ShepherdPie
@ShepherdPie@midwest.social
- Comment on FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole 22 hours ago:
Then it shouldn’t be an issue to implement it then right?
- Comment on How do you handle family requests that you disagree with? 23 hours ago:
Separate library was my thought as well. I’m also hesitant to put any requested movies on my server that are along the same vein, but if it’s not too many, it really doesn’t matter at the end or the day. It’s just some crappy movies in a sea of other movies.
- Comment on China’s booming EV companies eye U.S. competitors they see as ‘not ready’ 1 day ago:
Certainly but this can also be viewed as helping ease the transition for automakers since they’ve also implemented stricter efficiency rules upon them at the same time.
If we assume China is subsidizing $15k per car to allow them to sell for $10k, that $12B in US subsidies equates to about a single quarter worth of sales for just BYD alone, or 800k cars. There is no way we can match those subsidies for the rest of the players in the American market as around 13.5 million new cars are sold in the US each year.
- Comment on If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible? 1 day ago:
I’d put them on the same level of victimhood as followers of people like Charles Manson. They probably wouldn’t have done what they did without his influence but they’re still culpable for the damage they’ve caused.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 1 day ago:
Your entire argument is an appeal to emotion as if logic should be ignored in this situation simply because “safety” when in reality someone would need to close their body part in a door four times in a row before they were even remotely at risk of being injured.
You followed that fallacy up with an ad hominem by claiming that I must be dumb because I don’t blindly support your emotional argument about safety even though you have yet to explain how this is even unsafe in a real world scenario. My second paragraph highlighted similar scenarios where exceptionally special people might injure themselves by doing something idiotic and dangerous that no average person would ever do, yet we must still be warned about.
Care to take a crack at making an argument without relying on fallacies the whole time?
- Comment on China’s booming EV companies eye U.S. competitors they see as ‘not ready’ 1 day ago:
The problem is that $10-$15k Chinese EVs aren’t competition as the Chinese government is paying the company directly for them to be that cheap. That’s in comparison to a country where the best companies get is a $7500 credit toward their purchase. I would absolutely support Chinese EVs in the US if they weren’t trying to undercut everyone with unsustainable subsidies just to put everyone else out of business.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 day ago:
The point is to elicit positive emotions and associate them with a brand.
This is super obvious in pharmaceutical commercials as they all follow the same formula of upbeat music, people either enjoying nature or a party with friends, and lots of smiling as the voice-over tells you about the anal leakage and heart failure side effects.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 day ago:
Electronics too (like LEDs, microcontrollers, and sensors not phones and TVs). Often brands have a store on both Ali and Amazon but Ali is cheaper with longer shipping times of basically a week to a week and a half.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 day ago:
I’ve done the same with Netflix for years and previously had the 4 streams 4k plan up until they implemented their bullshit password sharing rules. Now I have the $6.99 plan and only keep it because my MIL babysits for us and likes to watch all the K dramas on there.
- Comment on Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy 2 days ago:
It’s an IP issue. Nobody wants to be the one responsible for leaking someone’s proprietary design or PII just to make a little bit of cash from selling used drives. My work has 55 gallon drums with a slot on top to dispose of hard drives for this same reason.
- Comment on Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy 2 days ago:
Me too. I thought these would be a bunch of 1TB HDDs but OP blew us away with them being 8TB.
- Comment on Rabbit was once an NFT company that it wants you to forget about 2 days ago:
There is definitely a case for having a separate device for something a smartphone can do, if it can do it better, e.g a camera.
Frankly things have gone full circle and the list of “external devices that can do it better” seems to get larger and larger each release. Pretty much all phones excel at these days is scrolling through social media and keeping us entertained on the toilet.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 2 days ago:
If you have to rely on the appeal to emotion fallacy to do the heavy lifting for your argument, I suppose you’re correct that there’s nothing left to discuss.
Personally, I learned long ago not to close my hand in a door after the first attempt. I suppose there’s a reason why some people need safety warnings not to use their toaster in the bathtub, and we should all live by those standards.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 2 days ago:
So you want to end subsidies for oil and gas, for farmers to grow corn that gets turned into ethanol, or just subsidies for EVs? Let’s be clear here.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 2 days ago:
Not to mention ethanol (what the previous person kept referring to as “gasoline”) is far less efficient, can only be used in high quantities on certain types of engines, and creates excessive smog during warmer months.
Don’t forget that every acre of corn grown for ethanol is one less acre of food grown and when you increase from 10% ethanol to 100%, you’re going to need 10x the amount of land to grow these crops all so we can pay top dollar at the pump to live in smog filled cities and get 10MPG in our vehicles.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 2 days ago:
Nah before that was Bush and Cheney getting us into decades long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan because some Saudis attacked us.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 2 days ago:
Because it’s part of the communist agenda.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 2 days ago:
Tesla is an American company. The ‘traditional’ American auto companies like GM and Ford don’t even build or source a lot of their parts in the US and Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep has been owned by a European company for quite a while now. This guy is a chump and I wish someone would have called him out on his BS.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 3 days ago:
What would you search for to find one in your area?
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 3 days ago:
Home improvement stores and autoparts stores will rent out tools for home projects or automotive projects. Looking at my library they also offer kitchen stuff, arts and crafts, 3d printing, board games and a ton more. I have no idea where you’d rent that kind of stuff here in the US.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 3 days ago:
I do (and did when I was still there) use it on a desktop but on a phone it directs you to the terrible mobile site where the HVAC and plumbing subreddits are somehow NSFW and restricted. Maybe next time I’ll try to manually redirect to old.reddit and see if it works.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 3 days ago:
I did read it and I’m also reading it in the context of the article and the rabid group-think here claiming that a potential injury after closing your hand in a door four times in a row is somehow the companies fault or the fault of the engineering department.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 3 days ago:
Nobody wants to discuss the logic involved with having to open the door and then close it again for it to attempt to close harder and why that isn’t the dire safety hazard that people are trying to make it out to be. These people are the reason why we have to have “no smoking” signs at gas pumps because apparently they’d leave their hand in the door after attempting to close it 3 or 4 times.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 3 days ago:
How can you talk about personal responsibility while blaming engineers for the fact that this guy intentionally closed his finger in a car door?
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 3 days ago:
I’ve noticed half the subs are now marked as “NSFW” when searching for something like a plumbing issue for example, which won’t allow you to see the posts without using the reddit app.
- Comment on my humps 5 days ago:
Which will be our trump card used to defeat them in the coming human versus alien war.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Some people are fine with it. If I see a coworker go into the restroom right before me, I’ll intentionally wait so I don’t run the risk of having to chat with them while standing at the urinals.
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 6 days ago:
You didn’t use my corporate name. Therefore, your contract is non-grata null and void according to the Articles of Confederation section 22B.4.22.
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 6 days ago:
Why’d you even initiate this conversation if you think people are harassing you when they talk about your giant 26pt font license?
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 6 days ago:
Definitely along the same vein, except it doesn’t drag a bunch of innocent people into it like SovCitizens do when they drive without a license or insurance or refuse to pay back loans/credit cards.