HiddenLayer5

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

This picture sums it up pretty well too.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/26b5b34b-4e42-47bb-8c64-908fff24a1c0.jpeg

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

Every generation does this. The boomers had their fair share of dumb slang terms as well but for some reason everyone loves to hate the next generation for doing the exact same thing.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

Fedora KDE Spin works pretty well

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

So if you have to be 13+ to even sign up for Twitter why would they let him be the CEO?

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

And with a longer bed because it doesn’t waste space with a “luxury cabin.”

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

I hate having to almost circumnavigate the Earth for my commute!

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

Exactly. Lemmy is a social media platform, not an archival service. People come here to talk to people, not bots.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

And god forbid you point out the fact that this attitude among consumers is exactly the reason these companies are brazen enough to pull this shit. People don’t want to hear how their attitudes around instant gratification and focus on convenience over absolutely all else just might have consequences.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

Ah yes, the classic dish: Grilled Null Sandwich.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

Because the tech gigacorporations have literally spent the last three decades brainwashing us into accepting shit like that and even convincing us that it’s better this way.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

It’s especially moronic that Cloudflare thinks everyone using Tor is trying to DDOS every site.

Do you know how fucking slow Tor is? You couldn’t DDOS an Arduino with it.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

Not with that attitude. There is no reason we can’t cultivate alternatives like PeerTube. No video platform starts with a massive library and if we actually want to take back our digital rights then we have to put our foot down and give a hard “no” to trading those rights away just because we really want to watch a particular creator on a corporate platform. It’s the only way to not only stick it to Google but also let creators know that viewers will not tolerate the likes of Google.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

100%. It’s the principle of the thing. I don’t care how good YouTube Red is, simply the fact that they pulled as much bullshit as they have in an attempt to sucker people into paying for it warrants a total and permanent boycott. What Google is doing is utterly unacceptable and I’m not going to reward them for abusing my digital rights.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

Denying profit to corporations is theft

Absolutely right. In fact, it should be illegal to see a product for sale and not immediately buy it. How dare you see a helpless corporation in need of money, freezing in the streets, and not immediately empty your wallet in exchange for trinkets that they so lovingly engineered to break in a set amount of time? You monster!

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

All of you using adblockers are pathetic. You’ll willingly deprive companies of their revenue just because you can’t be bothered to see a few ads? It’s not like ads are harmful or anything!

…hang on I think porn just started playing on my computer I have to find where the popup is and close it… Right after I close this other popup that says I’ve won 69 trillion dollars, and this one for dick pills, and this one for free vbucks, and this online casino one, and that one saying I have 420 viruses on my PC, and this one from the local fringe religious group that says I’ll go to hell if I poop, and this one that straight up looks like it’s trying to download ransomware, and… Damn my battery just died from all the extra processing power those popups needed. Uh but adblock is still evil though, don’t forget that.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

I’ve noticed that Lemmy has been shedding a lot of the Reddit style toxicity that was brought here from the influx. Presumably that has something to do with the terminally on Reddit people leaving.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

1776-07-04 gang

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

Which is why Kelvin is superior.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

It really doesn’t bother me tbh. The fediverse isn’t for everyone and I’d rather people just use whatever platform they prefer than endlessly complaining on Lemmy when it’s clearly simply not for them. And that’s okay, use whatever platform suits you.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

Hang on let me bring in a stick expert…

Jayfeather from Warrior Cats

(Someone please get the reference so I don’t look like a total idiot)

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

And you just know that this is the family that will make your own camping trip hell if you end up beside them.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

“What are y’all doing just enjoying nature like that? BORING! I’m doing all of you a favour by spicing up your night with this bottom-shelf dubstep!”

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

clown eggs series phases

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

America the country though. Which is quite different from hating an ethnic group.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

Which, the British Empire didn’t particularly give a shit about telling them apart when they drew the new “independent” borders in South Asia either. Tons of current problems in the region can be traced back to British colonialism and their divide and conquer strategy, surprise surprise.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

It’s not impressive to attach green plastic bits to camouflage a cell tower (which IMO makes it uglier and more noticeable than just a bare antenna mast).

It would be extremely impressive if they could actually derive the required power from onboard photovoltaics though!

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Willy Wonka is a true American businessman. A child is about to die horribly and all he can think about is loss of product due to contamination.

Edit: Ok I looked it up since I wasn’t sure if Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is set in the US or UK. Apparently it’s inspired by factories in the UK but the actual setting in-universe is ambiguous in the original book, though both movies set it in (IIRC) London. Reading it as a kid I definitely imagined it taking place in the US though, not sure why but the story just “sounds” American, what with the copious consumption of sugar and the seemingly total lack of government oversight on businesses.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Consent forms don’t protect you from negligence though.

