JohnnyEnzyme
@JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
- Comment on Why are basketball shoes so squeaky? 9 minutes ago:
As a long-time streetballer I rarely got a sense of that, playing 99% of the time outdoors.
Actually, most of the bball shoes I was familiar with didn’t have that fine-line design on the soles. It was more usually geometric shapes and stuff…
- Comment on Human Zoo 1 day ago:
Fuck… sérieusement ?!
Just put ME in there, instead, as a reminder that we’re ALL naked apes, end of the day.
- Comment on This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum. 1 day ago:
I see it from PieFed.Social. I’d absolutely love it if we got more FV content here, such as NodeBB. :D
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Really? What about it do you miss? (presuming)
- Comment on Comic Strip Edits 2 days ago:
Earlier, I noticed Dave’s top-voted comment to help get more eyes on the place:
https://piefed.social/c/asklemmy/p/1817118/dear-fediverse-why-is-my-community-not-visible-and-yes-it-s-public#post_repliesNot quite sure how that all works yet, but I guess I might need to do that for my own community, plus an upcoming one.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
You think? With those things you mention, you can make a product that pushes the right buttons, hits the right notes, and be done with it, letting it sell itself on its own from that point forward.
Now compare that to relaunching a whole platform and keeping it alive with investor money until it eventually and hopefully ‘makes it.’ Seems like a considerably different thing to me.
I’m reminded of the Arsenio Hall Show which ran from ‘89-94, did well for its time, but whose shelf life kind of naturally expired. They tried to bring it back in 2013, but cancelled it after a single season, because… nostalgia could only prop it up for so long. Or something like that.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Keeping in mind that I didn’t use Digg much back in the day, I don’t really understand the idea of re-launching a service that fell out of use in the first place.
Or if MySpace (etc) was to relaunch with modern features, could it expect to succeed out of nostalgia, or something..?
- Comment on One good thing about getting into a new relationship is that you get to re-tell all your best jokes and stories 2 days ago:
Yes. And just like a standup comic, you get to refine them with every iteration.
Every relationship partner gets to hear a more polished, expanded repertoire, so the more the merrier. :D
Of course the flipside is when your stories have fallen out of vogue, or you’re cognitively at the level of Grandpa Simpson. Nobody wants to hear that shizzle, man.
- Comment on what is this 2 days ago:
I was addressing OP’s need.
It’s up to Lemmy.World to determine how they want to handle the acct / community.
- Comment on Comic Strip Edits 3 days ago:
Btw, what do you think about adding this one to the sidebar? It’s got a similar spirit, and I plan to keep contributing to both communities:
lemmy.world/c/outofcontextcomics
!outofcontextcomics@lemmy.world
- Comment on Comic Strip Edits 3 days ago:
I’ve just added three I had in the hopper.
I might contribute some completely original ones once in a while, but I’m not a big fan of spending time monkeying around with graphics. “Nietzsche Family Circus” is easy, because it’s already set up as a tool. Same with “Build Your Own Meat,” which I’ll try to share in coming days.
Otherwise I’ll probably be on the lookout for stuff like the “Dennis is a Menace” tribute / satire stuff by other people. Anyway, good to see you finally started this project!
- Comment on what is this 3 days ago:
Every single post in that community seems to be like that.
Seems like it might be a bot acct just following… well, whatever script that might be for.
- Comment on Heavy snow when you're a kid is a dream come true, heavy snow when you're an adult is a nightmare. 4 days ago:
Under… standable.
- Comment on Heavy snow when you're a kid is a dream come true, heavy snow when you're an adult is a nightmare. 4 days ago:
I still love it as an adult, but I don’t have to drive through it, so there’s that!
To me, snow looks nice, feels nice, is bright and cheerful, and muffles sound wonderfully. It’s fun to play with and walk through. Ice on the ground is another matter though, which is when and where I break in to my ‘penguin shuffle,’ so as to avoid slipping and falling.
- Comment on The Spread of Homo sapiens 4 days ago:
Well, they specifically said “hominims,” which has a tight definition that I explained above.
- Comment on As soon as people could read, ages ago when they had fuck all to do they sat down and wrote (books, letters) for fun. Now, when people have fuck all to do they write internets for fun. NO CHANGE! 5 days ago:
The whole world was basically creating thread and weaving full time.
That’s an underrated point, and (seems to me) severally under-emphasized in various historical fiction and such. Also could be kind of minimized / hand-waved away by many because it was (I’m guessing) seen as ‘poor persons and womens’ work,’ with the rights of both of such groups commonly dismissed across history, going back ages…
- Comment on This is my greatest achievement in retro gaming 5 days ago:
I was gonna say… most likely all those carts are already dumped and archived at ROM sites, right?
