octoperson

@octoperson@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the hell! Let's all just go crazy!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can anyone say the s and the th in Isthmus? It’s making my tongue feel funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Appliances with an off light.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You joke, but one time I got woken up by what sounded like a Chinese lady complaining about batteries, and it turned out to be the low power alert on the cheapo import soundbar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose A or B⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Universe collapses into a black hole made of uncles

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some common everyday examples of this phenomenon? (see body)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they’re regional. I don’t remember seeing one either, but I don’t know if that’s because I haven’t encountered it, or because I didn’t notice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is the correct way to use the word "backorder" in English?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say “it’s on backorder”. You could verb it as “it’s been backordered”, but that feels a bit clunky somehow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some common everyday examples of this phenomenon? (see body)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Placebo buttons.

  Some appliances like elevators or traffic crossings cycle automatically, but they still have (non-functional) buttons. If the buttons are removed, people complain that the wait is too long. Let them push a button while they wait, and they’ll think it’s much quicker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wretched souls⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  no, these are people who eat potato salad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microplastic overdose⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never heard of Chester cheese. There’s Cheshire cheese, but that’s quite crumbly and wouldn’t hold up to being packaged like this. You might also be thinking of cheddar. A genuine cheddar would be too brittle, but in modern marketing, cheddar is often shorthand for any homogenous, yellow cheese. So this stuff might be described as cheddar on the packet.

  I think this stuff is more of a cheese-flavoured sauce, that they inject into the bags and leave to set. It’s more an invention of the convenience food industry, than any culinary tradition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microplastic overdose⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve just realised why that stuff always tastes like plastic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Bunch of people ain’t getting curly hair!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to have a link to a post resolve to a users home instance?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Answer from @thegiddystitcher@lem.ee when I asked the same question;

  Good question, and sorry to disappoint but I believe the answer is still no. This has been talked about a lot ever since the initial exodus over from Reddit, so I can only assume there’s a complicated technical reason why it’s not a thing yet.

  If you’re Lemmying from a browser there’s a tool called Lemmy Universal Link Switcher that I’ve heard good things about, although full disclosure I’ve not used it myself. It doesn’t solve the problem of generating instance-agnostic links but it does try to solve it from the reader’s side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to block posts about Elon Musk (or other custom string) on computer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m often reminded of a SpaceX render they put up on the 'Tube back when they were still working out the reusability thing. Commenters had a lot of questions about how the particular flight plan impacted on their fuel budget. And so, Elon himself waded in with the answers. Except he was talking about the dollar price it cost to buy the fuel. He was like ‘why are you worried about fuel, it’s not that expensive, guys’ because he didn’t understand the questions. He didn’t understand why the amount of fuel and the mass of the fuel would be significant to anybody. Guys, I think he doesn’t understand the rocket equation. He doesn’t understand the central problem of rocketry. I think the guy might be full of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excuse my ignorance, but could someone explain why that tween Elon agreed with recently is considered antisemetic?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Dunno. They’re probably all on X these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excuse my ignorance, but could someone explain why that tween Elon agreed with recently is considered antisemetic?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t find any evidence of that being a term prior to the tweet. I’d guess one of

  • they meant something simple like ‘hateful dialogue’ or ‘hateful diatribe’, and thought it was a smart person way of saying it.
  • it’s the dog whistle du jour. Somewhere on stormfront or voat they’re getting terribly worked up about ‘dialectical hatred’ as the new current threat to the white race.
  • it’s used in some niche context where it has meaning. But our tweeter thinks it’s got more reach than it actually does.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you were to train a chatbot on all public statements of Donald Trump, you probably won't get a single factual answer.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And also

  I don’t even work that hard

  Trump would never compare himself unfavourably to anything, even in jest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A box of DevOps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you know YAML is a recursive acronym? It stands for ‘YAML AML MAML LAML’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why using the search bar to find emojis, does it display the male and female forms, but never show the gender neutral version even though such an emoji does exist?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get the gender neutral either (using Gboard on an older Android). Which is a bit odd because as far as I can tell gender neutral is the base character, and the male and female versions are customisations that are applied as if they were accented characters.

