FrChazzz
@FrChazzz@lemmus.org
- Comment on CW: Picture of a severe vaccine injury, NSFL 1 hour ago:
You’re not fooling anyone, y’know
- Comment on Maybe, maybe not 2 days ago:
When I was nearing the end of grad school, they asked us to submit any degrees we’d earned to be listed next to our names in the graduation ceremony program. I “left high school early” so I have a GED (and am proud of it). So I listed my degrees as GED, BA.
A few days later the person putting together the programs finds me in the refectory, pulls me aside and quietly asks me “um, GED? Is… is that high school?”
“Sort of,” I reply.
“Uh, yeah… we don’t usually put those in there…”
Still have a GED sharing wall space with my Master’s either way. Win.
- Comment on Genius. 3 days ago:
As the old saying goes: " 'twas a brave man who first ate an oyster." (Pretty sure this is an Oscar Wilde quote)
- Comment on Gaysadilla 4 days ago:
Give it some hot sauce for the +
- Comment on Still hoping this look comes back. 4 days ago:
I legit thought this was an American Apparel catalog pic from like 2004
- Comment on The 49MB Web Page 4 days ago:
Yeah I’m not convinced that this site is accurate. According to this my blog pollutes more than facebook.com (I’m apparently as dirty as netflix.com) and is only slightly dirtier than newyorktimes.com… And images.google.com gets an A… I ain’t buying it.
- Comment on That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship 5 days ago:
pan flute music intensifies
- Comment on That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship 5 days ago:
Avenue 5 was taken from us too soon. I’m just glad that we got to see douchey-Josh-Gad sorta reprise his role in Wonder Man.
- Comment on That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship 5 days ago:
Like Boimler, I don’t see the resemblance between the two.
- Comment on 80s and 90s anime starter pack 1 week ago:
Back when it was referred to as “Japanimation.” I used to watch the Saturday morning anime. I caught Green Legend Ran on there and remember really liking it. I need to revisit that one at some point.
- Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 1 week ago:
Librem! That’s the phone I was thinking of, not the others
- Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 1 week ago:
Makes me think of either the Fairphone or the Nothing Phone that originally advertised that it could be used as a desktop computer thanks to USB-C ports and I thought that was a brilliant notion. I really don’t see why Apple couldn’t just do the same. I mean, I can see why (DAT MONAY!) but it would be awesome for folks to have such flexibility with their devices.
- Comment on 13,492% sudden interest increase in local Alabama news station 1 week ago:
I know, right. She looks hardly old enough to have sacked Rome.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 week ago:
I have a Hisense that I bought late last year and have never connected it to the internet (I stream everything through my PS5) and boyhowdy does that TV take every chance it gets to let me know I’m not connected lol
- Comment on Every single time. 1 week ago:
Unbelievable sights Indescribable feeling Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling
- Comment on Every single time. 1 week ago:
Once went to a pharmacy because apparently one of my kids had pinworms. Which means we all had to take the medicine. Anyway, my wife and I figure that we should all take it the next day (can’t remember the precise reasons, but it had to do with the fact that you have to take a second dose like two weeks later). This determination is made at night, so I have to drive up to the store to pick it up. I have four kids, so we needed to get two boxes of the stuff.
I don’t think much about it until I approach the register area and I swear that management decided to schedule the best looking people to work that particular night shift. Everyone was hot. And here I am, like 10 o’clock at night, holding two boxes of butt worm medicine, suggesting that there’s so pressing a need for this product that I had to get it right away…
- Comment on Operation Mar-Kwane 1 week ago:
Is it “Mar Kwahn” (rhymes with swan) or “Mar Kwane” (rhymes with main)?
Alternatively we could go with the infix and call him “Kway Kway” which seems to fit with his, hm, diminutive stature.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 1 week ago:
Pretty sure the first C prompt I ever encountered was amber. Will always have a soft spot for it.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 1 week ago:
Haven’t had any real issues. The only thing that is truly bizarre to me is that the monitor will not render the purple color used on Mastodon (it turns it cobalt blue). I knew that the IdeaPad has a not-so-great monitor, but I added Vibrant Linux and managed to make things look pretty good–except for that damn Mastodon logo lol. I’ve tried numerous things to get it to render correctly (and what makes it even weirder is that I can compare images on the page to another machine and they look the same, it’s just the logos and other text that won’t go purple… looks like I’m on Bluesky).
