Soup

@Soup@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drug Enforcement Administration agent used Illinois cop’s Flock license plate reader password for immigration enforcement searches⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They do feel pretty free to do that, and they also heavily signal that if you’re of a darker complexion, even if they barge in unannounced, that they’re going to fill your house full of holes but if you’re white, even if you knew what was going on, they’ll detain you alive. It happens all the time, and in “unarmed” societies that aren’t massively shit people don’t need to worry about it anyway.

  “Greatest country on earth” but everyone needs to be constantly afraid of their neighbours and government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  As if I could afford any to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, though they also need to pay people, run the platform, run Youtube music, pay for rights to things, and a bunch of other stuff. I’m not about to say that they aren’t another greedy corporation, that would be crazy, but ya’ll expecting to pay nothing are flatout ridiculous and.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I just did that. YouTube has costs, storing and sharing all that data at high resolution and speed, so expecting that service for absolutely nothing is a little weird. We can find reasons that they’re bad, that’s fine, but good or bad they do have to pay for things.

  I also pay for the Patreon of one of my favourite mandolin players because I want him to keep making content and I wanted access to backing tracks and the Discord server. He can’t do it at that level for free, and that’s ok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They offer a fix behind a bunch of barriers? Is it not in settings with an obvious on/off toggle for the thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump is not a powerful wizard, all his power comes from people who give it to them. Those people have a choice, and this is it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For most people Apple products are absolutely consumer friendly, what are you talking about? They’re amazingly simple to setup and go, the ecosystem actually works well, and they’re far more reliable than anything Microsoft could dream of putting out. They also don’t go obsolete within in a year, that’s total nonsense, and in fact they have generally had better support than their main competitors as far as I’ve seen. People I know have kept their Apple machines for a very long time without much issue. I myself had my first MacBook for ~11 years, from 2010 to 2021.

  For people who to tinker with software there’s still a lot you can do on them but back in the Windows vs. Mac days some ill-informed people decided that because Apple products work well they must be hard to code on, despite the Unix based nature of them. Currently, many people I know in software are issued MacBooks and say they work very well while the Windows machine I got for something as simple as AutoCAD was constantly having issues.

  Their consumer unfriendly tactics aren’t directly to connected to the capability of the machines. They 100% do some bad shit on that front, but it’s not enough to push most regular customers away. If you can’t figure out the difference between yourself and a regular customer then this isn’t a conversation you clearly have all the information for. Most of what you’re saying is just the usual parroted garbage that muddies the conversation and frankly makes it harder to deal with the companies actual failings because it just shows a grotesque inability to understand why people like their products.

  I will be very clear: This overt move beyond the usual corpo nightmare has soured me a lot on their products, which sucks because they are objectively very good. I also don’t entirely know what to do about it as making a switch to Google products is just as bad a move. I’ve heard of a couple alternatives, we’ll see what the landscape will look like in a couple years when I need a phone and several years after that when a new laptop is required.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump wanted a US-made iPhone. Apple gave him a gold statue.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is capitalism. In that system the money is the important part and so how you get it mostly doesn’t matter. Corruption is part of it, and they use the money to make sure the laws that would punish them don’t exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This boomer couple would be hit with $700,000 tax bill if they sold their mansion⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Plenty of folks are relying on the sale of their homes to pay for retirement, this couple in question is even an example of that. The big issue there is that it requires home prices to just climb and climb because they have to outpace each other(a sale of a home for this purpose will also need to buy the next home). The value of the home goes up with inflation but it also gets an additional increase because now it’s expected to help pay for 15-30 years of retirement, and the cheaper houses see the price range vacuum and seek to fill it not only because of greed but also because its sale will probably be used to buy the bigger, now even more expensive home. It’s shelter and we treat it like a luxury good.

  Every time the price is referenced it’s used as excuse to raise prices elsewhere. It’s a feedback loop of greed fueled by the lack of a safety net and a lack of protections for both homeowners and renters. In Canada and the US things are extra bad because the demand in good cities is high but a lot of the existing housing, and even the new stuff, is production homes in “neighbourhoods” that are isolated, car-centric deserts and it’s still expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This boomer couple would be hit with $700,000 tax bill if they sold their mansion⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And how much have wages gone up? $500k is still very expensive, sounds like maybe it should be a little more but it sounds more like a consequence of letting housing prices run away for a few decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honda Zonda⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The older one or the weird newer one that looked like the affordable sedan of supercars?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they’re all super special and have an “instinct” that a robot could never have. Of course the same does not go for artists or anyone who does the actual work for these “titans of industry”.

