thesohoriots
@thesohoriots@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon 2 days ago:
Prices mysteriously go up about a week before prime day sales, then drop to a few dollars below normal, scream “39% off” and you feel like you beat the system.
- Comment on Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk? 3 days ago:
“I know what I got”
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 1 week ago:
Ah, the ol in haec verba Tarantino rule
- Comment on Microsoft extends free Windows 10 security updates into 2026, with strings attached 1 week ago:
tl;dr
opt into Windows Backup
spend 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points
- Comment on We solved the Smartphone Keyboard problem back in 2013… It’s time to bring this concept back 2 weeks ago:
Unironically enjoyed mine. Sure it was a barren app store and support got dropped quick, but it was a neat little device.
- Comment on Senators Call for The FTC to Launch an Investigation into Spotify for Forcing Subscribers into Higher-Priced Subscriptions Without Their Consent. 2 weeks ago:
The Federal Toothless Commission at this point?
- Comment on Melon-chicken-Aspic 2 weeks ago:
Surely it could be stuffed into the cavity of yet another larger and equally bizarre choice of thing.
- Comment on A reboot of the X-Files but this time Scully is always right. Everything has a totally rational explanation and Mulder slowly looses his believe in the supernatural. 2 weeks ago:
“Swamp gas”
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 2 weeks ago:
An em dash — when used properly — is perfectly fine, but a little academic. iOS will do one automatically with two hyphens and a space.
- Comment on Button fly's 2 weeks ago:
I loved them back when they were popular in the mid-late 2010s. Why? Confused people at the urinals.
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 3 weeks ago:
The MussoliniPad, doesn’t get WiFi at gas stations
- Comment on Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone 3 weeks ago:
Top features:
PATRIOTIC bloatware with Mahjong
Lee Greenwood and Kid Rock ringtones
“Starlink GPS” on the box but it’s hastily scratched out in tear-stained whiteboard marker
- Comment on What??? 3 weeks ago:
If you got a free hand, it’s for the homies
- Comment on It must vex him 4 weeks ago:
Please, Mr. Music, will you play?
- Comment on The Arc Browser Is Dead 4 weeks ago:
It was a fun little experiment to use for about 15 minutes. Won’t miss it.
- Comment on The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work 4 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s absolutely how they lure people in. Sensible issues to be concerned about, starts out normal, then about two links of thought in, the tinfoil hats come out and the solution is fucking nuts.
- Comment on When a person follows you and watches your every move, it's called stalking. When companies like Meta do it, it's just called collecting user data. 4 weeks ago:
When Nathan Fielder does it, it’s art.
- Comment on Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ plan has a major obstacle: Physics 5 weeks ago:
Woke-ass science at it again!
- Comment on Turbulence 5 weeks ago:
These bowling alley strike animations are getting out of hand
- Comment on The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women 5 weeks ago:
Their response is literally “he said it on a podcast,” and his comment on the podcast was the fingers statement plus “Apple engineers talk about this.”
Go suck a railroad spike bud, you might as well have said that foot binding is the reason for good workplace retention, because Apple workers said so.
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 1 month ago:
Make sure it’s the horny old-age home, GMILF Manor
- Comment on “How you design the beep is important.” Behind the movement for calmer gadgets. 1 month ago:
The rice cooker jingle slaps
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You need to demonstrate this knowledge, along with how to properly roll a burrito, to graduate high school in California. I can personally attest.
- Comment on Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online 1 month ago:
They just wanted to find new slurs.
- Comment on Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions are getting more expensive 1 month ago:
Affinity is awesome, at least until Canva starts demanding a subscription model.
- Comment on The world was a nicer place before the advent of leaf blowers 1 month ago:
You know, I was just— bbbrrrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
- Comment on I have never met a woman named after her own mother 1 month ago:
I know one, but it’s a little complicated. The woman is named Ann, and this is because when she was adopted at birth, the adoptive parents named her after the biological mother, also Ann. So yes and no.
- Comment on xkcd #3089: Modern 1 month ago:
Those aren’t the only two terms in contention, unfortunately, because academics love a pissing contest. Middle fingers to the term I personally hate, “cosmodernism.”
- Comment on Experts Alarmed as ChatGPT Users Developing Bizarre Delusions 1 month ago:
When you’re released though, you’re released right back to the environment that you left (in the US anyway). There’s the ol computer waiting for you before the meds have reached efficacy. Square one and a half.
- Comment on Experts Alarmed as ChatGPT Users Developing Bizarre Delusions 1 month ago:
Literally the last thing someone reads before they ask ChatGPT where the nearest source of fertilizer and rental vans is