makeshiftreaper
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- Comment on What do you think of Paramount merging with Warner Bros. Discovery to create a new media company? 4 days ago:
Overall I anticipate it being a net negative. Mergers like this result in fewer jobs, lower quality products and less competition
I mean… I led with that. I don’t like the merger, but I like it more than Netflix acquiring them. There are takes beyond black and white
- Comment on What do you think of Paramount merging with Warner Bros. Discovery to create a new media company? 4 days ago:
I have mixed thoughts. Overall I anticipate it being a net negative. Mergers like this result in fewer jobs, lower quality products and less competition. However I love movies (check my profile if you want proof) and specifically I love going to the movie theater. Paramount has continued supporting movie theaters which is more than you can say about Netflix and Sarandos. Likewise Zaslav was just making anti-consuner decisions left and right. I can count on more than one hand the amount of times I’ve called that man a piece of shit. Not to mention Netflix’s slavish attachment to “the algorithm” just churns out a lot of slop
So while the merger is bad it’s probably the better of the two options and anything that reduces David Zaslav’s power is a net positive in my book, even if he makes a small country’s worth of money doing it
- Comment on No you don't sit on it. In the olden days people used this to make orange juice 5 days ago:
Yeah, a particularly juicy orange would probably over fill that
- Comment on Gerbils, actually 5 days ago:
Prairie Dogs are more likely in America:
The bacteria that cause plague, Y. pestis, maintain their existence in a cycle involving rodents and their fleas. Plague occurs in rural and semi-rural areas of the western United States, primarily in semi-arid upland forests and grasslands where many types of rodent species can be involved. Many types of animals, such as rock squirrels, wood rats, ground squirrels, prairie dogs, chipmunks, mice, voles, and rabbits can be affected by plague.
Per the CDC (emphasis mine)
- Comment on Tune a fish 2 weeks ago:
Colloquially tuna fish refers to the shredded salt brined tins of fish like this:
Which I do think is worth distinguishing from the actual whole pieces of tuna
- Comment on There isn't a person on earth that doesn't look cooler with sunglasses on. 3 weeks ago:
Counterpoint: John Oliver in sunglasses looks like a dork but he looks respectable in glasses
- Comment on What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense 4 weeks ago:
When I’m texting my fiance I use
👉✌️ or 👈✌️ or👆✌️
Depending on what application I’m using and which side my bubble is on. Showing me pointing at myself and the number 2 on fingers to mirror doing the same motion in real life
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I understand you’re being sassy but below zero you do start saying “no but seriously, how can it be this cold?” Zero is about the lower limit before temperature stops being distinguishable and just becomes cold
- Comment on They don't keep stats on prostitutes the way they do with football quarterbacks so we'll never know who the GOAT prostitute is 1 month ago:
There’s a documentary on these 2 Dutch sisters in their 70s who have been in the game for over 100 years between them. So they’re probably up there:
- Comment on tryna get hella faded 1 month ago:
The tampon alcohol thing does work and is very dangerous. Less of the alcohol goes through your liver so you get much more drunk very quickly
- Comment on KONOSUBA - God's blessing on this wonderful world! Season 4 Announced 1 month ago:
Fuck yeah! I love Konosuba
- Comment on ALL YOU NEED IS KILL - Movie Discussion 1 month ago:
Do you think Tom Cruise kisses Emily Blunt in this one?
