jballs

@jballs@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cat Calibration⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  into*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But yes.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “This is you as an old man. I’m ugly and dead alone.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the capital of France?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never seen a Whitest Kids You Know with such high production values.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caught in the act⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  RIP trailcam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump cosplaying⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw an announcement yesterday saying it was from the onions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riddler Trophy from the Batman Arkham games that i printed/painted for my brother's birthday⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s dope as fuck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riddler Trophy from the Batman Arkham games that i printed/painted for my brother's birthday⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How’d you pull that off? The question mark looks like filament, not like a neon tube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No excuse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A bad driver never misses their exit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sapiens and Homo Deus are both such good books. Lots of little anecdotes like that we’re just so fascinating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmmmm⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like that’s good advice for reasonably intelligent people. But it’s kind of a slippery slope, especially for people that are dumb as shit. For example, my neighbor became a hard antivaxxer during COVID.

  She mistrusted everything that was actually science, assuming that she since she didn’t understand what qualified professionals were saying, they must be wrong. But if someone could make a simple (even if incredibly wrong) argument on YouTube, shed eat that shit up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Megaflopolis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds interesting. I feel like that tiny but of context would probably draw more people to see it. Not sure why they kept it all mysterious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Megaflopolis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Any idea on what the movie is actually about? I saw an interview with Aubrey Plaza where they asked her and she gave a very vague answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One day if we are brave, we will get rid of the U in a lot of British words like color and armor, but by God we will keep the British U in the word glamour!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There you go little guy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hard to say. That study you linked mentions reductions in speed and crashes in the vicinity of the camera, which to me indicates that people are only slowing down because they know a camera is there. I suppose someone would have to do a study to see if speed cameras reduce speeds and crashes in areas where there aren’t currently cameras, but have been in the past. Meaning that people are slowing down in areas where they think there might be cameras.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There you go little guy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the sentiment against them stems from the fact that there are ways to reduce speeds without feeling like they’re being used as a revenue stream.

  Personally I like when there are warning signs saying “Speed camera in use ahead” since it has the effect of slowing down traffic and not feeling like a “gotcha” moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Poop Challenge Champion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Godspeed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Poop Challenge Champion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Lemmy no poop challenge memes were when I realized this was where I belonged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I always get them confused.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Orson Scott Card actually weighed in on a simple way to determine if something is fantasy or sci-fi since he writes both:

  The difference between science fiction and fantasy…is simply this, science fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The four horsemen of the dogpocalypse.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have not, but I can’t remember the last time I was in a KFC. Is it any good?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My neighbor sent a text to his wife once that said something like “make sure to get that pussy nice and clean for me cause I’ve got plans for you this weekend.”

  Except instead of sending it to his wife, he accidentally sent it to his dry cleaner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The four horsemen of the dogpocalypse.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s physiological response to that teal color in food. There are lots of green foods that are ok to eat, so the immediate revolution wasn’t as strong.

  But yeah, that Baja Blast teal is something you only see in nature on mold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The four horsemen of the dogpocalypse.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That Baja Blast one provoked a physical gag reflex in me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Tool phase⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in the day, my stepdad worked overseas so we found ourselves at the airport quite often. Remember how they used to have those courtesy phones where you pick up, talk to an operator, and ask them to make an announcement in the airport to have someone pickup and connect you?

  My brother and I would go to those phones and request that they page Reverend Maynard James Keenan. Then they’d announce over the intercom “Reverend Maynard James Keenan please pickup a white courtesy phone. Reverend Maynard James Keenan please pickup a white courtesy phone.” Then we’d lose our minds laughing. I don’t know why we thought it was so funny, but hopefully some other Tool fans at the time were walking through the airport and did a double take.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else having trouble with links not showing as read?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah if you look at that GitHub link in the other comment, it mentions that a Lemmy variable was renamed in the latest release. So there’s nothing that we, as users, can do. It needs a code change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else having trouble with links not showing as read?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah that explains it. Thanks!

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Launches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Y’all need to pay some Kerbal Space Program. It’ll teach you more about orbital mechanics than a physics degree and a job at NASA (according to XKCD). The only problem is, once you have this knowledge, a lot of sci fi becomes annoying.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slapping Chicken⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn that was impressive! Also, I’ll have to let my little brother know that if he keeps beating his meat so much he might accidentally cook it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 55 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I started and stopped Red Dead 2 several times over a few years, because while I enjoyed the story at first, it just wasn’t gripping. Then eventually you get to a point where the story picks up and you’re hooked. It has such a good ending.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no, not again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking about this movie yesterday in a thread talking about Beethoven. But I didn’t bring it up, because I figured it was too traumatic for most people.