[-] vanontom@geddit.social 7 points 9 months ago

The exact same thing was said about Reddit execs like Huffman. They never cared enough to compromise. We'll see if the Unity execs are similarly terrible people, whose greed will destroy the company. Seems like the trend these days.

[-] vanontom@geddit.social 5 points 9 months ago

I'm going to have to protest the fact that my cat's top two strategies of "throwing up" and "covertly pooping (for maximum smellz)" are not available.

[-] vanontom@geddit.social 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Hold on, maybe I've figured it out. Endless magical profits, here I come!

Step 4. Be ultra-wealthy. (Bonus for not paying taxes.) Step 5. Do anything. (Bonus for pretending it's profitable.)

[-] vanontom@geddit.social 19 points 10 months ago

How dare you. No, this one. (Really, though. It's been a while and I wanted to see it again, happy to be of service.)

[-] vanontom@geddit.social 19 points 10 months ago

I never thought about this at the time. It was all just shocking and frankly pathetic. Didn't realize the men had the least at stake, while women had the most, but were not allowed to join the fight. Many men probably didn't care or even resented the "changes". (Women's rights. Sounds familiar. MAGA?) Unwilling to put up any kind of fight for that kind of future for their partners and daughters.

I wonder what most Afghan women think of these men now. And if joining the military was ever a realistic possibility, and could have changed the result.

[-] vanontom@geddit.social 9 points 10 months ago

Republicans like Abbott went on Fox News and blamed windmills for the storm outage. The party is very different than they were when these projects started, when economics mattered. Texas politics may still accidentally allow a select few progressive things to happen, but the builders and owners must be extremely "friendly" and perfectly thread the needle. Oil and gas owns this state, including the windmills, probably.

[-] vanontom@geddit.social 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Is fish considered meat?

We’re not sure what this all means for the fish sticks from deep in the freezer aisle, but from a definitions-based perspective, a fish out of water sure appears to be meat.

[-] vanontom@geddit.social 4 points 10 months ago

raises hand

I actually like cars. (They're... "cool". I play Forza sometimes, lol.) But the reality is they're fucking expensive to maintain, along with insurance and taxes and fuel. And very much not fun to drive under normal circumstances, next to removeds and idiots. And terrible for the environment, at absurd US numbers at least.

I'd rather save thousands of dollars and have public transit or easily maintained bike. But bikes are not viable when planet is trying to kill us (Texas is 100-110 °F for 2 months straight now).

[-] vanontom@geddit.social 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Maher completely lost focus after T**** was kicked out of the White House. Last I checked, he was obsessed with GOP culture war nonsense (woke, gen z, etc). Spends valuable time on show whining about personal problems (like his mansion's solar panels). Increasingly out of touch, or unable to care about important issues. Needs to be liked more than ever (esp. certain celebs, see Musk interview). Extremely sensitive about his age. He'll be off HBO soon, unless daddy CEO loves him.

[-] vanontom@geddit.social 26 points 11 months ago

It's almost as if she was conveniently placed at her exact position without actually being qualified.

[-] vanontom@geddit.social 10 points 11 months ago

I wanted to stay with World. But they are literally constantly having severe problems (errors, voting, comments). Gave them many chances. I'm sorry World, but I probably would abandon Lemmy if I had to stay, it's just not an enjoyable experience.

Maybe it's not even possible to keep a large (targeted) instance working with current limitations and tools? Hope they figure it out. I'm rooming with Stux at Geddit, he's cool. So many cats...

[-] vanontom@geddit.social 4 points 11 months ago

I'm a huge fan. Have had surprisingly fantastic results with JXL (smaller size, same quality). Lossless option is huge bonus. Encoding tools are ready to go and work as expected (unlike AVIF, etc). I recommend XnView (there's a portable version) to check it out, convert, test, play. The format just needs recognition and adoption at this point.

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