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- Comment on xkcd #3132: Coastline Similarity 1 day ago:
My layman’s understanding is that the water mostly makes up for it, and that more wobble comes from the moon than any inconsistency in land-mass distribution
- Comment on Refreshing to occasionally see an honestly written obituary 1 week ago:
For everyone asking about the husband, looks like he did indeed bail on his kids and set up shop on the coast with a new family.
- Comment on Shit's getting real 1 week ago:
All that honeybee suffering…
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 3 weeks ago:
Eg., Phil Fish of FEZ and Indy game: the movie fame is another who seems unable to ignore negative feedback and massively overreacts to it.
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 3 weeks ago:
Here’s a video and a few links for you.
vimeo.com/9924049 …com.au/…/policy-driven-porn-norms-a-deep-dive-in… smh.com.au/…/why-the-government-might-need-to-sta… …com.au/why-australian-law-demands-all-vaginas-be…
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think South Africa wants him back either.
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 3 weeks ago:
Australia is pretty weird about porn too. For years their rules basically ensured all female porn actors get boob jobs and took scissors to their labia.
- Comment on Laptop dreams 3 weeks ago:
Agreed. I prefer a ‘proper’ dock like the HP ultra Slim dock 2013 or the Lenovo ThinkPad pro dock, where you set the laptop into it and you’re good to go, but times change and the current usb-c thunderbolt docks are reasonably decent now. One cable if your laptop doesn’t have insane power demands, or two if you use a laptop with >100W draw
- Comment on They're completely serious 4 weeks ago:
I’ve got some bad news for you about Ron Glass …
- Comment on Donald Trump Said He Promised Ivanka He Wouldn't Date Girls Younger Than Her | “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.” 😬 4 weeks ago:
At that time she’d been asking for 1 year older than her, but for reasons unknown Don refused to budge on that.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 4 weeks ago:
For the sake of semantics, there is a difference between saying “I want to” and “I will” when it comes to threatening, and it’s on par with how saying “in my opinion” can save you from liability due to slander.
“I want to” isn’t a threat in the eyes of the law. Well, American law anyway.
- Comment on well? 4 weeks ago:
I believe MotoAsh was talking about the local hole which is different from the more recent we’re in a black hole discussion.
I was not stating that the unprovable is actually fact.
- Comment on well? 4 weeks ago:
Nah, there’s been a bunch of discussion about our entire universe being inside a black hole.
- Comment on well? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 5 weeks ago:
You joke but this is happening to an Airline Callcenter I used to provide contracting services for. It’s being used as a scapegoat for bad decisions made at the C level several years ago.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 5 weeks ago:
You know they’re dockable, like a laptop, right?
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 1 month ago:
Absolutely. For example:
seralth@lemmy.world said:
…Hitler… …sounds good.
- Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam 1 month ago:
No, it’s a sad tale that would be amusing if it wasn’t real people, and has occupied a lot of brain time at 4chan and among gamergate-involved persons. If you want to know more, knowyourmeme has a reasonably objective article.
- Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam 1 month ago:
Randy’s twitter poll was stupid. He should have asked “if BL3 is exclusive, will you buy it on that platform?” With the options
- Yes, if it’s steam
- Yes, if it’s Epic
- No
- STFU Randy, your breath smells like farts
- Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam 1 month ago:
The writing in two was really good. I didn’t and still don’t care who got the writer’s WiiU, I just cared that the story was fun.
- Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam 1 month ago:
Phil Fish struck me as someone who needed to huff either his own farts or copium to get through the day. I hope he’s doing ok now.
- Comment on When you work for a company owned by a A..hole 1 month ago:
Same in ours.
Myself and another guy went to a tech junket that was by invite only and they gave away a laptop to one person from each company who attended. My boss tried to take the laptop from the other guy saying “that was a gift and you need to turn it over to me”
I’d already cleared it with our corporate conflict of interest ombudsman - if I’d accepted it, it would have been an issue because I had purchasing authority, but other guy was “just” a tech who couldn’t sign off on anything or even make recommendations to anyone other than me, we didn’t have an existing business relationship with the vendor, and we’re not obligated to conduct any business with them as a result of the gift.
I told my boss to take it up with head-of-department (whom I’d copied in on the ombudsman comms.)
Other guy kept the laptop, and boss got ‘audited’ for gifts received (they pulled his emails) and was demoted into a position he wasn’t able to handle (more technical than he was capable of, but on paper should have been able to do) and pushed out of the company soon thereafter.
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 1 month ago:
I wonder if the archive.org cases had any bearing on the decision.
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 2 months ago:
When did WhatsApp start allowing signups without a phone number?
- Comment on The Plane That Crashed Yesterday Was the Same One a Dead Boeing Whistleblower Warned About 2 months ago:
George C. Boldt went from rags to millionaire when millionaire meant something. He was able to outright buy a competing hotel to the one he already owned less than 20 years after coming to America as a dish washer. This was in the late 1800s, before income tax and massive corporations.
In fact, it’s believed by many that Boldt’s story inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jay Gatsby.
Andrew Carnegie is another notable immigrant who went from near-naught to millionaire.
Or if we’re allowed to include Americans, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford
As corporations grew and income tax was introduced, it became nearly impossible for someone working a menial job to put enough money away to ‘rise up’ and join the ranks of the elite. The most recent examples people cite, like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, etc. came from wealth already.
Now, do you want to continue this discussion? If so, I kindly ask you stick to actual facts, and stop trying to insult me and/or inferring I wrote things that I didn’t.
- Comment on The Plane That Crashed Yesterday Was the Same One a Dead Boeing Whistleblower Warned About 2 months ago:
The American dream was made impossible with the introduction of income tax, although the granting ‘personhood’ to corporations was a contributing factor too.
- Comment on Pangolin 2 months ago:
Mint offers 32bit support, unless you’ve got a really old cpu.
- Comment on Pangolin 2 months ago:
Interesting. This could be a decent secondary use for my VPS
- Comment on Pangolin 2 months ago:
Ok so what is pangolin? I’m only familiar with the animal and its role in the pandemic.
- Comment on US Border Patrol detained a nursing mother and separated her from her infant daughter to the point that she needed medical attention as a result of not being able to nurse 2 months ago:
I was 'welcome home’d by a US CBP officer after flying into Washington from Africa…I’m not an American, and don’t have American residency, but I’m white and speak with a neutral dialect.
I think you’re right.