lurch

@lurch@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man, I really got hit with a "All men are predators, it's in the studies". 2nd wave feminism is a scourge on feminism itself.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  maybe you just proved her point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, not?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know that feel. Went to a 1€-Store to buy cheap supplies for the new home when I moved and several things there were more. Still, the stuff I needed I got fir 1€ (trashcans, coat hangers, sponges and brushes)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where will it stop ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  🤯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where will it stop ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t even know there is undyed cheddar. Cheddar is a bit looked down on in my region, as we have very good local cheeses as well as imports from our EU neighbours. I’ve heard americans call Stilton and Gorgonzola “blue cheese”. It’s very confusing; they are different in many ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where will it stop ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s always fascinating to me how Americans name cheeses by color. I guess white is mozarella? Feta and goat cheeses are also white, but I doubt they go on pizza.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is Illiterate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Anon could be a kid. On the internet nobody knows you’re a dog. Actually, a lot of content on 4chan looks like a giggling 8 year old posted it; especially the posts about poop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every last one of these questions is terrible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m waiting for the day I need phone support and have to tell them 512 random characters over the phone 😆

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the solution to QR code phishing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine has a setting for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon listens to the radio⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t listened to radio in >10 years, but back in the day they had a bunch of pre-recorded station ID messages like this in Germany, France and some African countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it can get past the low ink warning, that is⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also maybe select the correct paper format. If the footer doesn’t fit. It may be set to A4 in the browser/driver but the printer has Letter size paper, which is 18mm shorter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does people doing things that upset others also upset you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure some people enjoy being sexist/racist and some even get off of watching people being sexist/racist. However, there are people in both groups who also understand it’s a problem and stand against it, except with consent in private.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree. New smartphones may have a few bettee specs, but are overall worse than older models.

  For example, they are getting bigger and bigger and can’t be operated one handed any more, even with Androids one-handed mode, because the zoom makes everything tiny.

  Newer phones become hotter, batteries more likely to turn into spicy pillows.

  More bloatware preinstalled, like AI stuff or “AR Emoji” etc.

  The camera notches are growing too, even though most people would be fine with notchless cameras.

  They are getting heavier and thicker too. In 2015 we had 5.1mm 98g phones. Not even a notch. It all went downhill from there.

  And don’t even get me started on the prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  first of all, progressive men don’t imply them being effeminate.

  secondly, you should be aware that “women” refers to a group of about 4 billion people. that means, if what you say is false for only 1% you’re wronging 40 million people. (but what you wrote is probably false for a much higher percentage. just like men, women can like different and multiple types at the same time and their preference can even change over time)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it is not the only way, but sex sells and that’s also what the nazis do: on one hand they have indoctrinated women cosplay the lucky trad wife and on the other hand they imply men can just keep women like pets if they’re rich or alternatively at some point get a girl pregnant, guilt trip her into not aborting, then basically ruin her carreer and force them into a marriage they can’t ever get out of. that’s what fascists present to boys on youtube, tiktok and other media to win them over. they also have other talking points, but this is one propaganda vector.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  they don’t even have to date them. dating them and publicly showing the dates off (like in tiktok videos etc) helps and counters misogynists like the Tates or ppl claiming girls only date rich guys etc, but just hanging with boys and making clear they are leftist and like being around leftist boys will sway lots of boys. talking politics also helps.

  i remember in my teens there were multiple girls doing this and it helped a lot. there was this punk girl and she would hang with like four boys and play them punk music, make them tea and hand out mixtapes and flyers for protests. another was a girl scout and met boy scouts on scout camps and they were following her around like creeps, but she invited groups of them to activities after the camp and got them to go to peace protests and help at cummunity events. if a cute girl asks a boy to help her hand out flyers for a good cause at the town fair most can’t resist. and many girls have no idea how cute they are. they see stupid ads with supermodels and compare themselves with them, but there’s a very wide range of what boys like and they’re very likely in it, for most boys, even if they think they’re ugly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was my ex really sorry/guilty?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was all an act. When told you that it was your fault, the mask came a bit off. This is where you should ghost him and also consider reporting him. This is not okay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the exploding has nothing to do with this throttling tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  acshually depends if you’re walking against or with the spin of the earth but whatever

