deadbeef79000
@deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
- Comment on Europe’s leaders plot to stop Trump from taking Greenland 1 day ago:
“Plot”? Like some evil villains?
- Comment on Elon Musk uses cybertruck explosion to show Tesla can remotely unlock and monitor vehicles 3 weeks ago:
Car manufacturer neutrality legislation incoming.
- Comment on New year, new me 3 weeks ago:
No point in mentioning these bats, I thought. Poor bastard will see them soon enough.
- Comment on Beautiful stories like this just make you smile 4 weeks ago:
You’ll address me by my girlfriend’s husband’s rank!
- Comment on Man questioned in case of murdered health exec 1 month ago:
NYPD Find Scapegoat
- Comment on Lindsey Graham warns US allies over Netanyahu warrant: "Crush your economy" 2 months ago:
I choose the ICC.
Fuck you facists.
- Comment on Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser 2 months ago:
Because this monopoly doesn’t directly affect them in a way that’s obvious to them.
- Comment on Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser 2 months ago:
Decisions by people who don’t understand, advised by people who don’t want them to understand, funded by people who are prepared to sacrifice a browser to appear like they’re doing something.
- Comment on Pluto's Orbit 2 months ago:
We’ve observed enough of its orbit to know what shape it is.
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 2 months ago:
It more that there’s a grift happening. What’s the odds that theres a tenuous conflict of interest here with the various business and executives concerned? It’s a small cub and everyone scratches each other backs.
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 2 months ago:
It’s still a prestige brand in the eyes of the masses. It might not be as good t brag about den at the country club but letting the plebs know that you can afford a car that costs more than their house still has value.
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 2 months ago:
Somewhere in Jaguar HQ, a marketing firm convinced the CxO suite that the most pressing problem facing the company was that the logo was wrong. So, in the interests of the shareholders they write off the goodwill value of the existing brand and dump millions of euro into this.
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 2 months ago:
Obviously the plural of foot is feet, so the plural of book should be beek.
Or one sheep should be a shoop.
There’s also the English Vowel Shift. Which means words either side of it are inconsistent.
- Comment on Tens of thousands march in New Zealand Maori rights protest 2 months ago:
Everyone does get those.
The beef is… Complicated.
- Comment on Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations 2 months ago:
It’s more efficient to just concentrate them in camps and gas them.
- Comment on What should I bring to far-north Scandinavia? 2 months ago:
… A sunny disposition?
- Comment on Reporters Without Borders sues X 2 months ago:
It’s correct, as much as any English is correct, but not typically spoken naturally like that.
The press (newspapers) has an idiosyncratic grammar, probably born of maximising space in a newspaper column. Headlines are often grammatical nightmares, body copy less so.
One could think of it as a form of semantic compression.
- Comment on fuckery 2 months ago:
I could fuck less.
- Comment on Astronauts tight-lipped about reason for hospital visit after 235 days in space 2 months ago:
Nah, like this guy: venturebrothers.fandom.com/wiki/Cody
- Comment on Astronauts tight-lipped about reason for hospital visit after 235 days in space 2 months ago:
One of them is now invisible and one is super stretchy, the third one is on fire all the time.
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 2 months ago:
You stupid monkey!
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 2 months ago:
The Library of Babel, by Jorge Luis Borges (1941)
A good read.
- Comment on Noice 2 months ago:
pi.z.z.aWtf are those parentheses doing there.
- Comment on Cognitive Biases 3 months ago:
I like that this has simple examples, even if imperfect.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I bought a refurbished SFF PC and put a PCIe NIC in it. Installed opnSense.
Cheap as chips.
- Comment on Damn right I'm a silly goose 3 months ago:
Shhh, don’t tell the SovCits.
- Comment on Jazz hands 3 months ago:
… Jazz.
/S
- Comment on Installation 3 months ago:
“I’ve got a buddy who can do the gas and the 'leccy. Super cheap.”
- Comment on Why do I feel sick every time I go out to eat with my gf? 3 months ago:
Anxiety?
If that tiny idiot of an amygdala in your brain thinks you’re in danger then nausea can be a symptom.
- Comment on Home Depot 3 months ago:
Derp, that’s what I was thinking of.