Nemo
@Nemo@slrpnk.net
I like American music. Do you like American music? I like American music, too.
Other versions of me:
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@Nemo@midwest.social
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reddit.com/user/nemo_sum
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metafilter.com/user/324647
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
If it does, the mods and admin under whose aegis I abide are doing an above-average job removing it quickly.
Or maybe it’s just that I avoid political discussion communities these days.
In the end, I find the lemmy / piefed / *bin network much more civil, thoughtful, and compassionate than reddit was.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 days ago:
Enderal brings the Skyrim Engine much closer to the Mortiwind experience, for me, both in terms of story and exploration. It’s refreshing to have an open world game that’s dense instead of nearly empty.
I get that it’s grimdark and punishes optimism and that’s not for everyone, especially given the state of our real world right now. I’m a little bit spoiled on the ending and maybe I’ll feel differently once I’m hit with by twist with the full weight of narrative behind it.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 days ago:
Still knocking around Enderal.
- Comment on What are you doing when you call someone, don't leave a voicemail or text, they call you back right away but you don't answer? 4 days ago:
I send them text messages if it’s not urgent.
- Comment on What are you doing when you call someone, don't leave a voicemail or text, they call you back right away but you don't answer? 4 days ago:
What kind of sociopath has their phone ringer on in 2025?
- Comment on What are you doing when you call someone, don't leave a voicemail or text, they call you back right away but you don't answer? 4 days ago:
If I called, it was an emergency, and I can’t answer the phone because I’m elbow-deep in emergency.
- Comment on How did websites like TinEye recognize cropped photos of the same image (and other likened pictures), without the low-entry easyness of LLM/AI Models these days? 5 days ago:
As a transmillenial student of AI / ML, great write-up.
- Comment on How did websites like TinEye recognize cropped photos of the same image (and other likened pictures), without the low-entry easyness of LLM/AI Models these days? 5 days ago:
They had the AI models of those days.
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 1 week ago:
You need a repeating visual pattern, a fairly busy one. Then you need a greyscale image of what you want the “magic” picture to be. You deform the repeating pattern by the intensity of the greyscale image.
When your two eyes overlay the background images, your brain highlights the distortions and interprets them as depth… at least if your eyes are good enough to give your brain that information in the first place.
If you want to know more, the algorithm to do this is public, and you can set it up in eg. javascript in an afternoon.
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 1 week ago:
Nope! But I’ve made them. I needed to go find someone with more normal eyes to test my creations for me, though.
- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 1 week ago:
That’s, uh, not my experience.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I don’t like it, no. But it won’t be replaced, just like the wild west Internet of yesteryear wasn’t replaced: it’s still where we left it. And so will these behemoths be, when we move past them.
Don’t believe me? Livejournal and mySpace are still running, at the same addresses. Your old login still works.
- Comment on What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"? 1 week ago:
There’s no ideology described as being “pilled” that’s anything but toxic.
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 1 week ago:
It’s mostly about the sound of your voice. My eldest got Vonnegut and Law & Order. So much of the latter that both before and after birth the “dun dun” sound from the show noticeably calmed her down.
- Comment on found my Civilization ][ poster while going cleaning 1 week ago:
4 is also my favorite!
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- Comment on What is the funniest insult / joke you've come up with on the spot? 1 week ago:
Waiting tables, this is for real. 90% of the women I see are made up for date night^*^ and all my coworkers are more attractive than average.
^*^ but not the men, many fewer men dress up for dates than women do
- Comment on Why doesn't the US government just tax illegal immigrants a little bit more than the Average american? Then use those funds to fix infastructure or a new WPA of the 21st century? 2 weeks ago:
If they’re using fake papers to work, they’re paying income tax (and payroll tax is paid for them as well) but can’t file for a refund or unemployment insurance payments. They pay into Social Security but won’t be able to collect it (though I think anyone under 50 can probably relate to that).
When they buy things, they pay sales tax like anyone else.
They pay their landlady’s property tax if renting and pay it themselves if not.
- Comment on Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few? 2 weeks ago:
The needs of the many cannot outweigh the human rights of the few.
- Comment on Even conservatives use to boast the virtue of achieving a higher education. In MAGA times what is the pathway to success? 2 weeks ago:
If MAHA has their way, the path to success is bootlicking Glorious Leader with pulling up our own bootstraps to stomp on the underclass.
They’re not conservatives. They want to conserve nothing. They seek only to destroy anything in the way of their own power, like all fascists.
- Comment on Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk? 2 weeks ago:
Junk removal is expensive and if you’re outside of a municipality all trash pickup is done by private arrangement.
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 2 weeks ago:
Seven years isn’t a bad halflife for a social-media platform. That’s about how long thefacebook was actually usable, that’s about how long I was active on reddit, that’s about how long I was posting on my blog every day. That’s significantly longer than I was using livejournal or iLike.
- Comment on The Fediverse Passport: A needed tool. 2 weeks ago:
Nope. No thank you.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
20 if I can get away with it, 18 otherwise
and NEVER socks
- Comment on Zelda BotW vs TotK - which one should I buy? 2 weeks ago:
Breath is barely a Zelda game. It’s fun, it’s great, but the magic formula is missing.
Tears goes a long way towards fixing that, and is just a better game overall. But it is a very direct sequel to Breath, and I worry that it might not make as much sense plotwise as a standalone.
- Comment on Can it take months to get over being laid off? 2 weeks ago:
I loved my old job and being forced out was both sudden and heartbreaking. It’s been almost two years and I still get a pang through my chest when I see something that reminds me of it. It’s like a bad breakup, in that way.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
What distinction are you making, here? Everybody seems, to me, to be a black box that only relates to others through their inputs and outputs. How else can I like someone, if not by what they put into the world?
- Comment on Any Engrish-like community in here? 3 weeks ago:
Is that a typo, or you’re looking for a community based on casual racism?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Earth will only be around for another five billion years or do, so no.
- Comment on Building A Multi-Platform Feed Reader App - is it Worthwhile? 3 weeks ago:
I do, I’ve been music for a while about an app that had all my fediverse accounts in one place, a long with my email and possibly reddit (but, uh, without ads). I never check my email unless I’m expecting something and I think a big part of why is because it’s a separate flow from checking my other text-based social media.
