orbituary
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- Comment on Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot 3 days ago:
Organically.
- Comment on Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot 3 days ago:
The person in the email strikes me as a contradiction. On the one hand, they’re posting their pronouns presumably to indicate some sort of support for inclusivity? On the other hand, they’re actively strong-arming and bullying a person into paying for normal access…
I’m sure it’s fully lost on that person. It feels so discordant to me.
- Comment on I still remember this and how the cable guy said, "give me $20 and I will activate every premium channel" 1 week ago:
Scramblevision is what we called it.
- Comment on Too young to understand what this is? 1 week ago:
I vaguely remember that being a thing. If I’m not mistaken, it had a smaller playhead inside the loader? Cassette tape was too small for the 8 track play head and would have been chewed up.
- Comment on One of the most interesting things that happens when you are old 1 week ago:
There was the Justin Bailey cheat code, though.
- Comment on It is indeed 1 week ago:
So, yeah. Believe it or not, it related even in primates.
- Comment on How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board? 1 week ago:
Angle the blade slightly so it’s not perpendicular to the cucumber.
- Comment on meal 2 weeks ago:
Is that a bag of Kale and yogurt?
- Comment on Is it just me or is there a lot of Spam and abuse on Lemmy lately? 2 weeks ago:
Same. A new one sneaks up on me like Aquaman sometimes, but I kill it with fire.
- Comment on Casual weeknight unwind 2 weeks ago:
Oh, good lord. N~2~O
- Comment on I greased the trees 2 weeks ago:
Our Thanksgiving tradition is to plink them with a pellet gun from the tree above my parents’ house in Key Largo. These and the Curly Tailed lizards have totally fucked up the ecosystem in the Keys.
- Comment on Casual weeknight unwind 2 weeks ago:
great story!
- Comment on Weren’t you also mercilessly beaten outside of a club in Torrance for that? 2 weeks ago:
Wwha wha what… Me? Sing songs about love? From my million dollar MAGA stage? COME ON!
- Comment on Casual weeknight unwind 2 weeks ago:
When I was a shift lead at a Starbucks 20+ years ago in Tampa, after particularly rough mornings, I would load a couple of these up and offer them to my crew. “go into the cooler, sit down, have fun.”
We were the highest volume store in the area. On busy days, we’d do 20 gallons of whole and 15 low fat. Our tip differential was around 6-8 bucks over base pay, which was a big deal back then.
I’m still friends with that crew, even though we’ve all moved on in life. United by NO2.
- Comment on 🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Did you have one? 2 weeks ago:
I had that one and a blue translucent one.
- Comment on Is there a word, perhaps as 40-letter compound word in German, that explains this annoying social phenomenon? 2 weeks ago:
The word is “coincidence.”
- Comment on Form over function 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, everyone. Listen up - we need to mark every joke so that everyone can laugh. Remember: the best jokes are the ones we have to explain.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 3 weeks ago:
Agreed. We’re partially awake.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 3 weeks ago:
At the moment, I see this as the only real answer. Until there’s proper organization and resistance, everything is lip service.
Mobilization is easy - the protests and marches get people together in solidarity. But organization takes effort: it takes talking to people, getting numbers/contact info, making plans and deciding what’s next…
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 3 weeks ago:
“mOsT aMeRiCaNs…”
Blah, blah, blah. If you can tell me how to un-fuck this nation in a way that will actually wake people up, I’m all ears. But the way I see it, these things were insidiously marketed to the whole country slowly and incrementally, like frog in a slowly warming pot of water. Those of us who jumped out of the pot are watching in horror as the rest get boiled alive.
The problem is, frogs don’t have opposable thumbs and we can’t turn the gas off - so the pot keeps boiling.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 3 weeks ago:
Pray tell, how do you stop them?
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 3 weeks ago:
I don’t want AI in my browser. Period.
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 3 weeks ago:
Fuck this BS.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 3 weeks ago:
Same. My TV is capable of it, but I stream everything off of Jellyfin to a RasPi 5 running Kodi. It just plays. As long as it’s not 480p, I’m happy.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 3 weeks ago:
I can’t stand watching things in 4k. It looks so fake to me.
- Comment on [US] How are so many people able to protest? (Logistically) 3 weeks ago:
Sacrifice.
If you can’t see past your nose, protesting seems crazy. But to do so means sacrifice. Risking your job, your home, your well-being, whatever, because you know that the risk of losing these things could yield something better if the collective actions of you and your comrades create change.
Lose now to gain later.
- Comment on Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap 3 weeks ago:
Real heroism.
- Comment on Ugh... I forgot to pack a towel 4 weeks ago:
Classically “Showerthoughts” were more along the lines of the Philosoraptor meme topics. I even found one that both fits this description and the literal comm name. However, people in this comm tend to take the concept super literally. Incidentally, a trend that seems to pervade most humor these days, too.
- Comment on Ugh... I forgot to pack a towel 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think 90% of the people who post on this comm have any idea how Showerthoughts works.
