Capricorn_Geriatric
@Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 1 week ago:
Oh, he is a threat. He is a huge threat for the fascists.
He’s a threat because he’s not on their side. He’s a (much needed) icon of disunity.
They’re right to be afraid. They need to stop him and anyone like him at all costs. If there’s just one county whose sheriff isn’t wagging his tail to goons like ICE, that’s unacceptable.
And this isn’t about some sheriff election, it’s the mayor of NYC. Y’know, the place where Rudy Giuliani became the greatest mayor in the entire history of the US (until he blew it by siding with Trump). Of course they’re afraid.
If people can find shelter from ICE and the rest in just one county, that’s bad for the fascists. Having it be a huge place like NYC would be a disaster in their eyes.
He won’t affect global policy. But he will affect the populace of US places other than NYC. If he wins, some may look at NYC and think “Why can’t we have this?”. That’s what’s dangerous.
- Comment on monthly challenge 1 week ago:
It’s so wrong it underflowed into somehow being right again.
Unusual? Sure. Mathematically? Right.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 1 week ago:
Of course. In a month or two he can tell trump Dem statez are stupid and he should force them to do that.
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 1 week ago:
You missed the high energy consumption and low reliability. They’re equally as valid issues as stealing jobs.
It literally has no other productive use for society aside from this one thing.
I’d refrain from saying that AI replacing labor is productve to society. Speeding up education, however, might be.
- Comment on Finally a washing machine that understands me 1 week ago:
Max SPIN FART until SLUT: 1200 rpm
- Comment on Worst part about living in Europe 1 week ago:
500% import duty is way too much.
80% is enough.
High one-time taxes are not a good idea.
Rather dilute them into 8 seperate yearly taxes.
A curb weight tax of 40% sounds reasonable. A fuel inefficiency penalty of 25% also sounds good.
At least a 15% tax on anything shorter than 1 meter being invisible from the cabin is also very warranted.
That’s 3 of 8.
Additionally, whenever a truck is involved in a crash treat it disfavourably. That should drive up insurance premiums.
So with my 80/80 tax mix they’d actually pay 880% tax in the first 10 years of ownership with 3 basic taxes.
- Comment on AI art 1 week ago:
Look, at least it’s not an AI generated cycle of ads. Those fools over at Marketing burnt the planet to a crisp already.
Do you know how much re-prompting it takes to get the little family pics all consistent?
- Comment on Forget Netflix, Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription 1 week ago:
You forgot this little point.
You own a non-exclusive, intransferable licence to use and operate said car.
Yes, you paid for it. But it’s not really yours. You own its body. Someone else still owns its spirit. And they want a rent for you to be able to touch the spirit.
Why would they do that?
Obviously, becaude that shit flies. Why not do it? Money is money. And companies exist for it. Fuck morality. Fuck common sense. They only care about the little green lines.
Customer satisfaction?
Not even an afterthought.
In a sane world, everyone would think like you. I do, for one.
The problem is everyone else who doesn’t. They’ll put up with it, accept the thinly-veiled excuses, and the company will see "wow, we can do that now? Gee, these people are stoopid. Let’s see how far we can take it.
Honestly, I see where they’re coming from. Not that I support it. But it is a rational decision on their part.
In a sane world, the smart employee who came up with this would be fired promptly, because if the company were to carry this shit out, they’d get so much bad press it’d take over a decade to recover.
But alas, we don’t live in a sane world and clearly enough consumers are either idiots or ignorant for this shit to fly.
- Comment on Life hack 2 weeks ago:
Don’t have money? Try using ~guns~ nukes instead
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 3 weeks ago:
I associate them with religious pundites and discrimination of payments. A payment is a payment, for christ’s sake! If it’s illegal, report it to the relevant authorities.
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 3 weeks ago:
It is. Free for Trump to do as he pleases.
- Comment on UK cyber vigilantes generating mock IDs of local MPs to protest Online Safety Act 3 weeks ago:
Especially a UK one.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 3 weeks ago:
With SKG going as well as it is, wouldn’t an ECI on chat control be in order?
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 3 weeks ago:
Sure. Let them whatabout. But to us, consumers, it shouldn’t matter.
We know the stores aren’t responsible, so we shouldn’t attack them.
