smokebuddy

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[–] smokebuddy 18 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

your city probably won't add transit service when they suddenly force everyone back, but just think of it as more you time

[–] smokebuddy 2 points 4 weeks ago

imagine the inflation though!

[–] smokebuddy 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

My Nokia N97 had that too it was so sweet

[–] smokebuddy 1 points 4 weeks ago

YouTube's search filter sort by "Upload Date" has been broken for awhile now so this is very plausible. It will serve it's favourite creators' irrelevant content in with relevant videos and not display at all some actual relevant videos.

If you filter sort by upload date and filter by Uploaded Today you'll see different results quite often which really makes no sense

[–] smokebuddy 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Project Farm tested a bunch of them and used a decibel meter, results at 7:04-7:30

https://youtu.be/hynRbnQ2hIE

[–] smokebuddy 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

After IKEA stopped sending catalogues by mail I think Lee Valley might be one of the only ones left. Although last year Amazon sent me a fairly thin Christmas Gift Guide which was somewhat bizarre but hit the nostalgia for these.

[–] smokebuddy 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

This has been news in Canada for about a year, story after story about people getting sucked in and losing tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. When it's not Musk it's Justin Trudeau, same M.O.

You'd think if these people read the news outlets they share their stories with that they would have seen one of the articles already because they're so common. But then again people still take Sunwing package vacations then complain to the news when it's subpar so idk.

Edit to add I blame big tech more than the scam victims, they have no protections in place and are profiting off the scammers immorally as well. They should have to manually review these things or at least be responsive to user reports and they're doing neither. I actually know someone who got banned from Meta products for reporting too many scam ads.

[–] smokebuddy 2 points 4 weeks ago

Works both ways too, Sam Bankman Fried apparently fooled a lot of people by cosplaying as a Toyota Corolla driver

[–] smokebuddy 7 points 4 weeks ago

Don't forget having to pay income tax on the original retail value of the cube (assuming this is USA where lottery and prizes are taxable gains)

[–] smokebuddy 13 points 4 weeks ago

I scroll Lemmy by 'new' and what I see is either interesting or not to me, and I see some really good memes, get a decent overview of news stories, and learn some neat things. There aren't really local channels active for where I am.

I scroll Reddit by /all and what I see actively annoys me, is paywalled, is a repost, or is ragebait (or EPIC PWN RESPONSES to ragebait). I go to my local subreddits and there's some value among all the paywalled content, repetitive text posts of whinging (stuff like tipping culture, driving habits, the less fortunate downtown etc.), and an overall domination of obviously AI-generated Alexa-like questions followed by sus answers.

I'd scroll Lemmy by 'new' any day over Reddit anything, other than for local news events/stories and for sports live threads.

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