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- Comment on In the most delicious irony imaginable, the notorious early 2000s 'You wouldn't steal a car' anti-piracy campaign may have used an 'illegal' font 5 hours ago:
I’ve heard that too, but I saw the original commercials and remember it as ‘you wouldn’t steal a car’.
- Comment on In the most delicious irony imaginable, the notorious early 2000s 'You wouldn't steal a car' anti-piracy campaign may have used an 'illegal' font 1 day ago:
If I could steal a car by downloading it over the internet without depriving the original owner of it and with similarly low risk of getting caught/prosecuted for it I would absolutely steal a car. I wouldn’t steal a font tho, that’s just beyond the pale. :P
- Comment on MIT engineers create 'spaghetti' style metamaterial that could enable stretchy computer chips that are almost indestructible 1 day ago:
That’s kinda interesting. My first thought on seeing that image, though, was ‘ramen + autism = good!’
- Comment on Why are popes always really old? 1 day ago:
Interesting, I didn’t know that. I was gonna say it certainly hasn’t been any of the recent ones.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 1 day ago:
That’s not a can’t, it’s a get-paid-a-shitload-of-money-to-not.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 1 day ago:
Right? ‘ZOMG users aren’t viewing the contents of their friends!’, yeah, because you hide that shit behind ads and promoted content, dumb-ass.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 1 day ago:
May I be the first to say…
- Comment on Praise jeebus 3 days ago:
lol, thanks, on both counts. :)
- Comment on Why are popes always really old? 3 days ago:
Usually pick one of their own == have never not picked one of their own, right?
- Comment on Why are popes always really old? 4 days ago:
Because only cardinals can be pope and it takes a long time to work your way up through the priesthood into administration and such like any organization. Also, unlike most businesses or governments they never hire some young(-ish) new ceo or department head from outside.
- Comment on Here’s an idea 5 days ago:
Oh, I misunderstood, sorry. Yeah, that’s what I was getting at too.
- Comment on Here’s an idea 5 days ago:
Yeah and my point is that any monopoly is harmful and should be busted, but the trust-busters seem to only care about the ones that affect their rich patrons.
- Comment on Here’s an idea 5 days ago:
And Walmart isn’t? I bet Kroger and Aldi would have something to say about their entry into the grocery market.
- Comment on Here’s an idea 6 days ago:
Indeed. It’s frankly surprising that they’re pursuing antitrust cases against Google and Meta now, cause since the break-up of AT&T we’ve spent a lot of years not giving a shit about how anti-competitive giant corporations are.
- Comment on Here’s an idea 6 days ago:
If you want a more egalitarian workplace I’m afraid the only solution is to remove the capitalists siphoning off the surplus value created by the labor of the workers. Co-ops are one way to do this on the small scale, but especially in the US they will have a hard time competing with giant corporations which is why they aren’t common anymore: they’ve largely been driven out of most markets by much larger entities.
- Comment on Praise jeebus 6 days ago:
Is that blood then? Cause that’s kind of a lot of blood, especially considering the usual depiction just involves like a few trickles and rivulets, not whole-ass sheets of blood enough to cover even a startlingly short adult.
People were a lot shorter back then
Not that much shorter. The average height for men in ancient Rome, taken from remains recovered from Pompeii/etc, was ~165cm (5’6") (I can’t find a link to the study itself, but it’s quoted below), while the global average height today is 5’8", so people were only a couple inches shorter on average 2000 years ago. I suspect the range between minimum and maximum height is greater today because many people near those extremes have health problems that tend to be fatal without treatment, so that may skew perspectives.
The major samples from Herculaneum and Pompeii reveal the stature of the ancient adult body. The average height for females was calculated from the data to have been 155 cm in Herculaneum and 154 cm in Pompeii: that for males was 169 cm in Herculaneum and 166 cm in Pompeii. This is somewhat higher than the average height of modern Neapolitans in the 1960s and about 10 cm shorter than the WHO recommendations for modern world populations.
- Laurence, Ray. “Health and the Life Course at Herculaneum and Pompeii.” Health in Antiquity. Ed. Helen King. London: Routledge, 2005.
