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New comment by betterbeehome in "Shutting down our public encrypted DNS"

betterbeehome — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:52:27 +0000

"There's no such thing as a left-leaning party that harsh on immigration."

This was probably the most ignorant thing I've read today. You're knowledge of political history must not extend very far.

New comment by betterbeehome in "Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally"

betterbeehome — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 05:00:59 +0000

I don't get it. Why are people knee-jerk adverse to this idea? We're not arguing with flat earthers or moon landing skeptics. It's entirely plausible. With people putting their reputation on it, too. Dany Shoham (Israeli biological warfare expert) put his name on the line point this out before a lot of people.

It's not out of the realm of possibility and shouldn't be disregarded out of hand like it has been. Could be from there or maybe not. We really need more information from China to settle some of these discussions.

New comment by betterbeehome in "Alcohol and social bonding in humans (2018)"

betterbeehome — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 10:13:47 +0000

Given the fact that many Europeans drank beer, ale and what have you as a main source of water (the other primary source being food). I'm not surprised if it turns out that it's not too big of a deal. As long as the drinks are as low alcohol content as the ales and beers of the past, then it's all good. Hell even children drank small light beer in the past.

Not saying it isn't poison, just that the body can deal with it in small amounts.

New comment by betterbeehome in "France to Raise Pollution Tax on SUVs and Trucks to €22k"

betterbeehome — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 11:36:50 +0000

I doubt you or most people can even agree what fascist means let alone what it would be like.

New comment by betterbeehome in "Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Since 1.0 Launch"

betterbeehome — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 07:07:12 +0000

Just so you know, there are plenty of books, films and music with ads. The harder you try to run away from ads, the more you pay to escape them, the harder they'll try to get you to see them and the more they'll pay for it.

That's why I think it's inevitable for Netflix to get ads. Even if it's not a pre-roll ad, it could be just tons of in-content advertisements. Like they do with a lot of movies. Such as Sony movies, plenty of Sony phones, laptop, TVs, speakers, etc.

The only way to get rid of ads from your life, is to become a billionaire that owns a personal city where you can outlaw them yourself. Otherwise, you're screwed.

New comment by betterbeehome in "FBI warns that connected televisions can provide hackers a window into homes"

betterbeehome — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 20:44:15 +0000

Was this a LG C9 OLED tv? Just curious in how much better and in what way is the Apple TV to the native app. I haven't had any issues afaik. But I haven't used the Apple TV 4k before either, so I guess I wouldn't know if I'm experiencing subpar quality.

New comment by betterbeehome in "Who Killed the Scrollbar?"

betterbeehome — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 20:32:41 +0000

Thanks for pointing this out. Don’t think I would have figured that out.

New comment by betterbeehome in "By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging human rights evidence"

betterbeehome — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 11:23:09 +0000

I'm starting to come around to the idea of rejecting Chinese investment. They clearly have a negative influence. See Hollywood, political coverage, historical programming, video games, current affairs... If nothing is done, in a few decades they'll have manipulated the entire social political landscape of the West. All of us will be using the Social Credit system. Worse, we'll defend it, too.

Future is bleak if we do nothing.

New comment by betterbeehome in "By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging human rights evidence"

betterbeehome — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 00:16:10 +0000

Thanks for helping me think differently about megathreads. political containment and pruning is the result.

New comment by betterbeehome in "By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging human rights evidence"

betterbeehome — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 00:03:42 +0000

YouTube denies creators of flourishing through favouritism. I don’t think Rights is the correct way to talk about it. It might even hamstring the dialogue. Discussing opportunity and flourishing is more precise.

New comment by betterbeehome in "Blizzard Postpones World of Warcraft 15th Anniversary Event in Taiwan"

betterbeehome — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 20:01:54 +0000

I think deleting your account is similar to removing your ability to vote or protest WITHIN the company’s scope. If they lose your sunk cost into their system, you’re no longer as important as the people teetering on the edge. Changing your name and talking to people in the community about this has a greater effect thuan if you basically disappeared.

I believe even Blizzard understand the immediate bottom line isn’t quite as important as their brand image. Which is why they banned that guy to begin with. One who stops paying for blizzard products is one thing. One person who convinces others that blizzard is not worth supporting is way more significant than the money of one man.

