HobbitFoot
@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club
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- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 14 hours ago:
Well, if it was a Richard Hammond attack, it would probably crash itself.
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 19 hours ago:
I did, it was that link.
- Submitted 19 hours ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 56 comments
- Comment on Now that the US is under influence by Russia, what will happen to Whistleblower Edward Snowden? 1 day ago:
Probably nothing, since Putin wants to encourage future defectors.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 4 days ago:
I don’t trust public wired charging ports to anything other my mobile battery.
Since I can’t verify if a weird charging port won’t upload malware on site, I’d use wireless charging instead.
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 6 days ago:
Eat some good barbeque.
- Comment on Maybe time travelers actually exist and this mess of a timeline is the result of their interference... 1 week ago:
I think about that in regards to World War II.
As bad as the destruction of World War II was, it could have been a lot worse if technology had developed an additional decade. Hell, having nuclear weapons first deployed as a weapon of mass destruction helped keep it from being deployed in later wars.
Maybe the USA was going to go fascist no matter what, so time travelers picked the most incompetent fascist.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Long term, Americans have been bad at making idiots feel shame for their idiocy. There is less of a societal push to make people conform to societal pressure. On one end, this leads to great creative freedom for artists. On the other end, it creates the born again movement.
Medium term, LBJ oversaw the collapse of economic leftism as he was trying to include civil rights legislation and the Vietnam War. This lead to the stagnation of American salaries, but it took a while for people to notice that quality of life wasn’t improving for everyone. Also, conservatives realized they could create parallel media in a way to control public sentiment.
Short term, the Great Recession and COVID made it clear that quality of life wasn’t as bulletproof as people thought. As a response, some people want to bring back “the good old days”, not realizing/remembering that the good old days had a lot of bad to it that was covered up.
- Comment on DOJ renews call for Google to sell Chrome, and Android could be next 1 week ago:
Android is open source except for Google Play Services. Other major companies attempted to gain market share in Android but couldn’t because of the power of Google’s monopoly.
I don’t see how a consortium fixes this.
- Comment on Max Streaming ‘Enshittifies’ Further, Removes Classic Looney Tunes 1 week ago:
Why the fuck would they delete the content?
The studio owns the content outright, so streaming rights costs should be nothing.
- Comment on How would world politics be like if the top 100 countries (in terms of military strength) all had their own nuclear arsenals? 1 week ago:
It depends on the systems of alliances and international commitments against a first strike. For instance, the Iran-Iraq War went on for several years and included the deployment of chemical weapons. I’m pretty sure that a nuclear exchange would be tolerated.
- Comment on Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes? 1 week ago:
It depends on how the standard was made, with the decisions generally made to fit specific reasons and no overarching standard.
There are also clothes that use more than one number. A lot of mens pants use two numbers; the same with formal mens shirts.
- Comment on Why Great Engineering Orgs Thrive on "Normal" Engineers 1 week ago:
I feel like part of the problem is that management wants staff that can do a wide range of tasks when it ends up creating a staff that can’t specialize in a small group of tasks.
I’ve seen plenty of times where people can operate well as a cog on a big machine, but fall apart when they have to work in roles that require a variety of skillsets. Larger engineering companies can typically create enough work for people to specialize in smaller tasks than smaller engineering companies.
- Comment on Will We See Restrucutred UN in Near Future? 1 week ago:
Only if the wreckage of World War III can do so.
- Comment on Bluesky does federation-washing 2 weeks ago:
Bluesky is new Twitter today.
There is nothing in its design to prevent it from becoming the X of tomorrow.
- Comment on So, after using Lemmy for 1.5 Years. You are telling I am not even allowed to use Lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
I’m not 23. Nobody likes you when you’re 23.
- Comment on How did you get your job? 3 weeks ago:
He was a good boss, but it is likely that I could have done this at any other company.
- Comment on What is your bath mat situation? 3 weeks ago:
It is a rug I bought from Turkey. It works rather well.
- Comment on How did you get your job? 3 weeks ago:
Boss left the company we both worked at. About nine months later, I hated my new boss and wanted to quit; he offered me a job.
I’ve risen through the ranks since then.
- Comment on What's the best way for Elon to remove the parasite class? 🤔 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. She’s fucking dying from hot chicken wings, but they use her since she fits the Aryan aesthetic.
- Comment on Why is there so much separation in the USA between people who identify as "black" or "white" compared to other regions like South America? 3 weeks ago:
The understanding of races in Latin America had a lot more shades of grey compared to Anglo America.
In Latin America, there were words for the mixing of various peoples along with a gradation of allowed positions in society.
In contrast, Anglo America typically treated race as all or nothing. Even for mixed race people, they would get classified typically as the lower status race.
- Comment on America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness 4 weeks ago:
A major issue is that housing prices is usually affected by decisions made at the local level and local elections have the poorest turnout of all elections.
- Comment on Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto Laws 4 weeks ago:
That’s for actual residency. This seems to be able to exist in the country digitally. Other countries, like Estonia, have the same thing.
- Comment on Why build for tomorrow when it's someone else's tomorrow? 4 weeks ago:
Because I want the future to say nice things about me.
- Comment on What are the exact ramifications and consequences of the recent meeting with Zelenskyy and Trump/JD? 4 weeks ago:
This meeting isn’t something new or out of the blue, but will likely continue current trends.
Ukraine immediately reached out to European countries for support, many of whom indicated that they would support Ukraine even if the USA didn’t. I expect this to continue the creation of some kind of post NATO European defense treaty/system without American involvement.
This will also weaken a lot of other American led security alliances given that Trump has hinted at demanding more from them as well.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
States have to function within the guidelines set by the Federal government, but there a lot of wiggle room within that.
For instance, it is common for states to engage in economic development missions to various countries as a way to lure investment into their own states.
It is also common for border states to have working groups with subnational entities across the border to address regional issues that can be handled at the state level. The states of Arizona and Sonora have a relatively deep working relationship to address various issues.
You can also have the federal government devolve some power to states. The Great Lakes–Saint Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement became codified in the USA as the Great Lakes Compact in 2008, but mainly leaves the running of the commitments to the affected states.
- Comment on How to effectively protest outside my House representative's office 4 weeks ago:
Wear a suit.
- Comment on How would a stateless society handle serious threats such as mass murder and terrorism? 4 weeks ago:
Poorly.
- Comment on The New York City Subway Is Using Google Pixels to Listen for Track Defects 4 weeks ago:
Given how costly it is to send inspectors on the tracks, I can see this being of value to MTA. This is also a decent use of AI.
- Comment on The New York City Subway Is Using Google Pixels to Listen for Track Defects 4 weeks ago:
A Google Pixel is dedicated recording hardware. It has a good enough microphone, great camera, and potentiometers to monitor vibration.
It also doesn’t have to be amazing, just good enough.
