Ullallulloo
@Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 1 month ago:
They’re delaying AC: Shadows.
- Comment on Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers 2 months ago:
These were pagers specifically ordered by Hezbollah. Random civilians wouldn’t have had them.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Someone ideologically somewhere between his greatest heroes, Stalin and Mao.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
It’s not even capitalism but just society in general. Good people typically look at what it takes to lead and want nothing for it. To strive to be in charge of things you have to have a certain arrogance and to succeed you have to be ruthless enough as well.
- Comment on You might get a discount or free coffee but you’re also being played by the multi-billion dollar gamification industry. 3 months ago:
So, exactly what you get from Amazon?
- Comment on A Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 46 white men have lost 3 months ago:
Cynthia McKinney?
- Comment on A Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 46 white men have lost 3 months ago:
Way more people than that have lost in the general election, including Cynthia McKinney in 2008 as the most successful black female loser, but plenty of other black women have lost the general election.
- Comment on Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? 4 months ago:
Um, but actual Irish-Americans love eating corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick’s day. It’s racist to celebrate your heritage? Or just to try things from other people’s cultures?
- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 8 months ago:
Yeah, they’re nothing fancy, but that’s sole purpose. People aren’t carrying around spark plugs unless they’re car thieves.
- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 8 months ago:
Because they have special ceramic tools. Windows will always be incredibly easy for thieves to break with no effort, but they’re incredibly hard for people without specialized burglary tools to break.
- Comment on Reddit: Return Of The Junk Stock IPO 8 months ago:
Stocks are basically a percentage of ownership. The share price as a dollar amount is meaningless because it could be 1% of a company or 0.000000001%. The relevant number here is that Reddit is IPOing at a valuation of $6 billion, which all I can reply with is hahahahahahahaha
- Comment on Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox? 9 months ago:
This is the opinion column.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 9 months ago:
What does the government do with all the extra revenue? Theoretically it should be able to reduce other taxes proportionally so that those with low carbon usage come out ahead instead of just being a negative for everyone.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 10 months ago:
The unpopular ones like Paramount+ and Peacock will probably lower their prices, rely on ads, realize they can’t keep the lights on with their lower prices, and probably sell to Amazon or Disney someday. The larger ones will consolidate the popular content and continue raising their prices and inserting more ads. The previous prices were just a loss-leader to get people to sign up.
- Comment on The Day Before Offline Mod in the Works For Those Still Interested in Playing This Troubled Game 10 months ago:
“For” shouldn’t be capitalized in title case tho
- Comment on Scientists develop mega-thin solar cells that could be shockingly easy to produce: ‘As rapid as printing a newspaper’ 11 months ago:
A car has maybe 55 sq. ft. available to panel. You get maybe 20 W/sq. ft. efficiency. An electric car has maybe an 80 kWh battery. A day has the equivalent roughly 5 hours of full sunlight.
Then you just multiply/divide everything together, and you get 14½ days.
- Comment on Scientists develop mega-thin solar cells that could be shockingly easy to produce: ‘As rapid as printing a newspaper’ 11 months ago:
Those all sound like efficiency issues still. Covering any form of transportation with solar panels is primarily pointless because of how little power that would generate. Even if you covered every available inch with the most efficient panels invented, it would take over two weeks of sitting in full, direct sunlight to charge a solar-powered car, which you would drain in four hours of driving.
- Comment on The stainless steel body of Tesla's Cybertruck is reportedly leading to issues with gaps in between the panels 11 months ago:
It would slightly increase wind resistance. Every car has weather stripping, making water not a concern even for comparatively very large gaps.
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
Yeah, obviously employees have to be paid like with anywhere.
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
For which ones? Most are mutual insurance companies, where any profit has to legally be paid back to the customers.
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
A lot of insurance companies—arguably most of the ones used—are not for profit: American Family, COUNTRY, Liberty Mutual, Northwestern Mutual, any other company with “mutual” in the name, USAA, Farmers, State Farm, Progressive, etc.
- Comment on Lemmy posts are starting to pop up on search results for Google (+ other search engines) 1 year ago:
Each post refers to the poster’s home domain as the canonical URL, regardless of which instance you’re viewing it on specifically to avoid duplication SEO concerns
- Comment on Here comes another Netflix price hike 1 year ago:
They’re a publicly-traded company, of course they’re going to provide hard data to prove it: …cloudfront.net/…/62b73aad-65fc-436d-9ab9-d622dc3…
- Comment on TikTok ran a deepfake ad of an AI MrBeast hawking iPhones for $2 — and it's the 'tip of the iceberg' 1 year ago:
No, Section 230 protects TikTok as a platform. He would have to sue the ad creator.
- Comment on TikTok ran a deepfake ad of an AI MrBeast hawking iPhones for $2 — and it's the 'tip of the iceberg' 1 year ago:
You’re saying that the solution would be to hold TikTok liable in this case for failing to prevent fraud on its platform? In that case, we wouldn’t even really need a new law. Mostly just repealing or adding exceptions to Section 230 would make platforms responsible. That’s not a new solution though. People have been pushing for that for years.
- Comment on Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade 1 year ago:
That’s not planned obsolescence. Making lithium batteries that survive thousands of charges is just really, really hard. Physics only allows them to last so long. Five years is pretty good for a phone. Frankly, I think making a rechargeable battery that lasts all day and lasts 10 years in a passively-cooled phone is just impossible with our current technology.
- Comment on France halts iPhone 12 sales over radiation levels 1 year ago:
Has there been any cause of RF leading to burns or fever? The idea that a cell phone could transfer enough energy to make even the slightest difference seems insane to me. I can’t imagine it’s physically possible for the health risk to be any worse than raising your thermostat by 1° would be.
- Comment on Imagine 1 year ago:
Doesn’t npm have this already? I’ve definitely gotten requests for donations and various political messages when installing dependencies.
- Comment on Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance 1 year ago:
GitHub sponsorships are a way of donating to programmers. In addition to hosting lemm.ee, sunaurus has made significant contributions to Lemmy’s codebase. (In my opinion, he is by far the most skilled programmer working on Lemmy.)