Catoblepas
@Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on The only way to be 1 day ago:
As soon as school lets out the ancaps are going to be very cranky about this!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
This. A lot of ‘making everything about politics’ is the reaction of people whose very existence been politicized by those in power.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 6 days ago:
If you’re coding or whatever this is fine. But I would really, really like my doctors and engineers to be educated by other doctors and engineers.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 6 days ago:
You frame that as if the same can’t happen if you use AI. At least if you actually do the work you have the knowledge and the ability to research.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 1 week ago:
Can’t wait to see all the exciting ways this fucks up people’s computers.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 1 week ago:
Bud, you are the one that compared it to calling a woman a lesbian for not wanting to see tits everywhere. That comparison only works if the one complaining about it also has tits, ie is a furry.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 1 week ago:
Are you the furry who doesn’t want to see fursonas everywhere in this analogy?
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 1 week ago:
We’re fucked if a plane headed to Anthrocon ever crashes.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 1 week ago:
What is this, 2003? Furries run the internet.
- Comment on Generational differences 1 week ago:
Very glad that my dumb ass probably has like 10% less plastic in my brain than most people my age because I never smoked out of cans. Thanks, paranoid teen me!
- Comment on 'Starter homes' cost at least $1 million in over 200 U.S. cities, Zillow data finds 1 week ago:
You want a WFH plumber? Cause I don’t.
- Comment on 'Starter homes' cost at least $1 million in over 200 U.S. cities, Zillow data finds 1 week ago:
Just commute for an hour to work every day. Ew, no, we don’t want to fund buses, that’s for poors. Pay for it yourself.
- Comment on The Brits had an anthem ready for when Margaret Thatcher died. Americans should also be prepared. 2 weeks ago:
I’m not saying “ding dong the witch is dead” wasn’t a perfect capture of the sentiment, but it’s also really hard to improve on “Lizzie’s in a box” for the sheer ability to send the most insufferable people on the planet into a frothing rage.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 2 weeks ago:
I’m so glad I left completely (minus the random search result with no other leads, but no browsing) when the API fuckery started, corporate social media sounds like an absolute hellscape now.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 2 weeks ago:
Reddit has streaks now??
- Comment on Beachfront property 3 weeks ago:
That’s basically what Angels Flight in Los Angeles is. Locals got sick of walking up the fuck off steep hill and built a 300 foot rail to go up and down it.
- Comment on ISPs and robocallers love the FCC plan to “delete” as many rules as possible 4 weeks ago:
100% anecdotal, but I’d say the spam callers aren’t even waiting. I’ve had more in the last 2 months than the previous year.
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I was gonna say whatever is going on with his spine might be hiding a few inches. You’d be amazed how many inches you can lose to curvature without looking like Quasimodo.
But I doubt he was ever 6’3”. That sounds like a number he picked years ago because someone he hates is 6’2”.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
The reason IP exists isn’t a whatabout, it kinda sounds like you just don’t want to hear about anyone other than giant corporations benefitting from it.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
In what sense is a ladder getting pulled up if IP is respected? Anyone can make a new IP, there’s not a limited supply of imagination. You can’t make everyone like what you come up with or buy it, but why should that entitle you to being able to profit off someone else’s work?
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
The imbalance against giant corporations isn’t anything to sneeze at, but there are just as many (probably more) small time companies breaking copyright law and hoping nobody notices. For example, stealing artwork to print on cheap crap that you sell below what the creator is selling them for. If they’re in an area that recognizes that copyright then they’re going to lose every time, and they’re not going to have enough money to drag it out. After that happens artists can recover all the earnings that were made with their work. Without that the artist is just fucked.
- Comment on Every time you eat, you're trusting many strangers to not have tampered with your food 4 weeks ago:
Alternatively, do read it if you’re having trouble cutting back on fast food spending!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
On lemmy, a ban can be a few different things:
- Banned from the instance your account is on. This means you have to make a new account, usually on a different instance.
- Banned from a different instance than the one your account is on. This means you get banned from communities you’ve participated in on that instance, and that instance will no longer federate with your account. You might participate in new communities on that instance, and people not on that will see your comments, but people on the instance you were banned from won’t see them. From the perspective of that instance you don’t exist anymore.
- Not banned from any instances, but banned from individual communities. You can’t post in that specific community but can still interact with the instance that community is on.
Like someone else said, clear as mud, lol.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I’m sorry you had to deal with that as a kid.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 5 weeks ago:
Okay for anyone who is fried at the moment like I am, map-wiki IS NOT ABOUT GEOGRAPHY.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 5 weeks ago:
I can co-sign this if we can agree that some types of ‘disagreements’ don’t belong on the fediverse, a la the Nazi bar problem.
- Comment on Caught Slacking 1 month ago:
It was a test kick! I’m very well hydrated!
- Comment on Long boi 1 month ago:
They fucking deflated him 😭
- Comment on One of the terrible things about having a close friend or relative die is that it is a subtle reminder that you've moved up in the line towards the end. 1 month ago:
Another terrible death related thing: after a while, sometimes after bad news you’ll think “I’m glad [person] didn’t have to live to see this.”
- Comment on Of all public-facing professions, bus drivers probably get told 'thank you' more than anyone else 1 month ago:
Do you work with younger kids? I have an in-law who teaches middle school and is generally pulling his hair out over lack of parental involvement. Kid-wranglers deserve all the thanks!