PeriodicallyPedantic

@PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The movie cars is crazy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been a while, I admit.
  But the premise is simple enough that you don’t really need to remember much of it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The movie cars is crazy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I’m saying!
  What would society even look like if even a light jog was such speeds that tripping would result in a gruesome death? Bumping into someone would tear off limbs? In the movie they’re so casual about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The movie cars is crazy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like they’re different orders of magnitude. Like it’s one thing to enjoy watching people do risky things, and it’s another to enjoy watching something where at least one person is going gruesomely die in front of you during the event.

  Like… During the Bad Times of NASCAR, a few people would get seriously injured or die in a season, and it caused a huge commotion where they introduced new safety measures (eventually).
  But cars were smashed and torn apart nearly every race.
  It’s be like if in a typical game of football, there was greater than 50/50 odds that someone would get drawn, quartered, and disemboweled on the field during the match.

  But that’s not really the part I was focused on, that was an afterthought.
  The real focus was imagine if people jogged at such speeds that tripping would result in gruesome death. What would society even look like?

• The movie cars is crazy
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A great disturbance in the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was a big windows supporter until win11 when they started adding crazy shit like whatever it is that takes screenshots of every you do. And a bunch of other moves that were even more brain-dead than usual.

  My next computer will be something like bazzite, or SteamOS, since they have Linux desktop modes for my desktop needs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This entire community⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hope i don't get downvoted for this⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But sonic has SO MUCH foot to be attracted to.

  Ah well, at least you still have sonic inflation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are known evils I know how to deal with, that are popular enough that there are foss tools to handle them.

  But I’m being a bit hyperbolic here. I’m not as paranoid as I’m portraying myself… I just don’t have any motivation to click this particular risky link.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why risk it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a fellow comp sci graduate (different uni, long time ago) that doesn’t fill me with a ton of confidence lol.

  This could actually be a study on phishing lol
  Or a less ethical study on virus propagation
  Or maybe he has just gone rogue and his university hasn’t noticed because they probably don’t actually monitor what students are hosting very closely, as long as it’s not causing problematic network traffic.\

  I doubt it, but I’m still not gonna click a link that someone is asking me to click lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I self host for the same reason I’m not clicking some random link: distrust lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd choose 4 tbh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think some of these need clarification 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play this game again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they mean someone else gets credit for it, you don’t choose who

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Join me, and .....⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Edge with the homies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 for me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My thighs touch each other in the wrong way, when I’m sleeping on my side. I need something smooth between them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 for me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Always 18

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do they call it a corn maze and not a maize maze?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I says

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do they call it a corn maze and not a maize maze?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The ways of this amazing maize maze will make you praise for days til you’re in a glaze haze

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I reread the thread and I still don’t get it.

  Pretty clearly the post wasn’t about bidet users, because bidet users taking a long time to use TP isn’t noteworthy at all, so people replying that they use bidets is deadly boring.

  What other context would I be missing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You stocked up for that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bidet users stocked up on TP during the pandemic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people like toast and bread rolls, but not bread crust?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Speak for yourself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would need an entire room full.

  How little are y’all shitting?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was pooposterous

• How do people like toast and bread rolls, but not bread crust?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this post is just 42kib⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve phrased this like a disagreement, but I don’t see how.

  Although maybe I’m just so jaded, that people providing interesting tangentially related trivia are perceived as being hostile unless they announce that as their intent, because usually unannounced trivia is leveled as an attack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uncultured⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shoelaces

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this post is just 42kib⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not really convinced that file compression was “mature” at the time. Text compression was reasonable progressed but image compression was created for a reason besides just a requirement for fixed compression ratio.

  But I do agree that it was limited in it’s usefulness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this post is just 42kib⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean “at the time”?
  What time are you talking about?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this post is just 42kib⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that’s what dithering is
  An artifact that your brain processes as something else.