Fredthefishlord

@Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s absolutely insane logic. “Everyone’s doing it, it must be fine, right?” You know how many incredibly cancerous and harmful materials were once in common use by everyone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because I don’t know their situation, their life. I don’t have enough trust that I’ll just take someone at face value from a small subset. Don’t want to get jumped. Don’t want to get taken advantage of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t do an Internet stranger’s house. But I absolutely would help a friend’s or neighbors if they so asked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sunday update from the Prime Radiant⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m waiting for the boost update to support piefed so I can use it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From what I've seen, public transit is either expensive and terrible or cheap and good.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All it takes is one leader throwing a wrench in the process

  Btw self funded insulates from that. You can have a committee run it and it blocks a lot of the politics from mattering for it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would’ve looked a lot better if you commented that when I hadn’t already

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the-store-whose-name-you-seem-too-think-that-no-one-should-say-like-its-fucking-voldemort-or-something,

  Believe it or not. Shopping at unethical companies is unethical

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From what I've seen, public transit is either expensive and terrible or cheap and good.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The best ones don’t bother, because collecting fares is expensive and slows everything down

  That’s simply untrue. the best public transit system on earth collects fees, and no, it doesn’t slow things down any significant level because it’s just tapping as you walk by

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From what I've seen, public transit is either expensive and terrible or cheap and good.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good transit is always expensive. Where the money comes from can be hidden from the end users, but it is always expensive. If you only look at the fares it might seem that good transit is cheap, but that is just because the costs have been moved elsewhere - a political question that has nothing to do with transit.

  At surface value, this seems true. Until you look at the city with the best train system on earth, Tokyo. There, the trains are cheap. The trains are fast, clean, on time. And all of it is without any external funding

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From what I've seen, public transit is either expensive and terrible or cheap and good.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The best public transit systems can even make back their money just from low fairs alone due to shear ridership

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get that it’s short hand for that --but I still don’t think it’s good to push people forward to stores with so many moral and economic issues like walmart as the first suggestion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is everyone so quick to recommend Walmart? Corpo advertising shouldn’t have a place on lemmy　, intentional or not

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. Most people think they’re middle class. Not many actually are

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I took. > Incorrectly think they’re middle class

  As to assume you didn’t. But clearly my assumption was wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate the use of working class that excludes front line workers who very much still work for a living. Why call it working class if it’s just a fancy name for lower class instead of fully including all workers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most likely Microsoft is paying them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gunman pleads guilty to Japan ex-PM's murder⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Abe was by no means low down in the hierarchy though . He was very much complicit from a position of power. So while it isn’t the same as shooting the ceo, it shouldn’t be taken as shooting a random scientologist.

  And more importantly, it worked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting Taco Bell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doordash has repeatedly been caught stealing tips

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting Taco Bell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “earn by time” my brother in christ we call that being an hourly employee. That’s wild that they have the option to switch between the 2 only for when it’s more profitable for the company to do one or the other

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨life purpose⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thinking that is legitimately OCD levels of cleanliness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨grocery shopping⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can just walk out. Most places won’t stop you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a tragedy. One billionaire forcing their child to die

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with breakfast in bed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Vibes based hygiene

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People dont believe protesting works if they will only do it on their day off.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean quite literally, yes. There’s a lot of things that are justifiable against an evil that aren’t against a good. Now people’s opinions on what is good differ, and that’s a dangerous thing that needs to be considered. But yeah, violence is acceptable against authoritarianism and not acceptable against democracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus hates American "Christians"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry. There’s plenty of other diseased religions in other areas!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  western militaries’ PR is the same - small forces, technical superiority, organization and logistics

  The usa army has 1.3 million active personnel. China has 2 million. Usa’s is not small by population % or absolute amount.

  So I’m going to take a guess and assume you mean Europe’s specifically, not a generalized “the west’s”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do boycotts work?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s VERY few services that the luxury of choice is not again for. A lot of the times that’s simply an excuse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what coworkers are for ):

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could a minority in US Senate essentially disolve the federal state?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s insane that such a pivotal rule is removal by simple majority

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think The Boys is an accurate representation if real people had superpowers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In reality, the ones who didn’t care would outnumber the ones who did.

  That’s not true. Most people care about public perception. From dictatorships to narcissists to normal people