CompactFlax
@CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 2 days ago:
Red onions are best.
- Comment on The invention of smartphones probably made the idea of international travel less intimidating since you now have a pocket translator tool and can find your way in a foreign place with GPS navigation. 3 days ago:
Conversely, the rise of social media (enabled by ubiquitous smartphones) has really impacted tourism negatively. Try sitting in a historical site trying to appreciate the ambience while someone does a TikTok dance in front of you. Could be a religious site, museum, or Auschwitz.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 3 days ago:
When I flew recently, I wore a mask fortunately but needed to eat on the plane so some mask-off time. I’m not sure the plague stuck though; I’m a bit under the weather but not as bad as my seatmates. 🤞
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 3 days ago:
I have mercifully not experienced that. Usually, I get stuck between two people with communicable diseases who missed the early childhood education experience of being told not to wipe their nose on their hands, cover their mouth for coughs, wash their hands etc. Fml.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 3 days ago:
Stay off airplanes.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 3 days ago:
One of us!
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 3 days ago:
These people are balanced out by the ones who use onion slices as dippers in humus with ungodly garlic ratios, and the people who eat ghost peppers like popcorn.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 6 days ago:
My screen is 2160px tall and 3840 pixels wide. If it’s at the bottom, I waste nearly 1.8 times the number of pixels.
- Comment on Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results 6 days ago:
Facebook app set up a local server on the iOS device that received pings when a browser loaded their tracking pixels.
I feel like that behaviour falls under my definition of spyware. I know it’s not as malicious as it could be, but still.
- Comment on Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results 6 days ago:
I understand the economics are challenging but it’s been a race to the bottom. There were and still are some really high quality apps, but so many trash!
- Comment on Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results 6 days ago:
One of the reasons that the App Store purportedly exists is to provide quality software rather than malware and spam.
I guess that goes out of the window as soon as money appears.
You can literally type the name of an app and the first three results are, if you’re lucky, competitors. More often than not they’re pure junk.
- Comment on When you realize it's time to trade in your old sedan for an SUV 6 days ago:
Check your privilege, says the person with a back yard!
Also - don’t they sell saws in your country? You can make a corpse into backpack sized pieces. with a bit of effort.
I’m on a list now, I bet.
- Comment on First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving 1 week ago:
Conceptually neat, but the reality is that wireless charging for even small devices like phones is a pretty significant waste of energy, at scale. The amounts of energy involved with wirelessly charging a heavy truck - or even car - would be unconscionably large.
It’s a bit like uber with their not-a-bus bus service. Humans already invented a solution that works really well. It’s called a pantograph.
- Comment on Russian border guards briefly crossed into Estonia, Tallinn says 1 week ago:
“No threat to security,” says interior minister of state that has been repeated threatened with annexation by the megalomaniac head of a neighbouring belligerent state.
- Comment on Construction magic 1 week ago:
Ironworkers.
- Comment on I'm not even gay 1 week ago:
Their interpretation of scripture is literally god’s word
FTFY. That’s where they get the wilggle room “oh he didn’t mean love one another like that”
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 1 week ago:
I’ve got a couple variations in a drawer. I don’t use a lot of honey so I don’t use them a lot.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 2 weeks ago:
If you’ve got enough employees that notices are tacked to a wall, and you’re not doing a million in sales, you don’t have much of a company!
- Comment on The amount of ghost towns in the US and elsewhere will skyrocket in our lifetimes and become a normalized thing 2 weeks ago:
Well that’s the thing. We have tons of water here. We don’t irrigate. There’s no datacenter. Yet we still managed to fuck it up.
But I agree with your statement. Places like AZ and CA are crazy, growing lettuce and almonds and lawns and having bathtubs and pools is really bizarre behaviour in a desert. We’ve really lost touch with nature.
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so financially strained they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2 weeks ago:
Kill the unions
Wonder why there’s nobody left to work
These retiring boomers are leaving a union position and taking a pension in many cases which is not transferred to the next generation. Management has been squeezing and squeezing.
Without the union pay and with the spike in housing costs, it shouldn’t come as any surprise that the third generation in a row that re told that blue collar work is awful is not getting on board with the least fulfilling version of blue collar work.
- Comment on The amount of ghost towns in the US and elsewhere will skyrocket in our lifetimes and become a normalized thing 2 weeks ago:
I in a city that is a confluence of two rivers and the next city over is known for its aquifer.
Yet, the city government has hired consultants to come up with ideas for how to handle expected water shortages in the area as a result of development. Not to get all /c/collapse but it sure does make me feel negative about humanity’s effect on the planet.
- Comment on Is it even feasebal to find 12 people who have not been screwed over by insurance for the Luigi trial? 2 weeks ago:
That’s also an outlook that needs to change. The billionaires want to keep you just happy enough and just nihilistic enough that you don’t revolt.
- Comment on Is it even feasebal to find 12 people who have not been screwed over by insurance for the Luigi trial? 2 weeks ago:
Very good point. That’s the “it couldn’t happen to me” attitude which is just ignorant.
- Comment on Is it even feasebal to find 12 people who have not been screwed over by insurance for the Luigi trial? 3 weeks ago:
Feasible
The number of people who think that healthcare in the USA is just about perfect is evidently quite high - or the situation would change. So, it probably is easier than you think. There’s a lot of healthy people out there.
- Comment on Is laying on your stomach every once in a while good for you? 3 weeks ago:
Sure.
- Comment on Is laying on your stomach every once in a while good for you? 3 weeks ago:
If it feels good you’re fine. It felt freaking awesome when I was recovering from a herniated disc as prescribed by a physiotherapist. Lying that way is at least as effective as “decompression” from a chiroquacker. I can’t imagine why it would be harmful.
If you’re scrolling and your neck isn’t supported your neck muscles will not thank you.
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 3 weeks ago:
Ok, yaml is fair game for a LLM. Whitespace sensitive language should die in a fire, markup or otherwise.
- Comment on EU agrees deal to ban Russian gas by autumn 2027 3 weeks ago:
Next year bro, I promise. Just one more winter, bro.
Just checking, Germans still are building coal plants instead of nukes, right?
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 3 weeks ago:
And nothing of value was lost.
- Comment on Have you noticed the new way of promoting horrible food by telling you it has lots of protein 3 weeks ago:
“Zero carb!” - a ton of artificial sweetener and fats. Makes up for the carbs twice over with fat, leading to pretty high caloric density
“Source of protein! - has some protein in it, perhaps more than another product in the category, but protein still is probably less than 50% of the carb content by mass, and also has fat. Never mind the quality or bioavailability of the protein.
Protein is starting to enter the zeitgeist as something that is helpful for muscle maintenance during weight loss and for helping with satiety. But like anything, if you don’t pay attention, reading the ad copy not going to help reach your goals.