toynbee
@toynbee@lemmy.world
- Comment on Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship 1 hour ago:
That would be a sight worth seeing.
- Comment on Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship 4 hours ago:
Back when bash.org was around: Person 1: Person 2 has so little game he could fall into a barrel of nipples and come out sucking his thumb. Person 2: The concept of a barrel of nipples confuses and frightens me.
- Comment on smh 1 day ago:
The Picard Maneuver
Around here I think we’re supposed to refer to them as TPM.
Until today I had assumed it was derived from “total percentage of meters” but now I just don’t know.
- Comment on Correlation equals causation 1 day ago:
My mom, who was very much a hippie, always told me “don’t do drugs, but if you do, do them with me so I can make sure you do them right.” Thanks for reminding me of her.
- Comment on Do people eat this? 1 day ago:
- Comment on Can we have a boring and uneventful week for a change? 1 day ago:
You mean the past year since 01/01/26?
- Comment on Can we have a boring and uneventful week for a change? 1 day ago:
He appears a tad jaundiced.
- Comment on Buttcoin 2 days ago:
That sounds like a good business plan, but I’m not sure I could convince Ryan Reynolds (or Guy) to work with me.
- Comment on Buttcoin 2 days ago:
Given the nature of his proclivities, I wouldn’t be surprised if he showed up here unprompted and dropped the next nugget of financial wisdom.
- Comment on Buttcoin 2 days ago:
I had a friend who told me to buy Bitcoin when it cost cents. I didn’t, because at the time it required you to send your ID to an unknown entity.
The same friend had previously recommended that I learn Hadoop. I didn’t because I didn’t have the proper setup to host it and when was it going to be relevant to my job? Incidentally my current job relies - and my previous job relied - heavily on HDFS.
I’m extremely sleep deprived and can’t remember the third thing, but there was a third thing that would have been extremely lucrative if I had followed his advice.
Once I recognized the trend I asked him for the next suggestion. He said I should start my own business. I didn’t because I don’t have any ideas.
Maybe I should start a business.
- Comment on Lobster feast 3 days ago:
That sounds even easier!
- Comment on Lobster feast 3 days ago:
So you’re saying if I don’t want to talk to my neighbor anymore I just have to identify and gift them their least favorite foods?
- Comment on Why would anyone do this? 3 days ago:
I haven’t been to many musical events, but in my experience they can be pretty olfactorily offensive by themselves.
- Comment on Why would anyone do this? 3 days ago:
At the time, I worked nights in a tech call center. There were generally three guys working the shift but it wasn’t the same people every shift, it was a small but rotating cast. There was also a supervisor but they spent the majority of their time in a private office halfway across the building from us.
One of the three guys who was there most nights would mostly ignore calls and would do a pretty poor job with them when he did answer. Instead of working, he’d spend the whole night browsing HotOrNot, occasionally vocalizing his opinion on some pictures.
Since there were only three people on the shift and it was in a call center built for a hundred or more, we were permitted to sit at any desk (they had roaming profiles). Only one member of the night shift ever sat close to the guy I described more than once. Besides being personally unpleasant, he was a heavy smoker and thus olfactorily offensive as well.
The HotOrNot guy was there when I got there and I’m pretty sure there when I left. No idea how he kept his job.
- Comment on Remember when buying shoes came off as some kind of science. The shoe sales person was always considered right 4 days ago:
Seems you’re right! I think I read it around the same age. Thank you for the reminder.
- Comment on Penetration 4 days ago:
This is how 2012 happened.
- Comment on Remember when buying shoes came off as some kind of science. The shoe sales person was always considered right 4 days ago:
I remember a book featuring … Al the Gebra, I think? In it all tungsten in the world disappeared. One thing in the book that surprised young me was that X-ray machines stopped functioning.
Apparently “tungsten has important niche roles in x-ray tubes.”
- Comment on Bugger! 4 days ago:
Because she has to be married to me? So do I.
- Comment on Bugger! 4 days ago:
You sound like my wife.
- Comment on What's it like living in 2? 5 days ago:
In the spirit of heeding your username, I shall engage.
In markdown, if you use a single asterisk it doesn’t mean much unless it’s part of a list. However, if you use two, it will italicize the text between them. Britain, for example, would bring Brtan because the T and A (yes, I’m aware of the abbreviation) would be between them.
- Comment on Hey there 4 eyes 6 days ago:
Pretty sure the photographer took the photo in situ.
- Comment on What's it like living in 2? 6 days ago:
You’re right! They misspelled Brtan!
- Comment on What's it like living in 2? 6 days ago:
So does the water go the opposite way in Australia or not?!
- Comment on Please hold 1 week ago:
My condolences!
- Comment on Please hold 1 week ago:
I have no issue with this except the grease splatter. Your work area would be tacky and dusty all the time!
- Comment on YSK Tips for a Winter Storm 1 week ago:
You are singlehandedly compensating for me never leaving the house.
- Comment on YSK Tips for a Winter Storm 1 week ago:
According to my tag on you, you’re a construction worker with a camera; I would imagine both of those things would expose you to cold. It’s not blind!
- Comment on YSK Tips for a Winter Storm 1 week ago:
If there’s anyone I’d trust on this matter, it’s you.
- Comment on Many guess that it's some type of religious symbol 1 week ago:
I know this is an old trope, but I always liked one bash.org quote that uses it well:
Person 1: Did you know if you play the Windows install disk backwards, it plays Satanic messages?
Person 2: That’s nothing; if you play it forwards, it installs Windows. - Comment on Sorry to disappoint you 1 week ago:
I use
define:. Yesterday a friend asked me whether “stably” had an “e” in it and this was very helpful in answering.