thedirtyknapkin
@thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
- Comment on The past is a foreign country. 5 days ago:
we still have a couple of lemon giving phrases that survive “when life gives you lemons”. “looks like that car you bought is a lemon”
lemons are sour instead of sweet like most fruit. my guess is that a lemon is a thing to generally make your day/life worse, especially if it seemed like a good thing at first.
makes sense in the context of a “confirmed bachelor”. he’s giving that lemon to a stork. he’s not going to have children. someone married him and he’s not going to have children. back in the day that would be seen as defeating the point of marriage, though the real implication is he’s gay and married for a beard.
in the context of other relationships or a breakup they thought they were dating someone for keeps, turns out they weren’t worth it. they were a lemon, looked sweet but tasted sour when bitten into.
- Comment on Is martial arts really that useful? 6 days ago:
all of the “real” Martial arts from back before guns were about using weapons. those aren’t really practiced as much anymore because they’re all useless in the face of firearms anyway. why spend years training with a knife when the same time could be spent training with a gun. if combat effectiveness is your goal then you need to learn modern combat techniques.
that said, there’s plenty to be learned from it, and it’s not like it can’t help you in a fight. but as another commenter said, the real way to win every fight is by avoiding them. so really the best thing to learn is de-escalation and recognizing danger.
- Comment on Krillin 1 week ago:
it’s like bread. if you only ever saw white bread on sandwiches you might be confused to hear about someone living a good sourdough or rye from the bakery.
- Comment on stop 2 weeks ago:
man IDK, i know a lot of vegans and none of them are silent about it. they’re all deeply passionate people and that’s not necessarily bad, but they’re definitely not quiet.
- Comment on Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words? 2 weeks ago:
more disk shaped than flash memory.
- Comment on What are your thoughts on Warframe? 3 weeks ago:
i mean… it’s a big game. an hour is definitely not enough time to get the feel of a game like that.
hell I’ve never played it and have no strong feelings for or against it, but saying you quit after an hour is not much more than saying you never tried it at all.
- Comment on Anon gets a good look at Steve-O 3 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure I’ve heard steve-ob say himself that they couldn’t probably pull off much more jackass without like… dying. also i think the vibes have been off for them as a crew since bam went off deep and Ryan died.
- Comment on Anon gets a good look at Steve-O 3 weeks ago:
there may not be a correlation between race and length, but there is a correlation between race and percentage of spongey tissue.
this is basically what creates the difference between what people call a “grower” vs. a “shower”. black people are slightly statistically more likely to be “showers” having a larger flaccid size. the extreme examples is this will, however, achieve a less hard erection. so it’s not all bad for the growers. that said, porn stars have tricks to achieve longer harder erections. Viagra is the absolute norm on professional porn sets. meth and other stimulants also run rampant. it’s generally not actually pleasant work.
the racial statistical correlation is weak, and not really worth much. it’s about as significant as some peoples being taller on average. in fact, much less so, because “black” isn’t a distinct population. i have no idea if there have been better more detailed and representative studies done on this. the only one I’ve seen just went off of general demographic data sets like “non Hispanic white” or “black”. maybe you could argue it’s not worth studying, but damnit, everyone kinda wants to know. it’s all talked about often enough. we should really get to the deepest bottom of it just to end the argument. even though proving things with data never ends arguments.
- Comment on Anon slips through a crowd 5 weeks ago:
hmmm, all boys high schools aren’t actually very common in America. high schools here are almost all coed.
- Comment on Danger 1 month ago:
yeah, it’s likely for insurance or regulatory reasons.
insurance will find any reason possible to deny your claim. even if that is a failure to remove the keys from the ignition after the car burst into flames.
regulators shouldn’t allow slack. with any company in a regulatory situation they will to exactly as much as they’re allowed to get away with. give them an inch, they take a Mile. letting hazard tags slide based on judgement creates space for corruption and abuse. following procedures to the letter with strict documentation can help curtail that.
- Comment on Danger 1 month ago:
haha, no doubt. i may not be Australian, but i have written similar snarky reports before lol. after a certain point you’re choosing between 5 hours of overtime to write a report, or writing something like “event was fucked, station did not coordinate, check initial documents”
- Comment on Danger 1 month ago:
you know, i bet it’s literally missing its primary control surface
- Comment on Danger 1 month ago:
nah, my bet is that’s a machine that’s like visibly exploded to pieces. some manager walked by and reprimanded them for not tagging the broken gear. writer of tag argued back that “it’s obviously fucked, i mean look at it. have a think about it for a second”. manager said it doesn’t matter, protocol. tag writer writes sarcastic tag.