The processors are. For Visa and MasterCard it’s pretty obvious. Itch, as you said, puts direct blame on Stripe, and I think we can trust that.
As much as processors need banks, banks also need processors. It’s a sort of symbiosis. Damage to one actually trickles onto the other. So pressing onto processors isn’t a mistake. It’d be foolish at best and malicious at worst to suggest that.
Now that we have leverage as users and consumers, having started a push which made way and caused a response (first the prepared phone statement and now a press release), the absolute wrong thing to do is bacl down and say “sorry, we were wrong, it was B after all and not you, A”.
And look at it this way: There’s less payment processors and they’re smaller than banks. If you suddenly turn to banks, you won’t accomplish anything because to them, a few consumers who aren’t their customers doesn’t cause them even an itch. But if payment processors come to them it might.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 3 weeks ago:
It never was about the laws. If it were, Mastercard wouldn’t have been doing it for quite some time now.
It’s truly idiotic. They backed down to 200 phone calls from CS. They probably cited that rule, saying doing what they do (processing payments) will damage their brand.
Lo and behold, once they stopped processing transactions their brand got damaged. And due to the ego damage already associated, they won’t back down and backtrack not that they actually have a problem on their hands. What with their brand being seen as discriminatory, weak to undue influence and excersizing undue power against their own clients. Very “good brand” of you, Mastercard.
If Mastercard wants to display Christo-fascist family friendlyness they can slap a cross onto their logo and change the font to Comic sans.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 4 weeks ago:
Damn. Never knew batteries catch on fire when angry.
- Comment on Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks 4 weeks ago:
For what? Being decent human beings?
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 4 weeks ago:
Nor did you read between the lines.
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 4 weeks ago:
And often times it isn’t. In fact, name-brand can ofter be worse for a multitude of reasons.
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 4 weeks ago:
moral.doctrine@mastercard.com
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 4 weeks ago:
Since it ‘figerprints’ you, changing your fingerprint by blocking parts of the signal with pieces of foil doesn’t seem like a terrible idea.
Now, the question is: is such a tactic like wearing gloves, or like using super glue?
- Comment on AdGuard is yet another app to block Windows Recall 4 weeks ago:
“Opt out of” or disable/block?
To me, “block” or “disable” seems like it blocks/disables the feature machine-wide, when it just says “pretty please, make me black after you take that screenshot”.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 5 weeks ago:
What a title. Made me think installing the browser blocked the feature machine-wide.
- Comment on WhatsApp is dropping its native Windows app in favor of an uglier web version 5 weeks ago:
Why would anyone care about it being uglier?
It’s WhatsApp ffs. Ugly is their visual identity.
If they changed their app into a neon citylight barely anyone would even notice, let alone complain.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 5 weeks ago:
Didn’t they ban NSFW a year ago?
- Comment on Who's the most ridiculed POTUS of history? 5 weeks ago:
The thing with “this one” is he was president for 2 terms, unlike the previous one. The others before him in this millenium were a bit less off the rails, hence less ridicule.
Bots do sway the results towards every current president, but this one is a bit… Specific.
But whatever the next one may be, short of insane choices like Kim K, Elon, Kanye, MTG, etc. The ridicule will be much less than for Trump.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 1 month ago:
When you can’t decide between Hertha Sponer and Marie Curie
- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 1 month ago:
And please show me where I didn’t say that.
- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 1 month ago:
Then treat your employees like humans, not human resources. That means sick days at the very least. If you want to be respected more, then start respecting your employees more.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 1 month ago:
Lucky for you, you can get around with English in most places.
Ireland didn’t leave the EU, so that’s an option.
In most big cities you can get around just fine. In some you can actually live very comfortably.
As far as laws go, as an EU citizen one is entitled to communication with any public institutions one may come across in their preferred “official language”. Stuff like paying your utility bills, registering health insurance, similar bureaucratic stuff, as well as getting stopped by the police. You can insist on doing it in any one of 28 languages, including English.
Usually that’s a bit overkill, and whoever you’re dealing with will be happy to speak to you in English or find someone else who does if they don’t. I assume the same goes for non-citizens. German and French are also quite popular, but English is by far the most ubiquitous.