shasta
@shasta@lemm.ee
- Comment on Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think 1 month ago:
I was just thinking about this yesterday. These days, Lemmy is just making me depressed. I like to read comments to get further insight to articles, maybe someone trying to point out the author’s bias, or a joke. But Lemmy comments are all some variation of “the world is doomed”, “kill this person”, or “capitalism is the root of all woe”. They are neither useful, insightful, or improve my day in any way. Lemmy is making my life less enjoyable. It was already an overall negative and cynical space during the Biden administration; now it is unbearable.
I’ve been on Lemmy for a long time now, since Reddit killed 3rd party clients with their API change, but now I think I might go back to Reddit. The company itself has a lot of problems, but at least I can get a lot of non-doom content to fill my day.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
No, the person you’re replying to likely lives in an area with annual assessment limits. This means when they move into their house, they pay taxes on the assessed amount at that time. Every year, even if the assessment shows a 50% increase in value, your tax increased will be called at something like a 2% increase. Over the course of 30 years this adds up to huge tax savings the longer you stay in one place. The downsides are that it causes more traffic, causes homes to sell less often, and provides less local tax to fund public programs like schools.
- Comment on This speaks for itself 1 month ago:
Only on overcast days
- Comment on are "brush" and "blush" really pronounced differently? i pronounce them the same. 1 month ago:
R: curl the sides of the tongue up to your upper molars
L: curl the front of your tongue up to the roof of your mouth
- Comment on I just think skibidibi sounds neat. 1 month ago:
Master, what about zoinks?
- Comment on I just think skibidibi sounds neat. 1 month ago:
That guy’s nose?
- Comment on I just think skibidibi sounds neat. 1 month ago:
Bussin-pilled
- Comment on I love the future. 1 month ago:
I sure hope we get some crazy satirical video game from this time in history
- Comment on HELP! How do I help educate my son about his body when I know nothing about boys?? 1 month ago:
You can buy those too these days
- Comment on HELP! How do I help educate my son about his body when I know nothing about boys?? 1 month ago:
Yeah about that last point, it is easy to have sex with someone just because they also want it. However, you may regret it afterwards because maybe they want an actual relationship and you just wanted the sex because your hormones were making that decision for you. Or if you do it with a close friend, it can strain that relationship.
It’s always best to decide what you plan to do before going into any situation that could potentially turn sexual. And stick to the plan. If something unexpected comes up, try to find a way to step away for a few minutes, let the hormones cool, and try to decide what you really want. It’s the only way to be sure you’re making a decision based on more than the instinct to have sex with everything.
- Comment on Haircut 2 months ago:
And yet more human than anyone
- Comment on Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website 2 months ago:
Removing paywall archive.is/pvmpd
- Comment on Ron DeSantis hasn't been in the news for a while and that's nice 2 months ago:
I assure you, he’s still doing stupid shit. The national mainstream media has just moved on to other things.
- Comment on Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site 2 months ago:
If my math is right then he would have had to have $117k in bitcoin at that time to have $780m now. That is a lot of money to lose even back then.
- Comment on no words, much feelings 2 months ago:
What would you consider adequate pay for someone to rent out their hands as cups?
- Comment on Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe 2 months ago:
The whole point is to being attention to the rise of fascism. Hacking without releasing a statement like this is just terrorism. Releasing a statement after hacking can make it easier for the govt to cover up, like “no we weren’t hacked, someone in our server room just accidentally tripped over a power cable”
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 2 months ago:
It may be only loosely enforced with fines but there are FTC rules that all online marketing must follow ftc.gov/…/advertising-marketing-internet-rules-ro…
It does and up helping a little bit. I’m addition to government fines, they also risk class action lawsuits from their customers. I’m willing to bet this is more of a hurdle than China has for state owned companies.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 2 months ago:
Worse than that, from the article:
The 50G-PON ITU-T standard supports theoretical speeds of up to 50 Gbps downstream and up to 25 Gbps upstream, though current real-world deployments in China - led by China Telecom, its regional branch Shanghai Telecom, and ZTE - typically provide 10 Gbps all-optical access.
So the 50G number is just theoretical and actual real world speed is only 10G. Due to regulations in the US, advertisements would need to advertise the real speeds. So this is really just the same as 10Gbps anywhere else.
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 2 months ago:
Yeah I’m glad the other guy replied with more details because my fuzzy memory was telling me that the French surrendering stereotype was around back in the 90s at least, but I was pretty young then and it was hard to remember.
- Comment on I have a good feeling about this one. 3 months ago:
Such an optimistic person, always thinking the future is gonna be brighter than the year before. Thanks for sharing the joy
- Comment on Will pilots-less airplanes happens first, or driver-less cars? Why? 3 months ago:
Then the OP makes no sense. So obviously, not interpreting it that way
- Comment on Will pilots-less airplanes happens first, or driver-less cars? Why? 3 months ago:
Why assume either is inevitable?
- Comment on Apps doing year wrapped gives you a hint on how are you being tracked. There is probably a legal issue there somewhere like data retention. 3 months ago:
If they did that it would be far too easy for people to boost listens and ratings with bots
- Comment on China's Xi warns 'no winners' in trade war with US 4 months ago:
So he’s saying it’s better if they don’t fight a war and just let the US do what they want, so there’s at least one winner instead of 2 losers. That’s what he’s saying, right?
- Comment on Which will you choose? 4 months ago:
Is that this character? What show is she from?
- Comment on There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation 5 months ago:
Yes, it started dropping years ago and is now less than 1% of peak infection rate. It is endemic now and treated like the flu. Keep living in a bubble for the rest of your life if you want, I guess.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 5 months ago:
That’s ki, not fire. 🤓
- Comment on As Corporate Landlords Spread, a Mold Epidemic Takes Root 5 months ago:
I don’t think mold can become an epidemic
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 5 months ago:
When did the cat in the hat become his creator?
- Comment on Honey 5 months ago:
This question is still valid from a marketing standpoint. If you’re selling honey, are you able to advertise it as vegan?