MadBob
@MadBob@feddit.nl
- Comment on Also, you have been turned into a worm. 17 hours ago:
What part of “one must imagine Sisyphus happy” isn’t clear? You’ve got to do it!
- Comment on How can I improve my handwriting? 4 days ago:
font I liked in a book on calligraphy
They’re called hands, because you do them with your hand. A font is a given instance of a typeface, which is a design of a script. Now you can be pedantic too!
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 4 days ago:
I don’t think this answer is really in the spirit of “no stupid questions”.
- Comment on how are some people able to fall asleep anywheres? 5 weeks ago:
An uncle of mine used to be in the TA (en.wikipedia.org/…/Army_Reserve_(United_Kingdom)) and he said he’d learnt there how to just fall asleep as and when.
- Comment on Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain 1 month ago:
Although I like the idea of a drug smuggler typing “as per my previous email…”
- Comment on Not only are they watching you, they're judging you. 1 month ago:
Time makes fools of us all I suppose!
- Comment on Sad 1 month ago:
You do that kind of arithmetic quite often if you work in a kitchen.
- Comment on The Palestine experience 1 month ago:
To be fair, Hebrew only appears on signage in one area in the whole world: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language
Arabic and Hebrew are both spoken widely across Israel and Palestine (and nowhere else, according to the previous link): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Israel
You can see a number of these numberplates in the video: www.worldlicenseplates.com/jpglps/AS_ISRA_GI.jpg
You can see these uniforms in the video: www.pinterest.jp/pin/192599321547629934/
It’s good to stay sceptical to the last, but you are taking it a bit too far in this case.
- Comment on Is Android increasingly inconsistent? 1 month ago:
I’ve switched off all pings for messages for a bit of peace and quiet, but for some reason there’s one Whatsapp group I’m in where my phone still vibrates if someone posts.
- Comment on No one has predicted the end of the world in a while. 1 month ago:
Jesus. You can’t even see a solar eclipse everywhere when it does happen. Travel really does broaden the mind, I suppose.
- Comment on Not only are they watching you, they're judging you. 1 month ago:
Riled up? Are you sure?
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 1 month ago:
Here lies
ManniSturgis
Father, brother, husband,
go-getter thanks to Nescafé.
Start your day right with a cup of Nescafé!
- Comment on Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are. 1 month ago:
Ah well you should’ve said that to begin with, because I agree with that!
- Comment on Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are. 2 months ago:
I strongly disagree that not wanting an actual fight is cowardice. Turning up armed to intimidate unarmed people is cowardice.
- Comment on UK has worst rate of child alcohol consumption in world, report finds 2 months ago:
Well, you have a strain of intellectual honesty and patience that I was lacking in that fateful day.
- Comment on UK has worst rate of child alcohol consumption in world, report finds 2 months ago:
Even without reading the article, you can see they’re phrasing the highest rate of people who’d drunk once by 13 as the worst rate of child alcohol consumption. A lot of that consumption would’ve been legal and nothing untoward.
- Comment on Infected blood scandal: Children were used as 'guinea pigs' in clinical trials 2 months ago:
Enjoy!
- Comment on Infected blood scandal: Children were used as 'guinea pigs' in clinical trials 2 months ago:
I did wonder what people were thinking I was saying, haha, but I accept I must’ve just written it clumsily.
Here’s the documentary on youtube, it’s actually a standout example of investigative journalism: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UbL8opM6TM
And there’s this youtube video essay based on it which sexes it up a bit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BIcAZxFfrc
- Comment on Infected blood scandal: Children were used as 'guinea pigs' in clinical trials 2 months ago:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2323045/ “Wakefield admits fabricating events when he took children’s blood samples”
I suppose I wasn’t clear, but I was referring to the fella who first came out and said the MMR vaccine was linked to autism, which was fraudulent of course and there’s a good documentary about it, but I mentioned it specifically because he was taking children’s blood unethically. Mad cow disease is less relevant but it’s more broadly an example of unethical treatment leading to an epidemic.
- Comment on Infected blood scandal: Children were used as 'guinea pigs' in clinical trials 2 months ago:
Even the nineties and beyond, if you think of the vaccine-causing-autism to-do and mad cow disease.
- Comment on Getting old sucks 2 months ago:
There’s a company near me with a product called “Damn, Daniel” and I refuse to buy it, look at it, recommend it, or discuss it with anything less than disdain.
- Comment on snek id 2 months ago:
My housemate left a pubity on the bog this morning.
- Comment on So today I finally deleted the bird app 2 months ago:
If you decide to use Mastodon afterwards, there’s an instance where a bot reposts everything a given Twitter account posts called bird.makeup.
- Comment on Uncle brian... I get you now 2 months ago:
I began keeping my family at arm’s length after they bullied me to tears after I’d told my sister I thought she was quick to jump to conclusions. I couldn’t believe the logical jumps she was making after I’d said it, and furthermore that no one took my side, and further furthermore that they just kept at it until I cried and didn’t comfort me at all. It’s an emotionally complex position to be in!
- Comment on Does anyone speak hairdresser? I need help communicating. 2 months ago:
Ah okay, I follow now!
- Comment on Does anyone speak hairdresser? I need help communicating. 2 months ago:
Of all the things you want your haircut to be, it’s precise?
- Comment on Washington's Lottery AI site turned user photo into porn 2 months ago:
It must be intelligent after all!
- Comment on Meat. 3 months ago:
All along!
- Comment on Meat. 3 months ago:
It’s good that you mindfully reduce meat intake and at least think about it, and I’m not trying to force you to do anything, but the logic here doesn’t follow. You could equally say “everything in this world has nuance and can never be binary (so this can’t be binary)”.
Do you know the idea of a kind slavemaster? Namely: if someone told me they only buy products made by slaves with kind masters, I’d be a bit baffled and I’d say “but it’s still slavery isn’t it?” There’s basically nothing worse you can do for something’s welfare than having it destroyed, no? Barring edge cases where you’re putting something out of its misery (definitely not the case when making animals into hamburgers).
- Comment on Meat. 3 months ago:
Wonder no longer: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/…/þikkwī