Stillwater
@Stillwater@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Who knew genocide wasn't a winning strategy 5 hours ago:
But is anything, the slope if the graph is rising at the end. So the rate of deaths is accelerating.
- Comment on Who knew genocide wasn't a winning strategy 22 hours ago:
Doesn’t look like its trailing off at all
- Comment on Titanic sub disaster caused by operator failures: probe 1 day ago:
The headline makes it sound like the person driving the sub pressed a wrong button, but the article says
The 335-page report said “OceanGate’s failure to follow established engineering protocols for safety, testing, and maintenance of their submersible, was the primary causal factor” for the implosion.
- Comment on Warren Buffett Said Buying 'Distressed' Homes With 30-Year Mortgages And Renting Them Out Might Be The 'Most Attractive' Investment Available 3 days ago:
Remember when any of these guys makes a statement about investment advice, it’s not something that they want to do but something they will benefit from convincing you to do.
- Comment on If you put a "s" in front of the "sh" in chivalry, they turn into a "k" like in schism 6 days ago:
But only sometimes, of course
- Comment on The word esoteric is somewhat esoteric. 1 week ago:
But is “nonautological” autological?
- Comment on Wyoming to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined 1 week ago:
To be fair, only 6 people live in Wyoming
- Comment on Who's got the morbs? 1 week ago:
Very aussie
- Comment on UK to evacuate children who need urgent medical aid in Gaza 1 week ago:
Isn’t that all of them?
- Comment on It is linguistically impossible to behave anyone but yourself 1 week ago:
I think its referring to the phrase “Behave yourself” - who else am I gonna behave?
- Comment on Age verification and the enshitification of streaming will help reduce the decline in computer literacy in under 18s 1 week ago:
Oh boy, sound blaster. As much of a pain getting everything to work back in the day was, I’m also nostalgic for it.
Anyway, generational lines are always blurry. I always find myself identifying with things defined to be part of the generation before or after mine anyway. I would call myself a “90s kid”, being born in the 80s, but I count that as an older millennial.
We got our first family computer when I was in grade school. It didn’t even have Windows, just DOS. So I first learned the command line. When we later got Windows 3.1, we didn’t have a mouse, so I learned to navigate the OS with keyboard only (to this day I have a preference for keyboard navigation). By the time I was in high school I knew how to code, build a computer from parts, etc. And started my life as a pirate with Napster.
My sister is a younger millennial, born in the 90s. By the time she was actively using a computer I think it was probably on XP. She probably wouldn’t know what defragmenting is or how to format a drive. But she didn’t have to learn that stuff.
As a millennial in general it seems we are the only generation who know how computers work as a rule. We had to help our grandparents and parents generation with every technical problem, and figured the kids of the future would surpass us. But now I have play the same tech support role for my kids generation, because they never learned that stuff either.
- Comment on Age verification and the enshitification of streaming will help reduce the decline in computer literacy in under 18s 1 week ago:
Actually, as an elder millennial, I believe we are far more computer literate than young millennials.
- Comment on Co-op climbing game PEAK is a truly great time with friends 2 weeks ago:
I disagree with the other commenters. The game is a blast with friends and smooth in gameplay. The controls are easy and predictable, and everyone I’ve played with has picked it up very easily, even those who aren’t heavy gamers. If you are in a poison cloud its because you stepped on the brightly colored people poison plants.
- Comment on How does a guy become his most confident around women? 2 weeks ago:
This and just work on being confident in yourself regardless of anyone else. If you can be comfortable in your own skin, it will naturally be attractive VS trying hard to prove yourself
- Comment on It's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a place 2 weeks ago:
I edited my original post, but what about “go to extremes” ?
- Comment on It's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a place 2 weeks ago:
Now you’re moving the goalposts :p
I agree it is a rare structure.
- Comment on It's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a place 2 weeks ago:
Not many… Heres what i came up with though: Go to great lengths
Go to an extreme
Go to bat for something
Go to town on something - Comment on It's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a place 2 weeks ago:
We “go” to lots of things that aren’t places. Im going to prove it with this sentence.
- Comment on The upcoming skate. from EA will be unsupported on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck due to anti-cheat 3 weeks ago:
Then we won’t be playing it
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 3 weeks ago:
OK but google (or ask your AI?) about AI scurvy. This isn’t the only source saying theres a problem with the answers.
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 3 weeks ago:
It might be wrong more often than you think
- Comment on YSK about StopICE.net to send and receive alerts about ICE raids in your area 3 weeks ago:
The while reason for this app is that the administration is not abiding the law. So don’t rest your hopes on what is legal.
- Comment on came across some family heirlooms today, hahaha! 3 weeks ago:
I used to work for/with AOL in the 2010s. They still had a lot of grannies subbed to dial-up plans.
- Comment on came across some family heirlooms today, hahaha! 3 weeks ago:
It started small and they kept growing in how many free hours. It didn’t stop at 700. I’m not sure where it stopped, but I’m sure it was in 4 digits.
700 hours is around a month if connected nonstop, but back then it was more likely that many people connected a few hours a day at most, so that could probably last the better part of a year. Not a bad offer from AOL’s perspective, if you rolled into a subscription lasting years.
- Comment on Whaooo Wah Hey Ha! 4 weeks ago:
Is that the same as “stomp clap hey” music?
- Comment on Which ia better etiquette? 4 weeks ago:
Never with your finger
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Crazy to see someone jailed for a tweet
- Comment on 413524 Gang, rise up! 5 weeks ago:
142531
- Comment on Secure Your Gmail Now As Google Warns Of Password Attacks 5 weeks ago:
Jokes on them, I quit using gmail
- Comment on What are the differences between 1) probabillities, 2) possibillities, and 3) plausabillities? 5 weeks ago:
They’re not just different ranges of probability.
Probable = likely to happen
Possible = able to happen
Plausible = able or likely to happen according to reasonable inference