Pyr_Pressure
@Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 2 days ago:
What do people from the Netherlands call themselves if not Dutch or the Dutch?
Like, people from the United States call themselves Americans, there’s the Spanish and French.
Are they called Netherlanders or something?
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 3 days ago:
Especially when the ad is longer than the video you are trying to watch.
Or you watch the entire video than accidentally swipe the edge of your phone and you are sent back, then have to watch it again to view the video once you click it again.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 5 days ago:
Why couldn’t they just stick with Office… It’s 100% explanatory, short, and to the point.
365 never made sense to me. Is it supposed to represent the year? Like available 24/7 but instead it’s there for you 365 days of the year? And if that’s the case why the fuck would I care? It’s software, of course it’s available to me whenever I want. It’s not a 7/11 hotdog rotisserie.
- Comment on YSK this woman is called Kathlyn Boyle. She is the most powerful woman in Silicon Valley and one of the closest friend of JD Vance. 5 days ago:
I’ve never heard of this person before and now this is the second Lemmy post I have seen on the front page of my all feed in the past 10 minutes, the other one being posted by an account that is 13 hours old.
The fuck is going on and why is this lady being targetted by someone?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
You would think that we should have caught on sooner considering how there are plenty of mammals, like rabbits, that need to eat their moms poop to get the proper bacteria in their own guts in order to survive. Otherwise they simply die.
- Comment on Snitches get switches 1 week ago:
Well not as an individual but the owners/caretakers of the land are legally required to remove it and remediate the area.
- Comment on Snitches get switches 1 week ago:
Depends on the rules. Some places it would be illegal to disturb anything in conservation areas like parks but other areas it would be illegal to ignore invasive plants and not remove them.
- Comment on Gundam Chestnut 1 week ago:
PNW… Himalayan Blackberry
- Comment on CIA behind strike at Venezuelan dock that Trump claims was used by drug smugglers, AP sources say 1 week ago:
I’m sure drug smugglers use a lot of American docks, why not bomb those as well?
- Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them... 1 week ago:
Very true.
But, even so I don’t think all regulations need to be a thing unless there’s a specific point reached.
Like, if 1 in 100 million die due to some issue every 10 years, do we need a regulation that hinders the comfort/productivity of tens of thousands?
Not sure where that point is, but some regulations do seem pretty ridiculous to me.
- Comment on You can (probably should) remove personal information from a photo before uploading it to social media 1 week ago:
Honorable site? Lol.
This data is why they let you have an account for free.
- Comment on The first evidence of human activity every archaeological expedition encounters is evidence of an archeological expedition. 2 weeks ago:
Hmm not necessarily.
If archeologists are called out because a construction site uncovers a Roman road or fort, the first evidence they find is that of construction activities.
- Comment on Entertainment would be a lot less shitty if there is a legally-enforcible International Law that bans the act of cancelling TV Shows and forces all TV Shows to have a decently written ending. 2 weeks ago:
Nah, tv shows should be funded and approved for at least 1, maybe 2 seasons past the upcoming season being considered for filming.
Like Amazon Prime funding and approving 5 seasons of LOTR off the bat. If a show is greenlit, it should be for at least 2-3 seasons not a single season to test the waters.
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 2 weeks ago:
Some of them are alright, but I have no idea that they were thinking when some of the new ones got approved.
- Comment on It took years to come up with a plan to cut road deaths, and just 11 days to kill it 2 weeks ago:
People always overestimate how much time they save when driving faster.
If you were travelling 100km at 100km/h it would take you and hour to get to your destination.
At 80km/h it would take you 1h15m.
If you were travelling half that distance you would only be saving 8 minutes.
Y’all want to risk dying to save maybe 8 minutes? It’s not only your driving you need to worry about, it’s other people on the road.
- Comment on Meta tolerates rampant ad fraud from China to safeguard billions in revenue 3 weeks ago:
Amazon also endorses fraud. Found a product which had a blatant lie in the description and specification pages but do you think I can find the report product button? Absolutely no where to be found.
- Comment on Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay? 3 weeks ago:
Why raise residential tares and not commercial / industrial rates?
Oh, because businesses are subsidizes through taxes. Of course.
- Comment on Stack Overflow Rolls Out Native Ads in Q&A Feeds for Funding Boost 4 weeks ago:
I really hate the term native ad. It makes it sound like it isn’t the worst thing ever invented.
It should instead be called invasive ads or undercover ads.
- Comment on Pebble maker announces Index 01, a smart-ish ring for under $100 4 weeks ago:
There’s no guarantee they will even be around to recycle the rings in two years time. The way tech companies are going these days it’s probably not very likely.
- Comment on Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image 4 weeks ago:
They have vibe journalists now
- 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’ 5 weeks ago:
Why don’t you just call NFL foot ball, soccer? No one else wants to use the name soccer so it’s sort of free.
- Comment on South Korea police say 120,000 home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage 5 weeks ago:
I don’t even understand why you would have them anywhere inside. I have a few outside to warn of movement and stuff outdoors and trigger alarms at certain times but I would never put them inside my house. Already having them outside triggers by paranoia about being watched.
- Comment on The phrase "edited it" is soo weird to pronounce 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on heads up! 5 weeks ago:
Our butt is connected to our head, just with a really long tube. Shorten the tube enough and your butter would also be in your head.
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 1 month ago:
He probably thinks he works 80 hour weeks because he is including schmoozing with clients and company paid lunches and dinners as “work”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Who decides who gets to wear the black hat? What if some random bloke goes out and wears one?
- Comment on YSK that americans can now deduce private jet expenses from their taxes 1 month ago:
I’m always terrified to write stuff off because I fear I will accidentally write something off that I’m not really allowed to due to some obscure legalese and then I will get audited in 5 five years and owe 10 grand in late fees and interest or some shit.
- Comment on An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026 1 month ago:
Whelp guess I’m not upgrading my PC to ddr5 anytime soon 😂
- Comment on Amazing 1 month ago:
No, whenever Trump is president years suddenly have 25 months in them. It did apply in 2020 but the phenomenon is back again.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’m curious what a human brain would be like growing into being with absolutely no senses to inform itself about the world around it.
No sight to let it know where it is or what it is.
No sound to let it learn to communicate and think in orderly ways.
No touch.
No taste.
No ability to interact with its surroundings.
Yet all of the capability and potential of a regular person’s mind.
Would it be cruel to bring it into existence? Would it be able to experience negativity and pain and longing, confusion?