thawed_caveman

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thawed_caveman,

Yeah i knew there was no way the headline was accurate. Oddly enough this isn’t the kind of thing a CEO would think

thawed_caveman,

There’s no reason to invent plant milk if you don’t already consume milk. It’s a product that was designed to emulate and replace something else that already exists.

thawed_caveman,

Yes, this argument is wrong. Which is why i wasn’t making it.

Plant milk, specifically, is something that you woudln’t think to invent unless you’re trying to replace cow milk.

thawed_caveman,

I never talk to anyone so i have no incentive to other than my own comfort. I do feel more comfortable when i’m clean, but my mere comfort often doesn’t feel like reason enough when executive dysfunction makes a shower is a 1-hour affair, plus i have a weird anxiety around thriftiness so i don’t like to “waste” the warm water and soap.

Same reason why the house isn’t as clean as it could be. It would be cleaner if anyone came in here ever, but no one does, so the only reason to vaccuum is my own satisfaction, which isn’t worth the time and effort.

All told i end up showering every ~5 days in winter and once a day in summer, and i never touch the perfume bottles. I actually don’t really get the point of perfume or deodorant tbh, seems like the solution to BO is a shower.

thawed_caveman,

Yeah but look at all the stuff you do besides showering, the shaving and hair care and such. I’m genuinely just talking about the shower itself. There’s convincing myself to shower, then there’s watching youtube videos with my clothes off, then there’s spending too long in the hot shower because i don’t want to step out into the cold bathroom, then there’s drawing shapes on the fogged mirror, etc

I think my expectation for quick showers comes from my upbringing? For a few years growing up we had the toilet, sink and shower all in the same bathroom, and that bathroom was being used by like 6 people. So every minute spent in the shower was inconveniencing someone else. idk

thawed_caveman,

This has to be fake, an accident would happen within days of installing it and then the city is liable. Ask you city government if they enjoy liability.

At least i know i would be terrified the whole time i’m sitting on it and wouldn’t actually be rested at all

thawed_caveman,

This is not a valid argument ecause everything surrounding us is designed and facilitated by capitalism, and certainly all our electronics, there’s no such thing as computers independent from capitalism. There weren’t even in the soviet union. So it’s not possible for this anon to actually live what they preach unless they went full anarcho-primitivism.

Not that it would matter anyway, because you’re allowed to criticize a system that you participate in.

thawed_caveman,

Yes, all of the evils of capitalism are constantly commented on. This isn’t the CNN comments section.

thawed_caveman,

Nothing here is portraying capitalism as pure evil, it’s highlighting a problem that we currently have as a society. I find it really weird how eager you are to argue while not really having a point to make.

Mozilla Senior Director of Content explained why Mozilla has taken an interest in the fediverse and Mastodon (techcrunch.com)

"the company looked at the history of social media over the past decade and didn’t like what it saw… existing companies that are only model motivated by profit and just insane user growth, and are willing to tolerate and amplify really toxic content because it looks like engagement… "

thawed_caveman,

Shifting the power from a CEO to an instance admin is a massive improvement.

One has autocratic control over the entire site, potentially hundreds of millions of users, investors breathing down their neck, server infrastructure, and other systemic pressures; meanwhile, a fediverse instance admin has autocratic control over nothing but their own instance, a few thousand users at most, with the only money and hardware involved being their own.

The fediverse is incredibly more horizontal and decentralized than any corporate social media, the improvement is massive. And i’m a believer that vertical structures and concentrations of power are at the root of a lot of problems in society, so this is gravy to me.

But yes, it’s worth remembering that it’s not completely decentralized, and admins still have absolute power over their instance. My Mastodon instance admin doesn’t want us to use the name GIMP to refer to the open source image manipulator; they say “gimp” is a slur aimed at disabled people, which i’ve never heard before in my life.

thawed_caveman,

Maybe i’m already half asleep, but i love this comment that starts out on topic then drifts into a unrelated rant written in the most entertaining way.

thawed_caveman,

Yeah, homeschooling is popular with conservatives, but it’s also popular with hippies and that’s usually a better outcome for the kid.

I wish i was raised in one of those anarchist communes. I would have turned out vegan and an annoying prick but at least it’s a different set of problems than the old ones i’m used to

thawed_caveman,

I waste time every day watching YouTube shorts.