Now let’s do some pixel-counting to figure out how tall big J is in that image. The cave is 640px in height and it’s indicated that it’s 6’, while the J-man is 465px tall.
6’ *12 = 72", 640/72 = 8.89px/in.
465/8.89 = 52.3"
So shorty over there is 4’4" tall, or more than a foot shorter than the average height during his lifetime. Also, can I just say: Hell yeah, I fucking nailed it when I guesstimated 4 and a half feet tall in my original comment.
- Comment on Praise jeebus 6 days ago:
Those must’ve been some really long thorns if he need to be made that much shorter for his crown to fit within the allotted 6’.
- Comment on Praise jeebus 6 days ago:
He was behind the couch this whole time.
- Comment on Praise jeebus 6 days ago:
TIL Jesus was only 5’ tall, and also red for some reason.
- Comment on There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now 1 week ago:
Fair enough, I haven’t looked at it at all since I last used linux a couple decades ago, that’s just been my experience with trying to use other linux-native software on windows.
- Comment on There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now 1 week ago:
No shit? I’ve been using Greenshot for screenshots for a while (stupid Foxhole closing tooltips whenever I hit shift for the snip tool hotkey) but had no idea it did anything more than that. I’ll take a look, thanks!
- Comment on There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now 1 week ago:
Huh. I barely used it when I was on linux, so… shrug
- Comment on What is the best Sea based game out there in your opinion? 1 week ago:
Yeah I’ve played it, I preferred Pirates! because it’s more about the adventure than just endless combat. Honestly I rarely even shoot the cannons on my ship except to very occasionally chain-shot someone’s sail or grape-shot their crew before I go board the ship and win it via fencing, so I’m not even all that into the combat.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
I mean everybody has their own experience so I’m not gonna tell you you’re wrong, but that’s not been my experience.
I spent more than 10 years playing text-based roleplaying games (MUSHes) from like ~1993 on, and even people who had multiple scenes a day that were well beyond short story length were frequently just god-awful at spelling. I had a lot of bad habits I picked up from back then that I’ve had to break, some of which (misspelling ‘separate’ as ‘seperate’, f.ex) that still get me sometimes. So at the very least there has been no shortage of awful spelling in the early days of the internet.
By the same token I now spend at least an hour or two a day reading lemmy, reddit, etc and usually several more playing video games where I should’ve been exposed to all this awful typing going on and I have not noticed an increase, much less one worthy of capital letters.
So, I’m not saying it’s impossible, just that as someone who has spent a significant portion of their life reading text on the internet it doesn’t seem likely to me.
- Comment on There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now 1 week ago:
Does that even run on windows without a bunch of hoop-jumping and some jank-ass chunky qt-style UI elements? I seriously haven’t looked at GIMP in like 25 years.
- Comment on What is the best Sea based game out there in your opinion? 1 week ago:
Holy shit that is cancer, the audio is so bad I can’t even turn the volume on like 1%. I’m gonna go ahead and say I probably missed the boat on that one, but I appreciate the suggestion.
- Comment on There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now 1 week ago:
All I use paint for is like drawing red underlines under text in screen grabs and shit like that. The most ‘pro’ feature I ever use is when I sometimes misclick the rounded rectangle tool instead of the rectangle tool and I’m too lazy to fix it. I’ll give that a shot tho, thanks.
- Comment on There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now 1 week ago:
Welp, time to delete that shit and find replacements. Notepad++ is a solid upgrade over notepad, there must be something similar for paint that doesn’t have a steep learning curve?
- Comment on What is the best Sea based game out there in your opinion? 1 week ago:
Gotta go with the old school here, Sid Meier’s Pirates! No water physics, graphics from 2004, etc, but so much fun that I’ve been playing it since the original came out in 1987. Hell, i was playing the 2004 remake just last week even.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Sure, and I haven’t used a telco in ~20 years unless you count cell carriers. But yeah I’m by no means saying bigger companies are necessarily better about this, as I said, just that this is a curious counter-example to your earlier claim that breaking up the telco monopoly didn’t lead to nobody building telecom infrastructure.
