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- Comment on xkcd #3124: Grounded 1 day ago:
About to go through there tomorrow. Is it as bad as I’ve heard? Only flown twice before (to Mexico and back from Tennessee), went through Knoxville and Atlanta on the way in, then Detroit and Knoxville on the way back.
- Comment on heaven 3 days ago:
Did Randy Newman answer your question personally?
- Comment on Mice 4 days ago:
'tis truth, friend. And it’s absolutely fucking adorable. YouTube “popcorning guinea pigs” or rats or whatever, it’s so fucking cute.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 1 week ago:
Most of my internetin’ is done on mobile, because I’m very rarely at my desk, and when I am, I’m normally working on school. Are there any solutions to handling this easily on mobile without having to manually erase part of the pasted link when I go to send it to someone? A few people have mentioned that’s it’s not 100% guaranteed that the anything after ? Is worthless, so I don’t know how to ensure I’m not breaking a link
- Comment on Why doesn't the US fill in the area in the Pacific to connect Alaska, Hawaii, and the mainland? Are they stupid? 1 week ago:
If you want trump to do, here’s what you’ll need to do:
Make the bottom border go straight across and connect to Mexico, then build that giant wall along the new mexican-us border.
The added benefit here is a larger border with Mexico, meaning he can run around screaming about the now larger border with Mexico, while simultaneously cutting off Mexico’s west coast from the ocean, fucking their supply routes. He’d absolutely be on board for this.
- Comment on Well, I mean they probably... Maybe they... 2 weeks ago:
That’s the one that gets me the most, man. People will literally go and say “the sixteen-point-nine-ounce bottle” instead of just saying “500 mil bottle” and it blows my mind. It’s so much less awkward to say. I’ve even heard people ask for the 33-point-eight ounce bottle at the gas station I work at. It’s a fucking liter. Just say the 1 liter bottle!
I know it’s a completely lost cause at this point, but I genuinely wish we’d switch:(
- Comment on Oh Kurt Gödel, you lovable logician freak. 3 weeks ago:
Fairly short read effectively, it’s never been made public what the loophole was/is, and all those who knew first hand are dead now. But it’s speculated to be a few different things, the leading theory (and the one I think is it) is article V, the process by which we amend the constitution. If we can amend the constitution, we can amend article V, meaning we can then make it easier to amend again later, in a downward spiral. We could also amend the constitution, do a bunch of fashy shit, then amend article V to make it so the constitution could not be amended ever again.
- Comment on oops 3 weeks ago:
I remember when I found out that shit was plastic. I always assumed they were organic material of some kind, like the body scrubs with the crushed up walnut shell in it (which probably has fucking microplastic in it, too). So disgusting.
This is why we need to change how shit works. It shouldn’t go: company does some shit > fall out > government steps in. It should go: company has an idea > must get permission first from environmental agencies
- Comment on Are you ready skids? 4 weeks ago:
I was pretty stonery in m’youth, and lemme tell you, I was not about to wake up early enough to brunch
- Comment on Are you ready skids? 4 weeks ago:
What the fuck is this place?
- Comment on If this seems exaggerated to you then you haven't worked in IT long enough 4 weeks ago:
Same thing that’s wrong with mine: the brain is really good at working collaboratively with other shit, and that means if the phone can remember the numbers your brain will happily give that task to the phone. I can remember so many number from before I had a cell, and almost none since then.
It’s also got to do with repetition. We used to dial the number each time, now we almost never type the digits in, just pull up a contact (or more likely, a text from them) and hit call
- Comment on If this seems exaggerated to you then you haven't worked in IT long enough 4 weeks ago:
I know the number is exaggerated for comedic effect, but it blows my silly little 'murican mind that phone numbers in the UK have variable length. All of our numbers are the same length. Country code (1), area code (757) prefix (368) and then the line number (0441). I’m sure something else might exist for super niche things or something, and we’ve got the 3 digit important numbers, like 911 (emergency/cops) or 988 (suicide prevention hotline), but personal numbers are always 7 digits plus the area code. It’s just weird to my brain that the length can be variable within a country.
