Redhotkurt
@Redhotkurt@kbin.social
- Comment on After I’m Gone Backup Solution 11 months ago:
I just read that README, quite sobering. Now I'm thinking of bus scenario backup plans. Like, there's stuff that is eventually gonna stop working if left unattended too long, and you just assume you're gonna be around to maintain it, you know?
- Comment on Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates 11 months ago:
Firefox
- Comment on I want to talk in an American accent but how can I transition into it slowly for people who know me without them noticing a sudden change? 11 months ago:
I'm thinking of that episode of Friends where Ross pretends to have a British accent on his first day of teaching and tries to slowly phase it out and replace it with his real American accent without embarrassing himself further...and oh my god, I don't think this is as good Please update us on how it goes, we're rooting for you!
- Comment on I want to talk in an American accent but how can I transition into it slowly for people who know me without them noticing a sudden change? 11 months ago:
I'm thinking of that episode of Friends where Ross pretends to have a British accent on his first day of teaching and tries to slowly phase it out and replace it with his real American accent without embarrassing himself further...and oh my god, I don't envy you one bit. This is going to be so awkward for you. Please update us on how it goes, we're rooting for you!
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 11 months ago:
Despite our robust economy, the US trails both Europe and China in terms of EV adoption.
Yeah, about that. The economy only looks robust because its health is based on the stock value of a limited number of U.S. corporations. The average American human being is fuckin broke...ironically, because of the pursuit of eternal continuous growth (which is impossible) for profit.
- Comment on Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family 11 months ago:
Lol this really sucks for Plex users, but I'm glad I left that steaming pile of shit software. I've been using Jellyfin for two years now and have never had to deal with sudden new shitty default-on features that appear from out of nowhere. Not once. With Plex, that happened like every other release. I don't miss it.
- Comment on In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"? 11 months ago:
Because everyone knows only terrorists take hostages, so using the term to describe one side tells the public who to think is the terrorist side without having to actually say it.
- Comment on Du, du duras 11 months ago:
Si.
- Comment on Logic and Miracles 11 months ago:
Please specify temperature: Earl Grey hot or sitting in the trunk of your '99 Malibu all summer hot?
- Comment on No one has ever known we were among you... until now. 1 year ago:
- Comment on FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband, with a future goal of 1gbps 1 year ago:
You might have figured it out by now, but "megabits per second" is abbreviated as "Mbps" with an uppercase m; yeah, it's kinda pedantic, but using lowercase means it's a millibit, which is much, much smaller. The same applies to "gigabits per second," which should be expressed as "Gbps."
At any rate, thank you for posting this, it really is good news. And about time they did this, too.
- Comment on In my language "Janeway" means "death". 1 year ago:
lol Kathy Janeway, patron saint of Coffee In My Mouth Now
- Comment on MFW I see the RISA, Prequels, and LOTR meme communities fighting and the Achievers are not included 1 year ago:
Brace yourselves, you're gonna find out what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps
- Comment on 🎵 Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, Trash it, change it, mail – upgrade it, charge it, point it, zoom it, press it, snap it, work it, quick – erase it 🎵 1 year ago:
Lol nice. Hmm, yeah, between Saru's correction and the panels for Spock and Seven that need to be added, this meme could use an update.
- Comment on A touching quote from Nimoy's "I am Spock" book (1995) 1 year ago:
The Spockumentary you seek is called For the Love of Spock (2016)
- Comment on Don't bother Janeway during her holodeck "excursions" 1 year ago:
Um, I'll be in my cabin
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Ugh I need to watch this show, but there's already so much stuff to watch
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I'm just here for that sweet Car Talk with Martok drip feed. YeeeeAaahh that's the stuff
- Comment on JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns 1 year ago:
It’s just the kids reading her books 20 years ago didn’t recognize all the problematic shit she wrote till they grew up.