- Comment on who was the aggressor in cold war? 1 month ago:
It depended on where in the world you are. Both Russia and America wanted to avoid full on conflict so they establish proxy wars to try weaken the other. America was certainly the aggressor in Vietnam and Korea while Russia was the aggressor in Cuba and arguably in Afghanistan
- Comment on Gundam Chestnut 1 month ago:
Not a botanist but as a southerner I’d go to the Centennial Expo and the Chicago World’s fair to try to keep Kudzu out of America. That weed is a fucking problem
- Comment on Nutjob or something? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 2 months ago:
Elon’s stupid ass dedication to using cameras and image processing for self driving will ultimately be what leaves Tesla in the dust. A combination of LIDAR, cameras, and other detection tools are way safer than just cameras alone. I’m not a huge Mark Rober fan but he did show that you can beat Tesla’s self driving with Looney Tunes techniques
- Comment on There exist people who will go through the effort of leaving their home, traveling to a movie theatre, paying for a ticket, and sitting for 2-3 hours for a movie they claim "nobody wants to see" 2 months ago:
Exactly. Especially considering it’s rare that there’s a month where there are fewer than 2 movies I actively want to see in theaters. So I’m already saving money with it, all those other movies are just bonuses
Plus you get surprised. I thought Clown in a Cornfield was going to suck and I would have never seen Life of Chuck normally but I ended up really enjoying both of them
- Comment on I alternate my days. Some days I use this and on the others I use the Magic Eight Ball 2 months ago:
Remember, when someone asks what would Jesus do? Flip over tables and kick out all the bankers is an option:
and Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
- Comment on There exist people who will go through the effort of leaving their home, traveling to a movie theatre, paying for a ticket, and sitting for 2-3 hours for a movie they claim "nobody wants to see" 2 months ago:
It’s me. I watch a lot of movies and see arthouse stuff the public doesn’t care about and I something is a big enough train wreck occasionally I’ll see what’s going on (shout out to CATS). Though I have Regal Unlimited so I don’t “pay” for a ticket
- Comment on What are some lower size games that work well on linux handhelds? 2 months ago:
Can you tell I like rogue-likes? I do think they work great for mobile games since you can pick them up and put them down easily
- Comment on What are some lower size games that work well on linux handhelds? 2 months ago:
Cool, I updated my post. I remember for a long time it was only available on PC and iPad. Not on iPhone. So I just kinda assumed it wouldn’t
- Comment on What are some lower size games that work well on linux handhelds? 2 months ago:
Balatro
Drop Duchy
Into the Breach (I think this one works on Linux, I don’t think FTL does)
UFO 50
Crypt of the Necrodancer/Rift of the Necrodancer
Super Motherlode (since it looks like you used to play flash games)
Dave the Diver
Vampire Survivors
Hades 1 (it’s still fun even after 2!)
One Step From Eden
- Comment on Looking for games to watch Let's Plays of: Recommend me something! 2 months ago:
👏👏
- Comment on Looking for games to watch Let's Plays of: Recommend me something! 2 months ago:
I like watching people play Super Mario World romhacks. Grand Poo World is big and the streamer who made it (barbarousking) is entertaining
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Generally speaking trafficking is bringing something into a place where it is not allowed to be
So in your first example, you are allowed to watch that kid, and both of you are allowed to be in that state and to see a movie, so no, you are not trafficking
Similarly if you are allowed to have that gun in both states then you are not trafficking. Additionally in the US if a case involves crimes across states it’s typically a federal charge and not multiple state ones
People can be trafficked against their will for slavery purposes or by their will as a form of illegal immigration. You can even “traffic” legal goods like cigarettes if you transport them without paying all applicable taxes. It’s a catch-all term for transporting things that a place does not want to let in. Typically the term is only used for bulk transportation, smaller amounts tend to have other more specific crimes
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That’s super normal. It’s important to remember objects don’t have any importance behind what we assign to them. If you still value that relationship maybe you can find a way to preserve it physically like the other commenters have suggested or it may be time to acknowledge that portion of your life is over and this can be symbolic closure. I have a beautiful handmade quilt from an ex-girlfriend and I haven’t seen her in almost a decade yet I keep it because the meaning behind it at the time is still important to me
An important thing to remember in these situations: “you cannot control your emotions, but you can control your reaction to them and allow that to shape you in the future”
- Comment on What OS does the Batcomputer use? 3 months ago:
I would guess the Batcave uses something proprietary based off of Wayne tech because he’s very paranoid. I’d also imagine it integrates some watch tower tech which is likely mostly from Cyborg
- Comment on Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup's robots could 'fracture a human skull' 3 months ago:
A huge point of I, Robot is that there isn’t some exact instructions you can give robots that will have them always protect humanity. They have an inherent danger in their literalism
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I think you’re just beginning to identify what The Hero’s Journey is
- Comment on Simplest Path to Jellyfin Access for the Developmentally Disabled 3 months ago:
Well you see one device is made by Microsoft which has been the defacto way to watch videos for a large chunk of its lifespan and the other gave us UMDs and camcorders with cables that could only connect to Vaio laptops, which were the only devices that supported writing to mini-disc
