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- Comment on Replaced my electric resistance water heater with heat pump, dramatic reduction in energy usage 16 hours ago:
Are these things reliable? I’m not in a position to replace currently but I do like to think about these things before the need arises.
I’ve had gas tanked for years. What I appreciate is that they need nothing from me. I flush the tank once a year and that’s it. They just do their job quietly and without need. I don’t think about it, and I love that.
I’ve been burned with crappy modern appliances. Tried front load washers, three and they were all crap. Sometimes wouldn’t spin, they were smelly, expensive and unreliable. Switched back to top loader because it just works. Same experience with a dishwasher. Used very little energy, but did a lousy job, was expensive and had to fuss with it constantly.
I’d like lower energy costs but not if the thing won’t work or have weird conditions. If five people who live in the house can overrun it with two showers, thats not useful or if it takes an hour to heat a tankful.
- Comment on US | Epstein scandal broadens as trove of letters from famous figures published 16 hours ago:
Because hes overrated, not funny and screwed Conan. He is undeserving of his success.
- Comment on US | Epstein scandal broadens as trove of letters from famous figures published 23 hours ago:
Also, HE’S NOT FUNNY!!!
His movies are forgettable. He’s like Jay Leno, popular beyond all reason for having done nothing meaningful.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 1 day ago:
It would have to get pretty bad before people would be willing to forgo convenience.
That stuff is a nasty drug, very addictive and people will sell everything they got to keep it. They’d rather pay and arm and a leg instead of learning a little technology so they could help themselves.
People will slave themselves to the company that lets them be the most ignorant person possible but still enjoy the fun of technology.
Could you imagine if all mobile devices stopped using face recognition to unlock phones? I’d be willing to bet that a big chunk of people wouldn’t be able to use them at all. I’m surprised that google and apple haven’t started charging extra for that.
- Comment on hygiene 3 days ago:
Aeron chair with a crumb tray under.the mesh. Empty the tray once a year and hose down the chair every other.
- Comment on Canada’s Bill C-2 Opens the Floodgates to U.S. Surveillance 4 days ago:
So we have the EU and their bullshit (which also has global scope), we have credit card processors and their bullshit, now we have Canada and some.of their own bullshit.
On one hand, we have been talking about the potential for full surveillance across the internet for a while, so this is hardly a surprise, but everyone all at once? What the hell is behind this new massive push?
It seems that the response to this will be a lot of services moving to countries that dont give a shit about us/EU laws and a rise in cryptocurrencies. It will take a while before the common folks to get pissed enough to figure it out, but all things have limits.
I presume there will be a patchwork of country-level blocks put into place, VPN blocks, tor filtering etc. This feels like the end of the open internet as we know it. It has been a greed fueled mess for a long time now, but this round of government invasion feels like the final knife in the chest.
It will suck for users, it will be expensive for any company to maintain compliance, it will be horribly complex from a technology perspective if any of these layers break and it will be a goddamn nightmare to secure. Organized crime hackers are going to have a field day once they get access to all the stuff being monitored and logged. Encryption backdoors will take it to a whole new level.
- Comment on Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats 5 days ago:
What? No, this is a horrible practice.
If you can’t figure out how to set identity-based ACLs you shouldn’t be working in technology! Oh I’ll just set this shit to any/any and figure out later. FUCK ANYONE WHO DOES THIS IN THEIR LEFT EAR.
- Comment on Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats 5 days ago:
I agree. The reality is that nobody should be trusting these platforms with such sensitive data. As demonstrated, there is so much that can go wrong when you trust these companies. This is a LOT of risk for very little reward.
Whatever you put online you should think “what if this were made public and attributed to me” before you post it. - Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 5 days ago:
I’m going against the majority.
It can be made into a weird situation, but the act itself is pragmatic and likely comes from a caring place.
Every parent with a son knows that theyre buffing the helmet any chance they get as teenagers. They’re gonna make messes, ruin washcloths, use all the hand lotion, etc. Any parent who thinks their son ain’t beating their meat like it owes them money is delusional. Long before your kids get to masturbation age, the parent(s) should have talked about it. If you wait until they get to the age of shame, that is going to be an uncomfortable and unproductive conversation. If you have had an ongoing and open dialog about sex, masturbation, their bodies and other topics, talking about some of the details later will not be a taboo topic. Thusly if the parent offers a masturbatory device to the child, it won’t be weird unless someone wants to make it that way. If the conversations have not taken place and you still want to get your kid a sex toy, you could just order something online and leave it for them without saying anything. You could also get them a gift card to the sex store so they can get something for themself. While I presume most teenage boys dont want to share their private acts of self - gratification with their parent, there is no reason why there cannot be practical honesty about them. Get your kid a sex toy, leave it in his room, and unless he wants to talk about it, assume that he will get many hours of satisfaction from it.
- Comment on What's the easiest way to get hookups without seeing escorts? 5 days ago:
If you’re not able to go out and get some ass in the next 48 hours from a stranger, then you should probably not be replying with advice. For better or for worse, op is looking for a quick shag. Telling him to go to the library or church to find a gentle and kind lover who will appreciate him for his personality is not what is being asked for.
Son wants to clap some cheeks and wants to know where he can find a population of the sort of women who wants to get they cheeks clapped without a lot of questions.
I don’t know if it is a realistic request, but thats what he asked.
- Comment on Researchers quietly planned a test to dim sunlight. They wanted to ‘avoid scaring’ the public. 1 week ago:
So does this mean that sunlight will now be something we pay for?