  *by “instinct” we, of course, mean survivorship bias based on what is essentially gambling, exploitation, and being too big to fail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost 90% Of Americans Are Worried About The Cost Of Groceries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Folk music is one of the places where the people are. Even the old religious ones are good, like “One Drop Of Water” which does talk about god but mostly makes fun of a selfish, piece of shit rich guy who couldn’t make it into heaven because he worhsipped his money.

  You can of course also find those messages in a lot of the really good rap and hip hop. Tribe Called Quest was talkin’ some real shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To make aure I understand, you mean that if you reverse the vote of every district the state should see the opposite party winning?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This 81-year-old still works at Home Depot to support herself and her 90-year-old husband⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember: Capitalism came about from rich merchants and lords realizing that citizens were starting to get murdery about their tyrranical monarchs so they basically said “hey, what if we make a system based on money that technically everyone has but where the shear amount of wealth we have in comparison means that we’re basically still monarchs without monarchy?”

  Which, to relate to your comment, is to say that the system hasn’t meaningfully changed and we’ve had “capitalism” for a long, long time(and it’s sucked the whole time it was happening!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok appoints ex-IDF solider as its 'hate speech manager'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Later in the article it says that Tiktok has complied with 94% of the Israeli government takedown requests and it’s also been blocking pro-Palestine content. So it’s not even a slight reach to assume that they’re gunna hire someone with similar views.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jury orders Tesla to pay $329m to plaintiffs in deadly 2019 Autopilot crash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They still would, it just wouldn’t have their name on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But what about yet another bright light in someone’s face? Do you not want another bright light in someone’s face? Everyone loves bright lights in someone’s face!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And if you step on the flower you DIE.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're completely serious⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t have eight arms. If anything, they have eight crazy toes and one foot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s weird spunding, but they mean copyright fines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British Slander. :)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Why is no one getting along? I specifically requested you get along.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" to end in May 2026⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Paramount needs Trump admin approval to merge with Skydance and they already had an issue with Trump being a huge bitch over being shown to be the turd he is on the network. Colbert is an outspoken critic of Trump, so despite the show being the best performing late night show on air they’re gunna axe it try to help the merger go through.

  Free speech is dead and, unsurprisingly, conservatives killed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deserved? Poll inside⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She was leaving so that would have been a not great idea. Otherwise yea, full send all the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deserved? Poll inside⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It wasn’t flirting, but this ADHD positive girl I was crushing on(and was crushing on me) once absentmindedly stuck the tip of her finger in a full glass of water in front of her to ask whose it was and I had to desperately fight falling in love right then and there.

  Now, that was an accident born of silly brain vs purposefully fucking with someone’s food so I understand the difference, but I really like my story so…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man on my word⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, as long as I have time to clean up afterwards there’s no shame in her asking for help and then adding on something extra if she’s feeling it. I will always do what I promised to do and anything more is, well, more.

  Besides, showing up without tools and expecting sex is fucking weird and fixing someone’s stuff out of the kindness of your heart is rewarding no matter how the evening turns out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a Russian pls confirm⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t a single idiom for “mind your own business”? Wild, but ok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨please don't tell my boss I've been posting memes on the clock⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had so much extra time at one job back in 2019/2020 that I asked for more work and they wouldn’t give it to me. Coulda done 4-6hr days and been happier but instead I had to sit in my little office watching Youtube and going on Reddit. Thank god they did give me an office because I might have died of boredom otherwise having to put on the facade of being busy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨please don't tell my boss I've been posting memes on the clock⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can meme AND get your work done I mean who gives a shit what they say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that fracking is not safe. People living near fracking sites are more likely to develop serious diseases⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, CO2 production does not immediately mean oil is required for production of something. Literally further down that article is “mitigation” and it points out the chemical process has nothing to do fossil fuels, directly, but with the creation of alite. The other part of it, burning fuel, can be changed for other stuff.

  Plastic requires oil because it is made of the stuff. Powering a car does not because it doesn’t actually matter where the power comes from. These are important differences. You can make concrete without fossil fuels.

  You’re right, we can’t bridge this gap because you are so beyond stupid that your own source even tells you that you’re wrong. It’d be funny if it was fiction but somehow you’re a real person and that just makes it terrifying.