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- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 3 days ago:
In my community, street racing seems to be the entertainment du jour for people with nothing better to do. I live about a half mile (800m) from a major roadway, and very often am jarred by the noise of people racing full tilt. There are a few people who even have modified their cars to be louder, and you can distinctly pick out the sound of their cars.
I’m a light sleeper, and these people will wake me up in the middle of the night with their ‘shotgun exhausts,’ racing down the street. They kill about 5 people a year. Earlier this year, a street race injured over a dozen people, and killed a kid.As a result, the city has re-timed the lights so that when traveling at normal speeds, traffic is stopped at every stoplight, which means that most drivers now just wontonly disregard speed limits to beat the light timing and not get trapped in a frustrating cycle where a 2-mile drive down the road takes upwards of 15 minutes instead of 5. This just causes the street racers to race later, when they can run the lights and wake everyone up. Plus the increase in speeding by normal drivers decreases safety on the road.
Both the direct and network effects of their stupidity are pretty significant.
So - yes. Street racers are bad people. They are callous, immature, and both actively and passively endanger other motorists. Also, I’m fucking tired, and my dogs are traumatized. - Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 2 weeks ago:
I just had this funny thought— so boomers adopted and settled into Facebook after millennials made it popular. And then everyone except for boomers stopped actively using it. It’s kind of their “retirement social media platform.”
Now you have TikTok, which the millennials flocked to after GenZ popularized it. Does this mean after Gen Z flees the platform that it’s just going to be the Facebook equivalent for millennials? - Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 2 weeks ago:
It’s like people forgot about that.
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 3 weeks ago:
I honestly have no recollection. It was about 10 years ago. I probably just used like half the seasoning packet with salt and pepper. (Because that seems like something I’d do.)
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 3 weeks ago:
I once forgot about it in a crock pot using the fast cook method and basically boiled the whole thing into mush. It made for a delicious bean dip.
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 3 weeks ago:
Amen to that. I thought about having a serious look around, but I’d rather not deal with their nonsense.
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 3 weeks ago:
Hitting the back button takes me back to the page I was visiting. An annoyance.
Disabling content blockers seems to prevent the behavior, but then you’ve disabled content blockers.
I experience similar broken site behavior from other online platforms, too. I suspect they are trying to annoy users into not using adblockers.
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 5 weeks ago:
They do not enjoy when you blow a raspberry onto it, however.
Sucking only. No blowing. Do not reverse the polarity.
- Comment on Been there 5 weeks ago:
Yup. You got it.
- Comment on Been there 5 weeks ago:
I bought a batch of business PC’s from a foundered business back in 2010 for cheap, to flip and sell on Craigslist. They were supposed to come wiped, but almost none of them did. I wiped ‘em/reinstalled the OS, but before I did, I got into a few of the user accounts and found that basically all the machines had been used for in the past few months was job hunting.
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 5 weeks ago:
I play it when I’m really depressed.
I would say that I enjoy the game and feel that the developers have invested a lot of effort into building a panacea of a game that is sort of low stress and maybe a little repetitive, but it gives me something to do, and I can set goals for myself that are… well, absolutely batshit.
My current goal(s) are to get my settlements to S tier (pretty close on this one), swap all my frigates over to supply ships (If you repeatedly assign the same ship to the same sorts of missions, it will level up just that stat, so you can have a supply ship that has a high combat stat, etc), and build resource bases so that I can automatically collect every kind of automatically collectible resource in the game. I’ve also visited about 20 universes, and think it might be fun to put a resource collection base in each universe (that I have the patience to visit) and then just go hang out at the anomaly so folks can use the teleporter to fling themselves to universes unknown. - Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 1 month ago:
Increasingly, I’m reminded of this: Paul Bunyan vs. the spam bot (or how Paul Bunyan triggered the singularity to win a bet). It’s a medium-length read from the old internet, but fun.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 1 month ago:
The promise of money — even diminishing returns — is too great. There’s a new scraper spending big on resources every day while websites are under assault.
In the paraphrased words of the finance industry: AI can stay stupid longer than most websites can stay solvent.
- Comment on Dogs need love too 1 month ago:
Mine’s part stink bug.
- Comment on Chanterelles!! 1 month ago:
Be careful with those mushrooms!
Tap for spoiler
They’ve got a knife!
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 1 month ago:
Your logic is inverted. The lines would have to have a place for folks to add in the taxes. Otherwise the math would work in the opposite direction – the calculated amounts would be lower than the amounts based on the number at the bottom. (Unless a discount was applied that’s not shown.)
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 1 month ago:
I’m not mad at you at all. I’m mad at the motherfuckers who think they have a right to my attention.
But to respond - it’s not better, because either option is detestable. I reject both.
You correctly called it that we’re answering different questions. I reject the question you’re answering, because I do not accept advertisements in my vehicle, that I own, as a foregone conclusion. You accidentally’d a step in accepting their bullshit.
I literally would rather threaten legal action, or show up outside their advertising executive’s house with a megaphone to try to sell them some scammy bullshit while they expect privacy. Maybe I’d even read off the advertising I get on the console. (Not that I’d ever buy a RAM truck, but still.)
New Business Idea: Buy unzoned property that can be used to block scenic overlooks around the homes of scummy advertising executives. Put up billboards.
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 1 month ago:
Absolutely fucking not.
My attention is not free and they have no fucking right to my attention.
And second, fuck them for thinking they do.
- Comment on What a fantastic deal 2 months ago:
It’s either that or a hinge to the back of the skull.
They really made bad choices here.
- Comment on What a fantastic deal 2 months ago:
I would buy that and turn it back into doors.
They didn’t remove the knob’s or even round over the edges. A mediocre woodworker could get 2 doors out of that. A skilled woodworker would get 3 (with some reattachment efforts).
I could probably get one whole door. - Comment on Donald Trump Said He Promised Ivanka He Wouldn't Date Girls Younger Than Her | “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.” 😬 2 months ago:
He had also been dating Milenia for about a year when he said this, and was also not fully divorced from Marla Maples (though they were separated).
Bastion of morality, that one.
- Comment on Don't do it, we all care about you 2 months ago:
Weirdly, I saw Mike Ehrmantraut
- Comment on LICENSE TO KILL 2 months ago:
It’s inferred.
There’s a whole subset of people for whom that statement would be an expression of endearment.
I would more just assume some people have a playful relationship with their partners and the subject of neurodiversity.
- Comment on you are a snack :) 2 months ago:
A real treat for the right raccoon, possum, bear, or Grouch.
- Comment on is lemmy.sdf.org running poorly for anyone else? 2 months ago:
Definitely slow.
- Comment on Perspective 2 months ago:
It’s a curtain rod to a window midway up the stairs. We’re looking down a flight of steep older stairs. The mattress is lit by the window that is (mostly) under the rod, and by an open door at the bottom of the stairs.
- Comment on Genius 2 months ago:
A gentleman of the streets.
- Comment on Genius 2 months ago:
$37.50 an hour to talk to a minimum of 6 strangers that want something from me and think I can deliver it for them?
I’d rather be an urban outdoorsman.
- Comment on Was surprised by these stats 2 months ago:
My finger hurts and I spent the last of my gumption posting this comment.
Go on without me. Text my wife. Tell her I’ll be
- Comment on Was surprised by these stats 2 months ago:
It’s weird that 4 people are in there for rape.
