BakerBagel
@BakerBagel@midwest.social
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 3 hours ago:
12 years ago Skype and team speak were the go to for voice chat for gaming. Once someone comes up with a less shitty platform, everyone will start to migrate again.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 1 week ago:
Lot of people in my town with “party plates”. Yellow plate with red letters to signal to cops that you are a frequent DUI fiend. No clue how youend up with those instead of just having your license revoked
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 1 week ago:
Still meet plenty of people who drink beer in the car
- Comment on Stuck 1 week ago:
Boys start playing with their weiners as soon as their hands can start grasping stuff. It’s instinctual.
- Comment on Panic! on the trade floor 2 weeks ago:
Europe is in the midst of a massive housing crisis.
Canada has possibly the worst housing crisis in the developed world
Korean homes are 3x as much in the major cities as smaller rural cities.
Housing has been consuming a larger and larger chunk of people’s incomes for the past 15 years. That’s a cost of living crisis. Because the 2008 crash allowed the wealthy to pick up all the pieces and restart the game using the exact same rules. Nothing changed, nothing improved, neoiberals just painted over the foundational cracks of our society and said everything is fine now. The finacialization of every aspect of our lives has only become more extreme, so i would definitely say the 2008 crisis was never actually solved.
- Comment on Panic! on the trade floor 2 weeks ago:
Replacing salaried desk jobs with hourly wages and no pay increase isn’t exactly employment growth. If everything recovered just fine, why are millennials miles behind where their parents were at a similar age? Homeownership has been steadily declining, savings accounts have steadily been dwindling, and the rate of Americans living paycheck to paycheck has only gone up in the past 20 years. That’s not a recovery, it’s an adaptation to a new normal.
- Comment on Panic! on the trade floor 2 weeks ago:
Idk how you can say it ended when the fundamental causes of the collapse were never addressed, the perpetrators were never punished, and the middle class continued to shrink. Stocks were pretty much the only thing that improved since 2008.
- Comment on AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. 3 weeks ago:
I recently started as a graphic designer despite knowing absolutely nothing about it, so i am constantly searching how to do stuff in Adobe suite at work. Half the time Google’s AI can’t even keep “Cmnd” and “ctrl” straight, telling me to use’ “cmnd+shift+H” on Windows or “ctrl+shift+H” on Mac’. I don’t even know how it botches that, but it does it about 25% of the time.
- Comment on Terrorists 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids 4 weeks ago:
What models are youseeing where things are 99% correct? Google’s search chat bot can’t even keep Windows vs Mac hotkey commands straight.
- Comment on Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids 4 weeks ago:
So then what’s the use of the program if it uses a bunch of energy to just make shit up?
- Comment on $16bn health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet. 1 month ago:
'Why do we need a backup when we have a RAID?"
The accounting head when you try to explain that your backup systems are woefully insufficient.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 1 month ago:
Not to mention the DUI rates in the US are astronomical. Over 1/3 of motor fatalities are alcohol related in the US.
- Comment on Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026 - Microsoft Support 1 month ago:
Oh joy. I already have to deal with printing crap people didn’t know how to make properly in Publisher or Canva. I’m super pumped to get emailed an excel file and asked if i can print off as a business card
- Comment on This speaks for itself 1 month ago:
Todd and Margot
- Comment on Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto Laws 1 month ago:
- Comment on Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto Laws 1 month ago:
I just know where to buy the drugs i want here in town, and then i offer cold hard cash that can’t be traced back to me if the dealer rats me out. Much safer and more secure than buying them online.
Yobs like this always come out the woodwork when Bitcoin hits an all time high, talking about how cryptocurrency isn’t all bad, but once you push them it’s the same tired old talking points. They don’t want to help you financially. They just want you to hold their bag while they cash out.
- Comment on Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto Laws 1 month ago:
I’d say you’re right for 99% of it, but there is 1% that’s genuinely useful.
I asked what that 1% of useful applications are and he gave a whole dog and pony show to avoid giving any examples. He said that there are times where cryptocurrency is better than your government’s currency (assuming you are in a stable country with a stable currency).
Bitcoin was developed by dudes upset by the 2008 financial crash who wanted to be the ones on top the next time everything imploded. Bitcoin is 100% useless at anything other than speculation.
- Comment on Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto Laws 1 month ago:
A small bit of inflation encourages people to spend their money and keep the economy moving. Because if your currency is going to be worth more tomorrow than it is today, your incentive is to hoard it and mever soend a dime unless absolutely necessary.
Way more people have lost everything because where they keep their cryptocurrency went under than their bank freezing their accounts. Banks only close your account if they suspect you are doing highly illegal and fraudulent stuff. And of i forget my credentials, my bank has a process where i can access my money again after 5 minutes of KYC. If someone DOES fraudulently access my account without my authorization, the bank will fully restore my account and go after the fraudster.
I dont trust the US goverment any more than you do, but Uncle Sam isn’t interested in what his greenbacks are worth compared to other currencies. All he cares about is that i pay my taxes in USD.
You posted all that text, and still haven’t given an actual example of where cryptocurrency out performs USD for someone just going about their daily life.
- Comment on Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto Laws 1 month ago:
And i have been using my bank account and cash to pay all my bills since i have had bills to pay. What’s the advantage of using something that is less convenient, less secure, and more resource intense than a normal checking account with direct deposit? You keep dodging the question on what use cases you think crypto currencies have an advantage over fiat currency.
- Comment on Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto Laws 1 month ago:
So you don’t have an actual use cases then.
- Comment on Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto Laws 1 month ago:
Please elaborate on what this magical 1% that you feel is useful and worth expending the same amount if energy as Australia
- Comment on Good afternoon I choose thoughts you've never had before. 1 month ago:
I’m a single guy. I’m not cooking dinner for 1 two nights in a row.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
Your spending that much on a used phone? I can’t phantom paying more than $600 for one
- Comment on Good afternoon I choose thoughts you've never had before. 1 month ago:
I just take half the box and boil that, eat half of that, then eat the other half the next day
- Comment on nets 1 month ago:
Stuff falls out of garbage trucks, trash cans get tipped over, stuff gets blown out of the bed of a dumptruck at the landfill, landfills erode and take trash with them. Trashcans aren’t just magic portals that take trash into the nightosphere
- Comment on Meow 1 month ago:
I took in a stray kitten that someone dumped at my work back in the fall. I wasn’t sure if i would keep her or not, but i felt obligated to clean her up and feed her while i figured out what to do with her. As soon as she started interacting with my other kitten, they became best friends and i couldn’t in good conscience seperate them.
Another friend of mine slowly took in a stray cat over the fourse of a summer. Leave out food for it of it hangs out around your house until it starts to nuzzle up against you. Then you can pet it, maybe pick it up, and then take it to a doctor to get it checked out.
It sounds to me though, that you just don’t like animals.
- Comment on I love the future. 1 month ago:
You mean a libertarian? Yeah we know
- Comment on EU consumers don’t trust US goods: a look into Trump’s trade deficit claims 2 months ago:
Olive pil wasn’t a thing on the states until the 80’s. We get all the shittiest olive oil that is produced in the Mediterranean because they can sell their inferior products at a markup here.
- Comment on Man, their reputation really has gone to shit 2 months ago:
If tou look into the plans and wacky shit the CIA has tried to do over the years, you realize they are just daycare for Ivy League grads. They are absolutely useless at anything beyond intelligence gathering