But I’ve had no driver issues or anything like that. Only time I’ve had anything break was due to my own incompetence in adding scripts to things.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 1 week ago:
Fair
- Comment on the world 2 weeks ago:
Hahaha precisely the movie I’ve used to describe my feelings about the current illegal war going on right now.
- Comment on the world 2 weeks ago:
I used to hate Prometheus but caught a second viewing years later and came around a bit. The running only straight thing is… yeah. But I’ll defend the inclusion of stupid scientists as a key part of the story because the movie goes out of its way to show that these are people only interested in getting paid, which suggests they might not be the best scientists. Yeah, it’s a “trillion dollar mission,” but I’d assume that in the future that trillion dollars isn’t as much as it might be for us. So these are, perhaps, the cheapest scientists that Wayland can buy, the sort of guys who’d give up years of their lives and careers to fuck off on a starship based solely on the premise of “we might find the aliens that made us.”
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
It’s pretty. But I recently bought a Lenovo IdeaPad at Costco for less, with 16GB ram and 1TB SDD and am running Linux Mint on it, which I’m getting way more out of than any other Mac I’ve owned.
Without a doubt the Mac’s screen is better than mine. But I feel like, all things considered, what I have can do more (and probably for longer). I’m happy to see something like this come along and take the wind out of Microslop’s sails (and sales). At the same time, I feel like one is able to get far more value out of a less-costly machine. If one were going to switch OSes anyway, why not Linux? I guess they’re banking on people already owning iPhones and therefore making this a more seamless transition or whatever…
- Comment on nothing really matters 2 weeks ago:
Folding clothes. After realizing that I’ve spent years grabbing clothes out of the hamper and no one seemed to notice, I decided to buy a fancy wood hamper that looks like a dresser and put my clothes in it right after they come out the dryer.
- Comment on In the Green Zone 2 weeks ago:
Weird. Two out of three of those things have happened in my house today (might watch a South Park episode just to round it out)
- Comment on Go ahead, take one 3 weeks ago:
Girl I crushed on many years back actually did this. She would take lemon slices and peel the skin off and eat them like they were oranges.
- Comment on Must be nice 4 weeks ago:
Ah, hello “Let’s Get High And Go To The Pet Store” person. I’ve not encountered your ilk in nearly 26 years, when I worked at a pet store. I recall your kind, coming into the store reeking like a skunk. “Bro, can we see the snakes?” you’d ask. I’d indulge. Until the Burmese python incident. One hand streaming blood, the other being constricted. My manager having to pry the snake’s hook like teeth off my thumb. You and your friends now intently watching the rhythms of the saltwater fish…
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 4 weeks ago:
I was fully prepared to dislike this show (Disco was on shaky ground with me, but I was more or less on board, then they went to the 32nd Century; I was not a fan of that jump at the time and worried that SNW was going to be the only outlier in regards to Disco spin-offs that would be any good), and I felt affirmed in that feeling during the first few minutes of the first episode. But once the tone changed a bit I was happy to watch the second episode. Then we met Tamira and I just kind of fell in love with the show. Then they managed to take something sacred (the Sisko), pair it with my least favorite character (the SAM), and somehow making it a truly great episode AND making me come around on said character (thus proving that Tawny Newsome is an absolute treasure to this franchise–give me a LD/STSA crossover now!).
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 4 weeks ago:
Data’s face here is like “Commander, you have targeted the warp nacelles on the Reliant and are preparing to fire.”
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 4 weeks ago:
She reminds me of a few of my professors in both my undergraduate English program and my graduate religious studies program, all of them wonderful and safe-feeling people. She’s the first school chancellor we’ve really seen in Star Trek and she feels very much like a university-level educator to me–with the whole starship command piece being additional to her main job.