Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)B

BranBucket

@ BranBucket @lemmy.world

Posts
2
Comments
185
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • I'm just trying to lose a few pounds

    Jump

  • A bike just for weight loss or something similar can be cheaper, of course.

    Dan John, a prominent figure in the strength and conditioning community, once argued that the best bike for weight loss was a cheap, steel framed, single-speed beach cruiser, especially if you lived in a hilly area.

  • I'm just trying to lose a few pounds

    Jump

  • Doritos are underappreciated in terms of post ride nutrition...

  • I'm just trying to lose a few pounds

    Jump

  • Yeah, we've got a Chihuahua and for his sake I wanted it to be real, but there's about zero chance wolves would put up with one.

  • Why did you decide to join Lemmy?

    Jump

  • Got pissed at corporate social media for the way they've accelerated the damage being done to our already degraded public discourse but I still needed somewhere to doomscroll and find... gifs... of... nothing in particular...

  • Tankie

    Jump

  • I'd even take crappy photo edits over this.

  • TIL the CEO of Reddit has been given a $193 million compensation package

    Jump

  • Not exactly sure what you missed or what your point is supposed to be.

    The same would be true of any ad platform. I hate Facebook for all the ills it's caused society and it pisses me off that my breakfast cereal is slightly more expensive because of Zuckerberg's compensation package too.

    But Facebook, et al. aren't being discussed here. Reddit is.

    Even if I stay off the internet completely, a portion of the money I spend STILL goes in their pocket, and the only way to prevent it is to spend hours exhaustively researching every product I buy to find the one or two alternatives out of hundreds of others that don't feed into the system somehow. And even if product A doesn't buy ads on these platforms, the place I shop for it probably does. If I can't buy direct, as is the case with so many purchases, all that time and research are robbed of any real impact by the fact that my closest retail outlet spends millions on targeted Internet ads.

    But it's not really about the money though, it's about where it's going.

    In an alternate timeline, Spez, Zuck, and the rest are decent human beings with a functioning conscience and use their platforms for the common good. I don't mind those versions of them getting a piece of my alternate self's dollar. But I don't live in that universe.

    So, because I'm stuck here, every single one of these modern-day Prometheus wannabe, god-complex, techbro shitheads can kiss my hairy ass.

  • We have all seen the video by now, how come the ICE agent step aside from the car when it was visablly turning away? Even my brother a cop said if he did that he would be fired? Why shoot her?

    Jump

  • Don't they teach them anything before they let them out on the street.

    Possibly not. If feel like that's been brought up in the news before.

    Or maybe it's just a one time class or a video, and people do get complacent. Or maybe he's just a fucking dumbass and a bully. There's a clear pattern of highschool bully-style confrontation and escalation in many of the videos we're seeing, and standing there is as good a way as any to do just that.

    These goons want people to be afraid of them, and act as if they believe that intimidation is a forcefield of some sort, like if they're enough of a threatening asshole that it'll mean they never get hurt.

    The whole "act like a scary hardass and people will comply" strategy relies on shock and the tendency for people to freeze up and get rattled when suddenly confronted with a threat from authority or power. They want people to go all deer in the headlights when they get in their face and comply without a fight, or if you fight you're off guard and rattled and there's less of risk to them so they just get to wail on you for a while. It's gratifying for bullies when things are one-sided like that, it makes them feel powerful and righteous. In terms of getting what you want from people, it works well... up to the point that it doesn't.

    After that point it's one type of catastrophe or another.

  • TIL the CEO of Reddit has been given a $193 million compensation package

    Jump

  • I gotta unpack this a little...

    Reddit's main source of revenue is advertising. Other companies pay Reddit to shove ads in your face. You probably buy products from at least some of those companies, and while market forces and consumer perceptions have large influence, operating costs are still a factor in setting those prices. Just like everyone else, Reddit sets the prices of its advertising services based in part on its operating costs, which includes Spez's salary.

    Even if you avoid Reddit, things you buy are more expensive because this fucking toolshed gets paid $193 million a year just to be a sociopathic jackoff with a popular website.

    I quit Reddit years ago, but I'm still fucking pissed about this shit and I have every right to be.

  • ICE agent shooter’s own cellphone video undercuts Trump administration's account of Minneapolis killing

    Jump

  • Some people need an enemy or they can't make sense of the world. I'm not talking about a run of the mill competitive streak, they simply can't understand society as anything other than a struggle for dominance. If they don't have some sort of conflict to focus on, they make one just to quiet the cognitive dissonance they're feeling.

