thesohoriots
@thesohoriots@lemmy.world
- Comment on The internet is millions of monkeys hammering away on typewriters. 3 days ago:
Fucking lol, love it
- Comment on US has approached China seeking talks on Trump tariffs, says state social media 3 days ago:
Well well well, look who allegedly came back with their knee pads ready for some egg drop soup.
- Comment on The internet is millions of monkeys hammering away on typewriters. 3 days ago:
Nah, it’s mostly me, I wrote a bulk of the internet comments years ago and they just get recycled with updated references by some unpaid interns.
- Comment on N the digital age, it's going to be harder for ICE agents to hide their identities than it was for Nazis trying to evade justice post WW2. 1 week ago:
How is the WiFi in Argentina these days
- Comment on Is 4chan dead forever? Where are the refugees going? 2 weeks ago:
I was the person who wrote all the posts, now looking for freelance work.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 2 weeks ago:
So instead of lasers for self driving, we got cameras because they’re like eyes and they can do the same thing. Now odometers, they spin and the number gets bigger. That’s like a slot machine. They need lots of numbers, so we’ll make them like penny slots and just go one little bit at a time, and it’ll make you feel like a winner when the parts fall off!
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 2 weeks ago:
Even if it’s a Turkey-specific restriction for users based in the country, it nonetheless shows that Bluesky is willing to comply with government requests.
- Comment on American Truck Simulator is adding a road trip mode where you drive different vehicles, 'say, a powerful pickup or even a sports car' 3 weeks ago:
Nothing like taking out the ‘93 Mercury Sable for a drive.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 3 weeks 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 weeks ago:
I love Affinity but didn’t know Canvas got ahold of them. Shoot.
- Comment on It's 5 o'clock somewhere 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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. 5 weeks ago:
If you put them all together they eventually spell a slur.
- Comment on fetching bleach after this one 1 month ago:
You’re never too rich for g4p.
- Comment on Whistleblower Alleges Meta Was Ready to Censor Content for Chinese Government 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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? 2 months 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 2 months 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] 2 months 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? 2 months 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” 2 months 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? 2 months 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.
