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- Comment on I took a picture of the back of my pizza box for you guys just in case you were stuck home because of the snow and needed something to do. 8 minutes ago:
Answer Key:
spoiler
- Comment on Hey Micro$haft, how's it going? 1 day ago:
I got 99 problems but Saddam ain’t one.
- Comment on If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations? 1 day ago:
Not the cheapest, but I quite like Njalla.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Username checks out.
How do you connect to the internet? If it’s cable internet or something similar and you don’t have a static IP address, reboot your router until you have a new IP address and then try making a new throwaway email and using that to make a new reddit account.
But really you should just ditch reddit and if you want to view it without logging in or interacting that is always still possible.
- Comment on Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company 3 days ago:
Cancelling Beyond Good & Evil 2 for a 13th time, huh?
- Comment on "Hey Butthead what if this place is like, the manifestation of all our sins?" 3 days ago:
Come to Butthead.
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 3 days ago:
They also go great with dipping in olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
- Comment on The holy journey 4 days ago:
LSD is often distributed on small pieces of paper that you dose by putting them on your tongue and letting them dissolve.
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge 4 days ago:
Ha, exactly, just like how Holmes dressed like Steve Jobs.
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge 4 days ago:
What other poor decisions are they making all the time?
See also: investment in Theranos.
- Comment on Yummy yummy, in my tummy 6 days ago:
Forbidden Gummygoo
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 6 days ago:
They’re trying really fucking hard to make fetch happen.
Which is dumb because neofetch, fastfetch, hyfetch, and uwufetch all already exist!
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Love these lyrics, gonna have to give that song a spin, thanks.
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 6 days ago:
Back in them boingboing days.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I mean pretty easy for a skinny girl whose profile is nothing but thirst trap pics with a link to her onlyfans page to say.
Not so easy for the unfortunate looking women who hit on me and I politely try to let them down as kindly as possible.
There are extremely sadly ugly people out there of all genders. They didn’t ask to be born that way but it is not easy for them.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 1 week ago:
It’s worthwhile you mention Sarajevo, and in reference to that I will post this tidbit posted by a MetaFilter user in 2009 regarding their experience in the siege of Sarajevo.
Well, unlike the majority of you (I assume), I actually lived several years in a period of savagery and killing, during which nothing - food, water, electricity, phone, clothing, sense of safety, school, the ability to go out in public, etc - was available, except during totally unpredictable, brief and sporadic occasions.
Of those who couldn’t leave my city, Sarajevo:
Some people (very few) were prepared for what they thought would be the “long haul” - this tended to be a couple of months. These people were widely seen as lunatics and dangerously pessimistic ones at that.
Most people were not at all prepared. This included my family. Many of those - like my family - considered the idea of “preparation” to be an affront to the decency we felt most people possessed. Were we wrong? Well, I don’t know. We suffered greatly; my parents were killed. But speaking only for myself, I never felt I cheapened my soul by betting on calamity. Today, that still feels like it’s worth something.
But here’s the main point: “Preparing” for the disaster really didn’t do anyone much good. Those who “prepared” ate a little better for a while. They stayed warmer for a few extra days. They enjoyed the radio for a while longer (via batteries.) But in the end, they ended up hungry, cold and bored too, just like the rest of us. Guns and weapons helped no one directly and were even of little to no use in the defense of Sarajevo, since they were toys compared to the shells, bombs and high-powered armaments of the attacking forces. The worst parts of war were psychological - the fear, anxiety, boredom, loneliness, paranoia, bad dreams. Respite from those things came with sharing food with a neighbor, finding a piece of clothing that would fit someone you knew, commiserating with others in your position, figuring out how to make make-up from brick or french fries from wheat paste and spreading this newly-acquired war knowledge around the mahala.
We knew who had extra food and supplies. For the most part, they weren’t attacked or hassled or bothered. Contrary to what these survivalists say, those in dire times generally hold on to their personal sense of pride even more than they do in normal times. I’d take a bite of a friend’s salad without bothering to ask in normal times. I’d never have done that in wartime, no matter how hungry I was.
Within the domain of those trapped in the city, civility greatly increased.
You often hear how Holocaust survivors felt guilt at surviving. Well, during war, that was a feeling everyone was aware of - people started dying right away (my parents were killed near the start of the siege, for instance) - and there was a palpable enough common sense of karma to make everyone into good Samaritans. None of us understood why we survived while others didn’t. I shared food when I had it, even though I often knew I wouldn’t have a crumb the next day. Which was no big achievement, because nearly everyone did the same.
Those who’d prepared, well, the majority of them shared their food and whatever else they had as soon as someone else was clearly in need. I can’t swear it, but I think they felt a little foolish to have been so self-obsessed, and giving away that stuff might have lessened that feeling. There were a few people who hoarded things until they ran out of stuff - eventually everybody ran out of anything worth hoarding - and they soon became wishful beggars like the rest of us. Again, I can’t swear it, but I hear stories, and it seems that these people suffer from post-war trauma, guilt and nightmares more than the rest of us.
Those survivalists, I feel sorry for them. It’s no way to live.
posted by Dee Xtrovert at 9:33 PM on January 28, 2009
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Windows officially is more complicated and needs more jumping through hoops to use than fucking Linux.
Literally having to give up and resort to, not a Powershell terminal mind you, but the traditional command prompt.
Microsoft, fix your fucking shit god.
- Comment on Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...? 1 week ago:
It’s not actually called “sex change surgery” it is called gender affirmation surgery and/or gender reassignment surgery.
So it’s not so much a misnomer as it is uninformed people using the wrong terminology entirely.
- Comment on I have two questions 1 week ago:
What would the animators do if they have their own way?
Get paid better. I think fewer of them are as interested in the final product than they are getting a paycheck that isn’t a joke.
- Comment on And that's final 1 week ago:
Do you want the mustache on or off?
Too bad.
- Comment on AI Is Scheming, and Stopping It Won’t Be Easy, OpenAI Study Finds 1 week ago:
Humans have the ability to actually think.
That’s a stretch for an inordinate number of humans, sadly.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud 1 week ago:
I still think it’s funny that he went from working at Valve as their Economist in residence studying digital markets to being the finance minister of Greece. I think the Valve job was more prestigious, especially since the rest of the EU was committed to fucking over Greece at the time.
- Comment on AI Is Scheming, and Stopping It Won’t Be Easy, OpenAI Study Finds 1 week ago:
To be fair, you can’t control what humans optimize what you’re trying to teach them either. A lot of times they learn the opposite of what you’re trying to teach them. I’ve said it before but all they managed to do with LLMs is make a computer that’s just as unreliable (if not moreso) than your below-average human.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud 1 week ago:
you’ll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud
- Comment on groceries 1 week ago:
Devs, fix this exploit, pls. Cheaters taking advantage.
- Comment on Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...? 1 week ago:
also sorry if the seahorse is hard to see
I am emotionally damaged and triggered from seeing this seahorse. It was a very hard thing for me to see.
- Comment on Someone should really do something 1 week ago:
Somebody is doing something and that something is naming birds awesome names.
- Comment on Bees 1 week ago:
- Comment on groceries 1 week ago:
Technically I think that’s how all groceries start, by being farmed.
- Comment on groceries 1 week ago:
Why settle for rare when you can grind for a legendary drop?