The way it’s designed, you can see a little bit of the next short, and the curiosity will get me, i’m always really tempted to scroll and find out what the next one is.

I wouldn’t intentionally waste time like this, which is why i haven’t installed TikTok; but i do watch YouTube every day, and so shorts come get me where i am. And honestly, it’s a garbage experience. Part of me thinks i would probably have more fun on TikTok because their algorithm is better. Shorts keeps giving me these channels that edit bits of podcats, often MrBeast and Joe Rogan, and there’s loads of channels doing this so i keep seeing it no matter how many i block. What content i do enjoy is drowned out by a lot of trash content like that, and would probably be better in long form anyway.

thawed_caveman,

A bump stock arguably makes it full auto, but it doesn’t make it a machinegun.

Arguably the reason this thread is confused is that the word ‘machine gun’ doesn’t refer so much to physical characteristics, but more to a usage: they’re meant for sustained covering fire rather than short bursts.

thawed_caveman,

Misleading headline: if you read the article and watch the video, he actually blames school shootings on the lack of moral education, with merely a reference to evolution teaching as an example of amoral atheism in the classroom.

So it’s not a cartoonish slogan, it’s actually a fairly standard fascist talking point.

And people say, ‘How can a young person go into their schoolhouse and open fire on their classmates?’ Because we’ve taught a whole generation, a couple generations now of Americans, that there’s no right or wrong, that it’s about survival of the fittest, and you evolve from the primordial slime. Why is that life of any sacred value? Because there’s nobody sacred to whom it’s owed. None of this should surprise us.

thawed_caveman,

We talk a lot about lives saved by antibiotics but not about lives made by them lol

thawed_caveman,

I found a CD player on the curb and i’m enjoying my CDs more than i did back in the day.

thawed_caveman,

I don’t deserve respect, it was the style at the time and i just kinda never stopped doing it.

Closing in on 200Gb of mp3 where i listen to the same 5 on repeat

thawed_caveman,

Fat if fact

thawed_caveman,

The difference should be the size, but not all of us would know

thawed_caveman,

Yeah, define ‘driving’ lol

thawed_caveman,

WORK, WORK, WORK

thawed_caveman,

what? i was quoting rihanna

thawed_caveman,

This is why you keep spare pads or tampons or we.

The one day you don’t have them, that’s when the worse will happen

thawed_caveman,

Found the answer:

But the stigma regarding Android phones is mostly an American phenomenon, at least to the degree to which it affects purchase habits. Worldwide, per the same Statcounter report, Androids represent the significant majority of all smartphones, holding a 71% share of sales compared with Apple’s 28%.

thawed_caveman,

Yeah, my answer to “has the Reddit exodus killed the former Lemmy culture” is “what culture lmao”

Not that i was on Lemmy before, but i was on Mastodon before Elon bought Twitter and it was a ghost town.

thawed_caveman,

I wonder what’s the fastest you could go on tracks? Apparently a record was set in 1979 (121.9 km/h, 75 mph) and never broken since as far as i can tell, or at least Guiness doesn’t seem to know anything about it.

Fellas, we need a tank, a couple V8 engines, and a case of beer

thawed_caveman,

That’s about the most expensive fursuit you can buy, it goes much lower than that. Still low car money though

thawed_caveman,

I haven’t had a normal job since before covid so i’m not super qualified, but:

I think big companies tend to think rationally in terms of cost/benefit

I think they sometimes do, but not always. The reason being that companies are made of people, and people sometimes but not always think rationally.

In this case, my guess is middle management may be fretting about leaving employees unsupervised. What if they play games or browse Twitter on company time? You can’t monitor them when they’re not in the office!

Inspirational wish-wash like “we value the power of working together” strikes me as common corporate wish-wash. It’s sort of along the lines of “we’re a family here”. They’re trying to make employees emotionally invested in the corpo so they’ll put up with more bullshit.

thawed_caveman,

I’ve been helping a Chinese company and it includes getting on the phone at 9am to talk to them right as they’re leaving the office. For an international team there can be time zone issues like that, but if you can find overlap between Europe and China then you can find overlap between anywhere

thawed_caveman,

Oh yeah, power in a corporation goes top down, and it figures that top management likes it that way.

