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- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 21 hours ago:
I think I’d still rather this than have a heavy device on my head,
I’ve wondered about this, actually. We’d need necks like an NFL linebacker.
an umbilical, and motion sickness.
Joking aside, that’s a legit concern. It’s not for everyone, that’s for sure.
- Comment on Knowing that boomers had the "hate my wife/husband" humor because they were rushed to marry borderline strangers and didn't believe in therapy but can't prove it 21 hours ago:
May I recommend looking into your local kink-scene? I know you’re joking, but honestly, that’s the closest thing to an actual “sex guild” and it may be worth your while. Bigger metro areas typically have highly organized clubs for this - no fooling. If nothing else, you can learn some very cool things to do with rope.
- Comment on Knowing that boomers had the "hate my wife/husband" humor because they were rushed to marry borderline strangers and didn't believe in therapy but can't prove it 21 hours ago:
This. A LOT of this. There’s a reason why the VFW has/had a lot of alcohol available, cigarettes were super popular, and why biker clubs became a thing post-war. The “greatest generation” was doing a lot of self-medication without managing to fix anything.
You can kind of see boomers become aware of how that’s not okay, as the tone of war movies shifts dramatically from WWII to Vietnam. They still missed the mark, but at least the idea of vets having “flashbacks” was something in popular media from that point forward. It was progress, if however minimal and incremental.
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 21 hours ago:
On the one hand, that’s over $3000 in monitors for one cubicle.
On the other, “office furniture” and “IT equipment” can be two completely different budgets in different departments. So the numbers aren’t directly comparable when it comes to requisitions.
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 21 hours ago:
Whoa, slow down there Satan.
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 21 hours ago:
This is it. This is the threshold of where a VR headset and a virtual desktop manager makes more sense.
- Comment on marriage update 1 day ago:
Quick question, is the pile of towels still around?
God I hope not. Once it rains, that’s a recipe for mildew and fungus if I’ve ever seen one. You can probably smell it for a mile in every direction, to say nothing of what that’s doing to Tom.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 1 week ago:
2/5 - Decent troll effort, but I’ve seen much better around here. Get gud.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 week ago:
As a fellow American, I’m going to make a big assumption here and advise you to engage with more people outside. Lemmings are great and all but we do not represent the real world. I can say this has helped me and man, am I worlds better for it.
Right now, the internet is quasi-weaponized against everyone’s better mental health. A lot of people are being fed propaganda that aligns strongly with their beliefs, with many people being sucked into a narrow, amplified, and semi-fictional view of reality. You have to dig deep to find real journalism, facts, and then puzzle together a less biased worldview; few people are there to do any of that legwork for you these days. It’s all exhausting and a recipe for mental illness if you do it constantly.
Instead, try to get out there and just talk to one person; better yet a stranger. Even if it’s just smalltalk. Even if it’s about the weather with a librarian or a checkout clerk. ANYONE. If you can make your way to a club, mutual-aid hub, local meetup, whatever… that’s even better. The goal is to just verbalize with other humans. The rest will follow from there.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 1 week ago:
AFAIK, Cialis and Viagra (and their generics) are prescription only. So you can’t just have a discussion with the pharmacist to get those.
- Comment on Maybe, maybe not 1 week ago:
Ooh, you’re right. That’s a damn good aptronym if I’ve ever seen one.
- Comment on Anon owns nothing and is unhappy 1 week ago:
I made a small edit to reflect this! You are correct: that’s a huge part of what’s driving innovation and fresh ideas in this space. Plus, it’s usually for a bargain.
- Comment on Anon owns nothing and is unhappy 1 week ago:
I think that gaming is headed fast into some kind of deep economic divide.
On the one hand, we have high-end gaming that chases seasonal updates, massive multiplayer experiences, requiring high-end system specs to even start. It’s all practically a subscription model one way or another: keep buying new games, DLC, hardware, just to keep playing with your friends. Alternately, sign up for a subscription to play all this stuff in the cloud, dodging the need to maintain your own hardware, but never really owning anything in exchange.
On the other, there’s the other way.
Right now, we’re sitting on top of nearly 50 years of video games going back to the primordial sludge of Pong. Modern system specs a far cry from what’s required in almost all cases so it’s practically all there for the taking. I promise you, there are grand single and multiplayer experiences to be had by dipping into that monstrous catalog. At the same time, some of the very best of those are getting new life with modern updates, fan-edits, fan-made content packs, and so on. Finally, there’s the hobby indie-scene, where new things are being made all the time in various game-jams, early access on Steam, and so much more. You have to dig for all of that of course; the people pushing you to pay a high price for entertainment will never make this easy.
