TheAlbatross
@TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Samsung’s latest stick vac can alert you to calls and text messages 4 days ago:
Why the fuck would someone spend a grand on a vacuum that does all that extra stupid shit?
A vacuum just needs to suck.
- Comment on Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind? 1 week ago:
I think one has to decide if their country is worth fighting for or not.
- Comment on What mythologies have poor representation in media, in your opinion? 1 week ago:
Not quite on topic but I think it’s crazy that Smite features the gods of extant religions like Hinduism but doesn’t have a character that transformers between The Father, Son and Holy Ghost with unique move sets for each
- Comment on Is this true? Software companies had diversity quotas to meet, and realized it was easier to turn autistic men into women than it was to turn women into software engineers 2 weeks ago:
Lmaooo dumbest thing I’ve read in a while
- Comment on Men who have their balls removed at an early age are 300% more successful. 2 weeks ago:
You are beautiful, no matter what they said to you.
While all of God’s creatures join him in chorus when he sings, your voice reaches just ever so little closer to the heavenly almighty.
- Comment on Men who have their balls removed at an early age are 300% more successful. 2 weeks ago:
Can I have the extras? I’ve always wondered what 4 would be like.
- Comment on My Dog Buddy just turned 4 years old yesterday. I flew home for it. And we give him all kinds of snacks and treats all day long. Question is. Does he actually know its his B-Day or just we are..... 2 weeks ago:
I think there could be some debate about how intelligent dogs are, but let’s brush right past that and assume they’re about as intelligent as humans.
Do you innately know it’s your birthday? Without a calendar, would you be able to tell it’s the annual anniversary of your birth? Let’s imagine further still that a bunch of other creatures (that you trust, but with whom you cannot effectively communicate) suddenly approach you in celebration and give you food, objects and attention. Would you be able to figure out why?
I think if you think it’s important that your dog understands it’s his birthday and you’re celebrating it with him, then, sure, he does. Buuuuut I dunno how realistic an assumption that is.
- Comment on Please tell me I'm not going nuts 3 weeks ago:
Oh, honey, no… the Democrats aren’t gonna help us. They never wanted to help us.
- Comment on It probably won't give you nightmares or anything 5 weeks ago:
8 year old me was so excited to play that game and I can remember being in the basement running around Hyrule and encountering my first Redead. The corpse got up from the ground, turning in that stilting fashion, screaming, and leaping onto my back and biting my neck until I died. I was petrified for a moment, I then turned off the game and didn’t come back to play it until I was twice that age.
Fuckin great game tho
- Comment on The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World • Arafou Otoko no Isekai Tsuuhan Seikatsu - Episode 8 discussion 5 weeks ago:
What the hell is a middle aged online shopper?? Is this a category of stereotypes that exist or is it just word jumble?
- Comment on It seems some higher level moderation of communities may be required 1 month ago:
You’re going to run into this with almost any “conservative” community. To be a conservative, you have to be somewhat tolerant of Neo-Nazis to some degree, with the current way the world is. So you either need a non-conservative moderator or you’ll have a situation where the conservative moderator will perpetually be stepping in to say “now cmon guys, we all wanna have fun but the site admins are really specific about not saying the quiet part out loud, so keep thinking it but not saying it”
- Comment on Chip companies should package all the broken pieces in the factory and sell it as: "Chip Dust". 1 month ago:
Thats how All Dressed chips are made.
- Comment on YSK You can substitue blood for eggs in recipes 1 month ago:
In what sort of recipes? I doubt you can whip blood into stiff peaks for merengue.
- Comment on Kopi Luwak 2 months ago:
Dude in the last panel looks like they’re a little picky about which animals shit they brew into coffee
- Comment on RedNote may wall off “TikTok refugees” to prevent US influence on Chinese users 2 months ago:
That seems to be the vibe. I’m mostly looking at the food content and one thing I really like is when someone posts a video or photo of a dish they’ve made, people reply with pictures of their own versions of the same thing and heap compliments on each other.
