NateNate60
@NateNate60@lemmy.world
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 1 week ago:
I really would like to quit Reddit but I have to admit that Reddit has a lot more variety in terms of content, so I’ll keep using it until Boost for Reddit finally breaks for good.
50% of the content on Lemmy falls into four categories:
- Posts complaining about Reddit
- Linux memes
- Commieposting
- Porn
- Comment on The best censorship is creators' self-censorship. 2 weeks ago:
The control of card processors over what we’re allowed to see and buy is absolute bullshit. And this is coming from someone who spent $0 on porn in my life.
This is why we need digital cash systems outside the control of those companies. I’m not specifically talking about cryptocurrency. Even a central bank digital currency is better than this. Benjamin Franklin in your wallet doesn’t care what you spend him on. Neither should your digital money.
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 3 weeks ago:
Restarting the device does this on Android. The PIN is required to enable any functionality.
- Comment on Reefer Madness 3 weeks ago:
Okay, I guess I’m wrong. Thanks for educating me!
- Comment on Reefer Madness 3 weeks ago:
I mean to say that for some medical ailments, the treatment is smoking. The treatment for smoking addiction can involve vapes. The treatment for many mental disorders can involve cannabis.
You’re right that it’s not the foreignness of the substances that is the cause of harm, but rather the nature of the substance and the amount consumed (which is usually a substantially large dose compared to others)
- Comment on Alan Bates considers private prosecutions of Post Office bosses 3 weeks ago:
Yes, because for every one Alan Bates case, there are ten cases of billion-pound companies abusing this right
- Comment on Reefer Madness 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t matter what you’re making, none of it is good for you.* Some substances are much worse than others, but at the end of the day, whether that substance is crack, cannabis, or nicotine, you’re still inhaling a foreign substance.
* unless part of a medical treatment regimen prescribed by a medical professional
- Comment on Alan Bates considers private prosecutions of Post Office bosses 3 weeks ago:
Yes I do. Of all the options available, this is the best one. Any other option is worse by comparison.
- Comment on Alan Bates considers private prosecutions of Post Office bosses 3 weeks ago:
Why the fuck do private prosecutions still exist? It’s the 21st century. If only the CPS could prosecute I doubt the Post Office scandal would have even happened, if only because they’re more thorough than the Post Office idiots
- Comment on Russia's first politically motivated block of a Fediverse server 4 weeks ago:
I feel the best way to deal with this type of crap is to pretend like they’re some unimportant random person.
Hello. A request has been created. A member of our staff will respond to your enquiry within 10 working days.
Do not respond at all. When they send another email, auto-reply with the same message. Then reply this afternoon their third email:
We have detected an unusually large number of enquiries sent from your email address. To prevent spam, further emails will be filtered. If this is in error, please write to P.O. Box 12345, Somewhere, Some Country.
The P.O. box number doesn’t exist.
- Comment on i have a proposal 4 weeks ago:
This is just a milder version of the potato famine situation
- Comment on Pruod of your 4 weeks ago:
This picture is very kiki
- Comment on How can the Oregon government make drugs illegal again with no public comment periods or voter input at all? 5 weeks ago:
I am an Oregonian. The Legislative Assembly is caving to public pressure.
I want to first say that this isn’t about whether decriminalisation works. The views I am about to present are not necessarily held by me, but I am merely talking about the existence of these opinions because they deserve discussion.
People, in Oregon, generally viewed the decriminalisation programme as a failure. The Legislative Assembly failed to fund the necessary companion programmes and police training that would have been needed to give it the best chance of succeeding. Instead, when the referendum passed and decriminalisation came into force (without the involvement of the Legislative Assembly), they decided to just let it fail.
The reasons why decriminalisation failed are debated, but only a small subset of voters are privy to this debate and even understand the arguments. The rest see a failed experiment where the Government just legalised all drugs. It’s easy to believe the latter and since it sounds logical to most people, that’s where the debate ends.
As a result, a majority of Oregonians believe that decriminalisation has failed, and the Legislative Assembly is acting on that.
