[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca -1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Downvoted for sane-washing meta glasses.

Down voted for wash-washing any point being made.

You can't just declare something washing and therefore bankruptcy, you have to explain your reasoning why.

I also disagree with your other takes, mainly boiling down to the insinuation that competence and intelligence is how capitalists make money in a system that's rigged in their favor...

Yes but we're not discussing a binary system of capitalist and "not-capitalists" we're discussing a single company. And while they have not outcompeted their rivals on the basis of serving the best product for their users, or making the world better, they have outcompeted their rivals at the actually game they're all playing (i.e. making money), all in the face of others who are playing equally soullessly.

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago

It's honestly worth keeping the principle behind crumple zones in mind with everything:

If energy can go somewhere else, then less of it will be transferred to what matters.

For cars, the energy going into bending and breaking the materials of the crumple zone then doesn't get transferred to the interior compartment.

For Xbox controllers, they're designed so that when they drop, the batteries shoot out and go flying, which means less energy goes into the controller shell and internals.

And with a lot of laptops these days, you're seeing the actual toughest, most survivable ones not be built out of heavy rigid metal and glass like Apple does, but out of light flexible aluminum composites. A) they weigh less so there's less potential energy involved in a fall, and B) some of the energy gets transferred into bending the shell which will then snap back to form.

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 27 points 4 days ago

It's not necessarily projection, it can just be two shitty people accurately describing each other

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 94 points 5 days ago

Then fire him and hire someone with a plan to match.

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago

This isn't an explanation, it's a thought terminating phrase. Youre just othering people as psychopaths/monsters/inhuman.

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Your argument boils down to: we can't fix our broken system because our system is broken.

You're either a right wing troll trying to convince people that nothing can be done, or you've internalized the nihilism they try to implant.

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 days ago

"Nothing can be done to solve this, says only nation where this regularly happens"

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 24 points 6 days ago

I won't.

He was a predictable product of the American culture / political system. His death doesn't fix anything that caused him to rise.

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 22 points 6 days ago

This is one of many reasons why electing judges is dumb.

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 105 points 6 days ago

Electing judges is dumb as fuck.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by masterspace@lemmy.ca to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

It can't do the literal entire thing an operating system is supposed to do: manage applications and their resulting windows, in a sensible way.

I want to know what application is running.

Sure it's in the dock!

I want to find a specific application window.

Go fuck yourself right to hell.

Wait, the taskbar doesn't show the running windows, like it does on every other OS? It's at least discrete right?

It discretely takes up 1.5cm of the bottom of the screen at all times. It's so discrete it doesn't even need to use the corners.

Uh, alright, well that's all the system space you need right?

Yeah of course just that bottom inch or so .... And a top of screen system level menu bar to display what windows does in the bottom corners.

/sigh/ ok, fine, I just want to be able to full screen a window and still see what else is open.

Burn in hell and die.

I want to be able to easily switch left and right between open windows.

Go full screen or I will shoot you.

I want to move an open window into the other monitor.

You can't because you're full screen dumbass.

I want to let a window present a popup like they normally do.

You can't because youre full screen dumbass. Why would you be full screen?

I want an application like Slack to be able to popup and remove notifications when is appropriate.

Choose to have every single notification persists on screen until you manually remove it, or miss all your notifications.

Can't we trouble you for something in between, where we trust an application and let it manage them in a way that makes sense based on their context?

You can trouble me for something in between these cheeks, shit stain.

Like honestly, I fucking hate what an advertising and AI filled mess Windows is, but it can actually manage your windows and virtual desktops in a way that makes a modicum of sense.

It feels like a single Apple product manager decided that the way that they use their computer (a single application at a time, no windows to manage) is the only way anyone does, so who cares if we implement a nonsensical full screen paradigm, it makes one tiny niche edge case slightly simpler.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by masterspace@lemmy.ca to c/toronto@lemmy.ca

Business owners on Bathurst are running an astroturf campaign using AI generated videos of fake people to try and stop on-street parking being turned into dedicated transit lanes.

They claim they just want their voices heard, when in reality they're upset that others' collective voices are louder than theirs. They also make nonsense statements like it shouldn't be trade-off, when it inherently is since there is limited street space on Bathurst.

The owners of Summerhill Market seem affiliated with the group but are trying to pretend they're not, and the owner of Minerva Cannabis appears to be one of the leaders of the group, and decision makers behind the AI videos.

A little more info on Blogto: https://www.blogto.com/city/2025/05/bathurst-bus-lane-rapidto-toronto/

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by masterspace@lemmy.ca to c/buyitforlife@slrpnk.net

Don't buy those crappy plastic bag-clips to hold chip bags, flour bags, etc closed. They're unsatisfying, they wear out and bend, and they just add more plastic pollution to the world.

Instead buy more binder clips. They're made from spring steel, they're strong as hell, they almost never wear out, they can be used to close bags, as small clamps, as hangers for almost anything in a pinch, and they're amazing for building pillow / blanket forts.

I have some from my grandma that she bought 30 years ago and they work just as well as the ones I bought a year ago. The only risk with them ever is rust, and you can just scrub that off with vinegar, add a brush of paint and it's fixed.

Truly some of my favourite robust little items.

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submitted 1 year ago by masterspace@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca

I can't be the only reddit migrant who often instinctually goes to a given community by typing /r/community, only to be 404d. If the /r/ path isn't being used for anything else, is it possible to have it dynamically redirect to /c/ instead?

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submitted 2 years ago by masterspace@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

The federal New Democrats backed Conservative demands Wednesday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau take part in a televised "emergency meeting" on carbon pricing with Canada's premiers.

The federal carbon price is not the "be-all, end-all" of climate policy, and New Democrats are open to alternative plans presented by premiers, NDP environment critic Laurel Collins said Wednesday.

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