jaybone
@jaybone@lemmy.zip
- Comment on It’s crazy how their ghosts still wander these halls 1 hour ago:
Tankies gonna tank
- Comment on 1919 vs 2026 10 hours ago:
Even if you explained it to him, with crayons and circles and diagrams and arrows and cartoon characters, he wouldn’t get it and even if he did, he wouldn’t care.
- Comment on Fox buying streaming platform Roku in cash-and-stock deal worth about $22 billion 4 days ago:
Yeah people talk about building your own with rpi and a Linux desktop. I’m looking for something with a remote control, not a mouse pointer, with a UI designed to be used with a remote control, not a mouse pointer, that will run things like emby / jellyfin. Maybe a DirectTV app or other streaming apps. Anyone know of such a thing?
- Comment on Smh, kids today, thinking new media is good 4 days ago:
I read the Epic of Gilgamesh. Im sure it was really great at the time. But I have to say, storytelling overall as an art form in various media formats has definitely gotten better with time.
- Comment on Humility of Emperor Constantine 4 days ago:
Is this where we get the word “constant”?
- Comment on Modern day monarch. 2 weeks ago:
I suspect he would have less flesh today.
- Comment on Neanderthal dentists used stone drills to treat cavities nearly 60,000 years ago, ancient molar suggests 5 weeks ago:
I suppose they could make wine, but anything stronger would require distilling. I’m not sure if they were capable of that? Though maybe there were other things they could smoke or ingest. Opium comes to mind, but not sure if that was available in the geographic regions you would find Neanderthals?
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update May 2026 1 month ago:
Speaking of donations, I’m guessing some people around here have some graphic design skills. Could we set up some kind of merch store with like t-shirts and cups or something? Where a portion of the cost goes to support the site? I would buy a shirt or a mug.
- Comment on An unusually wide adoption of rooftop solar in Aleppo, Syria. 2 months ago:
Because the u in usually is pronounced like the consonant y, like “yew”. We use “a” before consonant sounds.
The u in unusually is pronounced like the vowel sound u, like “uh”. We use “an” before vowel sounds.
This is because two vowel sounds in a row is somewhat awkward and doesn’t flow as easily with how you move your mouth to pronounce things. Using “an” puts an extra consonant sound in between the two vowel sounds.
- Comment on An unusually wide adoption of rooftop solar in Aleppo, Syria. 2 months ago:
At first I thought those were parking garages but then those look like balconies, but the one on the right has windows. Interesting buildings. I wonder what a unit looks like.
- Comment on Everything is awful because the people who went to business school figured out how to fuck us over as hard as possible. 5 months ago:
And MAGAs will say Trump will fix this with the tariffs.