Widdershins
@Widdershins@lemmy.world
- Comment on How come laptops or pc's don't have a "webcam" facing both ways instead of just the user? 15 hours ago:
Why bring a laptop onto a filthy factory floor when the phone in your pocket does the same thing?
“Hey boss we got a problem. Yeah, let me just try to fit your laptop with two cameras I am calling you with in this tight and filthy space in a broken machine to show you. Just one seconzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzZzzzzzZZZZZZZ”
… 2 minutes later a phone call:
“Yeah boss I fried another one of your expensive laptops with two cameras. Yeah coolant and chips dripped on the keyboard again. No I didnt smash it between the spindle and turret this time. It didn’t fall into the chip conveyor brimming with coolant, lube oil, chips, and swarf either. Anyway, your machine’s still fucked up and now your laptop is too. I will hang up my telephone you do not pay for and text you pictures or video now.”
Short of smashing it with the turret I’ve done all this to my phone that has 6 cameras. Shook and wiped the shit right off with a rag. A working machine most of the time looks exactly like a broken machine. If the boss can’t figure out what the problem is without it being a zoom call you’ve got a bigger tool problem outside the machine.
- Comment on U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen 2 weeks ago:
What is the condition of your sidewalks? My sidewalks are uneven and a neighborhood grandma who I walk with still prefers the street even though my street is not well lit. Uneven sidewalks are a tripping hazard that can be avoided by walking in the street. Her vision isn’t great so a paved stretch of road is just easier to walk with a flashlight.
- Comment on Skate Story is now available 3 weeks ago:
I picked it up thanks to this post. It’s like Pepsiman met Tony Hawk.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 3 weeks ago:
Jennifer B Johnston
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 5 weeks ago:
I want to GIT GUD but I’m not the kind of person who can dodge and parry while managing a stamina bar. ER and DS games look awesome but I really can’t do much sightseeing in them. I tried Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls 3, and Elden Ring and in all of them I hit a wall against the first miniboss who I should be learning to parry on. I’ve always leaned toward dodging taking priority before parrying and a stamina bar limits that.
I recently played through Ghost of Tsushima and parried a thousand cuts. The game doesn’t have stamina though. I understand stamina as a game mechanic but find all it adds is tedium. There’s what I believe to be some good games hiding behind a stamina bar. I can enjoy the games until the stamina bar runs out and then I’ll be thinking about enjoying a different game.
- Comment on Love’s a two-way dream 1 month ago:
Robin Williams mailed the acid bomb?
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 2 months ago:
I live in a prefabricated home that is a different color than my neighbor’s. Can I gift them one of these robots to get a blueprint of their house? It is already easily googled but I feel that making a robot do it keeps them lower on the food chain.
- Comment on FACTS 2 months ago:
I saw them live and Gavin was lip syncing but it only became obvious when he climbed the barrier to run through the crowd during a song.
- Comment on Republican? Democrat? There is a third option: 2 months ago:
Original isn’t up but an MSPaint of paramedic clothes and CPR has been added to make it less obscene.
- Comment on How much viagra does a Tijuana donkey need for the second show of the night? 2 months ago:
I think they could just get another donkey
- Comment on When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy 2 months ago:
- Comment on Salmon 2 months ago:
SaLmon in the fish tacos, Hank!
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 2 months ago:
Street racing i have no opinion about but street crashing i am against
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 2 months ago:
Niggard/niggardly sounds like a really, really, awful choice for a word to describe someone cheap like Scrooge. It’s not a slur it just sounds way too much like one. The use of the word is controversial despite the only connection the two words share is how they sound.
I wouldn’t use the word around people though. Explaining how a word that sounds racist isn’t racist makes you appear to be more racist. It isn’t a slur but gets treated as if it was one.
✓ quite offensive ✓ not a slur X you probably still shouldn’t use it
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- Comment on Thanks for the memories 2 months ago:
I’ve been busy tribulating did I miss the rapture?
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 3 months ago:
Kids know computers and just like guns it is a point and click interface
- Comment on Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape 3 months ago:
I like to think that the website is only accessible when someone is hitting the vape.
- Comment on When real life generates the shitpost 3 months ago:
[Insert name here] says Michael Richards is ‘actually a little better’ than Jerry Seinfeld
- Comment on My favorite board game! 3 months ago:
Was Connect Fork too much of a stretch?
- Comment on OpenAI’s Sam Altman Expects To Spend ‘Trillions’ On Infrastructure 4 months ago:
No matter what denomination of bills or coins it could be I’d rather see sam shove all that money up his ass. It could take a week or a month or even possibly a year and I wouldn’t want to miss a minute of it.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 4 months ago:
I watched about 5 minutes of it in an electronics store before getting bored. If I’m not mistaken it is Dances with Wolves in space. There’s also a big blue guy who hangs dong.
- Comment on How does one become a clown? 5 months ago:
I had a good friend who was a clown. I drove a car small enough to call a clown car so I drove for a lot of gigs after we met. He would “clown up” and go to public events(concerts, festivals, karaoke, any excuse really) and be silly and most importantly have fun. He networked and had a few yearly gigs. Some paid but he was in it for the clowning and the cash was just a bonus. Don’t quit your day job and all.
As a person he was great company. Friends with everyone and woke up every day looking to have a good time. One yearly gig we did was a three hours away neighborhood wide garage sale. It was one of the few that paid. After a day of making balloon animals he stood in a chalk circle and I handed kids water balloons and kept the tip jar mostly empty. We made well over $100 each those days.
His backstory is a little more fucked up than the average clown I would guess. His primary networking was AA meetings and back in the 80s he was an alcoholic crackhead living in Detroit sleeping in dumpsters. The dude knew how to hustle. He told me the story of how his daughter had to come up with some cash and the chalk circle and water balloons show(?) outside bars solved her money issues overnight.
He had no formal training so don’t get hung up on some expensive day camp. If you have it in you you can be a clown. Getting a degree from a clown college is just a vanity project. A real clown, at least to me, hung out with Joe C watching wrestling and smoking weed while Kid Rock and the rest of the gang partied after shows. Be larger than life and you can be whatever you want to be.
- Comment on Tesla Will Now Let You Finance Your EV Repairs… With Interest Rates as High as 36% APR 5 months ago:
Throwing a brick through a tesla windshield sounds 36% more interesting now.
- Comment on Sable is free on Epic until tomorrow 5 months ago:
I have a problem with the character’s animation framerate. I want to like the game but can’t look past that.
- Comment on When you work for a company owned by a A..hole 5 months ago:
Take a picture? How are they going to smell or taste it? Either shit at work and don’t flush or shit on the floor at work if you want to flush.
- Comment on Me when I'm posting here 5 months ago:
- Comment on Taking screenshots of everything is no different than elders printing out emails. 5 months ago:
Sometimes I screenshot and crop a picture I want to save if there is no alternative to saving it as a .webp
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Fiber is solid so eat a whole box of Fiber One bars
- Comment on Mexican lawmakers vote to ban dolphin shows 5 months ago:
Nah they can’t buy enough LSD to do that again
