themaninblack
@themaninblack@lemmy.world
- Comment on Antisocial behaviour on public transit in Melbourne 1 week ago:
Thank you for a thoughtful and interesting reply.
The public health angle is interesting. I know noise pollution has a measurable negative effect on quality of life.
I bet making the signs bigger would actually have some effect in that it would socialise the message to control volume to the public in general.
I suppose I don’t mind quiet conversations taking place but when I can hear it from five rows down it grinds my gears.
Been better lately about getting up and moving when someone comes in and sits down making noise but I sometimes need to go two three cars to get away from that.
Anyway cheers
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- Comment on Annoying dark pattern where no means maybe later 2 weeks ago:
Have tried to exterminate Jordan Peterson recommendations for years to no avail.
- Comment on Annoying dark pattern where no means maybe later 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if YouTube lets these plugins through because it doesn’t want to attract antitrust suits
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐓 Monday 17 November 2025 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐓 Monday 17 November 2025 2 weeks ago:
Near Yarra Junction today
- Comment on Contents of Queen's Purse 3 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s some Pope shit to do
- Comment on Aeroplane 3 weeks ago:
You know what? You’re absolutely right.
People: please leave flying 737s to trained experts with the know-how, FAA licensure, and medical clearance. They know better than you even if you think you can do it from a meme.
It’s very important that you not touch ANY of the buttons and dials on a 737. People could get hurt or even die if you do.
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- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍎 Thursday 6 November 2025 3 weeks ago:
Lilydale to Wooli today:
- Comment on Oppa oppa 1 month ago:
Well they are in the category of bad MLK statues but yeah I agree oral sex is not very similar to a stern expression
- Comment on Oppa oppa 1 month ago:
Same sentiment, though.
“We don’t even see his feet. He is embedded in the rock like something not yet fully born, suited and stern, rising from its roughly chiseled surface. His face is uncompromising, determined, his eyes fixed in the distance, not far from where Jefferson stands across the water. But kitsch here strains at the limits of resemblance: Is this the Dr. King of the “I Have a Dream” speech? Or the writer of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech?”
-Edward Rothstein
- Comment on Oppa oppa 1 month ago:
- Comment on Girls 1 month ago:
TLC: Taylor, L’Hospital, and a constant
- Comment on Well then 2 months ago:
These comments are almost there.
You’ll end up working with passive aggressive geeks that are somehow defensive of their shitty code.
They’ll be great at understanding the domain though
- Comment on Day 429 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
Man, games used to be fun and include just simple joys written by a small cadre of competent developers. I think Mario 64 was written by devs that had never written a game before? Maybe that was Goldeneye
- Comment on "Read lit" Me: 2 months ago:
I mean even his pupil was like nah
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Exactly, my coworkers at nearly every job have done this just by their disinterest in reading code and not caring about their craft.
It’s far more effective. Once you have a bad architecture and you keep adding to it over the years in haphazard ways, it becomes increasingly difficult to make any changes.
- Comment on Milliamp-hours per hour 3 months ago:
This is the winning response I think.
- Comment on Milliamp-hours per hour 3 months ago:
I get this is a battery but the units don’t make sense unless it’s going at 100% all the time
- Comment on Milliamp-hours per hour 3 months ago:
So this is 510 mA per hour, I guess
- Comment on Did you have one of these? 3 months ago:
“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.” -Walt Whitman
- Comment on Stanford Professor: The idea that Stanford University owes its graduate students a "living wage" is preposterous 4 months ago:
Hazing is the reason I decided not to become a doctor or an academic. Well, that and bad grades.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 4 months ago:
This is not a generational thing if you live in Bakersfield or Visalia or Fresno. Most of the time I’d agree.
- Comment on Just one more 5 months ago:
Good song about Katy public transit
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 5 months ago:
I have been volunteering feeding homeless for a number of years and I was never happier than when I was tasked with throwing away compromised food. The sadism of it mixed with the altruism, sweet Jesus.
- Comment on Are some people too stupid to feel depressed? 5 months ago:
Depression is not this. It is far more complex.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Many petty tyrants who couldn’t hang in a normal job. I dealt with these guys in a tech support role. Many are genuinely nice. Some have oppositional defiant disorder
