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- Comment on Everyday I wake up 1 day ago:
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- Comment on Give them some privacy 6 days ago:
- Comment on Every time someome does the impossible, it gets a little harder to do so. 1 week ago:
They should make a dance called “the impossible.”
Pretty sure there’s some kind of skateboard move called that already.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression
- Comment on Full Circle 1 week ago:
/pedant the term would be “emigrating”
- Comment on Appers 2 weeks ago:
I blame this dude.
- Comment on Kawasaki unveils a hydrogen-powered, ride-on robot horse 2 weeks ago:
Companies don’t need to make products for customers. They just need to make ideas for investors.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 2 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill#Problems
Except a lot of men who fought over there were rewarded with returning back to the bottom rung of the socioeconomic ladder.
Status quo was maintained. Women and people of color were promised opportunity and reward for helping with the war effort, but largely didn’t get it.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 2 weeks ago:
To explain your downvotes.
Women were encouraged to join the work force on top of all of the parenting/wifely duties they were saddled with for generations. This was a lot of work, but it also provided a glimpse into financial independence and equal placement in the workplace for the first time.
But when the war was over, women were encouraged to jump right back into the kitchen.
should men returning from war not be entitled to their job back
There are many jobs that need to be done to make society work. There are plenty of jobs at home that they could have taken.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah and “we can do it,” until the men come back home and take the jobs back.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 3 weeks ago:
My personal rule is female adjective is okay, female noun is not.
- Comment on Based on a true story 3 weeks ago:
a loan for a used car sounds wild to me.
Predatory car loans has entered the chat.
I don’t know about Carvana, but plenty of scummy dealers will give insane rates to people with no credit check, repo the car while they’re still underwater on the loan, and sell it to someone else. You can have two or three people paying off the same car.
Oh, also, they somehow encourage the most gullible people who can’t afford their loans to just let the car get reposessed instead of attempting to sell it back to the dealer.
- Comment on Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today 3 weeks ago:
For anyone struggling, lemmy web interface added the colon into the URL for the blog post link. Here’s a clickable version without the colon:
- Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio 3 weeks ago:
Didn’t some magazines ship software with plastic records that could be played on a conventional record player?
- Comment on The Great Tech Heist - How "Disruption" Became a Euphemism for Theft 4 weeks ago:
Yeah except one is a private entertainment establishment, and the other is a public transportation service.
- Comment on The Great Tech Heist - How "Disruption" Became a Euphemism for Theft 4 weeks ago:
The perfect consumer-facing example of this is Clear at the airport.
Instead of waiting in line to have your ID checked by a TSA agent, you let an iPad take your picture and then have an agent walk you to the TSA agent and vouch for you.
The whole iPad thing is marginally faster if at all than just checking your ID by hand, so really they just found a way to monetize cutting the line. This provides zero net benefit to society except for extracting money from people for something that’s supposed to be free.
Also, when everyone has Clear, we’ll be back in the same boat with long lines and they’ll probably charge more for Clear+ or some shit.
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- Comment on New Portal pinball table may be the closest we’re gonna get to Portal 3 5 weeks ago:
Took me 5 minutes to learn spoiler tags, hope I didn’t ruin it for anybody.
- Comment on New Portal pinball table may be the closest we’re gonna get to Portal 3 5 weeks ago:
:::It’s some cute fan art of Chell and her companion cube basking in the rain in the wheat field at the end of Portal 2 while Exile Vilify plays:::
- Comment on New Portal pinball table may be the closest we’re gonna get to Portal 3 5 weeks ago:
We can’t keep sucking Chell back into the lab. Let her be.
- Comment on Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City 5 weeks ago:
Oh huh. I just remember him winning the new shareholder vote for which I believe the stakes were “gimme money or I leave” despite there being no legal requirement to pay him.
- Comment on Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City 5 weeks ago:
Yep. There was another shareholder vote and he won it.
- Comment on Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City 5 weeks ago:
They just paid fucking 60 billion dollars to him to keep him from quitting. Maybe a smidge of sunk cost fallacy.
- Comment on Resistance Against Large Corporations is Competition 5 weeks ago:
“The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”
- Comment on I named my bat §kPetBat§r 5 weeks ago:
I thought only LLMs were supposed to hallucinate
- Comment on Removing Watermarks From Images With Gemini Is Now Way Too Easy 5 weeks ago:
Depends on how you sell them, but yes. Don’t assume that you aren’t hurting an individual when you steal IP.
- Comment on Not that I would. But could I go up to the capital building and do the exact same thing Jan 6th morons did down to a T? Since Trump pardoned them, or does it apply for a few while the rest are screwed 1 month ago:
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
He pardons specific offences, not entire types of crimes.
- Comment on X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage. 1 month ago:
No. You see Twitter was keeping them contained. This is like the power going out at Jurassic Park.
- Comment on Failed ransom plots in the past might've succeeded if Cryptocurrencies existed. 1 month ago:
“Um it says that you’ll never ask for this code”