  I’d rather have them all as no-gender, no-race, generic little yellow peeps but eh…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not specifically about those same individuals, but I want to mention Dan Olsen’s documentary In Search of a Flat Earth, which touches more on the ideology of the flat earth movement, and how it’s developed in recent years. No spoilers, peeps!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assuming a button that, every time you push it, your intelligence goes up. The obvious and sane thing to do is to push the button all day. Yes? No? Maybe? Is there something that I'm missing here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Tap tap tap. Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap… Tapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapa…
  Tap.
  Tap tap…
  Tap …

  “I’m wasting my time”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sacred Hole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Boys? Don’t dig deeper than you are tall, ok? Sand can fall in on itself. If it’s up to your waist, we dig you out. If it’s over your head, we don’t get to come to the beach again.

  Got that, boys? Okay. Grab a spade.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space is 2D, right?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you all forgotten that they directly addressed this in the show? youtu.be/Q9W7pvOLxmQ

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tall, short, whatever—we're all screwed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s cloudy up there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Man, she must really like maths."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  U R my number -e^iπ^

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’ve got this worldbuilding project where a big chunk of land is cordoned off. I’m not sure what’s inside.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost at the top of the rope. You won’t have long before a patrol spots you, but long enough to snap a picture and get out. You swing your legs over and look around.

  The top of the wall exends into the morning haze in both directions. The view to the other side is blocked by a jumble of small huts, chimneys, floodlights; each one emblazoned with the logo of the Ohio Containment Corp - the block capitals OHIO enclosed in a möebus band. You pick your way through until you see what you came here for.

  Disappointment. It’s just the same scrubland, dusty tracks and fields that you drove through to get here. Maybe there’s some settlements way off in the distance? It’s hard to see. Oh well. What did you expect? The whole secret laid bare on your very first view? You snap a picture, and step forward for a better look.

  What was that? You heard something! Is there someone else here? You dart back and crouch, out of sight you hope, and try to listen. If there was a guard they would surely have raised the alarm. You creep forward, quietly as you can, then … shit! You see its shadow. Human shaped, crouched, moving slowly, stalking you.

  You’ve gotta go. Where’s the rope? You must have got turned around in the confusion but you find it. Swing over and back down. Hand over hand as fast as you dare. Your buddy Flip is still at the bottom where he parked the car.
  “Whoa, slow down. You’ll break your neck”
  “Flip, we gotta go”
  “Did you get the photo?”
  “Yeah, but -”
  He grins and raises his palm. You fumble the hi-five.
  “Flip, someone saw me. We gotta go”
  He looks up at the wall, sceptical, but nods. “Hey, are you driving?” He motions you towards the other door. You stumble around and climb in. What is wrong? Something is, you know it.
  “Wow, you’re really flustered about something. You’ll feel better with some breakfast.” He hands you a candy bar. You take a bite. It tastes … not bad, but different. It’s some knock-off Snickers bar with its label in a foreign alphabet. Flip starts the car and pulls out left, past the Containment Corp sign. You notice a misprint on the logo - it says OIHO.
  “Flip, I don’t think this is the way back”
  “Sure it is - it’s the same way we came here. You’re really in a state. What happened to you up there?”

  You don’t know. You try to think. You try to reflect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bots copy pasting Reddit - is there a method to block them all?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the TLDR bot has its purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else hoard memes on lemmy for no apparent reason?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  YOINK!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voyager 1's Golden Record⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve often heard that there was a specially recorded song by The Carpenters (usually in the context of jokingly complaining “why The Carpenters? The aliens are going to think we suck”). But it’s not on the list. Is it an urban myth? Were they on a different spacecraft?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could feral chicken take over the Amazon ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s only a concern for one generation tho, which afaik for commercially bred chickens might be just a matter of weeks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would life be like if we had 2 moons? With 2 different lunar cycles, how would we tell which time of the year it is without months?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Earth’s moon is notably big. Relative to the size of its parent planet, it’s easily the biggest* in the solar system (or second biggest if you Stan Pluto as a planet). If there was a second moon, it would likely be a lot smaller. So, I don’t think it would have much practical effect on things like tides or timekeeping. It would still have cultural significance in things like mythology and astrology. If we could observe moon-moon interactions we might have discovered gravity earlier.

  /* in absolute size, there are a couple of larger moons, but they’re moons of giant planets so Luna still wins in relative size.