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[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Christian missionaries are white supremacists.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

I think I agree with this one.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

-for humanity to survive, it must eliminate the rich

-pineapple can go on pizza. You can put whatever you want on pizza. You don't have to like it for it to be a valid topping. Some people just hate things because they heard about it online.

-new York pizza is not the best pizza in the universe.

  • the people who want to change the date of celebrating Halloween to the last Saturday of October (or anything similar) are childhood hating assholes who think that it's more important to keep the capitalistic society going than celebration human culture. They would rather things be convenient for them and their bosses than to let people celebrate things when they please. There's also probably a bias against non Christian religions. If you find it inconvenient you should be mad at the system that makes it inconvenient for you to do something on a Tuesday night, not a holiday that's centuries older than your job. Work should work around holidays not the other way around.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I’ve seen crushed boiled eggs on pizza. Also ones with green olives on top that still had the pits inside.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Apple products aren't any better than anything else, it's just marketing and branding. They're like the Starbucks of computers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

With the exception of intel macs, they are the Lexus of computers because they are Overbuilt and long after they're discontinued you pop Linux or even Windows on them and they keep on ticking and due to the metal body they survive children better 😅. Not sure about newer apple silicon though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

Not sure about newer apple silicon though

Apple Silicon is impressive as hell. The power consumption per performance is remarkable. A buddy of mine said on his M2 MacBook Pro, Factorio ran better even through emulation than it had on his other laptop. And much better once recompiled for the ARM architecture.

(That said, I’m sticking with the x86_64 I know and love to hate, since while I like other Apple products I’ve never gotten the hang of OSX.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

heh it truly depends on a lot of factors. I don't want to "cheap out" pn a high-end windows laptop, their thermals are shit, the battery life is non-existent, the keyboard is trash, and the computer frame are rarely decent.

A macbook is expensive, yes, but I've never experienced having to doubt the hardware, or get weird issues with it. It's a peace of mind I'm willing to pay a premium for. I even have a mac mini as a server for the extremely low power consumption & extremely good CPU performance (seriously, this thing competes with i9s for a fraction of the power (I'm exclusively interested in single thread applications))

As for iphones & apple watches, I like to tinker with my stuff way too much for them to make sense to me (which my macbook allows me to do as much as I want)

I'm exclusively talking about my experience with apple silicon, idk how it was before the M1 chips came out.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Don't ask for more when you already have enough.
People are sheep and they will never stop paying for streaming services.
Onlyfans destroyed porn industry and reddit porn side.\

[–] [email protected] 17 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

I would be willing to die on Kum just to sound funny.

[–] [email protected] 124 points 1 day ago (10 children)

You should have to get a special license to drive something as big as a modern pickup truck.

And you should have to have a justifiable reason to buy and own one.

And there should be restrictions on where they can be driven.

Basically most people shouldn't have pickup trucks.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The only reason Americans started buying pick up trucks on mass is because of Tarifs put on Japanese car manufacturers in the 1970s and pick up trucks had no taxes on them suddenly became one of the cheapest and more affordable cars in the United States. Rick Wolf explained this somewhere I can’t remember where exactly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago

There were also reduced fuel economy requirements for trucks and off-road vehicles, which contributed to the rise of SUVs.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Size doesn't matter.
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All boobs are beautiful.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago
  1. The big hill in my neighborhood park.

  2. Capital Hill

I don't really know of any other hills or why I would be near them so if I die on a hill it will probably be one of these.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Phones have become boring and are all the same. I want options like we had with Nokia back in the day. So a music phone, gaming phone, business phone etc. but with a modern OS. All we have now are camera phones. Google announcing that they've added a second possible function to The Button in settings just doesn't excite me. Smartphones have become shit and it's not because we've perfected them or some shit, it's because chasing lines on marketing graphs and playing follow the leader has resulted in no choice anymore and everything being lowest common denominator, mass produced slop.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (7 children)

camera phones

Why are all "modern" phones so full of cameras? One on the fucking screen & at least 2 on the back. I just want a phone with no cameras. Even 1 might be O.K., so long as it's on the phone's backside.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Why are all "modern" phones so full of cameras? One on the fucking screen & at least 2 on the back.

Because different lenses are good at different things. On a three-lens setup, one is usually a telephoto lens for distance, another is a standard wide-angle lens for normal photography, and the third is an ultrawide angle for capturing more of a scene and for macro ultra-close-up photography.

Also you can film in 3D using two of the three.

Multiple lenses are a big part of why phone images are as high quality as they are these days.

And the one on the front is obvious, it enables things like video chat, selfies, and sometimes facial recognition (though that can also work by infrared and lidar).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

But many people don't use any of those features. I get that many do, but every single smartphone with features I require has them.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

-Businesses should be run by people who are passionate about the giving a great product and/or service and not some shitty MBA who only except 10x return on his investment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

Congrats, you are a communist!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

As an egalitarian, I’ve died on many hills.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Alphebetizing by the "The" should be a criminal act.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Agree, as a further measure It should be criminal to name stuff with "the" to begin with.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

My hill: Laws that give “unnecessary” rights to people are still good overall and shouldn't ever, EVER, be reversed. Laws that give “unnecessary” rights keep society stable and have come from past times soaked in blood. If you reverse 60-100 years of these gains, then society will collapse.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If I do not have or cannot easily get root access to a computer, I don't really own it.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Dampening is making things wet. Damping is reducing oscillations in something.

Every time I hear or read people using them interchangeably is infuriating.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Paid refers to money. Payed is a nautical term.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Your opinion of Monty Python is bad, and you should feel bad.

The word Data was originally a plural word, and should be again, for all time

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Except data usually refers to a single set of data, so it is both plural and singular.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago (10 children)
  • ISO 8601 (e.g., 2025-05-23) are the only correct date formats.
  • We should stop using time zones and daylight saving.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

We should stop using time zones…

The way they are and divide them in half so that the western side of the current time zone gets the same-ish amount of light as the eastern side of the time zone

… and daylight saving

By springing ahead permanently, right? Right‽

[–] wischi 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Stop using timezones? So every day would actually be two weekdays because at some random point in time it would switch date during the day. Let's meet next Monday wouldn't even specify a single day anymore in most countries. And there is no real benefit to stop using timezones, just downsides. Yes you'd know which time it is anywhere but you still wouldn't know of they are awake or not and have to either look it up or remember it - the same you have to do now.

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