DaddleDew

joined 2 years ago
[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 12 points 38 minutes ago* (last edited 37 minutes ago)

Just a reminder that trying to buy an election is normally frowned upon in sane countries.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 18 points 2 hours ago

If a Canadian version of Luigi ever appears, regardless of his real name, we should rename him Waluigi

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 160 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (17 children)

I am brave enough to say it: The ocean has water in it.

Praise me for my braveness.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

So... Can any medical expert tell us if this sets any life expectancy limits?

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 95 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Except that they do just that by borrowing money against their stocks, which also incidentally allows them to avoid paying taxes. That's how Musk bought Twitter.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 169 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

You can't even spend a billion dollars with the most ridiculous luxury items you can think of. Spending that much in a lifetime for things you would even remotely appreciate would feel like work.

The only difference having billions of dollars makes instead of only a few millions in a rich person's life is that it enables them to singlehandedly influence politics to their personal liking by buying politicians and media institutions. Which is something nobody should be allowed to do to begin with.

Meanwhile had that billion dollars been distributed to the worker class through fair wages or even to the consumers through fair prices it would have contributed to the economy and the well-being of everyone. Having to tax it to avoid seeing that money sit in some asshole's offshore bank account is a failure of the system to properly distribute wealth when it is generated to begin with and even that isn't being done right now.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Ship toilets work with a suction system and it is possible that it was momentarily down for maintenance and be turned back on to explain this occurrence.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Also, furries.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm cheating a bit but the French movies Asterix: Mission Cleopatre and La Grande Vadrouille (1966) are both criminally underappreciated in the English speaking world.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Come over here. READ. Now you print, print, print and get out of here!"

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Is he just going to keep picking other country's monuments he likes and make his own bootleg version of it in Washington?

Looking forward to the Trump Mahal, Sizeable Bob, Christopher the Coupon Redeemer, DC Tower and the Slanted Tower of Pizza.

 
 

Macrodroid has been a favourite of mine for automating things on my phone. This is no longer the case.

It has been silently updated at some point to become a data mining and leaking nightmare. At the time of writing these lines, this app contains 30 trackers from various third party telemetry services according to the latest Exodus report. This is an extremely high number of trackers and there definitely weren't that many a few years back. Even most junk free mobile games can’t manage to contain this many. It appears that the owner of the app has sold out and turned it into spyware to sell your data to as many companies as possible.

This is particularly worrying considering the level of access and permissions the app requires to function. If you are using the app still, I’m urging you to reconsider.

Spread the word.

Exodus report

44
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by DaddleDew@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
 

In many RPG games, when you level up, it feels good. You see your stats increase, your damage output and damage resistance go up, all the numbers get bigger. It gives you a sense of accomplishment. But then, you are made to face tougher enemies which completely cancel out the progress you've made. As a player you're locked into a gameplay loop that acts like a treadmill that keeps you struggling all the time while providing an illusion of progress.

Inflation and "pay raises" are doing exactly the same thing. When you get a pay raise, you feel like you've progressed because you make more money than you used to when you first started. But if you take inflation into account, you've never really progressed at all. For most, their struggle only got even harder even.

 
114
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by DaddleDew@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
 

What if Trump was really into this kind of stuff and everything he has been doing is a secret genius plan to make sure people will pee on his grave for decades, if not centuries to come?

 

Explaining in good detail why people should care about how modern cars have become a privacy nightmare. From Regular Car Reviews.

 

Bobbing their heads at every step. How ridiculous must have that looked if it was the case.

view more: next ›