Pay your sun bill or its February forever
- Comment on She's a keeper 1 week ago:
Yes! I was going to write something, but I loathe crosstreks and their owners to the point where I didn’t want to waste my own time.
- Comment on Lemmy has a problem 1 week ago:
Say it loud
- Comment on She's a keeper 1 week ago:
Oh lovely, the Subaru Crosstrek. The automotive equivalent of a bearded man in hiking boots who’s never seen a mountain. Yes, yes—220mm of ground clearance, symmetrical all-wheel-drive, and a CVT that responds to throttle like a golden retriever responds to algebra.
You call it an apocalypse commuter? Please. The only thing this thing has ever survived is a steep mall parking ramp. It’s not a rugged off-roader—it’s a cosplay Jeep for people who think flannel is a personality. This car talks a big game about conquering snow and gravel, but starts hyperventilating the moment it sees a hill and a headwind at the same time.
And let’s talk about power—actually, let’s not, because there isn’t any. Merging on the motorway in a Crosstrek isn’t just dangerous, it’s spiritual. You put your foot down, say a quick prayer to the gearbox gods, and hope that the CVT decides to simulate a gear that moves you forward rather than just turning fuel into unpleasant noise. Resale value, Swiss Army knife, duct tape metaphors—fine. But at the end of the day, it’s a hatchback with hiking stickers, delusions of grandeur, and the acceleration of a depressed tortoise.
It’s not that the Crosstrek is bad. It’s just that it pretends so very hard to be brilliant—while delivering the dynamic excitement of a soggy oat biscuit.
- Comment on She's a keeper 1 week ago:
Oh bless your heart.
You realize that.a young woman who is even mildly attractive can pretty well have her pick of men her own age. She dont want no tubby dude 20 years older, wearing clothes from Costco and driving around in a Subaru crosstrek.
Once us guys hit our 40s we just disappear into the hedges like homer, just part of the background.
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- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 1 week ago:
Also, think about who is here. Stats for Lemmy.ml say that it’s freaking 90% male and about 40% from the US.
We have a pretty thin slice of the pie here. I’m not saying that this is right, but it does explain why you see such a concentration of bad behavior. Also, the age group for Lemmy is primarily 30-39.
www.similarweb.com/website/lemmy.ml/#demographics
The reality is when you have a concentration of any one demographic group, you’re going to see this sort of thing. With a lack of diversity across all categories, you get yet another echo chamber. Unless we get some more people in here who are not more of the same, Lemmy is going to turn into 4chan real fast.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 1 week ago:
BUT WE HAVE FREEDUM!!!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Its cheaper just to find a fleabag lawyer to talk to the prosecutor. They can get the points removed and change the offense to something like a broken muffler ticket. You still pay the fine, sometimes a little less, but it doent put points on your record and the insurance company won’t raise your rates.
Source: have done it several times. Costs between $200-300 for lawyer which is far less than the cumulative cost of insurance increases over time.
- Comment on A real lifehack 1 week ago:
I’m not going to read that article, but I am going to switch to an all-pizza and bourbon diet.
If it doesn’t work, I will not be held responsible for my actions.
- Comment on The struggle 1 week ago:
Oatmeal is peg feed. At least thats what my Italian wife says. Won’t touch it.
Also, I’m not young. Do typical people really have this hard of a time shitting? I don’t eat super well, but I can cut a log like a lumberjack. I sit, shit and split.
Eat a veggie y’all.
- Comment on The struggle 1 week ago:
So you’re saying you have a stool stool?
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 1 week ago:
I never understand places that dont have some sort of work management methodology.
In technology, we often use agile. Its complicated, but one key part is that the individuals determine what needs to be done to get an overall effort completed, creates the individual tasks in an application, schedules them for completion and makes notes about status as they go.
Its a little micro, but it ends all questions of “is this person working”. Either theyre getting stuff done or they aren’t. We have regular sessions to check progress and reports are generated on an ongoing basis. If someone is dicking around it shows up real fast.
I can’t imagine that places still just raw-dog all the work. What is Joe doing. No clue. When is he going to finish? Dunno. How is the project going? Beats me. Are we staffed appropriately? Good question.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 3 weeks ago:
Also: sls.eff.org
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 4 weeks ago:
Huh? Richest dude on the planet did and nothing bad has happened to him. Sadly, it appears to be 100% ok to go full Hitler anymore.
If only these people would go FULL Hitler and finish themselves off (sooner rather than later).
- Comment on Happy No-more-USA Day 4 weeks ago:
The lead brained boomers are the ones who need to see it most.
There is little value in preaching to the choir.
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot falls Atari 2600 Video Chess 4 weeks ago:
Perplexity says:
The priest cannot be left alone with the child (or there is some risk).
Not bad, and it solved it correctly.
- Comment on We did it everyone, the future is here! 5 weeks ago:
This isn’t a shitpost at all, its just the sad fucking truth.
- Comment on Be honest whose actually working today and who is goofing off 5 weeks ago:
I got rawdogged so hard that I’m unemployed now. Went from an utterly crushing pace and workload to nothing. I mean I like not having to work right now, but once the megar severance I got runs out,I will enjoy it a lot less.
- Comment on I wish I didn't have to toss and turn so much. I want to cuddle to. :-( 5 weeks ago:
Glad its not just me. I do love the snugs but I get hot. Nobody wants sweaty snugs.
