grte
@grte@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Installation 1 month ago:
Mood wiring
- Comment on We met at a bar 1 month ago:
In that uncle’s own mind, I guess. This is the older uncle’s equivalent of a Minion meme.
- Comment on We met at a bar 1 month ago:
Have you considered that those people also aren’t actually offended by it, but just think it’s kind of lame? This is the kind of comic I would expect to be shared by an uncle on Facebook.
- Comment on We met at a bar 1 month ago:
What are you saying? You can think it’s not a very funny comic without being offended by it. “Man enjoys blowjob” is not exactly cutting edge humour.
- Comment on We met at a bar 1 month ago:
“Oh damn, the point I was trying to make is very dumb. If I accuse people of not understanding it I can pretend to be very smart!”
-FeelzGoodMan420
- Comment on We met at a bar 1 month ago:
Try understanding the point of my comment. The comic about as spicy as margarine.
- Comment on We met at a bar 1 month ago:
Spicy? This is the most boomer ass comic I’ve seen in a minute. She’s even smoking in a bar. It probably literally is a boomer-aged comic.
- Comment on The Steam Families logo is clearly a Rorschach test, so what do you see? 2 months ago:
A juggling crab
- Comment on Canadian Athlete Caught Using Performance Enhancer 3 months ago:
That’s the joke.
- Comment on 2.9 billion hit in one of the largest data breaches ever — full names, addresses and SSNs exposed 3 months ago:
The personal data of 2.9 billion people, which includes full names, former and complete addresses going back 30 years, Social Security Numbers, and more, was stolen from National Public Data by a cybercriminal group that goes by the name USDoD. The complaint goes on to explain that the hackers then tried to sell this huge collection of personal data on the dark web to the tune of $3.5 million. It’s worth noting that due to the sheer number of people affected, this data likely comes from both the U.S. and other countries around the world.
What makes the way National Public Data did this more concerning is that the firm scraped personally identifiable information (PII) of billions of people from non-public sources. As a result, many of the people who are now involved in the class action lawsuit did not provide their data to the company willingly.
What exactly makes this company so different from the hacking group that breached them? Why should they be treated differently?
- Comment on Even the $44 billion didn't help. 8 months ago:
spoiler
- Comment on Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests 8 months ago:
Xchan
- Comment on More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities 8 months ago:
If they are loading the drive up with media for archival purposes how much overwriting are they going to be doing, anyways? Theoretically the drive should last a very long time for that purpose.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 9 months ago:
This is the truth. If you want the industry to change, don’t go to restaurants who do the tipping model. If you go to these places and don’t tip in some misguided attempt to change things, guess what. The owner just felt zero difference. They got paid 100% what they were expecting. It’s the waitstaff who just felt it. So why would the restaurant owner, the guy with the power to change things and not notable for giving a shit about their staff, care about your protest at all? Assuming they notice which they aren’t going to.
The only way to actually mount financial pressure on these places is to not go to them.
Of course, I assume most people who claim to be not tipping as some form of protest against the system just want to take advantage of the lower prices allowable by the lowered wage that waitstaff receive while claiming to be doing it for some higher goal.
- Comment on Kagi Search releases first version of a Lemmy/Kbin search lens 10 months ago:
When I signed up and they asked me how I heard about them I said a Lemmy post so I’m going to go ahead and take 100% credit for this.
But seriously, that’s pretty cool.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns - experts 11 months ago:
If you ever felt like your truck didn’t look and drive enough like a prep counter, Elon Musk has got your back.
- Comment on Average Lemmy Active Users by Month 11 months ago:
The lemmit.online bot specifically mirrors a lot of reddit, block that one account and the bot content drops significantly.
- Comment on Average Lemmy Active Users by Month 11 months ago:
The actual content is way better now than it was the first couple of months after the Reddit thing. Initially a lot of the comments were either Reddit related or people trying to force communities that didn’t necessarily have the population to survive, yet. That’s all fallen away now and the content feels much more organic. Someone opening a Lemmy instance for the first time is going to find today’s front page much more engaging than what it looked like in June/July.
Lemmy is becoming its own thing rather than a reflection of Reddit.
- Comment on Canada says Google will pay $74 million annually to Canadian news industry under new online law 11 months ago:
The Canadian law in question has specific provisions in it that would pass lemmy instance by.
— Companies impacted by the Online News Act must have global annual revenue of $1 billion or more, “operate in a search engine or social-media market distributing and providing access to news content in Canada,” and have 20 million or more Canadian average monthly unique visitors or average monthly active users.
That’s literally half the country, by the way.
There was never any chance this law was going to impact any lemmy instances.
- Comment on Some people still believe there are no politics in Star Trek 1 year ago:
Star Trek has been very political since the original series.
- Comment on The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier. 1 year ago:
It seems like the growth of trucks should play a big part of it, too. When I was young the majority of vehicles on the road were cars. Where I’m at, at least, it seems like the majority of people are driving trucks with a large minority of crossovers, and the occasional 10 year old car.
- Comment on Does anyone drink instant coffee anymore? 1 year ago:
If I’m going camping and want to keep things light I’ll buy instant coffee and transfer it into a freezer bag.
- Comment on YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated | Blocking ad-block users 1 year ago:
Same. I’m wondering if it’s limited to certain markets for the time being.
- Comment on Sock-post 1 year ago:
…Felt horrible? Did you jerk off with a sock on like a condom? Because that is very funny.
- Comment on Neuralink’s human trials volunteers ‘should have serious concerns,’ say medical experts 1 year ago:
I’m going to go ahead and not have something with the build quality of a Tesla attached to my brain, thanks.
- Comment on Why wasn't former President Bush of the USA, charged with any crimes, when we marched into Afghanistan and Iraq by his orders, under pretenses? 1 year ago:
That’s correct. Instead Bush opted for the 20 years of occupation for whatever reason.
- Comment on Why wasn't former President Bush of the USA, charged with any crimes, when we marched into Afghanistan and Iraq by his orders, under pretenses? 1 year ago:
- Comment on According to Elon Musk’s own math, the company formerly known as Twitter has lost 90% of its value and could be worth just $4 billion 1 year ago:
This is marvel-brained fantasy. The guy played games and ended up with a business he doesn’t understand and never should have been in charge of. He’s not a super-villain, he’s a dumbass nepotism case.
- Comment on According to Elon Musk’s own math, the company formerly known as Twitter has lost 90% of its value and could be worth just $4 billion 1 year ago:
Have you considered that Elon Musk is a dumbass rather than a super genius?
The guy didn’t plan on buying twitter. He was made to after he tried gaming the system and fucked it up.
- Comment on Why are people hyped about RSS regaining relevance? 1 year ago:
Blame? Fuck Facebook, the less relevant it is the better.
