tatterdemalion
@tatterdemalion@programming.dev
Professional software engineer, musician, gamer, amateur historian, stoic, democratic socialist
- Comment on Welcome to my first podcast episode! 17 hours ago:
Gangs of New York
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 1 week ago:
Just show that in your presentation and make them all wait for however long it takes.
- Comment on Make Congress Earn Average American Wage. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think so. That just creates another way to gatekeep, and that can be corrupted. I’d rather focus on improving education in the first place.
- Comment on Make Congress Earn Average American Wage. 2 weeks ago:
Better yet, bring back the ancient Greek lottery for state office.
- Comment on *Proceeds to append an exclamation mark* 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy devs still haven’t figured this out.
- Comment on Recession indicator, what do you call this dish? 3 weeks ago:
This shit will raise your cholesterol like nothing else.
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 3 weeks ago:
Oh nice it has Lee Pace. I really like him in Foundation.
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 3 weeks ago:
Well now I kind of want to watch it.
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 3 weeks ago:
Hadn’t even heard of it.
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 4 weeks ago:
What’s controversial about The Walking Dead? (I only saw the first season).
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 4 weeks ago:
It’s a mediocre list for sure.
- Shogun is too low.
- Babylon Berlin is missing.
- Lost? Really?
- Band of Brothers is too low.
- Better Call Saul is too low.
- Severance is too low.
- Homeland? Groan…
- Watchmen is too low.
- Barry is too low.
- Eastbound and Down but no Vice Principals is crazy.
- Community is too low.
- Comment on currently busy 😅 1 month ago:
poopiendo
- Comment on Good shot 1 month ago:
This is entering the rotation.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 1 month ago:
No they’re pretty open about it. And that’s why a lot of people think it’s too creepy to try it.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 1 month ago:
Is there video evidence of one of these robots making a bed? I don’t even care if it’s fully cherry-picked; I’d be impressed just to see it happen mechanically. Tucking the fitted sheet around the corners is not a simple task.
- Comment on [drugs] what does LSD feel like? 2 months ago:
The best way I can describe the cerebral part of it is:
You are free to think deeply about many things that you normally take for granted and see them as you would with a child-like curiosity. You second guess societal abstractions that used to feel like common sense. You see more plainly the motivations for things and connections between them. You start to feel much more viscerally present in reality rather than caught up in your psychological habits of thinking.
- Comment on Kurt Vonnegut was a visionary author 2 months ago:
Such a good book. I still have no idea what it was about.
- Comment on The land before time 3 months ago:
And it was incredibly affordable compared to today.
- Comment on Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground? 3 months ago:
Do you want to live underground?
- Comment on Wavelengths 4 months ago:
From the thumbnail I just see polar bears with tiddies.
- Comment on I would like to play a calm game 5 months ago:
The span of time pressure is so long though you barely even notice it. And because it’s a core mechanic, it’s mostly inconsequential and doesn’t really feel stressful for me.
- Comment on I would like to play a calm game 5 months ago:
Different strokes. I found it incredibly relaxing to fly around in my spaceship exploring. I can think of one specific planet that’s not very chill, but the rest were.
Without spoiling too much, maybe the time pressure gets to you? For me it’s long enough that I don’t really feel it for most of the game.
- Comment on Time 5 months ago:
Nerd question: My English brain reads “happy little accident” and “big angry intent” as the correct ordering of adjectives for both phrases. But semantically, the adjectives are actually swapped in order (big and little are not in the same position). What is going on?
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 6 months ago:
Nobody with normal vision both looking at the same original picture claims the blue part is white.
Doesn’t matter what context I view the original image. I’ve never seen it as blue and black without manipulating the image.
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 6 months ago:
Wow. You are just proving my point. It looks white and gold to me.
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 6 months ago:
We literally have proof that people don’t see colors the same way: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress
- Comment on Our Commitment to Windows Quality 7 months ago:
This list of bullshit features does zilch to address users complaints about software quality. They are truly clueless.
- 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? 7 months ago:
Yes absolutely. Also not a historian, but AIUI that’s probably the largest factor in the overall boom for the US economy at the time.
I didn’t mean to claim that the US was ever a peaceful nation. The best I could say is that the US sat out from the world wars until they had both (1) a way to sell war to the public and (2) a clear financial interest. Post-WWII, every US war has been a bullshit war.
I also don’t mean to sound positive about capitalism. My only real point was that for a brief period, (white) workers actually had an OK social contract with the ruling class. It didn’t last long at all in the grand scheme, and was probably a fluke, not real evidence that capitalism works.
- 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? 7 months ago:
That’s not entirely true. We had a brief period after WWII until the 70s when the middle class actually existed, the rich were taxed at 91%, and unions had leverage. This has eroded quickly since the dawn of neoliberalism.
- Comment on fuck it, just paste your clipboard in the comments 7 months ago:
IIFE