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- Comment on There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic. 2 days ago:
It’s endemic when it’s just always there, like the common flu. Even if the numbers fluctuate. When it first appears and spreads across borders it’s pandemic.
- Comment on There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic. 3 days ago:
Covid is endemic now. Is there another pandemic?
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 4 days ago:
I never said she should’ve been black. But some milktoast British lady is still several shades lighter than any Egyptian in history.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 4 days ago:
Or look at Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Or Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra. Or John Wayne in Gengis Khan.
- Comment on Android updates: thanks I hate it. 1 week ago:
I just got a Samsung phone and haven’t seen anything besides the current version and for me it’s fine.
- Comment on Pope Joan 1 week ago:
What the everloving fuck is wrong with these people?
- Comment on 4 fundamental forces 2 weeks ago:
While that is true, for how long can you resist gravity? Gravity is the endurance hunter of the fundamental forces. Sure, you can lift your arm and resist the entire earth’s gravity. But for how long, before you succumb to gravity’s irresistible pull?
- Comment on What is Docker? 3 weeks ago:
Docker is a set of tools, that make it easier to work with some features of the Linux kernel. These kernel features allow several degrees of separating different processes from each other. For example, by default each Docker container you run will see its own file system, unable to interact (read: mess) with the original file system on the host or other Docker container. Each Docker container is in the end a single executable with all its dependencies bundled in an archive file, plus some Docker-related metadata.
- Comment on 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know 4 weeks ago:
530 dollars for 251 games in almost 22 years of service. Steam only logged about 210 hours in those years, which is bullshit. There’s almost no time recorded in Half-life, Day of defeat or Counterstrike and those are the games I played the most. I also got most games through Humblebundle, where I spent 270 dollars since June 2012. But as I haven’t been playing much on PC ever since the PS3 came out, the real money went to Sony and I don’t even want to know.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 5 weeks ago:
Exactly. It also means you’re being sued by the copyright holder and not the state. You won’t go to prison for this shit, as opposed to actual theft.
- Comment on Quantum mechanics might have the solution to joystick drift 1 month ago:
Hall effect sensors are crazy expensive. Sony has controllers with them and they’re more than twice as expensive as the normal ones. It’s very unlikely that Sony would set this insane price without a good reason.
- Comment on First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80 1 month ago:
Just like their prices, Nintendo will never change.
- Comment on bro wake up as an april fools joke and chose violence 1 month ago:
I flunked out of uni because of the EE I had to take. This shit’ll always be a foreign language to me.
- Comment on tetrapods 2 months ago:
Caaaaaaaarbs
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 2 months ago:
My stove apparently has wifi. But why I would put that thing on my network is beyond me.
- Comment on Henry Symeonis 2 months ago:
Well, it might not have happened with chimpanzees, but it happens all the time with humans. So I see it more as a good allegory than a true story.
- Comment on Henry Symeonis 2 months ago:
Take five chimpanzees. Put them in a big cage. Suspend some bananas from the roof of the cage. Provide the chimpanzees with a stepladder. BUT also add a proximity detector to the bananas, so that when a chimp goes near the banana, water hoses are triggered and the whole cage is thoroughly soaked.
Soon, the chimps learn that the bananas and the stepladder are best ignored.
Now, remove one chimp, and replace it with a fresh one. That chimp knows nothing of the hoses. He sees the banana, notices the stepladder, and because he is a smart primate, he envisions himself stepping on the stepladder to reach the bananas. He then deftly grabs the stepladder… and the four other chimps spring on him and beat him squarely. He soon learns to ignore the stepladder.
Then, remove another chimp and replace it with a fresh one. The scenario occurs again; when he grabs the stepladder, he gets mauled by the four other chimps – yes, including the previous “fresh” chimp. He has integrated the notion of “thou shallt not touch the stepladder”.
Iterate. After some operations, you have five chimps who are ready to punch any chimp who would dare touch the stepladder (or curse Henry Symeonis) – and none of them knows why.
- Comment on Tides of Annihilation - Announce Trailer 2 months ago:
Looks very bland.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 3 months ago:
Please stop these idiotic arguments. I don’t think you’re actually so dumb, that you don’t understand what my point was. So you’re being willfully obtuse just to annoy other people. Also, Chinese isn’t a thing. You probably mean Mandarin Chinese, which does have the highest number of native speakers. But English is still the common language (or lingua franca) across the world, even though it is number 3 in terms of native speakers.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 3 months ago:
Please stop being an obnoxious ass. English is the de-facto lingua franca of the world, acting like German is in any way comparable is just disingenuous.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 3 months ago:
Because more people speak it?
- Comment on Mexico asks Google to reject U.S. renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. 3 months ago:
Do you still think there will be an election in four years?
- Comment on DisplayPort 2.1b Arriving This Spring With DP80LL Cables 4 months ago:
Are there any TVs with DP?
- Comment on I believe him on a factual level, but not on an emotional level. 4 months ago:
Germany hasn’t visited for quite a while.
- Comment on Beautiful stories like this just make you smile 4 months ago:
Glorious.
- Comment on 25 Years Ago, A One-of-a-Kind Movie Captured the Hearts of Star Trek Fans Everywhere 4 months ago:
It still is a good movie.
- Comment on derReparierer: Repairing electronic devices 5 months ago:
Nice idea, but I would greatly appreciate information on how to find the broken parts. I mean, I can spot an exploded capacitor. But how do you find and identify other broken parts? If I have a multimeter, how do I know what to I should measure where to understand where something might be broken?
- Comment on Domain instead of ip in Wireguard 5 months ago:
I am using Let’s Encrypt. Cloudflare is used for DNS validation.
- Comment on Petrichor 5 months ago:
Life is life.
- Comment on Domain instead of ip in Wireguard 5 months ago:
It is that easy, like you said. And with Cloudflare and Caddy you can get TLS for your internal VPN hosts. I love that.