angstylittlecatboy

@angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So many of the people who are most invested in federation are a contradiction in terms; centralized social media is evil and it’s fucked up that it’s the norm, but also anyone who isn’t a cynical, crotchety Gen Xer with a tech degree doesn’t belong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but that’s keeping in mind that, contrary to popular belief among the types that go on Lemmy, most people aren’t ideological. They don’t care that Democrat A is this and Democrat B is that, they care about who they think will help their lives, ideology be damned. So, a lot of the people that socialists would call “libs” would vote for Bernie, BUT, most of those people think of Sanders primarily as “more liberal.”

  People who are actively aware of the difference between neoliberalism and social democracy, I’m not sure. But I honestly think they’re a rounding error in US politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Temperatures⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but the other two cold ones are unsurvivable weather. 21F is very survivable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK's first 'teacherless' AI classroom set to open in London⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kotaku being Kotaku⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Minecraft is mostly popular with people who were 5 - 12 years old 10 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fascists provide easy (but often fake) answers to hard problems. Loneliness, the fear of replacement, that kind of thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Asmongold an alt-right "entrypoint" influencer?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He strikes me as more a rube that occasionally picks up alt-right talking points than a dedicated follower. At least on one occasion he called out Moon, a shitty right wing video essayist, for lying, but he went really hard on anti-Sweet Baby Inc. content.

  So I guess he could unintentionally? But intention doesn’t really matter here. His fanbase probably leans right too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look you've just to got read the prologue that was a limited edition IHOP giveaway in 2015 and the story is awesome⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fate is only difficult for people who are adamant about watching adaptations. And even though I do think the UBW anime at least reaches the threshold of “good,” it’s still inferior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  please tell me this is a joke

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reject reality⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was “want you in my room when the baby is sick” until today

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose your difficulty⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  USA is Easy mode. It’s just that Europe, Australia, and Canada are Very Easy mode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the House revived the TikTok ban bill before most of us noticed⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Adults are literally allowed to use 3/4 of those in the United States and most of the rest of the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple won’t be forced to open up iMessage by EU⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  RCS has with all the major reasons that iMessage became preferred, and Apple is adding RCS support to iOS. It’ll take some time, but I do think there’ll be a cultural shift.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France uncovers a vast Russian disinformation campaign in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look up Foundations of Geopolitics. It’s just one man’s book, but an astounding amount of what the Kremlin does now is in line with it.

  I probably should’ve mentioned USA with those two, but technically the US is one of Russia’s neighbors, and at least one Kremlin official has state they do think they have the right to Alaska. Right now it’d be idiotic to try and enforce that, but if Russia gets too powerful I do think they’d go for it.

  I don’t think it’d be great to be an EU resident in a Russia led world either, but Russia wants to lead with the EU in it’s sphere of influence; the express goal is to tank USA, Canada, and UK. That was the point of promoting Brexit and Trump (I don’t think they’ve dealt a huge blow to Canadian society like that yet.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple won’t be forced to open up iMessage by EU⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get not defending the use of DVD over Blu-Ray at this point, but the downsides of streaming and digital “ownership” have been a sizeable portion of tech news for a while.

  And honestly? US/Canada using the standardized protocol and Europe using the walled garden developed by an eviler-than-normal corporation sounds kinda backwards from the cultural differences between US and Europe we usually hear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France uncovers a vast Russian disinformation campaign in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re in a country that shares a border with Russia, or are Canadian or British and understand politics at all, you’ve been sick of it for a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Queer.af mastodon instance has been shut down by the Taliban⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  US states don’t have registers and .us is pretty much only used to spell words vs. a lot of TLDs that are actually used to identify country (which I’ve seen a few people criticize Americans over, but while I don’t think it had anything to do with privacy as much as Americans just getting used to everything being .com, I think that’s ultimately a good thing.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok sounds go silent as songs disappear from app⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TikTok basically controls the Billboard Hot 100 right now. Some say that’s why 2023 was, according to pop music critics, such a bad year.

  But honestly, TikTok losing control over Billboard or less UMG artists on the charts are both positives to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I could kinda understand this if you live in a rural area and have had it for years…but still, first world problems, my god.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America Is Missing Out on the Best Electric Cars: Whatever kind of EV you might want, chances are China has it.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This just isn’t a CCP shill post. Western and Korean companies simply refuse to sell an EV that isn’t a luxury car, and Japanese companies seem to be trying to get out of making EVs period. The only one I could name, Chevy Bolt, got the axe last year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Introducing a $48,000 Ship Bundle, but Only for Players Who Have Already Spent $10,000⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Star Citizen is what iRacing players look at to feel better about themselves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla is banned from driving schools because of new turn signals⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Norway, where Tesla is becoming the most popular car brand

  How the fuck are Norwegians affording that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve honestly just come to the conclusion that being an asshole about the fact that other countries exist is just the continental past time of Europe.

  Like, Americans get the most of it but they’re like this toward people from other European countries too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves. | Soapbox⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would love to have them, but Meta being the largest fediverse instance by far means it’d give them too much power over the fediverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP misreads room, awkwardly brags about its “less hated” printers | Opinion: HP's printer business practices have infuriated users for years.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Papa John’s is the least bad chain pizza IMO. I find myself getting them for sheer topping selection.

  Pizza Hut is the real worst. Well, without factoring in cost, Little Caesar’s is the worst, but LC is some of the cheapest preheated food at least in the US so they get a pass that Pizza Hut doesn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japanese Institute breaks optical fiber speed record with 22.9 petabits per second — 1,000 times faster than existing cables⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people are just as if not more obsessed with “porn addiction” than so called “coomers” are obsessed with porn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But no one’s making retro N64 era transitional 3d graphics is what I meant

  Super Kiwi 64, the Toree series, Dusk, Anodyne 2, a billion indie horror games, Frogun, Signalis, A Short Hike (those last two are more DS than N64 or PS1…but that’s basically just PS1 graphics on a handheld)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU stops advertising on X over hate speech. Fines could follow next year⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Please. Given that investors expect infinite growth and that EU is not an ignorable market for most businesses, it would destroy the company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nikki Haley vows to abolish anonymous social media accounts: 'It's a national security threat'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I just don’t agree based on the state of Facebook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds like the kind of thing Ferrari does, that people accept because if you own a Ferrari you’re kinda part of an exclusive club of rich assholes. Teslas are expensive but they’re not “exclusive club” expensive, they’re more like BMWs.