ArcaneSlime
@ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Migrating here (or maybe keeping both) from @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.ml
Will put an eternal curse on your enemies for a Cinemageddon invite.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 2 days ago:
Fun fact: in America most common brands of both honey AND maple syrup are just flavored high fructose corn syrup. It’s not like we don’t have the real stuff on the same shelf, but you have to pay attention to the labels or you might get some bullshit.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Didn’t the US just kidnap Modretro?
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 3 days ago:
Tbf I carry the pepper spray for the dogs, that’s where it’s effectiveness really shines, they can’t really fight through it like people can. Also for use against people without weapons if deescalation fails, and hope they’ve never been to prison or the military (they’ll be used to it).
The gun is for the people with weapons.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 3 days ago:
Lucky you!
I have. Luckily I didn’t have to pull it though, I just put my hand on it and the guy holding the knife at me decided “I’ll catch the next one” and walked away.
- Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 3 days ago:
Tbf it’s not that weird, the death was so suspicious some theorized at the time that he wasn’t even killed, the pics faked his death and the state “confirmed” it but in reality they shipped him off somewhere quiet to continue his Mossad blackmail ring.
Idk if that’s true but honestly we’re talking about a Mossad agent that had dirt on everyone and state level actors who would have been the help, it is possible, very possible, that it’s true, but afaik there’s no evidence other than speculation, so it probably isn’t. I’m agnostic on it personally.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s AI Grok Goes Rogue with Posts Suggesting Trump Is a Pedophile and Erika Kirk Is JD Vance in Drag 4 days ago:
LOL tbh I can see it, they look similar in those pics.
They’ve famously been seen in the same room together though, so there goes that theory.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Remember to bring clean period correct cash.
- Comment on Smarties are like the chocolate version of jellybeans 5 days ago:
Yes! I haven’t seen those in a good long while but I loved those so much. I think they still exist though. (Sour candy coated chewy disks, of course, for those unfamiliar.)
- Comment on Smarties are like the chocolate version of jellybeans 6 days ago:
I think you may be triple confusing Sweet Tarts™ (chalky semi-tart disks) with Smarties™ (chalky sweet but oddly flavorless disks) and Spree™ (not as chalky, candy coated disks) which these days are more often encountered as Chewy Spree™ (Chewy candy coated disks.)
And we haven’t even mentioned Necco Wafers™ nor Giant Sweet Tarts™!
- Comment on Users of generative AI struggle to accurately assess their own competence 6 days ago:
So do I sometimes but that’s just ADHD, hatred of banal competition, imposter syndrome, or simply “still learning the thing.”
Yes I hate corporate self evaluations, how could you tell? Fuck it, I’ll just put “I’m the absolute best person to ever walk the earth mr bossman. Money me please” again.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 1 week ago:
Soap dispensers that only dispense for white hands.
IR was fine why the fuck do we have AI soap dispensers?! (Please for “Bob’s” sake tell me you made it up.)
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 1 week ago:
I’d try and get my work to switch, but apparently Zebra thermal printers (of which we have so many) don’t work well with CUPS, you may be able to do some weird shit to make them work but iirc it wasn’t too viable for a large scale operation.
I’d wager a lot of companies do use things that just don’t work too well on linux yet, not that they couldn’t work it’s just that none of the people smarter than me who make linux happen have worked on it yet, and until they do it’s just what it is. Before we want to capture the enterprise market we need good easy to use thermal printing software, CNC software, laser etching software, stuff like that. It can be done too for at least most things I’m sure.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
I think it’s a cheap way to heighten the scary, to give you the feeling that you have no clue what you’re fucking doing but scary shit keeps happening.
- Comment on Nanobots will be used to attack people, rendering guns obsolete 2 weeks ago:
Well, “obsolete.” Unless your average home invader starts employing nanobots in their crimes guns will still be useful, just not against state level threats that can afford nanobots. Of course, those threats already have f-35s or whatever number we’re on now so guns are already of limited effect there.
- Comment on 3D Printing’s Biggest Scam Is Even Worse Than We Thought! (PLA-CF) 2 weeks ago:
Doing “Bob’s” work, thanks!
- Comment on Is there a name for the vocal technique used for characters like Sméagol? 2 weeks ago:
Also Shaggy of It Wasn’t Me fame.
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 2 weeks ago:
No, I have to not paint a target on my back until I get enough to perform a coup. One day when you are old enough to be employed you may understand.
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 2 weeks ago:
He doesn’t really know that much about it tbh, he’s a little removed from the situation. They’re also admittedly not all easy to replace.
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 2 weeks ago:
Because real life requires more tact than that.
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 2 weeks ago:
Well, middle manager /#1 has been there since the start of the company and worked his way up. In some ways he’s good at his job, too, but also sometimes he seems to forget we’re not mechanical. /#2 was promoted when his predecessor left unexpectedly (possibly coup’d by /#2), they needed someone and he was the most sniveling manipulative cunt they had available so he got the job, but it was mostly left to /#1’s decision, so…
Now, I could snitch on them to the owner for everything shitty they do, but if it isn’t bad enough to get them fired, they know it was me who got them chewed out and I’ve painted a target on my back. More tact is necessary.
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 2 weeks ago:
Tbh the rich guy who owns the company I work for is the shit, absolutely love the dude.
It’s the middle micromanagers that make my life a living hell, and they’re a lot closer to me monetarily.
- Comment on You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. 3 weeks ago:
This album/song came a few years later in '02, but I think it still fits here.
- Comment on Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image 4 weeks ago:
This is true, but also there’s no way this wouldn’t have been reported rather quick, like not just online but within 5min someone would have been all:
“Oi 999? The bridge on Crumpet Lane 'as fallen down, I can’t get to me Chippy!”
Or
“Oi wot was that loud bang outside me flat?! Made me spill me vindaloo! Holy Smeg the bridge collapsed!”
Or like isn’t the UK the most surveiled country with their camera system? Is this bridge not on camera already? For that the AI telling location would probably be handy too I’d just be surprised they don’t have it on security cams.
- Comment on My son asked to watch a Christmas movie today 4 weeks ago:
Also Rambo First Blood.
Also Gremlins.
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Bread mold 4 weeks ago:
The real trick is the bologna grilled cheese. Brown the bologna in your skillet, then (wipe out skillet if need be, and) make a grilled cheese as usual, but put the bologna in the middle before you close it.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 5 weeks ago:
And sometimes we will totally come back to that later, maybe, one day. And so it stays forever.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 5 weeks ago:
ADHD.
- Comment on 'tis the season 5 weeks ago:
There’s a smile on the flea, on the fly, on the wart, on the frog, on the bump, on the log, in the hole in the bottom of the sea.
This is the second “hole in the bottom of the sea” reference I’ve made on lemmy in as many months, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice.
- Comment on Insulin 5 weeks ago:
Ah well that’s good, at least there appears to be some options.
I’ve heard of clandestine labs making patented insulin and selling it cheap too, and I’m all for a good grey market.
