absGeekNZ
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- 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 1 day ago:
Agreed, I am teaching my second son to read.
I am having the same conversations as when I taught my first to read.
“ok, this word is a ‘sight word’ because it doesn’t make the sounds you expect. It says won, but it looks like it says on-e”
- Comment on Examination you say? What kind? 1 day ago:
Well it is nice to have a sign to tell me where to go. Weird that it is in the OB ward though.
- Comment on Frog's Gift 2 days ago:
Drag has a point, I bet gun control laws would follow quickly.
(said from the safety of New Zealand)
- Comment on It was rigged? 3 days ago:
It can happen, but statistically adult man vs adult woman is not a fair fight.
I knew a guy at university; started going out with this smoking hot girl. She was a regional champ in jujitsu; it didn’t last long, turns out she was a violent piece of shit. Beat him up twice, he left after the second one. She had major anger management issues.
But you turn that story around a little, similar situation, girl has same anger management issues, but without the training etc, she is unlikely to be a threat to any adult guy.
- Comment on fuckery 6 days ago:
Just because you are all out of fucks, doesn’t really have anything to do with the finite/infinite nature of all fucks.
- Comment on fuckery 6 days ago:
(thank|fuck)you, this is going to waste my whole weekend. A visual representation of etymology, that is awesome, I guess I am one of the 10,000 today
- Comment on Me_irl 1 week ago:
I am quite specific about who I share this kind of stuff!!!
NSFW
- Comment on Fungi using gamma radiation for energy in Chernobyl 1 week ago:
That is really interesting.
So we have fungi growing on the outside of the ISS, and we have fungi growing were there is very little available moisture.
So hard vacuum and almost no moisture doesn’t kill off fungi. It can evolve to take advantage of extremely high energy radiation.
I wonder if fungi could grow on asteroids?
- Comment on Look at this Kinder toy I got. What? How? Who?! 4 weeks ago:
I read that as scro-TU-mass, took me a second to figure out what you were saying
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
I was reminded of the same thing.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
This is one of the many things I use Syncthing for.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
The problem is not “Syncthing users” it is the others that we bring along with us.
I already have F-Droid on my phone, but the dozen others that I have promoted Syncthing to over the years do not. This is going to cause a bunch of problems.
This is much more important than what you portray here.
- Comment on GOTY 1 month ago:
I think you miss the opportunity to use “correspond-ass chess”
- Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic 1 month ago:
Agreed thieves are terrible.
Not many better options if you are getting robbed though.
- Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic 1 month ago:
Pretty much; then get the police to deal with it.
- Comment on Wildlife Photography 1 month ago:
Maybe, but he can also rip your arm off and beat you to death with it…
When wrestling with a toddler, your stance doesn’t really matter.
- Comment on Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops 1 month ago:
Agreed.
And the causes are probably broadly similar; lack of education about how to cook, lack of time to cook, lack of education on healthy food, too much food advertising, ultra-processed foods are too common, healthy foods are expensive…
- Comment on Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops 1 month ago:
No, but your weird obsession with ridiculously unhealthy food is somewhat interesting.
- Comment on Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops 1 month ago:
So the answer is to not visit the US then.
- Comment on Oxygen 2 months ago:
In one of their multitude of inter-nation conflicts; two cities were consumed in nuclear fire. On any sane world; these areas would be abandoned and the area around them a quarantine zone; the humans obviously not being fully sane, rebuilt and flourish.
This is related to the fact that humans along with most of the inhabitants of Sol3, are highly resilient to damage; of all kinds.
Humans reproduce slowly; but even though they generally reproduce not far above replacement rate, their resilience means their population still grows at an exponential rate. And on top of that; their advances in medical technology are on the verge of massive life extension. Soon they will have to move out into space; the galaxy better get ready for them.
- Comment on I am really trying here, ok? 2 months ago:
Don’t be.
I who don’t care for sport at all, am now aware more about breaking then I would be; I saw some other matches 100% because of her actions. I would not have bothered otherwise.
She brings more interest to the sport; I only saw three events, the rock climbing (I climb); some of the kayak (kayak cross is awesome) and some of the breaking.
So there you have it; of the very small amount of the Olympics I watched, breaking was part of it.
- Comment on Make this thread look like it's your first day on the internet 2 months ago:
Acid Burn and Crash Override, such a classic coupe.
- Comment on I just want to make cookies :( 2 months ago:
Yep, everything in weight. It works so well.
- Comment on We Got You 2 months ago:
Ah the old prison wallet. Classic.
- Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. 2 months ago:
Delay it until January, kill two birds with one stone.
- Comment on Centipedes Don't Fuck 2 months ago:
…unless you are a leg man…
- Comment on I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be 2 months ago:
Automation engineer here: alarm management is a hugely important part of making a plant operable.
It is also a project that is never done, you must always review alarms that come in and see if they are providing useful information and what the operators are supposed to do with said information.
If the operators are not supposed to do anything with the information, then what is the point of having the alarm?
- Comment on Twitter 2 months ago:
By perpetrating another attack on November 9th, because clearly only 50% of the 9/11’s have been used.
- Comment on Chat is this real 2 months ago:
*widower
- Comment on Shart, not fart 3 months ago:
Technically not cannibalism!
