Welt
@Welt@lazysoci.al
- Comment on Fruit Flies 4 weeks ago:
They’re generally called vinegar flies, and they don’t infest fresh fruit like fruit flies do when they lay their eggs in fruit.
- Comment on 7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18! 1 month ago:
You sound like you know what you’re talking about, and convey it with spectrum-like precision. I throw my hat and my heart entirely to making your dream come true. Hoo, hoo (hoo-oo-hoo)
- Comment on Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops 1 month ago:
*counsel you. I’m picturing a police officer comforting a suspect who’s sobbing with a hand on their shoulder haha.
- Comment on Does everyone hate Google now? | Google's story over the last two decades has been a tale as old as time: enshittification for growth 3 months ago:
Less be da villan
- Comment on Does everyone hate Google now? | Google's story over the last two decades has been a tale as old as time: enshittification for growth 3 months ago:
wtf?
- Comment on Does everyone hate Google now? | Google's story over the last two decades has been a tale as old as time: enshittification for growth 3 months ago:
It’s a pretty terrible feature then. Feature is a weird word
- Comment on EUROBEE 5 months ago:
Apis mellifera is a much better pollinator for most cultivars produced by agriculture around the world, so it’s been introduced into East, South and Southeast Asia too.
Also, you’re not accounting for species uniqueness, which is highest in Australia/NZ/PNG, southern Africa and parts of South America. These places also have native bees that are outcompeted and outright attacked by Eurobees.
The truth is complicated, but also simple - this invasive species we tolerate and even introduce because it massively benefits food production for humans.
- Comment on EUROBEE 5 months ago:
Varroa mite has entered the chat
- Comment on iPod with custom shell, new screen, 512gb SSD, and a 30 day battery 7 months ago:
Wow, that’s really surprising, you’d think a spinning platter would draw more power than solid state transistors
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 8 months ago:
Fair point, but I’m wondering which part you were applying Occam’s razor to - what Glassdoor did is clearly malicious!
- Comment on Reddit: Return Of The Junk Stock IPO 8 months ago:
Well said.
- Comment on Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” 9 months ago:
And my axe
- Comment on Moderna’s mRNA cancer vaccine works even better than thought 10 months ago:
You pay tax. Tax is for roads, schools, and hospitals. Why don’t you get healed when you’re sick? Because you’re a sucker, bro.
- Comment on Moderna’s mRNA cancer vaccine works even better than thought 10 months ago:
This will save a lot of lives in Australia and NZ. Melanoma is our bi-national cancer. Thanks, CFCs!
- Comment on Moderna’s mRNA cancer vaccine works even better than thought 10 months ago:
A bit oversimplified but generally true for persistent bummed out. Not true for acute suicideation, which is real, a threat, and can be resolved with drugs or listening to the suicide call.
- Comment on ‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit 10 months ago:
That’s why I’m here too 🤝
- Comment on The EU common charger : USB-C 10 months ago:
A lot of USB receiving end ports break. It’s a problem with the hp laptops at my work. Unless they have another laptop I could use (cloud-based so swapping isn’t a problem, but laptop inventory is), then we have to put into it. It’s not the plug (male end), it’s the port (female end) that fails first, which is much worse.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 10 months ago:
The phrase is “free as in SPEECH/beer”, because it doesn’t make sense to say “freedom” - especially since that has all sorts of other connotations, especially in the USA. Everyone should be able to understand that free speech doesn’t mean a speech that you listen to at no cost to yourself. It means the ability to express yourself without censure. And beer… everyone understands that, and who doesn’t love free beer?
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 10 months ago:
I think what happened is that someone typed “google” into Google, and broke the internet.
- Comment on 23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users 11 months ago:
The dot in between the 6 and the 9 is their dead baby.
- Comment on Microsoft guts Microsoft Rewards points, and its fans are outraged 11 months ago:
Microsoft Rewards isn’t a “nice thing”.
- Comment on GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour 1 year ago:
Returning to a feudal economy is a sensible idea, lighting with renewable materials, making hay while the sun shines and executing traitors is much more productive than playing games
- Comment on Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA 1 year ago:
You’re asking them to explain why the rule of law discourages behaviours deemed to be against the law. You should be able to find evidence for that yourself, it’s an elementary tenet of any judicial system.
- Comment on Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago 1 year ago:
TIL Facebook follows Wes Craven rules
- Comment on Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago 1 year ago:
UK has a fairer legal system overall, but Meta will delay, delay, delay to avoid accountability and keep using the Threads name for the next umpteen years, and at some point the original owner of the trademark will settle for a nice payday (though nothing like what they’d win if they beat Meta’s team of lawyers… which won’t happen).
- Comment on Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from? 1 year ago:
Cum and sine in Latin, same meaning as con y sin
- Comment on today I was reminded how bad YouTube ads are 1 year ago:
I am also a dirty communist named Bort
- Comment on Michael Caine Announces Retirement From Acting 1 year ago:
By dame, is by cocaine.
- Comment on Am I strange for not loving Everything Everywhere All At Once? 1 year ago:
Asian leads in a big budget Hollywood movie are a big deal for people who never see people who look like them on screen. That’s where most of the hype came from - excitement (some of it manufactured and emphasised by media outlets to show they understand the value of progressive representation) from fans about a movie that has a lot of Asian, and especially Chinese, cultural references.
The movie was a bit wacky but I feel it squandered a lot of good, silly ideas by lingering on them too much, and trying to tie it all together at the end in some coherent theme. It felt like the producers overrode the creatives’ control over the project because the producers have been doing it longer and ‘know what sells’. So many movies are ruined by creatively bankrupt executives desperately trying to make themselves relevant and killing a project as a result.
It was hardly the best film of the year, and it didn’t reach the potential it might have if corporate interests hadn’t stomped on the imaginative ideas at the heart of the story. However, it was financially successful and won Best Picture, so maybe the next time they have a big-budget Asian movie it will be more like a Stephen Chow film and less like a formulaic money-maker aimed at the lucrative Chinese market, a la Shang-Chi. It’s a good thing the movie was made, even if it wasn’t that great in the end.
- Comment on You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next? 1 year ago:
My cousin calls and asks if I want to go bowling.
Would be weird since my cousin is dead