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- Comment on 4 days ago:
This is how you learn you’re colorblind.
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 6 days ago:
Ngl, given how much the average transfemme enjoys tech and building 40k minifigs, I think they would get some enthuastic volunteers. Hell, a lot of them will bring their own cages.
- Comment on This Fall, Florida Students Will Be Forced to Take “Anti-Communist” Classes 1 week ago:
I think anti-communist education works much better when a.) the majority of people aren’t suffering massively under capitalism and b.) when you don’t have a collapsing “communist” nation across the pond with which to say “We told you so!”. It’s way easier to point to the wonders of capitalism when you see people pulling themselves out of poverty by working their 9-5 factory job and raising 4 kids on a single income, and much harder when that system is now making you finance a $5 burrito, with interest.
- Comment on You could be entitled for compensation 2 weeks ago:
Sure, I’m not saying it’s necessarily a good thing that we’re still using it, but recognizing and treating it as a serious carcinogen rather than something benign goes a long way to improving the amount of harm it causes
- Comment on You could be entitled for compensation 2 weeks ago:
Still is, honestly. We still use asbestos in a ton of stuff, but we’re just generally a lot more careful about using it fortunately, and not doing as many open-air asbestos shoveling competitions upwind from the schoolyard.
- Comment on Ouch 3 weeks ago:
Nick Shirley, the “Minnesota Somalian daycare fraud” guy. If you watch him talk, or do much of anything, it is pretty clear he’s not particularly sharp.
- Comment on misleading cover 4 weeks ago:
Also the title is literally called “The Staff”
- Comment on The Japanese flag is a too-scale map of the solar system. 4 weeks ago:
It’s just out of frame
- Comment on Retro StarCraft prizes 5 weeks ago:
Having also been in Colorado and being big into mining at the time, I can tell you that you would have sold when it hit the ATH of $1000, or definitely when MtGox happened and it halved almost overnight. I worked at Microcenter at the time and remember all the people returning GPUs after that crash. Everyone likes to think they would have held this whole time, but you’d have been a fucking greedy idiot if you had seen something so volatile, made 1000x returns and still said “Nah, I’m gonna hold”
- Comment on furry transfem 1 month ago:
🙋🏼♀️
- Comment on Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement 1 month ago:
It’s one thing to continuously move dates like that, but the uniqueness of giving a 3 month window and saying it with such confidence is very amusing to me.
- Comment on Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement 1 month ago:
“3 months maybe, 6 months definitely” is still one of my favorite quotes from his timeline estimates.
- Comment on Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement 1 month ago:
“3 months maybe, 6 months definitely” is still one of my favorite quotes from his timeline estimates.
- Comment on Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Those crazy margins lasted for like 2 quarters until it was revealed that one of the main ways they managed it was severely under allocating warranty. It was a neat trick, until vehicles actually started to come back with warranty claims and they realized they literally make the least reliable and most expensive to repair cars on the market. IIRC they were allocating like 1/3 of what Toyota does per-vehicle, which is absolutely insane given the kind of vehicles they make. Hence why they became insanely stingy with warranty claims, and you saw tons of in-warranty repairs being allocated to “goodwill” which is a distinctly different pool from warranty allocation.
The entire company is built on fraud and shell-games with SpaceX/Starlink/Boring Co. and Musk has straight up admitted as much. No one gives a shit and a judge literally ruled he’s allowed to do it because line go up.
I can rant for hours about all the insanely sketchy stuff they’ve done solely for a one quarter boost, and plenty of other stuff where their cost-cutting directly resulted in loss of life.
- Comment on If trump is really implicated in Epsteins pedo-ring what is your theory as to why this wasn't leaked by an opposition leader? 1 month ago:
The worst part is that it’s not his relationship that he’s calling a “wonderful secret”, that was literally public knowledge for decades. It’s the child fucking he’s all giddy and “secretive” about
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 1 month ago:
Sort of. He basically said, that as a guy, being attracted to someone AFAB that was extremely masculine, “Hulk Hogan with a pussy” being the direct quote, was gayer than being attracted to someone AMAB that was extremely feminine, “Megan Fox with a dick”.
- Comment on Is this even a question? 2 months ago:
You’ll get the plate for $6, but anything on it is extra.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s AI Grok Goes Rogue with Posts Suggesting Trump Is a Pedophile and Erika Kirk Is JD Vance in Drag 2 months ago:
Jerika
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I just upgraded to a foldable phone and it’s a game changer to have an 8in screen in your pocket. Reading long form content is so much more enjoyable, and I’d love to have an E-ink reader that folds like my phone does.
- Comment on There exist people who will go through the effort of leaving their home, traveling to a movie theatre, paying for a ticket, and sitting for 2-3 hours for a movie they claim "nobody wants to see" 2 months ago:
Having a theater subscription has definitely made going to movies far more enjoyable tbh and one of the only subscription type services I have anymore. It’s way easier for me to just pick a random afternoon, drag a friend along and take more chances on a movie when, as you said, I’m not “paying” for that ticket.
- Comment on Well, when you frame it like that it sounds absurd. But yes. 3 months ago:
It’s not that he paid them directly, but Twitter has a monetization feature for blue-check accounts where you can effectively get paid for engagement farming.
- Comment on iSweep 4 months ago:
Fortunately/unfortunately, they didn’t get bought by Amazon. I only say unfortunately because they made a lot of business decisions expecting it to go through, and when it didn’t, has caused them a ton of trouble. They seem to be hanging in there pretty well and this current gen of bots seems to be pretty solid. I’ve had iR stuff for over 20 years now and have generally only had good experiences, so they’re still my go-to.
- Comment on iSweep 4 months ago:
I just bought one of the new 705s that has LIDAR and it’s been pretty fantastic. Most of their new lineup has LIDAR now and it’s been pretty good compared to my old j7’s vSLAM. I’m really not a fan of them being app based and hope that they’ll eventually work with Valetudo, but with 2 huskies and cats I just really don’t want to have to manually vacuum every single day.
- Comment on Related: https://lemmy.wtf/comment/16937362 5 months ago:
I wonder if they just hired too many and the effects stacked
- Comment on The Music Community Right Now 6 months ago:
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 6 months ago:
Unironically, this was exactly how the announcement at my old company went. Literally, someone getting paid millions of dollars a year basically saying “Yeah we made this decision on vibes alone”
- Comment on Foolproof advice 6 months ago:
That’s kind of an insane gift for a first date given how expensive cheese is.
- Comment on Cyclops would be a very different character if his eyelids weren't laserproof 6 months ago:
I thought that’s what his eyes were, and the lens just reflected the energy back into the “energy dimension”?
- Comment on Bad impression 6 months ago:
Perchance?
- Comment on 👁️🐽👁️ 6 months ago:
Eventually, yeah. I had an issue with contacts when I was younger as I have to wear thick toric lenses, which allow very little oxygen through. I would wear them way too long, and I was warned that continuing to do so could cause eventually cause blindness
