity, but actively try to do everything the opposite of what Jesus Christ taught.
The Republican party isn’t known for being honest.
- Comment on How do you express romantic interest in someone? 2 months ago:
I needed a laugh. Let me know when you publish your first novel; I’ll be pre-ordering it.
- Comment on OpenAI whistleblower’s deemed suicide 2 months ago:
And make it abundantly clear to everyone that you’re not suicidal. Record videos with date stamps. Send date stamped letters by mail to friends, with instructions to retain the letters indefinitely, and perhaps which are clearly marked “to be opened in the event of my death”. The letters should say something along the lines of “I am not suicidal. I do not want to die. I am not going to kill myself under any circumstances. If I die, it was not by suicide. I want to live. I have ABC reasons to live. I have XYZ plans for the future.” Etc.
Keep multiple copies of the information in multiple locations, and make sure multiple people know where a copy is. Ideally, have a dead-mans switch set up, or someone you trust to do it, to automatically send all the information to all the major news outlets if you do turn up dead, along with a statement akin to the letter outlined above to make it clear you were murdered.
- Comment on Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction 2 months ago:
They also want the ability to make you agree to a TOS with an arbitration clause so you can’t sue them when your wife dies because they screwed up her food.
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 5 months ago:
You could also just turn it off.