aeronmelon
@aeronmelon@lemmy.world
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 2 days ago:
Funny you say that, in Japan it’s common to get business magnets in your junk mail. Stuff like cleaners, in-home therapy, etc.
- Comment on Piping mouse 2 days ago:
This is all I can see:
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 3 days ago:
Yeah, that just makes this so sinister.
What I mean is that my fridge doesn’t have a screen. So if Panasonic decided to show me ads on a fridge where the most complicated feature is the ice maker, that would be a neat trick.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 3 days ago:
Here’s what they look like on my fridge:
I would not buy appliances with ads,
I would not buy them, Sam-I-Am. - Comment on The 1980s summed up in a single photo. 3 days ago:
I remember siting down at fast food restaurants and playing with the little free matchbook sitting in the ashtray.
(Playing meaning reading it and looking at it, I would have been throttled right there if I tried to light one of the matches.)
- Comment on I am always prepared to move into this version of life 5 days ago:
Just replace everything with a bed.
- Comment on Soup 6 days ago:
“I am once again asking for soup.”
- Comment on Relativity 1 week ago:
Proto-XKCD
- Comment on A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light 1 week ago:
In Japan, it’s a law that even software cameras have to make a loud “shutter” sound to guard against voyeuristic photography.
There’s a little cottage industry of third-party camera apps on the Japanese App Store that do little more than replace the default shutter sound with a custom sound… like silence.
- Comment on A single DNS race condition brought AWS to its knees 1 week ago:
As with most IT troubleshooting,
Time spent applying the fix: 15 minutes.
Time spent identifying the problem then discovering where it is in the system: 15 hours.
- Comment on Putin to skip G20 summit in South Africa over arrest fears 1 week ago:
- Comment on Gee I always thought that they were 1 week ago:
Why are all of his fingers the same length?
- Comment on a sight to behold 1 week ago:
Imagine the relief that patient felt. That dump was backed up to the bottom of their neck!
- Comment on egg time 1 week ago:
stings a bear to death
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Rail literally lifted Japan out of the ashes after WWII. And unlike America, Japan allowed passenger rail and other mass transit to build out side-by-side with the rise of the automobile.
The result is that Japan has one of the best public transit systems in the world despite also being a very car-centric country.
- Comment on Don't see the problem! 1 week ago:
Chicken: “Good thing I got here early.”
- Comment on Public service announcement 1 week ago:
“I’m in my fourth gynecologist. Some people just can’t take a joke.”
- Comment on *happy Kenobi dance* 1 week ago:
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 week ago:
Funny, my digitized collection movies and TV shows seems to be working just fine. :3
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Travel back in time 20 years and that sentence makes you sound like a crazy person.
- Comment on Baseball 1 week ago:
Either way, they’re too late to hit the ball, that’s going to be a bean in the shoulder.
- Comment on Pants too! 1 week ago:
The shame socks.
- Comment on I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles 1 week ago:
“Thank you, Mr. Gideon.”
“No, thank you, Mr. Christ.”
- Comment on Quick mafs. 1 week ago:
She need to return that shirt.
- Comment on Interesting sign 1 week ago:
When you’re the leader of the most powerful nation of Earth and you get wrecked beyond recovery by an old lady.
- Comment on Gran Turismo 2 Beige Edition: Teaser Trailer 1 week ago:
I had this idea decades ago. A racing game that only uses mundane and forgettable vehicles. Like a Ford Fiesta vs a Chevy Cavalier wagon.
- Comment on I'm not paying $8 for a pack of Skittles 1 week ago:
The same fucking person!
- Comment on funny little guys 1 week ago:
That looks like something Will Wright’s Spore autogenerated.
- Comment on the humble and disguised crow: 1 week ago:
More like a piledriver.
- Comment on Legendary developer Tomonobu Itagaki, creator of Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden 2004, has died 2 weeks ago:
Japan has one of the longest average lifespans in the world, if their artists are clocking out in their 50s, they are literally being worked to DEATH!
