kescusay

kescusay , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Oh God, that was so annoying! Once I realized which app had added that, I uninstalled it with alacrity. I have to use Outlook for my job, but that doesn’t mean I’ll use the mobile version ever again. And the web-based one actually works fine on mobile devices.

kescusay , 11 months ago

This is not the new normal. It’s important to understand that. Next year, it’s going to be worse. And then the year after that, it’s going to be worse. And then it’s going to be worse. And worse. And worse.

The actual “new normal” is escalating change. More storms. More floods. More sea levels rising. More heat waves. More fires. More hurricanes. More, more, more.

Don’t like it? Stop voting for politicians who don’t believe climate change is real.

kescusay , 11 months ago

I’ve been calling it Xitter. The X is pronounced “sh.”

kescusay , 11 months ago

Name… honestly doesn’t check out.

kescusay , 11 months ago

You’re going to want to remove other parts of Windows as well, such as Windows Explorer, the Win32 runtime, the kernel, etc.

(In other words, install Linux.)

kescusay , 11 months ago

I call it Xitter. The X is pronounced with an “sh” sound.

kescusay , 11 months ago

That’s the thing which seems so barbaric to me. I’m in a state with 100% mail-in ballots, and I’ve never stood in a line to vote. Neither has anyone else in my state since mail-in became the standard.

When turnout is really, really high, there might be, like, four people ahead of me if I’ve procrastinated and missed the mail-in date and have to use a ballot drop-box.

kescusay , 11 months ago

It’s duckspeak, and the fact that it’s so effective is horrifying. They go around making literally meaningless word-like noises - not one of them could coherently define either “woke” or “communist” if you offered them a million dollars to do it - and yet they squawk both words endlessly.

kescusay , 11 months ago

Yep. Silly-sounding headline, but actually a really good news story.

kescusay , 11 months ago

Stop using Twitter. Seriously, people, stop using Twitter. It’s not going to get better.

kescusay , 11 months ago

At this point, any advertisers Xitter has left get what they deserve when they spend money on ads there.

kescusay , 11 months ago

I mean, Windows itself has been a good reason to get rid of Windows for a long time.

kescusay , 11 months ago

If “wet” is defined as the state of a given area of matter in large part touching water, then water is wet, too, since it’s touching itself.

…I could have phrased that to sound less like masturbation.

kescusay , 11 months ago

She’d quickly find out his debts vastly exceed his wealth.

kescusay , 11 months ago

Me neither. I’m also in a part of the United States where people seem to give a damn at least a little more. I’m never the only person wearing a mask in the stores I shop at. And shockingly (not really), we have a lot less COVID-19 than the national average.

So, not planning to stop any time soon.

kescusay , 11 months ago

Don’t do this. Delete your Xitter account and use Mastodon instead.

kescusay , 11 months ago

That is indeed my intent.

kescusay , 11 months ago

Give it time. With both Xitter and reddit trying to kill themselves, and Threads dead on arrival, adoption of both Lemmy and Mastodon is going up.

kescusay , 11 months ago

You should have her see a doctor. That stuff is not for drinking. Hell, the labels specifically tell you that.

kescusay , 11 months ago

Nah, everyone gets that second part wrong. He didn’t want you to inject sunlight, he wanted you to breathe it. Somehow. Like, I dunno, inhale a string of UV lights and give your lungs a tan or something.

kescusay , 11 months ago

Only because they’re astoundingly shortsighted. This sort of crap causes a brain drain, and absolutely obliterates economies long-term. What we’re seeing right now is the beginning.

kescusay OP , 11 months ago

I understood that reference.

kescusay , 11 months ago

And with such a simple change, you turned it into a disgusting and bigoted lie, when the person you responded to was completely accurate.

kescusay , 11 months ago

I can’t find any indication that 1979 had a 36-day heatwave with anything approaching the temperatures we’re seeing.

kescusay , 11 months ago

Not terribly significant. The length, number of heat records broken, and sheer catastrophic scale of this heatwave is unprecedented. We don’t have any reason to think anything remotely like this has happened in human history, and the fact that we didn’t have the means to track the entire planet’s average temperature prior to 1979 doesn’t negate that.

Hawaii is on fire. Oregon is on fire. Canada is on fire. California is on fire. The winter in the southern hemisphere is unprecedentedly warm, and much of Australia burned over their summer. It’s going to burn again.

This is an emergency.

kescusay , 11 months ago

Bringing the war home for the insulated people living in Moscow may be the thing that finally causes the Russian people to reject the war. Sadly, I have my doubts. They are so thoroughly beaten down with propaganda, it’s possible they’ll assume it’s unprovoked aggression.

kescusay , 11 months ago

To the second group, I always want to say, “No you didn’t. You turned out as someone who thinks hitting kids is acceptable.”

kescusay , 11 months ago

I mean, I guess you could get that camel through the eye of a needle by liquefying it first. Maybe the same step could be taken to get Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg into heaven.

kescusay , 11 months ago

Wait, is that real? A literal “RentAHitman” website?

kescusay , 11 months ago

the nuts have a panic attack if they’re not constantly armed.

That’s the real issue, here. These guys are absolutely fucking terrified 100% of the time. They pack heat in order to feel like something besides a helpless babyman.

