spankmonkey

@spankmonkey@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't mind!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  So like the ugly duckling, but smell instead of appearance?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't mind!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the kitten was born a skunk and just had to discover who they were!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Could Go Wrong? App to help parents find childcare on demand⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Raising a child, supporting family and friends in need, being a positive and supporting coworker. I oppose shitty conservative policies that begatively impact others and while I’m not successful in eemverything I do I have an overall positive impact on society.

  I don’t make apps that suck money out of the childcare system and encourage price fixing. I see that as massively worse than any positive benefits the person who created the app provides to society.

  What benefit do you provide to the world?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With Tim Pool in the White House Press Pool, will we ever find out what's under that beanie?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump probably thinks Tom Tim Cotton runs the cotton industry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With Tim Pool in the White House Press Pool, will we ever find out what's under that beanie?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume his skull doesn’t go higher than his eyebrows, so it is beanies all the way down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Could Go Wrong? App to help parents find childcare on demand⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I only shit on the obviously horrible ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as we are using enshittification for anything gping downhill my word example is lose getting an extra ‘o’ which makes reading ‘I hate it when I loose my keys’ painful. Why the hell is that so common now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Originally it was a good descriptor of tech companies starting out as useful and then turning to shit as they leaned into becoming profitable, but if you was to use it as “things get shitty in favor of profits” then I guess it could apply to everything.

  I liked the original where it had nuance and was a good shorthand specific to the tech trends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Could Go Wrong? App to help parents find childcare on demand⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Calling something the uber of anything is a huge fucking red flag. Uber is well known for exploiting its workers, skirting laws, and other shady practices. Why would we believe this will connect people to quality affordable healthcare?

  This exists to make the Salyer rich. It is not a benevolent setup if she refers to herself as an entrepreneur. This is her inserting herself as a middleman to suck money out of the childcare system. The app already encourages the providers to price their services based on the surrounding area, which is either encouraging them to be underpaid like uber drivers or to inflate prices so Salyer can take a cut, or both. It is already bragging about manipulating prices in that article.

  So many red flags, I just pointed out the obvious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How your showerhead and fridge got roped into the culture wars⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Proper pressure = quicker showers and replacing the showerhead less often because the hard water buildup doesn’t turn the lazy river pressure into a trickle. Needing to double flush a low flow toilet sucks too.

  Agriculture in the wrong areas and useless lawns are the real water wasters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Could Go Wrong? App to help parents find childcare on demand⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Entrepreneur Gretchen Salyer created June Care, the app considered the “Uber of childcare,”

  Mmm, yes. Childcare’s race to the bottom!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video!⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  But shittier!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The youtube algorithm is so bad, I say to my screen "why the fuck would I care about this!?" like 10 times a day.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The algorithm is a combination of things they think you want to watch and things they want you to watch. The latter are things that tend to keep people watching, increasing ad revenue for youtube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best take your blood pressure to get the most accurate results?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have a blood pressure measuring device, follow the directions.

  To ensure it is accurate, take it to a medical professional and ask them if they will help to verify the accurracy or what they advise. One person I know did this and the nurse they saw took it a few times, had them run the machine a few times, and told them how to position themselves. They also were able to confirm it was a couple digits off and gave them the ranges they should worry about when using the machine.

  The nurse also noted that a precise value is not super important, just whether it is outside a safe range or has large changes in a short period of time because blood pressure changes constantly. Taking it the same way each time is the most important thing to help notice changes over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord appoints former Activision Blizzard exec Humam Sakhnini as CEO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been looking but haven’t found one yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord appoints former Activision Blizzard exec Humam Sakhnini as CEO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Does matrix handle livestreaming with a half dozen friends as easily as discord?

  Chatting and sharing with a few friends is all I habe ever used it for and would hate to lose that ability. Discord is dogshit for larger communities for sure, and I stopped trying to access game specific ones after trying a few out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s game over for people if AI gains legal personhood⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Till we get to a mythical stage of agi that can actually decide globally if it thinks a company should exist or not and what purpose it should have, this is more or less same as the status quo.

  This will never happen because why would the humans in power let an agi exist that is beneficial towards the general public? The idea that agi will ever be a beneficial replacement for humans certainly is a myth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s game over for people if AI gains legal personhood⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  AI CEOs would be trained on human CEOs so they absolutely would.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is paying Samsung an ‘enormous sum’ to preinstall Gemini⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Whhhhyyyyyyyy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do office workers actually do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  In Office Space the main character seems like some kind of analyst, maybe a project manager who makes sure things are getting done as planned and addresses. The other two guys from the office were software developers if I remember correctly. The annoyimg lady answering phones was a receptionist.

  So it varies widely depending on what needs to be done and who it is assigned to. I have worked in the same IT department for over 15 years and had four different positions working with the same large software systems doing very different work (help desk, testing, requirements, project management). I interact with security people, administrative assistants, and even directors as part of the work.

  ‘Office work’ is more of a description of the location and setting than the work itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Morpheus Actor Laurence Fishburne Reveals He Was Turned Down for The Matrix Resurrections — So He Might Not Be Back for Matrix 5 Either - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume it was because the story involved everyone around Trinity and Neo being different/recast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use other federated software besides Lemmy (e.g. Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc.), if so which?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the only federated software that I use because it is the only one in a format I enjoy using. I liked reddit for the threaded forum kinda format, so lemmy was an easy transition.

  Never liked facebook/twitter/instagram or those formats so no interest in a federated version of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s Social Media Surveillance: Social Scoring by Another Name⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Better slap a “safety” on there to show the administration is thinking about children.

  …thinking about children’s safety. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's latest flying car prototype showcases a breakthrough in urban air mobility, offering a glimpse into how low-altitude flight could soon integrate with everyday transport.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You completely glossed over the small, agile part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In heat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it contradicts itself within the next couple of sentences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's latest flying car prototype showcases a breakthrough in urban air mobility, offering a glimpse into how low-altitude flight could soon integrate with everyday transport.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Drone swarms are groups of small, agile devices with no passengers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's latest flying car prototype showcases a breakthrough in urban air mobility, offering a glimpse into how low-altitude flight could soon integrate with everyday transport.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That is one of the many problems, yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pronunciation is important⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  hiph

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't believe it let me do that⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is likely that they don’t already have a way to exclude certain numbers from the report and block feather yet, but will implement one if the number of people blocking it gets too high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's latest flying car prototype showcases a breakthrough in urban air mobility, offering a glimpse into how low-altitude flight could soon integrate with everyday transport.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So yeah, if you ignore the parts that make it more complicated it seems easier!