Also, try giving that example number a call…
- Comment on Wanna show me? Send a DM 5 weeks ago:
Look, you’re gonna have to face facts. People like you. Yes, your meme collection is great and mighty and powerful, but the fact that you collect all the memes that people love speaks to you. You saved those memes because you loved them, and then you selflessly decided to share them with a fledgling community to bring joy, and the people loved them. You bring joy. Santa doesn’t make the toys, he delivers them. You’re the lemming Santa. Stamta.
Also, you are literally famous. It might only be locally, but you are, factually, famous 'round these parts
- Comment on Wanna show me? Send a DM 5 weeks ago:
Stamets publicly acknowledging me? I can feel my Lemmy clout growing!
- Comment on Wanna show me? Send a DM 5 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, I fix
- Comment on A Polish jalapeño pastry 5 weeks ago:
Because I just glanced at the picture while hiding my phone from customers and thought they were bees
- Comment on A Polish jalapeño pastry 5 weeks ago:
What is it with European bakeries and bees? I’ve seen memes and stuff about it, and this one youtuber, a Vietnamese woman who’s German BF never shows his face, I can’t remember her name right now. She showed a bakery in Germany with bees everywhere. Why is this a thing?
- Comment on It will 1 month ago:
Well that’s genuinely one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a looooooong time
- Comment on When an instance like lemm.ee shuts down, what happens to the posts and comments? 2 months ago:
I am in no way techy, but from what I gather because the posts are federated they are also stored on the other instances as well, so posts are still visible. In the post announcing the shuttering of .ee they specifically mentioned adding a note on your profile to link to your new profile, so people can find your new profile after that shut down. That implies to me that everything not intentionally scrubbed remains open/visible long after the shut down of the original source.
Again, though, not techy, so I may be vocalizing from my posterior
- Comment on True story 2 months ago:
This is literally how my mom met her first husband
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 2 months ago:
Don’t forget BFE. The sticks are almost always right about halfway between BFE and YouGottaPurdyMouth
- Comment on I am bereaved 2 months ago:
Absolutely
- Comment on I am bereaved 2 months ago:
The content of this is weird AF (I get what it’s referencing), but I’d like to see more bardcore comics
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 2 months ago:
I think it’s just poorly written pseudo-legalese, and it’s intended to mean that he will be unable to enjoy life in the future because of the psychological damage that poor is doing to him (unrealistic expectations and mental harm, et cetera).
While porn addiction and unrealistic ideas of beauty and sex are genuinely real things that happen, the way to prevent that is with frank, open discussions about sex and pornography, not trying to prevent your 14 year old from masturbating. I was a 14 year old boy at one point, and lemme tell you, nothing could stop me from masturbating. Nothing. It’s just not going to happen. Kids will find ways to find porn, and if somehow we completely do away with it entirely (again, won’t happen), they’ll find new ways, and they’ll read and write erotica or get into hentai or whatever. This woman is insane, Kansas is insane, and so are all the other states imposing this bullshit
- Comment on does it mean I am a horse? 2 months ago:
a horse with two legs cut off becomes a man
Please don’t give Diogenes any ideas
- Comment on xkcd #3092: Baker's Units 2 months ago:
It did me, too.
- Comment on 🎶cowboys are frequently, secretly fond of each other🎵 2 months ago:
Oh my God I completely forgot about those cam house videos I used to download from limewire
- Comment on Dairy 2 months ago:
Iirc, they address both the knee thing and the clothes in the books. Skin tight clothing morphs with you, and I distinctly remember one conversation about the knees thing, but I couldn’t tell you which book it was (though, my buddy Goom probably can)
- Comment on i broke 2 months ago:
“being aware of, and able to accurately diagnose the type of mental illness you’re dealing with is not the same thing as actually working to fix it”
And
“That’s bullshit. Honestly. That’s bullshit. Just because you can articulately attempt to justify it doesn’t mean it’s justified”
Also
“Sometimes things just suck and you have to deal with that for a long time”
- Comment on "With all due respect" could imply that no respect is due and therefore none is given 2 months ago:
Once told a boss “with all due respect, and I do mean all the respect you’re actually due in this moment, I won’t be doing that”