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- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 6 days ago:
But musk paid for this when he supported trump’s election funds. Now he has to get his govt handouts… the system works /s
- Comment on The 5 stages of Charles Manson 6 days ago:
I hate to read the daily mail, and can only apologise for linking to it but the story is great.
They kept him in a motel for a week, before letting him visit a store where he contacted someone who contacted his mum, to come rescue him …
The victim was rescued only when his captors allowed him a brief trip to a nearby Speedway convenience store on March 21, as reported by FOX8. During the moment of freedom, he managed to make contact with someone who then alerted his mother. ‘When he was there, he made contact with an individual, who got in contact with the victim’s mother,’ Sprow explained. His mother immediately rushed to the Red Roof Inn to rescue her son, and police were called to the scene.
- Comment on U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs 1 week ago:
Next up GPUs require always-on connections and Nvidia releases a monthly subscription to pay for that.
- Comment on Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers 1 week ago:
Stack Exchange is a business owned by investment company Prosus, and the Stack Exchange products include private versions of its site (Stack Overflow for Teams)
Private equity milking another product dry.
- Comment on A Useful Invention 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on I said gin. WTF is this shit. 3 weeks ago:
😂 perfect decoration for a pub.
- Comment on I said gin. WTF is this shit. 3 weeks ago:
Are those alcohol abstinence medals or coins on the table?
- Comment on Golfing with the moms 3 weeks ago:
When I’ve been to a driving range there’s someone employed with a golf cart who drives around collecting the balls.
I thought this was a personal ball gobbler and based on the original image it seemed rather impractical, but the big sticky arms makes it much more useful.
- Comment on Golfing with the moms 3 weeks ago:
Well that’ll teach me for only looking at the picture. That seems much more efficient.
- Comment on Golfing with the moms 3 weeks ago:
It looks like someone can just pull this along behind them and it’ll pick up the balls and deposit them in the basket.
On the one hand I’m pressed by the engineering, but the other part of me asks is it worth the effort of buying and carrying this device if only collecting a single person’s balls. Seems a lot of effort when one could just pick the 10 balls up by hand …
- Comment on I can't pay rent because devs just don't care 4 weeks ago:
I write tests and test my own code, but we also have UAT tests that are completed by others independently. Complex systems with lots of moving parts require lots of testing.
- Comment on I can't pay rent because devs just don't care 5 weeks ago:
I’m a dev and I hate releasing buggy code but I’m not in charge of testing or the amount of testing we do before release.
- Comment on Philosophy moment 5 weeks ago:
The teachers answer is perfect. If the phone has the same number then it’s the same phone. If it has a different number then it’s going to be a pain for the student to update all his contacts “new phone, who dis”
- Comment on Fr Fr 1 month ago:
Le Chat
The phrase you’re asking about is a play on words and internet slang. Here’s a breakdown:
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Rizzler: This term refers to someone who has “rizz,” which is slang for charisma or the skill of attracting the opposite sex.
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Fanum Tax: This is an internet slang term that means stealing someone’s food or being entitled to some of it. It’s often used humorously online.
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Beta: In internet slang, a “beta” often refers to someone who is perceived as lacking confidence or assertiveness, often contrasted with an “alpha” who is seen as dominant or confident.
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Rizzness: This is a play on “rizz,” referring to the quality of being charming or attractive.
So, the phrase “Catch a lowkey beta a fish, and you can Fanum tax him” means that if you help someone who is less confident (a beta) by giving them a fish, you can then take some of their food (Fanum tax them). The second part, “Teach a beta to fish, and you destroy a top-tier rizzness opportunity,” suggests that by teaching them to be self-sufficient, you lose the chance to show off your own charm or attractiveness.
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- Comment on Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances 1 month ago:
“Krebs, through CISA, falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen, including by inappropriately and categorically dismissing widespread election malfeasance and serious vulnerabilities with voting machines,” the presidential missive. This despite the complete lack of credible evidence of any voting irregularities or inaccurate results in the 2020 election of Joe Biden as president.
Trump sure likes his revenge. I wonder when people will start falling out of windows.
- Comment on I should wash my hair. 1 month ago:
…you’ll find the red for pubic hair.
- Comment on Do it 1 month ago:
All I wanna do is have some fun …
- Comment on FBI nabs worker at DVD company for ripping prerelease blockbusters 2 months ago:
Soon it became dangerous to download the movie, though, as popular demand for the movie quickly put a target on downloaders’ backs and scammers soon planted malware in Spider-Man movie torrents that ReasonLabs reported used the movie to “lure in as many victims as possible.”
ReasonLabs said that the malware was “likely from a Russian torrenting site.” It took over the would-be Spider-Man movie watchers’ computers without setting off Windows Defender and with the goal of cryptomining in the background for the bad actors’ benefit.
- Comment on I am at a loss on words 2 months ago:
Nice explanation. However I’d argue the bottom right panel is different because the right hand door is the back door of the car, and therefore, different to frames 2 and 3.
- Comment on Oh shit, I thought about my life for a second. 2 months ago:
What about endless scrolling, that always helps too
- Comment on Will buying an e-ink reader with Android 11 be an issue in a couple of years? 3 months ago:
I don’t doubt your experiences. However I worry about things like Pressreader that require a subscription or any sort of DRM or security.
I have the meebook 7 and mostly use Moon reader.
- Comment on 2,000 year old book about Roman emperors enters bestseller charts 3 months ago:
Sex scandals and foreign policy failures don’t only beleaguer the modern politician, it turns out: in the early second century, the scholar Suetonius chronicled the dramas of the first set of Roman emperors, and now, their indiscretions and eccentricities have been dug up in a new translation which is proving popular in bookshops.
The Lives of the Caesars, translated from Latin by The Rest Is History podcast co-host Tom Holland, made the Sunday Times hardback nonfiction chart this week. Publisher Penguin Classics said that the book is the first of their hardback nonfiction classics to appear on the list.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Using gboard with UK layout here’s me typing a bunch I can remember, it autocorrected all of them. Would be interesting to see the dictionary as a list.
Zeus Herodias Herodotus Aphrodite Pegasus Nike - Greek
Mars Romulus Remus Bacchus - Roman
Valhalla Thor Odin Ragnarok Woden - Norse …
Kali Vishnu Brahma
- Comment on We have all done it 3 months ago:
…wikipedia.org/…/Execution_of_Torrijos_and_his_Co…
It’s a great meme, story behind the painting less so.
- Comment on Thames Water seeks court approval for emergency cash 3 months ago:
Yes, and lots of bonuses for c-suite I’m sure.
I was pretending that water supply/treamtment is not a monopoly and that under the free market businesses will provide the best service to customers whilst ensuring the business is sustainable. independent.co.uk/…/thames-water-dividend-payouts…
- Comment on Thames Water seeks court approval for emergency cash 3 months ago:
Yep, how can the benefits of competition and reward play out if there’s no punishment for failure.
- Comment on AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications 3 months ago:
I use ai to apply for job. The recruiter uses AI to sift the applications.
Who needs humans.
- Comment on I guess I'll just go into work and pretend like nothing happened 4 months ago:
It’s a doozy
- Comment on Well, Athens wasn't built in a day. 6 months ago:
Careful, you’ve gone so far down the maze you’ll need a trail of breadcrumbs to find your way back
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 7 months ago:
I’m pretty sure they did.
Six months after he was first sent to fight, he was struggling with post-traumatic […] Before he was due to redeploy, he took his own life.