milicent_bystandr
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- Comment on iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes 3 days ago:
Maybe if you turned the water temperature up.
- Comment on Iron 4 days ago:
Too brittle, I think.
For ceremony, though, perfect!
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 5 days ago:
Everybody knows the moon is made of cheese.
Like no cheese I’ve ever tasted.
(Just beware of vending machines with dreams of skiing.)
- Comment on Did the premise of an entity approaching you only when it's not being viewed originate with Doctor Who's Weeping Angels? 1 week ago:
I was going to say, I think this started with cats!
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 1 week ago:
it’s Linux after all and that’s what matters
I agree it’s a good OS to use, and it is Linux, but there are layers and layers of what’s good for the user and the community.
I think there will always be layers of “this could be done better,” and "that’s in someone’s selfish interest rather than for the best of the users and community. Or at least layers of being better for some people and worse for others. Ubuntu has some of those layers - though I’m always grateful for the good they’ve done the community - and other distros surely have some too.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
I can’t hear them over the Ubuntu protestors.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Round here we all have some beef with Ubuntu.
- Comment on kids are gowing up faster and faster 2 weeks ago:
Last week he learnt C
- Comment on Royal Mail pauses fines for ‘fake’ stamps after apparent flaw in fraud scanners 2 weeks ago:
Britain’s Horizon
… Wait, that was Britain too
- Comment on Come on, science! 2 weeks ago:
R2, stop licking the lightsabers, you’ll get a hairball!
R2! Hold still while I give you this oil bath! Oh no, he’s run off to the desert again to find Old Ben.
“Captain! All the other droids died, but this little one fixed the ship and saved us!” “Be careful in the future though, it says 8 out of 9 lives left.”
R2D2 is a cat.
- Comment on Come on, science! 2 weeks ago:
Aw, poor little guy. But that’s why you have children - they grow up and the family dog inherits them.
- Comment on Come on, science! 2 weeks ago:
Call him Theseus
- Comment on Come on, science! 2 weeks ago:
Who stop at 60? Immortal dogs!
This is your father’s dog. An elegant puppy for a more civilised age. Take care of it, you and your descendents, for it will outlive you all.
Oh wait, now I realised that’s basically r2d2
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 2 weeks ago:
> climb the ranks of the navy
> become “Admiral and Master of the Fourth Sea”
> end it with a splash, a crack, a gurgle, and a “Captain goes down with his ship!”…
> BBC pulls in a new actor for your role and carries on two seasons more before abruptly stopping and still doesn’t resolve your storyline.
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re right about embracing failure, but I think this is different: is your kid’s soccer team a failure if they don’t play forever? Or is it a success that they play some games, maybe win once or twice, even just learn and have fun?
Some things in life we seem to label failures if they stop after a season, as if long-term stability were the only true goal.
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 2 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, we’re never gonna give it up.
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like a crazy idea to me. Next you’ll be saying, end a TV show before the ratings have plummeted to zero.
- Comment on Living in a forest without any technology also works, since you will have no internet access anyways. 2 weeks ago:
Samsung? Making FOSWMD? They don’t even do FOSS!
- Comment on Living in a forest without any technology also works, since you will have no internet access anyways. 2 weeks ago:
Gotta beware those IR satellite cameras tho. Tunnels. For real privacy you need tunnels.
Also nukes, or someone’s going to invade you before you’re done.
But not ordinary nukes, off the shelf at your nearest military supplier. Those aren’t really free, you know, and besides licensing issues you never know what trackers and backdoors are hidden inside.
You need Transparency.
You need Privacy.
You need Freedom.
You need Gnukes.
- Comment on Woaaaaa 3 weeks ago:
I mean, show us the whole thing then!
- Comment on What a life to leave your children 4 weeks ago:
Yikes, at least give the child time to decide for himself when he grows up.
/s? What’s the Internet Standard Tag for I Willfully Misinterpreted Your Meaning For Humour But I’m Concerned You Might Think I Accidentally Misinterpreted It Or Worse?
- Comment on Do we intentionally translate ancient stuff and languages to sound old timey as an artistic choice, or is there some other reason? 4 weeks ago:
You should try some Bible paraphrases. (They’re usually not called ‘translations’ once they have that much artistic licence.)
“The Street Bible”, I think was a UK paraphrase into urban slang in the … late 90s? early 2000s? (Yeah, I could Google, but you could to and I’m lazy.)
The most fun I found one time was a New Testament translation into Scots English. Looks gibberish (to me) but if you read it and imagine a heavy Scots accent, it all starts to make sense again as English.
- Comment on Do we intentionally translate ancient stuff and languages to sound old timey as an artistic choice, or is there some other reason? 4 weeks ago:
That’s a pretty good example. If you get into Bible translation you’ll find there’s a massive world of stuffingy* about different translation approaches. Because as well as having what I presume is by far the largest and longest collective scholarship to study and translate, plus textual criticism over multiple ancient copies, plus emotional hand-me-downs (people liking the KJV because it’s what they grew up with), it’s also considered by many translators to be the holy word of God, so “I think my translation’s a bit clearer than yours” becomes “therefore yours falsely represents the very Words of God and may deceive people away from following the Truth!!!”
Fascinating stuff, though.
*I meant to write ‘argument’ but gboard thought ‘stuffingy’ is better.
- Comment on isopods are friends 4 weeks ago:
I had a similar thing one time. But my comment wasn’t as cute as your repeating earwig, so I think you win out.
- Comment on isopods are friends 4 weeks ago:
You had some trouble with the post button?
- Comment on The Tiny Ultrabright Laser that Can Melt Steel 4 weeks ago:
Nah, they’re usually protected in concrete which, as we know, has anti-laser nanoresonance properties.
- Comment on Caption this. 4 weeks ago:
I wish I could upvote this twice.
- Comment on Yellow to yellow, red to red 4 weeks ago:
I think it depends whether your bishop is Catholic or Protestant
- Comment on Yellow to yellow, red to red 4 weeks ago:
The worst part is when sidewalk cracks are out-of-sync with your natural stride.
– xkcd
– also laughttamow
I guess great minds do think alike - Comment on Yellow to yellow, red to red 4 weeks ago:
Of course there’s an xkcd for this
The worst part is when sidewalk cracks are out-of-sync with your natural stride.