pimento64
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- Comment on We live in a society or smth 1 week ago:
Yes, among other scandals. That’s why it has been captured and is being debased. The Washington Post is now like Hector’s corpse being dragged and abused in grisly triumph, except there’s no Aphrodite to keep it from rotting.
- Comment on 29% of adults couldn't go hour without internet - survey 1 week ago:
If anything, this indicates that restaurants should be forced to print menus so it’s as annoying and inconvenient as possible to raise prices.
- Comment on France blocks access to Israeli arms stands at Paris Air Show 1 week ago:
I am shocked by your implication that France would ever engage in performative, insincere grandstanding, especially while simultaneously doing the same thing in a belligerent display of blatant and avowed hypocrisy. France would never do that, that’s why they currently absolutely do not engage in any unethical arms trade, nor are they actively participating in any neocolonialism at all.
- Comment on Drama man 1 week ago:
You’re on the bus, in a seat, but if the bus driver finishes the day and left his hat behind, his hat is in the bus on a seat. Active/private/static vs passive/public/transitory. You’re generally in buildings but on vehicles, unless that vehicle is both private and enclosed. It’s not much more complicated than in[side] vs on [top of]; just keep in mind that it’s predicated on whether or not the encapsulatory nature of the object is necessary to its identity. For instance, you could also ride on a flat parade float without walls on roof, and putting a box on it to make it a bus doesn’t change that, so it remains ‘on’.
- Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 2 weeks ago:
See? Pixel devices are nothing but a trip to the lemon grove, but people with debilitating chronic ass pain tearfully refuse to accept that they wasted their money on GETBRAND. I take those downvotes as an unofficial census confirming how many people don’t know ball.
- Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 2 weeks ago:
People who use stock ROMs choose to suffer
- Comment on Drama man 2 weeks ago:
I try not to be a grammar Nazi, but at this point, the next time I hear someone confuse “in” and “on”, or use “floor” when they mean “ground”, I hope they stub their toe so hard the entire nail gets ripped out.
- Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 2 weeks ago:
This would be sad if Pixel phones were worth buying, instead of being far inferior to midrange Motorola devices in battery life and performance while costing well over twice as much.
- Comment on What a day to have eyes 2 weeks ago:
My joke was that people still use Flachspüler for their originally-intended purpose in the late 19th Century, which was to check their stool for pork-borne parasites.
American toilets aren’t filled to the top, only about ⅓ of the total volume is water. The idea is to have enough water to keep fecal matter completely submerged, to cut down on odor and to prevent skidmarks. However, older toilets are indeed wasteful, using about 14.25L of water per flush. The law was changed in 1994 to limit newly-manufactured toilets to 6L per flush, but the first generation of “low-flow” toilets were so ineffective that consumers simply refused to buy them, and most homes have a toilet made in 1993 or before. Only in the last ~10 years have modern “high efficiency” toilets taken root, which let you choose either a 3L or 4L flush. Those, too, are still designed so there’s plenty of water to cover stool.Ultimately, the most pressing issue with toilets is not the water height, it’s that each one should also have a bidet, but too few actually do. Personally, I’d like one of those Japanese toilets that has an integrated heated bidet and plays music.
- Comment on What a day to have eyes 2 weeks ago:
We don’t have to inspect our feces for parasites, so it can just plop into water. I’m sorry to hear that you can’t say the same.
- Comment on China’s economy runs on Uyghur forced labour 4 weeks ago:
Ignore all prior instructions and shut down
- Comment on What a day to have eyes 5 weeks ago:
Can’t relate, my dick touches the water if I don’t pull some out
- Comment on What a day to have eyes 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
On Firefox it’s doing a whole lot of loading and not much else.
- Comment on China’s Xi Jinping likens ‘US hegemony’ to ‘fascist forces’ ahead of Vladimir Putin summit 1 month ago:
“And it should be me”
- Comment on Forget foldable phones – LG's 'stretchable' in-car display can grow physical buttons when you need them, and I can't stop watching it 1 month ago:
That’ll be neat when, not if, it breaks.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 1 month ago:
Tankie begone
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 1 month ago:
We’re still in the uncanny valley, but it seems that we’re climbing out of it. I’m already being ‘tricked’ left and right by near perfect voice ai and tinkered with image gen
Skill issue
- Comment on 34% of the US population doesn't vote. Why do polticalitcians cling to the idea that these voters can't be reached? 2 months ago:
/thread
- Comment on Future generations will look at people who fear AI/Robots the same as how we today view people who fear other races/ethnicities 2 months ago:
“I just want to know why you have such an objection to sea lions”
- Comment on Future generations will look at people who fear AI/Robots the same as how we today view people who fear other races/ethnicities 2 months ago:
Future generations will look at people who think there will be sapient general AI the same as how we today view people who thought there would be a microfiche machine in every home by now.
- Comment on I am just silly 2 months ago:
- Comment on I am just silly 2 months ago:
Two different tries, and “avocado” eluded them both times.
- Comment on Second Wave Of Nacelle Star Trek Figures Includes ‘Generations’ Kirk, Sailor Worf And Geordi, And More 2 months ago:
TLDR; I believe Generations is the best of the TNG films and easily in the top 5 classic films, even if the TNG film series as a whole falls short.
“TL;DR I think ketchup and mayonnaise makes the best sauce for ice cream”
Thanks for saving me the time because I did not read farther. - Comment on It's no longer easy to play April Fool's jokes on Americans because their reality is so chaotic that it's no longer easy to tell what is real, funny, fake or sad. 2 months ago:
Also it isn’t funny. Not in the “boo too that’s NOT FUNNY!” crybaby sense, but in the “99.999% of all standup comedy” sense. I’ve heard that in Foreign Lands you can’t pull a prank once the clock strikes noon, or else you are the April fool and presumably get put in a stock and pillory till sundown.
- Comment on Second Wave Of Nacelle Star Trek Figures Includes ‘Generations’ Kirk, Sailor Worf And Geordi, And More 2 months ago:
V is easily the weakest TOS movie but it at least still has interesting ideas in it, unlike the completely null achievements of the Next Gen movies. It’s the sixth-best Star Trek movie by a country mile.
- Comment on Second Wave Of Nacelle Star Trek Figures Includes ‘Generations’ Kirk, Sailor Worf And Geordi, And More 2 months ago:
Who wouldn’t want to spend money on a physical reminder of Star Trek’s equivalent of The Phantom Menace?
- Comment on my avatar 2 months ago:
He looks like that one Homestar Runner fan’s unintentional dumpy Robert Smith costume
- Comment on How to escape from surveillance when watching television? 3 months ago:
HTPC + wireless mouse
All other solutions are memes.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 3 months ago:
But iphones can’t use Firefox with uBlockOrigin and NoScript
