PrettyFlyForAFatGuy
@PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
- Comment on The script is mysterious and important. 5 days ago:
I remember liking LOEG
- Comment on Womp womp womp. 1 week ago:
They’re probably getting their monthly salary but that 50k bonus requires 5 years “service” so they’ll all be out of a job before then
- Comment on Lawyers increasingly have to convince clients that AI chatbots give bad advice 2 weeks ago:
My partners midwife googled stuff in front of us and parroted the AI summary back to us when we asked if a specific drug was okay for pregnant people
- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 2 weeks ago:
The new bimmers are ugly as sin.
I say that as someone who loved his e90
- Comment on The Texas man who shot a British woman after an argument about President Trump won’t face charges. The jury hails from a pro-gun pro-Trump part of the state, a legal expert says 2 weeks ago:
It sounds like is basically is a punching
Means that murdering someone for talking bad about dear leader in some parts of the US is defacto legal
- Comment on "I am going to punch you" WHAT A BOSS! 2 weeks ago:
Schools in the US call the police for schoolyard fights?
That’s crazy
- Comment on 10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town 3 weeks ago:
A manager doesn’t have discretion to dispose of out of date stock in any other way than putting it in the bin?
Why would you even have the position of Manager then?
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 3 weeks ago:
You went to a school where they had no controls over what you could and couldn’t access?
My school was blocking harmful content on their computers when i was there in the mid to late 2000s?
When i got home i had something called CyberSitter on my computer in my room that sent logs of all my internet usage as reports to my dad.
It took me until 16 when i went out and bought my own computer with my own money before i had “unfettered” access to the internet.
Were these tools impenetrable fortresses? no, of course not. but they were a damn sight better than the ISP level blocks and legislating the “good” companies out of existence that the UK (and others) Government is currently engaged in.
Not that any of this is really about “protecting kids” anyway
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 3 weeks ago:
I’m not, but I also don’t live there
So they can still fuck off.
Also I have free healthcare and consumer protection laws
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 3 weeks ago:
I stand corrected
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 3 weeks ago:
Not a lot of atmosphere on the moon.
Transmitting heat across distances in effectively a vacuum doesn’t work too well.
Just look a the size of the radiators the ISS has to have, and they’re not even sending heat anywhere in particular, that’s just getting it off station
- Comment on Rent is theft 3 weeks ago:
Dishonestly taking possession of an object with intent to deprive the owner of its use
- Comment on I used an original iPod Nano in 2026, and it worked surprisingly well 3 weeks ago:
As an iPod owner, I wish I got a zune
- Comment on Bo'le of wa'er 5 weeks ago:
Innit tho
- Comment on TikTok is automatically taking down posts with the Epstein files 2 months ago:
Yes. The Trump administration is refusing to obey a law to enforce a tiktok ban in exchange for political loyalty
- Comment on Have YOU ever done this? 2 months ago:
Lived alone during COVID.
Went months
- Comment on This meme is super funny, Especially for people in the UK 2 months ago:
I encountered this half an hour ago.
It reminded me i didn’t have my VPN on
I turned it on, haven’t seen it since
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 2 months ago:
it’s the same way we keep kids from buying alcohol - by checking EVERYONE’S ID
Tell him there’s a big different between checking an ID and making copies of one
- Comment on SipsTea 3 months ago:
At 30 he’s old enough to make his own decisions…
In other words, who cares?
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 3 months ago:
I don’t find it funny because i’m homophobic… i find it funny because they are
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 months ago:
You do get to keep any growth in the value of the property too
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 3 months ago:
You also get a hydro homie whose sole job is to keep you hydrated and keep giving you zinc suppliments
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 4 months ago:
There was a big exodus to signal for a while a couple years ago when meta were fucking with their whatsapp privacy policy, similar to the exodus from reddit to lemmy.
Having your infrastructure on a cloud provider allows you to keep your costs in line with your current amount of users, if you have a big influx you can immediately scale up to accommodate them, and then when that spike in users dies off as they invariably do you can scale back down instead of being left with a load of hardware you’ve just bought for your new users and now aren’t using>
- Comment on CNC 4 months ago:
strap a dremel to your printer.
You now have a CNC machine
- Comment on CNC 4 months ago:
I prefer “struggle fucking”…
consensual of course
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 4 months ago:
I’m 32, I wear an analog clock on my arm every day
- Comment on Moon talk 4 months ago:
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 4 months ago:
I think that’s what @ArmchairAce1944 was getting at
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 4 months ago:
You have to obey the law of whatever country you are currently occupying.
They’re not “occupying” or even operating here. all the servers have been in Texas since 2008. The British gov are attempting to order non british companies (not operating in britain) to implement features.
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 4 months ago:
British company fines an American company, based in America, for serving data from American servers that was compliant with American law.
This whole law is complete overreach