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was life like for the "average" person living in Nazi Germany⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i know this from my grandma (other grandma didn’t even want to talk about it): it started out okayish, but soon things became super strict. lots of propaganda films. nazi stuff crept into everything. school etc… books got burned. different opinions forbidden. no free speech. misogyny. disabled ppl were killed. ppl were afraid to be suspected of anything. trials weren’t fair, if you even got one. the nazis printed money and inflation started to suck. many businesses were nationalised. slave workers were being used, taking peoples jobs.

  then the war started. every familiy lost someone. bombs were dropped on cities. ppl had to go into bunkers often. (my grandma barely made it once and shrapnell hurt her hand.) at peak wartime men had to have 8 kids to not be conscripted as cannon fodder. ppl became even more poor than before the war, because many male workers were gone. brutal inflation. kids stepped on mines while playing. at that point the last idiot knew hitler was a loony, but almost nobody dared say anything, because it meant very likely torture and death.

  when the US troops arrived, it was a big relief. finally ppl could speak their mind again. women flocked to the US troops, because there had been a general lack of men. many women were young widows, too. my grandma was very young, so nobody actually told her, but she suspected women wearing multiple US wrist watches were paid like that by US troops for sex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  back then you were also able to obtain foreign news via radio or some foreign newspapers. on airports and big train stations you could usually get foreign newspapers and magazines. also, it was expected of reporters to be as objectuve as possible most of the time. the shit fox and others pull nowadays was absolutely faux pas until like the 70s and was less bad until like mid 90s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warner Bros. Discovery To Split Into Two Companies, Streaming & Studios And Global Networks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  rip tv

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  idk why you have that feeling, but maybe it helps to remember all this info was available too, but it took longer to get it. for example, you got the news only via radio, tv and newspaper and had to keep track of time to watch it or go buy a newspaper with news from yesterday. you could get media from the library or shops, like record stores etc… you could buy maps in certain places and there were usually public maps in towns. to message someone you had multiple options, for example telegraph them. many homes had compact encyclopedia describing most known things in short. if your home didn’t have this, you could ask neighbours or check with schools or libraries.

  maybe that feeling is projected impatience. maybe it’s frustration with how slow and complicated things were.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate Samsung and their dumb software design choices, and this is one of them. Why do I need a SIM card to enable a hotspot whereas every other phone works without one?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  An antenna can absolutely send and receive at the same time. It’s called duplex .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Production” to describe multiplication?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also used in German. AFAIK this kind of math wording is latin based.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  it could mean many things, for example, it could be a troll, a shared account, a person with some weird mental disorder/illness and/or a notorious liar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  all it would have taken them is ask themselves “would i want my face to be touched by some rando?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do some people put a space before a question mark or exclamation point?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i do this when the word(s) before the punctuation should be easy to copy+paste, like “did you install figlet ?” so they don’t accidentally get the qyestikn mark into the copied text

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do some people put a space before a question mark or exclamation point?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i do this when writing in a hurry on my phone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  old games animations were sometimes made frame by frame. like the guy who drew the character pixel by pixel was like “and in the next frame of this attack the sword will be here”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we replace most plastic with a non plastic alternative and would that really be better?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i didn’t try bamboo yet, but the wood handles of the ones i tried a few years ago, wasn’t as smooth as plastic, especially when wet. this made my lips move with it, making it difficult to keep the foam in the mouth and can hurt.

  the bristles were from pigs/boars. they started out hard, but became increasingly soft while brushing. that was a bit annoying, but managable. it’s unfortunate they’re not vegan tho.

  in my region i couldn’t get bamboo ones with soft bristles, which i need, yet. that’s why i couldn’t try them yet. i saw some labelled “hard” a the store tho. gonna keep an eye on that