They also don’t protect you from criminal charges which Wonka definitely has many of by the end of it.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Vegetable is also exclusively a culinary definition. Vegetables are essentially any edible plant structure that are not sweet and aren’t the seeds directly (which are grains or nuts). Typically vegetables are flowers, leaves, stems, or roots, but some non-sweet fruits like cucumbers, peppers, and green beans are also squarely in the vegetable category despite definitely being fruits, no reason they can’t be both.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

First rule of working in the psych ward: Don’t join a psych gang.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Fun fact: Strawberry is called an accessory fruit because its seeds are on the outside, so the seeds themselves are the real “fruits” (in the same way each grain of rice or wheat is itself a fruit, well technically the fruit consists of the grain plus the outer pod/husk that gets removed when harvested). The red flesh we like to eat is the accessory fruit because it in itself does not contain seeds.

Raspberries and blackberries are called aggregate fruits because they’re essentially many fruits attached together as a single structure. Actually, a strawberry is called an aggregate accessory fruit because it has many “fruits” directly attached to an accessory structure.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

No, bananas are berries.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Yeah. If university bio has taught me anything it’s that botany classifications are way more numerous, way more complex, and have way more exceptions than zoology classifications (not to undermine zoology of course, it’s also super complicated). There’s just far more diversity in how different plants accomplish the same things compared to how different animals accomplish them, which makes sense since plants are quite a bit older than animals and also have way more species.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

Some of my profs did! I had one class where the prof would have optional “bonus content” not in the syllabus as a further incentive for people to come to class instead of just reading the lecture slides later.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

suck is forever

Why is the consumer just expected to roll over and take it when a game sucks instead of the responsibility being on the publisher to release updates until the game resembles what was originally advertised? Games aren’t on ROM cartridges anymore, you can still improve the game after it’s released.

Look, No Man’s Sky set the precedent for what you’re supposed to do when your game sucks at launch. And we should expect nothing less from game studios with ten times the person-power and money.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

Obviously sucking at launch is bad. But it’s inevitable that some games will suffer that fate and as No Man’s Sky showed, that’s no excuse for the game continuing to suck after launch.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Also, unironically, e-bikes are more fun than cars. You feel the acceleration much more on a bike than a car despite moving slower, and the breeze going by you feels pretty nice too.

Not to mention a lot less likely to kill someone.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

My biggest issue with scooters is that the sidewalks on most streets in North America are way too narrow to safely use them while others are walking, and we’re seriously lacking in dedicated bike lanes. Both of which are issues with the prioritization of car infrastructure over all else as opposed to problems with scooters themselves. Since scooters cannot safely run on the road but is still too fast for exclusively pedestrian paths. Where there are dedicated bike lanes in my city, scooters share them with bikes perfectly fine.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

Yeah, unfortunately speed limits don’t mean anything and studies show that drivers pretty much always drive as fast as they think they can regardless. The issue is that North America has stroads which are highly conducive to driving fast, damn near highway speeds. If we had the narrow, potentially tile or even cobblestone local streets that European and Asian cities have it would be less of a problem because those conditions directly promote lower speeds and more attentive driving.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

CityNerd also has a video on speed governors! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBSkLrYbLk0

It’s also not unheard of either. IIRC Japan had speed governors on their cars for a time, which limited them to their national highway speed of 100 km/h (which is still very fast to be fair).

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

Guys I’m really scared of falling into a volcano. I don’t care what the libs say, we shouldn’t tolerate active volcanoes in our cities! It’s against God’s will!

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

suck is forever

Why is the consumer just expected to roll over and take it when a game sucks instead of the responsibility being on the publisher to release updates until the game resembles what was originally advertised? Games aren’t on ROM cartridges anymore, you can still improve the game after it’s released.

Look, No Man’s Sky set the precedent for what you’re supposed to do when your game sucks at launch. And we should expect nothing less from game studios with ten times the person-power and money.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

Fair enough, if that’s what he meant it’s a good point.

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

It might sound crazy, but a coast to coast high speed rail line could potentially be conceivable in Canada if we really went all in on rail. We only really have one or two major cities for each of the interior provinces and BC, so just draw a line connecting all of them. There’s not that much in the way outside those cities, and this corridor could connect to the Montreal-Quebéc corridor, and then further on toward the east coast where it again only has to connect a few major cities.

The biggest problem would be BC though, we have a ton of mountains over here which might require some serious tunneling.

Perhaps we could colocate it with the Trans Canada Highway corridor?

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Can any Americans confirm or refute whether US schools actually punish you for getting beaten up regardless of whether you tried to defend yourself? It sounds way too stupid to be true yet I hear about it again and again.

Also what the hell happened to Stand Your Ground that the US is so infamous for? That doesn’t apply to children who are victims of assault and battery?

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

“Yes but what did you do to de-escalate the situation?”

Reading this and all these other comments I wonder if at least part of it is just petty bullshit by the school administration, like “How dare the two of you create more work for us at our jobs for which we have licenses! You both need to be punished for that!”

HiddenLayer5, 7 months ago

I’ve legit once killed a hard drive by absentmindedly standing it up on its edge and then accidentally knocking it over on a hard table. It would seem to work for about two minutes when turned on and then would suddenly turn off and you can hear the read write head abruptly returning to the home position.

So you’re telling me I experienced loss for real?!