Zephorah
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- Comment on [deleted] 10 hours ago:
This is the truth. They’re huddled around what little they have in fear waiting for someone else to take care of it.
- Comment on We Just Lost Earth’s “Parasol” – And Warming Is About to Accelerate. | Just Have A Think 1 day ago:
Something non YT at least.
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 5 days ago:
Work and shared hobbies. I recently went to buy some hardwood from a work colleague. We don’t even work the same shift but they’re fond of asking what I’m building or showing me what they’re building because who else are they going to talk to about their hobby (I imagine).
We’re not friends, but there’s this hobby. I get there and it’s not a mere business transaction nor do we talk work. It almost had a kid feel to it. Like when you crossed the hedge to the yard of the kid next door and he welcomes you because it’s more fun if you can show off and share your toys. Only as adults. Kudos on reclaiming a small piece of that.
Adulthood is such a roadblock sometimes.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 5 days ago:
So, Sunday afternoon being the worst time to grocery shop will Leo be the most expensive time to shop.
Versus 9am on a Wednesday.
- Comment on Kansas Town Uses License Plate Readers to Go After Man Who Wrote Op-Ed | ACLU 6 days ago:
We don’t really have a media any more. And people generally huddle around what little nugget of safety they have inside their own homes, trapped by the fear of losing it.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 6 days ago:
I’m still not clear on exactly what triggers this. Is it phone location, because a phone number is linked to all your data (unless you’ve been gaming it for the last 5-10yrs)? Do I walk by with my phone and the price goes up?
Is it like goodwill? Does the price change as you’re checking out? Do I grab a 2lb bag of medium roast coffee beans for $13, and because buying it consistently for decades, it’s now $18 at checkout? But is still $13 for the guy behind me who decided to try whole bean over pre-ground?
If rich people turn off their phones before hitting the parking lot and poor people leave theirs on, does the entire store get cheaper?
If you take a pic with your phone of the “advertised” price does that mitigate sudden increases while checking out, if you’re even watching?
Does having your unemployed, deadbeat uncle or kid do the shopping from their phone make it cheaper for the household?
What are the triggers?
- Comment on YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are making you dumber, according to science 1 week ago:
To be fair though, there’s commercial/ad feel to shorts so it’s likely in that zone, though in need of better method to prove it.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 1 week ago:
Fair. Even so. To what degree that was the case, or not, is anyone’s guess. They’ve not pulled the trigger on a mental health defense, last check.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 1 week ago:
That’s the idea of jury nullification: guilty, but we don’t care.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 1 week ago:
I think the assessment of “just crazy enough” to step past that boundary is spot on, but to say that the man is batshit? Not at all.
This is a man who looked at a complex societal problem and chose a path, very deliberately. He didn’t just snap and walk into a building, guns blazing.
He also very deliberately limited his damage to one guy. A woman with coffee walked right up to what was happening, he looked right at her, she left, he let her.
This is not the action of a batshit person.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 1 week ago:
It’s straight Jury Nullification within an hour of deliberation unless there are people on the jury who have been bought, by monetary means or otherwise.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 1 week ago:
Exactly so.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 1 week ago:
I think the billionaire class will have an assassin ready to go. We’re not supposed to fight back. If he can be an example of punishment via the legal system, great. If not, well, they’ll pay to make that example of punishment so.
- Comment on Good content 1 week ago:
Dax, crushing on Spock.
- Comment on Want to Know If Glassholes Are Using Smart Glasses Near You? There's an App for That 1 week ago:
The only use I see for these is protestors/watchers. And even then it only works if it’s not entangled with meta or google.
- Comment on Which game have you been most patient for? 1 week ago:
A playable PC version of RE4. It finally happened, but it took them long enough.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 1 week ago:
They’re likely at the point of not just wanting to own things but not being able to afford subs. .
- Comment on "I pray they are cursed to never play the game again" Resident Evil 2 director Hideki Kamiya goes off on Resident Evil Requiem leakers 2 weeks ago:
RE1 on PlayStation1 was my gateway drug to games. I’m still going to buy it and play it.
- Comment on Microsoft 365 Copilot Mobile: Auto Uploads to OneDrive Raise Privacy Risks 2 weeks ago:
Linux is so light and fast. Im not missing much on windows.
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 2 weeks ago:
Theil reproduced?
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 2 weeks ago:
First generation not better, brighter, more adaptable than the prior generation. Fitting, given everything else.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 2 weeks ago:
Given the open source bit, probably Microsoft.Linux is encroaching on home computing, Libre on office.
Whomever owns the biggest shares in arts, crafts, woodworking, etc. You’re supposed to buy the supply and end it there. Not seek profit.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 2 weeks ago:
You shall buy, not produce. Have your crafts, but don’t get entrepreneurial with it.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 2 weeks ago:
This is coordinated. Multiple states at the same time.
I don’t think it has anything to do with guns. Middle of the bell curve, most people aren’t using these for guns. They’re using these for right to repair. They’re using these for garage businesses. Shop businesses. Small businesses. (See: not corporate USA). Or for making/creatimg.
I’ve no doubt there are people sitting on some small slice of a tail on the bell curve who do print gun parts, but this is about corporate America.
It’s also a foot in the door dig on free and open source software.
It’s a way to block individual and small business from horning in on corporate America’s profit for a comparably tiny slice of their own.
Printing a knob to replace a broken on/off switch instead of buying a whole new item? Worse, selling that item or even just posting the pattern for free? We can’t have that.
Now, you’re bypassing my item’s proprietary system by printing…
Wait. I was able to sell threaded hand screw knobs for $5 each. Now you’re all just printing them? And the pattern is up there for free?
We need a law.
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- Comment on Meta could make social media posting immortal — and we should all cancel our Facebook accounts right now 2 weeks ago:
No it won’t. It will be the veneer. Like preserving the makeup and hair product but not the person it’s painted on.
- Comment on YSK that murder is now legal in California. Fully legal. Slaughter a family of four by driving over the speed limit. Go home. 3 weeks ago:
She’s 80, rich, and stated in public that she feels bad. This is, apparently, how you get away with manslaughter.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 3 weeks ago:
Freakonomics covered this back around their inception. The data shows wine tasters and critics generally rate expensive wine as better. In a blind trial where expensive was replaced with two buck chuck and a $5 option, researchers proved there’s not much difference in ratings when the price isn’t known. Tell them two buck chuck is the most expensive thing on the table and it’s then rated as such.
I believe this was part of their coverage on experts not being experts, iirc.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 3 weeks ago:
So, like the $5 Trader Joe’s wine tasting with wine enthusiasts.
- Comment on Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord's Age Verification Check With a 3D Model 3 weeks ago:
The issue here is going to be discord users picking one, en masse.
