Rentlar
@Rentlar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on China says it wants to partner with Canada to push back against American ‘bullying’ 2 days ago:
Just like Carney’s strategy to handle the USA, Canada should only entertain a partnership with China when we are treated as equals, rather than a subordinate.
- Comment on How important is it that cans are clean when i put them in the recycling. 1 week ago:
This is assuming you are expected by your council to clean it “thoroughly enough”.
After you eat/drink the contents, a very quick rinse is all that’s needed. Little stains aren’t going to be bad for recycling.
If you’ve left it for a while and are worried, a simple but surefire way to clean out any significant gunk would be these steps:
- Make sure you have a strainer on your sink drain if your plumbing system is fragile.
- Fill every can or jar with water to near the top
- Wait 15 minutes
- pour out a can into the sink
- fill the can with a bit of water and shake the last bits out
- pour and lightly rinse the rest of the cans in the same way
- bin the gunk caught by the strainer.
- Comment on 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know 1 week ago:
Main reason for me is that I have bought humble bundles, donated to gamejams, and gotten keys off of legit and grey-market sites in the past in conjunction with buying directly from Steam. Those aren’t included in the Steam spend category.
- Comment on El Salvador's Bukele rules out returning US deportee 1 week ago:
Clearly Trump hasn’t even asked him to, despite the Supreme Court saying he and his administration must facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
I make mistakes because my replies are often my stream-of-consciousness, and the primary review is mainly to make sure I even want to reply to the comment at all. I don’t use autocorrect so my fingers slip frequently.
If you look through my comment history, a good chunk are edited because I catch more grammatical errors in my comment after I post. I suppose most others don’t bother.
- Comment on I hate reachability of smartphones 1 week ago:
Set your expectations in a healthy way and let other people know of it clearly. If you don’t want to answer messages you receive right away, then don’t.
Only between the time I start and stop working in a day, will I answer calls or messages for work. While I’m at work, anyone outside of work shouldn’t expect a response for several hours, or until I end work.
There are many times I’m available to respond to my friends and family (while shitposting on Lemmy being one example), others I will ignore notifications when I’m doing my own thing or talking with people irl. That takes precedence.
- Comment on Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". 1 week ago:
Trump and Lutnick will be turning the American economy into a Lootbox/Skinner Boc economy… let the FOMO purchasing flow through you, buy buy buy before the tariffs go on again!
- Comment on It always seems like its time to move to linux 1 week ago:
It’s the year of the Linux desktop after all, like every year.
- Comment on FTC Heads To Trial To Break Up Meta: What You Need To Know. 2 weeks ago:
It’s going to be “become Truth Social 2 or else we’ll break your company’s legs” from the Trump admin now.
- Comment on The IP Laws That Stop Disenshittification. 2 weeks ago:
Stop non-antidisenshittification.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 weeks ago:
The question they are answering is the first one they read.
(/s)
- Comment on (Dark take) Ghibli filter trend is just people hiding how ugly they are 2 weeks ago:
I mean it’s about highlighting the parts of you that you like and diminishing the parts you don’t. That’s all of aesthetics, makeups, digitial filters, and all of that.
A friend of mine turned a vacation photo of us into one of that style, and it really turned it into a movie-like vibe. So it was less about highlighting one’s ugliness but highlighting the nicest aspects of our vacation.
- Comment on Most under-utilized consoles? 2 weeks ago:
Metroid Prime Hunters is a fully fledged 3d, fps and platformer type game on the nintendo DS.
- Comment on Are any calls without caller ID legit? 2 weeks ago:
From Canada: I get legit calls from private numbers. Usually it is based on something I have inquired previously about, by phone, text message, webform or email.
Random non-scam cold calls have been largely: surveys (a federal election is coming), requests to donate places from places I’ve donated to before, telecom companies I have ditched begging me to come back. But anything that begins with an automated sounding message I just hang up immediately.
- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 3 weeks ago:
Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions.
From the article.
Not sure if the same thing but in Japan the Pre-purchase reservation lottery has already opened.
- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 3 weeks ago:
For the US only, lol
- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 3 weeks ago:
Markets will still consider it a win if Trump does not else good in the next 4 years except for extend the “tax cuts and jobs” billionaire and corporate handouts. He seems to be failing at that and DOGE has only made it harder in for Congress (in a budgetary sense) for them to do it.
- Comment on Should I withdraw/stop putting into my 401k? 4 weeks ago:
Are you going to retire in the next four years? Or take all your cash out into gold, quit your job, and go into hiding for the next four years?
If neither apply to you, you can leave your money in your 401k. Selling index funds right now is ultimately up to you, but in the long term time in the market tends to beat timing the market.
What I’ve read in books is: Building up savings itself is more important than whether the returns are +10% or -10%, early in your career, since it will fluctuate but tends to average up.
And remember if your national index funds, bonds or whatever market and government backed investments lose half its value, you have bigger problems on your hand of the state of your country at that point which having cash on hand may or may not help anyway.
- Comment on They said the packaging would be discreet! 4 weeks ago:
That’s contraband in the state of Texas.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 4 weeks ago:
If you want the source of any future “technical glitches”, it’s this wilfully negligent act. Courts, take note.
- Comment on Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation 4 weeks ago:
Glad you are here!
There are instances of heavy-handed mod and admin actions here, but they are often held to account, generally on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com. Moderation disputes often end up discussed from a third party perspective on !fediverselore@lemmy.ca.
It is an echo chamber here too, but I have seen more often that opinions against the “narrative” getting -10 or lower but not censored. Some double down, are flamebaiting or downvote farming for unknown reasons, but there are times when you can see a genuine attempt at understanding and discussion from both parties. Over 7 years on Reddit (2016-2023), I can count how many times that happened on one hand, but on Lemmy it’s infrequent but it happens a lot more than that.
- Comment on Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5 4 weeks ago:
I think a lot of people are waiting for the first Civ7 expansion pack to be released, whenever that may be.
Civ 6 without R+F, GS feels like a completely different game. As an example, in vanilla you can expand anywhere right up to someone’s borders whereas with the expansion straying too far from your territory you could just lose it to influential pressure from neighbouring cities.
- Comment on The Great Tech Heist - How "Disruption" Became a Euphemism for Theft 4 weeks ago:
Any illegal and unethical stuff that goes on and gets found out is always a “glitch” too.
- Comment on Lemmy told me to make a lamb cake. Went about as well as I expected. 4 weeks ago:
You made an excellent cake, it looks just like what you were totally going for from the start:
the dog from undertale, a blob with four equidistant legs on the bottom, two ears and a pointy tail
- Comment on Americans under 30 are so miserable that the U.S. just fell to a historically low ranking in the world happiness report 5 weeks ago:
I know that many under 30 would be much happier if no single person owned more than $1 billion in assets. Why don’t we try that?
- Comment on Discord plans to roll out third-party ads on its mobile apps, starting with a mobile pilot for Video Quests, video ads that let users earn rewards, in June 2025. 5 weeks ago:
Step 1: Discord CEO thinks about taking Discord public
Step 2: ADS 🤑🤑🤑
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- Comment on Big pharma fears best-selling drugs in crosshairs of US-EU tariff spat 5 weeks ago:
Start ignoring US’s restrictive IP and patent law, that will hurt American companies far more than any countertariff.
- Comment on “They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
And a mix of available copies/qualities are better.
- Comment on Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 1 month ago:
If you want to read the story of someone’s experience trying to block all the big tech companies from their life back in 2019. Their first week was trying to block Amazon.