But if this is one ethical person who wants to do things completely legally, I can see the point.
- Comment on The Chemist’s War 5 days ago:
…the prevalent thinking at the time was “they deserved it”
This seems to be a prevalent thought across the States, right to this day. Sure, there’s no doubt a general, human nature component to it, but it seems to me that it’s got extra venom in the US, and I’m not totally sure why.
One idea might be that there are elements of Puritan thinking that seemed to flow in to the permanent national culture, and of course, medieval Christian thinking in general probably promotes the thinking, as something that flows out of the whole ‘good and evil,’ ‘heaven and hell” mindset.
Bah, sorry for going way off tangent like that, but it got me thinking…
- Comment on As soon as people could read, ages ago when they had fuck all to do they sat down and wrote (books, letters) for fun. Now, when people have fuck all to do they write internets for fun. NO CHANGE! 5 days ago:
Truth.
- Comment on As soon as people could read, ages ago when they had fuck all to do they sat down and wrote (books, letters) for fun. Now, when people have fuck all to do they write internets for fun. NO CHANGE! 5 days ago:
Your shower thought is amusing, but I fundamentally disagree with it in real-world terms. That’s my overall point here.
- Comment on As soon as people could read, ages ago when they had fuck all to do they sat down and wrote (books, letters) for fun. Now, when people have fuck all to do they write internets for fun. NO CHANGE! 5 days ago:
If you say so. But hobbyists are still doing crafts & stuff that mankind was doing thousands of years ago.
Or, look at mini-painting, par exemple. That’s something artists and tacticians were involved in since near the dawn of civilisation, and today, it’s kind of a super-hobby.
- Comment on Prohibition in Russia (Spoiler: It also failed.) 5 days ago:
Russians without their Wodka is some kind of Mao-level idiotic backfire.
I wonder if Nicholas II was getting terrible advice from some advisor(s), and was just too sheltered and naive to know it.
- Comment on As soon as people could read, ages ago when they had fuck all to do they sat down and wrote (books, letters) for fun. Now, when people have fuck all to do they write internets for fun. NO CHANGE! 5 days ago:
I’d say that’s on a case-by-case basis. Hobbyists still weave on looms, even though there’s not strict need. People still build radio sets from scratch, and yadda-yadda…
One of the things that always interested me about living in a commune is that there’d be a need to do stuff like this to some extent, on an ongoing basis.
- Comment on How One Dog Saved 16 Humans 5 days ago:
(a mix between a terrier and a hound)
I was going to say… a hound’s head mounted on a capybara’s body?
- Comment on The Spread of Homo sapiens 5 days ago:
Interesting that they repeatedly use the word “hominims” and not “humans.” The point being that hominims includes all species of humans and chimpanzees.
So, they’re talking about any of a number of possible human species (there were six as recently as 50Kyrs ago) and possibly even some very clever chimps.
- Comment on As soon as people could read, ages ago when they had fuck all to do they sat down and wrote (books, letters) for fun. Now, when people have fuck all to do they write internets for fun. NO CHANGE! 5 days ago:
…when they had fuck all to do they sat down and wrote (books, letters) for fun.
Just for the record, before the invention of radio, TV and the mass production of goods, they also had a variety of real-world crafts they could do and things they could make for fun & profit.
- Comment on When I eat a handful of chocolate-covered espresso beans, my stomach functions like a coffee maker to brew a small, internal caffé mocha 5 days ago:
I didn’t even know they were a thing.
…some brands contain over 300 mg of caffeine per 40 g serving.
And pretty effective, it looks like!
- Comment on hope & resistance ✊🏻🏴 6 days ago:
Because this is a ‘Meta’ level community about the overall Fediverse, or specific FV issues. Your video appears to have nothing to do with any of that.
Better places to post it might be, I don’t know… resistance, womens’ rights, anarchist, social science, anti-capitalist, etc communities. You’d have to search around to find active ones where this has good chances of being seen, of course. Cheers.
- Comment on hope & resistance ✊🏻🏴 1 week ago:
Wrong community?
- Comment on Dinosaur Food: 100 million year old foods we still eat today 1 week ago:
Must be morphologically unchanged since its fossil age
That’s interesting. So, genetically it could be significantly changed, but shape-wise, it must appear the same? In any case, I’m thinking certain molluscs might work. Sharks also might fit the bill, altho AFAIK they don’t fossilize well. Or, are there other gymnosperms beside ferns and Araucaria that could fit the bill? I suspect so…
Now, feel free to hate on this, but I’ve found GPT pretty useful for issues like this. Evidently, there’s quite a few more candidates.