Jimmycrackcrack

@Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This instantly put the Resident Evil 4 “what are you buyin’” guy’s voice in mind?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If trump shaved his head and didn't wear any makeup do you think you would recognize him?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Woah, he looks like a normal human being, why on earth did he put so much effort to choose to look like he does now?!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a good way to import/export/migrate music playlists between platforms?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are also a good thing to find in a page source to use with yt-dlp if you want to rip a video from a page, it’s like the playlist for DASH so you download all the pieces of a video and it’s audio and they get put together as one thing instead of getting little silent 5s videos that you have download one by one and also find the audio for them separately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a fun new game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  55138008

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could you grind up a loaf of bread back into a flour and make a new loaf of bread?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They might end up making a pretty crappy load of bread but it’s a bit much to imply they’ll become a bad person because of this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have kids and I don’t know anything about sports. If you continue reading after those disclosures, I’ll offer a perspective anyway, since you put this out to the internet for comment.

  There isn’t really a way you could have put this to your son that would be taken well, it’s evidently sensitive for him and despite your intentions it’ll feel like a tragic monent. It’s just hard news. Whether it’s right to break that to him, well I’m not sure but I think maybe you’re putting too much emphasis on this one interaction like it was your one shot and there was a definitive right it wrong way to do it. What will matter most is more likely to be what you do generally moving forward. You may have your doubts about his ability in his chosen path and perhaps they’re well founded but you can still encourage him and be rooting for him whilst gently suggesting having backup options in times when he appears uncertain. If you consistently do all you can to help in whatever way you can with whatever choices he makes, then if they don’t work out and he has to abandon that dream, he’ll at least know you supported him all throughout despite your concern and that should count for a lot. If somehow he ends up unexpectedly rocketing to success in football he’ll also remember you’d been there all along encouraging and assisting. It’s ok to counsel against putting his eggs all in one basket, but just don’t push it, you must respect his choice whatever it ends up being and he there to help pick up the pieces if those choices don’t make him happy.

  Much like with football fans, you support your team by just showing up to every match and cheering on. Perhaps he didn’t like the uncomfortable dose of reality today but so long as you are consistently a positive and helpful force he’ll hopefully come to appreciate what you’ve been trying to do for him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Senescence maybe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of CAPTCHA is this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s bad that this scam is running of course but, I have to say this particular scam has almost a nostalgic quality to it. It reminds me of the type of trickery that old school malware back in the day used to rely on to get on to people’s computers. It’s kind of quaint how unsophisticated it is and how much active work it requires of the victim to successfully infect them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why DO credit card companies make a stink about adult content anyway?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a podcast called hot money that goes in to this. Got shelf check it out, I reckon you’ll like it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t believe they couldn’t find a way to include one more t in that acronym, I mean come on, at this point you’re just obligated to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t been presented with any Ts and C’s. Do they apply if I already installed Firefox before this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨conflicted about my coworkers' overpunctuality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the most obvious answer but given OP’s strong feelings on the matter, they presumably already thought this would be the best course of action and would already be doing it were it so easy. They didn’t say it directly but I think the problem they’re having is that their colleagues are not only themselves choosing to waste their time in this manner but because they are, they are expecting it of OP and it sounds like they’re having some kind of conflict about it that they’ve brought up with OP directly. I’m guessing some of them have complained to OP or indicated to them that they’re “supposed” to be ready by 12.30 even though they’re wrong.

  This makes it difficult because in that scenario OP can’t simply plough on doing their job to the letter of the contract and just ignore the others, they have to choose to actively fight it out with them or just relent and start arriving early. It sounds like what they’re having the dilemma about is if it sounds reasonable to have that fight, given that although it feels important to OP, they recognise that it’s more about the principle of the matter than the objective scale of the problem. Seems like they recognise that 5 minutes of their time wouldn’t be that big a deal as their colleagues have concluded, making it seem petty or disruptive to have that fight and all the awkwardness that will ensue just for those 5 minutes, but the principle that they should have to give up any extra time at all, regardless how long, just because their workmates are doing it is troubling OP.

