jballs
@jballs@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on all models are wrong, some are useful 1 day ago:
Dat Green Shitter?
- Comment on I meant to do that 2 days ago:
“hey Google, show a message on my back window saying ‘Sorry I didn’t know this lane was a merge lane and went around you like a jackass, I swear I didn’t know!! I’m actually a nice person’”
- Comment on 1940s do be repeating 2 days ago:
Ah gotcha, I was thinking maybe it had to do with the AI Paperclip Problem but I was way off.
- Comment on 1940s do be repeating 2 days ago:
What is Operation Paperclip?
- Comment on I meant to do that 3 days ago:
I did this a few days ago in accident only to basically pass the person in front of me and then sit in heavy traffic for the next 5 minutes.
I could feel their eyes burning into the back of my head, with them thinking “way to go, asshole, you saved yourself exactly 2 seconds by going around me.”
Cars need an “I’m sorry” emote somehow.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 1 week ago:
The average growth rate from 10,000 BCE to 1700 was just 0.04% per year.
Wow that’s crazy to me. I had always envisioned humans steadily spreading and growing constantly. I had no idea that we were basically treading water for so long.
- Comment on Just finished listening to the audiobook of The Martain and got me to thinking. 1 week ago:
I watched the whole movie thinking it was about COVID. Afterwards, my wife mentioned it was about climate change. I suppose the reality is, we’re just awful at responding to any large threat.
- Comment on Just finished listening to the audiobook of The Martain and got me to thinking. 1 week ago:
It’s definitely a tragedy. It has some humor to it, mostly things like poking fun at people who claim that the planet killing asteroid is going to boost the economy.
I think it’s with a watch.
- Comment on Just finished listening to the audiobook of The Martain and got me to thinking. 1 week ago:
I feel like if the Project Hail Mary crisis happened today, the response would be more like what happened in Don’t Look Up.
- Comment on xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier 2 weeks ago:
My stove won’t preheat, I guess because it’s a safety issue. Apparently you can set a remote start capability ahead of time that gets reset if you open the over door. But I’ve never tried it, since that seems like a lot.
- Comment on xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier 2 weeks ago:
I got new appliances a couple weeks ago and they’re all “smart”. Turns out a smart microwave just sends you a phone notification when it’s done. By default.
As someone with multiple people living in the house, I can confidently say this is the dumbest “smart” feature ever. Promptly disabled.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 3 weeks ago:
Still mad that they fucked up KSP2. I realize it was a different studio, but I’m not happy about it.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 3 weeks ago:
Which kind of blows my mind. Coal miners should love EVs. There was a story in the news a few years ago about how nice it was for the miners to help someone in an EV, as if they should be mortal enemies.
Non-EV cars don’t run on coal, they run on gasoline. EVs on the other hand can run on coal, natural gas, solar, wind, you name it - and still are more energy efficient than cars burning gasoline. In a sane world, coal miners would be throwing their support behind electric vehicles. The utility companies seem to understand this, but seems like the support hasn’t made its way up the supply chain.
- Comment on lik lik lik 4 weeks ago:
Wtf is a yiff? You know what, never mind.
- Comment on Dear Leader 4 weeks ago:
Same in the US.
- Comment on Too wordy a shitpost? 4 weeks ago:
Murphy’s Cat is my favorite
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 4 weeks ago:
Huh weird. I’ve got an account on .world and if I use that with Sync, posts don’t show get marked as read for me. Wonder what I’m doing wrong.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 4 weeks ago:
Really? Do posts show as read for you? Maybe Lemmy.world is still running an old version of Lemmy. Once sh.itjust.works patched to a new version 8 or 9 months ago, Sync became completely unusable for me.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 4 weeks ago:
$$$
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 4 weeks ago:
Not gonna lie, it brought a smile to my face when you were sitting in your house on a cool spring day, reading a somewhat plausible but lengthy story about a captivating subject. Then you got a slight suspicion that this story almost seemed too good. Too perfect for the situation. How could this random person on the Internet have such a great story about being a snake charmer, a stunt pilot, or whatever. Then it hits you just like when back in nineteen ninety eight the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been on sh.itjust.works for the last couple of years. The admins are cool as hell. Highly recommend.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 5 weeks ago:
I know right?!
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 5 weeks ago:
my neighbors are trekkies and Linux, as a fan of windows and star wars
Made this a couple weeks ago for you
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 5 weeks ago:
Glad to be of assistance, homie
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 5 weeks ago:
Lol one of the comments was:
first day on lemmy, and this is the shit i see right off the bat. I found my reddit replacement.
I felt exactly the same way
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 5 weeks ago:
Lack of sports content is a bit of a rough spot for Lemmy. This is one of the few places where Linux memes get substantially more engagement than a super bowl thread.
Side note, the superb owl community here is pretty great.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 5 weeks ago:
Lol same here. Jesus that whole site is atrocious now.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 5 weeks ago:
Someone else suggested saying when all the 3rd party API supported apps stopped working - but there’s only so much room on a meme text box, ya know?
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 5 weeks ago:
I remember 2 years ago trying out Lemmy and getting a few laughs about beans and trying not to poop. I thought “this is ok, but I don’t think this will ever replace Reddit in my day to day.”
But I stuck with it and have come to love and appreciate Lemmy. The number of users has continued to grow and I feel like there’s enough content here now that I never feel bored. Plus I feel like even small posts and comments get attention and we’re not just screaming into the void.
So happy cake day to all who did the same thing!
