swordgeek
@swordgeek@lemmy.ca
- Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 1 week ago:
It can happen. And when it does, it can be horrendously painful and hard to treat.
- Comment on What's the name of the type of man I'm attracted to? (pictured) 1 week ago:
Douchebag.
- Comment on do you apologize, even if it's not your fault just to make the other person feel validated? 1 week ago:
Canadian here. Sorry, but that’s our thing.
- Comment on My brother got arrested for a dime bag. His picture got put up on the jails website. And they advertise. So shouldn't my brother get paid at least a little for providing clicks? 3 weeks ago:
It’d be an interesting lawsuit, at least.
Why does a jail have a website?
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 3 weeks ago:
Remember […] reddit?
- Comment on Films and video games have age classifications. Should books? 4 weeks ago:
No.
Absolutely not.
- Comment on Hey 👋 4 weeks ago:
A bot would be second worst. It may well be AI slop, which is even worse.
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 4 weeks ago:
In fruit.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Ohhhh, it’s her!
Yeah, troll.
- Comment on If suffering is good because it gives life meaning, wouldn't it follow that hurting people is good? 5 weeks ago:
False premise.
There’s nothing good about suffering, we just expect it.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 5 weeks ago:
I messed with a few browsers (Librefox and others), but ended up on Waterfox because it’s just Firefox…without much extra shit. It’s faster, lighter, and runs all of the Firefox extensions I love.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 5 weeks ago:
It was. I’m struggling to find anything that was an actual improvement in the UI. Most of the changes were trivial and change for change’s sake; but some were awful, and none are clearly better.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 5 weeks ago:
Mozilla has stopped working on developing and improving their products, and is now entirely focused on adding trendy terms and garbage, to feed money to their C*Os.
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 1 month ago:
Grim Fandango.
Seriously, it’s one of the only games I consider to even HAVE a soundtrack. It’s absolutely next-level.
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 1 month ago:
“Abnormal” is pretty clear - this isn’t something I’d expect to see from one mom in a thousand - maybe ten thousand.
But so what? I doubt it’s an unhealthy act or situation, so fuck those other 9,999 moms! Actually, don’t - you have a fleshlight.
- Comment on Does trump know he cheats at golf? 1 month ago:
Trump is a psychopath. There is absolutely no cheating in his mind, unless he’s caught.
If he outright kills someone, it’s not murder unless he’s convicted (and even then, he’s find an excuse).
He doesn’t understand the concept of cheating, only getting caught (“losers!”) and “winning.”
- Comment on What were the original antiperspirants before modern day ones? 1 month ago:
They weren’t.
Check out wikipedia. There was one product developed in the late 1800s (“Mum,” which was zinc based), then not much happened until it was repackaged as Ban roll-on in the 1940s.
The idea that sweating is bad is very much a modern concept.
- Comment on Recognizing Palestine state before established could be ‘counterproductive,’ Italian premier says 1 month ago:
Then get it established insteadnof fuck8ng around.
- Comment on Do we dream smaller now than we did decades ago? 1 month ago:
YOU certainly do, because (like all of us) you’ve grown up.
It’s hard to remember how big your dreams were when you were young enough that the universe was infinite.
As for kids of that age, they want to be what society values. Cops aren’t well-loved at the moment; and firefighters are mostly ‘just another profession.’
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 1 month ago:
I think you missed the point.
Trump won’t release them because his name (and others in the GOP) is all over it and he could be facing actual prison time.
The Democrats didn’t because…well, we know that Clinton at least was involved with Epstein. I’m sure many others were as well.
Besides which, other powerful people outside of politics are likely to have put strong pressure on the US to keep them locked up (e.g. Prince Andrew).
The problem isn’t one party or the other, and it’s not that “all parties are the same,” but in this particular case it IS almost guaranteed that too many people are named and shamed for any group in power to release them.
- Comment on To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model 1 month ago:
If you’re not sure what my point is you’re not informed enough to present a legitimate argument.
Or maybe you didn’t present your point clearly.
Or maybe you’re just wrong.
These are entirely possible scenarios you might want to consider.
- Comment on To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model 1 month ago:
The premise of a web business model is that websites must make a profit - either directly or indirectly.
That’s utter bullshit. Some of us are old enough to remember when the web (or for that matter, the pre-web internet) was there for sharing of information, social interaction, and community. Schools, the government, and nonprofits provided hosting for free.
Later on, ISPs started to add hosting as part of their internet service - along with usenet access and an email address. The cost to them was negligible, especially vs. the benefits of being able to say “switch to us and create your own website!”
Nowadays you can run a site from your home PC in a VM, punch a hole through your firewall, and pay a modicum for DDNS to a custom domain for under a hundred bucks a year. If you’re a bigger site with more traffic, maybe you spin it up on AWS and pay ten or twenty bucks a month.
The very idea that “The Web” is a homogeneous, for-profit entity is a profound and fundamental mistake that is made by every money-obsessed organization around - not just the financial rags like Forbes and The Economist, but essentially corporations as well. Take a look at the support site for your favourite product and try to convince yourself that they didn’t just put the minimum required effort in to send customers into the arms of their competitors.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Nope. For some stupid reason, Canada pays servers passably (not great) but has almost exactly the same tip culture of the US.
Here when it’s time to pay, they bring a wireless machine to your table. You punch in the tip you want, and then either tap or insert your card to pay. A receipt printer is built-in, so you can get your paper as well.
- Comment on How do you combat boredom? 1 month ago:
I can’t fathom being bored. In half a century, I don’t think I’ve ever felt bored.
My problem is that I have too many hobbies AND too many things that have to get done, and I will occasioanlly shut down and do none of them, but that’s more panic than boredom.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I was in the US (probably for the last time ever) in December and was amazed that they still do this.
Here in Canada, that was done away with…maybe 20 years ago? Trips to the UK, France, Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands have been similar.
Signing a CC receipt is something most people’s parents did. Except in the US.
- Comment on To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model 1 month ago:
Such bullshit.
"AI is going to fix everything, so we need a new way to make money."
- AI is nothing but a delusional and unwanted waste of energy.
- The web doesn’t need a business model, period. Money-grubbing billionaires are the only ones who need a business model.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Utterly not.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 2 months ago:
Punitive damages can be awarded for bad-faith bargaining, which definitely seems to be the case here.
It’s a stretch perhaps, but that’s what I think would be reasonable.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 2 months ago:
Probably not really feasible - it will require constant connection to a back-end server to play or some bullshit like that.
But even if you can, that’s not the answer. The proper action is to deny them entirely. Don’t play the game, don’t play PUBG, don’t do anything that expands their reach, money or not.
They need to suffer with NOBODY playing this game. They need to suffer by people deleting their Battlegrounds accounts. Software piracy is what makes games legendary.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 2 months ago:
Oooh, there’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.
$250M PLUS legal costs PLUS $250M in punitive fees. That should hurt them a bit.