Remember_the_tooth
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- Comment on Good content 1 day ago:
I’ll be monitoring the votes on this comment to determine whether I have a good or bad week.
- Comment on No lowballs, please. I know what I have. 2 days ago:
I just went to the toilet. A couple of times, it hit me too fast so I used a trash can.
- Comment on No lowballs, please. I know what I have. 2 days ago:
It sounds like you’ve confused the Nelson Bears with Berenstain Mandela.
- Comment on No lowballs, please. I know what I have. 2 days ago:
It had to have frills like an Elizabethan collar for some reason.
- Comment on This apartment complex has an indoor balcony 4 days ago:
BC
In all seriousness, I believe it’s because this complex was made from an office building or other similar commercial structure. They tried to add more classical residential features to make it seem less sterile.
- Comment on Just Watched the First Episode of Voyager and I Get the Hype, Regarding Janeway, Now 4 days ago:
Well, I’m glad at least one of us can count correctly. I wish I had consulted you first, because that’s a more succinct and effective comparison.
- Comment on Interesting question. For me it would be a dead grandfather 4 days ago:
Elon Musk.
Wait. Hear me out. The power to summon someone, hold them for an hour and force them to be conscious is really significant. Sure, there’s nothing I could say to have any immediate effect. I’d just mention that he should divest his wealth to the poor or else when my hour is up, someone else is going to summon him. It’ll keep happening until he’s no longer the wealthiest person. Then, keep going down the list.
- Comment on Just Watched the First Episode of Voyager and I Get the Hype, Regarding Janeway, Now 6 days ago:
As someone who likes her, I have to admit I accept the show as a product of its time. We’re about as far away from the 1995 debut of Voyager as it was from the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974. Later, in 1975 US military Academies accepted women for the first time. While it’s true a 24th century officer of the Federation should have little to prove regarding gender, 1995 general audiences definitely needed it to be explained to them for the same reasons that 1960s audiences needed Uhura’s position explained to them. It was very much still up for debate at that time. Sure, it can be jarringly anachronistic, but fans of classic sci-fi are well used to that. Moreover, it can and should keep happening until equal rights are established and accepted. That won’t happen in my lifetime or that of the next generation. Until then, I’ll happily grin and bear the occasional sections of condescending writing, because there are, as there always have been, people who need to hear that message put simply and on display.
- Comment on Always there, just waiting. 1 week ago:
You and I are friends now, because I would 100% wear an ancient kilt or something similar almost every single day.
- Comment on Always there, just waiting. 1 week ago:
I might need some advice. Let me preface this by saying the cylinder must not be harmed…
- Comment on Always there, just waiting. 1 week ago:
- Comment on If you called someone "skinface" it would feel like a huge insult even though it's meaningless and people's faces are made out of skin. 1 week ago:
That’s rich coming from a bony, food-horking, air-breathing, water bag. You sound like someone who poops.
- Comment on Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown | Launch Trailer | Coming February 18! 1 week ago:
- Comment on The ultimate "flex" 1 week ago:
Maybe in general, but Eastern-Carolina style is the superlative barbecue form.
- Comment on I get so many private messages like this 2 weeks ago:
This must be how the Jurassic Park Scientists felt when they first realized what was possible.
- Comment on I get so many private messages like this 2 weeks ago:
Man, I hate it when that happens.
- Comment on I get so many private messages like this 2 weeks ago:
I wish I could give you gold for this, but all I got right now is this box of one dozen starving, crazed weasels.
Also, there are bars on which’s jukebox one can play Weird Al’s eleven-ish-minute song, “Albuquerque.” Not everyone will appreciate it, so you probably shouldn’t. I just wanted you to know that you can.
- Comment on I get so many private messages like this 2 weeks ago:
It has some strong David Lynch vibes. We’re presented with a pretty mundane situation. Then, the events of the story slowly chip away at the familiar elements of the environment, revealing it to be a facade until we’re left staring at the ever-growing gap between individual perception and empirical, objective reality, calling into question various ontological and epistemological assumptions. It’s like staring at a photograph until we can see it as the cloud of particles that it is and then realizing that it’s always been that way. The intensely surreal feeling reveals itself to be the process of the mind resolving cognitive dissonance while accepting the infinite and stochastic nature of the physical universe. A game, a mislead, a piss beaker, and a bus. These elements changed us as we changed them by perceiving them, and then, life goes on.
- Comment on I get so many private messages like this 2 weeks ago:
If you’re not published, you should be.
- Comment on TV remotes should have an easy-to-find by touch "volume" toggle button that toggles between two volume settings. 2 weeks ago:
I’d recommend them, if you enjoy that experience/process.
I did like that Tenet has layers. You can watch it as an action movie, no problem, but you can also go as far down into the story as you want to also.
- Comment on TV remotes should have an easy-to-find by touch "volume" toggle button that toggles between two volume settings. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think that’s wrong at all. I gave it 3 tries and then started looking for outside analyses. Movies are made by groups of people. It makes sense that it would take groups to understand them. I had to do the same thing with Coherence and Primer.
- Comment on TV remotes should have an easy-to-find by touch "volume" toggle button that toggles between two volume settings. 2 weeks ago:
Subtitles are great. I almost always have them on to aid comprehension. I find that I pick up on more subtleties that way. I feel like I still want to be able to process almost all of the dialog with audio alone so that the subtitles add an extra layer of understanding.
- Comment on TV remotes should have an easy-to-find by touch "volume" toggle button that toggles between two volume settings. 2 weeks ago:
You’re probably one of the few people that has heard the dialog from Tenet then. Christopher Nolan films are some of my favorites, but wow, was that audio messed up. I had to create an equalizer profile just for that.
- Comment on TV remotes should have an easy-to-find by touch "volume" toggle button that toggles between two volume settings. 2 weeks ago:
Am I the only psycho that just uses the TV as a monitor and my phone as the remote to the PC? After that, you can pretty much macro or script whatever you want.
- Comment on What do you recommend I carry in my first wallet? 2 weeks ago:
Nah, get some topsider shoes or penny loafers, khaki shorts, woven leather belt, a golf shirt and some aviator sunglasses. Then load that bad boy up with any and all cards you can find. Stuff it until the calfskin is warped and about ready to burst. Then shove it in your back pocket and sit on it for several decades. Ignore any contrary advice from orthopedics.
- Comment on To demonstrate that people will argue about anything, here's a picture of a ladybug. 2 weeks ago:
For my money, this is the cleverest resonse.
- Comment on Hot dog / veggie dog 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on sleepmaxxing 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, if we could convince enough people that the second amendment had a typo, and that they really meant, “the right to bare arms,” as in flannel shirts with the arms cut off, e.g. this:
I think we could make a lot of progress with compromise and unification.
- Comment on sleepmaxxing 3 weeks ago:
Yes, Officer, this post right here.
- Comment on sleepmaxxing 3 weeks ago:
Own a musket for home defense, since that’s what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. “What the devil?” As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball-sized hole through the first man, he’s dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it’s smoothbore and nails the neighbor’s dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grapeshot, “Tally ho lads” the grapeshot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
Imagine having to do all that in the nude. It would get silly rather quickly.
