Pyr_Pressure
@Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Australia struggling with oversupply of solar power 2 days 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 5 days 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 5 days 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
/r/trees will only accept tree related posts
- Comment on 3D printed 'suicide pod' used by a human for the first time 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
It’s been tanking for a lot longer than that
- Comment on Lingering damage 1 month 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 2 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 2 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 2 months ago:
Lol, YouTube
- Comment on Elon Musk on pace to become world’s first trillionaire by 2027, report says 2 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 2 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 2 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.
- Comment on Harris supports a 44.6% tax on Americans for selling their homes: Report 2 months ago:
When there’s a company with $1 billion dollars in cash competing with people’s needing to take out 25 year mortgages at 5% interest, and the company sees it as a way to profit, the company will outbid the individual every single time and drive up market prices.
Individuals buying with the added cost of interest will never be able to compete with corporations that’s have cash on hand and can make a profit by renting out the house.
The more homes a company owns, the more capital it warms to buy more homes.
You don’t need one company in the country, you just need a few in a single desirable city.
- Comment on Harris supports a 44.6% tax on Americans for selling their homes: Report 2 months ago:
I’m all for reducing the incentive to use housing as tools for investment. Houses should not be used as people’s retirement nest egg.
- Comment on A Harris-Walz Administration Would Be A Nightmare for Free Speech 3 months ago:
So would a trump Vance administration. It’s not like people have much choice…
- Comment on Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia 3 months ago:
I can see why they no longer call it a planet, what’s the cutoff for asteroid size?
- Comment on Camera reels 3 months ago:
Zookeeper -
“LOOK AT THIS ODD COLOURED BEAR POOP YOU TOOK A PHOTO OF 3 YEARS AGO”
- Comment on Why do people complain about multiple streaming platforms existing? 3 months ago:
I don’t mind multiple streaming platforms as long as all they do is stream content
My issue is each and every streaming platform produces their own exclusive content or they sign exclusivity contracts so only one platform streams a particular show or movie at once.
If Netflix and amazon video had the same content, you would just have to choose the service that is cheapest and has the best benefits like great user interface, customer support, features, and other stuff like that.
When there are 12 different platforms which each have their own library with barely any overlap you have to sign up for multiple all at once, and some that have terrible customer support or user interfaces if you want to watch one of their shows.
- Comment on 8 Minutes 3 months ago:
I’m more interested in how long before we freeze to death.
How long will the earth’s atmosphere hold onto its heat?