BallsandBayonets
@BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world
- Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku 1 week ago:
It gets better, because all the money they “lost” on a movie they can also write off. Oops, we didn’t make any money this year because we put out 10 billion dollar movies and only made 10 million at the box office. Tax break please!
- Comment on San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave 2 weeks ago:
It’s too late, the landleeches have already taken over. Any city remotely worth living in is too expensive to live in, and will remain that way until we eliminate the landleech class.
- Comment on Jesus could have been an antique meme à la Chuck Norris that got waaaay out of hand 2 weeks ago:
Based on my understanding of non-religiously biased history, the character of Jesus Christ is an amalgamation of many Jewish prophets who preached a generally similar message.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 weeks ago:
People who would ever consider voting for the Toupee have no standards. No bar, no logic or even thought goes in to who they vote for.
The people who are planning to vote against the Toupee have standards. And the Democratic party has continually failed to meet those standards. And the only time the people have any power to pressure a politician is when they’re running for office. Anyone claiming “just vote in the D, then we can focus on getting progress made” is a centrist who is ok being perpetually part of the oppressed class.
Yes, we need to vote against the Toupee, and the GOP in general. We also need a presidential administration who will get progress done. And since the human species has, at best, 30 years left before the majority of the world is uninhabitable, little baby steps won’t cut it.
So Harris and the Dems have a high bar. Because the alternative is fascism, or death by climate change.
- Comment on Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that? 2 weeks ago:
A $10k emergency fund? Even banks don’t carry enough cash these days for a working class person to be able to rob a bank to have that kind of money.
- Comment on Average game chat censorship 2 weeks ago:
Did the Finals finally get text chat? I remember getting annoyed that I couldn’t yell at my teammates when they played like morons.
- Comment on Average game chat censorship 2 weeks ago:
But then you have to see penis while writing penis on the blacklist!
But I do wholeheartedly agree. Censorship should be opt-in, and no one should be bowing to government censorship.
- Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. 2 weeks ago:
Some people actually think they can tell the difference between 70 and 72 Fahrenheit and those people could save a lot of money on medications by switching entirely to placebos for everything.
- Comment on The Uruguayan company teaching people how to turn regular cars into EVs. 2 weeks ago:
Ooh, I’ll have to remember them in the unlikely event that I ever have money. I want nothing more than a 80s F150 retrofit to be all electric.
- Comment on Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges 2 weeks ago:
We’re currently rhyming with history from less than 100 years ago (the rise of fascism), I don’t think having a warning is enough to prevent it from happening again.
- Comment on Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges 2 weeks ago:
Humans are just one of the many influences on Earth’s climate
Proceeds to list a bunch of other things that are the fault of humans.
- Comment on It genuinely upsets me that Valve spent their time and resources on another Dota variation 3 weeks ago:
I’d like them to do an RPG, something completely off the wall, like the TF2 crew playing D&D.
- Comment on With the amount of microplastics we're carrying around in pretty much every tissue in our bodies, is our weight measurably different as a result? 3 weeks ago:
What goes in, eventually comes out the other end.
- Comment on Hundreds of Brits used website to look for ‘suicide partner’ 3 weeks ago:
The site, which we are not naming
That’s a refreshing thing to read
- Comment on Peloton announces $95 “used equipment activation fee” 3 weeks ago:
Do you see an alternative? Each year more companies move to a subscription model, even when it doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense. In many cases if you have the time to do proper research and/or a lot of technical savvy, you can find alternatives from companies no one recognizes. Most people don’t have the time or know-how, and the companies that like subscription models are spending billions making sure their names are the only ones people think exist.
- Comment on No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. 3 weeks ago:
The majority of others aren’t. The technology also isn’t exclusive to Google, or won’t be for long. Forget placing drugs on a person to have an excuse to arrest them, there will be photographic evidence, completely fake, of anyone counter to the system doing whatever crime they want to pin on us.
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 3 weeks ago:
The whole point of the Settings “app” is to remove the user’s ability to do anything on their own computer. The old (and far more functional) UI of the Control Panel won’t get updated because Microsoft wants users to get scared when the unpretty UI appears.
- Comment on Greed is a vice, I'll take 1 3 weeks ago:
A pound of flesh for $1? Even chicken is at least $6/lb!
- Comment on In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past 3 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t even need AI, a coin flip would do just as well.
- Comment on About 500,000 trees cut down at site of Tesla gigafactory near Berlin | The Guardian 3 weeks ago:
Bet if we bury him in a spacesuit and a chrome coffin he wouldn’t know the difference.
- Comment on Commentary, behind-the-scenes features, bloopers: What did we lose when we said goodbye to DVDs? 3 weeks ago:
I want to live in the world where the F&F franchise never stopped doing practical effects, and actually launched a car into space.
- Comment on Texas judge who bought Tesla stock won’t recuse himself from X v. Media Matters 4 weeks ago:
Of course not, that would make the justice system a little more fair.
- Comment on i like welch's 4 weeks ago:
Application fee is $600 (non-refundable), additional monthly fees for parking, trash, pest control, landscaping, an amenity fee to cover the twice a year that we set out a bowl of candy in the front office, a maintenance fee, a convenience fee to pay online, and an inconvenience fee to pay offline. Just kidding on that last one, we don’t accept offline payments. On move out there’s a $400 cleaning fee and a $600 carpet replacement fee that we charge to every tenant whether we clean the place or not, oh and we painted before you moved in so it counts as a renovated unit, so that’ll be an extra $150/month.
- Comment on We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why 4 weeks ago:
Nationalize Google search circa 2008 (or whenever it actually was good pre-SEO), kill off everything else.
- Comment on This post 4 weeks ago:
What about the ER? Get yourself checked in for a mental breakdown or the like, stay the night. It’s not like they will be able to collect on the bill if your income is measured in cents per day and your address is “under the overpass near that one busy intersection.”
- Comment on Mandalorian 4 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t even say that. The law exists to protect the powerful and doesn’t care if it feels fair to you or not.
- Comment on Google’s Pixel 9 lineup is a Pro show 5 weeks ago:
I always used to jump models, going back all the way to the first Nexus. This’ll be the first time I don’t. Unfortunately I know the Pixel 7 I have now will have its battery life mysteriously go to shit about three months before it’s paid off.
- Comment on Could an animal be taught how to throw accurately? 5 weeks ago:
Hey now, that’s not fair to say. Most Christian denominations promote terrible science education, not just the Mormons.
- Comment on Average consumer now carries $6,329 in credit card debt. 'People are stretched,' expert says. 5 weeks ago:
They said do crime, not do evil.
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 5 weeks ago:
Left of fascism, but not leftist. Bernie frickin Sanders is barely left of center.