There’s definitely safety to be found in the familiar, i do it a lot, whenever i have to do something unfamiliar i will often let myself get overwhelmed trying to consider all the tiny implications. Eventually though the experience from early adopters will enlighten other companies. It’s a lot easier to take a decision like this when other people have done it and you have data to see what the results were. In the case of work from home, this process is already well underway, it’s been three years since covid and there’s already a lot of data that you can point to.

thawed_caveman,

Kdenlive is still not up to pro standards. I make do with it, but if/when i’m editing for someone else i’ll have to switch to a proprietary solution.

And that’s besides the fact that everyone else is using it, which is usually the reason to prefer proprietary over FOSS. It’s the reason i still have Photoshop installed alongside Krita.

thawed_caveman,

I’ve been getting my Galaxies from Craigslist

thawed_caveman,

Any date format can be unambiguous as long as it’s the one that everyone agrees on, and all date formats will be ambiguous as long as we have several in use.

I kinda gave up, nowadays when i write a date to someone i specify the date format. Like i will send “01/05/2024 (DD/MM/YYYY)” because it’s the only way to be sure

thawed_caveman,

I’m guilty of this as a mod sometimes. When i remove a comment i don’t want to leave a hole in the thread, because then people will see replies to a deleted comment and wonder what they said; so i remove the replies as well, resulting in this.

It’s pick your poison i guess

thawed_caveman,

This is the only reason i bought crocs, it’s exclusively so i can wear them with socks.

Actually they’re knockoff crocs. They’re super slippery, it rained today and i was risking death with every step

thawed_caveman,

I’ve never worn them, but Crocs would have gotten sued out of existence if they were as slippery as my knockoffs

thawed_caveman,

This is what i came for, i wanted to know what these features are. Thanks for saving me a click

thawed_caveman,

Thanks for sharing your knowledge of ancient Hindu scripture, SexualPolytope.

thawed_caveman,

Physical buttons. Sometimes an app or the OS itself will fuck up and not show you the home or back button for example.

I would miss headphone jacks but any phone worth buying still comes with those… for now

thawed_caveman,

I love that transcription

thawed_caveman,

Sometimes i feel bad for YouTube. Video hosting is the worst of both worlds (heaviest storage and highest bandwidth) and there’s a LOT of video on YouTube, most of it worthless.

thawed_caveman,

The demands of video hosting is what makes me doubtful that decentralized YouTube could work.

thawed_caveman,

I was going to use it to lubricate keyboard switches but it turns out that it’s bad for plastics.

thawed_caveman,

This is just a different manifestation of a core problem the fediverse has: it can get annoying to try to interact with content outside of your own instance.

And then we wonder why people flocked to Threads instead of Mastodon.

I really think the federated aspect should be almost invisible infrastructure, like how we never think about OpenSSL behind the scenes when we make a secure payment. There’s even a browser plugin to simplify Mastodon federation, so it can’t be that hard. Frankly, something even more seamless than that should be the default.

But it wasn’t designed this way for whatever reason, i’m sure there’s good reasons but it’s hard to empathize when i follow a link and suddenly i find myself in a new place where i’m not logged in, even though this “place” is still on Lemmy.

thawed_caveman,

As a moderator, i find it satisfying to clean my little corner of the internet.

We all see spam an scams when we use social media, and there’s not much that you can do about it, maybe report it to admins if you have a minute. For the most part, you’re powerless.

But on my fenced area of the internet, i actually get to do something about it. If your bot reposts content on r/shittyfoodporn to farm karma, i will pluck it out like a snail from my salad and kill it. Removing bad content is as satisfying as popping a pimple, it gives me the same joy as a retired dad meticulously cleaning his garden.

The less enjoyable part is when i have to interfere with the users themselves. Mildly saucy fanart will get posted to r/zootopia and i have to decide if it’s over or under the line, and it feels bad to remove a post that somebody legitimately just wanted to share.

thawed_caveman,

There has to be one, but i think most sci-fi authors are left-leaning so their utopias and dystopias both reflect that.

thawed_caveman,

I am 30 years old and no achievements whatsoever. Nothing i’ve made has my name on it, none of it made me happy, and i got paid for very little of it.

A lot of people are deeply insecure like i am, but the difference is i have the financial privilege to not have to get out of my comfort zone, so i never did. I made a locked safe box for myself that nothing ever pushed me out of.

I’m not even rich enough to help people that much, at least not when i don’t have an income. So i don’t even have that satisfaction.

But a lot of torrent users have appreciated me over the years so that’s nice

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