- Comment on Inconceivable Horror 1 month ago:
damn… does this count? like generally we want to avoid plastic cups in the ocean, but would it be bad to take something like this from say, a hermit crab? if we take the cup where will it go? chances are out will just end up somewhere else it shouldn’t but this time without being made use of by crabs. my knee jerk reaction was to say animals using plastics don’t count, but that’s clearly not true when we reuse garbage intentionally to create animal habitat like artificial reefs. can we really say that only humans have the capacity to reuse their own garbage effectively?
- Comment on Anon tries to be funny 1 month ago:
yeah, that makes sense lol. this one was very common on 4chan and chat rooms. think it started with aim. that was one of the first broadly accessible instant messaging platforms that you were likely to find young women on.
- Comment on Anon tries to be funny 1 month ago:
you must be young or old. that was standard Internet parlance a decade ago.
- Comment on I need new glasses. The only insurance-approved place I can shop online will cost $250 with my needs. I went to a "cheap" glasses website that doesn't accept insurance: $250. Yay, America. 1 month ago:
from the op description they are in fact a very complicated seamless bifocal. likely some of the most expensive lenses to make. idk, to a certain extent op is looking for a modern luxury item and mad that it’s expensive. like they don’t NEED seamless bifocals, it’s just Better for their condition. they could spend less on thicker cheaper bifocals, they just wouldn’t be as nice.
- Comment on This upcoming dating sim lets you romance household objects turned absolute fitties 2 months ago:
maybe they’re British, it’s pretty common over there to say “he’s fit” when calling someone attractive.
- Comment on No other way to put it 2 months ago:
oh i don’t think Amazon leaves anything out of their control anymore. if that label is for the most picked for a term the it’s because they manipulated the search. but I’m thinking it’s just a sticker that they put on things they want to sell and also manipulate the search results.
- Comment on They did the math. 2 months ago:
not sure, but 2 seconds is thinking about living animals tells us that that would probably bend over first.
- Comment on Get sorted... 2 months ago:
maybe bottom middle then somewhere between those two
- Comment on Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”? 2 months ago:
no, they just replaced the normal tools with ai-enhanced versions and are labeling everything like that now.
ai noise reduction should not get this tag.
- Comment on Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”? 2 months ago:
there’s a lot more than generative fill.
ai denoise, ai making, ai image recognition and sorting.
hell, every phone is using some kind of “ai enhanced” noise reduction by default these days. these are just better versions of existing tools than have been used for decades.
- Comment on Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”? 2 months ago:
yeah,
- Comment on They're everywhere!!! 3 months ago:
yeah, the idea didn’t take off until the previous generation of doctors died. it’s a fact that often both encourages and discourages me.
even doctors were too stubborn to accept they may have been wrong about something so important, no matter the evidence. however, even those that are so stubborn that they’ll take it to the grave will eventually be passed up by a new generation who has known of this idea since before they were born. at worst, this kind of stubbornnes is only likely to stall progress for 2 generations.
still, millions of people died because humans are stubborn.
- Comment on math checks out 3 months ago:
yeah, but they would be better able to put an rma through for you. it is kind of on them to guarantee a working product actually. if the manufacturer have them a faulty product it’s up to them to get the manufacturer to fix it. most retailers have an entire system and process for this kind of stuff. things show up to retailers broken all the time. part of their job is to guarantee against that and deal with it if they fail to before you buy it. if you asked them to replace it with a like model that worked or for them to initiate an rms and they refused then you’d be in the right to issue a chargesback.
- Comment on Heiroglyphs 3 months ago:
some said i was destined to be a doctor with my handwriting and family. i decided to break the cycle and become a videographer that barely scrapes by. my family is… they like the videos i make of our get togethers…
at least i haven’t accidentally killed anyone.
- Comment on eSafety drops case against Elon Musk's X over church stabbing videos 3 months ago:
I think democracy is already in trouble with giant mega corps controlling what we say instead.
the risk of the government controlling it is that someone might use that for their own interest. that’s the natural and inherent state of corporate interests. i think I’d rather have a chance at meaningful regulation than it’s hand these powers over to whoever happens to have the most money right now.
- Comment on Tactical 3 months ago:
that’s why i said they were like military pants but short lol
- Comment on Tactical 3 months ago:
i mean, i think it’s pretty obvious they meant like dress uniforms. these are just short and tight compared to trees blues, but generally in a similar style.