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- Comment on The "We Tried" Award 5 weeks ago:
I mean Obama and Henry Kissenger got Nobel Peace Prizes.
- Comment on Just one more 1 month ago:
The traffic in Beijing and even more so Seoul really disappointed me. Why do so many people drive when theres subways and buses every 2 minutes at rush hour? I mean I get Beijing a little, all the roads are so wide and the subway stations are so massive, but seoul even has dedicated bus lanes that beat cars at rush hour, and people still drive.
- Comment on The Elder God 1 month ago:
Do you know if theres another “low drama, federate with most everyone” instance .ee users are headed to? .ml is fine, but it requires a VPN here in China.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 month ago:
Also see Libya’s nuclear program.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 month ago:
Humans have rights, not states, and Israel’s existence as an apartheid state is mutually exclusive with the rights of the humans living there.
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 1 month ago:
I am glad your friends and family are more technically literate than mine or the people I meet.
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 1 month ago:
Asking for someones email when they ask for your whatsapp is weird.
It would be nice if I didnt need a dozen chat apps,each with their own faults, but being able to communicate with friends and family is more important than software evangelizing.
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 1 month ago:
SMS has issues if youre traveling a lot or want to send large files. Nobody has Signal and Im not going to ask someone I just met to install a new app.
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 1 month ago:
Half of them are boomers or have the tech literacy of boomers.
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 1 month ago:
When I tried to move my family to Telegram, only 2 managed to successfully install and verify a client.
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 1 month ago:
Do you have WhatsApp? No Telegram?
I dont have that one, none of the clients seem to work on my phone… Wechat?
Cant verify, SMS doesnt get through. LINE? lol I dont have a japanese number. Kakaotalk?
No… …discord?
Sure!
Shit he’s 30 seconds from finding out Im a furry.
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 1 month ago:
That exists, you can get switch form factor hall effect joysticks on aliexpress.
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 1 month ago:
450 USD and they won’t spend an extra 40 cents on hall effect sticks?
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 1 month ago:
Also all their examples of non-violent successes had violent factions demonstrating the alternative.
- Comment on An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" 1 month ago:
Sure, they can work with the Hong Kong protesters, Lamas, and Cuban patriots. Maybe some Free Syra Army guys can help too.
- Comment on An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" 1 month ago:
No, even in 1776, there were contemporaries who mocked a bunch of rich slave owners talking about freedom while stealing land from native americans. American freedom had always been the freedom for the ruling class to exploit the underclass.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 month ago:
No, being in poverty is really bad here, but I just picked SK out as a close example, old folk becoming recluses who only interact with Fox News and people serving them is pretty specific to American and/or car-centric culture. Hell even car-centric parts of america have retirement communities where they all drive scooters or golf cars.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 month ago:
Why not move to a place where low mobility doesn’t cut you off from the rest of society?
There’s plenty of retirement communities where you can get around with a golf cart. In the 3 biggest cities here in SK, old folk can ride the subways for free, and sometimes you even see them drive mobility scooters on.
Other places I’ve been have level boarding for buses, but I’ve never seen someone drive a mobility scooter onto one. Certainly it wouldn’t fly in SK.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 month ago:
Im not sure how true that is, at least FL requires you to renew your license more frequently as you get older. Idk if its just a vision test though.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 month ago:
Higher up and brighter lights=driver can see more and feels safer. Yes, even if shadows and the area immediately arounds the car are less visible and the vehicle becomes more dangerous for everyone around you.
- Comment on Why is lemmy so political?! 1 month ago:
Yes, with very weird emphasis.
- Comment on Why is lemmy so political?! 1 month ago:
Jeremy Clarkson:
- Comment on Why is lemmy so political?! 1 month ago:
Also Star Trek and FLOSS are both intrinsically political.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 2 months ago:
Shhh youre not supposed to think critically, just nod along, be thankful for your freedom , and remain prepared to liberate those poor brainwashed souls.
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 2 months ago:
Lead is not magnetic.
- Comment on Who needs it? 2 months ago:
I mean I’d rather China know everything about me than America, since as an American citizen, America is a much bigger threat.
But lets be honest, whether I get an iphone, samsung, or huawei, both countries are going to have all my data.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 2 months ago:
Eh, I kinda like the ephemeral nature of most tiktoks, having things go viral within a group of like 10,000 people, to the extent that if you’re tangentially connected to the group, you and everyone you know has seen it, but nobody outside that group ever sees and it vanishes into the ether like a month later makes it a little more personal.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 2 months ago:
That’s generally a good thing, those kids don’t need their bullshit going viral outside of tiktok. Give it 3 months for Instagram to pick up 5% of it, and then FB can pick up 5% of that.
