XiELEd
@XiELEd@piefed.social
- Comment on Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman 1 week ago:
iirc solar depends on well, solar energy, so it is often paired with another more stable source of energy.
- Comment on ‘It speaks to me in brain rot’: Theorising ‘brain rot’ as a genre of participation among teenagers 1 week ago:
(n.) Supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as a result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging. Also: something characterized as likely to lead to such deterioration.
“The devil take Don Quixote of La Mancha! How did you get this far without dying from all the beatings you’ve received? You’re a madman, and if you were a madman in private, behind the doors of your madness, it wouldn’t be so bad, but you have the attribute of turning everyone who deals with you or talks to you into madmen and fools, too; if you don’t believe me, just look at these gentlemen who are accompanying you. Return, fool, to your house, and look after your estate, your wife, and your children, and stop this nonsense that is rotting your brain and ruining your mind.”
- Comment on There's a part of my soul that needs 'cat lady' culture to be adopted by the mainstream like 'gamer' culture was. 1 week ago:
Knowing all you can about cats!
- Comment on Banana 2 weeks ago:
Well I think I just realised why they do it. There’s this longstanding conspiracy theory that whenever a politician does a fuckup they conveniently say keywords associated with the fuckup but put it in a different context (like say, scandal related to trains, so they get into a model train hobby), so if people search up their name plus trains what shows up are articles talking about their new hobby.
Just thought of this because I was searching up “Banana Republic” in the context of neocolonialism (while reading my country’s history) and besides the Wikipedia page being the first result, the next results were that store. And I remembered this reply.
- Comment on Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines 2 weeks ago:
This reminds me a company that claimed to have automatized, I think it was their counters? But it was actually run remotely by workers in India
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 2 weeks ago:
Stop buying Starbucks coffee
Ah shit, here we go again…
- Comment on Banana 2 weeks ago:
We wont have bananas that taste any good.
Cavendish bananas aren’t the only varieties of bananas that taste good. For example Lakatan and Latundan taste good raw. It’s just they aren’t hardy enough for long-term storage and export. - Comment on Banana 2 weeks ago:
One epidemic and we won’t have bananas anymore.
Only for a few countries ;)
There’s still a lot of banana varieties eaten around the world. - Comment on Banana 2 weeks ago:
Idk about Brazil but there’s a lot of banana varieties that are regularly consumed around the world. There’s Lakatan, Saba and Latundan in the Philippines for example, the Saba banana being really popular as a fried snack on a stick.
- Comment on Banana 2 weeks ago:
The silver lining is that it’s biodegradable. And good as compost
- Comment on Banana 2 weeks ago:
In Southeast Asia we have lots of banana varieties that we regularly eat.
- Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 2 weeks ago:
You know how the Romans collected taxes in there less “Roman” providences?
Well that would certainly explain why the tax collectors get such a bad rap in the Gospels.
Pretty sure it’s a bit related… And there’s nothing wrong with learning a bit more about history
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 2 weeks ago:
Students, especially in the Philippines and some 3rd world countries. You can basically use Messenger and Facebook without data, just without images or video. For the sake of accessibility schools tend to use these services.
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 2 weeks ago:
I am one of those people who are forced to use these social media for school.
- Comment on What's the best way to deal with a genuinely malicious troll who constantly says the evidence against him is slander when it's not? 2 weeks ago:
Man these people in the comment section are lucky to think that when you simply just ignore someone, the harassment ends.
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 2 weeks ago:
Welcome to the fediverse!!
- Comment on The most valuable advertising keywords could be "ublock origin" 2 weeks ago:
- “Top Four Best Ad Blockers” (which recommends homophobia
Okay wtf do elaborate
- Comment on Beards are technically face pubes 2 weeks ago:
I am stealing that too
- Comment on Fediverse alternative to Facebook is what's really missing 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry for blowing up on you. It’s just that I feel powerless and I feel like it’s hard to take direct action. I’ve been trying to get people involved but it’s so hard to get the momentum going that it tends to fizzle out (kinda like c/Philippines). I really wanted free internet to be a thing here in my country (not only that, we pay more for lower quality internet cmp to other countries due to underdeveloped infrastructure) so that it would break the monopoly of facebook but I’m not sure if they’re doing their promise. I’m just used to my actions not having an impact unless it was supported by some external circumstance. Like how Lemmy became popular because of an external event.
- Comment on Fediverse alternative to Facebook is what's really missing 2 weeks ago:
Apathetic attitude? Not everyone has the privilege of having ever been under an authority figure who actually cares about their job. My school can’t even bother to fix their drainage system, my city has had its reputation dragged in the mud on national TV for its shitty (literally) garbage collection system, even though people have been complaining about these for months. Do you seriously think they’ll take my opinion seriously? If I try to rally people to my cause, which would most likely be on Facebook, people would just snarkily say I’m overreacting and that I’m a hypocrite for using Facebook (which is the only thing I have). Even when I complained about the drainage system I was being name-called and insulted by someone who thought that making any demands to a school as a student was being entitled and what did I get out of it? Nothing! Do you think the geriatrics at the upper level even care about privacy or information? They still admire Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg goddammit! Have you ever had to really fight for a cause? Because you are painting an unrealistic landscape that I’ve never been able to see my entire life.
- Comment on Fediverse alternative to Facebook is what's really missing 2 weeks ago:
It is not feasible unfortunately, and if I were to put that as a complaint, I would most likely be called unhinged, out-of-touch, or trying to discard a perfectly usable system. We can only raise questions and influence people as of now. Besides, the reason why Messenger is popular is because of the freebasics service which allows people to use Messenger for free.
- Comment on Fediverse alternative to Facebook is what's really missing 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty much forced to use Facebook and Messenger because of school. Some teachers will grade you only if you upload your work and tag them on there, sometimes you have to repost or like videos because your project is a video and there’s a group competition based on those metrics, and because Messenger is the default mode of communication between students and teachers, as well as a way to contact people for your graded surveys.
- Comment on Not promoting hate speech but what happened to all the slights/slurs/vulgarity from like the 20s and 40s. There were so many. Now it seems well I can only think of three? 2 weeks ago:
Not Vegan, But:
Probably needs a rest day in between workout days, adequate sleep or a calorie surplus. If he’s up for it, he should get his nutrient levels checked. There’s also this problem where people on the internet set unrealistic expectations of how fast your gains should be. - Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Where is your reading comprehension? Was it underdeveloped because of your country’s education system? Not once was it mentioned that she posted photos of her naked. And I am surprised you somehow got on the fediverse of all places because anyone who has been around on the internet knows that people would take photos of children on restaurants and post them on porn sites.
- Comment on Why are children always portrayed as the epitome of "innocence", when a lot of kids are evil af and bully their peers, and name-calling runs rampant in schools? 2 weeks ago:
There’s being neurodivergent too. My mom said I was a hothead when I was a young kid. I have ADHD btw.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 3 weeks ago:
I honestly wish I didn’t have to rely on apps made by corpos just to stay updated in school. And I would probably need to use Google and Windows products once I start work. Ugh
- Comment on one bright second 3 weeks ago:
It makes me feel like all the suffering people inflict for the sake of selfishness jand greed just pointless.
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 3 weeks ago:
But it ain’t your keyboard; it’s theirs.
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 3 weeks ago:
But why not?