- Comment on Solid advice 1 week ago:
Liquid advice.
- Comment on meat honey 1 week ago:
Fascinating. It’s worth mentioning that (normal) honey can be used to preserve meat, thanks to its antimicrobial and hydrophilic properties. I guess that’s what’s going on here too: they use a kind of nectar honey to keep the meat component from going off. That said, this kind of food preservation isn’t immune to botulism so do be careful if you try this.
Now I’m wondering when/how this behavior evolved. Did these guys come first, and honeybees figured out how to eat pollen as a protein source as an evolutionary step, the other way around, or separately at the same time from some parent species?
- Comment on Gaysadilla 1 week ago:
I’m at the Pizza Hut.
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 1 week ago:
I was gonna say. This idea has been floating around for decades.
Bottom line: Yes it will work. It will also involve transporting nuclear warheads to another country, which probably violates all kinds of treaties and will set governments everywhere into a panic of epic proportions. The knock-on effects of nuclear contamination will be a problem for the local population, local water table, and local ocean currents. You can bet your bottom-dollar that these, and possibly more, problems will be shouldered by the soon-to-be-god-forsaken masses of whatever country eventually okays this idea.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
First I’ve heard of that. This is brilliant.
- Comment on public service 2 weeks ago:
Eh, it’s Facebook in a suit-and-tie. Rarely does anything get above the level of watercooler talk, job-fair friendly material, and hiring/training/talent influencers strutting their stuff.
Also, like Facebook, the most useful part of it is the built-in chat. It’s hard to stand out on the “feed” if you’re not a company, and most of your networking and job hunting happens in chat. The latter is crucial since recruiters use this to screen out robots and invalid candidates, and it’s your best opportunity to do the same. And you will get feelers from crafty LLMs pushing all kinds of sketchy “opportunities.”
Meanwhile, the slop that hits your feed is inreasingly AI-generated nonsense, awful infographics, techbro/ceo-bro influencer nonsense, and just straight-up corporate PR advertising. It would be better if people posted things, but nobody wants to say or do anything that would cost a job now or in the future.
- Comment on Waffle House: Pull up then. 😐 2 weeks ago:
like a movie or TV show.
Last one I went to, the staff were singing together while they cooked. It was phenomenal.
- Comment on Waffle House: Pull up then. 😐 2 weeks ago:
Poor executive control and possibly substances. Consider the dark side of ADHD where “fight” is the go-to response after getting overwhelmed, scared, provoked, or just too tired to think straight. It’s straight dysfunction to be sure, but many of us were blessed with other default responses to adrenaline and bad executive function.
- Comment on Waffle House: Pull up then. 😐 2 weeks ago:
Oh shit.
- Comment on Waffle House: Pull up then. 😐 2 weeks ago:
You could probably work with some artists to knock that together in Mugen or something.
A single-player Final Fight clone would work too, but it would be a handful of small stages: parking lot, inside the diner, and out back by the dumpsters. Destructive scenery and being able to use furniture as weapons would be a big plus. Game/mission types would be king-of-the-hill, time trial, survival mode, and boss rush.
- Comment on Put the shoes on 2 weeks ago:
Oh bother.
- Comment on Put the shoes on 2 weeks ago:
I’ve done the nudist camp thing. This is 1000% true. This also works if you’re “Donald Ducking it” and just wearing a shirt.
- Comment on Glorious cracked out wall kitten returns with more wisdom for the masses. 2 weeks ago:
Counterargument: the rear of your car is far more resilient to impact than the front. You can cope with backing out, but maybe your wallet/schedule won’t cope with a fender-bender to your headlights or front bumper.
- Comment on Causes of death, or track list for latest black metal album? 2 weeks ago:
This is specifically a Dethklok track list. Some of these are kinda brutal.
- Comment on Paid for by...boobs? 2 weeks ago:
The problem is more with the perception of disrupting the “correct” social hierarchy. Conservatives have no trouble taking money from, or being served by their “lessers” in society. This includes sex workers. It when the underclass elevate themselves or exceed their “betters” do they have a problem.
In this case: driving a big showy pickup truck - a coveted symbol of buying power - that shouldn’t be obtainable.
- Comment on Looks fine to me 3 weeks ago:
One starts to get the impression that they should just have the archeologists dig the tunnel in the first place, and budget the project like one big find.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
What i love about the jump-humping thing is I’ve heard it involves a third party to move the bed for you, making it just the weirdest threesome.