athairmor
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- Comment on The american crypto mafia 49 minutes ago:
Looks like the big crypto exchanges allow you to borrow/short sell.
There are crypto companies that are publicly traded as well as crypto ETFs. You could short sell those.
Personally,I wouldn’t risk it with how crazy crypto is. It’s seems way too easy to manipulate.
- Comment on TIL: UnitedHealthcare Caught Paying Off Nursing Homes to Let Seniors Die Because Hospital Transfers were “Too Expensive” 1 week ago:
Obviously, consumers want this or they would switch to a competitor. Free market will take care of this if it’s really a problem. ~/s~
- Comment on Southport attack survivor calls for kitchen knives to be blunt tipped 2 weeks ago:
Everything is a potential weapon.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Do you gut it, first? Or, do they stay put while you remove the meat?
- Comment on FLP02 retro case 2 weeks ago:
They should have the pipes screensaver running on the monitor.
- Comment on Ground control to Major Trial: When a $130M aerospace company chooses to endlessly abuse opensource free trials instead of typing git pull, you start to question gravity, or at least common sense. 2 weeks ago:
Don’t know why they don’t shut them out from the trials. It’s good business to fire customers that are costing you money.
- Comment on I'm guilty of not reading the f..ing documentation 2 weeks ago:
Confluent?
- Comment on Opening my eyes slightly more evokes an emotional response. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it creeps people the fuck out.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You keep posting about this and I don’t think it’s healthy.
You are not responsible for your parent’s divorce.
Posting on the Internet will not help you. Talk to a therapist. It can take a lot work to change this mindset. You need someone to guide you. Random people on the Internet cannot do that.
- Comment on Being called a loser for liking animation while the entire world is falling for AI slop is beyond. 2 weeks ago:
Who’s calling you a loser for liking animation?
Like what you like. If people denigrate you for it, weed them out of your life.
- Comment on FBI opens inquiry into 764, online group that sexually exploits and encourages minors to self-harm 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like the investigation started under Biden. If they shut it down now, they’ll look (even more) like they cover for pedos.
- Comment on Elk could return to UK after 3,000 years in new rewilding plan 3 weeks ago:
Probably. Thumbnail shows an American elk for me but article shows moose.
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 3 weeks ago:
On second thought, do wear any/all of those and be sure to wax your mustache. Leave a hat or box for tips, I’ll throw some in.
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 3 weeks ago:
Just don’t wear a vest, bowler/tophat or wingtips.
- Comment on When you think about it The Sun is actually at the very bottom. 4 weeks ago:
Does that make people with solar panels “bottom powers” or “power bottoms”?
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, even of the companies don’t pocket the difference, he’s an idiot to suggest that this will cut inflation.
- Comment on Over 250 CEOs sign open letter supporting K-12 AI and computer science education 4 weeks ago:
Learning how to obey the AI? Learning to recognize AI hallucinations from when the AI is just plain wrong? Learning how to put your classmates’ faces on porn?
That’s at least a quarter to a semester of material.
- Comment on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge 5 weeks ago:
There are at least some languages that use AI voices exclusively and they are shit.
On the one hand, having an AI to talk to sounds like something that could be good. Getting a real person to talk to every user would be impossible. I just don’t think the technology is going to meet expectations any time soon.
- Comment on Is there any lemmy instance that's truly liberal enough to tolerate a completely divergent point of view ? The EU norms are not for me, and I'm also far far away from the MAGA politics of USA !!! 5 weeks ago:
If you run into an asshole in
the morningone instance, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholesall dayin every instance, you’re the asshole - Comment on Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025? 5 weeks ago:
Does ChatGPT incorrectly put spaces around the em dash, too? There should be no spaces around an em dash—that’s a clue that implies a human writer.
And, em dashes and en dashes are great—they should be used more often.
- Comment on Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025? 5 weeks ago:
Future Shock isn’t about the 70s or any decade being “better.” It’s about the effects of rapidly changing technology not that technology shouldn’t change.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 5 weeks ago:
This kind of thing makes me lose hope for humanity—the tendency for psychopaths to rise in power. Maybe that actually helped us advance to a point but it’ll definitely hold us back from evolving to something more equitable for all.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 5 weeks ago:
Yes. I’d have to learn their language first, anyway. I already know bits of modern versions but not much. Then, introduce the warning of invasions and teach them English with the caution that people speaking groups of people speaking will bring death and destruction.
It’s not like they’ll already have a fear of English or any concept of the language before I teach it to them.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 5 weeks ago:
Do my best to warn the locals of the coming invasion. Learn their language and teach them English and tell them not to trust any group of strangers who speak it.
Help improve their technology as best I can. I’m not sure how much I’d be able to improve it. At least, teach them to wear masks and wash their hands when around sick people.
- Comment on Can anybody anywhere in the world 🌍 create a website like lemmy and Mastodon with possibility of creating multiple instances and feed it into the fediverse so that it gets shared into both lemmy and? 5 weeks ago:
Lemmy and Mastodon aren’t centralized. Instances can federate with other instances as they choose. If your instance has, for example, a lot of bigoted communities and users, you can expect the bigger instances to de-federate from yours.
You can always federate with instances that reject “EU norms”—whatever that means—in a bubble of your own.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Orgasm Addict by the Buzzcocks.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Make it dad’s ex-wife to really get to him.
- Comment on Gold hits $3,500 for first time as US dollar sinks to three-year low 1 month ago:
Eventually, you’ll need a consistent currency.
If a farmer needs to buy an axe but his crops are still growing, what does he use? His plow? Sheep? Daughter? He needs all of these things to keep his farm going.
He needs credit but he doesn’t want the axe to cost a fortune in crops with interest. And the axe maker doesn’t want the risk of handing out axes if crops fail.
What if there’s a way to store credit? Something durable, rare and easily divisible like gold is perfect. Farmer can trade crops for gold. Now, he has something he can trade over the winter and while crops grow in the summer.
It doesn’t have to be gold but it should be rare or tightly controlled to avoid runaway inflation. Bartering doesn’t scale. You need a currency and gold works.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
They will definitely ask if you purchased anything. You can lie but if you get caught expect little to no leniency.
Can you get away with it? Probably, for some stuff. Is it worth it? You’re rolling some dice, you decide.
- Comment on What would the world look like if every worker got together and Unionized for a universale wage that helps everyone? Instead of one country trying to screw over another? 1 month ago:
It’s almost impossible to tell or coordinate.
What currency is the universal wage in? USD? EUR? CNY?
Is it the same everywhere? Do you adjust for purchasing power? How?
What you’re suggesting requires global cooperation on a scale that is inconceivable today. Nations would have to give up economic power in ways that no one would do today. You’d need a global government. We are nowhere near that and probably won’t ever be unless an extraterrestrial threat exists.