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- Comment on Finally a 100% reliable tool to determine whether a number is or is not Numberwang 4 days ago:
Very interesting post/ project it you’ve got no clue what any of this is from.
- Comment on Yeah, fuck these two. 4 days ago:
this is James Charles, who is indeed a famous effeminate gay man, and a YouTuber.
And a predator! 😬👎🏾
- Comment on SBA #239 Sins and Virtues 6 days ago:
Anyone know where these are from/ what the quotes come from? I found this one on iFunny from about a year ago and one of the other posts has a quote from seemingly a mythological story but I’m not sure if they’re all from one place.
- Comment on the lesson here is you tried your best 1 week ago:
High precision, low accuracy. The stormtrooper way.
- Comment on The new iPhone duo will allow you to watch The Odyssey like how Christopher Nolan intended 1 week ago:
Like how are you supposed to even play with such a fucked aspect ratio.
- Comment on Anon remembers the $49 GameCube 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure that when I bought my Wii it was just on the shelf as well, granted this was less than a year after it came out (so ancient history at this point) and my memory could be incorrect.
- Comment on Anon questions the epidemic 2 weeks ago:
No, I’m pretty sure that every man who has had sex at least once in their life turned out to be a top bloke
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I disagree that the comment is harmful or transphobic. It isn’t punching down or attacking trans people, it’s making fun of the insane belief that school teachers are performing medical procedures on children without their parents’ knowledge or consent.
I want to make a few things clear before I go any further: body / gender dysmorphia is not something that magically begins at the age of 18, and the idea that treatment for it should be held off until that age is as ridiculous as implying depression or anxiety not be treated until then. There’s also a myriad of reasons as to why someone under 18 would want to seek this treatment without their parents’ knowledge.
That being said, the extent to which treatment and discretion should be provided is obviously a hot topic in today’s political climate, and whether you’re in the group that supports or condemns it, nowhere are there schools with teachers performing secret transition surgeries on children without their parents’ knowledge. The poster is not making fun of an actual thing that is happening or even has a high likelihood of happening; they’re making fun of the lunacy and (often intentional) failure to understand the actual argument, and highlighting the strawman behind their defense.
I was going to liken the comment to someone making fun of an anti-Semitic news article by saying something like, “my Jewish friends always say they’re too busy running the world to hang out with me”, which could be taken at face value as an anti-Semitic joke; but the comment in your OP doesn’t even say anything negative about trans people (or those that provide treatment for them, for that matter). The only ones really being mocked are the people that believe the second statement is true.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Reminds me of this, the Million Dollar Homepage
- Comment on The good old days 2 weeks ago:
You’ve seen a fat suit. Now try fat dress.
- Comment on Syrian passports include a photo of Souq al-Hamidiyah in Damascus with the photographer’s watermark 'Wassim al-Asmar Photography' still visible. 3 weeks ago:
Bots don’t feel.
- Comment on Accurate 3 weeks ago:
Idk man. I’m a big Keanu fan and I knew as a kid watching The Matrix for the first time that he was not convincing as an actor. Entertaining, absolutely. Skilled, especially in action choreography, no doubt. But I feel like his roles in movies like the John Wick series (where you aren’t expected to take it super seriously) are the only ones where he doesn’t stick out next to even lesser known actors as heavy handed with his acting.
- Comment on Hey mods, would one of you please fix a thing? 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s supposed to say, “No Enviting Harassment”, like they don’t want you to envite that kind of behavior here.
- Comment on knowledge 3 weeks ago:
Me when I talk about made up stuff vs me when I talk about scholarly stuff
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 5 weeks ago:
Say the entire country of America bans 3d printers without DRM, why would a German 3D printing enthusiast stop developing their firmware?