I have never even once felt like I couldn’t possibly pick up a head of lettuce and some yogurt from the supermarket without some moral support from a gun. It’s just fucking bizarre.

kescusay , 11 months ago

Ouch. Guess I touched a nerve. Look, carry if it makes you feel better, but statistically, you’re in more danger from your own guns than you are from anyone else. The same cannot be said for seat-belts, smoke detectors, and fire extinguishers.

kescusay , 11 months ago

Why do you assume they are absolutely fucking terrified vs thinking better safe than sorry?

Because they are too afraid to go to a grocery store without a gun. That means they’re really, really bad at risk assessment. And that makes them dangers to themselves and others.

I know the risk of a violent encounter is low, but I carry because it’s the only reliable way to not be at a disadvantage in a fight.

Do you? Do you actually know that? Because your odds of being a shooting victim are way, way higher as a handgun owner than as a grocery shopper. You’re more likely to be hit by lightning than to be in a violent confrontation at the supermarket, and yet you don’t go around in a rubber suit to be “better safe than sorry.”

Having a plan to avoid being assaulted isn’t the same as living in terror.

And yet you’re not wearing a rubber suit. Your risk aversion needs calibration if the gun that objectively makes you less safe makes you feel more safe.

Protip - if some group seems totally ridiculous, there’s a good chance you don’t understand something important.

Or they could be members of the Westboro Baptist Church, and they are totally ridiculous.

For the record, I don’t think all gun owners are ridiculous - certainly not to the level of the WBC. I don’t even think people who feel the need to pack heat while going out for milk are ridiculous. But they’re definitely scared, and bad at assessing risks.

kescusay OP , 11 months ago

I read the article, and I’m still not sure.

kescusay OP , 11 months ago

I have to admit, it’s actually funnier this way. I think I prefer not to know, which allows me to imagine the car experiencing a video game glitch that put it there.

kescusay , 11 months ago

In defense of YouTube…

The thing is, you absolutely can still find stuff like that. The trick is to search for stuff you like, and train YouTube’s algorithm to find more stuff like it. I’ve got mine trained enough that my feed mostly consists of stuff I actually do want to watch.

Some of it is from “content creators,” yes (although nothing from the well-known ones), but a lot of it is just random things I happen to have an interest in.

Okay, that said, YouTube’s default feed can suck my hairy scrote. It’s astoundingly bad.

kescusay , 11 months ago

Thank you for clarifying. I’ll have to think about it, but at first blush, I’m completely in agreement with you.

kescusay , 11 months ago

Unmoderated? You want a Neo-Nazi community? Because that’s how you get a Neo-Nazi community.

kescusay , 11 months ago

So… Yes, then? You do want a Neo-Nazi community? Weird.

kescusay , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Blue door is a monkey’s paw. You go back in time? You butterfly-effect shit you didn’t intend to.

• Buy a bunch of Bitcoin? A series of unanticipated changes means people figure out it’s a pyramid scheme early and by around 2017 or so, the last Bitcoin miner shuts down. But hey, at least video cards are affordable!
• Bring back Lotto numbers? Well sorry, buddy, but just by breathing the air differently, the air currents where the numbers are drawn are affected, and you’re left with zilch.
• Got kids younger than 10? They don’t exist anymore! If you try to have them again, you end up with other kids who are similar, but not the same as the ones you loved… and have deleted from the timeline.

The answer to these time-travel opportunities is always to run screaming from them. But hey, at least with this one you’ve got an alternative where you become an instant millionaire! Take the $10 million. Don’t fuck the timeline up.

kescusay , 11 months ago

So, here’s the deal… We’ve all been spelling it wrong for this entire time.

In the Gummyverse, the bears really are bear-sized. They’re legit. You wouldn’t want to fight one, no matter how squishy they look. They’re apex in their domains.

But…

What we have been mistakenly calling gummy “worms” are on another level entirely. They are mystic, ancient, and quite eldritch. If you find yourself in the Gummyverse, you do not want to run into these things. They’re not worms.

They’re wyrms.

kescusay , 11 months ago

“Microsoft tells employees to use Linux.”

kescusay , 11 months ago

Well, “plenty” probably just consists of teams such as the WSL development team. I highly doubt anyone in sales, marketing, or development for anything Windows or Windows-application related uses Linux exclusively.

kescusay , 11 months ago

Jesus, that headline looks like someone threw a bunch of words into a blender.

kescusay , 11 months ago

That’s a good one. I think there’s a lot that would be interesting to explore in both. For example, was the IBM Simon a smartphone? It had a touchscreen, apps, and network access way back in 1992. So what are the material vs. cosmetic differences between it and the iPhone? (Don’t worry, I’m not arguing that the iPhone isn’t both innovative and inventive in comparison, it’s just that there’s more gray area than people tend to realize.)

I guess what I’d most like to think about is three things:

• The difference between invention and innovation.
• The difference (if any) between innovation and cosmetics. (Not That I’m knocking cosmetics! They’re an important part of UX!)
• Where you perceive the original iPhone as being ahead in each area (innovations, inventions, and cosmetics)

Hey, also wanted to say I’m glad we’ve hammered this out.

kescusay , 11 months ago

To be fair, that marketing was backed up by the fact that at the time, it really was one of the nicest ones on the market.

It basically allowed them to re-brand RSS feeds with audio files as “podcasts,” too, and now everyone uses “podcasts” with no real notion what they actually are under the hood. That was something of a branding coup.