agamemnonymous
@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on If I were a waiter, I would describe the days soup as "Very hot, and very wet" 2 hours ago:
It’s spicy, salty, heavy on a particular ingredient, anything that might be off-putting to some.
- Comment on If I were a waiter, I would describe the days soup as "Very hot, and very wet" 2 hours ago:
What is the soup of the day?
“Soup du jour”
Mmm, that sounds good.
This is an actual exchange I had.
- Comment on Banana 9 hours ago:
Rebound from a viral pandemic, RIP Gros Michel
- Comment on I'm too stupid for this 2 days ago:
I’ve tutored calculus, and probably the biggest example I’ve seen of this is the difference quotient. The formula is exceedingly obvious once you understand it, but it takes a lot of people some time for it to “click”.
- Comment on yo: sup? 2 days ago:
Who’s on first?
- Comment on yo: sup? 2 days ago:
Kid named Gurt
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 4 days ago:
I was going to bring it up if no one else did
- Comment on I'm not paying $8 for a pack of Skittles 6 days ago:
Yeah my big flatscreen in my tiny TV room takes up most of my field of vision from the couch. The difference in quality is almost negligible, but I can pause to grab food, rewind if I missed something, and there’s no one else there on their phone or just making noise.
I’ll see a movie in the theater every once in a while if it’s like a grand spectacle, but most movies are just fine at home, if not better.
- Comment on xkcd #3155: Physics Paths 1 week ago:
It’s just the only one that I can imagine a physicist or engineer would be proud of.
- Comment on xkcd #3155: Physics Paths 1 week ago:
To be fair they’re physicists, not English majors
- Comment on xkcd #3155: Physics Paths 1 week ago:
I feel like it’s all gotta be from #8 right? It makes it pretty easy to get >0 legitimately, seems like it would be hard for anyone working on black holes to not have a double digit score from that alone.
Though I could see some cheeky positive values from #13, assuming the theory is a well established one, Randi style. (Or #20 for the typo)
- Comment on xkcd #3155: Physics Paths 1 week ago:
I’m not unhealthy, they’re educated stupid.
- Comment on Executions in Florida and Missouri as 4 days of state-sanctioned killings begin 1 week ago:
There’s also the fact that it incentivizes crime. If you commit a crime for which the punishment is death, you might as well do even more crimes to not get caught. Killed a guy? Might as well kill any potential witnesses too, it’s not like they can kill you twice. When you’ve maxed out the punishment, any more crimes are freebies.
- Comment on I've recently turned into a blocker. 1 week ago:
I’m on Sync, dunno about anything else.
- Comment on I've recently turned into a blocker. 1 week ago:
I have gone through phases of blocking very vocal idiots, but then as you said I feel at an informational disadvantage.
I’ve gotten recently into tagging people with descriptions of repeated behavior. That way I still know what’s going on, but I know what to expect from them.
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 1 week ago:
I kinda liked the bleak. It felt like an ending. Drove home a fairly central theme
Never read Colfer’s continuation, I read some of the Artemis Fowl books when I was younger and I didn’t really expect him to match Adams’ particular style.
I did listen to the radio adaptation though, and if it’s true to the source then it was… okay? I’m not sure it added much.
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 1 week ago:
As always, there’s a relevant xkcd
- Comment on [Rec] "REDLINE" is one of the best and bizarre animated movie I have ever seen. 2 weeks ago:
Redline (2009)
Space Dandy (2014)
You’ve got it backwards
- Comment on ICE Shot a Man While Trying to Detain Him. He Had No Criminal Record. 2 weeks ago:
Materially, you’re right. Having a criminal record doesn’t matter. Rhetorically, however
- Comment on ICE Shot a Man While Trying to Detain Him. He Had No Criminal Record. 2 weeks ago:
It does in that it erases the “They’re only going after criminals” angle. It’s not that it’s an acceptable metric to excuse their actions, it’s that they’re failing to meet their own metrics.
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 2 weeks ago:
Guillotines are too tame for modern audiences. Wood chippers are fresh and exciting.
- Comment on 'No one can find him': Trump drops from public view again after 'slurring' military speech 2 weeks ago:
No no no, hope that it’s long. Hope that he lives out his term, getting increasingly feeble, bungling the real powers’ carefully laid plans and destroying the morale of his fascist fans who have to sieg heil a pathetic invalid.
An old demented dictator, too stubborn to step down, is honestly probably the best case scenario at this point. If he dies, he just gets replaced by boring, competent fascists.
- Comment on Trump is right, America is too soft on crime 3 weeks ago:
America is soft on white collar crime. It’s tough as nails on anyone with a net worth under 7 figures.
- Comment on Neurons can communicate via hidden network of nanotubes, study finds 3 weeks ago:
I always thought the brain was more like a dump truck.
- Comment on The problem with overeating is that it feels really good 3 weeks ago:
The problem with most problematic habits and behavior is that they feel really good. People don’t generally engage in harmful behaviors that also feel bad.
- Comment on James should have used his money 3 weeks ago:
I love the implication that pokémon are intelligent creatures that could learn to speak if we trained them for that, but most people would rather use them in casual animal fights for money and prestige.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 3 weeks ago:
One of the big things is their robust appetite for murder. Domesticated cats destroy bird populations. At minimum they should have a collar with a bell.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 3 weeks ago:
Common misconception. Not all of them, just the ones that change colors around radiation.
- Comment on ... 4 weeks ago:
I’ve got some martial arts training, but only did like a month of BJJ with no other real grappling training. A girl-jock friend of mine, super active in BJJ and pretty big and buff for a girl, wanted to do a little playful sparring.
I pinned her so fast, with so little effort, it wasn’t even funny. She’d been training for years, and she was in great shape for it, but my amateur ass absolutely destroyed her.
Also, I did do some powerlifting for a while, and everyone who actually lifts heavy looks like a chubby farm boy.
- Comment on *A clean colon is like driving on a country road on a sunny day...* 4 weeks ago:
