Chip_Rat
@Chip_Rat@lemmy.world
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 3 days ago:
Interesting! I must say I never considered it. My kia soul EV was heavy but handled very well. Loved that thing.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 3 days ago:
? I don’t know what that means.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 3 days ago:
What makes that spec a priority for you?
- Comment on Trump posted a photo of Abrego Garcia’s hand with an MS-13 knuckle tattoo. Internet sleuths say it’s photoshopped 1 week ago:
I mean, yes, but don’t call a lawyer and pull out the constitution when your 5 year old presents a “document” from the King of the World that says she can have unlimited icecream…
- Comment on BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for trying to explain this. I found the original blog empty and unhelpful. Lots of nerd words but no substance. I understand more from your post than that blog now.
- Comment on Id like to turn off notifications from the Galaxy Store, but I can't. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. Filthy basterds. 2 weeks ago:
I wrote a 11 part essay in second or third year university about how shit my phone was. Not for marks, didn’t publish it anywhere. I just hated it so much and wanted to gather my thoughts. If only YouTube has been a big enough thing for little old me, could have been one of the first video essay, listicle, tech critiquing channels.
But yeah Samsung never won me back after that. If you can’t build a flip phone right, I don’t want your fridges…
- Comment on Japan to sell more rice reserves as prices soar 2 weeks ago:
Just read up on it because your question made me curious. They have zero tariffs on rice up to a certain number, recently around 770,000 tons annually. After that amount they charge a tarriff that is quite high, 400-700+%, and import another few hundred tons at that rate.
Got my numbers from this article if you are curious:
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I can’t recall using a typewriter seriously, but for sure I’ve used on for fun. Also trying to get a commodore 64 to print my homework in 1992 should aub in nicely.
- Comment on YSK: Here's a list of browser extensions to un-shittify Youtube 4 weeks ago:
Ok I think I read all the comments sufficiently and I still don’t see the feature I most want: sort by duration.
Dinner is in 20 minutes. Click time range, set for 15-20 minutes. Look through suggestions from subscriptions that are 15-20min long. Pick one. Enjoy video knowing when it ends you’ll be able to go eat dinner/go to bed/leave for work.
- Comment on C64 Retro Battlestation 4 weeks ago:
instinctively starts headbanging to the rad soundtrack
- Comment on AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment: postmortem 5 weeks ago:
To what end? I read most of the article but I can’t understand the goals of these fakers?
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 5 weeks ago:
Explain this?
- Comment on People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes 5 weeks ago:
Amen.
- Comment on uhh… my ex girlfriend and long-time friend is now cishet, very christian, and makes those “i identify as” jokes regarding trans people. would it end up bad for me if i continued to be her friend? 1 month ago:
Yeah, I think the biggest hangup for us is that, given the context, this person isn’t someone who was gay and is now straight, it’s someone who was exploring their sexuality and then decided to nope out, regardless of their actual orientation.
- Comment on uhh… my ex girlfriend and long-time friend is now cishet, very christian, and makes those “i identify as” jokes regarding trans people. would it end up bad for me if i continued to be her friend? 1 month ago:
I agree with you when you say “it’s who you are”.
Do you not see a situation where someone is born and believes themselves gay (the reasons why they would think this are numerous, almost as numerous as the countless reasons people think they are straight growing up) and then after living as a gay person they come to understand themselves better and recognise that they are actually fairly straight?
I’m not saying that’s what’s going on here, it sounds very sad and basically someone just heading back to the closet to avoid shitty people and shitty society. But questioning someone who says they are straight, or gay or bi or enby or ace or whatever, is flawed. They may be lieing, they may be confused, hiding, virtue signalling. But you don’t get to call them bi just because they said and behaved as if they were gay and now say and behaving as if they are not. Someone who used to have sex and now says they are ace isn’t lying, or wrong or akchewally…
I don’t want this to come off as hostile, I get why you are asking. It’s a complex topic and I might be wrong.
I think I’m explaining myself alright, but I’m open to discussion
- Comment on uhh… my ex girlfriend and long-time friend is now cishet, very christian, and makes those “i identify as” jokes regarding trans people. would it end up bad for me if i continued to be her friend? 1 month ago:
If you used to be straight and are now gay, would that make you bi?
I’m not smart enough to answer this question, but that would be where I’d start.
- Comment on Jack Daniel’s maker says Canada pulling US alcohol off shelves ‘worse than tariff’ 1 month ago:
Liquor in Ontario is sold and controlled by the LCBO, and were directed to remove all American products from the shelves by our Premier (governer sorta)
Same with BC and NS. So not a Federal/National mandate, but a political one indeed.
- Comment on South Central Ambulance 999 call handler receives death threats 1 month ago:
Perhaps they could just send an email?
- Comment on Investors in farm equipment maker Deere reject anti-DEI resolution 1 month ago:
Ok so being dyslexic in this heelscape is difficult. Would anyone be willing to explain what anti-“pro-dei” proposal against a counter proposal was approved to deny the shareholders what the company thought was good/bad?
More specifically, can someone explain is a bit more clearly:
"During a webcast of its annual meeting, executives with the farm equipment maker said only 1.3% of votes cast were in support of a resolution calling on the company to report on racial and gender hiring statistics “to prove it does not practice discrimination.” "
Maybe I’m confused…yeah. just maybe I’m confused.
- Comment on Investors in farm equipment maker Deere reject anti-DEI resolution 1 month ago:
Small miracles.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 2 months ago:
So you are gonna have to provide a source explaining how the president using an executive order to rename international water is “policy” that Google must follow.
They you’ll have to explain why I, as a Canadian, have to see this stupid renaming in parentheses.
If the US truely doesn’t have a system beyond “once the president orders it, it’s renamed.” That’s their problem but I don’t give a fuck what they call things and I don’t know why google thinks I should.
- Comment on no words, much feelings 2 months ago:
How dare you make accusations like that! What do you think people just go on the internet and lie?!
- Comment on Day 206 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
I must say I e never played Skyrim, and I didn’t know how beautiful it could be. I might have to have a closer look.
I play a game called “The Long Dark”, and the first screenshot with the aurora made me do a double take. In that game you are alone in a northern Canadian region that has been abandoned both due to economics as well as some in game magic that makes electricity not work. The survival mode is just “live as long as you can, then die.” It’s permadeath and can be incredibly frustrating and cruel, but the beauty in that game is unreal. I’ve ended a 6 day run (nothing to me now, but a big acheivement at the time) because I was watching the Aurora on a clear winter night. The music was somber and I thought I might freeze to death as I crossed this long rope bridge. I should have been looking at the bridge, because staring up into the sky I suddenly was getting further away from it … It was maybe a 3 second fall as I realized I either walked off the bridge or maybe there was a gap or something.
“You have faded into the long dark.” -wasn’t even mad.
- Comment on Day 171 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 months ago:
Oh… Oh is that what I was supposed to do?
Found the crafting systems (one for building I guess, one for weapons and food and “handheld” stuff) to be incredibly non-intuitive. For what we all paid, my family had a great evening each accidentally walking into the fire and then running around in a panic onfire while everyone else barely looked up from their craft books.
- Comment on YouTube is testing a floating ‘Play something’ button 3 months ago:
How about a filter to select a video of a version length? How often it’s getting closer to bed time and I need a 15 minute video. Why not make that a thing?
Also stop suggesting videos that are 6 years old and I’ve already watched them?!