ExtremeDullard

@ExtremeDullard@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turkey condemns Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil tankers off Black Sea coast⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In totally unrelated news, Turkey is a Russian simp.

  (And no, I won’t quit calling Turkey Turkey cold-Türkiye, anymore than I will call Munich München outside of Germany, because that’s what Turkey’s exonym is. Fuck you Turkey.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As most memes are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  5 isn’t a valid function name, is obviously the right answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well duh… Most politicians can talk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silly goose⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never understood how it can even be legal for hospitals to have parking fees for patients. It’s not like you became ill simply to take advantage of the parking situation so why are they charging people?

  In the case of my local hospital, they do it because there are apartment complexes nearby and the residents used to abuse the hospital’s parking spot when they couldn’t find a spot in their residence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silly goose⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, nothing like coming out of a rough week alone in isolation in a hospital room, with friends and family not allowed to enter the room, and finding out the system sometimes makes small allowances for kindness and common sense. It sure felt great.

  Small things like that give me back hope in humanity. Too bad they’re few and far between.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silly goose⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I went to the ER the other day. I drove myself to the hospital, parked at the short-term car park right next to the ER (I was trying to make a beeline there, I really wasn’t concerned about where I parked). I expected to out within 2 or 3 hours but the hospital ended up keeping me for a week.

  When I came out, I expected my car to be impounded, or at least covered in parking tickets. But no: there was only one with a warning and nothing to pay.

  When I checked the case number on the ticket on the city’s parking fine webpage, the comment indicated “Driver reported hospitalized - fine waived.”

  They actually checked with the hospital. Nice!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is lemmy dying?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit, like Facebook, has the advantage of inertia: most people are on Reddit, so other people patronize Reddit, making Reddit even larger. And just like Facebook, it takes something particularly egregious from Reddit to get enough people to walk out at the same time. And you’re correct: Reddit has learned to slow-boil the frogs to avoid this.

  But - maybe I’m naive - I’m banking of the Fediverse offering consistently better quality and less drama than Reddit to slowly attract people who want something better, and I’m trying to do my part to increase the S/N ratio on here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is lemmy dying?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s waiting for some new event that will drive a lot of people away from Reddit again to achieve critical mass and finally outgrow Reddit. In the meantime, I’m trying to keep my little corner of Lemmy alive - my dinky little special-interest communities - so that those who don’t want to partake in the big Reddit equivalent know they have an alternative on here that’s not stale.

• Maybe Donald Trump stubbed his toe on Air Force Onemedia.piefed.social ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aliens could prank earth by double thanos snapping all gold⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  On the plus side, the White House would look a lot less gaudy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SipsTea⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s my suggestion: find someone you won’t have to change the diapers of by the time you start needing reading glasses yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what do you use to add weight?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Leave cavities for steel things like big bolts, shaped so the bolts won’t rattle around. Add a pause to the print before covering the cavities. Disable support for the cavities.

  When the printer stops, stuff the cavities with bolts, then resume the print.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liz Truss: "There are lots of people in Britain who are cheering President Trump on and want him to sue the BBC"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d think a failure the size of Liz Truss would have the good sense to shut her trap forever about anything. But no: like all politicians, she feels no shame and keeps giving her opinion, as if she had any credibility left and it mattered.

  This sort of utter shamelessness is truly what separates politicos from decent human beings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prison looms for Brazil's Bolsonaro after court rejects his appeal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, I guess Trump’s tariffs didn’t work: it did jack-squat to convince the Brazilians to not serve justice to their own fascist leader. All it did was hurt the American consumers. What a surprise…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also the day that the world found out that Hitler had a micropenis.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most Americans aren’t on board with this shit

  They’re obviously onboard with different shit, else Trump wouldn’t be president. Twice.

  As shit goes, I preferred the old-timey one. At least it was dignified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also the day that the world found out that Hitler had a micropenis.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t necessarily disagree - hence my adding “deserved or not”, if you re-read what I wrote.
  But regardless of what you think, it had that reputation.