New comment by betterbeehome in "Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders who break rules"

betterbeehome — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 23:04:31 +0000

No company owns all the internet. But States do.

It's more like a publicly traded company owning a really popular street or city. And these aren't just any cities, more like capital cities (or close to it). But this company still answers to the state. In reality this company owns and operates streets/cities in every country. Hence answers to every State and each of their laws.

Facebook and Twitter don't actually have free speech themselves. We pretend they do, but if they actually tried to enact a strong opinion into their business, banning some large arbitrary group, not just small disruptive minorities. States would just reverse that and say it's unlawful to deny, let's say, all X or Y countries citizens. Or all of Washington.

They are functionally a State apparatus. There's a reason why Facebook and Twitter are blocked whenever a country is in upheaval. But is kept around even in quite oppressive countries. I'm just saying we need to be honest about these State company hybrids.

New comment by betterbeehome in "Baking a Better Loaf of Bread"

betterbeehome — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 01:21:30 +0000

I find damper hard to digest compared to normal bread.

New comment by betterbeehome in "What Happens to the Body on No Sleep"

betterbeehome — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 03:28:10 +0000

Cocaine would be a better choice than chronic sleep deprivation to achieve that. Just saying.

New comment by betterbeehome in "French court rules Steam’s ban on reselling used games breaks European law"

betterbeehome — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 21:21:06 +0000

The market can only handle so many competitors. Only two, sometimes three (if you're lucky?) ever amount to anything. Videogame genres are insanely easy to over saturate. Even streaming services like Netflix and what not aren't actually going to become some subscription hellscape like everyone thinks. Everyone's time limited, so there's only so many competitors that will succeed. And from history, it's usually whoever gets to market first, and does it just well enough for it to work at all.

In the end, in the worst case scenario, you might be paying for one, maybe two subscription services for games. But you'll still have the option to buy games just like now, because not everyone gets to be king.

New comment by betterbeehome in "French court rules Steam’s ban on reselling used games breaks European law"

betterbeehome — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 20:58:29 +0000

Stadia is no different than a PS4 or an Xbox. It's just that you're renting a Stadia, but still buying game licenses (just like Steam). Stadia isn't Netflix for games, it's streaming console for hire.

New comment by betterbeehome in "French court rules Steam’s ban on reselling used games breaks European law"

betterbeehome — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 20:48:15 +0000

Pulling out of the EU market is impossible. Tens of millions of Europeans have invested billions into Steam. What does pull out of the market even mean? Stop selling games? They cannot because many games would become broken, as they need steam selling functionality for those games to work. It would leave them non-functional and broken. Micro transactions, subscriptions and DLC, etc. Stop selling would cause many millions in damages and many new lawsuits.

Not to mention none of this is in Valves best interest. Even a used game license market would be preferable to pulling out of Europe...

New comment by betterbeehome in "French court rules Steam’s ban on reselling used games breaks European law"

betterbeehome — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 20:42:33 +0000

They cannot "pull" out of the French market. The lawsuit from doing that would be insane. What are they gonna do? Take everyone's Steam games away from them? Refund them hundreds of millions of dollars? Billions?

If they lose the appeal, I doubt they'll win at the EU court. They have to either fight and win the appeal or change.

New comment by betterbeehome in "Harry’s Will Be Sold to Owner of Schick for $1.37B"

betterbeehome — Sat, 11 May 2019 00:35:51 +0000

You won't cut yourself if you keep your razor sharp and use good technique. Short, confident strokes with your other hand adding tension to your skin. Really I rarely cut myself with a straight razor now. And it's usually because the blade starts getting dull, which happens after like 6 months.

New comment by betterbeehome in "Harry’s Will Be Sold to Owner of Schick for $1.37B"

betterbeehome — Sat, 11 May 2019 00:24:24 +0000

You only need to sharpen straight razors once every 3 to 6 months. You don't necessarily need your own stone. I pay a friend to do it for a few bucks. Takes him 5-10mins. The money he invest on his wetstones has been paid back at this point.

To me straight razors represent community, whereas cartridge/disposables represent isolation, loneliness and obviously disposability. The people who are too afraid to use a straight razor, have to go to a barber to experience it. That's fantastic as it creates more social elements to this routine aspect of life.