PancakesCantKillMe
@PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 3 days ago:
I recall the hype was to keep track of groceries or some such gimmick. I feel it to be unnecessary tech. How convenient that it shows ads. In any case, do not buy a Samsung appliance. They are total shite and will break down on you. Fridges, washing machines, dishwashers. All garbage. The televisions are fine.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 1 week ago:
The vast majority of the internet is hosted on Linux.
- Comment on Bro, do you even crow? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 3 weeks ago:
R’amen to that!
- Comment on Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras 3 weeks ago:
I have nothing to hide, but I also have nothing to show.
- Comment on Dodged the maga family visitors on 4th July by happy accident, now trapped with them at wife's birthday celebration. 4 weeks ago:
Good man. I’ve done the same for mine.
- Comment on Dodged the maga family visitors on 4th July by happy accident, now trapped with them at wife's birthday celebration. 4 weeks ago:
I would not be able to help myself at some point by dropping snide retorts to any of their comments. Fair is fair and fuck them. No scenes, just brief kicks to the shins. Figurativly speaking of course.
- Comment on Some medical procedures can be fun 4 weeks ago:
“Doc, doc…your ring, it hurts!”
“Ring? Hell, I forgot to take off my watch!”
- Comment on 🤝🤝🤝 5 weeks ago:
Cocaine makes me feel like a new man.
The trouble is that he wants a line too!
- Comment on Monkeys on the Interstate 5 weeks ago:
Reminds me of a joke (that is better spoken, but I’ll try anyways):
A state trooper arrives at the scene of a horrible accident on the interstate in the middle of the night. Nobody is around, but the carnage is everywhere both mechanical and biological. Without any witnesses, the trooper is mystified as to what exactly happened. As he’s inspecting the accident he sees a rustle in a nearby shrub. He steps closer to discover a monkey shivering and scared. He speaks to the monkey in a calm voice and coaxes it out to him. The trooper feels like the monkey understands his words, so he asks the monkey if he saw what happened. The monkey nods vigorously that he does.
“What were the passengers doing?” asks the trooper. The monkey mimes drinking and smoking motions. “They were drinking and smoking?” and the monkey nods with certainty that they were. “Anything else?” and the monkey makes hugging and kissing motions. “They were fooling around and having sex?” and the monkey again nods to affirm his question.
The trooper, wondering what the monkey had to do with all of this asks, “Monkey, what were you doing while all this happened?” and the monkey makes driving motions with his arms while craning his neck backwards to watch.
- Comment on Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations 1 month ago:
Likely b/c your comment reads like you are stating OP is using it when you probably meant a more general public “you”? That’d be my guess. I think most, if not all, here would agree to not ever use alexa, that bitch.
- Comment on Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations 1 month ago:
Fuck you! I’m eating!!
- Comment on Are you worried about your child’s screentime? Get a landline 1 month ago:
Yes, that seems to be the case. If you do cancel and move, the new owners won’t get a landline. The carrier in this particular area has also contracted out any rural service work.
- Comment on Are you worried about your child’s screentime? Get a landline 1 month ago:
In some areas you can no longer get a landline. I was discussing this with someone who lives rural and the phone company will not serve any of the addresses outside of towns.
That’s strange to me as I still have a POTS line and have never been without one through my different abodes. I will say that only a few calls come in on it, but I use it for outbound calls quite often. Almost all of the spam calls come in on the cellphone now.
I remember reading about the last hand-crank phone being removed (As an aside, my memory had this happening 20 years ago. Lol, it was 35!):
www.upi.com/Archives/1990/07/13/…/3557647841600/
“Smith said with hand-cranked telephones, ‘sometimes the connection cracks up and you only hear every third word.’”
Hey, just like my cell service!
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 1 month ago:
the root causes of enshittification can be defeated by organized collective action.
This is the fly in the ointment. I (and most here) do all the things to avoid enshittified products, but as you’ve mentioned it is work. Some of the “work” is fun because I am “technologia” oriented, but many of the people I know simply cannot be bothered to consider alternatives to these shit products. They don’t know it is shit and think that’s the only choice and follow along. I can’t blame them for their choices too much. Life is full of other things they are occupied with, so I do try and help when I can.
Many that are obligated to be advocates for the common man and these issues have abandoned their obligations to the people they are supposed to serve. They have essentially been enshittified too and we haven’t yet organized to solve that issue which seems to be the most important enshittification to date. More to come later, I am sure.
- Comment on Lately, a great many people who used to say they didn't care about privacy because they had nothing to hide must be realizing what a flawed conclusion that was. 1 month ago:
I don’t have anything to hide, but I don’t have anything I want to show either.
- Comment on Lately, a great many people who used to say they didn't care about privacy because they had nothing to hide must be realizing what a flawed conclusion that was. 1 month ago:
He’s considering reporting you for attempting to check out of the system. That is illegal and brings a stiff punishment.
- Comment on Wavy 1 month ago:
Yah, this one hits hard.
- Comment on Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? 1 month ago:
You reminded me and (unintentionally) made me go read about Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. In the story, there is a child-catcher working for the Baron and Baroness of Vulgaria where children are illegal.
Whilst watching the child-catcher scene, I saw a familiar face. It was the toymaker who was portrayed by Benny Hill. That made me check the IMDB page and it was indeed him. Also of note: the story was written by Ian Flemming (screenplay by Roald Dahl) and one of the children was the (then) future singer Phil Collins.
/tangent
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 1 month ago:
No. 😬
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 1 month ago:
Gnatt Man’s super power is FaceSwarm. There is no defense against it.
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 1 month ago:
That was the porn. You’re thinking of Iron Man: Irony Abounds.
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 1 month ago:
Obligatory: That’s anti-Semitic!!
- 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 month ago:
Sharpie it up!!
- Comment on The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics 1 month ago:
Drew is legit. No, he never actually played in the NBA. That’s just one of his long-running jokes (if that’s what you were referring to).
- Comment on The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics 1 month ago:
Seems like a good time to plug one of my favored youtoobers, famed former NBA player Drew Gooden:
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 1 month ago:
Thank you for the comprehensive reply! I am curious: do the ponds not produce mosquitoes as well?
I live on a hillside and creating water spots might get tricky on our rocky soil. It could be done I suppose, but it’ll have to be the next place to try.
The forest must help. We have some thick western red cedar groves and do have a lot of dragonflies at times, but no water other than birdbaths. I love seeing them scanning the hillside and the few flat spots we have. I’m always rooting for them. Funny about the frogs. I like em too, but we don’t see many. Lizards and snakes mostly.
Thanks for the Ted talk! 😂
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 1 month ago:
Thanks for the TLDR. Dragonflies are the worlds most efficient hunters.
You mentioned that you “use” them. Do you introduce them or do they exist naturally where you are? If so, are there ways to increase their numbers? We have some dragonflies, but we have far more mosquitoes! Just curious.
- Comment on kingdom come 1 month ago:
He told me to get off his lawn and he’s keeping the ball.
- Comment on What's green and slimy and smells like bacon? 2 months ago:
I am not aware of bored panda or their reputation. But I have edited my comment to the preferred site. Thank you.