ReallyActuallyFrankenstein

@ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1 in 3 people⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m having a particularly braindead morning. Mario and Luigi are two people. 1 in 3 leaves the possibility of a third person being ugly and both Mario and Luigi being not ugly. Why does Mario conclude Luigi is ugly based on the 1 in 3 comment?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is that real?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t you dare speak that into existence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo 64 "Reimagining" Analogue 3D Delayed to 2025, First Look Revealed | Tech Raptor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did pre-order one, and two controllers. In 1990s dollars this is not really that expensive, is how I’m rationalizing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo 64 "Reimagining" Analogue 3D Delayed to 2025, First Look Revealed | Tech Raptor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Analogue typically supports Bluetooth in the consoles generally, but is very cautious about whitelisting specific controllers that are officially supported.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup…Windows 12? The evil monkey’s paw demon is like, “I’ll give you that wish for free.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The overall average median lifetime earnings of $1,850,000 for men and $1,100,200 for women. Let’s just take the average and say an average American earns $1,475,100 in their lifetime.

  The important thing to remember is, in an unequal system where workers have most of the value of their work taken by a single person who the system disproportionately favors, that value is translatable to literal life. They are directly, inexorably going to die having had that value simply transferred to the other person or people who collect that value. Or put succinctly, they are giving up life, and the CEO is gaining the value of their life.

  Another note is that even though most valuations are stock, stock valuations do not exist in a vacuum. The stock market is the realizable increase in productivity value that we all collectively have caused.

  So based on that principle, just for fun, let’s convert these fortunes to human lives, to better understand just how much (economically-valued) life force these people have taken from people:

  Elon Musk: 262,000,000,000 = 176,259 human lives. Jeff Bezos: 208,000,000,000 = 141,007 human lives. Mark Zuckerberg: 203,000,000,000 = 137,617 human lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Couldn’t have happened to a douchier bag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Atari Jaguar Emulation Is Coming To iPhone | Time Extension⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m probably a masochist, but Alien vs. Predator, despite (and possibly because of) all its technical limitations and like 3 FPS framerate, was genuinely scary and a unique experience.

  I also really enjoyed Iron Soldier. You’ve got the original Rayman. Uhhh… Cybermorph was alright.

  So five games?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unzip⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fortunately, she was just making a fourth-wall-breaking point about gender assumptions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cereal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that text from an AI image interpreter? It’s pretty good, seems helpful for search and disabilities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important information⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you use a Vichyssoise fork. It’s all in the wrist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Musk is taking it to the farm upstate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorblindness check!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No reason, just that memes follow demographics of the space. Lemmy is probably full of people who were in their late teens-through-twenties in 2007, so to that group, it remains a funny nostalgic callback.

  And I’ll just predict that in 15-20 years Skibidi toilet and all the GenZ/Alpha memes will dominate middle-age spaces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Musk repeated the DDOS claim when the Space finally began around 8:40PM ET. “As this massive attack illustrates, there’s a lot of opposition to people just hearing what President Trump has to say,” he said.

  So not only is he lying about a DDOS, but he just assumes out of nowhere that it’s politically motivated by the “opposition” - when Trump basically has mouth diarrhea 24/7 and this would do absolutely nothing to prevent Trump from being heard on his 100 other ways exposing himself to the public. Galaxy brain genius logic right there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VirtualFriend Emulator Brings Nintendo Virtual Boy Classics to Apple’s Vision Pro and iOS Devices | Retro Gaming News 24/7⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, it’s by Agg23 - they also released a bunch of Analogue Pocket emulators, great developer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ad industry initiative abruptly shuts down after lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Today, the House Judiciary GOP’s official account on X called GARM being discontinued a “big win for the First Amendment” and a “big win for oversight.” X CEO Linda Yaccarino also applauded the news.

  It’s just opposite day? We just say whatever it the opposite of what’s true?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airbnb shares drop 12% as company flags weakening US demand⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s become a terrible company. I say “become” because like many tech-era enshittified companies, it started out as an actual good idea.

  Pre-2015, we stayed in a beautiful home in Paris many years ago, some places in Brooklyn, an adobe home in New Mexico, and other places that were actually really people just renting out spare rooms or buildings and trying to be efficient/friendly with their extra space.

