GreenShimada

@GreenShimada@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks 🙏🏻⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, what even is “standing still”? I’m sitting in a chair in a spaceship made out of silica, metal, gasses, and water traveling around 220km/s relative to Sagittarius A.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks 🙏🏻⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s why the Romans didn’t use salt as a condiment, but fish sauce. The umami+salt is different and objectively better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks 🙏🏻⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Three questions:

  1. Zahi Hawass - was he just “on” as official national tour guide, or was he able to act like a real human, and if so, what was your read on him?

  2. While out and about in the Sahara, ever hear of or run into a guy named “Camel Steve”?

  3. Do you have a few JHMCS helmets with manufacturing flaws that you take home and let the kids run around with and play jet pilot?

  Also, thanks for being a dude with stories on Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chomp!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Good choices are still choices. Ride the high, you earned it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨low beans⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  🎼 Swing looooooooow, sweet can of beans,🫘 coming to meme me home. 🎶

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chomp!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but that’s cool and niche. Suave making people smell like the Cinnabon at the airport gives me the ick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chomp!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would anyone want to smell like this?!?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better Offline - Lemmy.zip⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no idea, the account is new and this is their first post. The comm itself notes Zitron’s name in the description in the sidebar, though the only way I knew it was Zitron’s podcast was the title card is used as the header. My guess would be no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone blame the atomization of society, as Marx warned years ago?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  95% of youtube is people repeating what someone else said, or having an AI voice repeat what everyone else said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better Offline - Lemmy.zip⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  OP, to be a bit more clear, this is about the Cool Zone Media podcast with Ed Zitron.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also slow AF. It’s potentially faster to have someone read you text than get it by packet over radio.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Packet over radio does exist, and it’s sloooooooooooooow and there’s tons of loss. Imagine the first modems over phone lines, then slow it down more.

  Legally, in the US, it can’t be encrypted, either. A single geostationary satellite would be faster, especially if latency wasn’t an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as I love Cory Doctorow’s work, this is a stretch. The crack in the door only comes once everything supporting the consolidation and oligarchy of the tech industry comes crashing down. The broligarchs have their contingency planning in place already, so a crack in the door might exist one day, but it’s going to take a lot more than EFF and a few niche rights groups to make any change there. The tech money is digging in, and doing so in ways that are edge cases for even digital rights groups.

  The post-WWII order is gone, the post-Cold War model of economics is over, and the post-9/11 surveillance state is now wearing a mask with hoses that feed it super-strength drugs. It’s that the costs of the old bargain are double for everyone that isn’t a FANG, and now gone for them. Just like the Western economy, it’s bifurcating towards different planes of existence that know of each other but barely interact IRL. Which is not sustainable, but for how long we’ll wobble, it’s hard to say.

  Digital rights and privacy groups need to be proactive and demonstrate uses cases for both, and make use of them while expecting the non-sustainability of the current system to one day give way to something new.

  So step 1 is, for now, strap the fuck in and get your house in order. Build skills, teach others. Step 2 one day is going to be on the heels of massive cultural and political change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There does seem to be a cyclical nature to new users. Same with new communities. I’ll go looking for a niche community and find one, only to see a half dozen posts 2 years ago during the first big push to the fediverse, and then it’s dead after that. It’s entirely possible I’m looking at an entire ghost community where every one of those users bailed a couple years back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome! The thing worth knowing is that corporate social media has intentionally trained you to expect zero friction because that’s the basis of their business model - to trap you. Once you spend a bit of time or watch a YT video and understand how lemmy works, it’s not that complicated at all.

  Consider that things worth doing in life are not so easy that they suck you in. No one gets in shape at the gym on accident. A small bit of effort pays off here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Winnie the Pooh considered "racist" now or are .ml folks using it as an excuse to defend Xi Jin Ping?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not racist, it’s specifically about Xi. Though the .ml people are the same people that claim not loving the CCP is racist. As if a political party or government also represents an ethnicity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean…I’ve very nearly been killed enough times that most of the time I just consider every day a bonus. Kind of the same thing, but not quite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair. If you’ve never had a swarm of pasty-pink round noise and smoke machines basically ruin a day at the beach, count yourself lucky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My point is that there’s a lot of loud people in the world. Really, most of the world is loud and only has an outdoor voice. I can hear my neighbors talking to her grandkids in her yard, 15 meters away, on the other side of a hedge and trees, with all the doors and windows closed in my house. There’s no change when she’s talking to me 1 meter away. I’m convinced it’s that a lot places like parties with deafening loud music and everyone has undiagnosed hearing damage.

  Stereotypes sort of rely on the stereotype being at least somewhat unique. Might as well say Americans eat bland food and ignore all the other places that also eat relatively bland food.

  However, congratulations on never having been besieged by Russian tourists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My friend, I’ll refer you to map #14, which holds true. There’s also a billion people living south of these maps who I can tell you from experience, make most Americans seem demure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine being the level of asshole that would spend the time to do this. I’m not surprised, just…disappointed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who have eaten since December 31st, 2025, why are you trying to start new shit?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AH! I just realized I have 2025 shit still in me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pizza styles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like a photo from the box of a frozen Uno pizza

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indian Government developed UPI app not allowing me to use the app w/o turning off Adguard.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please cross-post to a privacy community. Ultimately, this sounds like it’s going to produce a situation where a dumbphone that allows for hotspots and them a smartphone without UPI and with a VPN are a workable solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every algorithm is based around frequent posting and farming engagement. Everything is optimized to ruin the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been a long time since I smoked but if I opened the door to my fireplace and tossed in a kilo of pot and just let the smoke fill up the house will everyone in my house get high?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bro, you could make 1 baby’s arm-sized joint and 30 of the strongest weed brownies ever made, plus a helping of weed-not-oregano pasta for dinner and do the job 100 times better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ID_10_ts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, the famously super-competent FBI directed by political loyalists who’s only qualifications are heavy plastic surgery and blind faith in an evil idiot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Word.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone that recalls using Word 5.5 in DOS for a book report in 5th grade, as with all things, the peak has come and gone.

  IMO, the enshittification curve started about 2010ish when MS demanded internet connectivity for features that didn’t work. Saving PDFs was its peak. RIP Word 2007, which I used well into 2015.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Word.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  100% for real. I simply can’t do freelancing Excel work with LibreOffice because I know the 1:1 compatibility falls apart quickly. Basic formulas are about as far as I can trust it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typical monopoly people⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of all people, Gallagher made the point in the 80s. I think George Carlin also did a set about English words once.