tomenzgg
@tomenzgg@midwest.social
- Comment on I am gorge 1 day ago:
Damn it, I was just about to post it!
So good.
- Comment on Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up 5 days ago:
In a properly functioning world, this could easily be coupled with particular education on power dynamics and a lesson on consent, giving proper attention to why this might be more harmful to get than to him.
Of course, – so long as we’re in this hypothetical world – you’d just have that kind of education be a part of sex ed. or the like for all students, to begin with, but, as we’re in this world and that’s Louisiana…
- Comment on Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote 6 days ago:
I don’t think he’d won his election; I also think it was a local election, rather than a federal one? But, I’ll admit, I hadn’t been following his race very closely.
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- Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy 1 week ago:
Besides your point but this is the aspect about Gorsuch that I can’t seem to make internally consistent. He almost always rules in terms of native rights – even when, I think, it stretches his supposed originalist guiding principle – yet is more than happy to vote as a conservative on all other times and support “industry” and big business (even when it stretches his supposed originalist guiding principle).
I know that nothing necessitates a person to act logically and most act from emotion, more than anything, but most people, I find, have a relative reason they think they’re being logically consistent but I can’t seem to suss even that out, with regards to him.
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 1 week ago:
I can’t speak for how viable it is for success or whether it’s just a grift (as I haven’t had the time to really research into it) but feels like as good a time as any to mention that, out in Australia, The Pack Music Cooperative is fundraising for a cooperative music streaming service: www.thepackaustralia.com.au
They haven’t raised a lot towards their goal, yet, and could probably use an the help they can get. As a cooperative, they’ll side step a lot of the probably problems a corporation like Spotify or Tidal will have and they already are dedicated to prioritizing artists and their rights.
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 1 week ago:
I made a promise, Mr. garretble: a promise. “Don’t you make me use any other browser,” said my nan; and I don’t mean to. I don’t mean to.
She’s still using Windows XP.
- Comment on It is what it is 2 weeks ago:
Maybe I read it wrong but (to me) the meme makes it sound like Google’s taking the local data (that’s supposed to be forgotten, once you close the browser window) and sending it over to Google for them to, I dunno, run analysis on.
If they’re saying that Google sites (like YouTube, Google search, etc.) were collecting data when I visit them (as, unfortunately, sites do), then I’d say, “Well, duh;” but this makes it seem like they were exporting your local data off to their cloud which, like, they could obviously, technically do but wouldn’t very much be in the spirit of how Incognito mode was portrayed.
- Comment on Scientists discover promising new way to filter microplastics out of human body: 'The dose makes the poison' 2 weeks ago:
Oh, and I suppose you’ve figured out a more modern way to balance the humors‽
- Comment on Tough, Tiny, and Totally Repairable: Inside the Framework 12 2 weeks ago:
Same; I simply can’t use a laptop without mouse buttons.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 3 weeks ago:
I expect it’s just a taste thing; water tastes fine but, like, it could taste more interesting if we added a bit of sugar or flavor to it (I was a huge justice fan).
For my own end, it was an easy way to keep my emotions/mood simulated or engaged against my depression that was low effort and easy to supply; that said, I switched entirely to water last year and, now fully comfortable drinking nothing but water and being fairly averse – previously –, I can’t say the previous reasons really make that much of a difference for me, now. Maybe it’s just having drank to my non-water content, already, but drinking nothing but water’s been pretty great and removes low-key health fears I always had.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Recession indicator 1 month ago:
To save you what turned into a whole year for me, – if you have anyone else who can help you – tag team applying. I only started to see consistent interviews once my husband started helping and we started not only flooding every listing we could but, also, routinely applying before a lot of people got to them.
Good luck; one of the worst years of my life.
- Comment on There he goes 1 month ago:
For real; have no idea what the caffeine amount was (very well could’ve been far less than both if you) but I took an edible with caffeine, once.
Tried it once, before, and barely noticed anything so I popped a second one, this time around.
Naturally, forgot I’d taken anything and only vaguely became aware, an hour later, than my heart was pounding. Trying to figure out why your heart is thundering out of your chest while stoned to Hell is probably not high on the Most Effective list.
- Comment on 7 for me 1 month ago:
Usually 20; been doing 5, lately.
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 1 month ago:
I don’t know that I agree that breadboxes were solely used in times/cases where the risk of mice getting to the bread was present but I get your reasoning.
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 1 month ago:
To be fair, you originally said, “the real reason,” but have just listed three different equal reasons.
- Comment on Awooo 1 month ago:
This means that even in left-leaning communities like Lemmy, we’re seeing a majority of individuals speak out and very clearly say “This does not offend me.”
Has that been by people who are mentally disabled, though?
And that leftist spaces struggle with meaningfully engagement with systems of ablism has been a point of contention for…decades, now.
- Comment on EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis 1 month ago:
soooo…you’re not very good at finding information that isn’t presented to you, evidently.
At least they choose the utmost ironic username for it.
- Comment on People have private conversations on speaker phone but if I participate then I'm the crazy one 1 month ago:
People have private conversations in public but, if I join in, I’m the crazy one~
Like, – yes – those people will have to accept that people may overhear them while talking about their subject but this isn’t a new phenomenon. People have always done this.
This is just the dynamic of public spaces.
- Comment on Understanding your target audience when marketing 1 month ago:
- Comment on Understanding your target audience when marketing 1 month ago:
I watched a recap of that on YouTube, one time; sleezebag is right.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Everything is political; how much you notice really is just a metric of how much a particular subject effects you.
This is such a great example.
- Comment on Anyone? 1 month ago:
Yeah; when those lines are horizontal – though –, you may want to worry. But vertically, usually not.
- Comment on French culture 1 month ago:
In the end, it’s all subjective but – if you’ll hear me out –
thogh
doesn’t alter the current spelling very much while maintaining a linguistic heritage (as the “thogh” spelling was also likewise used, during Middle English); also, the number of words ending in just the “o” vowel is less common, I feel, and will probably look doubly foreign to a native English speaker due to the consonant digraph (though, again, subjective; maybe not).However, – additionally – saving “oght” for “thought” is giving that letter combination a sound already covered in English by another letter combination: “aught” (e.g. caught, fraught, taught, …thaught…?).
Finally, a single “f” for “tough” could work (certainly, there are examples) but we miss out on employing the Germanic linguistic tendency to indicate a short vowel sound with a double consonant, inherited by words such as “ball”, “fall”, “doll”, “call”, or “puff” (of course, there’s plenty of exceptions (“get”, “bet”, “mat”, etc.) but, so long as we’re making changes, firming up an existing rule (and avoiding the brief uncertainty of whether or not the reader is dealing with a prefix) would, arguably, be useful).
- Comment on French culture 1 month ago:
“Thogh thaughts are tuff,” in a more blessèd timeline.
- Comment on At least 4,500 Americans per year die from hydroxyl acid exposure 2 months ago:
Probably because that’s what some had been told they would be taking before entering the slaughterhouse; but just a guess, on my part.
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 2 months ago:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made."
is generally interpreted to mean that Jesus was there from the beginning. Or, to quote the Nicene Creed,
begotten and not made, consubstantial with the Father
- Comment on Do it 2 months ago:
I Remember Everything (in My Ass)
- Comment on Do it 2 months ago:
Thank you, Mario!
But our princess is in another cavity!