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- Comment on whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders? 3 weeks ago:
TJ’s isn’t boutique, though. Before I actually shopped there, I conflated it with Fresh Market for years, but it turned out they were far and away the cheapest grocery option anywhere near me until we got Aldi.
I shop Aldi more now because our TJ’s is always so busy, but since they’re all store-brand, their prices are still usually on the low side (other than meats).
- Comment on nostalgia 3 weeks ago:
In a way, sure. What’s unfortunate with such a medium is what a small proportion of the thoughts in the final product are the prompter’s. The machine references countless works that the prompter has no knowledge of, whereas in a medium controlled by the artist, those references (both conscious and subconscious) add meaning to the piece.
- Comment on nostalgia 3 weeks ago:
Art is about thought, not skill.
Skill is required for craft. Can art be well crafted? Hell yeah. Does it have to be? Hell no.
- Comment on nostalgia 3 weeks ago:
AI makes a picture of something that just completely never happened, so the viewer’s imagination doesn’t even bother filling in a story. I think your collection is a thousand times better.
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 3 weeks ago:
If this is in the U.S., teachers typically have to buy their own supplies on meager salaries. Watching one kid literally eat those supplies must be pretty demoralizing.
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t sound like they’re necessarily his erasers though
- Comment on What is in for the antivax in a government? 4 weeks ago:
I broadly agree but there’s not necessarily anything altruistic about the “good” that they’re doing—they’ve just found a way to justify what they want/decide to do, same as everyone. They don’t have to believe it’s good for people or the world. As long as they can find a reason why those harms don’t matter, or convince themselves that those people/the world would’ve been fucked regardless, or figure at least they’re not doing [insert some other scenario they can imagine], they can live with themselves. And they can focus on who it is good for (their kids perhaps, and all the people in their lives who are undoubtedly pressuring them to abuse their power).
I just wanted to speak up for that nuance, because to me “they think they’re doing good” implies that they value the ideals of doing actual good…and I don’t think there’s necessarily true.
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 4 weeks ago:
There are no mainstream Christian denominations that don’t believe that the Old Testament is the word of their God, so I’m not sure how the student could have prepared for that particular nonsense juke
- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 5 weeks ago:
The people at the bottom, yes, probably. But it bears mentioning that the world’s simpletons are just repeating rhetoric that was carefully engineered and fed to them by powerful people who are smart enough to know it’ll make them more powerful.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 month ago:
It’s not a limitation but a matter of precision. The position of the minute hand tells you how far into that minute you are. You don’t need that information, of course. You can just say whatever mark it’s closest to. At 1:00:58, although a digital clock would still read 1:00, it is by all accounts much more accurate to round the minute to 1:01.
So if you just call the time by the minute your minute hand appears closest to, you’ll often be more accurate than a digital clock. It won’t matter. But you’ll know it’s true.
- Comment on Phosphorus 2 months ago:
Yeah he looks stunning in blue
- Comment on Just a reminder that our planet is currently the coolest it will ever be in our, and our children's lifetimes. 2 months ago:
I mean all seriousness aside, that photo is pretty fucking cool
- Comment on If suffering is good because it gives life meaning, wouldn't it follow that hurting people is good? 2 months ago:
In the context of the premise, absolutely not, because there is plenty of suffering to go around already.
- Comment on My Take Home Pay 3 months ago:
I agree with everything you’re saying, except my john is just down the hall…so when we’re going, we don’t need roads
- Comment on It is what it is 3 months ago:
Oh man, I envy your opinion of other people. Hold onto that as long as you can.
- Comment on 🤯🤯🤯 4 months ago:
Absorbent, because he’s a sponge. Absorbent and yellow and porous. Obnoxiousness is just bonus.
- Comment on The Think Tank Behind Project 2025 Just Published Trump's Iran War Plan 4 months ago:
Depends on which American you’re speaking to. It’s a big country.
- Comment on Where does technology come from in Star Wars? 4 months ago:
Was R2D2’s narration intended to be subtitled…?
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 4 months ago:
I absolutely agree, and having lived through it, it’s infuriating the way they intentionally exclude/call out kids whose parents haven’t signed them up or who haven’t sold any trash. They’ll send the kids home to sign up 10 email addresses and on the second day they’ll come back with some piece of shit stuffed animal for everybody who did it. A little kid doesn’t understand that the whole thing is a fucking scam. They’re just sitting in school watching the rest of their class play with cool new toys.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 4 months ago:
Public primary and secondary schools do not typically have stadiums.
- Comment on Where do I go if I want to find someone to help me make an app game? 5 months ago:
Scratch is a simple drag and drop app kids use to learn to code. I’ve seen kids create pretty elaborate games with it. Maybe you could play with that and figure out if your concept is in fact simple enough to create on your own.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
This may have more to do with the instructor of your second language, because pronunciation is taught. If your German teacher is French (or French Canadian) or learned German from someone who otherwise accented it in such a way, then that’s how you’re most likely to accent it. Only about one in five Canadians learn French as their first language, so outside of Quebec, they’re really not secret French speakers masquerading as English speakers.
With French as Canada’s second official language, though, it would not be surprising if the majority of Canada’s foreign language teachers spoke French either first or second (but I say this without research or evidence, so it’s just an irresponsible hypothesis.)
- Comment on Localization note: the Australian liberal party is right wing 6 months ago:
Transcript says “excretable” but image says “execrable.”
- Comment on Localization note: the Australian liberal party is right wing 6 months ago:
The way those two words are used internationally can sometimes be confusing to Americans, which is why it’s helpful to refer to left- and right-wing clarifications when given.
- Comment on Is this picture idea immature? 6 months ago:
Don’t do it if you’re trying to date your sister.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
The photo, however, shows search and rescue robots.
- Comment on This is funny. 6 months ago:
While Tombstone has a few historical exaggerations, its treatment of Doc Holliday’s death aligns with Costamos’ firm devotion to accuracy. Val Kilmer utters the same words as his real-life counterpart as he dies. As he looks at his bare feet, he utters, “This is funny.” These three words were also overheard in 1887 and overheard by Holliday’s attending nurse.
True to life, Holliday was a quick-witted talker until the end. Even so, his final words left some fans puzzled. While some contend that Doc’s last statement was about his nurse’s refusal to give him some parting (from the mortal realm) booze, his words were actually about his bare feet.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 6 months ago:
To be fair, it was common then, so it wouldn’t have seemed shady.
- Comment on Why do some say they own or have bought something that they technically haven't (e.g. domain names, expensive things, etc.)? 6 months ago:
It does, sure. It helps to understand that the debt is separate from the property, same as if you borrowed $20 for lunch—it feels a lot different from your friend buying you lunch, but it doesn’t feel like your friend owns your lunch until you repay them, either.
With real estate especially, once the property begins to require your attention and money, you begin to feel that ownership more acutely. The bank has no idea when the gutters need to be cleared or there’s a drainage issue. They’re concerned only with the loan.
- Comment on Why do some say they own or have bought something that they technically haven't (e.g. domain names, expensive things, etc.)? 6 months ago:
When you take out a loan/mortgage, the bank does not own the property you purchase with those funds. You own the property, and you use it essentially as collateral to secure the loan. (It’s considered a lien.) The bank can take ownership of the property if you violate the terms of the agreement, typically by failing to pay what you owe, but the bank doesn’t own the property.