zarkanian
@zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Easy choice 1 day ago:
It says “rain”, not “petrichor”, though. Petrichor is the smell you get when rain hits dry earth.
- Comment on Easy choice 1 day ago:
That’s not funny! My brother died that way!
- Comment on Easy choice 1 day ago:
Aw yisss
Also the sound the campfire makes when the rain hits it.
- Comment on Easy choice 1 day ago:
Enjoying your own farts is normal. Enjoying other people’s farts is perverted, you sick fuck!
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Try using hummus and you get added protein.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Just because it tastes good doesn’t mean you want to eat it on crackers. I like ketchup with french fries, but I’m not going to spread ketchup on a cracker.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Very small amounts of mayo to moisturize bread in a sandwich is about all the mayo I like.
Have you tried hummus? Squirting olive oil and vinegar on a sandwich is good, too.
Maybe also a reason mayo messes with me.
Vegan mayo doesn’t contain any eggs, and it tastes the same.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
wtf why
- Comment on 3 days ago:
They called it salad dressing because it is salad dressing. It goes in potato salad, tuna salad, etc. It’s just that most people use it as a sandwich spread today.
- Comment on But why 6 days ago:
Sounds likely. I don’t have any reason to doubt him. I’m aware of the themes in Hellraiser. Seen the movies, read the book. (The first one, anyway.) It’s pretty obvious. It’s not subtle. The whole “person seeks out extremes of sensation and winds up with much more than they bargained for” is a recurring trope.
That doesn’t change the fact that the bad guys are dressed kinky, and no, they don’t use safe words. It’s supposed to freak you out. In fact, I would even say that Hellraiser is one of the worst in that regard.
- Comment on Woman 1 week ago:
They aren’t?
- Comment on But why 1 week ago:
I like King, but I still have to admit that a lot of his characters sound like what a space alien would come up with after studying humans for a few months.
“Hello, fellow human! I also enjoy eating Big Macs from McDonald’s, drinking Coca-Cola, and listening to Bruce Springsteen music!”
- Comment on But why 1 week ago:
Misrepresent, you mean? Yeah, the Cenobites are dressed up as kinksters, and that’s done to play upon the ick reaction that the mainstream has towards kink. That’s exactly the kind of thing I’m talking about, and it’s probably the reason why their outfits are much less BDSM in the reboot.
- Comment on But why 1 week ago:
That’s like saying that a lot of people get murdered in Stephen King’s stories, so he must have homicidal fantasies.
Horror writers look for ways to shock and shake up their readers, and judging from the comments here, he succeeded.
- Comment on But why 1 week ago:
What icks me out is when they make an evil character LGBTQ or kinky.
- Comment on Woman 1 week ago:
Really? Memes don’t need to be ironic or funny.
- Comment on And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗 2 weeks ago:
Navidrome is awesome and super easy to set up if you use a PikaPod.
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 2 weeks ago:
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I didn’t think that IRC did any archiving, so it’s actually worse than Discord in that respect.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 4 weeks ago:
Which is pretty warped if you think about it - shouldn’t the whole point of religion be to learn how to live well?
Surely not the whole point, since you don’t need religion to do that. This is a question that philosophy has been tackling for thousands of years.
Another problem that I see is people neglecting the good life on earth for their anticipated good life in heaven. Why bother trying to live well on earth when you’re only going to be here for a short time, and you’ll have an eternity of living well in heaven?
- Comment on I'd go to that 1 month ago:
I suppose you don’t believe that a kid invented Wolfenoot, either.
- Comment on Please bro 2 months ago:
What a lot of people seem to be missing is…you don’t need to create a computer that mimics a human brain. We have tons and tons of human brains already. There’s no shortage of them, so there’s no need to program a synthetic one. What we do need is a super-advanced computer brain. It isn’t going to think like a human, and that’s good.
- Comment on Please bro 2 months ago:
Sure, but wouldn’t that mean we’d also have to completely understand how a human brain works? The last I heard, the most advanced brain that scientists fully understood was like a flatworm or something.
- Comment on Please bro 2 months ago:
We know it’s not? How? How do we know that?
- Comment on Please bro 2 months ago:
To be fair, that isn’t what it was designed for. A competent AI would simply call up a calculator app, have it do the calculation, and then report back the result.
- Comment on Please bro 2 months ago:
Because it’s so much easier to tell robot to do thing than to do thing yourself.
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 2 months ago:
Everyone who voted for Harris demonstrated that genocide was not a deal-breaker for them. Gazans being starved, tortured, and killed was not a red line for them. And yet they pretend that this position gives them the moral high ground to condemn others, as you’re doing here.
I understand why you’re angry, but that anger should be directed towards the Democratic establishment: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and all the rest who enabled a genocide.
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 2 months ago:
Voting for a candidate that won’t clear 5% is just as bad if not worse than skipping out on the election.
I’m still going to do the right thing, even if only .0000000000000001% are doing the right thing.
The question isn’t why am I trying to help Stein clear 5%; the question is why you aren’t.
That protest vote was summarily ignored before it was even cast and won’t effect any level of change.
I don’t protest vote. I think that’s stupid. That would be like writing in Mickey Mouse or something like that. I’m voting for a candidate’s platform that I believe in, not against another candidate’s. Ironically, a “protest vote” would more accurately reflect many votes for Harris, i.e. people who didn’t care about her platform but wanted to stop Trump.
BTW, my vote was not ignored. It was counted. You can see how many votes Stein got on her Wikipedia article.
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 2 months ago:
Genocide is a black-and-white issue. When voting, the second-best thing you can do is not vote for a pro-genocide candidate. The best thing you can do is vote for an anti-genocide candidate. In this election, there were two: Cornel West and Jill Stein.
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 2 months ago:
Not supported genocide, for one
When did she say that? She gave every indication that she would continue Biden’s policies.
A vote for Stein was effectively a vote for the current regime.
When has Stein ever endorsed genocide?
Hope you’re happy with the results
If you’re a Biden-Harris voter, you’re the one who should be happy. Trump is only continuing Biden’s policies. Agreeing with Biden’s position on Gaza but disagreeing with Trump’s position must take some serious mental gymnastics.
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 2 months ago:
I’m judging the people who stayed home, too; just not as harshly. There were at least two candidates on the ballot who had the correct position on Gaza, so those voters don’t have an excuse.