Timwi

@Timwi@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are raisins toxic for dogs and not humans?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You severely misunderstood the purpose of this community...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Permission is Hereby Granted" -- MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you writing like this to set yourself apart from AI/LLMs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Hell on Earth’: famine nears in northern Gaza despite Israeli aid pledges⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Israel did not offer a ceasefire. It makes no sense for them to do so as their goal is not to defend themselves, but to exterminate the Palestinian people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because without it, the DOJ would have no control over you, duh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨are people still all riled up about beehaw?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the “dick move” adequately explains people's negative reaction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC to declare AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal under existing law⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume that banning all robocalls requires new legislation, whereas the regulation mentioned here didn't.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does ripping a CD/DVD work exactly? Is it similar to copying or does it leave the CD/DVD unusable?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It can still easily take hours if it's a whole movie you're copying and you're transcoding it into a more space-efficient codec.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it okay to wash hands with body soap?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was actually kind of confused at first about the liquid and bar soap thing. I've used bar soap to wash my hands all my life, and for nothing else. To wash the whole body during a shower, I use liquid soap (called shower gel) and I would find bar soap unwieldy. Moral of the story: your insistence on using one vs the other is entirely cultural.

  Fun fact: even washing-up liquid (dish soap) can be used to wash your hands in a pinch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the best mini-games youve played? (games inside games)⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a fan of the LucasArts point-and-click adventure games of the 80s-90s, it would be remiss of me not to mention that Day of the Tentacle, the sequel to Maniac Mansion (their first adventure game ever), actually contains Maniac Mansion as a minigame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the best mini-games youve played? (games inside games)⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you accept modules in Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes as “minigames” then I could name several hundreds that I enjoyed when I was still active in that game. Many of them are “soloable”, meaning, do not require another player with a manual. Several fans of the game, myself included, would sometimes load up a bomb containing only soloable modules and just play on their own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because you'll be investing in, and therefore helping that company. Only a small fraction of the company's profit is going to reach you. You'll be part of the problem with capitalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you feel, as I do, that this adblocker ban by Youtube will harm all of Alphabet's companies? [discussion]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  YouTube should just be government-run. No ads. Content creators can make money from sponsorships and Patreon. Which, incidentally, should also be government-run. And Twitter. These modern technologies should simply be public goods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make sure not to underestimate the brilliance of 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' as it proves to be an exceptional movie!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  High-profile awards like the Oscars are not given for excellence. They are just an advertisement for a movie that the producers can buy. It says nothing about the movie other than that it was made by a big and rich studio.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make sure not to underestimate the brilliance of 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' as it proves to be an exceptional movie!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  ... wat?... I'm a TNG fan and I would never have made that comparison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does a "10 hour drive" include breaks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Driving at a leisurely 47 attoparsecs per nanocentury

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion [1]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently finished Storyteller. It's a short game and you can finish it in a day, but boy does it look gorgeous and boy does it keep your noggin activated.