KoboldCoterie
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
- Comment on What should the next President of the United States do? 1 day ago:
I was going to about say codify laws for them not to be messed with, but even codified laws can still be messed with. There must be a new way to instill laws that not even Congress can touch and fuck with. That no President after this one can touch. That no Supreme Court of any kind can touch.
This absolutely should not be a thing. Imagine if the founding fathers had done this to codify e.g. slavery in this manner.
Instead, we have the constitution. The closest thing to what you’re describing is a constitutional amendment. It’s not immutable, though (as evidenced by the fact that a constitutional amendment is a thing that can actually happen).
- Comment on Media zombies would be largely harmless if they lacked teeth and claws. 3 days ago:
According to this source, adult male bengal tigers weigh 380-580 lbs. Pretty sure it could just run into you at full speed and do plenty of damage.
- Comment on Rushmore 4 days ago:
I was so much happier not knowing that.
- Comment on Rushmore 5 days ago:
He should be there watching it happen. Right up close.
- Comment on Rushmore 5 days ago:
If anyone put the idea in his head, there is no doubt in my mind he’d try to have himself carved into it. I firmly believe the only reason he hasn’t is because he hasn’t remembered it exists.
- Comment on Just keeping my buoyancy in check. 5 days ago:
Sure, but how does it work?
- Comment on Reddit to lemmy reposter 1 week ago:
The problem isn’t content, it’s engagement on the content. Folks complain that niche communities have no engagement, just a bunch of posts by a single person… but it feels like 95% of the time, if I comment on those posts, there’s no reply, not even from the OP, and that discourages further posting.
If you’re willing to engage on everything you post, I don’t see the harm in it, but at that point, why even use a bot? Why not just find content you like (or have the bot notify you of content), then post it yourself as an actual human?
- Comment on Random idea: a federated alternative to Amazon Prime built from independent shops? 1 week ago:
I had a horrible Amazon experience 3 or 4 years ago and haven’t shopped there since, so I’m probably remembering the time when it did work.
- Comment on Is there a place you can gamble on if it rains tomorrow? 1 week ago:
Closest thing you’ll find is likely to be prediction markets, but “whether it rains tomorrow” isn’t something that would be available unless it’s in the form of “Will X event be rescheduled due to rain?” or similar more boolean things.
- Comment on Random idea: a federated alternative to Amazon Prime built from independent shops? 1 week ago:
Love the idea in concept. One major issue is the shipping. A major benefit of Amazon is just being able to add 20 things to your cart and get them all in like 1-2 boxes. In this hypothetical scenario, you’d presumably still have to handle checkout through each individual store, and if you ordered 20 things, you’d be placing up to 20 individual orders, each with their own shipping costs.
This becomes more problematic when maybe multiple stores you’re buying from sell multiple things on your list… ideal case would be to buy as many things from one store as possible, to consolidate shipping, but what if their prices for the individual items vary? Now you’ve got to search each individual storefront for each item and calculate the difference in cost. (This store sells item A for $2 cheaper but shipping is $3.50, is there another item I can add in to save shipping? They sell item B for $0.50 more, but I might save on shipping costs…)
Technically this is no worse than it is now if you’re shopping from a variety of stores rather than one megastore, but it would be a large barrier to adoption if you’re trying to capture some of the “fed up with Amazon but still like the convenience” crowd.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
He might have felt pressure to keep up with your dad due to just meeting them / wanting to make a good impression, and not realized how drunk he was getting. Doesn’t excuse his actions in the least, but might help contextualize them… given it doesn’t sound like this is something he would normally do.
- Comment on What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up? 2 weeks ago:
This is a great suggestion. PS2 had some great games, the graphics were good enough that, while they obviously look dated today, it’s not difficult to play, and it’s still recent enough that the hardware is affordable.
- Comment on The REAL news 2 weeks ago:
Maybe they’re trying to. They aren’t fighting, they’re just trying to tear it in two so they can both take it to their respective families.
