skisnow

@skisnow@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨School pickup lines are wild⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Lucky I’ve not encountered him, the urge to talk to him like a 5 year old would be too great.

  “What a big truck you have! And it’s so high up! I bet you have to do a big jump to get up there. And look, it says “WAR” on the front, that’s fun! Did you put that on yourself, or did you ask a man do it for you?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’m with you, because I don’t understand why a “dumbass” would be the speed of light.

  Makes more sense for God to measure things in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people find the smell very strong. Something to do with receptors idk? I know someone with a banana allergy who can immediately tell if he’s entered a room with bananas in it from smell alone, even if they’re not peeled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  also, banana strings

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helpful guide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of curiosity, does anyone know how many critical vulnerabilities are currently unpatched in Windows 7?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How bad would running Windows 10 past support be exactly? Seems like most vulnerabilities should have been patched by now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The mindblowing part of it for me is that a company the size of Disney don’t seem to have the appetite to own and run their own servers.

  These are the same people that managed to get two counties redistricted so that they could own their own city, and to this day literally buy the entire electorate by giving housing only to people who vote the way they’re told to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even now it mostly sounds like the sort of line someone in a Black Mirror episode would say

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse alternative to Facebook is what's really missing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One huge problem is that most people on Facebook neither know nor care what sinister things Meta are doing to them. Everyone thinks they’re immune to propaganda, and most people don’t understand the true extent with which they’re being tracked or what’s being done with that data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨English moment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That said, the English language shows how messed up its history is.

  The irony is that Britain is, to the best of my knowledge, the only country other than Sweden whose mainland hasn’t been occupied by a foreign invader in over 950 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tiny tot engineering⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The duality of man -

  Wholesome: dad gets involved with his kid’s hobby and helps him win

  Not wholesome: kid shows up to play with a rigged beyblade someone else made for him, in order to participate in a one-sided competition, predictably breaking the other kid’s toy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A young woman was sexually assaulted while out DoorDashing. Two days after she reported the assault to DoorDash, they deactivated her account and she can't access the money she's owed.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish there was some way to make site owners understand that neither I nor most people object to the occasional ad banner, it’s the “tracking every single thing you do online and selling it to Palantir” aspect that I’m blocking you for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨one bright second⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, I feel like neither empty space nor vast aeons of darkness are particularly pulling their weight in terms of really doing existing with any real level of conviction. It’s easy to be vast if you’re doing fuck all with most of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Duckstein Files⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh why did you have to make Quaxwell hot

  This is going to be a complicated wank

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah whenever I see them I think what story are they trying to tell? Are we supposed to believe that this man decided, right, I want to post something online about $TOPIC, so I’ll get my whiteboard, write my post on that, go to the harbour, get someone to take a photo of me holding it up, and then I’ll upload that photo online so people can see what I think?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that you’re trying to drag completely irrelevant shit into it about paedophilia, shows how staggeringly weak the pro-OpenAI argument is. Get you gone, troll.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨See ya.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, fragmenting into groups was an important part of the book.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Shit. Forgot where I was. My post is sucking Elon’s dick and excusing Tesla for fuck ups.

  Unironically yes, you’re all over this story flooding the zone with shit to try discrediting the whole thing, despite having nothing of substance to offer beyond asserting that nobody knows anything except for you and Elon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve posted this in multiple places without explaining yourself, and your subsequent follow-ups have also just been questioning the person’s credentials and offering nothing of your own. You’re a classic example of the bullshit asymmetry principle, flooding the thread with low effort trolling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not being expected to design a whole new car from scratch though, are they.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I read the article, and I’m calling bullshit on the excuses they’re putting up. The fact that they usually prefer a five year cycle, does not mean that it’s difficult to change the handles on the doors in two years if you need to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m calling corpo lobbied bullshit. 2 years is enough time to put a normal door handle on your car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sunlight special⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this whole thread feels like either I’ve been dropped into a parallel universe or there’s something wrong with my monitor settings. Is it really that weird to not want your food totally blackened all over? The bacon and hash browns in particular look like they was taken out at exactly the right moment, just as they’re showing the first spots of browning. I wonder if maybe the details aren’t showing up clearly on mobile devices or something and people are reacting to that?

  I’m not judging anyone who likes their food overcooked, but there’s no need to be a dick to people who like to taste the meat not the heat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hows keto working out for you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blubber

  Blubber is the primary fat storage layer for some mammals, especially for those that live in water. It is particularly important for species that feed and breed in different parts of the ocean. During these periods, the animals metabolize fat. Blubber may save energy for marine mammals, such as dolphins, in that it adds buoyancy while swimming.

  Blubber has advantages over fur (as in sea otters) in that, though fur retains heat by holding pockets of air, the air expels under pressure (i.e., when the animal dives). Blubber, however, does not compress under pressure. It is effective enough that some whales can dwell in temperatures as low as 4 °C (40 °F). While diving in cold water, blood vessels covering the blubber constrict and decrease blood flow, thus increasing blubber’s efficiency as an insulator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Again you’re just factually wrong. The website operator has a wide degree of control over what can appear on their site in the admin panel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  By your logic, any website with advertising is operating in EVERY country worldwide.

  No. Every ad platform out there has the advertiser choose what region to advertise in. Nobody wants to pay to advertise in countries where they don’t sell their products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If 4chan make revenue by advertising UK goods and services to UK users, then they are very much operating in the UK. It’s not reasonable to make the argument that you should be able to do business with a country and opt out of its laws simply by running the physical servers abroad. We don’t tolerate it for wire fraud or CSAM, but nobody’s rushing out to defend the sovereign rights of child abusers and scammers.

  I don’t agree with the Online Safety Act on its own terms, but this is a dud of an argument.