myrrh
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- Comment on YSK: Condé Nast Parent Company is a Major Owner of Reddit, You Should Avoid their Publications (Wired, Ars Technica, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,...etc) as Much as Possible. 2 hours ago:
…unfortunately they’re rife with oppressively disruptive advertising these days; just not worth reading anymore and my battery life agrees…
- Comment on Oh really? 17 hours ago:
…that page has some cut to balance the preceding fill… 🥁
- Comment on Catchiest video game song? 1 week ago:
…there’s one clear victor and it’s not even close…
- Comment on Sub for me 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on In the U.S., are all voting booth areas required to have carbon monoxide detectors? 2 weeks ago:
…you know, now that i’m really thinking about it there may be a token 12"x18" privacy screen set on the table between displays, but it doesn’t impede adjacent displays from your field of view at all…
- Comment on In the U.S., are all voting booth areas required to have carbon monoxide detectors? 2 weeks ago:
…here we just have touchscreen kiosks set side-by-side along open tables, no privacy other than the LCD field-of-view…
- Comment on Algorithm based on LLMs doubles lossless data compression rates 2 weeks ago:
…large-language models do not comport with lossless data reconstruction in my experience; quite the opposite…
- Comment on Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis 3 weeks ago:
…i learned this word from the big book of amazing facts in 1978!..
- Comment on Things at Tesla are worse than they appear 3 weeks ago:
…nah man, that’s on the dealers + automakers deciding not to market small affordable cars in favor of big profitable road-tanks…
- Comment on You know how fire trucks, ambulances, and cars all have strobe lights? Well, if you add up those lights, street by street, there is a single street on earth that has the most strobe lights. 4 weeks ago:
…that’s okay; some folks drive BMWs…
- Comment on *Doesn't look like anything to me.* 5 weeks ago:
…funny thing is aperture science isn’t even included in that graphic but it fits right in…
Image - Comment on Is it time to stop? 5 weeks ago:
…i was scrolling usenet around 17.30 CDT on april 29th, 1992 when a friend posted that a riot was gathering outside his window; the new broke about an hour later…
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 5 weeks ago:
(yep, but i’ll leave it: just woke up as i was typing)
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 5 weeks ago:
…get that f*ucking plural-comma out of my face…
^(1 head + 5 handle)^
- Comment on The Circle of iLife 5 weeks ago:
We’d love to, but manufacturers keep trying to force them down our throats.
…that’s not where they’re supposed to go…
- Comment on When you are ruining your day ranting about something remember THIS 1 month ago:
…i use base 12 every day; it’s fantastically useful and foundational to civilisation for good reason…
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 1 month ago:
…my mazda 2 outhandles my MX-5s and is the only car i’ve driven which keeps pace with my elise; we’ve been waiting for an electric subcompact hatchback for about ten years now but the stateside market keeps doing everything it can not to offer me one…
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 1 month ago:
…if they don’t want to be called fascists, maybe they should consider not being f*cking fascists…
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 1 month ago:
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 month ago:
…i always use my signals to unambiguously communicate intent; the only time i’ve been embarrassed is after carrying that habit onto the track, but it’s tough to break…
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 1 month ago:
…it’s how you imagine people look or it’s what you imagine people look like, but not both…
- Comment on The NGage Has A New Boxed Game For The First Time In 20 Years 2 months ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
…siding?..i do what i must to survive but, if that comes across as advocating for serfdom, you’re inferring something i certainly didn’t imply…
- Comment on One of the terrible things about having a close friend or relative die is that it is a subtle reminder that you've moved up in the line towards the end. 2 months ago:
…nothing wrong with dying; when you die it’s not your problem anymore…
…problems are for the folks left behind…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
…adults shouldn’t have to be earning money either; good luck with that…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
…born in the seventies, i was working by fifth grade and overnight by high school; longest shift i ever pulled was twenty-six hours without a break…
…kids born in the eighties enjoyed nineties child labor laws, which were kind of a mixed blessing: less exploitation but also less opportunities to earn money…
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 2 months ago:
…depending upon the week, somewhere between ⅔ and ⅘ of my workflow can be in outlook…
…our IT policy required a shift to new outlook last year and it devastated my productivity: i struggled against its user-hostile interface for a couple of weeks and eventually just stayed home so i could get work done, despite our back-to-office mandate…in short order i was given an administrator account and i’m back on old outlook again…
- Comment on Chat, is this true? 2 months ago:
([did you miss this one?]<forbes.com/…/trump-renames-denali-to-mount-mckinl…))
- Comment on Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’ 4 months ago:
…you forgot these: * *…
- Comment on Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’ 4 months ago:
…i have a virulently-antifascist friend who laments emperor oompa-loopma 24/7 and he
won’t.
leave.
xitter.
