ChairmanMeow
@ChairmanMeow@programming.dev
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 7 hours ago:
This is a hitpiece, imo completely the wrong tone to have this discussion in.
- Comment on Anon wants to live on Super Earth 20 hours ago:
Even the author of BNW wasn’t sure of the world really was a dystopia or not. A lot of people do seem to have a lot of freedom, and most seem happy (or at least, not unhappy). Sure, a lot of questionable things have been done to achieve that goal, but if 99% is happy with their life; can it really be a dystopia?
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had McDonald’s in Italy and it’s the same cardboard taste there as it is elsewhere in Europe imo.
- Comment on Stubborn, maybe, but if it ain't broke 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Push to eliminate sales tax on food and groceries in Missouri runs into resistance 3 weeks ago:
You may have misread something here, Coleman is in favour of the bill, not against.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine 4 weeks ago:
It’s broken for me too, account suspended. Something about not being supported in the user’s environment.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
People are mostly water, no? Makes perfect sense then.
- Comment on If the protests in Iran win/topple the government what will it look like immediately afterwards? Also what would be the good or bad about installing a monarchy again? 2 months ago:
Some of them are protesting for it, judging by the pro-shah chants. Not sure how widespread it is though.
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 2 months ago:
Some women visually prefer it for cultural reasons. This mostly goes for the US, in Europe it’s different. But most threads I can find state women prefer uncut penises because they feel nicer and self-lubricate better.
- Comment on Who is going to be the next Pres of Venezula after all this US stuff? 2 months ago:
Whether or not she is in Russia is disputed btw.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 2 months ago:
A global, world-ending nuclear war is still unlikely at this point.
There’s a fair few steps in between filled with horrors that we get to pass first. Such as when superpowers realise that since nobody can realistically use nukes, conventional warfare is back on the table (e.g. if China invades Taiwan and the US intervenes, will either side nuke the other’s population centers? Probably not).
Then follows the realisation that superpowers can use nuclear weapons in a conventional war, but in a more tactical way (as a little treat). Don’t bomb a city, bomb a navy, or an airfield or army base instead.
Global nuclear war would only happen if a nuclear state is threatened with total destruction. But fully destroying a state hasn’t been the playbook for some time now. Instead, take whatever peripheral stuff you want, and strategically weaken the enemy state in key areas (e.g. take out an important figurehead, like the US did with Maduro, or fund/arm insurgencies like in Syria). Let civil unrest then do the rest and topple the government for you. Then use diplomatic/economic/military pressure to sway the fledgling new government into your sphere of influence. With a bit of luck the country itself isn’t totally ravaged and can become profitable fairly soon.
- Comment on How TF2 Still Makes Millions (With No Updates) 2 months ago:
Half-Life Alyx came out in 2020 and was pretty good.
- Comment on World's Video Game Companies 2 months ago:
Microsoft doesn’t earn more than 90% of their revenue from gaming, so it’s not on here.
- Comment on People like this 2 months ago:
This assumes the user bothers with upvoting, which plenty of people don’t do. They may well downvote what they dislike, and don’t vote on what they do like.
- Comment on A belated Christmas gift to R6 Siege! 2 months ago:
Their public statement says this isn’t true and a rollback is in progress.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 2 months ago:
To be fair, it was 4 coat hangers. The Monster cable was therefore outnumbered.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Now, that may seem weird to some, but to me what is really surprising is that some languages found it necessary to use two words to describe what is essentially the same fucking shit.
Sucking on fingers is an entirely different kink from sucking on toes. So somewhat different I suppose.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Depends on your definition. Wikipedia is either ambivalent about it, or lists the thumb as a finger.
In Dutch, thumbs are fingers, and there’s word for “digit” in the context of fingers and toes.
- Comment on Pedo planet 3 months ago:
Yes.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 3 months ago:
TIL Greenland sharks can live up to 500 years, take 150 years to reach sexual maturity and have a gestation period of up to 18 years. And apparently it takes a year in the back yard to prepare as well.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 3 months ago:
They’re sideways facing eyes, but a bit diagonal. Definitely not forward facing though. They’re just a bit bulgy.
- Comment on Rush hour traffic in Utrecht, Netherlands 3 months ago:
They actually found that both cyclists and drivers tend to take more risks when helmets are abundant, which in turn leads to more serious accidents instead of fewer.
Moreover the Netherlands don’t have comparatively more head injuries each year than more car-centric countries, suggesting that cycling doesn’t contribute that much overall.
And most injuries tend to happen to old people. Drop the 60+ bracket and suddenly head injuries from cycling drops to an inconsequential number.
- Comment on Please tell me this is shopped. 3 months ago:
There is a correlation between height and dick size, but it’s quite small. IIRC for every 20cm or so in height you get 1cm in dick on average, but it varies enough that it’s no certainty a tall guy has a larger dick.
Also fun fact: studies into penis size correlating with other factors can be broadly generalised into two categories: measured studies, which is where doctors will measure the penis when erect in a consistent manner, and self-reported studies, where people just tell a researcher how big it is.
Self-reported studies generally come back with results like “black people have larger dicks, Asians have shorter dicks” etc… But in measured studies, it turns out that worldwide penis size is basically all the same. It’s people self-reporting their own size + a correction for what they think they should have (nobody wants to be below average). In places with high porn consumption, penises tend to “be larger”, because that’s what men see and they want to have the same. Only in countries that tend to censor genitalia in porn do you find people actually self-report a size that’s essentially the same as their actual size (which usually happens to be Asian countries). That, plus the whole “BBC” genre in porn, essentially explains the self-reported racial differences in dick size.
Also fun: self-reported studies overestimate average dick size by approx. 2cm. Self-reported the average is about 15cm, but when actually measured it drops to about 13cm (which also happens to be 6 inches and just over 5 inches respectively; see the psychological effect there?).
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 3 months ago:
“Demsoc” is just a shorthand for “democratic socialist”. Similar to how “ancap” is “anarcho-capitalist” and “nazbol” is “national-bolshevik”.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
You might just have the wrong shape of glasses. I thought for years I had the right shape of glasses on my face, but as it turns out a different shape looked way better.
- Comment on Is. It....German????? 4 months ago:
No it’s about the 2014 World Cup.
- Comment on Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for? 4 months ago:
Yeah Abagnale pretended to be a doctor and conducted 12 “fitness examinations”, supposedly for Pan Am, on young female students. Definitely creepy.
And then there’s the individual women who accused him of all sorts of stuff.
- Comment on Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for? 5 months ago:
You should probably know the best con that Abagnale pulled is making people believe he actually did all of those things. Journalists have discovered that the vast majority of his claims are completely fabricated.
- Comment on LICK EM 5 months ago:
County is the small, shorter word for the small area, country is the big, longer word for the big area.
- Comment on BattleBit Remastered is surprisingly alive - a huge Operation Overhaul update test arrives in November 5 months ago:
I suggest you look at someone else for reviews because this review is both inaccurate and somehow also blindingly stupid.
