Omgpwnies
@Omgpwnies@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's the best way to tell a kid that their dog died? 5 days ago:
We have a somewhat different take on it - Santa is real. For kids, Santa is that person that brings you presents and treats and stuff like that. But the ting is, there is a person who does all that, so for that kid, you are Santa, even if they don’t know it.
When each of our kids would eventually ask ‘Is Santa real?’ we would tell them that Santa is real - it’s everyone doing something for someone else and only expecting their happiness in return. It’s the parent that stays up late and carefully lays out all the fancy presents and treats, then sits back to take in the joy from the kids in the morning.
Then we ask if they want to help be Santa; I’ve not gotten a ‘no’ to that question.
- Comment on What's the best way to tell a kid that their dog died? 5 days ago:
I had to deal with two of my grandparents dying before the first dog I remembered died. She was hit by a car; my parents woke us up and sat us down in my sister’s room. They told us gently that she was hit by a car and was killed, that she wouldn’t have felt any pain.
We were, of course, upset about it. But, the simple, direct, and gentle delivery of the news I think gave less distress than the lies that other parents would tell.
- Comment on today's massive sunspot looks like a dancing gorilla cmv 1 week ago:
Harambe disco
- Comment on SNSD the GOAT🫶 1 week ago:
If you had that chance, are you saying you wouldn’t?
- Comment on "Sober" 1 week ago:
I can buy everything I need to make alcohol in the baking aisle at any supermarket. It won’t be very good, but it would be booze.
- Comment on Some things were better in the good old days 2 weeks ago:
I bought a french door fridge specifically because the design makes it so that my dog can’t get the door open. I figure the energy leaking from the door design is far less than the energy and food loss of the door being left open all day while I’m at work because my adorable idiot wanted a snack.
- Comment on po-tay-toes 3 weeks ago:
by saying it’s French name “pomme de terre”… basically dirt apple
- Comment on Despite recent advances, it's still possible to identify AI slop if you know what to look for. 5 weeks ago:
Poor thalidomide baby on the left getting roped into AI slop…
- Comment on Despite recent advances, it's still possible to identify AI slop if you know what to look for. 5 weeks ago:
one of us
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gooble-gobble, gooble-gobble
one of us
- Comment on Reporting an absence 5 weeks ago:
they’re duplexes/townhouses, that’s two separate dwellings. the picture is taken from a similar building, it would be one of those windows in what you called a hallway. The bricks look fine. Where you see a smaller brick that looks out of place, it’s actually turned 90 degrees so the brick extends into the structural wall behind it and ties the facade to teh structure.
- Comment on 13,492% sudden interest increase in local Alabama news station 5 weeks ago:
so… cousin? second cousin?
- Comment on rules 1 month ago:
They’ve been observed to use fish and other stuff for … relief, so I guess the answer is “not necessarily”?
- Comment on Firearm Advice 1 month ago:
recoil also tends to pull high (if you’re not anticipating), so a groin shot if pulled would just end up centre mass instead, where a head shot would be a whiff
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 1 month ago:
If your love of gobbling cock also helps you enjoy the taste of healthy food, then I do not see the problem :D
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms 'Project Helix,' a Next-Gen Xbox That Can Run PC Games 1 month ago:
Always has been :) they’ve all used a modified windows kernel starting with NT on the OG and the latest are up to win11 now
- Comment on That's why I say hey man, nice shot 1 month ago:
I had read that his wife had some condition that needed health care, and if he were convicted and removed from office, she would lose that coverage. However, because he killed himself before that, she remained covered under the government plan being his widow.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Serious Ben Shapiro energy for sure
- Comment on Make sure you know what your kid is getting themselves into 1 month ago:
Trying to maximize is only part of it, the other really big thing with legalization and commercial growers is consistently predicable and measurable strength.
I usually prefer edibles, which were not really a thing the way they are now. I can go to a store or online and order a pack of edibles in a very wide range of concentrations, all lab tested and certified and each piece is incredibly consistent.
The same goes for flower; a grower can produce a crop and tell you exactly how strong it is, and I can take that information and use it for consistent dosing. There’s really no guesswork or wondering if the “super strong bud” is actually that, or not at all, or “I took one puff and I can now smell sound” strong. You are right though in the amount of the latter that is produced and just how strong it’s getting, but that does seem to be plateauing somewhat.
One good thing about high % weed though, is if you’re simply using it to get high and smoking it, it’s a lot less volume to have to smoke, which is overall way better for your throat and lungs.
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 2 months ago:
and 25km/h isn’t super fast on a bike either, at least not for someone in reasonably ok shape and a bike that’s somewhat configured for cycling on roads.
- Comment on The cops pay Anon a visit 2 months ago:
Use a live Linux ISO that can run entirely in memory, and run step 3 in an infinite loop. Take the USB with you and leave the PC running.
- Comment on How accurate is this? 2 months ago:
Likely not real ice cream, but the cheaper (and more common) ice milk - it has a lower fat content, so more water, and in certain conditions ice crystals do form into small chunks.
- Comment on Noooooo 2 months ago:
Most of the time, they didn’t even try. I’ve copy/pasted their exact question before and the answer was in one of the top 5 articles.
- Comment on Noooooo 2 months ago:
9 times out of 10 it’s a stupid question that they could have typed into Confluence to get the answer though. I gatekeep all of these requests with
“Sure, I’m fairly busy now, but lets schedule something for a little later today when I have some time. In the meantime, can you put your question in the chat here in case I need to look something up? Thanks” - Comment on Is history about to repeat itself? 2 months ago:
Not to mention for the wipers up bit, it’ll stretch out the spring that provides the tension needed to hold it to the window, so even after the wipers thaw, they’ll still work for shit, but now they’ll work for shit forever!
- Comment on Remember when buying shoes came off as some kind of science. The shoe sales person was always considered right 2 months ago:
Do your stores not allow you to try on shoes?
- Comment on Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult" 3 months ago:
Or to stick with the vegan/meat analogy - making the perfect vegan sausage patty by making several meat patties, each one with iteratively less meat until a vegan patty is left, as well as several dead pigs.
- Comment on Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult" 3 months ago:
I wonder if that’s why so many sequences use “4 on the floor” arranged roughly around a 12 bar pattern, or a specific piece of classical music that the studio could have gotten from public domain
- Comment on The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees 3 months ago:
Some aspects of a bartender’s job are already automated - there are “robot bars” where machines prepare and serve drinks. What can’t be automated are the human aspects of the job, as much as AI can mimic conversation, it can’t do empathy or really any genuine emotion which is an important aspect of a bartender/server’s job
- Comment on Why in hospitals, is 'gun shot wound' appreciated as "GSW"- 3 months ago:
it’s faster typed out as well. When I worked call centres, we’d shorthand all of our notes because we had 15-30 seconds to wrap up the final notes after the call ended, not to mention no agent wants to read a novel to get up to speed.
- Comment on Is ice heavier than water? 3 months ago:
Fat is also less dense than water, so this particular ICE probably would float.