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- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 1 week ago:
I’m not sure if this is available everywhere, but in California you can put up a bond in lieu of insurance with the DMV.
- Comment on Germany’s CDU Pushes Real-Name Social Media Mandate and ID Checks 1 week ago:
What is there to breach? You’re already exposing your your real identity when you post under your real name with this new requirement. As long as the methods for verifying your identity aren’t something scammers can exploit there is nothing to expose. If, for example, you could use your photo ID with everything but your pic and name covered, and maybe also birth year for age checks, all it does is remove the ability for people to be cunts with impunity.
I’d have to give it some more thought, but I’m not against this right away. The Internet has become a vile place. Maybe if you wouldn’t say something in public for everyone to hear, you shouldn’t post it either.
- Comment on What launcher should I replace Nova with? 2 weeks ago:
You can turn it off. It tells you what might get funky if you do. I didn’t notice any problems so I’ve left it and all other analytics reporting stuff off.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
We’ve all heard “it takes money to make money.” But rich people know it’s better to use other people’s money.
- Comment on What launcher should I replace Nova with? 2 weeks ago:
Try out Niagara. It only takes about 5 minutes to set up.
If you’re like me, you’ll think it’s too simplistic, you think you want all that nova launcher shit. But do yourself a favor and give it a try. Pick a background, pick an icon pack, select a few favorites and that’s all you need to try it out.
After that if you want to really dig in there isn’t much (some of these things are pro features, I can’t remember which because I decided to get it so soon after trying it out), it’s like 45 minutes to customize your clock, do the custom widget (multiple widgets can share space, you just swipe through), decide if you want music controls on the home screen, and set up pop-ups (like a folder but more, can be in your favorites or your app list), and hide apps from the list (either because they’re in a pop-up or you just never use it).
I tried it out a while ago when the original developer quit the company that bought it. Did a quick setup, played around for 30 minutes and bought pro right away. I was very surprised at how much I liked a simplistic launcher.
You’ve got nothing to lose but 30 minutes, check it out.
- Comment on The penalty for disagreeing with government policy on Palestine is 14 Years in prison 1 month ago:
That’s funny, I had the opposite experience.
I used to count on my front page of Lemmy to give me links to stories about Gaza that I wasn’t getting from the major news outlets. Every page had multiple posts about Gaza with stories and context I sure wasn’t getting from Reuters.
After the election they quickly became few and far in between. With most of them things I have heard about elsewhere, the Lemmy post only being good for discussion.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 month ago:
The problem with GMOs isn’t the GMOs themselves, it’s why they’ve been GM’d. If they’ve been modified to be “roundup resistant” so they can dump a truckload of glyphosate on them, or something similar to that, that might be a problem.
If I’m buying fresh produce it’s not a problem, I can can make double sure to wash it properly. But if it’s processed food, I definitely do not trust food manufacturers to get all that shit off the vegetables.
Looking for GMO free canned or frozen vegetables is, in my opinion, a good idea. But a fresh cucumber just wash it.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 1 month ago:
And I think the gold and silver parts are usually just plastic.
- Comment on idk 2 months ago:
I actually looked for one in °C but the only ones I found had big stupid display screens. I just wanted one with 5-6 simple presets without adding unnecessary points of failure.
To be fair, I didn’t look that hard though. I wasn’t willing to spend that much time and the place I order my tea from labels all the recommended temps in °F anyway.
- Comment on idk 2 months ago:
And make sure to get one with different temperature settings, not just boil.
Being able to do 180° exactly instead of just guessing had been a game changer for white tea.
- Comment on Perfect size for brats 2 months ago:
But where do you put the tomatoes, pickle, peppers, and onions?
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 3 months ago:
Yes, those tankies are twisted, bring unable to support communism without making excuses for a brutal dictator.
So surely you must appreciate someone capable of criticizing that brutal dictator without smearing communism in the process, right?
