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- Comment on What's the deal with people liking old devices? 1 day ago:
I agree with the general takes here, and can add one for specific situations. I have some very old keyboards, and frankly even my newer ones rely on designs that are over 40 years old. In this particular case, I find the old tech superior, because they simply feel nicer to type on, and that’s what a keyboard is for.
I also have quite a few fountain pens, but whereas with a little effort the keyboards are as good or better than an average modern model, I’ll admit there is a fussiness and mess with fountain pens you have to weigh against the nicer writing experience.
- Comment on Oklahoma city council members welcomed a Google data center. Now they face a recall. 1 day ago:
Good for the recall folks. That’s funny that the supporters think the 1000 construction jobs will be for locals and not the specialized oilfield-like firms that are already staffed up to work these projects, or that Google will have 200 permanent staffers tied to the location and contributing to the town’s tax base.
- Comment on The artificial gravity generators never seem to get destroyed in space battles. 1 day ago:
“Gravity plating!” As long as there is floor, you’re good.
- Comment on The Art of the Deal 2 days ago:
Also, won’t anyone think about the fact that Trump literally makes energy policy based on the fact that he thinks wind turbines are ugly?
- Comment on Star Trek: Legacy Series Fans Want Most Is “Never Gonna Happen,” Says TNG’s Marina Sirtis 1 week ago:
It’s at about 43:00 in the embedded video, and yeah, that’s probable, but the question was posed to the panel about what their characters would explore in a hypothetical Legacy show, so unless she’s been right on top of it, it feels like a fair assumption for her to have made that they’d be among the leads.
As an aside, I think I would absolutely love hanging out with Marina Sirtis for exactly one day, and I would be utterly exhausted at the idea of spending any longer than that. In her interviews, she is always a delight, but also a lot.
- Comment on Infinity vape gauntlet 1 week ago:
While they’ve got it apart, they can make sure to use a high quality battery!
- Comment on Conservatives: Libz don't even know what a woman is. Also Conservatives: *constantly engage with purely synthetic creations thinking that they are women.* 1 week ago:
That one’s not actually a problem. The flag is always “hoist side forward” to symbolize a no-retreat mentality. We shall ignore Vietnam and Afghanistan, and how that goes in the reign of President “why they no helping me?!?” remains to be seen.
- Comment on The spirit is willing but the body is weak 1 week ago:
I believe the correct adjectives are “spongy” and “bruised.”
- Comment on Meirl 2 weeks ago:
I particularly did this when I was in the UK or Japan, but that’s more because I have no faith that I will remember to pick the correct way.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 2 weeks ago:
I’m not trapped in here with you. You’re trapped in here with me!
- Comment on How we are brought into this world 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Linux rules! How do you like my desktop? 3 weeks ago:
It really kicks the
llama’sgnu’s ass - Comment on Ads used to be different 💔 4 weeks ago:
The actual ad, if one is feeling like a fuddy duddy.
- Comment on 29 years since our homecoming queen was taken from us 4 weeks ago:
Like a candle in the wind…
- Comment on Expecto patronum my ass! 4 weeks ago:
The first Fantastic Beasts movie is set in New York, and it makes several appearances in the supporting lore books. Apparently, Americans don’t really like Quidditch, preferring some sort of magical-explosions basketball-ish game.
- Comment on I assure you, it's not good. 5 weeks ago:
Okay, so I’ll point out that Murray Rothbard and David Gordon are prominent in the “Everything should be completely equal and fair as long as we first enshrine my generations of privilege” Austrian-school economists, beloved of white guys everywhere who never got over their Ayn Rand phase.
- Comment on Anti-Woke means asleep. A pictorial example inside. 5 weeks ago:
With apologies to the baseball fans in the room…
The definition of woke:
You can’t just be up there and just doin’ a woke like that.
1a. Woke is when you
1b. Okay well listen. Woke is when the woke mob
1c. Let me start over
1c-a. The blue haired liberal is not allowed to say to the, uh, patriot, that prohibits the patriot from doing, you know, just trying to oppress the fringe groups. You can’t do that.
1c-b. Once the blue haired liberal is in the kindergarten classroom, she can’t be over here and say to the patriot, like, “I’m gonna get ya! I’m gonna teach your kids about pronouns! You better watch your butt!” and then just be like he didn’t even do that.
1c-b(1). Like, if you’re about to teach about racist history and then don’t teach it, you have to still teach. You cannot not teach. Does that make any sense?
1c-b(2). You gotta be, pooping in the right bathroom, and then, until you just wash your hands.
1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the drag queen, like this, but then there’s the children you gotta think about.
1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. Woke is when the teacher, err drag queen, says or does a thing that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the history and CRT
Do not do a woke please
- Comment on I still remember this and how the cable guy said, "give me $20 and I will activate every premium channel" 5 weeks ago:
My buddy’s older brother did the thing where you remove the little filter cylinders from the coax in, I think(?), the curbside junction box. I saw the cylinders and the result, but not the deed.
- Comment on Get. Out 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Maybe it can repost racist MAGA slop, creep on the granddaughters of ex-girlfriends, and put private messages into the public feed, just like your dad!
- Comment on Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network 1 month ago:
This is pretty much what I said to my wife while scritching my dogs. First it’ll just be expanded to missing kids and olds, because of course everyone wants to reunite families, but eventually it’ll be something that “law enforcement” can request for whatever the hell they want, because after all they’re the good guys keeping us safe!
- Comment on Rechargeable electric arc lighters kinda suck for the average person, and will typically end up as e-waste. 1 month ago:
But, and here me out, it’s also wicked cool.
Ours is more stick-shaped though, and really only good for candle wicks. If we smoked, you might be able to get a cigarette into the arc. It’d probably also work well if your grill’s or gas stove’s spark iginter was broken.
- Comment on Would the tart blueberries taste as good if you didn't have to randomly power through 3 to 5 bland ones between each good one? 1 month ago:
Interesting. These say they’re from Mexico. It would be pretty underwhelming if there’s a blander variety.
- Comment on Would the tart blueberries taste as good if you didn't have to randomly power through 3 to 5 bland ones between each good one? 1 month ago:
But the tart ones are the good ones.
- Comment on Would the tart blueberries taste as good if you didn't have to randomly power through 3 to 5 bland ones between each good one? 1 month ago:
Raspberry for me, though I’m not sure if it’s fully artificial or “just” ultra-processed. It’s also partly because I like that flavor but I’m mildly allergic and about 25% of the time I eat it, my lip swells a bit, so I try to minimize how often I have it.
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- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 1 month ago:
I was using a 2012 “vintage” minitower PC that originally came with Win7 as a crappy little plex/local FTP/Minecraft server, and I had been wanting to try MacOS after not seeing it for a while, so I got a Mac Mini with an M2 in it, and while I’ve hardly stressed it, it seems really nice. It’s small and completely silent, and if I did want to use it more, Apple has certainly tried to keep their walled garden pretty and well-organized.
- Comment on The boiled peanut is superior to the baked bean. 1 month ago:
…boiled peanuts are best purchased from the elderly or a fat kid at a minivan in a parking lot.
and if any word is spelled correctly on the sign, that’s a sign that they won’t be quite as good.
- Comment on Interesting 1 month ago:
I always liked them better when they were Corvettes.
- Comment on Smuggler's Blues 1 month ago:
Naaah, fill it up with weird saber-tooth deer meat. We already know that shit’s irresistible to Wookiees.