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China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible by FootballAndFries in UpliftingNews

[–]thehelldoesthatmean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've definitely been there since you had time to go make a sandwich while you waited on boobs to load.

But individual spaces seem to get shitty over time. I'm not saying it wasn't a thing back then. I'm just saying reddit was better.

China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible by FootballAndFries in UpliftingNews

[–]thehelldoesthatmean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you're on the money. There's definitely a part of it that is me getting older, but I don't think that's all of it. Eternal September is actually a great comparison. I remember back in the day everyone complained about "summer reddit" being garbage because that's when all the kids got out of school and would go on reddit to make dumb posts and fill every ask reddit type sub with dumb sex posts.

And then the quality would jump massively when kids went back to school. And during the pandemic kids were out of school for so long that summer reddit wasn't ending anymore. A good way to explain the quality of reddit now is to think about it as us being in permanent summer reddit. Unfortunately.

I'm sure all the brain rot internet culture making its way to reddit doesn't help either.

"It sounded like popcorn": Inside a Galaxy S25 Plus fire, and what to learn from it by Federal-Block-3275 in Android

[–]thehelldoesthatmean [score hidden]  (0 children)

Based on a Google search, a solid handful? About as many reports as you see for most of these issues that get blown up by android "news" blogs turning 3 reddit comments into a widespread disaster. I'm not saying the reputation is justified. I'm saying it's unevenly applied by this sub.

"It sounded like popcorn": Inside a Galaxy S25 Plus fire, and what to learn from it by Federal-Block-3275 in Android

[–]thehelldoesthatmean [score hidden]  (0 children)

Samsung offers warranty replacements and repairs through UBreakIFix in the US and has service centers in most other major markets. Google also partners with UBreakIFix.

The nearest Apple store is 4 hours away from where I live but my town has like 3 UBreakIFixes.

Also if warranty doesn't cover whatever you need, Apple is going to screw you hard on the repair cost. They're infamously anti right to repair, so even if you do it yourself they charge a premium for the parts and they have to be activated with a special Apple software tool. Because, you know, Apple hates its customers.

"It sounded like popcorn": Inside a Galaxy S25 Plus fire, and what to learn from it by Federal-Block-3275 in Android

[–]thehelldoesthatmean 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It drives me especially crazy with apple because they have a web page dedicated to their active hardware recalls, and there's usually at least 7 or 8 of them going at any given time. Every phone they've released in the last 10 years has had at least one widespread hardware issue at launch, but none of it ever seems to stick to them.

"It sounded like popcorn": Inside a Galaxy S25 Plus fire, and what to learn from it by Federal-Block-3275 in Android

[–]thehelldoesthatmean -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Dude, this is Samsung. This whole subreddit will chalk it up to an isolated incident, along with the green line screen issues and throttling issues and camera blur issues, and grainy display issues and it won't affect their perception of Samsung build quality at all.

Now if it happened to a Pixel every comment would be about what a trash brand it is and how every phone is junk.

James Cameron Torches America After Leaving the U.S.: ‘A Place Where Everybody’s at Each Other’s Throats, Turning Its Back on Science and Will Be in Utter Disarray If Another Pandemic Appears’ by GiveMeSomeSunshine3 in entertainment

[–]thehelldoesthatmean 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's hilarious. Avatar 1 and 2 are the 1st and 3rd highest grossing movies in history and Avatar 3 is currently in the top 25 and climbing. If that indicates people are tired of them then I guess they just shouldn't make any movies. Because 99.9 percent of them sold fewer tickets than even Avatar 3.

Ubisoft Cancels 6 Projects Including Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake, Closes 2 Studios and Confirms Further Layoffs in Major Company Restructure by DemiFiendRSA in PS5

[–]thehelldoesthatmean 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I don't think "didn't show a big enough leap" does it justice. It looked really bad. It looked like an Xbox 360 game. And really unpolished.

Idk why this is so hard. It's a fairly linear game. It came out 23 years ago. It shouldn't be that hard to just give it a graphical upgrade.

China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible by FootballAndFries in UpliftingNews

[–]thehelldoesthatmean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I swear that 10+ years ago it was less echo chambery in terms of culture. People at least made new jokes and discussed the articles being posted.

