rynzcycle
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- Comment on I love astrology! 8 months ago:
Ah, the majestic gas giant...
- Comment on Taylor Swift at the Beach 8 months ago:
After she went bird hunting.
- Comment on The three million toothbrush botnet story isn’t true. 9 months ago:
Tomorrow: 3 Million hacked smart fridges were used to spread misinformation that the 3 million toothbrush story wasn't true.
- Comment on Grieving Louisiana father faces $18,000 bill to access state records of son’s case 9 months ago:
It's 37,000 pages of documents.
$18k is for paper copies ($.50 a page)
$5,500 for digit, to cover the cost of scanning and redacting.
Or he can come to the office to review the files for free (though he's claiming the travel costs are prohibitive).The likely perpetrators are in jail for theft from his son and have been ordered to pay $330k to his family. Prosecutors don't think they can make murder stick.
I feel for the grieving father, but I'm afraid my outrage meter isn't dinging on this one.
- Comment on Amazon lays off 500 Twitch employees, hundreds more at MGM and Prime Video 10 months ago:
Even in financial terms "sustainably" always pisses me off. None of these companies are trying to sustain, they demand constant growth to be happy. Never ending growth is never sustainable.
- Comment on cool phone trick 10 months ago:
Ok, I tilted my phone and shoved it up my butt... now what? I never get these memes, I must be getting old.
- Comment on Why'd they stopped making tv shows as good as x-files? 10 months ago:
Agree so much on HBO. We just moved to the US and got the "Max" subscription and we're finding gem after gem, some of it a decade old. Like TV that rivals any great movie, amazing storytelling/directing/music/concepts. Still plenty of filler to sort through, but some genuine art in there.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free 10 months ago:
Bummer. Not because of the extra $3, honestly I'll probably just pay it. But because until now Prime programming has been able to operate with a certain freedom. I know 0 people with prime for the video (as opposed to the free delivery) so they were willing to take risks with the shows.
Solos and Tales from the Loop are both amazing works of art that would never have shown up on network TV, or Netflix which would much rather make cheap mass appeal shows with little depth. Even more shows with wider appeal (e.g. The Expanse) might not survive the TV Executive mindset now that they have a reason to care about the number of views as a primary metric, over user happiness.
And honestly, it all baffles me, I will gladly subscribe to a streaming service for one great show. Produce 3 or 4 a year and I'm subscribed for good. If I wanted an endless string of medicore baking reality shows, I'd get cable again.
- Comment on How do I stop hating children? 10 months ago:
Your mileage may vary, but have you tried over the phone instead of video chat (if it's an option where you live)? I felt exactly the same about video, but something about over the phone felt chill, I could just "chat with a friend" in my pajamas. Helped me a lot and neither my therapist or I ever actually saw each other.
- Comment on Is the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet? 10 months ago:
So calling it your ABCs when you're younger isn't that far off. Interesting.
- Comment on Tesla removes Disney+ app amid Elon Musk's feud with Disney CEO Bob Iger 11 months ago:
CEO of public company actively makes product worse because of business dealings at a seperate private company owned by said CEO. Not that Tesla shareholders don't already have enough reason to be pissed, but good lord.
And it's not a "feud" that would imply Disney is being petty instead of making the fucking obvious business decision to pull advertising spend from the dumpster fire of racism and controversy that is Twitter.
- Comment on Surf and turf baby 11 months ago:
Ok, I had to know, so:
- It's real
- Sold only in Czech Republic around Christmas time, though currently unavailable
- Apparently fried Carp is a traditional Christmas eve dish in CR
- Because of the Christ feeding 5000 with fish and bread bible story.
I still have questions, but at least I'll be able to sleep tonight.
- Comment on Rishi Sunak considers curbing social media use for under-16s | Social media | The Guardian 11 months ago:
The Online Safety Act has taught the Tories that they can get away with anything if they can spin it as "think of the children". I expect to see more draconian limiting of speech under this same guise.
- Comment on Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024 11 months ago:
Houston we have no idea what our trajectory is and it's just playing happy birthday over and over.
- Comment on Ubiquiti Users Somehow Being Fed Access to Strangers' Security Cameras 11 months ago:
Jokes on you, my password is just 8 asterisks... Wait crap.
Brb changing all my passwords.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
The blue leds make the whole setup run cooler. And if you want a really fast build, get an aerodynamic case with a racing stripe.
But seriously, hard agree. I want a big, easy to open easy to access, metal box. With handles if it's possible I'll be using it for gigs etc.
- Comment on Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them 11 months ago:
Is anyone else hearing Aquarela do Brasil or is it just me...
- Comment on Mark me down as scared and horny 11 months ago:
It took me way too long to realize you weren't just talking about Sir Patrick Stewart's obvious sex appeal.
- Comment on Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in their sleep. Work may never be the same 11 months ago:
Right?! Last lucid dream I had I was sure I had written the coolest song ever, people in the dream thought it was amazing. I knew it was a dream, but fuzzy dream me was genuinely excited to remember it when I woke up.
From what I recall it was a country western rap/chant... Spoiler: It was not a good song.
- Comment on Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in their sleep. Work may never be the same 11 months ago:
I sometimes lucid dream, something tips me off that it's not real, and then I can take some control. Mostly I like flying, but sometimes I go full crimefighting superhero.
Realizing you are in a dream world and deciding to work, is like winning a billion dollars and deciding to spend it all on a nice car somehow. What a boring waste.
- Comment on Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in their sleep. Work may never be the same 11 months ago:
Rick and Morty already did it.
- Comment on ‘It’s amazing’: scientists analyse 4.6bn-year-old dark dust from Bennu asteroid 11 months ago:
Keep it away from Westminster then.
"What space dust? *sniff I haven't seen anything." - Comment on Keep in mind that social security is set to run out in 10 years time. 11 months ago:
Right, but it's not really and hasn't been for a while. It's at best a ponzi scheme and a lot of us have been left holding the bag.
It's time to make it what it always should have been, a little touch of socialism so that people don't die/go hungry/end up homeless when they are too old to work.
- Comment on If there was an afterlife, how would it work? 11 months ago:
The Frisbeetarian concept actually comes from a George Carlin joke, but I genuinely thought it was one of the most beautiful afterlife concepts I'd heard so I choose to believe it. That our souls are still here, but also at rest.
- Comment on A Googler who just resigned after 18 years reflects on the decline of the company he loved 11 months ago:
You nailed it at the end. Loving a company, especially these days, is exactly how you end up overworked and underpaid. Like a job/company, don't love it.
- Comment on If there was an afterlife, how would it work? 11 months ago:
As a practicing Frisbeetarian, I believe your soul lands on a roof and gets stuck there. You just get to watch as time and people pass by for all of time.
- Comment on Can anyone confirm? 11 months ago:
Look at Mr/Ms Moneybags here, able to afford toast AND beans. With the current inflation, most of us are just eating sadness for breakfast.
- Comment on Stop showboating 11 months ago:
Too bad... sashay, sashay, turn, turn, drop!
Keep up honey! - Comment on Subscribe for more Treat Tips 11 months ago:
Bans are never an effective strategy to prevent general use. Here we see the horrible consequences of America's continuing war on Kinder Eggs.
- Comment on NOBODY WARRNED ME 😭😭😭 11 months ago:
In the first episode of Picard, playing chess with Data... "Because I don't want the game to end." Man, on so man levels, it was a few weeks before I could even say that line without getting choked up.
I grew up as a little boy watching every TNG with my dad, I don't want the game to end either.