thesohoriots
@thesohoriots@lemmy.world
- Comment on Games that stuck with you 1 day ago:
SOMA. Duplicating consciousness across multiple bodies and the branching off of one particular conscious mind to carry the narrative while the others were left behind was a fascinating concept for a game to engage with. Plus the atmosphere was a sublime nightmare.
- Comment on Why are fake laughs added to sitcoms? 3 days ago:
An interesting case (from a book which I unfortunately can’t remember the name of) from when Jack Benny’s career transitioned from radio to tv: he hated the laugh track, so much so that he demanded it be cut way back and lowered in volume. He also utilized it in an unexpected way: when he had a live audience in certain cases, if a joke or gag got an unexpected big laugh that he didn’t think deserved the reaction, he’d fill in a laugh track with a more muted response.
- Comment on Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges 1 week ago:
That and a set of kneepads.
- Comment on Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech? 2 months ago:
If it’s part of a performance, for example. I guess the point of the debate here is that context matters and that you can do it under very, very specific circumstances.
- Comment on Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech? 2 months ago:
“Free speech” is very much misunderstood as a form of carte blanche as your example demonstrates. It’s written as “Congress shall make no law…” etc., implying you’re protected only from the federal government, but as time and court cases and legal discourse have shown, there are limits and implications for lower legislatures to model from. The classic hypothetical example is “yelling fire in a crowded theater.” Can you? Yes. Should you? Unless there’s a fire, no, then it could cause panic and injury, and you’d be responsible. That sort of thing.
Tl;dr to answer your question: no.
- Comment on Woman returns Costco couch after 2 years, tests limits of return policy: "I just didn't like it anymore" 4 months ago:
I had a friend whose mom worked the Costco returns counter back in the early 2000s and there were some wild stories. For example: a customer brought back a washing machine they had painted green, because they didn’t like how the paint job turned out.
- Comment on YSK: The Wadsworth Constant of YouTube videos 6 months ago:
Your commission, Debo: “about two hundred dollars.”
- Comment on Return to office is ‘dead,’ Stanford economist says. Here’s why 6 months ago:
Sadly, I don’t think so. The pandemic-era cash grab solution was software that’s basically spyware, logging keystrokes, mouse movements, taking screenshots, etc. Some clever individuals just taped vibrators to their mice and walked away for breaks. You’re asking middle management to do real work here, ya silly.
- Comment on Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices 7 months ago:
“What IS your fascination with my forbidden closet of mysteries?”
- Comment on [Discussion] What is your go-to movie that you will never turn down? 10 months ago:
Brick