  Depending on how whiny and motivated his colleagues are it might be advisable to pick their battles and let this go, but if they think they’re in a position to stand their ground and not have to suffer too many consequences and loss of standing with their workmates then of course they should, and even encourage others to do the same. I don’t think we have enough of an idea what their workplace is like to know which one of those situations they’re in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you eat soap for acid reflux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Future topic of a chubby emu video in the making.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are “female jocks” called?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t jock kind of pejorative though? Athlete wouldn’t communicate the same disdain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the weirdest argument you’ve overheard?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was walking through own of the dodgier parts of my city fairly late at night with not too many people around. I could see these 2 drunk weirdo guys with a kind of homeless vibe. There was an older guy and a younger dude, sitting on a bench, I could hear the older guy. Imagine this with a thick crocodile Dundee Aussie accent.

  “I don’t believe it, I CAN’T believe it, after all I’ve done for you. I was nice to you. I bought you cheese, I… … …”

  An awkward 4 to 5 second silence followed as it slowly dawned on the older guy that his list of benevolent acts only had 1 item before he followed up with

  “I bought you CHEESE mate!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t that interested before but it does give it a certain allure now to be sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister - live updates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Loudspeaker truck?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister - live updates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that Scummo in the background? LOL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the endgame when the rich have all the money?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Under the premise that eventually this endless growth cycle reaches some kind of an end point, then ultimately yes. The wealth has to keep increasing somehow. When you have have saturated every market, eliminated every competitor, captured every last regulator, innovated every last facet, optimised every metric, you have to start cutting wages, or replacing labour with machines. When evey worker is replaced or the wages are less than enough for survival no one’s getting paid. Who buys the stuff?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the endgame when the rich have all the money?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eloquently phrased.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are a young person you have no idea how bad everyone and everything smelled until at least the 1990s.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine being clock blocked by your Dad’s smoking habit. Tough break. Thanks Dad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give us your best infodump.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a secret rouse so you won’t suspect the stuff that they don’t tell you and get together every few months to co-ordinate keeping under wraps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Better that than confused people watching videos of Joe Rogan or Trump or something, maybe there’s a natural deterrant against disinformation in the name by just getting people to watch cows all day long. Then again I’m sure people would start taking cow dewormer eventually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or cowvid for that matter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you go about evaluating sources of information for truth/credibility/etc.?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No person nor source gets it right all the time, I like your idea as an evaluative technique but I think the assumption that being incorrect here is necessarily because of lying might mean discounting a lot of sources/creators who are otherwise reputable. I’d look at it more like degrees of doubt cast over everything else they say where you don’t have the expertise to evaluate the accuracy. Much like a driver’s licence, you get dinged enough times for more and more infractions and eventually you lose your license. If they keep continually getting things wrong where it’s something you know something about eventually you can probably discount them on anything else as well, but if it’s just once or twice, especially where they’re not egregiously wrong, some benefit of the doubt could be beneficial to all concerned. Better I would have thought to take what feels like their salient points on the content they produce on topics where you aren’t knowledgeable and check if other people are claiming anything similar and where something is verifiable, try to verify. Of course theoretically you should do that all the time but in practice at least each time you know someone is wrong about something it’s an indication that for them specifically further checking is required.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeh you don’t like it, sure, but the question was whether it had gotten worse in some way that’s quantifiable different to how it used to be in the past, or if it’s just OP’s personal taste changing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What good thing just happened in your life?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The other day I made butter chicken and it was one of the best butter chickens I’d had, at least as good as restaurant quality. Can’t wait to make it again and it was my 2nd try ever so I think I nailed it pretty quick. Wicked proud of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully in a year or two they’ll eventually just call it Twitter or maybe if we’re lucky it will go out of busi and then they’ll probably still just call it Twitter because the X thing would then have just been a short lived portion of its overall lifespan.