  And it doesn’t no more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also the day that the world found out that Hitler had a micropenis.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m old enough to remember the United States as a country that won a World War, won a Cold War, went to the moon, and had a reputation - deserved or not - as a shining beacon of freedom and democracy. Respected or feared by the entire world.

  Now it’s a country run by a paedophile fascist with dementia, elected twice by an equally mentally feeble populace - causing consternation and concern around the world.

  Americans should be ashamed of themselves. But of course they aren’t because they’re not actually capable of feeling shame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah right okay.

  The Android version of Signal works well in Waydroid in Ubuntu Touch also, bu running it permanently in the background like Signal is designed to do is problematic for several reasons that make it kind of a painful proposition. But if I needed it just to send or receive a message punctually, it would be a great solution.

  Okay then, it sounds like Whisperfish might work well enough as a primary Signal client to make SailfishOS worth giving a spin. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I meant have you tried it? Do you know if it’s any good?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious: I’m currently evaluating mobile Linux OSes to transition away from Android. What I got going right now is Ubuntu Touch on a Fairphone 5, but there’s one big drawback with this one for me: the lack of a decent native Signal client.

  I’ve always planned to give Sailfish OS a spin, and I’m almost certain I can install it on the FP5 easily. But I’m not all that keen on ruining my Ubuntu Touch install, and possibly not being able to reinstall it if I want to go back.

  So before I install Sailfish OS on it, can you tell me if it has a decent Signal client? If it doesn’t, then maybe it’s not really worth investigating in the first place for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like a buffet would fix this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But that’s my point: the only emotion Trump elicits in me is nausea and repulsion. And it’s not even a political assessment: he’s simply not a pleasant human being. Why people vote for unpleasant human beings, of find unpleasant human beings somehow appealing, is utterly baffling to me…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like a buffet would fix this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I genuinely have no idea how this guy managed to convince so many trumpanzees to vote for him. Like Nancy Pelosi correctly said, he’s a vile creature: even if you somehow agree with his policies, he’s clearly a terminally nasty and mean misanthrope, and someone nobody with any penchant for nice human contacts wants to spend anytime around of. I completely fail to fathom how such a repulsive human being can have such charisma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like a buffet would fix this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This picture says “Some guy is sick, four compassionate people are helping him, and one malignant narcissist with dementia has put his brain on pause until the event that isn’t about him and that doesn’t interest him is over, and everybody’s attention returns to him.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Godfather of AI' says tech giants can't profit from their astronomical investments unless human labor is replaced⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This race to displace human labor with AI is a typical late-stage capitalism race to the bottom because it ignores something fundamental: workers are also consumers. No job, no money, no purchases.

  In other words, all companies embracing AI are collectively working their ass off to destroy their own and everybody else’s markets. It’s global economic suicide.

  But… capitalism being what it is and doing what it does, it only looks at what the competition does, expenses and no further than the next quarter. So corporations see AI as a way to reduce expenses and get ahead of the competition that does the same thing.

  They all know AI will destroy everything eventually, including themselves, if they all do the same thing. But they can’t help it: corporations look no further than their own selfish interests with the narrowest possible set of criteria, and the bigger picture be damned. Always.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prusa partners with Israeli company⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Prusa partners with Israeli company

  I was planning to buy a Prusa printer soon, but now I’m not so sure. This is disappointing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You might be right there. Oh well. if it’s a bot, it trolled me out of a full minute of my life…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But here? We deal in maximum chaos per Euro spent!

  Then you have wasted your money. The Flipper can do any chaos whatsoever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  […] Turns out it’s the keys to the entire electrical grid!
  …
  I am now fully ready to hack my neighbor’s TV to only show Motorhead concerts.

  Sigh

  This is nonsense like this that gets a useful tool like the Flipper banned in countries with even dumber politicians.

  You want to be part of the electrical grid? Stick your fingers in the mains outlet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All cults go through phases of culling the non-believers. Anytime you justify a cult leaders anti-social behavior solely for the benefits you get by keeping the cult going you've begun this process.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of them end up culling the believers too in the end.

  That should be concerning to MAGA.