Note that I’m not saying these bans aren’t bad. They certainly can and will cause harm to the community as a whole. But I don’t see the argument of, “if it gets banned in x place, it goes away forever, for everyone”. There are thousands of projects that are already illegal and exist without issue online. Piracy is illegal but still easily doable, it’s already illegal in several states to 3D print certain gun parts but people still create the files and print them out.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 5 weeks ago:
Imagine if california made browser drm required: no more open source browsers
Why would that be the case? If I’m a programmer in New York, or Germany, why do I care if my open-source browser meets California’s requirements? If there’s any chance of litigation, can’t you just slap “not for use in California” on it and call it a day?
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 5 weeks ago:
I genuinely think you might be talking to an LLM. Completely missing the analogy was one thing but supposedly being able to get around a 3D printer DRM with a bicycle is… an interesting proposition
- Comment on YouTube won't let me search for music by musician unless I remove the word "naked" from her name 5 weeks ago:
Facebook marketplace wouldn’t let me search for an LSD for my car, I had to search for a limited slip differential, which gave me a ton of results for posts that had “LSD” in the listing.
- Comment on The price of soda in 2017 5 weeks ago:
One might assume based on their comment that they are not from the US
- Comment on The layout of these floor tiles. 1 month ago:
If it were a different color it’d be totally fine
- Comment on The layout of these floor tiles. 1 month ago:
Oklahoma City.
- Comment on The layout of these floor tiles. 1 month ago:
I find it interesting that the post itself has mostly upvotes, yet every comment I’ve made explaining why I don’t like it is downvoted
- Comment on The layout of these floor tiles. 1 month ago:
Well, I wouldn’t say I’m outraged by it, given the community I posted it in. I’m not foaming at the mouth, I find the arrangement unpleasant and unnecessarily odd. Am I not allowed to think so?
- Comment on The layout of these floor tiles. 1 month ago:
The pattern doesn’t go on for terribly long (you can see a break in the pattern towards the left of the photo, where there is actually a set of 3 aligned rows instead of 4).
They could have accomplished the same thing in a more uniform way by placing the tiles in the standard half-interval or quarter-interval pattern across all of them. The only thing that makes any sense to me is that it’s quicker/ faster to align the tiles than it is to offset them, but they couldn’t have them aligned the whole way for the reasons you outlined.
- Comment on The layout of these floor tiles. 1 month ago:
The every fifth tile is what I have an issue with, tiles laid out at half-intervals or quarter-intervals on every row are common and perfectly fine. The chunk of 4 aligned tiles is very unpleasant to look at imo.
- Comment on The layout of these floor tiles. 1 month ago:
The pattern is stupid.
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
For what it’s worth, I went to college before I was ready and it didn’t do anyone any favors. I think college only helps form structure for those that already have a good foundation for it; there’s so much freedom that if you decide to just fuck off and do nothing, there’s generally no repercussions until you’re failing the class you presumably paid to attend.
If you go into it planning to use it as a tool to help build structure and find a purpose on your own, it can be good. But it’s not like the military or something where they’re going to force you to comply. I spent most of my freshman year in college sitting in my car in the parking lot because I had other stuff going on and I was too stressed out / anxious to go to class. Then took nearly 5 years to rebuild the courage to go back. If I just waited a year to sort my shit out before trying to go to college fresh out of high school, I probably would’ve had a degree by the time I started the second time.
- Comment on Autism Rule 1 month ago:
That’s what I came here to say. Find a math/ science adjacent hobby (note: hobby must be expensive) to devote a disgusting amount of time researching, then use some of those skills to find a job. I like computers, 3d printers, and cars; I got a job servicing and installing industrial equipment.
Sometimes you don’t even have to partake in the expensive hobby. Just spend weeks reading about it on Wikipedia and forums and watch a few dozen hours of YouTube videos on it and you’re bound to get enough side knowledge to be useful in some field.
- Comment on Absolutely 1 month ago:
That’s funny you mention them. Before going to In-N-Out the other day I was curious where the nearest Shake Shack was (I travel for work and they’re in a lot of airports but I otherwise haven’t seen many), the closest one was ~25 minutes away vs 8 minutes for In-N-Out. I also don’t really like Shake Shack’s actual food as much, but their shakes are of course phenomenal (if not pricey).
