JimVanDeventer
@JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world
- Comment on David Bowie has been dead for almost a decade. 3 hours ago:
Anisocoria. His irises are the same colour but one is always dilated, making it appear darker.
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 1 week ago:
I like them, personally. You don’t have to use them but they are sometimes handy. I just spent 30 seconds feeling around a TV to turn it off only to discover it doesn’t have buttons. Killed it at the wall.
It’s not a deal breaker, in any case. The weird foreign convention I would like to shame is doors that require a key to open from the inside.
- Comment on New delivery 3 weeks ago:
I was by myself in the middle of one night when we were first moving in when I start getting messages from the cameras I set up. “Humanoid on driveway”. “Humanoid at front door”. It was a cat.
- Comment on Do you want me to heat that up in the "Michael Wave"? 4 weeks ago:
Trying to politely correct everyone is like hurting cats.
- Comment on I never realized this 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Helpful infographic 5 weeks ago:
Qu’est-ce que c’est?
- Comment on This spoon. 1 month ago:
One of the 10,000 club today, buddy. Enjoy your soup.
- Comment on Pro-tip for this capitalistic hellscape 1 month ago:
A friend of mine in Zambia taught me how to fry caterpillars. They are like squishy french fries. They are fine. They pair well with chibuku.
- Comment on why dont we do this??? are we stupid?? 2 months ago:
I was sure this was a Suddam Hussein post.
- Comment on Petrichor 2 months ago:
I lost my smell to COVID in that first year, before the vaccine. Recently and for the first time since, I smelled petrichor and I could have cried.
- Comment on Reminder for all Lemmy moderators and admins. 2 months ago:
It’s snowing 😭
- Comment on Enshittification only hurts product itself, not users. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Calculatable 2 months ago:
I am using and loving Solve by Pomegranate Apps. Multiple workspaces and advanced functions available a swipe away. It doesn’t seem to be available anymore, and it looked like the company was hitting hard times when they dumped things like Trump quotes and other shit apps into the store. So, apprehensive to recommend because of weirdness but best calculator ever.
- Comment on lemmy.ca user Is this true? 2 months ago:
Fun fact: timbits were named so in honour of his fatal drunk driving car accident.
- Comment on The internet, every October 3 months ago:
Non-United-Statesian here; try it; trust me.
- Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it 4 months ago:
Or force them to admit they are selling it for real without all the license mumbo jumbo. They have always known what “buy now” buttons were meant to lead you to believe. And — in my humble opinion — you aren’t wrong for believing that; they are.
- Comment on W Earth 5 months ago:
Huh, only a mere 6 alts to send the message you are sad about being wrong about science.
- Comment on W Earth 5 months ago:
You can calm down because I don’t care. Enjoy your massive W, buddy.
- Comment on W Earth 5 months ago:
- Comment on W Earth 5 months ago:
That isn’t clear at all and I’m not even sure I agree, regardless. Hydrostatic equilibrium is a regularly occuring thing. No, I’m not looking up how regular. The Universe is mind-bogglingly enormous and everything is unusual. Have a good day.
- Comment on W Earth 5 months ago:
But it isn’t a mystery at all. The moon is moving away from us. For billions of years the moon’s apparent size was larger than the sun. For billions of years later it will appear smaller. It’s simply a lucky coincidence we live in this moment in time, in that regard.
- Comment on Dutch toilets 5 months ago:
Pedophiles in the olympics, our strange toilets with the “poop shelf”; I just can’t win today.
- Comment on Financial advice 5 months ago:
I made a rather mean comment and I am disappointed in myself. It was meant as a joke. Please accept my apology.
- Comment on Is this normal for girls or just a extreme edge case? (Serious question) 5 months ago:
Did you put it back in the refrigerator? Did Mom find it under your bed? This wasn’t an accident; someone made an intentional power move and your family is toxic.
- Comment on Financial advice 5 months ago:
When I think of whales holding their breath for hours, I get anxious. I know they evolved differently. But if I suddenly became a whale, I’d be hearing the Sonic drowning music in my head all the time.
- Comment on Breast Cancer 5 months ago:
The AI genie is out of the bottle and — as much as we complain — it isn’t going away; we need thoughtful legislation. AI is going to take my job? Fine, I guess? That sounds good, really. Can I have a guaranteed income to live on, because I still need to live? Can we tax the rich?
- Comment on Stay Mad 7 months ago:
Look on the bright side: a vote for Biden is really just a vote for Kamala Harris with extra steps.
- Comment on I will not be taking questions. 7 months ago:
The most dangerous phrase is “we’ve always done it this way”.
- Comment on fruit 7 months ago:
Can elope 🥰
- Comment on *sweating intensifies* 9 months ago:
Because assuming you are human is not so much about the correctest of selections as much as it’s about moving the cursor around the screen in imprecise, non robotic, humanly ways.
