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- Comment on If I were a waiter, I would describe the days soup as "Very hot, and very wet" 2 days ago:
I would just think you’re trying to be funny. If you keep a deadpan face, you might succeed.
- Comment on If I shut off the internet how many days do you think it would take before people lose their minds? 3 days ago:
There have been several high-profile systemic failures in the past few years that give us a glimpse into the hypothetical you’re describing. Most interruptions have lasted mere hours, if not minutes, before causing mass panic and devastating economic catastrophes. Planes are grounded, banks stop operations, global trade shuts down, and hospitals can’t access patient records.
The question isn’t how long before it would be a huge problem. That starts immediately. The better question is, how long before people adapt to a world without the internet? How long would it take to build an alternative?
- Comment on God did not intend for us to fold fitted sheets, and if you can it's witchcraft. 1 week ago:
It’s not rocket surgery.
Stand up with the sheet.
Place your hands inside two adjacent corners so the elastic is at your wrists.
Bring your hands together, folding the sheet in half, and flip one corner over the other hand so that one is tucked in the other.
With your free hand, reach down and gather the other two ends which are not tucked.
Let go of the tucked corners, which will slip apart again.
Curse the gods, and then roll the crumpled mess between your arms until it’s small enough to stuff into a closet or drawer.
Profit.
- Comment on Grab your pitchforks 1 week ago:
Fake outrage was funnier when we didn’t have real problems to argue about.
- Comment on I do it at least 35 times just in case 1 week ago:
Right? Like, maybe the precursors to cancer reduce libido?
- Comment on Those were the good old days 1 week ago:
Yeah, but like a four foot turkey with sharp teeth and talons. I’m not sure I win that fight.
Like, I’m pretty sure I could beat up a 10 year old kid. That’s about the size (if not the strength) of a velociraptor. But if that kid is all coked up, has kitchen knives in each hand and a football helmet with razors on the face mask, I’m not nearly as confident. Then if there’s a second one waiting to attack from the flank, then fuck that.
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 2 weeks ago:
This is the guy in charge of medical advice for the United States. Lacking even basic scientific knowledge.
- Comment on Is there a community dedicated to anime where sexualization of characters is minimum and strictly no sexualization of minors (or minor looking "adults")? 2 weeks ago:
Oh absolutely. My point was that sometimes the sexy bits come out of (seemingly) nowhere.
- Comment on Is there a community dedicated to anime where sexualization of characters is minimum and strictly no sexualization of minors (or minor looking "adults")? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know about a community, but if you’re looking for suggestions, I can think of a few off the top of my head.
But anime, especially anything based on Shonen which is aimed at adolescent boys, is likely to have some “fanservice”. Watch 5 minutes of any episode of One Piece, and you might assume it’s porn from the outfits and figures. Even Cowboy Bebop has a few lingering scenes of scantily clad women. But these are great shows if you can get comfortable with the sexuality on display.
- Comment on The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals 2 weeks ago:
My friend, it really is not.
- Comment on The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals 2 weeks ago:
Because absorbed light is excess energy.
- Comment on In order for superman to keep his cover as Clark Kent countless innocents he had the power to save have to die every day. 2 weeks ago:
Sure, it’s fiction, and Superman’s powers and limitations are whatever the plot demands.
But if he could move that fast, and he was in a real major city with real people and real problems, then he would be saving people nonstop. Because he could. If he’s faster than light, he could go save everyone without anyone noticing he left the room (setting aside physics, of course). But he’d never be able to stop, and he would never run out of people to save.
And none of it would be supervillains and giant robots or space lasers.
But then, applying any sort of real world rationality to Superman never ends well.
- Comment on The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals 2 weeks ago:
Just in case it wasn’t clear, that’s a horrifying discovery. Like the extinction of all life on earth.
