DarrinBrunner
@DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world
- Comment on Waffles shaped like genitals 1 day ago:
Can I offer you a nice waffle in this trying time?
- Comment on It’s the little things 2 days ago:
Only Rick Sanchez can make a floor that level, and then only 1 square meter.
- Comment on Two Tesla Robotaxis Use Center of Four-Lane Road for Pickup and Dropoff… With One Getting Stuck for 4 Minutes 2 days ago:
which is picking up passengers in the center of a busy 4-lane road
I’d just cancel the ride if it wouldn’t come to me. I’m not walking into traffic to get to a taxi of any sort. Maybe that’s par for NYC or San Francisco, but I’m not doing it.
- Comment on Perspective 1 week ago:
No, the light could still be above the mattress on the ceiling at the bottom of the stairwell. This proves nothing.
But, the wear on the carpet indicates to me that those are the treads, so this is taken from the top of the stairs looking down. Also, not mentioned elsewhere, there is usually a nose on the treads and the carpet would follow the nose, which can’t be seen from above.
- Comment on Have a good trip 1 week ago:
That astronaut lady just wore a diaper.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 2 weeks ago:
I was one of the 400 million.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 2 weeks ago:
"Labia? I don’t think that section of the sky is visible this time of year. Or, maybe it’s behind the full moon.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Even if Tesla drops Musk as CEO to appease public opinion, he’ll remain on the board of directors, because he owns so much of the stock.
I urge you to (while ignoring the Pink Floyd theme) read welcometothemachine.co to understand how we can’t strip billionaires of power by attacking the companies they are associated with. Because, they all own each other’s companies, they all sit on each other’s boards, they’re all in bed together. Musk doesn’t only own big parts of Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX, but many other big corporations as well. They all do.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 3 weeks ago:
Can’t wait to hop in a Robotaxi! /s
What’s that? They’ll have human drivers in them? Still maybe no.
- Comment on Your TV Is Spying On You 3 weeks ago:
I guess I’ll stick with my 2012 Toshiba 55" dumb TV.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 4 weeks ago:
They had a good run. It was fun while it lasted.
- Comment on Spicy food never affects my gut and everyone thinks it's really weird. How unusual is this and what could be happening to explain why spicy food doesn't affect me? 4 weeks ago:
Same for me. As long as I don’t eat it. If I eat it, then hoooo-boy!
- Comment on Good ending 4 weeks ago:
suq ma
suck my
- Comment on Say hello if you see this more than 6 hrs from posting 4 weeks ago:
Hello.
(I saw this when it was posted, but waited till now to say “hello”.)
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 4 weeks ago:
Google will never get a cent out of me, willingly.
If it gets annoying enough, and FreeTube stops working, I’ll find something better to do with my time.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 4 weeks ago:
Ask ChatGPT and get back to us with the answer.
- Comment on What are You doing right now ? 4 weeks ago:
It’s about time to go for my evening walk. I’m drinking some iced coffee, and waiting for the UV index to drop before I head out.
- Comment on You wake up and the internet is permanently gone. What’s your next move? 5 weeks ago:
There are a few things I do on my computer that don’t require the internet. I write, I do archviz, and 3D printing, for which, I can make my own models in Blender. I could pick up photography again. I have games I play that don’t need internet access to run.
I also sew, as a hobby, which I could do on my hand-cranked Singer sewing machine, which doesn’t even need electricity. I also have a few home improvement projects I’ve been dragging my feet on.
I’d miss it, but I’d be fine.
- Comment on Only $50? 5 weeks ago:
First thought: “Who would buy this?”
Followed by the immediate realization that there is a certain subsection of our society who would definitely buy this. Sure, they’d lowball the offer, then try to get free delivery, but they want the couch.
- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 5 weeks ago:
My concern is the extensive data Reddit collects and stores, and I’m sure will hand it over to whichever government agency wants it, and probably already have. They even keep track of what we upvote and downvote, including comments.
I feel less exposed here, I don’t know if that’s true, but it feels that way.
- Comment on Would alcohol be as popular if it weren't a beverage? 5 weeks ago:
When people say, “I don’t use drugs”, almost never do they include alcohol in that. Alcohol, which is a drug, is always referred to separately, in large part because it’s a beverage. Most people, if asked, will agree that alcohol is a drug, but it’s not really categorized as one in their mind on a day-to-day basis. No one has a glass of wine at lunch and thinks, “I’m doing drugs now.” But, if alcohol as a liquid simply didn’t exist, but exactly the same effect could be had in pill form, I don’t think people would be taking a pill with their dinner, and washing it down with water.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 5 weeks ago:
When options like uBlock and FreeTube no longer block ads, I’ll stop watching YouTube. They’ll never get a cent out of me.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It’s such a relief to not need to go to a job I stopped liking many years ago, to work with people, half of whom I did not get along with. My job was a job, I did it for money to put food on the table, and keep a roof over my head. I liked it very much for about 10 years, then for the next ten years… not so much. The tasks never “defined” me. I traded my most precious thing, my time, for money–and never nearly enough.
I’m happy to be done with that, and have been for over five years now. I don’t miss it at all.
I’m happier, more relaxed, and healthier than I’ve been in 30 years.
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 1 month ago:
I recall at least one movie scene where the hero beat the bad guy with one, and we all knew that would definitely work.
- Comment on I am not a builder… but that does not seem right 1 month ago:
Engineered roof trusses have made most interior walls non-load-bearing. 24" on center is fine for such walls. Exterior, load-bearing walls are still 16" OC, though.
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 1 month ago:
Texas releasing these things in public is horrifying. Tesla is last in this field, and refuses to add LIDAR, which is obviously what is needed.
- Comment on Little miracles 1 month ago:
“Complicated history” of bikers aside–and we CAN toss it aside because this is today–TODAY, wearing such iconography is inexcusable. This guy 100% knows what that SS symbol represents TODAY, and chose to wear it where he did. Stop making excuses for Nazis.
- Comment on Aggressive negotiations 1 month ago:
- Comment on George Floyd Murdered (2020) On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around... 1 month ago:
I, like many, watched live streams of the NYC protests. Once, in the fast-moving chat, because there were thin blue-line-idiots yakking, I asked “Are you saying you value property over life?” Sadly, I got back three clear responses that, yes, they did. Of course, there were Agents Provocateur in the protests stirring up violence, and the boot-lickers were IAmVeryBadAss talking about how they’d shoot anyone trying to break into a store.
- Comment on 100% people who drink water die 1 month ago:
“100% people”?
Are there 50% people? What is the other half? Wait! Centaurs?!