Signtist
@Signtist@bookwyr.me
Formerly /u/Signtist@lemm.ee
- Comment on Please hold 18 hours ago:
My work office has a full kitchen that nobody ever uses, so one day I decided to just make cookies for everyone while I was on the clock. As I suspected, nobody wants to be the one to reprimand the guy giving out cookies for wasting company time. I work mostly remote now, but once a month when I come in for a meeting I’ll spend a couple hours in the morning making cookies, and everyone’s always excited for it.
You’d be surprised what you can get away with by just doing stuff without asking if it’s okay first. Asking first usually gets ideas shot down, but once you’re already in the middle of doing something, most people assume someone gave the go-ahead. Worst case scenario you can pull the “I thought it’d be fine” line, but I almost never have to do that.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 23 hours ago:
There’s a reason it’s pushed so hard, and it’s because people in power don’t want to lose the golden goose that is American apathy. They can oppress us as much as they want, and we think having the moral superiority of taking it on the cheek makes us strong. It doesn’t.
- Comment on If only 2 days ago:
That’s why Trump’s smart - he knows that the American people are fine with invasions without any explanation at all!
- Comment on What a great idea 1 week ago:
Yeah, I can remember one or two specific instances of people choosing the worst place to stop and have a conversation, but the reason I remember them is because they happen so infrequently. I might need to say “excuse me” every so often, or squeeze by someone who didn’t leave a lot of space, but it’s never inconvenient enough to warrant remembering.
- Comment on Buy the component cable 1 week ago:
For the PS2 make sure you change the output settings to component. I got mine and spent hours trying to figure out why everything was purple. Never even thought to see if there was a setting for it until I luckily found an old forum post that enlightened me.
- Comment on Sharing is caring 1 week ago:
Took me a while to realize it’s a reference to how birds feed their young. At first I thought it was some sort of body snatchers thing.
- Comment on Parents... Huh... 1 week ago:
My buddy’s parents were like this. They’re very religious, and damn near disowned him when his younger brother snitched to them that he saw a condom wrapper in his trash. This was despite the fact that their older brother was born full-term less than 9 months after their parents got married…
- Comment on Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? 1 week ago:
“Coward” implies that they want to do good, but are to scared to do so. There’s no reason to think that, and indeed we shouldn’t. They want money and Elon makes them money; that’s all there is to it. If ethics mattered to them at all, they wouldn’t have been able to climb to the position of CEO of a major corporation in the first place.
- Comment on Are they for real? 2 weeks ago:
Technically it’s not meant to be a positive thing - just a neutral acknowledgement of a topic’s media dominance for that year, but yeah, The phrase “X of the year” is so universally understood to be positive that even with the reminder that it’s not an award, it still feels like an award.
- Comment on Elijah Radcliffe 3 weeks ago:
Danijah Woodcliffe
- Comment on Do Costcos usually have an ATM machine? 3 weeks ago:
The ones in my area all have a Wings Credit Union ATM by the food court.
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 3 weeks ago:
I know a lot of people who would consider 3 hours of gaming a day to be plenty, and I know a lot of people who buy Nvidia products. They are not the same people.
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is 100.00% decompiled 4 weeks ago:
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Twilight Ocarina Mask of Princess Time
- Comment on On the wall in every kitchen 4 weeks ago:
I had one of these in my house growing up that was used as the family telephone before we all got cell phones, and I’m one of the younger millennials.
- Comment on Kiribati 5 weeks ago:
Looks like one of those disposable flossers.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 1 month ago:
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 1 month ago:
- Comment on My Religion 1 month ago:
The issue is that the vast majority of people don’t view religion as “what I should or shouldn’t do.” They view it as “what should and shouldn’t be done.” They can’t just follow the tenants themselves; in order to follow their religion - at least not the way they interpret it - they need to make sure the tenants are being universally followed. That’s why religion is always at odds with society as a whole unless that society is already overbearingly religious. It will never change unless there are no major groups within society with different beliefs than the norm.
- Comment on Existential cowposting 1 month ago:
They’re not offering you 30% off a TV because they think you need it, they’re doing it because it benefits them, so they dress it up like it’s sometime you need so that you hopefully believe it. You only get what you need when you fight for it.
- Comment on Where childhood goes to wait for its shift to start. 1 month ago:
I didn’t even mind back when the best “play place” my family went to was a restaurant that had a couple arcade cabinets tucked away in a corner like this - something about this picture just feels far more isolated. I guess it’s just the empty hallway - the arcades were just a few feet away from a table at the old restaurant.
- Comment on Where childhood goes to wait for its shift to start. 1 month ago:
Looks like a McDonald’s play place, which has transformed from a big room full of tubes and ball pits to an empty hallway with 2 touchscreens and chairs.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. People generally hate learning things they’re not interested in, and one of the least interesting things for the average person is a fact that challenges their established world view.
- Comment on Mario Kart DS was released 20 years ago today on November 14th, 2005 2 months 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' 2 months 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' 2 months 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? 2 months 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 months 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 months 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! 2 months ago:
Steel-toed pants.
- Comment on Grab your pitchforks 3 months 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.
