twig
@twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on I'm back with another great recipe 3 weeks ago:
Ngl I’d fuck with this
- Comment on Musk’s plan to axe X's block button is a real win for stalkers and abusers. 1 month ago:
People need to get the fuck off twitter.
- Comment on It's coming! :( 1 month ago:
I’m really holding out for Ladybird.
- Comment on United Nations wants to treat AI with same urgency as climate change 1 month ago:
Sooo high urgency with zero consequence for missing targets?
- Comment on US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps, TikTok argues 2 months ago:
So ban them too
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
As a lifelong celcius user I have a very intuitive sense of how 23 degrees celcius feels. I have no intuitive sense of how 50 degrees Fahrenheit feels.
If you’re used to a system then it’s intuitive.
- Comment on Peloton announces $95 “used equipment activation fee” 2 months ago:
Yeah I mean I’m not surprised that this business is failing. It always just seemed like a worse and more expensive version of something that was always inherently pretty boring.
- Comment on Kids and their computers these days. 3 months ago:
You forgot the OG: Corn flakes
- Comment on Elon Musk calls for “criminal prosecution” of Twitter/X ad boycott perpetrators 4 months ago:
Lol
- Comment on Take a gander at this 4 months ago:
Cool
- Comment on Rock Eagle Flag 4 months ago:
Right?! I know. It’s so needlessly complicated. When I first learned about this my jaw legit dropped.
I’m not even necessarily proposing a registry but this is just fucking ridiculous.
- Comment on Rock Eagle Flag 4 months ago:
A lot of Americans do actually support some gun control measures. A lot of Americans also don’t actually know how insanely hard and effectively the NRA has organized and opposed any remotely reasonable gun control measure. They basically ensure that any hearing on the subject is flooded by their members to oppose it. They just go and many sane Americans don’t.
The ATF has no ability to have searchable records of firearm sales. To run a “trace” they need to use fucking microfilm or manually go through literal shipping containers full of receipts that are scarcely legible due to water damage. Article Measure to apply for funding for the CDC to study the effect of gun control on gun violence: no, because fuck them. Measure to impose some reasonable restrictions on the ability to purchase firearms for, say, known domestic abusers: no, because we just don’t fucking care.
I’m not American, but I actually support sane firearm ownership. I look at the lunacy over there and I am almost shocked. I really do think, from hearing about this as much as I do, that many Americans support sane measures. But the NRA is a huge problem. It prevents people from even being educated on this issue.
- Comment on Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower 5 months ago:
Fuck leaf blowers. I don’t care if they’re quieter. They son’t really solve any problems. They’re not good at removing debris, but just blowing it to a place where someone else will deal with it.
Also… removing debris on its own is a dubious pursuit, since “debris” could also be termed “stuff that holds moisture longer and slows the effect of drying soil during drought conditions.”
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 6 months ago:
Everyone needs a union
- Comment on Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO 6 months ago:
The fact that generative AI is being used as a means of large corporations consolidating even more wealth rather than attempting to free the working class from shitty, menial jobs shows that we’re way the fuck off with how we conceptualize of “work” as a concept.
This should be a good thing, but for lots of people this will suck.
- Comment on The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco 6 months ago:
America desperately needs to enact policies that put restrictions on wealth accumulation. There are lots of ways to do this.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 6 months ago:
Excellent
- Comment on What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet 6 months ago:
Fwiw I fully support your reasoning that TikTok in particular should be viewed as a source of particularly insidious propaganda at this moment. I’ve been tracking this for years and it seems very obvious to me.
However… when you’re talking about Instagram you’re talking about the company that offered the tools used in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Disinformation on Meta is not new, and quite suspiciously, Meta is shutting down CrowdTangle (a tool developed by Meta for tracking disinformation) just months before the US federal election. wired.com/…/meta-kills-crucial-transparency-tool-…
Fuck TikTok, and also fuck Meta. I can be happy that tiktok might be banned and also despise Meta
- Comment on Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal - The Verge 6 months ago:
Yeah OK that’s fair.
- Comment on Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal - The Verge 6 months ago:
Jobs didn’t know shit. He made a bunch of predictions, some of them right, some of them not at all right. He just took credit for other peoples’ work, mostly Wozniak’s. The man was every bit the piece of shit Elon is.
Worth listening to the 3-part series on Jobs from Behind the Bastards: iheart.com/…/part-one-the-terrible-secret-of-1563…
- Comment on Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal - The Verge 6 months ago:
You love to see it
- Comment on fossil fuels 6 months ago:
I honestly don’t think we need to settle on trans oceanic shipping as a hard requirement.
Also, in terms of transportation-based emissions, personal vehicle usage accounted for 58% of the total emissions in the US in 2019. This number doesn’t need to exist. The fossil fuel industry has structured cities the way they are and lobbied against efficient transportation in order to make themselves more money.
Like even if we’re accepting trans oceanic freight as a given, which I don’t think we should on the scale we do now, emissions could be drastically reduced mostly be better planning of transportation.
- Comment on Wgen you donate, do you ever think of the person that gets your blood and how high their hospital bill will be? 6 months ago:
Tragically, no. I thought so too until quite recently. They did improve things but it’s pretty rough
Since a viral load can be reduced to zero through medication, HIV-positive folks can be non contagious. The use of condoms, even if the viral load is not suppressed through medication, seriously reduces the risk of HIV transmission. They don’t ask questions about condom usage. To be clear I’m not suggesting that HIV-positive folks should be donating blood, just that the actual factors for transmission are way more specific than “butt stuff = AIDS” the way that they imply. The result of this is still excluding queer folks end up getting excluded with language that’s less overtly hostile and more implicitly hostile.
The screening doesn’t exclude people based how many partners a person has slept with, or whether they have used protection (both of which are massive risk factors for transmission) and instead basically forbids anyone who engages in anal sex from donating blood.
- Comment on Wgen you donate, do you ever think of the person that gets your blood and how high their hospital bill will be? 6 months ago:
That is true. And Canadian Blood Services is still super homophobic.
- Comment on Wgen you donate, do you ever think of the person that gets your blood and how high their hospital bill will be? 6 months ago:
So this is letter board is clearly advertising Canadian blood services. Canada’s healthcare system could use a lot of work, but it is far from the dumpster fire that American healthcare is.
If you want to shitpost about this and assume as Americans do that America is the only place, maybe try to find an image that isn’t so obviously from a country with universal healthcare.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 7 months ago:
Pay to play speech
- Comment on Progress! 7 months ago:
It’s super unpleasant both in the delivery (eating a sufficient amount of nutmeg for the effects is hard to do without vomiting, and also in experience. Buuut my experience was basically like a fever drean
- Comment on Progress! 7 months ago:
This just sounds like straight up torture with extra steps.
No rehabilitation, no isolation of dangerous individuals from the general population. I’m decidedly anti-incarceration but at least there are arguments for it in place of something functional and just.
This just doesn’t solve any problems and adds some new ones. It sounds unbelievably cruel.
- Comment on VPN by Google One is shutting down for good 7 months ago:
Which is that?
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 7 months ago:
So that’s actually not true, but for reasons that I think are weirder and more interesting than anything implied by either side of this “debate.”
There are actually about 50% more women who have Y chromosomes than originally expected, and also: microchimerism seems to be extremely common in people who give birth, seemingly regardless of whether or not they give birth to children with XY chromosomes. But the genetic remnants of fetuses that have XY chromosomes stay in the body for many years (possibly a lifetime), and this has a fairly significant effect on genetic composition.
I get what you’re saying and I don’t totally disagree, but I think the main thing that I keep learning is that “biological sex” is just not actually a particularly meaningful concept.