You, like, absolutely need to use a translator. There’s no in app translation and it’s primarily Chinese people posting and replying in Chinese. But Google Translate works almost perfectly. I have had a number of back and forth conversations and while I’m sure “my” Chinese looks off, I’ve never had a conversation break down because a reply doesn’t make sense.
- Comment on RedNote may wall off “TikTok refugees” to prevent US influence on Chinese users 2 months ago:
That would be a shame. I’m really enjoying the app, sharing pictures of food and recipes with people half a globe away is really cool. And there’s a lot of interest in fishing in China, it’s cool to see their techniques, what they do the same, what they do differently.
And everyone is just so nice! They’ve built a really positive community and culture on RedNote and it’s unique to be able to see that kind of thing work, at least compared to American social media.
I get why they don’t want US influence and what-not and I could see how a bunch of Americans treating it like Tiktok would be problematic for maintaining the vibe they’ve cultivated, but it’s a really refreshing change of pace from other social media.
- Comment on Watching Enterprise for the very first time 2 months ago:
What’s so odd about those scenes is that the camera is far hornier than the actors. The crew is mostly very professional and chaste about decon, but the camera is leering at their bodies as they do it.
- Comment on Watching Enterprise for the very first time 2 months ago:
Enterprise is a lot better if you assume the crew is supposed to be inept, inexperienced and kinda stupid.
That makes zero sense considering humans have been exploring for centuries and already come up with protocols to handle the situations that seem to repeatedly cause issues for the NX-01 crew, but maybe thinking isn’t helpful for enjoying the show.
- Comment on The $1999 Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 makes the rest of the RTX 50 series look suspiciously sensible 2 months ago:
Hey that’s how pricing models work!
Fuck buying that expensive shit, cheaper shit will do everything you want anyway.
- Comment on ‘Lower Decks’ Series Finale “The New Next Generation” Review, Plus Mike McMahan Interview 3 months ago:
That’s the end of Lower Decks?
Paramount doesn’t know how to handle the wonderful IP they own…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Yah the question fits but the title should be edited.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
The word is trans woman. What you’ve said is fairly derogatory.
In short, yes. Longer, there are some factors at play that can determine this. Some women taking estrogen lose some function in their penises and obviously women who’ve undergone vaginoplasty will face other challenges impregnating someone else.
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 4 months ago:
That’s fair. I meant cost as in cost to me, the consumer, which is the price, but I think what you’ve said here is a valuable thing to consider when wondering why it’s so expensive and yet shit now.
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 4 months ago:
The feeling bad part is aging.
Quality has absolutely gone down, though, while cost has gone way up.
- Comment on New Star Trek community 4 months ago:
It kinda feels like you’re dancing around saying anything truly pertinent to the conversation
- Comment on New Star Trek community 4 months ago:
It’s a crazy belief to say fascism is bad? I’m, like, utterly confused on how this is congruent with enjoying a show about a post-scarcity socialist utopia that promotes infinite diversity in infinite combinations.
- Comment on New Star Trek community 4 months ago:
What crazy political beliefs do you see being pushed there?
- Comment on New Star Trek community 4 months ago:
You’re concerned about what?
- Comment on Fortnite Chapter 2 Remix and Black Ops 6 nuketown this weekend, which will you be playing? 5 months ago:
Factorio!! This work week has been hell and I have a week PTO starting Monday. So time to put in some effort in an asynchronous multi-player game with a friend.
I’ve been playing Papers Please in the 30 min or so I have for gaming in the evenings lately. I might play more of that to see if I can get all the endings.
Unless the weather is nice. Then I’m going fishing.
- Comment on How do I tell Pennsylvania I no longer live there? 5 months ago:
I don’t think you can stop the calls or texts, elections are a product just like everything else here and those are the ads.
They got your info and you can’t take it back now