CouldntCareBear
@CouldntCareBear@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 1 week ago:
Amen. You have to stay away from that toxic commercialisation. It messes with your brain and stalls your progress in any hobby.
I think one of the best things about arts, crafts, sports, music and the like is that it has a built in resistance to that kind of commercial takeover. Having good pens will not make you better at art, good shoes won’t make you better at soccer, a fancier gym won’t give you bigger muscles. These things come from hard work, perseverance, dedication. You can’t buy skill no matter goes much money you have, I love that.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 1 week ago:
Any art or craft or sport is pretty much free when you weigh up the hours vs the outlay required.
Except skiing and motorsports. That eats money.
- Comment on EU set to scrap 2035 combustion-engine ban in car industry boost 1 week ago:
Classic capitalist short term thinking. China’s out competing us, better slow down the rate of technological development.
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 1 week ago:
Tutorials where they are going through stuff you 90% understand already and you just need to find that juicy remaining 10%.
- Comment on Salt is very salty. Sugar is not that sweet. 2 weeks ago:
When you add sugar to a dish you do it by the cupful or spoonful but when you add salt you do it by the pinch. It’s definitely true.
- Comment on London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig 2 weeks ago:
I never said it was.
- Comment on London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig 2 weeks ago:
Did I say that?
- Comment on London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig 2 weeks ago:
That’s a very good point. And the flag kinda sums up Israel’s strategic conflation of anti Israel with anti Semitism.
I’m guessing from the phrasing of the article that this was the Star of David outside of the flag. Which I think is asking for an accusation of anti Semitism and could have been easily avoided.
- Comment on London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig 2 weeks ago:
Never heard of an opinion piece? Reporting people’s takes on a situation is very much part of journalism along with factual news.
When it’s done well, it can be really powerful and informative.
- Comment on London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure it was anti genocide/ anti Zionism they were going for but they fucked up by using the Star of David. That pretty clearly targets the religion not the country.
- Comment on Do not recommend. 2 weeks ago:
I think that was potassium-permanganate and sugar. It was one of the saner recipes ( who really wants to blow their face off or smoke banana skins ) with somewhat easily available ingredients.
It was legit. But the temperature window between melting the ingredients together and igniting it was very narrow. We did what your friend did, we made the smoke bomb and also set it off in one go.
Your friend must’ve been in a while ton of shit.
- Comment on Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm 1 month ago:
The guy explained the rational he didn’t say it was his personal view that it should be done.
And even if was his view we shouldn’t be down voting things based on whether you agree or not. We should do it on whether it adds to the discussion.
The quality of discourse on lemmy is fucking dire.
- Comment on The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars 1 month ago:
If you don’t think children accessing porn is problematic I think you need to give it some more thought. It most definitely normalises some extremely mysogonistic, violent/ non consensual practices.
I don’t think age verification is the answer, but let’s not pretend it’s not trying to address an actual issue.
- Comment on Where should I start? Absolute newb with a kit 2 months ago:
The pop top ones are great and I love them but it’s easy to mess something up and make them pretty dangerous.
If you have a hygrometer you can measure the sugar content of your brew which takes out the guess work, get one of them before glass bottling. Hygrometers are like $10 and well worth having.
Plum and cherry wine sounds divine. Good luck!
- Comment on Where should I start? Absolute newb with a kit 2 months ago:
If the juice is concentrated, like molasses it’ll be fine. Hops might be ok if they’re vacuum sealed and freeze dried as they often are… they look like little pellets. If they’re just dried then get some more.
Just follow the instructions.
If you’re bottle conditioning, (adding a bit of sugar in the bottle to carbonate) I would recommend using plastic coke bottles. They’re pressure safe and don’t explode like glass does if you add too much sugar.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 2 months ago:
Same as if you let go of a kite. It’ll just tumble back down to Earth over some distance.
- Comment on ClockBench: Even the best AI models can't reliably read the clock 3 months ago:
Have a look at the clock faces there using to Benchmark and it’ll make more sense.
- Comment on The Epstein Scandal Finally Takes Down a Politician 3 months ago:
Are you talking about anyone in particular?
- Comment on The Epstein Scandal Finally Takes Down a Politician 3 months ago:
The deputy prime minister was forced to resign just last week. The only higher position than that is PM.
- Comment on Lush temporarily closes all UK stores in 'solidarity with Gaza' 3 months ago:
removepaywalls.com/…/lush-cosmetics-gaza-stores-c…
I’m not your personal Google, why don’t you look for yourself.
- Comment on Lush temporarily closes all UK stores in 'solidarity with Gaza' 3 months ago:
theguardian.com/…/lush-closes-all-its-uk-stores-i…
Right at the end of the article.
They also closed their uk stores so their staff could attend the 2019 climate rally in the UK. They genuinely seem to be a good corporation.
- Comment on Lush temporarily closes all UK stores in 'solidarity with Gaza' 3 months ago:
Yes they are still paying staff.
- Comment on The Daily Wire is now trying to pass off AI slop as actual footage from Palestine. 6 months ago:
Except it isn’t fake, and no evidence has been offered that it is.
Why is this fud being upvoted?
- Comment on Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation 8 months ago:
Reddit has kissed the ring.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 8 months ago:
I had to use teams with multiple accounts with multiple organisations. Sometimes my account is added to their organisation, sometimes I used their provided account. Microsoft was going for a one sign in approach and the whole thing just totally failed to account for my situation. It never successfully let me switch accounts, running multiple concurrently certainly never worked.
With one situation the work around was to follow the original organisation invite again, reset my password then proceed with my meeting. I’d do this maybe ten times a day sometimes if I had to bounce between different companies.
And all controls are basic as fuck. It’s a business tool that thinks its target market is my grandma. All controls were apple-ified. I’d get a long error code and I couldn’t select it to copy and paste it, and if I clicked off the window the notification displaying the error code would go away, so i’d have to print screen the error code, paste out somewhere, and then type it out manually into Google to try and diagnose. This was a singer problem 30 years ago. Why are we going backwards?
Anyway, rant over. It’s a pos. Slack is light years ahead.
- Comment on DOJ renews call for Google to sell Chrome, and Android could be next 8 months ago:
That was first bribes. What about second bribes?
- Comment on KFC drops pledge to stop using ‘Frankenchickens’ in the UK 1 year ago:
I remember this being announced to a big fan fare… And now it’s being quietly dropped. Shame on them. 1%? They didn’t even try.