Pyr_Pressure
@Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Who needs a seatbelt anyway... 4 hours ago:
I really wish people had to go to a driving test every 10 years and then get graded on how poor/good their driving skills are.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 3 days ago:
Wonder what would happen if an octopus looked directly at the sun
- Comment on I'm here getting paid minimum wage. You are not funny 5 days ago:
As much as I agree filming without permission isn’t a great move, there is no way to tell if they didn’t ask to post it afterwards with their permission and being perfectly fine with deleting it if they weren’t okay with it. It’s not like it was a live feed.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 week ago:
Capitalism and the free market is supposed to encourage efficiency and innovation in order to remain competitive in order to keep prices low… Is Sony against capitalism? Is it against the free market? Is in adverse to innovation? C’mon Sony … Stop being lazy.
- Comment on Byeeeeeee 1 week ago:
Similar to how humans and apes have a common ancestor, the horseshoe crabs would have an ancestor which looked very similar to today’s version, although slightly different, and some of them would have evolved into other things while some remained relatively unchanged.
- Comment on Choose one before starting the game... 1 week ago:
Why not both?
- Comment on Le Penguini 1 week ago:
I wonder what would happen if we transplanted some penguins from Antarctica to the arctic. Would they survive?
Maybe some of the more endangered ones could live and thrive up there, and then become a second food source for the polar bears so they don’t starve now that there isn’t as much ice to hunt seals on.
It’s not like there much of an ecosystem up there that an invasive species can fuck up like the toads down in Australia.
- Comment on MD = oMega Dumbass 2 weeks ago:
Devil’s advocate, is she trying to say compared to those unvaccinated but still exposed to/have had the virus? Or people who were never exposed? Because that could maybe change the context. You would think antibodies from a vaccine would stay around the same length of time as those exposed to the live virus directly.
If she is talking about people never exposed than I have no idea what she is talking about.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 2 weeks ago:
Why is 15% considered cheap when 15 years ago it was perfectly acceptable? A percentage is a percentage. Yes, cost of living has gone up but that includes food prices which means tips go up as a result automatically, hence the example I provided.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t care what people think, I’m still doing 10% for okay, 15% for good, and 20% for great.
It’s not my job to give servers a raise. The food prices have already exploded, they are already getting more in tips just because the base cost went up
My $10 meal and 15% tip ($1.50) is now a $15 meal with a 15% tip ($2.25) which would have been a 22.5% at previous prices. They already come out ahead in that scenario without tip percentages increasing.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 2 weeks ago:
I’m not saying getting rid of local representation is the solution, necessarily. In fact, I personally think the opposite is true and we need more local representation.
It’s just with the current system, local representation is kind of useless and supports gerrymandering and corruption.
If I were in charge I would demand political parties to disperse completely and local representatives be the only people on the ballot to go ahead and make decisions for the people who voted for them. Vote for the person not the party.
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget the $200k gold bar bribe attached to it
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 2 weeks ago:
Why don’t they just transfer $200k directly to Trump?
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 2 weeks ago:
When everyone votes along party lines, why does it matter if you have local representation ? Barely any of them actually vote how they think their constituents would want them to vote, they vote however the sorry tells them to vote.
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 3 weeks ago:
Well at least with phone tap there’s like a limit of $200, so maybe some company can corner a niche market where they only cover small daily purchases. No $10,000 credit balances or $2000 purchases and points and whatnot, just like $1000 balance limits and max $200 on purchases through tap.
You wouldn’t need quite as much capital that way, and I bet that would eat a good chunk of business from visa and MasterCard.
- Comment on Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned? 3 weeks ago:
So that was 5 years ago. Which means he could give them all a $20,000 annual raise and still be making money.
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 3 weeks ago:
I feel like it should be super easy now for smaller competitors to pop up by just offering digital credit services using tap on mobile phones. No need to manufacture and ship out plastic cards, just a digital version people keep on the phone, until they get large enough to be able to provide physical cards.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 3 weeks ago:
To me having the car be able to override your actions sounds more dangerous than being to override the autopilot.
I had one rental truck that drove me insane and scared the shit out of me because it would slam on the brakes when I tried to reverse into grass that was too tall.
What if I were trying to avoid something dangerous, like a train or another vehicle, and the truck slammed on the brakes for me because of some tree branches in the way? Potentially deadly.
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
Eh, it’s unique but I don’t think that should give Sony the right to use the exclusively (looking at you Nintendo and Pokemon)
You could have the exact same game but with flashy dinosaurs and all of a sudden it’s not a problem? And then a third company can come out with another copy with fleshy dinosaurs and there’s no issue because fleshy dinosaurs aren’t unique.
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 3 weeks ago:
You can get socket extensions where the bulb goes into it and then each extension is connected to a wall mount remote switch. No wifi needed and then you have a wall switch for each bulb.
Doesn’t fit into every light fixture though depends on the design.
- Comment on Got emotional thinking about this 3 weeks ago:
You can also view older Street view images on Google maps, at least on mobile not sure about desktop
- Comment on Pokemon TCG Pocket’s New Expansion Confirms the Revival of Legendary Region 4 weeks ago:
I think they have since before then. It’s always 3-4 days before end of month.
- Comment on crypto investment 4 weeks ago:
If you never sell it’s a 100% loss since you can never use that money for anything ever.
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 4 weeks ago:
So why can’t I read them for free too? Only massive billion dollar companies get stuff for free?
I would like to announce that I am pioneering a new AI program. Give me access to all of the movies for free please.
- Comment on It's the truth 5 weeks ago:
It’s great to just spice up some soup too
- Comment on sardonic soup 5 weeks ago:
What we really need is to get rid of spines and thorns in blackberry bushes.
- Comment on Driver who killed a father and injured his 6 year old son sent 44 Snapchat messages while driving 100km/h before fatal crash 5 weeks ago:
They shouldn’t be allowed to even own a vehicle.
- Comment on New paint scheme just in after Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket in a classic price fixing scam 5 weeks ago:
Nice, I am cheap as fuck and really don’t care much about travel. If I convince the AI of this maybe I can a $10 plane ticket. Otherwise no sale AI, you hear me? $10 is my limit. That’s all I am willing to pay.
- Comment on 'I can't drink the water' - life next to a US data centre 1 month ago:
He takes us to a creek downhill from a new construction site for a data centre being built by US firm Quality Technology Services (QTS).
George Dietz, a local volunteer, scoops up a sample of the water into a clear plastic bag. It’s cloudy and brown.
Well, maybe they didn’t have proper sediment control but a creek is a lot different than well water. Most people don’t drink out of creeks, sediment control is done more for the purpose of protecting fish habitat.
Hauls buckets of water to flush her toilet
What? You’re concern is sediment in your well water and then go haul dirty brown sediment filled water from the creek to flush your toilet instead?
Buy a sediment filter for your well water. Even people not beside giant data centres should have one just because it keeps the system functional and running better. It is practically a requirement to have one.
- Comment on Dams around the world hold so much water they've shifted Earth's poles, new research shows 1 month ago:
I can’t say I’m convinced? There are thousands of reasons why the poles could shift. But freshwater makes up such a small fraction of a tiny percentage of the mass on earth that I can’t see it have that large of an effect, especially when only a fraction of a small percentage of the freshwater is being held by dams.