Some people in this thread are blaming pharmaceutical companies and lobbying. That is a knee-jerk, unreasoned and ignorant reaction that fails at any amount of serious scrutiny and reflects an utter ignorance of what Oregonians actually think. If anything, pharmaceutical companies would have everything to gain from people having easier access to their products.
- Comment on Rishi Sunak facing Tory revolt over plan to criminalise rough sleeping 5 weeks ago:
Imaging thinking that fining people who’ve got absolutely zero money in the first place is going to solve the issue
Morons
- Comment on Admit it, this is so accurate 😂🚌 5 weeks ago:
Did you know the seats close to the rear of the bus are the back of the bus?? 😯😯🤯
- Comment on Where’d my results go? Google Search’s chatbot is no longer opt-in 1 month ago:
If I see this rubbish that will be the day I stop using Google Search
- Comment on Confused about bot scanning my domain 1 month ago:
I think it is generally okay to bundle the root domain certificate and the wildcard for its subdomains into a single renewal.
So for example:
example.com *.example.com
- Comment on Reddit: Return Of The Junk Stock IPO 1 month ago:
You can patch old third-party apps with ReVanced. That being said, they are unmaintained and will still eventually break.
- Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts 1 month ago:
I think what YouTube does would be sufficient. There’s a noticeably different video progress bar colour (yellow instead of red) and a large "Skip Ad in __" in the corner, plus the advertiser information on the side.
Reddit could do this by putting a “Paid advertisement” watermark in the corner or putting “Advert” where the upvote/downvote buttons are and colouring it some noticeable colour, like yellow, and I would be satisfied with that.
- Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts 1 month ago:
If it’s not already the law, it needs to be. It should be required that paid advertising be disclosed in all contexts.
- Comment on Anime pfps rise up 1 month ago:
Bro has a yiffit.net account. I’m quitting for the night
- Comment on Anime pfps rise up 1 month ago:
The Internet equivalent to “white people are the original Americans”
- Comment on Reddit: Return Of The Junk Stock IPO 1 month ago:
Well, at least one person thought it was a good idea to acquire a Mastodon competitor, and they paid a pretty penny for it
- Comment on Reddit: Return Of The Junk Stock IPO 1 month ago:
I said it before on Reddit and I will say it again here—
If Reddit has asked me for a premium subscription to use my favourite third-party app, I would have fucking paid.
Just bad business all around
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 1 month ago:
Ah yes, the US, where no foreign company is allowed to be successful.
Such unsuccessful or banned foreign companies include Samsung, LG, Sony, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Aldi, Shell, Siemens…
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 1 month ago:
Yes, you have pointed out the subtext that was there all along and pretended like it’s some new argument.
It is about the data sharing. The US doesn’t like companies sharing data with countries that it views as its geopolitical rivals. Big surprise, am I right?
- Comment on Rakuten launches cloud storage with unlimited file transfers, targets businesses and individuals, with free 10GB storage 2 months ago:
People aren’t storing massive amounts of data on cloud storage. For text document storage or even a moderate number of images, 10 GB is enough for many people.
- Comment on Cummins Diesel Cheats Emissions Tests - Fined $1.6B by US 2 months ago:
From reading the article, it was approximately 1 million vehicles in violation, all pickup trucks. That works out to $1,600 per vehicle.
Don’t take this the wrong way—the fine is large, but $1,600 on vehicles that sell for fifty times that still seems… thin.
- Comment on Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating 2 months ago:
It is a loophole in the current Federal Communications Commission’s regulations, where these kinds of deals are supposed to be forbidden. The Commission doesn’t seem to like it either and may close the loophole in the future, but the regulatory process takes time.
- Comment on Pornstars: "we agree" 2 months ago:
I am not the parent commenter.
Apparently, the process of filming pornography is really messy, arduous, starts to smell bad quickly, and many of the positions are uncomfortable. Not to mention the fact that many scenes need re-takes. That’s just the reality of filmmaking.
It’s also quite awkward to have a director and camera crew staring at you the whole time and giving you instructions.