MisterFrog
@MisterFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on Unhinged... I'm gonna start doing that 4 days ago:
lol serves its own grammatical function now I reckon.
It’s a marker for response to irony (actual irony, Americans…), or as a way to indicate you think something is stupid to the point of humour, or as a kind of “that tracks”.
Or at least, that’s how it’s used amongst people my age in Australia.
I don’t think I use it in a positive sense at all any more
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 4 days ago:
This is a great propaganda* image. Yoink ⚒️
* word used in the neural sense
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 4 days ago:
The general strike in Minneapolis shows what the working class can achieve.
From the provinces (Australia), I suggest you join whatever local movements exist.
I’m wishing you great success, because I worry what will be in store for us if the US falls even further into racism.
Stay strong friend
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 1 week ago:
Props to the camera person for showing the message.
Every small resistance counts ✊
- Comment on cant take it anymore 2 weeks ago:
Some. Many, if not most, are just flawed human beings.
I don’t enjoy this “everyone sucks” mentality you see online a lot.
- Comment on 32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital 3 weeks ago:
Is it? Seemed like a dig specifically at the fact that China doesn’t have a true union movement. Not a dog at communism in general.
China isn’t communist, nor very socialist, for that matter.
Capitalism with Chinese characteristics seems more of an apt description.
Pointing out that China is a dictatorship doesn’t mean that socialism is bad.
- Comment on 32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital 3 weeks ago:
My least favourite argument is them pointing to the reduction in poverty.
Like, I could say the same for capitalism. Which I won’t because capitalism needs to be abolished, but just “there was a massive reduction in poverty therefore system good” is stupid.
Tankies aren’t socialists in my eyes because socialism necessarily needs to be democratic control by the people.
- Comment on Rent is theft 4 weeks ago:
Apparently not liking capitalism lumps you in with the tankies.
Do you even know what tankie means?
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 4 weeks ago:
It’s silly that they don’t just operate from the browser. It’s how I use Patreon on my (admittedly not iPhone) Phone.
They should have just pulled Patreon from the app store.
It’s not like it’s such an impediment to ask users to use their browser.
In an ideal world we would not have monopolies controlling app stores, but I think Patreon is really stupid for not just abandoning the app store.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 4 weeks ago:
Don’t let Nintendo see this thread 0_0
- Comment on What a great idea 1 month ago:
This was excellent. Disappointed the YT algorithm doesn’t agree
- Comment on Tankie 1 month ago:
I assumed it was a second bag.
I miss the days of a skillful photo edit
- Comment on Woops 1 month ago:
Back in my day, whoops had an h, which was the style at the time.
- Comment on They can't keep getting away with this 2 months ago:
Wait until you hear about How Vodka Ruined Russia
Tankies ought to be frothing at the mouth about alcoholism, since apparently they love Stalin. And Stalin brought back alcoholism to Russia (Not a socialist at all, in my opinion)
(Disclaimer, I’m in general much further left than the YouTube channel Kraut, but he makes some quite well put-together videos)
- Comment on On dasher! 2 months ago:
Dashing through the bush in a rusty Holden ute. Kicking up the dust, esky in the boot. Kelpie by my side, singing Christmas songs, It’s summer time and I am in my singlet, shorts and thongs. Oh
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, Christmas in Australia on a scorching summer’s day, Oh, Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut. Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden ute.
- Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 2 months ago:
You can bet your ass foreign spy agencies are laughing their arses off about this as they track whatever targets they like
- Comment on Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses 2 months ago:
What’s worse, is this was the plan all along
- Comment on Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses 2 months ago:
I didn’t choose it (not my video).
I’d encourage you to watch it anyway, if you can get past the trauma…
- Comment on Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses 2 months ago:
No, it’s not my video, and it’s not like I chose the thumbnail.
I’ll just say folks, this has left me with a “people just like to complain” vibes.
The video is excellent, and exposing how the internet is the wild west of companies lying, cheating and stealing.
Maybe you could engage with that, rather than the creator having to make a stupid thumbnail to keep the algorithm happy.
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 48 comments
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 months ago:
Literally any device plugged into a dumb screen is better than a smart TV.
The hardware on a smart TV is typically absolute trash. It’s why they’re so slow.
- Comment on My Religion 2 months ago:
Out of curiousity, which one is this?
And whether you look under the rug, is that true in all texts of the religion?
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 2 months ago:
Personally I’d make an exception to my moral stance that work as punishment is slavery, and would prefer to keep him around forcing him to work 70 hours a week, in addition to doing all the other chores required so that he can live - in prison - for the rest of his life.
Maybe we’ll make it 84 hours a week just for good measure, can’t be giving him a day off.
Seems more poetic
- Comment on idk 2 months ago:
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 2 months ago:
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 3 months ago:
Applying selection bias to the reply
Insert inception bwwwwaoww
- Comment on An academic disagreement 3 months ago:
This is the first useful example of fahrenheit I’ve ever heard.
Doesn’t really beat 0°C being freezing (great for weather), in my opinion, but still nice!
Thanks
- Comment on An academic disagreement 3 months ago:
Does this mean the big bang happened in -273.15 BC?
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 3 months ago:
I dunno, seems pretty rock solid that the majority of people aren’t praying to the Christian god, seeing as nowhere even close to a majority of people on earth are Christian.
There are all sorts of religions out there, and many who don’t believe in religion at all.
I do agree that all humans are prone to bias, that’s why it’s so important to be aware of it in order to mitigate it.
The OOP making some stupid religious claims, definitely is not aware.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 3 months ago:
It’s because they missed the point of my comment. That it’s selection bias to claim that everyone is praying to the Christian god, when statistically, that can’t be true, even if they are praying.
The selection bias had nothing to do with selecting the planes that crashed, but selecting planes that crashed in the US, which is a much more Christian country than many other places.