Why would you see a conversation abouta brutal dictator and jump in to talk about how he was a communist? Don’t you think it might be people like you that encourage tankies to reflexively disagree with any criticism of Stalin?
If you can’t have a conversation about Stalin’s crimes without someone erroneously bringing communism into it maybe that’s why frustrated communists often defend the indefensible.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 3 months ago:
Well, have a nice day then. I genuinely hope you find something you do care about today.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 3 months ago:
And yet, here this person is, not incorrectly using Stalin to say communism is bad. He is criticizing Stalin on his merits, or lack thereof, and not using one person to disparage communism.
You are one tying Stalin’s crimes to communism.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 3 months ago:
Then why bring communism into a critique of a dictator concerning his methods of control.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 3 months ago:
How would you determine what the individuals collectively decide?
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 3 months ago:
But he wasn’t criticizing communism, or advocating for capitalism. He was criticizing a dictator and saying he prefers democracy.
Unless you think communism can’t exist outside of a brutal dictatorship.
- Comment on Even if you develop the worst type of dementia imaginable, please find a way to always remember the events of 11/13/25. 3 months ago:
You just made me see the cap on the pole for the first time.
- Comment on Can't tell if L take or W take 3 months ago:
I’ve got a lot of play in my life and the woman almost always made the first move. Because I’m the kind of idiot where a woman can come sit in my lap and stroke my inner thigh and I’ll think “hmmm, I wonder if she might be interested in me.”
If a woman has never hit on you, I’ve got bad news for you dawg (assuming you want a woman to hit on you).
- Comment on Trump's Big Beautiful Bill 3 months ago:
One of the Epstein emails talks about pics of Trump blowing Bubba and the speculation is that Clinton is Bubba.
- Comment on They Wylin' 3 months ago:
The use of the definite article “the” is important.
He didn’t ask if Putin “has pictures” like you and I might if we were joking about some hypothetical blackmail material we don’t actually know exists, he asked if Putin “has the pictures.”
- Comment on They Wylin' 3 months ago:
uBlock Origin for Firefox?
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 3 months ago:
From our perspective, sure. But we wouldn’t know if it was stopped and started running again, or if it was reverted to a previous state.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 3 months ago:
WTF? Do I have to allow shit in my car and phone to start tracking me to provide evidence in my favor when some ai decides it has “tracked” me? The only reason this lady got out of it without getting a lawyer and going to court is she allowed all the bullshit in her phone and car that I block. And if she didn’t have it, what would have happened in court?
- Comment on Ok, boomer 3 months ago:
Maintenance cost such, but even that has a silver lining when you own. It’s yours. When your fridge breaks in a rental you’re not out any money, but they just bring by another jank landlord special. I redid my kitchen with Thermador, not the top of the top, but pretty far up there. That cost quite a bit but it’s mine and my kitchen is far better than anything I had renting.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 3 months ago:
That too, last year before I finished my mortgage my neighbor was paying week over double my mortgage, property taxes, and maintenance costs combined.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 3 months ago:
The value of a paid off home is not the equity, that’s just numbers on a paper until you die and your heirs sell. The value is in living for peanuts for the rest of your life.
My house is paid off. My monthly housing costs are $735 for property tax that can’t increase more than 2% year due to California law. My neighbor two doors down with the same floor plan rents for $6500/month. That difference will only increase for the next 40 (I hope) years until I die.
- Comment on Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers 4 months ago:
Holy shit! That might be the dumbest arguement I’ve ever heard. I might have heard worse, but nothing is coming to mind.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 5 months ago:
Not surprised, I just clicked on the first inflation calculator that came up. I think it was the BLS CPI calculator.
And I only did it in dollars from December of '21 until now. Converting back to shillings, either in '21 or Dickensian times, before bringing it forward to today could result in a big difference due to the charging exchange rate between the pound and the dollar.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 5 months ago:
That was from December of '21. It would be $15.69 now.