Adult here who was an adult when the books came out and recognized all the awful racist and sexist imagery. I have nothing new to add to the conversation, I'm just gonna vent. There were quite a few of us here and there who spoke up when the books were published, but we were significantly outnumbered and immediately drowned out by the "shut up and stop complaining" crowd. Yes, all this talk of "problematic" issues in the Potter books are old observations we've been rehashing for two decades...the goblins who run the banks are a horrifyingly obvious Jewish caricature, Chinese character Cho Chang's first name is actually a Korean last name, the one black guy in the whole fuckin series is named "Shacklebolt" (seriously wtf), the one Irish character goes by "Seamus Finnegan," the main female character Hermione is constantly referred to as "bossy"...just to name a few. JFC, what a shitshow.
Ok, one more example that got a lot of attention years back but sort of faded away from public consciousness: in the first movie there's a bigass six-pointed star on the fuckin floor of Gringotts, of all places. You know, Gringotts. The bank......where the undeniably Jew-like goblins work. No fuckin shit, it's right there, plain as day. That one still boggles my mind. I mean, what the fuck, man. https://i.postimg.cc/Jzx2hr31/happry-potter-1-star-of-david-gringotts.png
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
JFC Stamets you have outdone yourself
again
- Comment on ‘Daredevil’ Hits Reset Button as Marvel Overhauls Its TV Business 1 year ago:
As it moves forward, Marvel is making concrete changes in how it makes TV. It now has plans to hire showrunners.
They budgeted, produced, and released ten tv shows in two years, and they never bothered to put anyone in charge? JFC, it all makes sense now.
- Comment on Happy Thanksgiving, Eh? 1 year ago:
I love this place
- Comment on When non-Trekkies stumble into Risa 1 year ago:
- Comment on When non-Trekkies stumble into Risa 1 year ago:
- Comment on New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels 1 year ago:
It's not a question of "Can you read the book?" It is a question of, "Did you extract information from the book? Can you connect the dots asked in the question based on the information that you read?" Lots of people who identify themselves as literate have a lot of difficulty doing these kinds of things.
I'm really sorry if this comes across as a TL;DR, but there's a name for that. I'm positive you already know, but for the benefit of those interested, it's called "functional illiteracy." And it's wild, still blows my mind to this day. Like, if you're functionally illiterate, that doesn't mean you don't know how to read...it means you can read but can't understand language written beyond the basic level. There are a lot of variables involved and I'm oversimplying a lot, but that's it in a nutshell. It's fucking terrifying, to be honest, especially because it's so widespread.
Read to your kids, folks! And talk to them about it afterwards!
- Comment on New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels 1 year ago:
Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?
- Comment on There's a big misconception about mobile phones and driving, and it's putting us at risk 1 year ago:
It is a shame that The Silent Generation were not able to pass on their knowledge and experience to the current batch of misguided Millennials, Gen Y, Gen X and boomers
They would have, but the Silent Generation (born between 1928-1945), born and raised in a period of extreme mass unemployment, starvation, and death in the form of the Great Depression (1929-1939) followed immediately by World War II (1939-1945), took out their trauma on their Boomer offspring, so any lessons or messages they might have been trying to convey were lost in the cacophony of abuse. Keep in mind their parents, the so-called "Greatest Generation" (1901-1924), also survived the Great War (1914-1918) prior to that and already had a really warped view of the world. That's a lot of generational trauma heaped onto the Boomers, both directly and indirectly.
Those fuckin Boomer kids suffered through some pretty awful abuse; they never stood a chance, man. It wasn't at all acceptable to talk about mental issues or even entertain the idea of asking for help, so as they grew up they just buried that shit and went into eternal denial mode. Worse, they reinforced their fucked up worldviews by abusing their own kids, the Gen Xers and Millennials, who in turn passed on that same generational trauma to...sigh, you get my point. I mean, each generation does seem to get a little better at shedding that old toxic "fuck you, I got mine" mindset, but it's a slow process. Look at how far-reaching that shit is, FFS. That "Greatest Trauma" period was a hundred years ago, and we're still suffering from the effects.
TL;DR they were incapable because trauma
- Comment on A little rant about lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
I saw there was a
conservativenazi community and decided to look at it.You had a typo. I fixed it for you
- Comment on How do I block all of Hexbear from All? 1 year ago:
If you think these copypasta pro-Russia trolls are actually "leftist," boy do I have a bridge to sell you.
- Comment on How do I block all of Hexbear from All? 1 year ago:
Yeah, I hear ya. It would probably be funny if it wasn't so frickin batshit crazy.
