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- Comment on English is a strange language. 4 weeks ago:
Haha I’m just being dismissive, but greater minds than mine have made the same point.
I read something a while back about Ludwig Wittgenstein (in a YouTube comment of all places). He basically said “It turns out that Philosophy, my entire life’s work, is just a language game and, in the end just like a game, it can be fun and challenging, but ultimately meaningless.” Everyone disagreed then immediately went back to playing their own games, trying to prove him wrong by proving him right.
- Comment on English is a strange language. 4 weeks ago:
I used to be really interested in paradoxes, but I decided in my old age that they’re all just bloody annoying and pointless. 99% of paradoxes are just linguistics. All these philosophers who spent their lives debating them are infuriating bastards. “Oh you’ve come up with another unsolvable word puzzle have you? Well that’s language for you - an abstraction developed by the fallible. Congratulations mate, great use of everyone’s time.”
- Comment on In honor of the start spooky season (yay!), I have a question about an apparently beloved spooky meme/skit. What about "David S. Pumpkins" is so funny? 5 months ago:
As a Brit, I have to agree. So many of the skits that have been shared over the years are terrible, and I have to wonder if it’s a cultural divide.
On the other hand, the weekend update where the guys swap jokes is some of the best comedy I’ve seen.
- Comment on Apple told to pay back €13bn in tax by EU 5 months ago:
Yeah I get that, and that’ll be because of the long term financial benefits of enticing the companies there. But still…€13bn is a mad figure.
- Comment on Apple told to pay back €13bn in tax by EU 5 months ago:
It sounds so bizarre that Ireland has been fighting in court to avoid having to receive £18bn from Apple.
- Comment on My Job Is to Train Tesla's Cars to Drive Themselves 5 months ago:
My comment was satirical
- Comment on My Job Is to Train Tesla's Cars to Drive Themselves 5 months ago:
This job sounds like it could be replaced by AI
- Comment on Brazilian court orders suspension of Elon Musk’s X after it missed deadline 6 months ago:
Wait, there are 20,000 ISPs!?
- Comment on How many comics need to be sold for a story to be considered a success? 6 months ago:
Several
- Comment on Bungie CEO faces backlash after announcing 220 employees, or 17% of its workforce, will be laid off | Pete Parsons has spent $2.4 million on classic cars since Sony acquired Destiny developer Bungie 7 months ago:
I never even realised they were owned by Sony. I’m sure I remember them saying they left Microsoft to have greater control internally. Seems mad to go for more of the same.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Did they try redeeming it up to 15 times?
- Comment on Is it generally safe to walk through a field of cows? 8 months ago:
That’s why we take no chances and mow them down with blue light vehicles.
- Comment on "Hacked" Instagram 9 months ago:
None of the messages that were sent to people have appeared in the chat history for that person. Except there are two new chats in her messages to people that she doesn’t know, containing only the rogue message.
Interestingly, her entire chat history with me has been wiped.
- Submitted 9 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
No they’re not, no they don’t.
- Comment on How Mastodon made friends with Meta 1 year ago:
Perfect joke
- Comment on Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows 1 year ago:
This was always the case in the web version of Outlook, and the mobile client. If you subscribe to 365, ads are removed.
I noticed this last year when I moved away from 365 and started getting ads on the Outlook mobile client. I ended up binning it off and just used the default Mail app on iOS, which is a shame because the Outlook app on phones actually superb. Not good enough to put up with ads though.
- Comment on TikTok sounds go silent as songs disappear from app 1 year ago:
This should have far more upvotes than the easy “TikTok sucks” comments above. Whether you like the platform or not, it directly generates revenue for the musicians.
Anecdotally, the amount of times my kids have heard a song on TikTok then gone on to Apple Music and added it to their playlist - then usually listening to other songs by the same artists - must be in the hundreds by now.