thesohoriots
@thesohoriots@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 3 days ago:
People can’t be bothered to read or do shit because their comprehension is trash. This happens constantly. I taught college courses for years and it was pulling fucking teeth to get people to answer essay prompts. For example:
In One Hundred Years of Solitude we see generational cycles of behavior blah blah blah, which characters fit this pattern, which characters do not, and why?
95% of answers: only characters that fit the pattern. They read the first few words and ignored everything else, and then have the audacity to complain that I said they only answered half the question.
- Comment on Adobe Creative Curse 3 days ago:
I love Affinity but didn’t know Canvas got ahold of them. Shoot.
- Comment on It's 5 o'clock somewhere 4 days ago:
Use a greasy ring of Papa John’s garlic butter sauce to stick that Parmesan rim on, you got a deal
- Comment on Are any calls without caller ID legit? 5 days ago:
I’d clock it at a fraction of 1%. I had one relative I’d hear from once every few months who always forgot to unblock their landline number before dialing, and then there’s the rare healthcare number that you’re not meant to be able to call back (but you’re told to expect the call). But effectively all of them are delectable. If it’s important, they’ll leave a message and callback number.
- Comment on 'X' Marks xAI's Spot: xAI has acquired X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion. 2 weeks ago:
If you put them all together they eventually spell a slur.
- Comment on fetching bleach after this one 3 weeks ago:
You’re never too rich for g4p.
- Comment on Whistleblower Alleges Meta Was Ready to Censor Content for Chinese Government 4 weeks ago:
Here come the “ask it about Tiananmen Square” comments from your alcoholic uncle in his pit vipers
- Comment on What ever happened to QAnon? 5 weeks ago:
You’d be so surprised! The hobbies are inherently good. But people — specifically, influencers — use them as gateways to the broader movements (so-called wellness and prepping as described above).
- Comment on What ever happened to QAnon? 5 weeks ago:
It kind of merged into a couple things, from what I’ve seen: “wellness” (you know the kind, antivaxx mommy blog crap, Joe Rogan raw meat diets, supplements), “preppers” (people ready for a race war and living off the grid a la The Turner Diaries), and the “tradwife/MIGTOW” stuff. There’s the splinter adherents from various right-wing influencer podcasts thinking JFK or whoever is going to reemerge at Dealy Plaza, but those invariably fizzle out. The integration into broader movements is where it’s thriving. You get lured in with yoga, then next thing you know you’re canning beans because you won’t be the one eating bugs because that’s what the democrats want.
- Comment on Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels Into Neverending Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence 1 month ago:
It’s always at the bottom or top right where you’d step off and you just watch the person’s shoe suddenly disappear, and then they disappear. I believe it’s a shoelace or loose/flexible shoes that get pulled into the machinery and belts where the surface flattens out and goes back under the floor.
- Comment on Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels Into Neverending Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence 1 month ago:
Yeah so funnily enough I just checked IG reels and saw one where about four people get shot. There was a “sensitive content” screen over it but that’s it. Postmodern complaint: I’m just glad it wasn’t someone getting sucked into an escalator, those are freaky.
- Comment on What are the democrats actually doing to help? 1 month ago:
More emails asking for donations? Have we tried this? Man I’m stumped
- Comment on Are Expensive TVs Actually Better? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review Scores 1 month ago:
I’m in the same boat, bought a Samsung 40-something-inch smart tv for around $300 maybe 6 years ago off the neglected “small TV” aisle. It has some bloatware, but it’s never been an issue after configuring a few settings. I’m guessing if I went for one of the floor models, it’d have been a problem.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
In my location, back when I was in dating app hell, everyone kept saying they liked bonfires and the beach and hiking, so I wrote “hate bonfires, the beach, and especially hiking.” It paid off.
- Comment on Who's making older games so expensive? 1 month ago:
Emulators are your friend. Hoarders, graders, and scalpers can go suck a railroad spike.
- Comment on Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared” 1 month ago:
Ehhh yes and no. There’s prescriptive grammar (how it ought to be) and descriptive grammar (how it’s actually used within communities). This is where the ideas of code switching and such come in. You can certainly reason well in a Creole, if that’s what your community speaks and how you are taught, e.g. Belizean Creole.
- Comment on Looks legit, but can it actually be a real thing? 1 month ago:
“$10 to see it, $20 to touch. Oh wait, you thought those were ding dong prices?”
- Comment on nog 2 months ago:
- Comment on No beans, only dogs 2 months ago:
The ultimate “ok, hear me out” guide to any local area
- Comment on I need a flicker free LED lightbulb running in the 3000 K range. 3 months ago:
It’d be a big spend, but you can get some Hue dimmable A19s with a bridge for your home and set them to whatever color temp you need. It’s not accurate to specific temps (I can’t ask it for 4000k) but with a little tinkering in the spectrums and sliders you could get it close.
- Comment on If you are a young person you have no idea how bad everyone and everything smelled until at least the 1990s. 3 months ago:
You can also just take a trip to the Waffle House off I-95 in Florence, SC. It allowed smoking when I was there in 2014 and probably still does.
- Comment on bird flu 3 months ago:
I love a clinical trial. Sign me the eff up. That being said, as you mention, there are some issues with the speed of trials. And in particular, the demographic spread that volunteers for clinical trials in the US is a problem because it’s typically a monolith: white women, college educated, generally healthy, ages 18-35 IIRC. Proportional representation is hard to find, and distrust in public health is (for good historical reasons) low in minority populations. Pulling in a wider swath of people isn’t possible, and researchers are missing massive chunks of data from which trust could be built.
- Comment on FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat 3 months ago:
“Mom, I’m getting fed up with this orgasm!”
- Comment on First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed 4 months ago:
Yeah, I just got the TestFlight access to Loops and it’s janky. A useable web UI would go a long way.
- Comment on AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports 4 months ago:
A sestina based on the rules is, formally speaking, easy. Ask me to write one that will be studied after centuries, and you’re asking for Petrarch.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 4 months ago:
Wouldn’t be a good look for that wankpanzer if a $5 tool from Walmart could bust through its windows. Better call it a Cyber-izer and sell it for $200.
- Comment on Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams 5 months ago:
The article said nothing about intellectual disability, but it did suggest some older people contextually from their complaints. Here’s an actual citation from one of the complaints that I think sums it up perfectly:
Now, i’m an intelligent [person], at least I consider myself that to be. I am a huge fan of elon musk and tesla. I only bit into this because it did sound too good to be true.
- Comment on Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC’s click-to-cancel rule | Cable companies worry rule will make it hard to talk customers out of canceling 5 months ago:
My phone plan just dropped the $10/month discount for autopay because they’re price-gouging shit garglers. The second I clicked on the “port out number” option, they put up a banner offering $10/mo off for the next year. I do appreciate not waiting three hours on the phone just to turn down the offer anyway. MVNO it is!
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 5 months ago:
There’s an anecdote about a U2 naming a song “One Minute Warning” if I recall correctly: many years ago, when a UK prime minister learned the US got 6 minutes, they asked how long the UK would have. The response: “I suppose we’d have about a minute.”
- Comment on Has "Self-Driving" devolved? 5 months ago:
There are also many more Teslas on the road, and the “full self driving” incidents are more widely reported on since the new ownership likes to overpromise and vastly underdeliver. Other commenters have already addressed the tech side, but a few years ago, the Tesla-specific FSD was found to be active right up until a split second before some prolific collisions with emergency vehicles, leading to speculation on liability. Tesla aside, I think it’s just laziness on the part of drivers used to FSD doing the menial tasks of driving.
