[-] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago

She has diabetes, but that's not a death sentence, especially when you're wealthy.

[-] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

They're libertarian socialist.

I've seen some criticism of Rojava, specifically because they have private property rights, some Kurdish nationalist tendencies, and their status as sort of a US proxy. I don't know enough about the situation to say how true that all is, though.

https://linestruggle.medium.com/on-rojava-and-the-western-left-bac1b858173e

https://mesopotamia.coop/rojava-the-formation-of-an-economic-alternative-private-property-in-the-service-of-all/

[-] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Everyone should talk to their relatives, especially elderly relatives about scams. The most important points are:

That they should never trust that the person calling is who they say they are, they can always hang up, look up the number and call the company/police/whoever directly. Also talk about how scammers create a false sense of urgency. Lastly, talk about the ways scammers collect their money, by having you send venmo/Apple pay/Zelle, gift cards or crypto atms, nobody legitimate requires that kind of payment.

It's a hard thing to talk about without making them feel like you're calling them dumb or gullible. The way I broached it with my mom was to tell her about someone smart I knew that got tricked by one of those tech support scams.

Nothing guarantees you won't get tricked into a scam, but you can make it harder

[-] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

I hate this argument. How does buying something incentivize more of it to be made when there is a substitute(dirty energy)?

It's like saying you're going to incentivize people to eat healthier by destroying vegetable crops

[-] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

I think it was the regular political corruption that exists everywhere in the US, lobbying, campaign donations and the revolving door. Texas is definitely winning the race to sell off all the public goods, but this kind of thing happens all over. Chicago sold off the rights to the parking spaces on public streets in a similar kind of deal.

[-] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It says something about the state of America that you can't get people to care about politics by talking about health care, mass incarceration, housing prices, etc. But tell them woke is why vidja games are bad and they're ready to go for fascism.

[-] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

I think if I had one of the affected chips, I'd want it to fail while they're still replacing them for free. It sounds like the various measures data center people are using are only slowing the degradation, not eliminating it. Maybe I'd wait until it's clear the issue is not in the replacement chips though.

The high failure rates that have been reported are in situations where the chips are working hard 24/7. I think for most home users, were not going to see the failures for a few years, which is exactly what Intel is counting on by not doing a full recall.

[-] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago

I think that's the best argument for why the tech industry won't let that happen. All of the big tech stocks are getting a boost from this massive grift.

Worst case scenario one of the tech giants buys them. Then they pare back the expenses and hide it in their balance sheet, and keep everyone thinking AGI is just around the corner.

[-] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Checking receipts when you leave a store. They have cameras everywhere and they can access my receipt through their computer system. I already paid, this is my stuff, they shouldn't be able to detain me without suspicion I stole something.

I don't raise a stink with the poor person checking receipts, though, because I am not an asshole.

[-] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

All guide dogs for blind people I've seen are German Shepards. I don't think it's the breed.

[-] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

True crime communities become unhinged so quick. They get emotionally invested, posting about how sad they are, or vengeance posting about how the perpetrator should be SA'ed in prison. They start developing parasocial relationships with the people involved, posting memorial collages, etc. They overanalyze every new detail and draw connections between everything.

I used to enjoy following the Jeremy Dewitte case, the serial police impersonator who videotaped himself pretending to be a cop for years. It was fun, but the communities following the case went so hard into analyzing every little detail that they became convinced that everything was a conspiracy. A bunch of "influencers" started making channels pretending to have inside information, claiming to have sources inside the police or personally knowing cops involved in the case.

[-] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

That's hilarious.

"Mozilla is allowing you the option to build Firefox without X11 dependencies"

"Mozilla hates freedom!!!"

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