elbucho
@elbucho@lemmy.world
- Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious 1 month ago:
Well that’s not true. You’re very pro-genocide, as long as it’s against Palestinians. That’s pretty political.
- Comment on The three little pigs is actually just the aristocracy blaming the poor for their problems 1 month ago:
It could also be interpreted as a criticism of Libertarianism. The first two pigs didn’t go by any building codes, and instead decided that they wanted to build their shelters out of inferior materials with substandard protections against high winds. The third pig made sure that his dwelling met hurricane standards, and was saved. The story doesn’t go into the reasons why pigs #1 and #2 chose inferior building materials, so it could be interpreted in a number of different ways. It doesn’t HAVE to be about economics. It could just be that pigs #1 and #2 were big fans of Ayn Rand and reaped the whirlwind as a result.
- Comment on If malls continue to shut down and decay over the next twenty years, someone should turn them into retirement communities for GenX and Millennials. 3 months ago:
God, imagine living in a retirement community that has a Hot Topic.
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
Yup. I’m old enough to remember when the selling point of cable TV was that it was ad-free. Then, of course, they started adding ads. And then they sold us premium channels that didn’t have ads. Now those have ads, too. You just can’t get away from them.
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
I find it fascinating how media companies evolved their usage of ads over time. Used to be that the purpose of showing someone an ad was to get them to buy your product. Now, though, the companies who make the ads are paying to have them put on media networks who use the ads to annoy you into paying for a premium membership so you don’t have to see them. It’s double dipping.
Not sure how I would feel if I made an ad, and YouTube was saying to their users: “Yeah, you like that fucking ad? Super annoying, isn’t it? If you don’t pay me more money, I’m going to cram that annoying bullshit down your throat every time you want to watch a video. I’m going to put ads at the beginning of videos. I’m going to sprinkle them throughout the middle. Hell, I’m even going to make you watch ads after the video ends! You like that, you little bitch??”
- Comment on “It’s sick” 3 months ago:
Better a martyr than a president.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
It’d be wasted breath, really. Trump will never step down, because he’s trying to remain out of prison. If he loses, then there goes any chance he had at pardoning himself for his numerous crimes. So he’s not only the far and away favorite Republican candidate, but he’s also highly motivated to stay in the race for personal reasons. No appeal to his sense of patriotism will work to get him to step down because he has no patriotism. He’s in it for himself and himself only.
Biden, on the other hand, is just the default Democrat guy because he’s the incumbent, and the party figured that’d be enough to win, and so haven’t been trying very hard. And that has everybody terrified, because if he loses, then we get another 4 years of Trump, and probably never get to vote again. Basically, people are calling for Biden to step down because the stakes are way too high to fuck around.
- Comment on 'This kind of growth can’t be sustained’: As inflation rises, payday loans are undermining the Russian economy and threatening a new crisis 4 months ago:
- Comment on Carl? 6 months ago:
God damn, Nature. You scary.
- Comment on Unhoused Man Builds Entire House On The Side Of A Los Angeles Freeway 6 months ago:
Given that it’s Los Angeles, that shelter could probably go for about $175,000.
- Comment on tremendous 6 months ago:
“Population” could also mean “Eligible voting population”, not just “total population”. Both contexts work.
- Comment on tremendous 6 months ago:
Well, I mean - that’s a pretty misleading figure, tbh. It’s true that around that percentage of Americans as a whole voted for him, but “Americans as a whole” includes a whole bunch of people who are not eligible to vote. Like, people under 18. Or people who have felonies and cannot exercise their voting rights. The eligible voting population in 2020 (according to the US census bureau) was 231.6 million. As Trump received 74,223,975 votes in 2020, that represents about 32% of the population. Of course, 231.6 million people didn’t vote in 2020. Only about 168.3 million were registered to vote, and only about 154.6 million actually voted. So if you look at the percentage of people who were willing to vote who preferred Donald Trump, that’s a staggering 48%. What’s depressing is that if you tally up the people who didn’t vote (either because they weren’t registered to vote, or they were registered and decided not to), you get about 77 million voters - more people than actually voted for Trump, or about 33% of the total eligible voting population.
So what’s probably most accurate is to say that America is roughly divided into thirds: those who think Donald Trump is swell, those who don’t, and those who couldn’t give a shit either way.
- Comment on degree in bamf 7 months ago:
…such as the suppression of fire, or the psychical thinning of fuels in forests, or prescribed burns.
I’m definitely picturing Jedi clearing debris from the forest floors using the Force, now.
- Comment on Chuck Norris ACTION JANTS 8 months ago:
- Comment on Frozen embryos are “children,” according to Alabama’s Supreme Court 8 months ago:
I recently read Neil Stephenson’s book called “Fall”, in which a significant chunk of the novel is set about 30 years in the future. At that point in time, large swathes of America are referred to as “Ameristan”, because they are break-away territories ruled by evangelical warlords. It feels surprisingly prescient.
- Comment on I have the POWER! 8 months ago:
Carpet does NOT match the drapes.
- Comment on “My next child could be retarded. So could yours.” Barbra Streisand for The National Association for Retarded Children (NARC) - Imgur 9 months ago:
Same with “simpleton”, “idiot”, “feeble-minded”, and “imbecile”. It really is fascinating how language evolves.
- Comment on YouTube now suggests new content *by colour* 9 months ago:
Ah, a fellow “Cracking the Cryptic” lover, I see.
- Comment on xkcd 2879: Like This One 9 months ago:
A lot of sentences undergo startling shifts in mood if you add ‘like this one’ to the end, but high on the list is ‘I’m a neurologist studying dreams’.
- Comment on Two types 10 months ago:
Is Tsavo43 your alt account? I recognize that it is in no way impossible that Lemmy has two completely shitty people who found each other in the void and started following each other, commenting on each other’s posts in some weird internet romance among assholes thing. But, like, it seems unlikely.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Yay! I love copaganda! Show me some pictures of cops playing basketball with a group of “urban”-looking youths!
- Comment on Netflix Resumes Advertising on X After Elon Musk Controversy 10 months ago:
I think if I hadn’t dropped Netflix when they did a 180 on their stance on password sharing, I would drop them now.
- Comment on Tall, short, whatever—we're all screwed 1 year ago:
I really want to hear more about muffin encryption.
- Comment on The news did it first 1 year ago:
Thanks for that; I’m way too old for TikTok, so had absolutely no idea what I was looking at here.
- Comment on I accidentally removed the WHERE clause from my SQL query in a personal tool. Every row is now the same. I lost everything, have no backup, and I'm stupid. 1 year ago:
Oof. Been there, done that, 0 stars; would not recommend.
