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- Comment on Philosophy moment 40 minutes ago:
I often forget that while young people aren’t usually too wise to the ways of the world, that doesn’t mean they’re not fucking smart!
Woke to this reading a senior (high school) paper of mine 35-years later. Figured it would be childish. Holy shit! I wrote that at 17?!
Now if I could get the brain plasticity back and tack on the wisdom, I’d be a beast brain. :(
- Comment on I don't mind! 15 hours ago:
- Comment on Yep 23 hours ago:
Partly! Some women explode out the gate with a little age on them. My ex-gf was pretty in her 30s, but in her late 40s would turn heads when she walked in the room. And then there are the plain Janes in high school that turn out OMFG years later.
- Comment on That about sums it up 23 hours ago:
Same, but to be clear, we’re talking about panic attacks, right? That is exactly what the meme is talking about, or should be.
OTOH, there are these people: “Gosh! Sometimes I’m nervous in social situations and don’t know how to act! I have an anxiety disorder!”
No you don’t buttercup, you have “being a typical human disorder”. And most likely, no one even notices your discomfort. One time I was on LSD at a party and talking to a guy, freaking out internally. “Man, I’m sorry, but I’m tripping balls right now.” He had no idea!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
When dad’s going down on her:
HOLY DIVER!
You’ve been down too long in the midnight sea Oh what’s becomin’ of me No, no, ride the tiger You can see his stripes but you know he’s clean Oh don’t you see what I mean
HOLY DIVER!
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 1 day ago:
neckbeard freedomfighters
LOL, that is delicious.
Been downvoted plenty of times for saying I don’t get 1/10th of the Windows hassle lemmy talks about, probably less. Don’t have the LTSC version of 11, but it’s from a plain Jane ISO, not a factory install, which I would bet is the cause of many people’s pain.
- Comment on DHL to suspend global shipments of over $800 to US consumers 4 days ago:
It’s an apt comparison. What do you think will happen to a package given to a desperate person? That’s all OP said, but no, lemmy throwing the upvotes for getting on your moral soapbox.
- Comment on AI is like an evil villain's henchman: "Yes sir, you're absolutely right, sir." "Great idea master!" "My apologies master, I should have known what you meant from the start. Forgive me master.” 6 days ago:
Oh god, make it an Igor from Discworld.
- Comment on AI Social Media. 1 week ago:
Sounds fun to play around with, but lonely, socially isolated people will get sucked in. God knows the internet has created enough people like that, this just feeds the beast.
- Comment on Why do some drivers turn off the signal sound so quickly? 1 week ago:
The tick-tock sound annoys the driver. Dated two women in a row who did this and both had “repetitive noise disorder”, misophonia. My wife has a sort of thing like that were she can’t stand the rhythm or noise of the wipers.
- Comment on Russia’s Birth Rate Plunges to 200-Year Low 1 week ago:
Russians not being born is even better than dead Russians on the front lines. I’m all about this!
- Comment on Marco Rubio Claims He Can Kick Lawful Permanent Residents Out Of The US On The Basis Of Their “Expected Beliefs;” Immigration Judge Says “Sounds Good” 1 week ago:
He’s not a judge. We works for the DoJ reviewing immigration cases. No idea why anyone is calling him that, but it seems everyone is doing so. Fucking weird.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Sinners has black characters?! FFS, it’s set in 1930s Mississippi, there weren’t, and still aren’t, any black people there!
- Comment on Adobe Deletes Bluesky Posts After Furious Backlash 1 week ago:
had to get picked up
Not sure what you mean. Just deliver the finished product?
- Comment on Vizio Shows What Happens When U.S. Fascism And TV Enshittification Meet 1 week ago:
Fucked up and connected my latest TV to wireless, mindlessly input the password. Had to wipe it to factory to undo that.
Mine’s plugged into the network, but haven’t seen anything obnoxious. Worst was them changing the screensaver to have some fairly subtle ads. If they ever fuck around I’ll cut it off at the firewall.
And yes, as you said, I power it off Jellyfin running on my PC. Or, again using it as a 2nd monitor, I sling the VLC window to it. We don’t pay for any media at all unless you count Amazon from my Prime subscription. (I know that’s hateful around here, but I can’t afford to drop it.)
