TheRaven
@TheRaven@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 2 weeks ago:
Maybe they meant rubles. I think I may find that value in my couch.
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 2 months ago:
Everyone’s talking about the tech, but I’ll talk about the user base. When you make a post or comment on Reddit, it often feels like you get lost in some black hole of other posts or comments. No one sees your comment because there are 1000 other comments on the same post.
At Lemmy, there are fewer users and fewer comments, but your comments actually get seen. People upvote. I weirdly get way more upvotes at Lemmy than I did at Reddit, in spite of the smaller user base here. Because of that, I’m way more active here than I was on Reddit.
- Comment on faketivist 3 months ago:
If it was fuelled by burning other wealth hoarders, I may agree with it.
- Comment on Bungie CEO faces backlash after announcing 220 employees, or 17% of its workforce, will be laid off | Pete Parsons has spent $2.4 million on classic cars since Sony acquired Destiny developer Bungie 3 months ago:
People are pointing out the juxtaposition of many people losing their jobs while one person spends silly amounts of money on toys. It’s not that he spent it on toys, it’s that he made so much that he was able to waste it on frivolity while others around him suffered.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Checks notes… yep, it’s terminal.
- Comment on Checkmate, Atheists 3 months ago:
George Clooney:
- Comment on President 360 No Scope... 4 months ago:
Congrats everyone, we got the Purge, but remember this is America where hoarding happens. Everyone doesn’t get one day, one person gets 4 years.
- Comment on Looks like something straight from Warhammer 40K 4 months ago:
The way it was explained to me, praying to a Saint to speak to God on your behalf is like asking a friend to pray for you. You could just pray to God yourself, but for some reason, having more people pray for you is better.
- Comment on Looks like something straight from Warhammer 40K 4 months ago:
Chances are, it isn’t. The early Catholic Church did a lot of this kind of thing, where they would claim to have a piece of the cross, or a bone of St Peter in a church. It was just to drive tourism into their churches. If you took all the claimed pieces of the cross and assembled them, it would make far more than one cross.
- Comment on Are you ultra woke on purpose? 6 months ago:
Correct answer. Sometimes I get things wrong, but I do my best to learn how I can do things to be more like this. Whatever label that is.
- Comment on Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO 6 months ago:
Or that they can buy the plane ticket first, then apply for the grievance discount later…
- Comment on Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO 6 months ago:
Call centres exist because people can’t get the help they need by searching. Take away call centres, and you’re just making it more difficult for customers.
- Comment on UK: Almost a quarter of kids aged 5-7 have smartphones 6 months ago:
It’s also easier to give them all the candy they can eat, than to deal with your kid constantly wanting candy. Doesn’t make it healthy.
- Comment on A new NES emulator was briefly available on the Apple App Store 6 months ago:
The developer is scared of Nintendo.
- Comment on A 62-Year-Old German Man Got 217 Covid Shots—and Was Totally Fine 8 months ago:
- Comment on Roku disables TVs and streaming devices until users consent to new terms 8 months ago:
The devices those users paid for? That should be illegal.
- Comment on Reddit user content being sold to AI company in $60M/year deal 8 months ago:
On iOS, I used Redact. It worked well to replace all my posts and comments with gibberish. I did the same for Twitter too. apps.apple.com/app/id6449900531
- Comment on xkcd #2895: Treasure Chests 8 months ago:
- Comment on We've still got a few hours. 8 months ago:
The correct date from the movie is actually 2016. youtu.be/nYndBvhz8hU
- Comment on Paramount Global Laying Off 800 Employees as CEO Bakish Cites Need to Trim Costs 8 months ago:
Costs almost always means peoples’ jobs. Stockholders are almost always rich. So the title is really “Takes away peoples’ livelihoods to make rich people more money.”
But if we just cut taxes for the rich, they’ll create more jobs. It’ll trickle down eventually, right? Right?
- Comment on fat time 8 months ago:
Everyone looks at me strangely when I ask for 0% sugar in my bubble tea. The pearls already have sugar in them, and when your palette changes, you can taste the tea and milk so much clearer rather than having all of that covered up by the taste of sugar.
- Comment on fat time 8 months ago:
It’s best to just change your palette so it doesn’t need sugary tastes anyway. If you don’t want sugar substitutes, just change your diet so your body doesn’t expect sweet things at all. That’s a great move.
- Comment on fat time 8 months ago:
Just drink a Diet Coke when you eat your sugar. They cancel each other out.
- Comment on Which option lads? 9 months ago:
Good point. To me it would be the opposite though. I would travel way more if I didn’t work.
- Comment on Which option lads? 9 months ago:
That was a thought that went through my head. In reality, as long as I was able to walk for a few years, I could invest that money and make passive income with the 4% rule. Assuming I could walk just a few years longer, I could retire very early. But yes, theoretically I’ll be breathing longer than I’m walking. And breathing income is safer in that way.
- Comment on Which option lads? 9 months ago:
I looked at my rates. At 17 breaths a minute, I would make $1,224 per day. At around 7725 steps per day, I would make $1,931 per day. I have to go back years to find a month that averaged a step income below my breath income. Hands down (or feet down), I’d choose making money through steps. I would be making over $700k a year. The added benefit is that I can also increase my step count per day and it would make me healthier. Increasing my breath rate generally wouldn’t.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
BoomerAI
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
I can’t wait for AI to spout new conspiracy theories using images of minions.
- Comment on Hmmm... 9 months ago:
I mean, you’re not wrong. When I’m navigating though, I hate having to hold my phone out, while constantly looking down. If I had a less intrusive, but also way less obvious set of glasses, to just point out directions as I look around and see the world around me, I would be happier. Especially when going somewhere new. That said, these goggles aren’t the answer yet.
- Comment on Hmmm... 9 months ago:
Transit is also fine. They’re not getting in anyone’s way or risking anyone’s harm.
Walking is actually one major use case for the future. Imagine walking somewhere and having turn by turn directions provided for you. The issue with this person is that they stopped in the middle of the road to adjust something on their screen. Also, I don’t think walking directions is even a feature yet.
There’s obviously something already wrong with the Cyber Truck driver. I mean… they bought a Cyber Truck.
