Bytemeister
@Bytemeister@lemmy.world
- Comment on So close! 22 hours ago:
My momma used to say “The broccoli is done when it can run through a colander”
- Comment on You really have to reach back to remember how THIS worked in your car 23 hours ago:
Get a Bluetooth AUX receiver.
- Comment on So close! 1 day ago:
Acceptable.
I’m just having flashbacks of squishy broccoli from my childhood. No child should ever have to go through what I did.
- Comment on So close! 1 day ago:
Hominy intensifies.
- Comment on So close! 1 day ago:
Please stop boiling broccoli.
Fry it up, or get yourself a steamer basket.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 4 days ago:
The town my wife grew up in has 1 traffic light, and it’s of the blinking yellow variety.
Rural town.
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 4 days ago:
They’re very effective at preventing pregnancy and STIs.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 5 days ago:
Metro 2033. Played it in the dark with good surround sound headphones on, and it’s positively claustrophobic.
Last Light is good too, but at little too optimistic IMHO. 2033 nails that endless pit of despair feeling, with just enough lucky breaks that you might make it through.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Closest thing I can find going back in the thread is this.
You use them in busy public places that require movement. Like a zoo.
Let’s see here… Is it necessary to take your kid to a zoo? Is it necessary to leash your kid at a zoo?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You didn’t even read my last post.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I guess you’ve made 2 replies specifically to my comment and chose the whine option.
If you wanna keep whining, go for it I guess. If you can’t provide a scenario where it is both necessary to bring along a child, and necessary to leash a child, then I feel pretty secure in stating that I don’t believe such scenarios exist.
If your want to whine, whine, but without a defending statement or new point to argue, there is no need to comment further.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Who said they’re hiding?
Something’s lack of representation in media is not exactly a reliable metric of commonality, if it was, gay people sprang into being in the late 90s.
The point being made here is that gay people existed long before it was socially acceptable to be gay, and that the number of ‘out’ gay people goes up as the social acceptability goes up. This would imply that the same population percentage of people are gay, and what changes is the visibility. This is supposed to be an apology for why I don’t many children on leashes.
Please read the thread and understand the context before replying.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
So, if leaving kids is both common and normal/acceptable, then why the fuck are they hiding? Are you saying that the world is full of closeted child-leashers who just leash their kids on the privacy of their own homes?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Nope.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Swing and a miss.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I guess you could provide a practical scenario where it is both necessary to bring a child along, and essential that they are leashed, but I have yet to see anyone actually propose this.
Do you want to just whine, or do you want to take a swing at it?
- Comment on Tesla Full-Self Driving Veers Off Road, Hits Tree, and Flips Car for No Obvious Reason (No Serious Injuries, but Scary) 1 week ago:
Absolutely.
I’ve got a car with level 2 automation, and after using it for a few months, I can say that it works really well, but you still need to be engaged to drive the car.
What it is good at… Maintaining lanes, even in tricky situation with poor paint/markings. Maintaining speed and distance from the car in front of you.
What it is not good at… Tricky traffic, congestion, or sudden stops. Lang changes. Accounting for cars coming up behind you. Avoiding road hazards.
I use it mostly like an autopilot. The car takes some of the monotonous workload out of driving, which allows me to move my focus from driving the car to observing traffic, other drivers, and road conditions.
- Comment on Common British L 1 week ago:
Depends on where in the Midwest. It’s a big place.
My partner’s small hometown has a few local dishes. One is a Cream of Chicken soup Sandwich, which is awful IMHO, and seasonal fall apple spiced doughnuts, which are fucking amazing.
My town is a foodie heaven, but an hour away in any direction, and you better like fries and burgers, because that’s all there is.
- Comment on Common British L 1 week ago:
Peak sarcasm. I love it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Well…
I guess you could provide a practical scenario where it is both necessary to bring a child along, and essential that they are leashed, but I have yet to see anyone actually propose this.
- Comment on For the little guys. 1 week ago:
Every day I worry about the Devil’s Pupfish. I’d like to see them one day, but I can understand why tourists aren’t allowed anywhere near the single pool where they still live.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’ve read every word. You’re being absurd.
Well, you forgot what I put in my very first comment on the thread, so…doubt.
You also spend way too much time watching other people’s children.
Way to make it sound creepy, but yes I see children when I got to zoos, aquariums, museums, national parks, banks, stores…etc.
Do you have any of your own?
No, but it doesn’t matter. You probably agree with me that slavery is wrong? But have you ever had a slave? You don’t have to personally experience abuse to recognize abuse.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
This may come as a surprise to you, but special needs children are also human beings, and leashing them is wrong too.
Go back and re-read the thread
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
So do non-special needs kids.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Maybe your parents should have leashed you, maybe you’d wander off the fucking topic less.
Baseless ad hominem.
HOW is giving your toddler exercise when they’d otherwise be out in the stroller wrong?
Do you think it is possible to get your toddler some exercise outside of the stroller without using a leash? Hint: most parents don’t use leashes on their kids?
You still can’t grasp your video thing isn’t indictive of literally anything.
It’s much more indicative of my point than the video that you found supporting yours!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Guess what?
I specified TODDLER.
Leashing toddlers is wrong too…And reality doesn’t give a fuck about what you specified. You don’t mean shit to nearly everyone on the planet.
Yes it is really easy to find video and media of children not on leashes, which conversely shows how hard it is to find videos of children (or even toddlers, why the fuck not) who are on leashes, because it’s not fucking common.
If you said “Amputees are common” and I said “If they’re so common, show me some media with a bunch of amputees in it” and you have to fucking dig for it, while I can pick a piece of media at random and expect it not to have any amputees in it, it’s probably a really good fucking indicator that amputees aren’t fucking common, right?!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Amazon sells leashes sizesd for 12yr olds.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I do not believe for a second that a 12 year old would sit there allowing themselves to be leashed. Some 12 year olds are basically full grown adult sized people.
Well you’re wrong.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Sure. 3 plus kids, in crowded spaces next to a STREET! It’s amazing they all survived.
On a related note, I didn’t have to do anything special to find you that video. I just looked for “New Community Festival” and picked the first one that wasn’t about a mass shooting. You know why it was so easy to find? Becuase leashing kids is not normal.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Took me less than a minute. Kid of all ages in the video, not a single one on a leash.
It’s not normal to leash kids.