Signtist
@Signtist@bookwyr.me
Formerly /u/Signtist@lemm.ee
- Comment on Mario Kart DS was released 20 years ago today on November 14th, 2005 1 week ago:
I traded my copy of Pokemon Fire Red with a bunch of legitimate shinies to my buddy for this game back in middle school. Worthwhile trade.
- Comment on They Wylin' 1 week ago:
Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998 after it came out that a white house intern, Monica Lewinsky, had been giving him blowjobs, and now this.
- Comment on They Wylin' 1 week ago:
If I had a nickle for every time a sitting president was shamed because Bill Clinton got a blowjob, I’d have 2 nickles. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
- Comment on Is it too late to post something spooky? 1 week ago:
If you’ve got a bad disk drive, don’t assume it’s worthless - the homebrew scene has made incredible strides recently, and now you can play your backups from an internal solid state drive, or even from your memory card! There’s also SD adapters for memory cards, giving pretty much unlimited space. I haven’t used my disk drive in years.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The people I’ve met who do their own “research” do so because they believe the scientific community as a whole is fake. They’d take great pride in not being published.
- Comment on Backlash doesn't really exist if you think about it 2 weeks ago:
This is unironically what I do. It’s helpful to figure out whether that mistake you made is actually important, or if you just think it is because it’s embarrassing. The easiest way to figure it out is to take it to the extreme; is it going to kill you? Probably not, so you’ll probably die from something else. Is it going to effect things so much that people will remember it after you die? Probably not, so one day everyone will have forgotten you, including this embarrassing thing you did. So, might as well just forget about it - everyone else will.
- Comment on Pants too! 4 weeks ago:
Steel-toed pants.
- Comment on Grab your pitchforks 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I hate kiwis (the fruit), so I wouldn’t eat this, but I love pineapples on pizza, so I’d imagine it’d taste good for people who like kiwis.
- Comment on I've recently turned into a blocker. 5 weeks ago:
This is the biggest reason why I only block sparingly. If you aren’t regularly challenged in a way that forces you to assess and explain your world view and why it makes sense to you, then you risk becoming detached from reality in the same way that so many people have these days. It’s easy to fall into the idea that your way of thinking is inherently correct, especially when you only interact with people who agree with you.
It’s tough to interact with someone who disagrees with you, especially on the internet where people can be unnecessarily harsh, but it’s also good to do for your own understanding of the world. I think of it like a workout for my moral compass - if I can’t fully explain why my viewpoint is more accurate than someone else’s, then there’s something I’m missing, and I know where I need to spend more time reassessing my beliefs.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
My mom would send me a dozen or more conspiracy theory links every day before I cut contact.
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 1 month ago:
Good to know, thanks! I did just upgrade to a gigabit fiber connection, but you’re right that I’m not usually maxing that out.
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 1 month ago:
How beneficial is connecting via ethernet instead of wifi? My wifi mesh pods only have 1 ethernet out port, so I use it for my desktop. Not sure if I could split it or not, but I imagine if I did it’d slow down my desktop’s internet connection, which I’d rather not do.
- Comment on I always hit this button 1 month ago:
Gotcha. Yeah, I try to tip based on whether or not the employee’s pay is being cut down due to the expectation of tipping. I can’t do anything to change the jobs that are already allowed to pay peanuts, but I worry that all of this rise in tipping prompts is to try to make a case that tipping is expected in places like fast food, and will be used to justify paying those workers even less as a result. You’re right that it’s a lot of work regardless, though.
- Comment on I always hit this button 1 month ago:
I guess? I mean, they still follow my directions with what goes into the burrito, wrap it up nice with a sticker to keep it closed when they’re done, and ask if I want napkins and utensils if I’m ordering to-go. Seems like the same work but with a shorter time frame.
- Comment on I always hit this button 1 month ago:
I’m confused. Wouldn’t ordering takeout at the counter also require the worker to ensure that the meal is correct, containers are properly sealed, and extra items like napkins and sauces are included? I’m not necessarily saying that those duties aren’t tip-worthy, but it seems to me that the only difference between ordering online or over the phone vs ordering at the counter is whether they hand you the food directly or put it in a pickup shelf.
