laranis
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- Comment on See ya. 9 hours ago:
Honestly, I think six is likely the right number for this to work. I don’t recall how many boys were in Lord of the Flies, but you get to 10-15 and you’re absolutely going to start forming factions. And a hierarchy. And with more opinions you get more disagreements, and you’re right back to Lord of the Flies.
- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 1 week ago:
They’re ads for microphones. Any brand logo you can see clearly in-frame I assume is a paid product placement. Your favorite folksy, down to earth content creator just “keeping it real” has to make a living. And sponsorships and advertising is how it has been done since the start. Your favorite personality, at the end of the day, is an actor working for corporations.
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 2 weeks ago:
Easy Macius
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 3 weeks ago:
That sounds completely logical to me. Did having a hunk of aluminum answer the question for you? Or did it only drive a more insatiable desire to hold elemental materials?
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 3 weeks ago:
Six years later, at least I know how to weld now. Sort of.
The most important part of the Dunning Kruger curve! And welding is a fantastic example. You go from “this hot melty thing is scary” to “dang, I can make metal stick to itself!” to “that weld looks kinda professional” to “holy crap there’s a whole science and art to this I will never have the time to fully learn”.
Is your school bus now something usable? Would love to hear about a successful impulse buy!
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Thinking about the whole “Antifa is a terror organization” announcement from our dear leader.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Next step: “It is un-American not to have Disney+ in your household. Only members of Antifa or trans people don’t have Disney+. It will be mandatory for every patriotic God loving US citizen to have Disney+ in their home and on at least three hours per week. Anyone found not to be watching the party approved level of Disney programming will be taxed $21.99 per month and the proceeds put into a new ‘Mickey Patriot Fund’.”
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 3 weeks ago:
A-fucking-men
- Comment on labubu 3 weeks ago:
I am a good benchmark for this stuff. If I know what Labubu is because I had to find it on Urban Dictionary then it has run its course.
The other canary is NPR. Anything on NPR is a dead meme.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 3 weeks ago:
Here’s the thing… I want to be sold something. Not anything, but certain somethings. There was a brief time when Google AdSense was new that I was excited for the experience. (I now know how fucking stupid I was, but hey, I was young).
The idea that a new product aligned to my interests and designed with me in mind would be advertised to me instead of feminine hygiene products or mesothelioma lawsuit ads seemed awesome.
I do not want your bullshit hype machine alpha male inside club cool kid image peddled as the reason I should hand you my money. You’ve got the wrong guy. Tell me what it does with a side of what I can do with it. And the “what I can do with it” shouldn’t be “get laid”.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 3 weeks ago:
Anyone who bought one of these ridiculous monstrosities and didn’t expect ads is an idiot.
- Comment on Hardest battles 4 weeks ago:
This applies to so many facets of life. It is only hard if you care. Like parenting.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 5 weeks ago:
In your analogy I think Google sells chainsaws, lumber, wood stoves, and paper pulp.
- Comment on A Love Letter To Internet Relay Chat 5 weeks ago:
Glorious.
- Comment on success 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on do you apologize, even if it's not your fault just to make the other person feel validated? 5 weeks ago:
I will fake apologize if it helps get me what I want. Maybe that makes me a narcissist or disingenuous but so fucking what. It’s manipulation all the way down. Always has been. My “pride” is a small price to pay.
- Comment on bet you can think of more 1 month ago:
- Talk more with your neighbors
Unless your neighbors are part of the problem.
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 1 month ago:
And their parents allow them to blast the sound in public with no headphones. I can’t fathom the lack of give-a-fucks for their fellow humans (to include their own children).
- Comment on Taco Bell Says 'No Más' to AI Drive-Thru Experiment 1 month ago:
This. I’m watching it in real time. I want to grab these fuckers by the shirt and shake them until they get it.
Instead, they’ll get promoted and leave the mess to be cleaned up by someone else.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 month ago:
Maybe to help the OP I’ll add a bit to your answer. The entire face of an analog clock is divided into fractional sections. Sounds like you’re really good at parsing those fractions, likely due to lots of practice.
So, big hand after the nine and before the ten? Between :45 and :50. First half of that? Between :46 and :47. More toward the beginning of the split? :46
Maybe OP hasn’t had as much practice so has to think about what 9 is in minutes? Nothing but practice would help get over that, I guess.
- Comment on New memory unlocked! Chips Challenge 1 month ago:
Loved this! This was the same era as a game called “Castle of the Winds” that was a top-down RPG with a similar tile based layout with a distinct Win 3.1 feel. I remember getting it as a part of one of those shareware compilation disks and ending up actually buying the extended version because it was so much fun.
Link for those craving a bit of nostalgia.
- Comment on Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems 1 month ago:
text within an image should not be able to initiate sensitive tool calls
What level of bullshit lax security are these folks using that makes this statement is necessary?!
Incentives are aligned to go fast and break stuff, and what gets broken is your privacy and security.
- Comment on Creating dogs 1 month ago:
I’ll admit to survivor bias in this case.
- Comment on Creating dogs 1 month ago:
I’ve never met a dog who wouldn’t willingly make this trade.
- Comment on Incident 1 month ago:
Let’s not put the blame only on the parents. Anyone who has spent more than 30 seconds working for a corp would understand that taking credit for work does not mean the work got done.
Assuming the diapers aren’t tracked by barcode and there isn’t an independent inspector validating each operation, I would be MORE wary about my kid being well taken care of at a place that measures and tracks work this way. Especially since the types of management that would think this was a good idea are also the type to not understand how work actually gets done and drives to making the metrics look good at the expense of actually caring for human children.
- Comment on Incident 1 month ago:
Hadn’t noticed. I think you’d have to try to get translucent boxes versus a simple solid box. Seems intentional?
- Comment on I've often thought about this 2 months ago:
They had bratwurst for a brief period in select locations. Don’t think they were called McBrats, but damn they were yummy. If I suddenly found myself transported to 1996 I’d seek out McBrats and the bacon cheese burger burrito from Taco Bell.
Then my geriatric heart would explode and I would miss out on buying BitCoin, but it would be worth it.
- Comment on How do I determine what a mystery dongle does? 2 months ago:
I think this is a solved question based on other comments, but can we take a moment to admire that OP has the self control to ask BEFORE removing the device?
I am much more of a push-the-big-red-button-to-see-what-happens kinda person. That dongle wouldn’t have lasted a second on my bench.
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 2 months ago:
Bond. James Bo- hack cough wheeze rasp gasp… cough hack wheeze stumbling fatly
- Comment on Everything is a problem 2 months ago:
First world PTSD intensifies