- Comment on Adobe Deletes Bluesky Posts After Furious Backlash 1 week ago:
For those that want Photoshop functionality and controls for free:
No idea why that site isn’t more well known.
- Comment on xkcd #3075: Anachronym Challenge 1 week ago:
Had the same 10-years ago. They would also paint the exposed bottom half to match the frame, make the frosty bit camouflaged. Tried to get that again a few years later, same optometrist had no idea what I was on about.
- Comment on High school student uses AI to reveal 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space. 1 week ago:
Been wanting that gif and been too lazy to record it!
- Comment on High school student uses AI to reveal 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space. 1 week ago:
AI is far more than LLMs. Why does everyone on lemmy think AI is nothing but?!
- Comment on Americans Are Preparing for When All Hell Breaks Loose 1 week ago:
My favorite for fucking around in the woods cost $125. I have several shotguns around that price range.
- Comment on Google give a 71% discount to US federal agencies for Workspace, as it looks to capitalize on the Trump administration's cost-cutting push. 2 weeks ago:
The government will still have to pay to use Excel. Too much shit will break, you can’t just flip an .xlxs into another program.
- Comment on Every time you eat, you're trusting many strangers to not have tampered with your food 2 weeks ago:
Nah. Water is created and destroyed all the time. Here go the formula for photosynthesis:
6CO₂ + 6H₂O + light energy → C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂
Take some baking soda for heart burn. You will instantly know you’ve created water and gas. (But hey, it works.)
NaHCO3 + HCl → NaCl + H2O + CO2
Anyone here burning glucose and breathing?
C6H12O6 + 6O2 → 6CO2 + 6H2O
JFC, here’s Google’s AI take, depsite the evidence above:
Water on Earth is constantly being transformed through a natural cycle, but it is not created or destroyed. This transformation, known as the Hydrological Cycle, involves processes like evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and runoff. While Earth has a vast amount of water, its total quantity has recently dropped, according to NASA.
If you want to shoot your brain full of rot, check out the answers on Quora.
- Comment on How do I pronounce "slava Ukraini"? 2 weeks ago:
Got that impression. She was definitely foreign, but I did hear enough to make a call. Also, I could not begin to guess her heritage by her looks.
- Comment on Insurrection act — April 20th. Pls read! 2 weeks ago:
Unarmed? Got a 9 in the closet, “just in case” of whatever the fuck. Don’t know if it’s loaded? Maybe grandpa’s rusty 12-gauge is floating around somewhere?
Too. Fucking. Late.
Been screaming for years that this day was coming. And all the while Democrats, “gUnS Bad, KiLl kiDs!” Well, now you can get in on the “killed” side! But hey, at least you can die in a pool of blood while keeping your morals intact!
“But if I fight back I may DIE!”
Yes. That happens when you fight for your life, sometimes you lose. I’ll die with my boots on, please and thank you.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on Hrr hrr 2 weeks ago:
Solid point! But yes, the Atari 2600 was in pretty much every middle-class home at the time. Didn’t get mine for years later because my parent’s lived the Depression and WWII, didn’t see the value in a $100 game. :)
So you’re saying economies of scale and population made goods cheaper? That’s sounds suspiciously like capitalism.
- Comment on Hrr hrr 2 weeks ago:
A color box and manual, how… chic. As to salaries, of course you’re right, but Atari was paying a couple of dudes vs. several teams creating a modern game.
Anyway, love to see gamers whining about prices as we head into a world where obtaining food is a challenge.
- Comment on Hrr hrr 2 weeks ago:
Berzerk came out for the Atari 2600 in 1982 for about $30. That’s $98 today. And that didn’t take the labor of a movie studio to produce and sell. It was kinda simple.
My lawn. Off of it.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 2 weeks ago:
Bingo. Lots of stupid things at this level boil down to legal protection. You’ll see it everywhere once you learn and look.
- Comment on ooo.ooo 2 weeks ago:
I was noticing him slowly dial back the makeup and fake colored hair late in his last admin. Somehow… the makeup returned. (with a vengeance)
