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- Comment on Next round on you! 1 day ago:
You’re about to get mad at him for taking so long but then you realize it’s only because he was having trouble carrying a dozen pints.
- Comment on Word up 1 day ago:
They were so expensive at their peak and I’m convinced it was due almost as much to raw amount of material as it was their popularity.
- Comment on Word up 1 day ago:
No no, I voluntarily moved on to skinny jeans around 2005. Don’t worry, I eventually voluntarily moved on from those too.
- Comment on If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil, here is one very good reason: personal data of 1 BILLION people just leaked. 5 days ago:
Why? Little corporations must comply with KYC law, too. They’re all required to gather personal data. Big or small, the data hoarding is required.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 2 weeks ago:
Movim looks very promising and I haven’t heard of it before, thanks for highlighting it. My group has been working to stand up a few Prosody (XMPP) servers but as far as client side the best we could identify was Gajim. This looks better.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 2 weeks ago:
Federate or die.
- Comment on But bro please 2 weeks ago:
My guns are a last stand deterrent. I don’t want to shoot anybody unless I know that they intend to shoot me.
- Comment on Genes be crazy 2 weeks ago:
Not just crushed ants, I smell it when they’re scared and running as well. Calm ants though, they don’t smell to me.
- Comment on Genes be crazy 2 weeks ago:
Yes, beetles in general don’t smell great to me. They leave a fecal-like scent on my fingers when I hold them (Which I’ve always assumed is some sort of musk and not actual feces). I can smell ants too, but it’s only when they’re scared: They seem to release a chemical that smells to me like Windex the moment they realize they’re possibly in danger. I didn’t know that made me special, but I do know that others might not be able to smell it as I’ve had conversations about this with people who didn’t know wtf I was talking about. I’ve heard that it might be formic acid? Not sure.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 5 weeks ago:
I can hold out on not buying a new car a hell of a lot longer than the American economy can survive under a tariff regime.
- Comment on We didn't have this option as kids 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hostile architecture 1 month ago:
“That disabled person stole your
cookieseat” - Comment on I fucking ♥️ industrial society and its consequences 1 month ago:
More accurately it’s capitalism and it’s consequences but go off, kaczynski…
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 1 month ago:
And my monthly power bill has tripled to subsidize them. I’m paying for several new PCs for someone whether I like it or not.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 1 month ago:
And after 26+ years of friendship, my buddy chose this month to be the month where he finally hunkered down and built his first PC. Of all the times to build a budget parts list for a friend…
- Comment on My silence can hold no longer 2 months ago:
I’d recognize the Dudes of Hazmat’s bouncy rotoscope style anywhere.
- Comment on THIS is an inventive idea 2 months ago:
I meant that lightheartedly, though I do think that doing 5+ year grows on agricultural lots for purely gimmick purposes isn’t too great, at least from a resource management and ecology standpoint. I’m not here to argue against christmas trees though, I just think LePoisson’s rebuttal that one instance of a thing isn’t a problem because we do lots of instances of that thing is logically flawed. I’m here to argue against the logic, not the trees.
- Comment on THIS is an inventive idea 2 months ago:
I feel like that makes the problem seem much worse, and not better?
- Comment on I fall for it every year. Every. Year. 2 months ago:
In fact from what I’ve picked up over the years it’s kind of a meme in finance ie, “The price of X follows the return of the McRib!” when really both X and the McRib are just driven by the same larger economic factors and not by each other.
- Comment on NEVER OBSOLETE 2 months ago:
There’s still Debian support.
- Comment on NEVER OBSOLETE 2 months ago:
Where is the lie
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 2 months ago:
He might also be doing a runaround on NY gov Hochul re: securing state funding for his NYC program agenda. it puts lots of pressure on her to play nice with him.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 months ago:
Yeah it’s a cropped AI upres of a video still, this is the original.
It’s the Curiosity Rover team celebrating a successful world-first rocket crane landing.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 months ago:
No, but our Treasury Secretary recently floated the idea. I believe there are already some 40-year mortgages, but they’re rare. The 30-year mortgage has been an American institution since it was standardized under FDR’s New Deal.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 months ago:
They’re considering offering a 50-year mortgage product to a market where the average first time buyer age is 40. Like no joke they’re aiming to lock people into a mortgage that would cost more per month than renting the same property until they’re 90.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 months ago:
Probably because it’s a cropped section of a shitty AI upres of a video still, here’s an original.
It’s from 2012 when the NASA JPL team did a successful first-ever “rocket crane” landing to get the Curiosity rover to the surface of Mars. It was actually a really touching / exciting moment, there’s lot of other photos out there of the team hugging and celebrating.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 months ago:
The guy who facilitates your mortgage contract isn’t getting your mortgage payments. The corporation that employs them is. The guy is making a wage or maybe just an hourly salary, plus commission.
By your logic, the checkout worker at costco is skimming off your wages to gate your access to food and clothing.
Even a sleezy car salesman who is trained to convince you to sign an extortive contract isn’t oppressing you. He isn’t betraying you at a class level. His plight is exactly the same as yours.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 months ago:
Being able to tell the difference between a fellow worker and a class traitor isn’t bootlicking!
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 months ago:
No, they’re not. A lot of them don’t even have a degree in anything.
Your personal financial advisor is a person you should be able to trust with your important financial decision. They guy at the bank handing you a contract to sign is a bank employee with a script on rails, a manager, and a commission structure.
In a better world it wouldn’t be like that but in a better world I don’t think I’d be going to a bank in the first place.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 months ago:
Yeah every commissioned salesperson you don’t like is literally nazi ss. Go off, moron.
