JargonWagon
@JargonWagon@lemmy.world
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 5 days ago:
*behold
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 6 days ago:
I don’t see it in the article, but I found the following in Wikipedia’s Talk section:
Karl relates in his book that he hopes to walk through one of the service tunnels of the Channel Tunnel Tommfuller (talk) 12:03, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 6 days ago:
Read the wiki article above, it has links to other articles where it’s sourcing its information.
Link to article documenting his expedition across the frozen Bering Strait.“Karl Bushby reached land after 14 days walking across shifting plates of ice in temperatures reaching -30C.” “The ice was breaking up behind him as he walked across.”
However, it does appear that some of his walking has been replaced by swimming.
“In August 2024, Bushby started the swim across the Caspian Sea from Kazakhstan, planning to finish in Azerbaijan to avoid going through Iran or Russia, as both countries were then too dangerous to enter with a British passport. Bushby was accompanied by co-swimmer Angela Maxwell and two Azerbaijani national swimmers, Anastasiya Boborikna and Abdurrahman Rustamov.[15] Each day, Bushby and company swam in two 3-hour sessions: one in the morning, one in the afternoon and resting and sleeping on support boats each night.[16] The swim covering 179 miles (288 km) was achieved in 31 days with 132 swimming hours.[17][18] From Azerbaijan, Bushby then went to Turkey to cross the Bosphorus Strait into Europe”He’ll probably end up swimming across the English channel.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 6 days ago:
Where are the Epstein files?
- Comment on Why? 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. If we son’t have anything to add besides what the upvote/downvote is already saying, we’d get endless “Same”, “This”, and “No” types of comments.
- Comment on I dunno 2 weeks ago:
Yes, indeed - it encompasses parantheses, brackets, and braces.
- Comment on Libraries are cool 2 weeks ago:
I don’t understand - you’ve never read books?
- Comment on Insulin 2 weeks ago:
Where would we mail order it from?
- Comment on Radon 3 weeks ago:
Real job!
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me... 3 weeks ago:
I think delftware isn’t as popular in the US, which is unfortunate because I love how they look.
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 4 weeks ago:
I printed out a list of gaps in THPS2 from GameFAQs. I didn’t realize it was 80 pages. My mom was really upset. I think I got every single one though.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 5 weeks ago:
Right? What the fuck is with the comments in this.
- Comment on WTF BIT ME? 1 month ago:
bed bugs tend to bite like that where it’s all grouped up together and I think sometimes in a line.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 1 month ago:
Put some commas in there
- Comment on If you don't understand it instantly you will never get it 1 month ago:
Wait, I thought that if I didn’t get it instantly then I’ll never get it!
- Comment on monumentale 1 month ago:
4k+ nested if statements with comments.
- Comment on Black widow life 1 month ago:
Not sure on the specifics, but I’ve dealt with my fair share of black widows. Their webs usually contain a shriveled up corpse of a male just kinda hanging about.
- Comment on eel butts 1 month ago:
That diagram isn’t making sense. The tube goes directly from the stomach to the anus? Everything else is just ignored? Either I’m missing something or this is AI slop.
- Comment on Banana 1 month ago:
Exactly. The post calls them being cheap a good thing, but when you know about the slave wages, idk if them being this cheap is that much of a positive.
A lot of people just know that one song from the Beetlejuice movie, but it’s about the workers in banana plantations:
“Come Mr. tally man! Tally me banana.
Daylight come and me wanna go home.” - Comment on Moon talk 1 month ago:
This is Lemmy, where if you even hint at saying “It’s not just Capitalism”, you’ll be downvoted into oblivion.
Don’t you know how happy everyone has always been under communist and socialist governments? Not a single sad soul to be seen under those establishments! /s
- Comment on Forgot my oven mitts. 1 month ago:
Reminds me of an old flash video by Jim Ether hosted on thefriendsociety called “Don’t touch the pan.” It lasted about 5 seconds, looped, and was scripted as thus:
Person 1: “Don’t touch the pan! The pan’s hot.”
Person 2: “I’m going to touch the pan.”
Person 2 touches the pan.
Person 2 screams in agonizing pain at probably 10x decibels louder than the rest of the speech. - Comment on What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture? 1 month ago:
If you’re asking about they’re directly combating AI, there are efforts to poison AI, basically injecting it with malware.
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 2 months ago:
Visitor to your grave: “…I need more context.”
Your ghost: “It’s about AI art.”
Visitor: “…I still don’t get it.”
Ghost: “That’s because you’re a robot. Everybody’s just robots now. Us ghosts are all that’s left of humanity. All that you know is based on what we suffered to learn and create.”
Robot visitor: “…but why a rat with a big butt?”
Ghost: “Draw one, and reflect on the cloud of noise that you produce instead.”
Robot: *draws a rat with a big butt
Ghost: “…AI wasn’t as good back then. Fuck you.” *whisps away - Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 2 months ago:
Schedule meetings, attend meeting, tell others to do stuff. Profit.
- Comment on newts 2 months ago:
…I got better…
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
TIL Lemmings are an actual creature and not just from the PC game Lemmings! I’m guessing that’s why it’s named “Lemmy” and then has a logo of a rodent. I just thought it was a random name and a drawing of a mouse this whole time.
- Comment on Coincidence 2 months ago:
- Comment on Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74 2 months ago:
Why would anyone downvote for Ctrl vs Cmd? Mac fanboys/fangirls?
- Comment on Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74 2 months ago:
I think you mean he’d like to undo his death, rather than redo his life, unless you have a problem with the way the commands were invented or something?
- Comment on Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74 2 months ago:
Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74
