hydroptic
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- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 5 days ago:
What?
- Comment on Very normal very reasonable 5 days ago:
Benn Jordan is frickin great, he always gets up to absolutely fascinating shit like this
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 5 days ago:
like give me a single quote, anything memorable from the story itself
Well there was the part where the… uh… the guy, whatshisface said…
Wait, no… ok well how about when the… um… there was that one part in… err, either the first or the second movie, one of the aliens did… umm…
I’ll get back to you on this one
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 5 days ago:
Want to have a nice cry about it?
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 5 days ago:
me_irl
- Comment on Very normal very reasonable 5 days ago:
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 5 days ago:
“Showed up out of nowhere”, ie. in development since the mid 90’s; “made the most bank”, ie. made the 2nd most bank; “disappeared”, ie. Cameron said that there would be 4 sequels and that they’re being worked on; “came back out of nowhere”, ie. the first sequel came out more or less when it was supposed to, and Cameron said in 2020 that filming on Avatar 3 was nearly finished.
- Comment on Protest footage blocked as online safety act comes into force – The Free Speech Union 6 days ago:
I was much happier about 3 minutes ago when I didn’t yet know who that person is
- Comment on Protest footage blocked as online safety act comes into force – The Free Speech Union 6 days ago:
X declined to comment, but its AI chatbot, Grok, indicated the clip had been restricted under the Online Safety Act due to violent content.
Jesus christ do these dumb motherfuckers think that Grok knows things like this?
- Comment on At this point who in the world could stop Trump over doing something totally illegal? Like lets say using bunker buster bombs to destroy DEM cities? Or is USA communially FUCKED? 1 week ago:
So it’s fine as long as they’re not literally murdering people?
- Comment on At this point who in the world could stop Trump over doing something totally illegal? Like lets say using bunker buster bombs to destroy DEM cities? Or is USA communially FUCKED? 1 week ago:
Just like the Marines refues to be deployed to California
- Comment on Makes sense to me 1 week ago:
Not every day you see a monkey driving a pickup
- Comment on Trump Agriculture Chief Mocked for Suggesting Medicaid Recipients Could Replace Deported Farm Workers 3 weeks ago:
I think this is just a regular dystopia, not a boring dystopia
- Comment on DeepSeek accused of powering China’s military and mining US user data 5 weeks ago:
The US was Europe’s biggest ally.
If you don’t understand what has changed, you’re mentally deficient
- Comment on DeepSeek accused of powering China’s military and mining US user data 5 weeks ago:
Weeeellll I mean, they do make up shit all the time, but that’s just great power politics for you. What’s left for us little people is to decide which overlord is the least bad
- Comment on DeepSeek accused of powering China’s military and mining US user data 5 weeks ago:
EXPLOSIVE ALLEGATION
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 5 weeks ago:
I mean, he did specifically come up with his idiotic “Hyperloop” concept to kill California’s high speed rail project
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 5 weeks ago:
I think that’s called “murder”
- Comment on DeepSeek accused of powering China’s military and mining US user data 5 weeks ago:
How is this a revelation to fucking anyone? Will we be seeing eXpLoSiVe allegations of OpenAI and Anthropic working with the US military, or is that fine?
I’m European so I certainly don’t trust the US any more than China. Probably even less.
- Comment on A useless add-on Russia’s Wikipedia replacement is touting its integrated AI — but the results are underwhelming 1 month ago:
Imagine my utter shock.
I’ll be surprised once the Russians actually manage to do something right
- Comment on What happened to the fediverse stats here? 1 month ago:
Hanlon’s Razor is all well and good as a heuristic, but tends to lead to people discounting malice much too often
- Comment on What happened to the fediverse stats here? 1 month ago:
I absolutely don’t know, but my guess would be spambots or somesuch
- Comment on Anker recalls over a million power banks due to fire and burn hazards 1 month ago:
You should stop using the PowerCore 10000 ‘immediately’
Engadget “journalists” don’t know how to use quotes
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
But isn’t that still your pride talking?
I guess what I’m trying to get at here is that I doubt the people giving the gift see your son (or you) as a charity case. To your son’s best friend it’s just about giving his bestie a gift he knows he’ll like
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If they’re actually wealthy and they said this was just chump change for them, and it was a gift, I just don’t quite see where the “unhealthy dynamic” is. You sure this isn’t just about pride?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If they’re fine with it, what’s the problem exactly?
- Comment on Why is it ok to replace -ed at the end of a word with -t in some cases? For example, why are "vexed" and "vext" both acceptable, but "thrilled" and "thrilt" aren't? 2 months ago:
feel like hangovers from an old mediaeval version of the language.
This is pure conjecture on my part, but I think that might be the explanation.
Also like @Forester@pawb.social alluded to, English really isn’t one language, but more like 4(+) languages in a trench coat pretending to be one. Lots of weird shit that really doesn’t make much sense unless viewed from a perspective of language development & history
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Is there a yoga community? They might be into this sort of stuff too
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Third, try to enjoy your life.
The irony
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Unrelated but:
ex top-tech employee who is incredibly happier now that I left
As another recovering IT professional: ain’t nothing incredible about that.
I’d rather starve than work in IT again.