- Comment on Lies, all lies 1 month ago:
Morf is a good way to introduce more mainstream-centric people to the sound of throat singing
- Comment on I baked eye ball cookies for Halloween 2 months ago:
All my homies got eye nipples.
- Comment on N. 5 2 months ago:
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 2 months ago:
Sorry to hear that. The isolation definitely exacerbated my mom's conspiracist ideation as well.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 2 months ago:
No worries, I hope your parents manage to get themselves out eventually. If they're anything like my mom, no amount of outside pleading will change their mind.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 2 months ago:
The one she talked about all the time was called the Minnesota Assembly. I think it's an offshoot of the whole sovereign citizen thing. I believe they used a telegram group chat as their main way of communicating. She died a little over a year ago, after they convinced her to treat her breast cancer with the herbal teas they sold instead of going to a doctor, so I'm not sure what's going on with the group anymore.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 2 months ago:
Oh, yeah, I don't necessarily think that every toxic site was specifically designed to be toxic, most were just designed in a way that people are drawn to. But when enough people flock to a place, it becomes toxic eventually. That just happens to coincide with the fact that when someone becomes wealthy from their website taking off, they often become corrupted by the attention and become the big figureheads we hate. They were probably assholes before, but now they're rich entitled assholes, which is much worse.
In the end the biggest issue with the internet is that too many people becoming easily connected to one another must also include toxic people easily connecting with one another, spreading the toxicity until it's inescapable in the community. I think we could slowly overcome the issues associated with connectivity on our own in time, and we were for a while, but the internet opened the floodgates and gave us too much connection before we were able to handle it.
My own mom went from a staunch democrat to believing Trump was literally the second coming of Jesus Christ sent to deal with actual honest-to-goodness Lizard People running the government, all because some small community of 100-odd people she found on the internet said so, and that many people can't be wrong.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 2 months ago:
Fair, I used the term as a catch-all that ends up inadvertently catching less-harmful sites as well. However, while there are only a few toxic sites, they're the most popular, and even when they fade into obscurity, they're replaced by other new toxic sites. They're designed to draw people in, so it doesn't really matter how few there are, they're always among the most popular websites on the internet.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 2 months ago:
The real question is whether the benefit of better access to scientific research offsets the detriment of social media. Unfortunately, I think social media use is much, much more widespread, and is thus having a significantly stronger detrimental effect than scientific research access and every other benefit combined.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It doesn't actually matter to him what the truth is, it only matters that you can't prove it's not what he's claiming it to be. It's the tried and true strategy for bigots everywhere.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Being a conservative just boils down to being scared that people will do to you what you do to them.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The loophole is to deny the humanity of the people you dislike.
- Comment on Is Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII Worth Playing in 2025? 2 months ago:
It was my friend's favorite game when it came out, though I never played it myself, and he was a huge FFVII fan, so it might've just been viewed through rose-tinted lenses. Still, if you're big fan like he was, I'd say you might as well give it a shot if you have the opportunity. If I recall correctly, he said it was only 5-10 hours long, so not too much of a commitment.
- Comment on Years ago while drunk and high I sent my sister a syphilis plushy. 2 months ago:
They had these STD plushies at a store my family visited several years ago. My sister and I were checking them out, so I picked one up, read the tag, and told her "I got The Clap." I assumed that she'd read the plushie she had picked up, tell me which one it was, we'd have a chuckle, and find something else to look at.
Apparently she hadn't yet figured out that they were STD plushies, and thought I had chosen that moment to tell her in confidence about an STD I had contracted. It was pretty awkward, but it was at least nice to know that she'd have brought me to the doctor in secret if I'd needed her to!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
About half of my family photos were taken in black and white film throughout the 90's. I think the film was marketed as having a "classic touch" or something to keep people buying it.