- Comment on In order for superman to keep his cover as Clark Kent countless innocents he had the power to save have to die every day. 2 weeks ago:
He has super hearing and super speed, and can hear everything across the city. In NYC, an approximate analog of Metropolis, there are over 37,000 car accidents with major injuries or fatalities every year. That’s 100 car accidents each day, every day, just car accidents. If he were to actually try to save everyone he could, he would never have any time for anything else, not even sleep. It’s one thing to go take a sudden bathroom break when Lois is dangling from the ledge on the roof of a building. It’s something else to leave the room every 15 minutes of every hour because people can’t stop texting while driving.
- Comment on "fridging" is honestly the only good motivation to become a superhero or good person 2 weeks ago:
What the chicken fried fuck are you talking about?
Fridging is a form of reductionist misogyny. It’s not just that somebody died, it’s that a woman existed only to die in a brutal fashion.
- Comment on Bacteria may kill us entirely, but we will never kill bacteria entirely 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but that’s because many human cells are really big.
- Comment on Explaining your traumatic past IRL feels so underwhelming compared to when a character in a movie or tv scene revealing their traumatic childhood. 2 weeks ago:
Fiction also usually includes a flashback to see how horrific it was, and then it cuts back to the person telling the story, as though they just finished describing everything that happened. In reality, nobody can ever describe a scene in such detail, and while you are reliving the moment, everyone else just hears you say what happened.
- Comment on Bacteria may kill us entirely, but we will never kill bacteria entirely 2 weeks ago:
Bacteria constitute 56% of the cells in your body. You’re more bacteria than human.
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 3 weeks ago:
I still double space after a period, because fuck you, it is easier to read. But as a bonus, it helped me prove that something I wrote wasn’t AI. You literally cannot get an AI to add double spaces after a period. It will say “Yeah, OK, I can do that” and then spit out a paragraph without it. Give it a try, it’s pretty funny.
- Comment on Why do people say "as sweet as canned beans"? 3 weeks ago:
Who says that?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Most Americans aren’t in the Epstein files. People in power don’t want the Epstein files released.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I just switched to Jellyfin because of the Plex updates to their accounts, but I miss Plexamp. I considered running both Jellyfin and Plex just for plexamp, but I’m wary that they might eventually paywall remote audio streaming, too.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 3 weeks ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 3 weeks ago:
What’s your preferred client? I switched from plexamp to fintunes, but I really hate the app and the lack of functionality.
- Comment on Ford CEO on his ‘epiphany’ after talking to his Gen Z factory workers: ‘They were saying [they] had to have three jobs’ | Fortune 3 weeks ago:
It’s crazy when they tell on themselves how out of touch they really are.
- Comment on Different species of animals could have a noise or calling that means "human" and we would never know. 3 weeks ago:
We study animal communication a lot. We know when many different animals have a noise or communication for “human.” Bees have different dances to describe arbitrary locations, so they could also have a specific dance for “that jerk over there with the mesh helmet.”
- Comment on One of the best parts of Cyberpunk (as a theme) is the ubiquitisation of cultures 3 weeks ago:
Keep in mind the nature of fiction. It has an obligation to create friction and conflict. Intrigue is built into a fish-out-of-water story. Reality is far stranger, and far more complex. People and culture interact in imperceivable ways, and our influence on each other isn’t something we can predict.
- Comment on Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains. 3 weeks ago:
In project management, we call it “scope creep.” Day one, the job is to use your newfound powers for good. Maybe stop a mugging. Day two, catch a bad guy. Day 3, try to balance life and your secret identity while foiling a bank heist. Day 200, you’re negotiating with an interdimensional cosmic deity for the survival of the Universe by demonstrating feats of strength and fortitude.
- Comment on Wireless charging is the dumbest invention ever created 3 weeks ago:
When wireless charging was announced, every layperson out there started imagining their homes filled with powerful waves of harmless energy that would keep their devices charged and eliminate the need for all wires. People thought we could have LED bulbs that pull volts out of the air and provide light for your dining room.
Wireless charging is slightly more convenient than plugging your phone in to a usb c. But it’s also slower. I have a wireless charger next to a wired charger, and 90% of the time I plug in because it’s faster, and I can still use my phone while it charges.
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 4 weeks ago:
Gotcha, thanks!