tomenzgg

@tomenzgg@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This ancient tribe was able to master the technique⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you work on your flexibility (slowly and carefully), it can be easier. But okay of it will always depend on the dimensions the person is born with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno; I thought he was pretty convincing. I mean, the man had a Bat Card and everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh; never heard that use, before. Sounds incredibly wrong to be, as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So much of their arguments really on that; “clearly the Constitution says nothing explicitly on this issue (or alternatively, the constitution wasn’t microscopically specific this was a case it had in mind so, really, who are we to allow it to apply to this scenario?); as an originalist, I just presume that there was no intent rather than assuming anyone in the project of writing a founding document has any interest in it working fairly or well.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah; that’s totally fair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep in mind it’s the same company that tweeted a dog whistle to Gamer gate and had a few insensitive transphobic faux pas: polygon.com/…/gog-twitter-wontbeerased-hashtag/.

  I could believe the latter ones were potentially accidental but I don’t know how tweeting the exact starting date of Gamer gate with the phrase “R.I.P games journalism” can be anything but intentional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I ain't got no time to maintain some stupid little plastic bread clip. I got a landlord to feed.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is…is that not what everyone’s doing‽

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean…under the right director, she could pull it off. Wooden acting is perfect for an emotionally stunted character; I’d boycott the film but I could see it working.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  new drivers who don’t know how to drive stick but will say they know how to drive.

  That’s how my great-grandpa got his first job, truck driving; might’ve been the first time he drove in general, automatic or stick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what timeline is this⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  what timeline is this

  A bad one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fafo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When you drive a car, you don’t suddenly feel like you have wheels.

  A screenshot of Jordan Peele looking proudly smug from the Mad TV skit parodying the T. V. show “Deal or No Deal”

  Not the kinda cars I drive, man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks I hate it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We have some peaches and I’ve been putting them in some grilled cheeses I’ve been making with maple-leaf–smoked Gouda I also got this week and it’s been pretty incredible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  had wheels a bicycle

  I suspect that your qualifications for what constitutes a bicycle is a tad short…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am gorge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn it, I was just about to post it!

  So good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In a properly functioning world, this could easily be coupled with particular education on power dynamics and a lesson on consent, giving proper attention to why this might be more harmful to get than to him.

  Of course, – so long as we’re in this hypothetical world – you’d just have that kind of education be a part of sex ed. or the like for all students, to begin with, but, as we’re in this world and that’s Louisiana…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think he’d won his election; I also think it was a local election, rather than a federal one? But, I’ll admit, I hadn’t been following his race very closely.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Besides your point but this is the aspect about Gorsuch that I can’t seem to make internally consistent. He almost always rules in terms of native rights – even when, I think, it stretches his supposed originalist guiding principle – yet is more than happy to vote as a conservative on all other times and support “industry” and big business (even when it stretches his supposed originalist guiding principle).

  I know that nothing necessitates a person to act logically and most act from emotion, more than anything, but most people, I find, have a relative reason they think they’re being logically consistent but I can’t seem to suss even that out, with regards to him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t speak for how viable it is for success or whether it’s just a grift (as I haven’t had the time to really research into it) but feels like as good a time as any to mention that, out in Australia, The Pack Music Cooperative is fundraising for a cooperative music streaming service: www.thepackaustralia.com.au

  They haven’t raised a lot towards their goal, yet, and could probably use an the help they can get. As a cooperative, they’ll side step a lot of the probably problems a corporation like Spotify or Tidal will have and they already are dedicated to prioritizing artists and their rights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I made a promise, Mr. garretble: a promise. “Don’t you make me use any other browser,” said my nan; and I don’t mean to. I don’t mean to.

  She’s still using Windows XP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is what it is⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I read it wrong but (to me) the meme makes it sound like Google’s taking the local data (that’s supposed to be forgotten, once you close the browser window) and sending it over to Google for them to, I dunno, run analysis on.

  If they’re saying that Google sites (like YouTube, Google search, etc.) were collecting data when I visit them (as, unfortunately, sites do), then I’d say, “Well, duh;” but this makes it seem like they were exporting your local data off to their cloud which, like, they could obviously, technically do but wouldn’t very much be in the spirit of how Incognito mode was portrayed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists discover promising new way to filter microplastics out of human body: 'The dose makes the poison'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, and I suppose you’ve figured out a more modern way to balance the humors‽

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tough, Tiny, and Totally Repairable: Inside the Framework 12⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Same; I simply can’t use a laptop without mouse buttons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I expect it’s just a taste thing; water tastes fine but, like, it could taste more interesting if we added a bit of sugar or flavor to it (I was a huge justice fan).

  For my own end, it was an easy way to keep my emotions/mood simulated or engaged against my depression that was low effort and easy to supply; that said, I switched entirely to water last year and, now fully comfortable drinking nothing but water and being fairly averse – previously –, I can’t say the previous reasons really make that much of a difference for me, now. Maybe it’s just having drank to my non-water content, already, but drinking nothing but water’s been pretty great and removes low-key health fears I always had.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t like Cox?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recession indicator⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To save you what turned into a whole year for me, – if you have anyone else who can help you – tag team applying. I only started to see consistent interviews once my husband started helping and we started not only flooding every listing we could but, also, routinely applying before a lot of people got to them.

  Good luck; one of the worst years of my life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There he goes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For real; have no idea what the caffeine amount was (very well could’ve been far less than both if you) but I took an edible with caffeine, once.

  Tried it once, before, and barely noticed anything so I popped a second one, this time around.

  Naturally, forgot I’d taken anything and only vaguely became aware, an hour later, than my heart was pounding. Trying to figure out why your heart is thundering out of your chest while stoned to Hell is probably not high on the Most Effective list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 for me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually 20; been doing 5, lately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know that I agree that breadboxes were solely used in times/cases where the risk of mice getting to the bread was present but I get your reasoning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, you originally said, “the real reason,” but have just listed three different equal reasons.