homesweethomeMrL
@homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trump claims ‘wind mills’ kill whales but quietly torpedoes the science 18 hours ago:
I get all my science from a demented rapist.
- Comment on If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything 3 days ago:
Yeah but not to worry, C-suites have pretty good filtering rules in place to never read them. Saves time, really.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 4 days ago:
It’s perfecto
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Me: *watching random thing error out*
Me: *restarting everything, feeling annoyed*
Me: Rats. Well. I guess I’ll see what Lemmy’s got on
Me: Ooohhhhhh
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Ach. Fine.
- Comment on Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for? 5 days ago:
What
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 5 days ago:
This is the guy who decided traffic rules are dumb.
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 5 days ago:
Even if you’re just minding your business when a sleeping pilled-out middle manager from Subway corporate plows into your 98 Corolla in their Tesla at 100 mph leaving your family without a father and source of income because a billionaire nazi who’s constantly off his nut on ketamine decided rules are stupid and don’t apply to him and the entire societal structure designed to prevent this from happening has been hollowed out by incompetent bigots who absolutely rate high on the sociopath scale because nazi media has ensnared 51% of the population and now you dead.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 5 days ago:
Well spotted. I retract my notion that unit conversion was convenient. Clearly I should have switched to another tab to do the thing that is solved.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 6 days ago:
I’ve been asking a bunch of next-to-obvious questions about things that don’t really matter and it’s been pretty good. It still confidently lies when it gives instructions but a fair amount of time it does what I asked it for.
I’d prefer to not have it, because it’s ethically putrid. But it converts currency and weights and translates things as well as expected and in half the time i’d spend doing it manually. Plus I kind of hope using it puts them out of business. It’s not like I’d pay for it.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 6 days ago:
Yeah switching search links will help but it’s a band-aid. AI has stolen literally everyone’s work without any attempt at consent or remuneration and the reason is now your search is 100 times faster, comes back with exactly something you can copy & paste and you never have to dig through links or bat away confirmation boxes to find out it doesn’t have what you need.
It’s straight up smash-n-grab. And it’s going to work. Just like everybody and their grandma gave up all their personal information to facebook so will your searches be done through AI.
The answer is to regulate the bejesus out of AI and ensure they haven’t stolen anything. That answer was rendered moot by electing trump.
- Comment on If people don't trust climate science, how will we ever get them to change? 6 days ago:
This is the correct answer
- Comment on Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong? 6 days ago:
It’s the rubbing-your-hands part. If you do it right you get the wet under the air in frequent enough intervals that your hands get pretty dry.
Dry enough that they’d finish on their own in the next 60 seconds. But since I’m out the door by then I’ve already wiped the rest on my shirt.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 1 week ago:
In Texas, you say
- Comment on Hollywood producer to lead acquisition of Israeli spyware maker NSO 1 week ago:
People love surveillance genocide! Boffo Box Office!
- Comment on The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy. 1 week ago:
To leftists, liberalism, even progressive liberalism, can never address the material concerns for workers, inequal accumulation, and capitalism’s contradictions because it cannot attack the central tenet of its ideology: the private ownership of land and resources.To leftists, liberalism, even progressive liberalism, can never address the material concerns for workers, inequal accumulation, and capitalism’s contradictions because it cannot attack the central tenet of its ideology: the private ownership of land and resources.
Well put, and yes I’d agree. Where I seem to draw the ire of leftists is when I point to the clock and say we have one year before we have to vote, and all things being equal we’re going to vote for the Democrats because attacking the central tenet of this country’s dominant ideology is not going to happen in this election cycle.
The 2024 Presidential election threads were a depressing reminder that some leftists can’t get out of their heads, or ivory towers, or whatever to make incremental progress because the glorious revolution is at hand. Or something. So I get to be the evil liberal who wants healthcare for all, student loan forgiveness, and a Green New Deal. And all of those things go down the shitter because republiQans vote as a single juggernaut bloc and we don’t.
- Comment on The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy. 1 week ago:
Lemmy has been enlightening in teaching me these things but yes - different!
- Comment on The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy. 1 week ago:
I have a little knowledge there, but I’m good, thanks. I’m really more interested in defeating the republiQan hate machine so we can get people healthcare and save the environment.
Not that it’s not interesting - I just have a slightly different take than Marx because Marx didn’t live in 2025.
- Comment on The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy. 1 week ago:
Hm. Well, that’s interesting.
- Comment on The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy. 1 week ago:
That’s pretty much every liberal I know, yeah.
Well. I know some house painters I guess. They don’t work for someone else, per se.
- Comment on The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy. 1 week ago:
Mmm hmmm. Yeah. Yes.
So an American proletariat is . . . Anyone who is limited by health insurance, student loans, and mortgage rates? Or is it something else?
We don’t really use the word proletariat, uh, at all. Ever.
- Comment on The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy. 1 week ago:
I’m kind of surprised to not see this answer, so I’ll throw it in: it seems to me that there are a lot of people from various countries who have built-in language for politics that they believe is shared across the world - but it isn’t.
As a dumb American, I’ve always been a liberal because that was the inclusive, progressive, luxury-gay-space-communism option as opposed to the conservative, regressive, racist, ignorant violent option. People from other countries don’t seem to appreciate that at all, because their “liberal” is what we’d call neoliberal or corporate Democrat, and they apparently don’t have a FPTP / Slaver’s College fix on their elections and they just don’t grok the two party thing.
As you can imagine on here there’s a lot of hate from both conservatives and leftists for “liberals”. I think that’s ridiculous but it’s usually easier to try and adopt their definitions than to explain why the other 379,999,999 of us don’t use it that way. (Well - 350M, say. Parts of the PNW use it that way too.). It’s just kind of exhausting in threads about American politics.
If someone calls me a “liberal” (or libtard, libcuck, etc) I naturally assume they’re racist, fascist, AM radio fuckwits. But then they want to jump into some world where H4A, UBI, No Oil is what they’re all about and once again I’m like - well, yeah we agree, again. So.
(Usually the retort is, “well then why are you a liberal?!” Which. Goes back to the exhausting thing.)
- Comment on What ever happened to Nicole the fediverse chick? 1 week ago:
Dunno, i blocked everything and they never appeared again
- Comment on We are not reading old public domain books because it's not profitable 1 week ago:
Count of Monte Cristo got some crazy raves here or on tumblr, such that I went and got it from PG. . . . Haven’t, uh, y’know, read it yet but. They say its good.
- Comment on At somepoint in human history there was likely a day where not a single human died. 1 week ago:
No one of those ones where there’s no empirical evidence at all so we’re gonna all agree to an educated guess.
- Comment on At somepoint in human history there was likely a day where not a single human died. 1 week ago:
I mean, that’s just a theory.
- Comment on Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email 1 week ago:
Wow, he really is stupid.
- Comment on A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley 1 week ago:
So far as I can tell they’ve stolen everyone’s content and use it to pretend AI “knows” everything, or anything.
If that’s never addressed, and they will make it almost impossible to do that, AI will survive in several forms.
One outcome will be a sea-level-rise in superfluous text that’s all coming from the same point-of-view and is pretty bland.
You know how people don’t like to read now? Imagine every report, every article, every pullquote being three times longer than it needs to be and basically saying the same thing over and over.
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 1 week ago:
You and me both.
Where are the shops retrofitting decent cars with electric engines? Gimme that EV 911 from 1988. . . for . . . 11 thousand? Okay fifteen.
- Comment on Flashbacks scenes in Movies/TV should be depicted as being more blurry than present scenes, since most people can't actually remember a past event that accurately. 1 week ago:
With harp
