golden_zealot

@golden_zealot@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is martial arts really that useful?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When faced with a firearm or a knife, any self respecting martial artist will tell you the one technique that will save your life.

  Running the fuck away and or taking cover.

  When it comes to hand to hand combat, understanding the dynamics of how to protect yourself and control the opposer like in Jiu Jitsu is very useful and can also potentially save your life.

  But no, if they have a weapon of any kind, get the fuck out of there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California auto insurance costs set to rise by 54%, new report says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  square footage could go down.

  Could it though? Don’t know if you noticed but the rental market is completely fucked in NA. For most people this would mean renting a room instead of an apartment, which doesn’t work well if you for example, are a family of 4.

  find a different job closer

  There are no guarantees for this because jobs of people’s industries which pay them the money they need to support themselves and their families are not geographically distributed evenly. If you have years of tenure at your workplace as well, it is a big fucking risk to change jobs unless you have a really, really, good reason to do so as well.

  Point is, you might have these option but it doesn’t mean everyone does. People’s lives and options are not so black and white as you seem to think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For sure, in my case it is important to me as I am heavily involved with a lot of small streamer communities, and discord is the all-encompassing product which nearly all streamers use for announcements and updates, community projects, and sharing any non-stream content that is not a video.

  Depending on how this goes with discord, this could be incredibly damaging to so many of these communities and I would really hate to see that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The article states that it is opt-out and that there would be a toggleable setting to turn it off, but if they are going this way it does not bode well.

  For anyone like me looking for an application with the same aesthetic feel and general functionality as discord (if Matrix chat does not suit you), then take a look at revolt chat github.com/revoltchat.

  It’s basically an open source discord clone that looks almost identical, but lacks some of the more advanced features of discord.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is how every licensed gun owner in Canada has felt for years. You can go read how they word those laws to get a good idea of how they would go about wording this one. It’s not great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is our government in a nutshell. Don’t like guns? Ban them from licensed owners instead of working against smuggling or changing the license requirement from a PAL to am RPAL. Don’t like gas cars? Ban them instead of working on public transit and infrastructure. Don’t like the flipper zero? Ban it instead of either licensing purchase and use like a billion other radio devices that exist, or holding car manufacturers responsible for ass security practices.

  Can’t wait to find out what they don’t like next, I wonder what they’ll do? /s