Catoblepas
@Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Beachfront property 5 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Alternatively, do read it if you’re having trouble cutting back on fast food spending!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 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] 2 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* 2 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* 2 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 3 weeks ago:
It was a test kick! I’m very well hydrated!
- Comment on Long boi 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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!
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- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 4 weeks ago:
Same for Bic
- Comment on Americans under 30 are so miserable that the U.S. just fell to a historically low ranking in the world happiness report 4 weeks ago:
It probably doesn’t help.
- Comment on So jussi 4 weeks ago:
Fun fact: it’s actually a Mexican brand, that’s just the American branch logo. According to Wikipedia:
The name was formed as the combination of the Disney Bambi and Dumbo films names, which were the favourite movies of Marinela, Lorenzo Servitje’s daughter.
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 4 weeks ago:
In the long run, shutting up won’t save you from fascism. Every inch you give is a foot they take, and they will take and take and take if you let them.
If you’ve never wondered whether people living under dictatorships regret not exercising their rights more when they still had them, now’s the time to start pondering.
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to the therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 5 weeks ago:
Check your local library and city/county department of health, they may run free or low cost group therapy sessions.
- Comment on US appeals court says AI authors don't qualify for copyright. 5 weeks ago:
He was stretching the truth as much as possible to convince local art dealers to sell his stuff as an investment, got sued for it, and (spoiler if you’re wanting to listen to the episodes) may or may not have intentionally killed himself to avoid going to trial over it.
- Comment on US appeals court says AI authors don't qualify for copyright. 5 weeks ago:
Thomas Kinkade did this with art prints in the 90s and 00s. Mass print them and then have ‘trained artists’ go in and add a little highlighting, and charge a premium for it.
Behind the Bastards has a good 2 part episode on him.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Have you considered going outside and asking people your questions in order to only get answers from ‘mentally healthy’ people?
- Comment on Yall guess who showed up in my dms 1 month ago:
It’s definitely spam, people are just joking about it
- Comment on This queue for the new swasticar 1 month ago:
And playing games with overtime numbers to maximize taxpayer drain.
- Comment on Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday? 1 month ago:
Nope, your first instinct is right, it’s a spammer. But it’s one of the few spammers that almost everyone has run into, so it’s just a joke. Like saying you met a Nigerian prince who offered you a huge sum of money.
- Comment on Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday? 1 month ago:
Both? I have three. Are there more?
- Comment on What is the minimum number of words needed to communicate 1 month ago:
I prefer Sandi Toksvig’s method: if you only know one word, make it “hospital.”
- Comment on Does 'attempted murder' require a viable method? 1 month ago:
Without a body or even injuries and prosecution that depends entirely on proving a state of mind, you probably won’t find a jurisdiction who would give you the time of day with it. The juice isn’t worth the squeeze.