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PelicanPersuader@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some items that really aren't worth paying the expensive version for?English9·2 years agoHard disagree on body wash vs soap. Soap always leaves a weird filmy feeling on my skin no matter what brand I use. Plus having to lather up the bar is annoying and I don’t want to deal with wet washcloths in the shower. Give me a poof and a bottle of body wash any day.
PelicanPersuader@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Starbucks accused of manipulating app payments for $900 million profitEnglish7·2 years agoThis tracks. I get Starbucks giftcards (as gifts, not for myself) and typically load them into the app so I can order ahead and spend less time waiting at the store. It pisses me off to no end that when I get to the last dollar or two, I can’t use it without reloading like $20 onto the app. I refuse to do that and lose the money.
PelicanPersuader@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•US bans pharmacy Rite Aid from facial recognition useEnglish17·2 years agoGood. Now they need to start enforcing bans on corporate facial recognition technology use everywhere.
PelicanPersuader@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•What can you tell me about Bluesky?English8·2 years agoI wanted to like Mastodon but couldn’t. The only reason I used microblogging services like Twitter was to shitpost about Vampire: The Masquerade. Said game includes lots of death, blood, and other topics that make some folks uncomfortable. On Twitter, the atmosphere was very “don’t like, don’t read”, but Mastodon has an intense culture about using content warnings on anything that might make someone marginally uncomfortable. I’m cool with that, but I can’t do it on my shitposting or it sort of ruins the joke. Bluesky doesn’t have that atmosphere.
If it came down to it, I would take an extension to turn the video black, mute it, and click the skip button for me. Better than having to pull my attention away from what I’m doing to click the skip button or else have an ad that legitimately can play for hours on end. Having the pauses would be annoying but less so than the ad.
PelicanPersuader@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•In your opinion, what's the age limit for Trick r Treating?English15·2 years agoThe older you are, the more effort I expect. A kid can get away with a cape and a mask. If an older teen comes, I expect full costume, not everyday clothes. Adult? You better be rocking a great cosplay. Not that I’d refuse anyone, but I’ll be happiest giving treats to young children or people showing off really amazing effort in the costume department.
PelicanPersuader@beehaw.orgto World News@beehaw.org•Expel all Palestinians from Gaza, recommends Israeli gov't ministryEnglish22·2 years agoAm I off base in seeing some similarities between this and the genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar?
PelicanPersuader@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•AI-generated child sexual abuse images could flood the internet. A watchdog is calling for actionEnglish5·2 years agoIt already is outlawed in the US. The US bans all depictions precisely because of this. The courts anticipated that there would come a time when people could create images which are indistinguishable from reality so allowing any content to be produced wasn’t permissible.
PelicanPersuader@beehaw.orgto U.S. News@beehaw.org•As Students Face Retaliation for Israel Statement, a ‘Doxxing Truck’ Displaying Students’ Faces Comes to Harvard’s CampusEnglish14·2 years agoIt’s impossible to have a real discussion about this topic, especially right now. Anything other than “Israel is perfect and an innocent victim” is viewed as anti-semitic hate speech.
PelicanPersuader@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some herbal teas you would consider essential in a well-stocked tea collection?English1·2 years agoWelp, reading this thread caused me to make a cup of tea.
PelicanPersuader@beehaw.orgOPto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Will the filtering of "advertiser unfriendly" language have larger societal implications?English5·2 years agoIt freaks me out. I hate how they’re making it so we’re pretty much dependent on these corporate-run networks, which then in turn make it so you can’t discuss topics that advertisers dislike, and then you have nowhere else to go to talk about those topics online. Inevitably, minority groups are the first to lose out. There was an absolutely chilling article posted a little while back about a leaked plan from a US conservative group to make is so allowing any discussion of LGBTQIA stuff online would be considered pornographic and disallowed. There are very dangerous people who want to control what we’re allowed to say in online spaces and they are scary smart in how they’re trying to go about it.
PelicanPersuader@beehaw.orgto Science@beehaw.org•“Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseasesEnglish3·2 years agoOh man, this would be incredible. An autoimmune disease runs in my family and it would help a bunch of us.
PelicanPersuader@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•The smart(shit)ification of TVs pisses me off.English22·2 years agoI got mine through Amazon. Samsung makes the cheapest ones I’ve found. Just search for something like “samsung commercial TV”. They’re generally a little more expensive than your ad/data harvesting-supported TVs but if you value your privacy and longevity of your devices, it’s worth it.
PelicanPersuader@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•The smart(shit)ification of TVs pisses me off.English22·2 years agoI got a display signage TV. Totally dumb. The only app it has is YouTube and that’s optional. I don’t even have the internet hooked up to it. Works fine for gaming and occasionally streaming via other devices.
PelicanPersuader@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What hobby of yours do you wish more people were into?English2·2 years agoSaluton mi amiko!
PelicanPersuader@beehaw.orgto World News@beehaw.org•Sorry, Your Paper Coffee Cup Is a Toxic NightmareEnglish2·2 years agoThere’s a number of takeout coffee places near me that will let you bring your own cup and give you a discount on it. You just need to know how many ounces it contains. I have an insulated stainless steel mug that I always bring. Most places that wouldn’t accept them during the pandemic are back to allowing it again.
PelicanPersuader@beehaw.orgto Science@beehaw.org•Brain's Weight Switch Found: May Let Us Eat What We Want, FinallyEnglish13·2 years agoITT: People with extremely strong emotions about weight and extremely weak evidence to back up those feelings.
PelicanPersuader@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•The endless battle to banish the world’s most notorious stalker websiteEnglish6·2 years agoLast week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation published an opinion piece arguing that Tier 1 ISPs should not bow to pressure to drop Kiwi Farms, calling the move “a dangerous step” toward censorship.
It’s all fun and games for the EFF until someone on that site starts publishing their employee’s SSNs and home addresses.
PelicanPersuader@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you were to run for higher office in your country, what controversial thing would the vetting process uncover about you?English1·2 years agoAnd I crossdress (might boost me with socdems but halt momentum with undecideds and old people.)
Depends how sexy your crossdressing is… 🤔
Reddit enables unhinged people to be awful. I never had anything as bad as your issue happen, but I did have a user who I once disagreed with continue to follow me around and message me for years after that minor disagreement, claiming that I made them suicidal. I eventually got sick of them and blocked them, but it was bizarre. People like that shouldn’t have access to social media sites.