Broadfern
@Broadfern@lemmy.world
- Comment on Solar noon is the only real noon 5 hours ago:
Per the Wikipedia article:
It is a common myth in the United States that DST was first implemented for the benefit of farmers.[38][39][40] In reality, farmers have been one of the strongest lobbying groups against DST since it was first implemented.[38][39][40] The factors that influence farming schedules, such as morning dew and dairy cattle’s readiness to be milked, are ultimately dictated by the sun, so the clock change introduces unnecessary challenges.[38][40][41]
TL:DR for the rest of the history and rationale: Most of this was rich people wanting more time for their personal hobbies, other people’s sleep and health be damned.
- Comment on A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content 2 days ago:
This is the time for Nintendo to whip out a lawsuit
- Comment on Can anyone help me identify this vintage computer? 3 days ago:
Same lol my nerd ass just assumed the pic was blurred out for identity privacy reasons and was expecting an actual answer before I realized what comm this was in
- Comment on Introverted 4 days ago:
✨🌈 M A S K I N G 🌈 ✨
- Comment on I'm not original at all but feel a bit amusing about thought somebody takes it to heart 1 week ago:
TIL his name is Gary. I have just the face and the music note version in my keyboard shortcuts under different names lol
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- Comment on I'm not original at all but feel a bit amusing about thought somebody takes it to heart 1 week ago:
You are beautiful, you are loved, and you deserve to go get up and get yourself your favorite drink and/or snack then get some sunshine.
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- Comment on Lemmy’s essential 25 PS1 games 1 week ago:
Hear me out:
Monsters, Inc. Scream Team.
For a PS1 game it was ahead of its time. Fleshed out 3D levels that are actually navigable, decent camera angles, solid platforming + puzzles, and level revisiting that does not feel excessively repetitive. The difficulty is also not a god-awful sudden cliff like some PS1/2 games of the era. It’s one of the few, maybe the only PS1 game I’ve played multiple times through.
As a plus the soundtrack is banger.
- Comment on Chad rule 1 week ago:
No comment except: same
- Comment on When the movie actually repeats almost the same line within like 5 seconds seriously what the fuck I never noticed this [Day 84] 1 week ago:
OP is making daily memes from each line in the movie “The Room.”
Apparently this line has been repeated enough times that it’s causing frustration.
- Comment on US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources. 2 weeks ago:
As someone who didn’t vote for the Cheeto Nazi, thank you for the nuance.
That said, comment OP and anyone reading this - please boycott and sanction the US! Starving the billionaire leeches and smacking government into pretending they have an iota of decorum or sense is necessary, and any outside influence on that is helpful.
- Comment on The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry? 2 weeks ago:
In a fucked up way I lol’d at this. If I put on my tinfoil hat I’d say the USA is encouraging China to “spy” on us so they have to absorb the brainrot. Poor bastards
- Comment on Some mistakes may have been made 2 weeks ago:
It’s always the one comment or post you make in passing too
- Comment on Paper towel 2 weeks ago:
I regret having eyes today.
- Comment on Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people 2 weeks ago:
Yeah those first couple paragraphs were just “ADHD/autistic woman behaves like an ADHD/autistic woman. Time to blame her for using accommodation equipment!” (Not actually Dx’ing her, but I recognize a lot of my own patterns here).
Like for fuck’s sake let us have our small bits of sanity. Tuning out the constant hell that is everyday life is not a sin.
- Comment on Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke 3 weeks ago:
This title reads as passive aggressive. You good, OP?
- Comment on Checkmate 3 weeks ago:
NASCAR racers are radical woke antifa DEI snowflake leftists?!!?12?! 🤬🤬
/s (is there a satire specific tone tag?)
- Comment on Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 3 weeks ago:
One can only hope they’ll have the mind/willingness to.
- Comment on nope don’t like it 3 weeks ago:
Like a funky fabric birth.
- Comment on Guy Who Ruined Buzzfeed With AI Now Says AI Is Bad, Launches New AI Platform 3 weeks ago:
So tight it resembles a sphincter.
- Comment on Guy Who Ruined Buzzfeed With AI Now Says AI Is Bad, Launches New AI Platform 3 weeks ago:
That’s also a fair point. The other side was always listicles and quizzes and celebrity gossip which is never high quality. Now it’s just the slop + AI.
Regurgitated articles from 4 years ago still pop up on my Apple News app (I only use the free stuff though). They can’t even make new content.
- Comment on Guy Who Ruined Buzzfeed With AI Now Says AI Is Bad, Launches New AI Platform 3 weeks ago:
Tbf it was half decent when they still had Buzzfeed News, which was actual journalism. They shut that down in 2023 though.
- Comment on Guy Who Ruined Buzzfeed With AI Now Says AI Is Bad, Launches New AI Platform 3 weeks ago:
How Buzzfeed of him.
- Comment on Head banging to the Saudi Arabian national anthem 3 weeks ago:
I would ask Danny Elfman.
I would also push for UBI though ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on How dare the alarm I set betray me like this? 3 weeks ago:
An alarm set for brownies being done baking is much less upsetting than an alarm to wake up and go to a job you hate/school.
- Comment on Humor 4 weeks ago:
Thank you for sharing! I’m on Mlem (iOS client for lemmy) so I can’t quite see it properly but I’ll check it on web version when I can. Always appreciate a chance to learn :) /gen
- Comment on Humor 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hi-Rez Studios is laying off further employees and ending development on Smite, Paladins, and Rogue Company 4 weeks ago:
They were itching to dump RC like a month or two after it launched. I played a bit when it came out but then news of them abandoning ports made me quit while I was ahead.
Shame too because it was a fun PvP shooter like TF2, and not sweaty like other live-service games.
- Comment on motherfu.... 4 weeks ago:
Tbf, it’d be pretty difficult to wear much of anything as a Lovecraftian manifestation of divinity
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 hits 1m sales in just one day 4 weeks ago:
I’m like, borderline aro(?) and yeah having the option to proceed down a meaningful friendship path with my favorite characters/have them move in (shoutout to Krobus in SDV) is awesome when provided.
I can also see the “empty tokenism” as in, players deserve more fleshed out queer relationships instead of rainbow stickers being half-heartedly slapped on existing characters but yeah unfortunately the reviewer is probably a pearl clutching “woke DEI other-buzzword bad” type.
- Comment on Me at my library job as the only one who will weed books 4 weeks ago:
Doing difficult, noble work OP. Thank you for keeping local community resources running.
