Pyr_Pressure
@Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
- Comment on The Last Of Us Part II will require a PSN account to play on PC, making it unplayable in over 100 countries 2 weeks ago:
Because Sony is a company and all companies are dicks. Why does anyone ever expect otherwise?
- Comment on End of Russian gas via Ukraine sparks unease in eastern Europe 3 weeks ago:
I mean, 5 years is still pretty fast for transitioning entire energy sectors and supply. Not that I fault Ukraine for turning off the gas, but I also don’t think Moldova could have transitioned in 5 years easily if at all.
It can take a decade just to build a single refinery, or new pipeline, or other infrastructure. It’s not something someone can just say go and have it all set up and running in a few years.
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 4 weeks ago:
Time zone doesn’t affect “midday”
Midday is when the sun is at its highest point. The hottest part of the day is pretty much always a few hours after midday.
Of course there are exceptions, there’s almost always exceptions for literally everything and it’s kind of useless pointing it out.
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 4 weeks ago:
That’s a little pedantic. The exact time isn’t really important, just that it is not exactly at midday, it’s a few hours after midday.
- Comment on Syria's leader says elections could take 4 years: Al Arabiya interview 4 weeks ago:
I understand needing time before an election but I also feel like rewriting the constitution should be done by people that were voted for to rewrite it? Seems a little counter intuitive to have random people rewrite it and then vote after it’s been done.
- Comment on Japanese company makes $16 USB-C cable that rotates 360 degrees 5 weeks ago:
Is this just an advertisement?
- Comment on $1K a month is a good deal 1 month ago:
Somehow people think their taxes will go up over $1000k a month if it changes to universal.
I live in Canada and I pay less taxes total than what most Americans pay for healthcare alone, yet somehow they think we pay more than them lol.
- Comment on Australia struggling with oversupply of solar power 2 months ago:
Can solar panels not be turned off? I see panels that aren’t plugged into anything and they don’t exactly blow up. Can’t they just be turned off when storage reaches a certain capacity?
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 2 months ago:
Why not build it in a remote location then?
Dams can also produce a lot of hydroelectric power, and a catastrophic failure could also destroy an entire town or more. We just don’t build dams upstream of a large town.
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 2 months ago:
Left wingers should boycott McDonald’s just for fun because it’s Trump’s favourite thing apparently. It would be interesting to see.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 2 months ago:
Yes I know, but I was just trying to put into the perspective the person I was replying to.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 2 months ago:
Except the lifetime of the universe is quite small when compared to infinity, so it doesn’t really convey how large infinity is because it’s so much more.
- Comment on Why is the price of real estate rising so dramatically? 2 months ago:
Maybe because with Airbnb instead of renting out a house for $2000 a month to someone looking to live there they can rent it out for $1000 a week to tourists and double their profit.
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 2 months ago:
That seems… Inefficient?
New Social media pops up every other year or so. Do they need to meet and vote to add new ones to the list every time?
- Comment on ‘Beyond failure’: WA teen loses legs at school-based work program. 3 months ago:
“could have happened to anyone”
Uh, sure, maybe anyone who wasn’t 16 years old. I completely blame the company for allowing a 16 year old to operate dangerous equipment, let alone without direct supervision.
If his two coworkers were only alerted to his injury after the kid phoned his boss, got disconnected, texted him a picture, then the boss phones the coworkers, they were absolutely not close enough to be supervising that kid even with “hearing protection”. That would be like 2-3 minutes at least for that process but likely took longer.
You’re telling me there were no better jobs the kid could have been doing while the coworkers operated the mulching machine?
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 3 months ago:
It’s a pretty ineffective strategy, but I’m just going off this one photo.
If it’s genetic, and the females can’t get a blood meal, then they won’t lay any eggs to pass on those genetics and just die.
Then the ones without that gene will lay all their eggs and the next generation will be unchanged and they have to spend all that money again to do whatever they did which had no effect.
- Comment on Massive generational gap: Gen Z flocks to multiplayer, while 55+ sticks to single-player 3 months ago:
Gen-z also gets massive psychological trauma because online multiplayer games suck, needing to deal with other gen Z people online.
- Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic 3 months ago:
They should have little nozzles to disperse a cloud of pepper spray around the vehicle in emergencies.
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 3 months ago:
Nintendo has been on my list of most hated companies for awhile now. Just can’t stand how they operate and design their games.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 3 months ago:
/r/trees will only accept tree related posts
- Comment on 3D printed 'suicide pod' used by a human for the first time 3 months ago:
Perhaps due to the reasons that executed prisoners need to be injected with a suspicious cocktail of drugs. No company wants to be connected to the death of a person. Perhaps they are worried they won’t be able to supply parts and components once the news gets out about what their product does.
- Comment on And you will never catch up as Bezos make 8,000,000 per hour 3 months ago:
There is absolutely no amount of hard work that deserves that much money, absolutely none. You could run a marathon every single day for 50 years and I still wouldn’t say you deserved that much money.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 4 months ago:
It’s been tanking for a lot longer than that
- Comment on Lingering damage 4 months ago:
If it’s something like bacon / beef grease just let it congeal in the pan then scrape it out into the garbage can.
- Comment on The mark 4 months ago:
I don’t have it! What’s wrong with me??
- Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads 4 months ago:
It’s pretty stupid to introduce ads on the pause screen. Usually I would pause something because I am either:
A) Being interrupted and need to focus on something else like a phone call or a family member talking to me, and wouldn’t be paying attention to the screen anyways.
B) Need to leave to go somewhere else like the fridge for a snack and wouldn’t be paying attention to the screen anyways.
Or
C) Just want to take a break and want to do something else which involves opening another window or program and wouldn’t be paying attention to the window with YouTube open.
In every scenario where I pause YouTube and add playing would not provide any value to the entity paying YouTube to play the ad.
And in every scenario, if an ad began playing when I pause youtube it would cause me to mute my sound and/or turn off my monitor and just cause me to get super annoyed at YouTube or at whatever product is being advertised and how to never buy it ever.
- Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads 4 months ago:
Lol, YouTube
- Comment on Elon Musk on pace to become world’s first trillionaire by 2027, report says 4 months ago:
I don’t think we should call these people billionaires if it is all reliant on the value of their stocks. If it ain’t taxable it doesn’t exist.
- Comment on FTC urged to make smart devices say how long they will be supported 4 months ago:
Might sound stupid, but perhaps then they shouldn’t be offering services like Disney Plus and instead simply offer a car that lets you download any streaming app you have your own subscription for.
- Comment on FTC urged to make smart devices say how long they will be supported 4 months ago:
Products that change the service they offer after you purchase it should also be eligible for a full refund (plus a % on top for the hassle). Such as offering a service through the product for free at the time of purchase but then moving it being a monthly subscription paywall later on, or just removing the feature completely.