    I don't know if it's learned or innate, but it makes people easy fodder for conspiracy theories and the sort of high-functioning sociopaths we've been electing recently.

  • Under communism, what incentive is there to pursue highly dangerous or specialized fields?

    Jump

  • For advanced STEM degrees, there are people who just enjoy learning that sort of thing and applying their knowledge.

    In the same vein, some folks are just attracted to dangerous and difficult jobs because they get a sense of purpose or identity from it.

    Others it's community. I knew a guy who did 20 years active duty military, then joined the national guard, then took a job for the same national guard unit as a DoD civilian and stayed on until they forced him to retire. They had practically drag the guy out. He never did anything but bitch and complain about the work he spent more than 40 years doing, he sounded like kinda hated his job, but he liked being a part of the military.

  • OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records

    Jump

  • Fuck every single thing about this.

  • Solid advice.

    Jump

  • Garage drink fridge is the most underrated luxury item out there. Total life changer.

  • Beer is for GIRLS

    Jump

  • IPA: If Pinecones were Alcohol.

  • What's it going to take to truly stop the US?

    Jump

  • Well, if you take good old-fashioned violence out of the picture, money. Or specifically a lack of it.

    Sanctions, selling off US debt, more retaliatory tariffs, blacklisting US investors and companies, anything that pulls cash out of the US economy and puts it somewhere else. Turn off the money tap, make the mega-donors hurt bad enough and the dystopia machine will eventually grind to a halt. Don't think for a moment that the current squad of high-functioning sociopaths that are enabling this are principled enough to stay the course after a few of their mega-yachts are repossessed. They'll flip sides again and again just to try and keep that horde they've built up. Someone just has to prove to them that the threat is serious, because right now, they think everyone else is helpless against them.

    Additionally, the majority of Trump voters cited the economy as a primary reason for voting for him. A good portion of them were probably lying to cover for being racist and just wanted to see POC and the LGBTQ+ community suffer, but if you crash the US economy hard enough, you can still hijack a big chunk of Trump's public support. It's the same as with mega-yachts, but here we're talking pickup trucks, ATVs, and rent-to-own furniture.

    Few problems with this. 1. It's slow. 2. It'll hurt everyone else economically because US businesses have hooks set real deep in a lot of places. 3. Other nations have a wealthy elite with similar sway who want Trump in power for various reasons and might not play along. & 4. Whoever replaces the US might turn out to be just as big as bully in a few years if we're not careful.

    Still, it needs to be done.

    EDIT: It’s like the old saying goes, everything is about money, except money, which is about power.

  • Trump’s Attack on Venezuela Is Illegal and Unwise

    Jump

  • illegal and unwise.

    Shocked. Shocked! That could describe damn near everything he does.

    Bet this gets Epstein out of the headlines, and all he had to do was kidnap the duly elected leader of a foreign nation and start yet another war for oil. That's obviously a master class in political subtlety.

  • Users who don't have a profile picture set, Why?

    Jump

  • As others have said, I use a client that doesn't display them, so it never dawned on me. And in general, profile pics have never been a big deal for me. So if the app or site doesn't make me do it as part of the account set up, my profile pic just stays as the default.

  • Users who don't have a profile picture set, Why?

    Jump

  • You can set profile pictures on Lemmy?

  • The new advertising

    Jump

  • Absolutely brilliant. The brink of human ingenuity. An amazingly creative solution for generating revenue. Let's take this technology we've invested countless resources in and make it the 199,422nd internet advertising platform in existence. The world was desperate for another ad platform, so this can only help humanity in the long run.

    True innovation and inspired leadership.

  • More Student Loan Borrowers Are Shedding Debts in Bankruptcy

    Jump

  • Remember, it's always been predicated on the idea that success proves worth regardless of circumstances, especially for American conservatives. It's a myth built to serve those with power and privilege, a shield that protects their ego and image, and a gag for any talk of social or economic equality.

    Our founders paid lip service to egalitarianism and ridding ourselves of kings, then created a system that allowed for the rise of a new sort of royalty. Instead of titles and land, it's wealth that creates power and is inherited by children.

    Universities don't just sell knowledge, they sell opportunity and status, and the bar has to be high enough to ensure that only people the powers that be find deserving can climb over it.