sugarfoot00
@sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca
- Comment on “Donated” plasma today 6 days ago:
Yeah, but the snacks are great. But I miss the pre-covid era of soup and Cookies by George.
- Comment on Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t. 1 week ago:
Exactly. It’s not like google is the only indexer out there. And if this cuts into their search dominance, so much the better.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 1 week ago:
Pour it in an empty jar. let it cool and then put it in the fridge. It keeps nearly indefinitely.
- Comment on goodbye plex 1 week ago:
You can run them concurrently and let grandma continue to use plex.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 3 weeks ago:
People talk about China’s energy use like it’s not* their* energy use. They used that power to produce the stupid shit that you bought, dumbass. You’re responsible for that energy use, despite it being generated in China.
- Comment on Elon Musk has done more damage to the Tesla name than Thomas Edison could have ever hoped to do. 3 weeks ago:
I enjoy the fuck out of him being trolled by the Canadian electric truck manufacturer Edison Motors as well.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 3 weeks ago:
You don’t fix this by lecturing young men. You fix it by giving them a sense of purpose and identity that doesn’t rely on putting someone else down.
Sounds like they need the shit slapped out of them.
- Comment on Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction 4 weeks ago:
That’s exactly where all the value is. Selling people’s fucking genetic information. What makes it even more valuable is that it can be used against all subsequent descendants of the person that willingly gave it up. Do a DNA test like this and you’re selling out your entire family.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 4 weeks ago:
Spicy water. Gross.
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 5 weeks ago:
You should familiarize yourself with Telsat Canada’s LEO plans. Should be complete in less than 2 years.
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 1 month ago:
Fyi, Skype was officially killed by Microsoft on May 5th, earlier this month.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 month ago:
One of the security upsides to plex is that any number of people can log in with the same credential.
That means that while Plex can harvest information- what account, what’s being watched, IP address, device and player identifier- It doesn’t know who to attach that information to. So you can get dozens or maybe hundreds of users polluting the same account with watch information. Less useful information to be sure.
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 1 month ago:
Oh please. That doesn’t make the math any more forgivable. Every investor made a choice. The fact that it’s an institutional investor and mutual funds doesn’t sever the provider of the money and their demand for returns from the ethical issues of what the companies are doing.
Don’t fail to hold equity investors like this to account because they’re holding grandma’s retirement hostage. That’s on grandma too.
- Comment on Aggressive negotiations 1 month ago:
Isn’t Spanish for cable just cable (Cah-blay)? That’s what I’ve seen used in Mexico.
- Comment on Aggressive negotiations 1 month ago:
As a Canadian vending machine, the Cheetos removal may well have been political in the first place. I notice just about everything in there is made in Canada, unlike Cheetos.
- Comment on Aggressive negotiations 1 month ago:
If I was the vendor, I’d stock the whole thing with Cheetos and then snip the cord myself. Fuck that guy.
As an aside, this appears to be a Canadian vending machine (Miss Vickies, Lays flavours made in Canada, Canadian chocolate bars), so the Cheeto switch may have been political.
So to this guy- Get used to superior Hawkins Cheezies, and elbows up.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 1 month ago:
The only time I’ve ever seen one in use was a friend that had a shed that was powered with lights etc. He had an external plug box on the shed, and would use one of these to jumper from his extension cord to that external plug. It worked, but I shuddered when I saw it.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 month ago:
I love that this guy is in an Ivy League school to meet his ‘co-founder’, when it’s hard to believe that someone that knows nothing and is intellectually incurious could ever found anything of value.
- Comment on The Home Depot tax at work! 2 months ago:
That’s not true at all. It really depends on environment and proper curing. Where I live, carpenters will rarely use dimensional lumber that’s been stored indoors for these very reasons. It’s stored sheltered outdoors, where the air is dry but temperatures can fluctuate between +30C and -30C depending on season. When it’s been through that, it doesn’t automatically screw up like a silly straw the moment you bring it indoors into a warm and more humid environment.
- Comment on The Home Depot tax at work! 2 months ago:
Slowly grown wood is going to be as crooked as fast grown wood
No, it’s not. Slow growth leads to a tighter grain, greater density, and reduced moisture content. All of those things make it stronger and more stable. That means less twisting and warping.
But because it is increasingly rare, it is generally more expensive.
I recently did a renovation on my 1953 bungalow. The Douglas fir studs I removed from a wall are both laser straight and tough as guts. That wood is so hard that you can’t drive a modern nail into it without drilling a pilot hole first.
- Comment on The Home Depot tax at work! 2 months ago:
I learned to hate Phillips-head screws with a passion that’s lasted the rest of my life so far
You sound Canadian. You’re ready to enter the wonderful world of Robertson screws.
- Comment on History Channel 2 months ago:
Boy, you coulda just said that you don’t subscribe to any philosophy that doesn’t fit on a bumper sticker.
- Comment on History Channel 2 months ago:
Canada, most of Western Europe, Scandinavia- All have a greater blend of public and private responsibilities. Because there are some areas of interest that *benefit *from monopolies. Single payer health care. Industries vital to national security (resource ownership like Norway or Mexico as an example). Canada’s government-created Telsat celecommunications put the first commercial telecommunications satellite in orbit in the 70s, and now as a former crown corporation is set to have a better high-speed competitor to Starlink operational by 2026. Fire departments. Policing. Schooling. There are lots of examples where a socialist approach is preferable to unfettered capitalism.
- Comment on History Channel 2 months ago:
Wealth inequality is gaining traction. The standard of living of the average poor American is better today than it was in the 1960s. What has changed is how we feel about it. Wealth inequality makes us mad, but it has not resulted in worse overall living standards on an absolute scale.
How you can manage to speak with your head so far up your own ass is an amazing magic trick. Wealth has been decoupled from productivity for more than 50 years now. That’s just facts.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 2 months ago:
Like the way California people say their O’s
As a Canadian, it’s all I can hear when they speak.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 2 months ago:
Use a different email and a different browser. Turn off IP tracking in settings. You may even need to use a VPN.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 2 months ago:
Absolutely. I lost my 15 year account for using the phrase ‘burn it all down’ entirely metaphorically. They really, really didn’t like Canadians pushing back. Fuck those guys.
I hope Reddit dies in a fire, and not a metaphorical one. One with the ownership group literally aflame. And I’d like to roast marshmallows over that fire.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
We have fully truncated it to just thumb because of how it feels more unique to the others
Kinda like the goalie on a hockey team or the drummer in a band. Still on the team, just a bit weirder.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 2 months ago:
There used to be a market for small trucks which has all largely evaporated. I’m all in favour of a smaller utility truck with limited range. Something like this would be ideal for my business.
- Comment on Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene 2 months ago:
Fuck I still hate them for the minidisc