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A_Random_Idiot

@ A_Random_Idiot @lemmy.world

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  • Climate Summit

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  • This particular joke is from 2009.

    So yeah.

    God forbid we do something to improve the world without a profit motive.

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    Even though the profit motive would be healthier people, and happier people, and numerous studies have shown happy, healthy people are far more productive in a orwellian people-as-product labor kind of way.

  • Anyone who recently had a "Yup, it was that kinda day" day. What happened?

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  • This is why i dont have any interest in glass side panels.

    I dont even like clear side panels, but if i have it i'll take acrylic.. sure, it supposedly scratches easier, but wtf are you doing to get it scratched in the first place? probably the same kinda stuff that breaks tempered glass, lol.

  • Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app

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  • Bullshit. Its on a quest to monetize the platform, thats all its doing.

    If it wanted to be a better communication platform it wouldnt be adding all this pointless superfluous shit that exists only for nickle and diming.

  • Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now?

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  • USB-C is very hard to manufacture and expensive as fuck as a result.

    thats why.

    Especially when most devices don't need the bandwidth or power needs of USB-C.

  • Attendees at Bored Ape NFT event report vision loss and extreme pain

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  • Irony.

  • How long would you live if electricity for the whole world went out permanently?

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  • I think the immediate deaths would all be from people who need electricity to run medical devices.

    Followed shortly by people who require refrigerated medication.

    Followed by elderly who die from exposure to extreme, unconditioned temperatures.

    and that would be in the first, oh, say... week or two.

    Then, with fridges full of rotted food, your first major death wave will occur as masses of people lose their absolute goddamn minds in panic and fear and start food riots/try to rob from others/raid big industrial farms/neighborhood gardens/etc, which leads to mass deaths from starvation, exposure, exertion, desperation, and gunshot.

    Which will even out after about a week or two.

    Then you settle in for the slow burn. 3 months out you'll have another, comparatively small wave of deaths from people who run out of non-refridgeration requiring medications.

    Then another slow burn until manufactured canned goods run out in stores and scavanged homes until a wave of starvation.

    All in all, I'd say you'd probably be over the bulk of the mass deaths after 6 months, and with a significantly reduced population.. Which will be to the benefit of the survivors, since less people per mile will make farming/hunting easier, and life safer.. because while raiders/thieves will always be a overarching concern and safety issue, at this point, most of the desperation should have passed along with most of the desperate.

    There will also be, for at least a generation, possibly two, the lingering unspoken understanding that more people than anyone would ever care to count only survived the famines and fall by eating the long pig.

  • YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it

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  • Speaking in general, and not about you specifically..

    but I've seen so many people scream "if company does X, I'm not buying/using their product anymore!"

    And company does X

    And they scream about it for.. a week, then go back to using it, and buying the next version, and singing its praises after the controversy passes.

    So I have no faith that the general consumer has the willpower or the give a fuck to stop using these things.

    and individuals like you and me, who do actually stop using them, are so rare as to not actually matter.

  • Microsoft Defender Flags Tor Browser as a Trojan and Removes it from the System - Deform

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  • Why wait, do it now.

    I jumped ship to Linux when Win 7 died, cause I'd rather be fucked by a rusty fencepost than be forced to use 10, and 11 is right out.

  • Following instructions like a pro

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  • FOUND IT!

    https://badspot.us/Comics.html

    Maybe the OP image isnt done by this guy, but was close enough to fire off the neurons that remembered reading those mass effect comics so very many years ago.

  • Following instructions like a pro

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  • I recognize this character design and art, but for the life of me cant remember from where.

    Didnt this artist do a lot of mass effect comics?

  • Why We’re Pulling Our Recommendation of Wyze Security Cameras

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  • sadly there are a lot of people who only care about immediate gratification that would call that paranoid.