LilB0kChoy
@LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee
- Comment on I'd love to know 1 week ago:
Ham has natural sulfur in the meat and sulfites are often added to packaged deli meat as a preservative. That’d be my guess why.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 2 weeks ago:
This is true as long as they’re not actively passing traffic to the right (assuming 2 lane highway). If they are driving in traffic and actively passing cars on the right then anybody behind should not be tailgating.
- Comment on I want a chav boyfriend. Where can I find adult chavs? (If you don't know what that is, they're called bogans in Australia and rednecks in the US) 2 weeks ago:
Your comment reminded me of the user on Reddit who would start out a comment talking about the whatever and then halfway through it became about Undertaker throwing Mankind off Hell in a Cell.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 2 weeks ago:
Just wait until you find out about town_ships_.
- Comment on Weapons trafficking 2 weeks ago:
However, the uncle was the one that paid for the vacation, as he had even more money.
I feel like I saw some BTS story about how the Home Alone canon was that it was in repayment for another vacation Kevin’s dad paid for.
- Comment on Where to report mod abuse? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on And this is why I hate the internet 😭 2 weeks ago:
Pass
- Comment on And this is why I hate the internet 😭 2 weeks ago:
Makes sense. Both the Venus and the other usually are used to indicate to indicate reproductive organ removal, Venus for female, Mars for male.
I clicked the user provided context links before I saw your comment and saw the artist refers to the character as she/her. No idea if the symbol is to indicate transition or has more of a feminism connotation.
- Comment on And this is why I hate the internet 😭 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I clicked the context links and the artist refers to the character as she.
- Comment on And this is why I hate the internet 😭 2 weeks ago:
It is and I appreciate you pointing that out because I want to be inclusive. Assuming you’re referring to trans-women I would argue that’s not castration as a trans-woman is a woman with or without testicles and castration is defined as removing the testicles from a man/male. I like to think of bottom surgery as a biological correction.
- Comment on I knew it 2 weeks ago:
Square footage of Taylor Swift’s house: 11,000 square feet
Square footage of the average US house: 2,417 square feet
mansion noun man·sion ˈman(t)-shən : a large imposing residence
It’s a mansion.
- Comment on And this is why I hate the internet 😭 2 weeks ago:
I think the word you were looking for was spayed?
Hard to castrate a female.
- Comment on Just got charged for reading it 2 weeks ago:
You’re allowed to buy electricity from a separate broker than your “power company”
I’m curious about this, would you be willing to elaborate?
Where I live we don’t have a choice of electricity providers for my home. Are you talking about states that have deregulated energy markets?
- Comment on What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with? 2 weeks ago:
Where? They don’t in the US.
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 2 weeks ago:
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
-Arthur C. Clarke
- Comment on A “victim blaming” row has broken out on social media, after a cyclist uploaded footage of what he described as the “closest pass I’ve ever seen” 2 weeks ago:
I watched the video. Clearly the van is in the wrong.
Two points though:
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Laws are different everywhere for cyclists. Everybody should know those rules in their jurisdiction, drivers and cyclists. Where I live you can take the lane but you still can be passed by vehicular traffic and you’re obligated to use a bike lane if available.
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Being in the “right” isn’t a magical shield, always ride like everyone else on the road is trying to kill you. Better to end a ride in one piece than to end up dead or injured proving you were in the right.
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- Comment on Alan Ritchson Shares Huge ‘Reacher’ Update as He Preps For Season 4 3 weeks ago:
Tl;dr
He ‘dropped a fresh batch of behind-the-scenes photos to social media this week, offering fans a first look at the work underway for Reacher Season 4.’
- Comment on 7 for me 3 weeks ago:
That makes sense! Thanks! I’ll have to start using that.
- Comment on 7 for me 3 weeks ago:
Dual income no kids but what is the rest? What does the WADS stand for?
- Comment on Are there any TV series you gave up on, or just forgot about due to insane gaps between seasons? 4 weeks ago:
Are you outside the US?
I had to double check because I’d totally watch a second season but Firefly only got one 14 episode season. When it aired in the US though, they only aired 11 episodes and they aired out of original intended order. Maybe you’re somewhere they split the release of season one in two parts?
- Comment on Are there any TV series you gave up on, or just forgot about due to insane gaps between seasons? 4 weeks ago:
Did you read the book? I vaguely remember both and I feel like when the show veered from the book is when it started to go off the rails.
- Comment on Are there any TV series you gave up on, or just forgot about due to insane gaps between seasons? 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure if this is a joke but that’s all there was of that show, no?
- Comment on What American small talk sounds like to European 🇪🇺 5 weeks ago:
I am, thanks for acknowledging! I was going to focus on sitting at home with a couple cats and posting “edgy” comments online but then I realized you had the market cornered there.
I guess we all have to play to our strengths, eh?
- Comment on What American small talk sounds like to European 🇪🇺 5 weeks ago:
No, idea. What group do you think you fall into?
Wait… oh, I get it. You meant my comment. Haha! Good one! You have such an original wit.
I had always heard that as a quote of Eleanor Roosevelt’s but there’s actually no record of her saying it if you look into it.
The history of the quote itself is interesting though. The earliest known version of this idea appears in a 1901 book by Charles Stewart, where he attributes it to historian Henry Thomas Buckle. The sentiment has since been echoed by various figures, including Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who used it in a 1959 article, prefacing it with “As the unknown sage puts it…”
The association with Eleanor Roosevelt seems to have emerged in the late 20th century, with no concrete evidence linking her to the quote. It appears that over time, the phrase became misattributed to her, possibly due to her reputation for insightful commentary. However, without a verifiable source, it’s best to consider the attribution to Roosevelt as unsubstantiated.
It sprung to mind as apropos due to the irony of criticizing “small talk” with talk about other people which the quote alludes to being a different kind of small talk.
- Comment on What American small talk sounds like to European 🇪🇺 5 weeks ago:
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
- Comment on Father Whose Son Was Shot by Cincinnati Police Hits Deputy With Car, Killing Him 5 weeks ago:
This is a lot of words to say you think what those police you rail against do is ok. Either this man knew the officer was the one who killed his son and decided to take his own justice or he had no idea and picked an available target because they were there.
Either way it’s gross and so are you, and a lot of other people in this thread are too.
- Comment on I am sick of seeing the rich and powerful on my screen. Where are all the TV shows about normal people? 1 month ago:
I only ever read Shogun but I remember enjoying it.
Of course, what you call “bastardized history” everyone else calls historical fiction and I thought it seemed to do a good job of mixing history and fiction.
- Comment on I am sick of seeing the rich and powerful on my screen. Where are all the TV shows about normal people? 1 month ago:
Shogun was adapted from a book by the same name written by James Clavell who wrote a series of historical fiction books that took place in different times in history.
The series stayed pretty faithful to the novel from what I remember, so the person your replying to’s complaint doesn’t really make much sense in that context.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Gotcha. That makes sense why the phones always seemed to work in every power outage. I wanted to mention the 48 volts DC setup because I’m not sure if that’s common or standard outside of the US.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
In the US, telephone land lines actually carry their own DC electrical charge which is provided by the telephone central office and travels through copper wires to each phone.
This is why, during a power outage in the US, a land line phone will typically continue to work. The exception being if the outage is large enough to also take out the central phone office.