BallsandBayonets

@BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As AI and megaplatforms take over, the hyperlinks that built the web may face extinction⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Penis-free movies, or penis+free movies? Inquiring minds want to know!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bombs Awat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You could probably air drop one goldfish into a 100 gallon tank and it’d be fine (assuming it survived the fall).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It was rigged?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This wasn’t the first boxing match for either of them; their brains are finely pureed already. As proof: they both agreed to this fight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nighttime pollinator gang rise up⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you wanna help moths, combatting light pollution so they can enjoy the moon

  Just be sure to do the combatting during the day, so the fires don’t distract the moths at night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Habits of Insects⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s only one way to filter politics out of your time online: don’t go online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robinhood admits it’s just a gambling app.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It would suck if working class Americans lost their retirement money due to Wall Street getting what they deserve. But what sucks more is that our retirement system is based on letting rich people gamble with your money in the first place!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New mobile features are sh*t these days⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Replacing a letter with an asterisk is still “swearing”. Censorship, on its face, is ridiculous. If the “family friendly” forum allows “swear” words with one or more letters blurred, they’re mindless hypocrites.

  I’m sure you know this, not targeting you with any of my ire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#notaseagull⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Context specific definitions are the bane of my autistic existence. Figuring out context is a waste of brainpower that could be better used having anxiety over situations that aren’t going to happen.

  /Completely serious, but not quite as strongly as worded here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was being raised as a young earth creationist, the earth was supposedly 12,000-20,000 years old. Then it was 10,000 years old. Then only 6,000. After I outgrew that nonsense, I joked that in a few decades YECs would say that their god created the earth in 1980, and anyone older than 40 are agents of the devil sent to test your faith.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s only malware if wealthy companies aren’t making money off of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It may be too late on this front, but don’t say AI when there isn’t any I to it.

  Of course it could be successfully argued that humans (or at least a large amount of them) are also missing the I, and are just spitting out the words that are expected of them based on the words that have been ingrained in them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition at its grocery stores is attracting criticism from lawmakers, who warn it could lead to surge pricing and put customers’ personal data at risk⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish you would! The closest one to me is just under 1,000 miles away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition at its grocery stores is attracting criticism from lawmakers, who warn it could lead to surge pricing and put customers’ personal data at risk⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And now Safeway!

  But don’t worry, there’s still Walmart as an option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Birmingham Travel Guide⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on the endless gray clouds I’m going to say UK (and also that they call a gas station a “garage” despite no mechanics on duty).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t eat bread or drink alcohol, because that’d be making yeast our slaves!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 1900s⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  2019 feels like a different lifetime to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horrors We've Unleashed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The AKC and other “dog standards” organizations should be labelled as animal abusers for their rigid requirements in dog breeds. If PETA wants to do good in this world, that’s who they should be targeting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Femboy or FEM-boy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What about FE-boy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horrors We've Unleashed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah they’re not like wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets, who know nothing but hate and malice in their yellow and black striped hearts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PayPal implements default data sharing with third parties: users must manually opt out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They should have thought of that before hiring Will Ferrell to be a clown in a commercial for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Shorts can now run up to three minutes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are dozens of us them (I assume)!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They just sell the data. If they need user data (beyond basics) they might buy it from a data mining company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Effort require Effort⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Something tells me you’re very fortunate to not have had to work any minimum wage jobs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My pockets’ capacity is determined by the thickness of what I’m shoving in there, not the height. A folding phone is the worst possible thing as it doubles the thickness at the expense of height.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch out, Microsoft Outlook could soon give away when you're sneakily working from home⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Scheduling meetings is easy. Don’t do it. Send an email.

  “But what about when…” No. Email over meetings. You’re not special, your job isn’t special, your company isn’t special, your perceived needs aren’t special. Send an email. If that isn’t enough, send another email. If you get the urge to “give them a quick call”, firmly grasp your phone and hurtle it out the highest window or rooftop you have access to. Then send another email.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they do actually want to cut the high skilled talent. High skill means high pay, and now that they’ve achieved market dominance in pretty much every industry they’ve stuck their penis into they don’t need talent. Lower skilled, and therefore lower paid, employees can do just food enough to keep everything from burning down just long enough for the C-suite to get their bonuses and cash out. After that, who cares, they’re on to their next grift.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You could also think this applies to all corporations in some degree. But no, there’s a fresh batch of bright eyed optimistic people out of school people desperate to not be homeless or starve every year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someday, when society goes fully paperless, paper cuts will be a thing of the past⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Society will never go fully paperless. If we would have it would have been around 1998. Though I suppose depending on which apocalypse scenario gets us, there will be a time when paper cuts are a rarity only suffered by the few brave souls who scavenge the ruins of the Before Times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I dream of the day I can get my own brain to actually create normal levels of dopamine that I don’t get addicted, then tolerant, to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a prompt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have brought shame on my class and my patron.