qyron
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- Comment on Delicious 13 hours ago:
Love this. The more I look, the worst it gets?
- Comment on If me and a bunch of my lemmy friends got on a yacht. Went into international waters what could we get away with legally and what would still be illegal? 1 day ago:
We’re assuming they are making a sin live broadcast or recording, for there to be any sort of commenting? Is it like a strange new radical sports event?
- Comment on I don't know how it stays on. 1 day ago:
Suction cup!
With enough motivation, you can pull the windshield off a car with one of those.
- Comment on China to subsidise smartphone purchases in bid to lift spending 1 day ago:
The government says, they do.
- Comment on Yeah, am I right fellas 1 day ago:
Yes. It is called “obcession”.
- Comment on Beautiful stories like this just make you smile 3 days ago:
I considered that same thought.
- Comment on bird flu 4 days ago:
THAT IS TRUE!!!
- Comment on Magnus Carlsen: Chess champion quits FIDE tournament after being told to change jeans 5 days ago:
Sign up for a tournamet.
The organization behind it is antiquated and run by a cadre of status quo defenders.
Decide the rules need to be challenged, show up and challenge it.
Walk out without causing a comotion.
The world starts to talk about what happened.
Point made.
- Comment on Good morning I choose violence. 3 weeks ago:
Violence is always an option.
- Comment on Persistent problems require persistent solutions. 4 weeks ago:
I have a sticker ion my locker that states “violence is always an option”. Never fails to raise eyebrows.
- Comment on EU could target ultra low-cost e-tailers like Shein and Temu with package handling fee or import tax 4 weeks ago:
It’s not about that.
I discovered AliExpress more than a decade back, when I could import free of taxation any item below the value of 25€ and any item above that value up to 50€ would only be liable for VAT, up to €100. This was nice but what was sold under that bar was often the worst of the crop: poorly made, bad quality junk only worthy of being tossed in the garbage.
When it is established any item, regardless of price, will have VAT included directly in the site, many sellers disappeared as they no longer could push bad quality merchandise with no paper trail. The client got a better deal out of paying a little more.
Shein, Temu and other upstarts on that front, are simply replicating that. Cheap clothing, I read in an article, is causing a flood of the market with bad quality items and pushing for a fast fashion trend, with a rapid colection turnover. On the electronics front I’ve seen parts that I already buy at very low price in AliExpress for a tenth of the value; I can only guess the quality.
It’s not about being against the poor, it’s about preventing bad actors to flood the market with junk that is destined to quickly find its way to a landfill.
- Comment on The future of customer service is here, and it's making customers miserable 5 weeks ago:
A bank tried this a few years back. Sunk who knows how much money into selling it to the customers. Gave it a name, created a persona for it, develop an image and face and plastered it wherever they could find a place to advertise it.
It was such a horrible failure the bank was quick to revert it they went back to an automated menu with chopped wording sounding as if it was made in the 90’s.
Priceless.
- Comment on >:( rejected vibes 5 weeks ago:
I write as a hobby and every chapter I work has a mood song to help me get into the spirit of things.
The other day I decided to organize and play the entire set while doing some completely unrelated chores and caught myself going through the story in my head.
- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 1 month ago:
Because real dogs refuse the job.
- Comment on EU slaps Meta with a nearly 800 million euro fine for engaging in 'abusive' Marketplace practices 1 month ago:
That had Monthy Python vibes.
- Comment on same as it ever was 1 month ago:
I didn’t. I don’t care about the votes system; you engaged me in conversation, I replied, let’s keep going. Does not care if we disagree on our views, we’re discussing ideas and that matters by itself.
You’re right. The value of anything, especially art, resides on the eye of the person looking at it, so, at this point, I will admit defeat on my previous argument.
- Comment on same as it ever was 1 month ago:
Tagging is a form of urban cancer on its own. Full stop. But depending on what is writen, the border between reactionism and vandalism blurs.
I grew up in a very urban setting, after a political revolution, and the graffiti on the walls were words of anger, of calling out those who had cooperated with the old regime, slurs, etc.
Every word, line, trace, was disfiguring the buildings, statues and whatever surface it landed on but carried meaning, a message.
The Pompeii graffiti were gratuitous in nature but it was a city and part of a civilization know for being prone to excess. Today, those graffiti are living testaments of our colective history, although not much diferent from common and crude public bathroom scribbles.
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 1 month ago:
Memes come and go too fast for that.
- Comment on same as it ever was 1 month ago:
This isn’t garbage, this is good banter.
A bored guy engraving runes at an height of 3.8 meters just to mess with the next guy reading it, an artist or worker sculpting his name into a work, ordered by the class in power (church) just to give the finger to the clergy, Mozart creating a piece to get revenge on the rich class that held him prisoner to work on what was asked to him instead of having liberty to create as he pleased…
Good, old fashioned, rebellion.
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 1 month ago:
This is what I call a master class on starting a soft revolution: you take over a symbol of the opposite ideology, in the most outrageous and ridiculous way, make it known to all, and completely subvert it and deconstruct it, piece by piece, until it stops making any sense to its former self.
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 1 month ago:
Security risk, by their own admissal.
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 1 month ago:
Please don’t.
I am aware what Discord is for and respect it but it’s ectic to be in a Discord room. Signal does not need it.
- Comment on How do you even call that? 7 months ago:
You can hammer it, quench it and sharpen it after that.
- Comment on Park rules 7 months ago:
Still awsome.
- Comment on Park rules 7 months ago:
Where is this?
- Comment on I thought umm.. 7 months ago:
That’s cute. And complies with the universal rule of “if it fits”.
- Comment on Parfait au pork 7 months ago:
Burn it by fire.
- Comment on Cable TV providers ruined cable—now they’re coming for streaming 7 months ago:
In my country, cable providers offer streaming subscriptions bundled with their standard service since pre-CoViD.
I knew Netflix was a thing because my provider started announcing I could add it to my service for an extra €3.
Didn’t get it regardless.
- Comment on Parfait au pork 7 months ago:
Burn this abomination.
- Comment on Xbox president: Studio closures will ensure 'business is healthy for the long term' 7 months ago: