LesserAbe
@LesserAbe@lemmy.world
- Comment on Like a ‘civil war’: Nouméa residents describe terror as deadly riots sweep New Caledonia capital 3 hours ago:
Commenter in another thread highlighted that people in New Caledonia are French citizens with the right to vote in French elections, and that there have been three referendums in New Caledonia where in each of them a majority voted to stay.
- Comment on Current Map of Myanmar Civil War 1 week ago:
I thought it seems pretty impressive too. That said, I don’t know much about the conflict but lines of control seem to line up with urban/rural divide, probably easier to control rural areas using guerilla warfare tactics Image
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 week ago:
Yeah what the heck? How does this guy use electric for regular things, let alone a car?
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 1 week ago:
Then he wouldn’t get nearly as many views. Or have articles written about him
- Comment on Counterattack 1 week ago:
Another car idea that I’m sure would just get me into trouble is having a mic and loudspeaker so I can speak to other drivers instead of just honking. A horn lacks the nuance of the spoken word.
- Comment on the ologies don't like to talk about theo 1 week ago:
Christianity asking you to accept the trinity is asking you to accept a logical impossibility. There’s no point in trying to figure it out, the entire exercise is to make you accept it on faith and not question it. It’s not big and profound, it’s a stupid waste of time like that mind trap they made for the Borg on star trek where they would get stuck thinking about it so much they’d die.
- Comment on Argentines are recruiting friends, strangers into Worldcoin’s cash-for-eyeballs scheme 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t say it was good or I support it. I’m trying to understand it. Which is usually an important step to effectively combat something.
- Comment on Argentines are recruiting friends, strangers into Worldcoin’s cash-for-eyeballs scheme 2 weeks ago:
My understanding is the premise of world coin is to provide identity verification somehow, but I don’t get how is it supposed to work?
Also how does it benefit the network to have scanned irises for people who don’t care about world coin or understand how it works?
- Comment on damn these rocks gay. good for them. good for them 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time 2 weeks ago:
Stupid question, but am I right in thinking that osmc won’t support streaming services like Netflix/Hulu/Max?
- Comment on Kanye West's Yeezy Porn studio will be like 'nothing we've ever seen before' says Stormy Daniels' ex-husband - as he and the rapper mull a collaboration 2 weeks ago:
Something truly new in porn would be genuinely surprising, and most likely a bad idea. So I’m looking forward to it. Maybe smell-o-vision porn, or like remapping your sensory inputs so you get horny from eating your broccoli
- Comment on Radicalized Students Will Regret Backing Hamas 2 weeks ago:
National Catholic register?
- Comment on Post Office executive denies cover-up over Horizon back door 2 weeks ago:
Here’s the Wikipedia article for anyone catching up like me.
- Comment on Unhoused Man Builds Entire House On The Side Of A Los Angeles Freeway 3 weeks ago:
When your illegal house is featured on the news safe to say it will get taken down soon. If only because officials feel pressured to take action. Sucks for the people who live there.
- Comment on Why is "Dear X" considered more formal than "To X" in e-mail/writing? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I see a fair amount of “{name},” which I think is as good a combination of formal and direct we can offer in email form. I prefer “Hi {name},” most of the time.
I’m in sales and do quite a bit of cold outreach. In those situations I like “good morning {name}” when it’s morning because it helps indicate a real person is sending the message vs some mass automated email where that greeting would be wrong half the time. I don’t think “good afternoon” has the same value because it sounds too formal.
- Comment on average reddit user 5 weeks ago:
This doesn’t ring true at all for me. I still like a lot of the people who are on Reddit and it has helpful, interesting content. Much better niche stuff than Lemmy. I just disagree with the way it’s heading administratively and I think it will ultimately mean the community and content aren’t valuable enough to keep visiting. It’s why I’m on lemmy now, not necessarily because all the content here is better yet.
- Comment on average reddit user 5 weeks ago:
That doesn’t line up with my experience at all. I wonder if it might be that the subreddits a person follows make a big difference.
- Comment on Man pleads guilty to stealing former coworker’s identity for 30 years 1 month ago:
What was wrong with this guy’s original identity? Seems like a lot of trouble to take out some car loans.
- Comment on We should name the moon. Most people don't call their pets "dog" or "cat". 1 month ago:
Like a serial number?
- Comment on We should name the moon. Most people don't call their pets "dog" or "cat". 1 month ago:
We should give all the celestial bodies unique IDs instead of names
- Comment on How it feels sometimes.. 1 month ago:
Before I read the words my brain registered this image as an animorphs parody
- Comment on Why can animals eat grass that they have pooped on, but humans would get sick? 2 months ago:
Reminds me of Harlan Ellison’s short story, “I have no mouth, and I must puke”
- Comment on How might a public flogging of an authoritarian ruler in 2024 impact the world? 2 months ago:
As others have said, seems like it would have a counterproductive effect.
Punishment or inflicting pain tends to engender sympathy for the one being hurt.
That said, sometimes political assassinations have been effective based on the criteria of the assassin. I’m reminded of the guy in Japan who shot Shinzo Abe.
- Comment on Electric cars will be cheaper to make than gas vehicles but with much higher repair and insurance costs 2 months ago:
Every new technology is initially more expensive, then as it moves into mass production the cost goes down because of economies of scale - more suppliers, innovations in technique.
Battery costs have gone down an insane amount already, and it doesn’t look like they’re done.
Going further, what percentage of accidents affect the battery pack? The article seems to conflate Tesla manufacturing techniques that make cosmetic repairs difficult with all electric vehicles - just because Tesla has long repairs doesn’t mean all manufacturers do.
It also talks about electric manufacturers going out of business, but is it 15% by number of businesses or by manufacturing volume? Lucid and Rivian aren’t making that many cars in terms of absolute volume, but could go under. Hyundai, Kia, Chevy et al. make a lot more cars and seem unlikely to collapse.
- Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 2 months ago:
Needs legislation! When everybody’s doing it and people need to get around, there should be privacy by law
- Comment on These violent delights have violent ends 2 months ago:
No, everyone knows the holodeck is only for reenacting old detective stories!
- Comment on See you next Tuesday 2 months ago:
I like how several times in the Wikipedia article they’re like “netball was first defined by Clara fucking up and not understanding the rules of basketball”
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 2 months ago:
I don’t understand getting mad about the bridge since it’s already possible for any random person to read your public posts on mastodon. The difference is this developer is public about his work. There are probably already private projects that are scraping/indexing mastodon.
- Comment on Passkeys might really kill passwords 2 months ago:
Yeah, I get some people prefer that format, but I’m going to skip any article that’s just a link to a recording.
- Comment on Waymo issued a recall after two robotaxis crashed into the same pickup truck 2 months ago:
I didn’t read it as them saying “therefore this isn’t a problem,” it was an explanation for why it happened. Think about human explanations for accidents: “they pulled out in front of me” “they stopped abruptly”. Those don’t make it ok that an accident happened either.