WheeGeetheCat

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[–] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

Yup, and this is not new information. i've seen studies about this effect for at least a decade, probably more like 2 but time flies now

[–] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

I use Firefox with ad blockers to watch YouTube. Chrome seems to be allowing them to block my ad blocker

[–] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

It's also top comment on the .social link

[–] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago

Yeah I'm comparing 3rd party votes to voting for the less harmful duopoly + activism, you're comparing it to doing nothing.

You're right voting 3rd party is better than doing absolutely nothing. What a high bar

[–] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

in what way is buying a competitor not inherently anti-competitive?

If someone has a history of anti-competitive behavior, preventing them from buying competitors is perfectly logical

[–] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What are you even talking about? I've seen videos of cops shooting at dogs wagging their tails. I've seen cops shoot at small dogs and accidentally hit the owners. Here's just one of many videos, see if you can watch it without being disgusted by these pigs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D1wzZU14h0

[–] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That’s true until it isn’t.

The way you change that is election reform. Not thoughts and prayers and spoiler votes when one of the 2 big parties is running a wannabe-dictator.

Think, if fools in Florida didn't vote 3rd party in 2000 you'd never have bush or the war in iraq, and we might have given a shit about global warming.

[–] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Please, tell me you're a child who knows nothing about the US electoral system without telling me. People like you got us Trump

Too much of a baby to read and understand the spoiler effect that comes with FPTP? Too impatient and short-sighted to push for election reform (RCV or approval voting) and just want some low effort immediate option that requires nothing more than casting a vote? Child. Democracies require effort to survive.

[–] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Did you just scoff at the idea of competition improving a market?

[–] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

or they're simply pumped full of Fox brand fear of anything slightly different and prefer this guys brand of crazy

[–] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works -2 points 11 months ago

Yup, few people remember how few and far between big budget fantasy films used to be. Computer graphics have gotten cheap enough now that we see big fantasy sets all the time. Back when LOTR hit it was really rare for someone to cater to the fantasy crowd on the big screen, especially for a whole trilogy.

Much like the original Tolkien novels are a hard read but still seen as classics because they laid groundwork for the genre, the movies are seen as classics because they came first. They are probably Peter Jackson's best movies but that's only because he got even worse at editing as he went on.

[–] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 24 points 11 months ago

Study was funded by a wasabi company of course

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Anyone sold source code? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works to c/programming@programming.dev
 

I'm curious if anyone has any experience selling source code. Not so much freelancing, but just selling code you've already written.

I'm living in medium to high cost of living area in the USA. I'm sick of the full-time employment - layoff - job hunt - full-time employment cycle. I don't see the employer / employee relationship getting any better.

Looking for other ideas.

 

I was pretty excited to add storybook to my project, but after setting up my basic components like buttons and moving on to higher level components that render slices of state using selectors .... I have regrets.

Is it me or is it really hard to 'storybook-i-fy' react components using selectors? I found this tutorial on the Storybook site and it looks like the preferred pattern is to duplicate your store in your storybook file? That can't be right, can it?

Someone talk me out of taking Storybook out back and uninstalling it from my repo.

 

This opinion is based on reading people's thoughts on the internet and remembering what I was taught in my own time in school (where they essentially stumbled into teaching that humans were some kind of 'peak' of the evolutionary process)

I think people have waaaaayyyy too much faith in human intelligence and it's leading to the destruction of the world.

1- People keep thinking a scientist or a 'rich entrepreneur' is going to come up with some magic bullet to save the world, if we taught more about how other animals have tools, language, larger and older and more complex brain structures than us - People might realize it's similar to believing that dolphin will arise from the sea with some idea to stop climate change

2- we keep participating in these systems that have been created under the assumption that we are 'making progress'. I would argue that the minority of human invention represents real progress.

3- It leads to undervaluing the earth and taking it for granted. We worship ourselves as gods (literally). Almost everything you have wasn't invented by humans. It was the result of billions of years of selective design. Yet we teach as if things we harvest from nature were 'invented' by humans. In reality, we often have no way to produce or even of conceive of these things without a natural example.

Thanks for reading

 

Anyone else noticing their profile always shows their most recent posts/comments etc as if it's right before the server downtime?

Reloading the page seems to show my new content, but I have to do that each time.

Apologies if its just me. I think it might be but thought I'd ask the community before going off on a troubleshooting spree

 

Hey all, I'd like to grow some garlic at home in containers.

Problem is I live near Phoenix, Arizona USA so it's quite hot outside most of the year.

Anyone have experience want to share some tips? I noticed some garlic bulbs starting to sprout in my fridge and thought I might be able to start some indoors from that.

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