- Comment on I'm losing. 3 weeks ago:
Would have !the_pack@lemmy.world vibes IF IT WASN’T SO QUIET.
- Comment on I'm not even gay 3 weeks ago:
If what Jesus did or did not say is different depending on what religion you subscribe to, you’d think we could then make the logical conclusion that some portion of what we ascribe to Jesus was not actually what he said, and vice versa…
- Comment on Trump orders blockade of 'sanctioned' Venezuela oil tankers 3 weeks ago:
I’m very afraid that the big announcement Trump is making tomorrow is that we’re going to war with Venezuela.
- Comment on Do what one must! 3 weeks ago:
Please do not the gators. :(
- Comment on I feel like I will want to live completely alone in the nature at a future time in my life 4 weeks ago:
Some people definitely do want to, and in fact do.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 4 weeks ago:
The NFL just needs to invent a peace prize and present it to Trump, then he’ll immediately change his tune and start insisting that FIFA changes their terminology to Soccer.
- Comment on Amazon’s dynamic pricing is causing chaos for school budgets 4 weeks ago:
For instance, the report mentions an employee of the City of Boulder, Colorado, who purchased a 12-pack of Sharpie markers for $8.99, while an employee of the nearby Denver Public Schools was charged $28.63 for the same product on the same day.
$28.63 for a pack of sharpies? Whoever looked at that price and thought that ordering it from Amazon was the way to go needs to go back to school themselves.
- Comment on I fall for it every year. Every. Year. 4 weeks ago:
Coincidentally, I have two earlobes that I’m not using for anything - how much are you offering?
- Comment on I hate how inescapable politics are on Lemmy, but ya know, at least nobody's constantly asking how I wipe my butt or pick up my dog's poop then completely ignoring me when I try to answer. 5 weeks ago:
I think most of us are, but a lot of us made the switch quite some time ago… mid-2023 was a pretty big migration wave, and so have largely forgotten about Redditisms. :)
- Comment on I hate how inescapable politics are on Lemmy, but ya know, at least nobody's constantly asking how I wipe my butt or pick up my dog's poop then completely ignoring me when I try to answer. 5 weeks ago:
For what it’s worth, that’s probably more of a Reddit thing; I don’t think I’ve ever seen that asked on Lemmy.
- Comment on I hate how inescapable politics are on Lemmy, but ya know, at least nobody's constantly asking how I wipe my butt or pick up my dog's poop then completely ignoring me when I try to answer. 5 weeks ago:
That extra bit of context definitely helps to frame why someone would be asking you those things!
- Comment on Marathon Art Controversy Resolved As Artist Reaches Agreement With Bungie And Sony 5 weeks ago:
I’d bet some significant amount of the hype was from people thinking “Oh, sick! The Marathon franchise is getting a revival!” without realizing that the new game had essentially no relation to the Marathon franchise they remembered. I don’t know who they think is sitting around thinking, “You know what I want? Another live service extraction shooter.”
- Comment on Corvid-19 5 weeks ago:
He looks perfectly gentlemanly. Bet those chest feathers are nice and soft to lay against, too.
- Comment on I heard that this offer applies to more than just turkeys 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Forever young 1 month ago:
That’s funny - MW2, BF: Bad Company 2 and BF3 were the last competitive shooters I really enjoyed, too. I had a good time playing Apex Legends for a while, but not because I was good at it… more because I could have fun playing my own version of The Running Man until someone inevitably found me.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 month ago:
You’re welcome! It’s a topic I find intriguing, and it’s always interesting to discuss the different ways people experience these things, now that I realize we’re not all the same. :)
- Comment on Holy shiiiiit 1 month ago:
He was a politician who was caught having accepted a bribe, basically, which seems bizarrely mundane today.He said something to the effect of “Don’t look, this will affect you” before he did it, too… petty self-aware for someone who’s about to kill themselves in front of a crowd.