  But it’s entirely “passive income” obsessed real estate mogul-wannabes who bought up properties and are now bleeding them for the maximum profit.

  The last straw for us: We had a host threaten physical harm to us before check-in, we saved screenshots of the messages with the actual threats, and AirBNB support said they would rebook/refund on a recorded line. Then inexplicably AirBNB reversed course, refused to actually issue a refund and then when we reversed through AmEx they disputed the transaction 7 times before finally giving up. AirBNB is just awful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk's X sues advertisers over alleged 'massive advertiser boycott' after Twitter takeover⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Has a GOP-controlled congressional committee uncovered any actual evidence in the past 20 years or so?

  I take notice of whenever they have a new hearing or investigative issue, and each one I can remember has always been “let’s go on a fishing expedition to find dirt or at least impugn the character of a political rival” followed a year later by a Friday-night quiet disbanding of the committee with no findings, or a report being issued that says nothing of importance whatsoever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk's X sues advertisers over alleged 'massive advertiser boycott' after Twitter takeover⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The beatings will continue until ad revenue improves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dutch toilets⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m confused, isn’t this a better spot for the drain hole? When you sit facing the wall? So you have a shelf for your comic books and chocolate milk?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apartment Audio Solutions⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I knew as well. I’ve been using Chromecast Audio myself, which works with PlexAmp self-hosting my music.

  The problem is Chromecast Audio has been discontinued for years of course - Google did their Google thing, and unfortunately I never found anything else like it on the market. But you can connect those devices to any speakers and sync multi-room high quality audio very easily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electoral College and The Numbers | USA question⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The practical answer is 3-4% above to counteract the right-wing effect of the electoral college. Yes, it all matters on what states she wins.

  The theoretical answer is that Kamala could get less votes, just like Trump did in 2016, and still “win.” It’s not practical because the swing states are more conservative than the median population of the country as a whole, which means it’s extremely unlikely those swing states will vote for Kamala while Trump gets more votes elsewhere.

  The places you need to watch are Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and to a lesser extent Ohio, Minnesota and Florida. The 538 polls will give you a sense of where those states are leading, and you can see different maps here. polling is imperfect, and frankly I can’t take the anxiety of watching that data day-to-day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My friend JD Vance has never cuddled a couch.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would actually be surprised if he releases anything of value. Trump refused to release his taxes, and emulating Trump’s destruction of democratic norms is a base-ante show of fealty right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My friend JD Vance has never cuddled a couch.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fake, Mountain Dew isn’t mentioned once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dumbass⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Relatedly, the new Beavis & Butthead episodes coming out are actually pretty good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Long COVID puzzle pieces are falling into place – and the picture is unsettling⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Just another flu” is what everyone now feels, not because there’s ever been a clear argument for that status, but because everyone got tired of being worried and by universal acquiescence decided it’s so. But these studies show everyone just keeps rolling the dice on long COVID every time they get sick.

  And I get it. It’s like driving more carefully after getting in an accident. It’s hard to feel the urgency of what a lifelong chronic disability means until you’re close enough to touch it, and then it might be too late. I’m also tired of being worried. I just guess the virus didn’t get that memo…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s shortened links will stop working next year⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, yes, I’m off by a lot then, thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s shortened links will stop working next year⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting - how do we know it’s 36 billion entries? I just estimated that it hadn’t been used that much based on almost never seeing anyone use it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s shortened links will stop working next year⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google shuts down a lot of things, and usually there is nothing to do and parts of the internet break forever. But…I feel like this is one that would be cheap and at least possible to mitigate without Google’s help.

  Crawl for all goo.gl links prior to the 2025 shutdown, cache and enter the link and the redirect link into a database, and create a simple open source in-line replacement extension for browsers that intercepts goo.gl links and replacement them with the real link. These are just URLs, so the database even for hundreds of thousands of entries shouldn’t be huge.

  I mean, I’m not going to do it, but…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says SpaceX HQ officially moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you own stocks through Vanguard? Other index funds? Chances are your money voted for Elon’s pay package, unfortunately.