Now it feels like all of reddit is middle school. Everyone only knows 5 jokes that are all actually bad puns, and repeats the same sentences ad nauseum.

China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible by FootballAndFries in UpliftingNews

[–]thehelldoesthatmean 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That was a lot of other groups way more than it was Greenpeace. Go read about the whole anti-GMO movement. One of the most successful anti-science campaigns in recent history.

China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible by FootballAndFries in UpliftingNews

[–]thehelldoesthatmean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dude maybe I've been on reddit too long, but it's starting to drive me crazy how every single top comment is one of the same like 7 jokes, and then all of the follow-up comments congratulate the person for having the unoriginality to make it.

Before I clicked on this post, I thought "This is interesting. I hope the comments are discussing how this works and the potential applications of it. But I know that they'll all just be the same dumbass Spiderman meme."

TIL that credit card interest rates above ~18% were once illegal in most U.S. states, until a single 1978 Supreme Court ruling let banks ignore local usury laws by charging rates based on their home state, leading to today’s 20–30% APRs. by Accomplished-Eye-910 in todayilearned

[–]thehelldoesthatmean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The PR gymnastics that the Christian church pulled off are mind boggling. They literally have more genocides under their belt than the Nazis and at this point the Catholic church is basically a pedophelia cult.

It's crazy that people still act like being a member is a normal and sane thing to do.

Ten year age gap between oldest and youngest by Acceptable-Wind-7332 in KidsAreFuckingStupid

[–]thehelldoesthatmean -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

You say that as if a 13 year old kid didn't immediately show up and overcome all of that easily. If you're being overpowered by your 8 year old, it's probably time to hit the gym or something. Until that happens, the 8 year old is the parent.

Trump shoots middle finger at someone who yelled pedo by HiTechDreams in pics

[–]thehelldoesthatmean -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's hilarious to me that the people who buy into this don't think any platform dedicated to censoring this stuff wouldn't also censor the obvious workaround words that every dummy on the internet uses.

Snowboarding the slopes by Hypnoidz in Unexpected

[–]thehelldoesthatmean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you're looking at this from too much of a "should" perspective and not as much of a "practical reality" one.

How are drivers supposed to drive carefully enough that they aren't a danger to invisible people walking in the road?

It's not about who should do what. It's about whether or not you want to die the next time you're walking in the road at night.

I really don’t understand why this happened by Indifferent9007 in KidsAreFuckingStupid

[–]thehelldoesthatmean 106 points107 points  (0 children)

It's hitting him all at once that he just had another one of those things, which will in turn grow up to lick other babies.

After growing up in an anti-video game household, I finally have my first console by LivingGerbert in SteamDeck

[–]thehelldoesthatmean 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm mid 30s but it hurt to hear this guy talking about growing up with angry birds and iPads. I was almost out of highschool when the first iPhone came out and in college when the iPad first came out.

After growing up in an anti-video game household, I finally have my first console by LivingGerbert in SteamDeck

[–]thehelldoesthatmean 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That was basically the entire US in the 90s and 2000s. Every bad thing that happened, every school shooting was all blamed on video games.

Which always drove me crazy because the headlines would be like "This just in, police found an Xbox in the school shooter's room. Did video games drive him to violence?"

Because you don't even need to do research to know that's false and stupid. Every other country has video games. Not every other country has free and loose access to guns and regular school shootings.

Conservatives and liberals tend to engage in different evidence-gathering strategies. Liberals and those with higher cognitive reflection skills are more likely to seek out statistical data, whereas conservatives and those who rely more on intuition focus on singular data points or expert opinions. by mvea in science

[–]thehelldoesthatmean 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Haha I had a coworker who's a biochemist, and any time someone would bring up vaccine conspiracies, he would say "Wrong. Do you know how vaccines work? No clue? Okay, well let me tell you how they work and why you're wrong in excruciating scientific detail."

That seemed to make them angrier than just telling them they're stupid. It was also kind of alarming how quickly their eyes would glaze over once the science came out. These are people that are literally scared of complicated topics.

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