toynbee
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- Comment on Colm Meaney to Receive Irish Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award 2 weeks ago:
This was my introduction to him!
- Comment on Colm Meaney to Receive Irish Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award 2 weeks ago:
I first saw him in Hell on Wheels.
- Comment on TIL: Deer are popping off down here 2 weeks ago:
To me it means fighting or looking for a fight.
- Comment on Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com 3 weeks ago:
I prefer DDG to either as well, but in terms of search quality … Don’t they use Bing search results?
- Comment on Born for the job 3 weeks ago:
Is this a case for the nominativedeterminism community?
- Comment on And because you deserve it, here's one from the top shelf 3 weeks ago:
A phrase I learned from *Bobby’s World.
- Comment on Everyone look! I got a picture of the Rosetta Stone 3 weeks ago:
Hello, fellow old person!
- Comment on the aliens monitoring our planet know that we are idiots 4 weeks ago:
Why not?
- Comment on the aliens monitoring our planet know that we are idiots 4 weeks ago:
They did? Finally, someone to blame.
- Comment on Ever since I've started running like a penguin with it's butt on fire I've saved so many precious calories 4 weeks ago:
How long does it take to compile the kernel?
- Comment on Help, what have I found 1 month ago:
Turtle power!
- Comment on 0% charge 1 month ago:
… You have friends?
- Comment on Day 142 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 month ago:
Previously, I have not commented on your posts, but I appreciate them. You have your imitators and they have some good stuff, but so far as I can tell, you’re their progenitor. Thank you for your Lemmy contributions.
Obviously this comment doesn’t add much to the conversation, but it’s my 1337th comment, so I wanted it to be a joyful one … And currently every other post on my feed is depressing or at least highly contentious, so I would appreciate you for being the exception even if I didn’t enjoy your content.
- Comment on Three Men Die When Google Maps Tells Them to Drive Off Unfinished Bridge 1 month ago:
Seems like blame can be applied at least three ways at once.
- Comment on Even better than a cart of apples 2 months ago:
What, like some kind of toynbee tiles?
- Comment on 'Democrat propaganda': Marjorie Taylor Greene plans to team up with Musk to defund NPR 2 months ago:
- Comment on Even better than a cart of apples 2 months ago:
That seems likely.
- Comment on Even better than a cart of apples 2 months ago:
When I was young, my mother showed me an educational book that had things like riddles, puzzles, and mental exercises in it. One of these entries had a short, mundane paragraph, followed by some form of “what was wrong with that text?”
It then explained that I had missed the word “the” being on the end of one line but also the start of the next line which, indeed, I did miss. It suggested that the human mind couldn’t see duplicate words split in such a way, at least in English, unless actively looking for them.
I now know that, while it did trick me, its theory was incorrect … Because I can’t not see “from from.”
- Comment on can they?? 2 months ago:
It is the beginning of a commercial catchphrase, as referenced in this other comment.
- Comment on can they?? 2 months ago:
Thank you.
Until I read your comment, the best interpretation I could come up with was some joke about letters that I didn’t understand.
- Comment on Just a little guy 2 months ago:
Hey, my pleasure.
I don’t much like horror, but every once in a while I get into a mood to binge a bunch of it. I don’t have many recommendations in the genre, but one I genuinely enjoyed was The Awakening. Hope you enjoy!
- Comment on Just a little guy 2 months ago:
There was a cluster of fish and the water was so clear that you could see them from the surface, which I thought was cool. Some of them were even jumping out of the water, which I’d never seen in person before! Because of that, I worked my way to around the middle of the cluster and crouched, then just kind of settled down to watch. Eventually, I guess I had been still long enough that they forgot I was there and started jumping around me. When I was done surveiling them, I stood up and turned around, only to receive a fish directly to the face.
It was so unexpected (to me and, I presume, to the fish) that my first thought was that someone had thrown a rock at me, but my newly minted wife clarified that it was, in fact, a fish.
- Comment on Dinosaurs Still Live 2 months ago:
Gotcha.
I was familiar with the concept but not the phrasing. Thanks for the edification!
- Comment on Dinosaurs Still Live 2 months ago:
What does “ringed” mean in this context?
- Comment on Just a little guy 2 months ago:
For a while, I lived in Havre de Grace, MD. In that timeframe, I experienced several fourths of July. One of those times, for some reason, my then-girlfriend and I got in a mood to watch horror movies.
We opened Netflix (then our only streaming service) and looked in the horror category, eventually settling on The Bay. We’d never heard of that movie before and selected it pretty much at random.
Turns out that movie is implicitly set in HdG and explicitly on the fourth of July. Kinda freaked us out for a bit.
After that, we looked up movies set in HdG and that’s how I found From Within, a mediocre movie featuring Bruce Willis’ daughter; and also how I found out that House of Cards filmed Kevin Spacey’s home town there.
- Comment on Just a little guy 2 months ago:
I was thinking “it’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop at the end.”
- Comment on Just a little guy 2 months ago:
The ocean is indeed beyond beautiful. I’m not a marine biologist, but I went to Jamaica for my honeymoon and truly appreciated it there. A lot of my time was spent just … Admiring the water.
I remember a Jamaican local commenting that she’d seen the ocean around the USA in movies and wouldn’t swim in the ocean around the country based on that.
Also, I got punched in the face by a fish while I was down there.
Beautiful, though.
- Comment on Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework 2 months ago:
Better not let it talk to Cyclops or it will fly itself into the sun.
- Comment on We have the best shaped states, don't we folks 2 months ago:
I, too, like Yahtzee.
- Comment on Covfefe 2 months ago:
I don’t drink coffee, so maybe I’m too tired to count properly, but don’t most people only have five fingers per hand?