laranis
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- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 1 week ago:
They’re ads for microphones. Any brand logo you can see clearly in-frame I assume is a paid product placement. Your favorite folksy, down to earth content creator just “keeping it real” has to make a living. And sponsorships and advertising is how it has been done since the start. Your favorite personality, at the end of the day, is an actor working for corporations.
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 2 weeks ago:
Easy Macius
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 2 weeks ago:
That sounds completely logical to me. Did having a hunk of aluminum answer the question for you? Or did it only drive a more insatiable desire to hold elemental materials?
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 2 weeks ago:
Six years later, at least I know how to weld now. Sort of.
The most important part of the Dunning Kruger curve! And welding is a fantastic example. You go from “this hot melty thing is scary” to “dang, I can make metal stick to itself!” to “that weld looks kinda professional” to “holy crap there’s a whole science and art to this I will never have the time to fully learn”.
Is your school bus now something usable? Would love to hear about a successful impulse buy!
- Comment on labubu 3 weeks ago:
I am a good benchmark for this stuff. If I know what Labubu is because I had to find it on Urban Dictionary then it has run its course.
The other canary is NPR. Anything on NPR is a dead meme.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Goddamnit. Sitting here ready to subscribe to crow facts and you got me with a freakin pinion joke.
Well done.
- Comment on Hardest battles 3 weeks ago:
This applies to so many facets of life. It is only hard if you care. Like parenting.
- Comment on best comment under a video about the new iphone 17 4 weeks ago:
I actually downgraded from whatever the latest Note was at the time for a second hand 6a. No complaints. And a fraction of the cost, and I’m not paying Verizon monthly installments for a “free” phone.
Related, I used to armor my phone because I get up to things that could result in damaging the phone up to and including dropping it in several feet of water. If it happens to my Pixel I’ll just go get another used one. Less stress FTW!
- Comment on success 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for sharing this. Started hosting a local copy of several wiki sources last weekend once this news broke.
Another commenter said downloading is missing out on the best part of Wikipedia, then ongoing editing. Which, while true, is also going to be a weak point.
How many of those amazing editors are going to stock around when their full time job becomes combatting obvious right wing bullshit, when they have to submit gov ID to have an account on the site, and when common sense and fairness becomes a crime?
Wikipedia was a high point for humanity. Whatever comes next I’d like to preserve a little piece of it.
- Comment on do you apologize, even if it's not your fault just to make the other person feel validated? 5 weeks ago:
I will fake apologize if it helps get me what I want. Maybe that makes me a narcissist or disingenuous but so fucking what. It’s manipulation all the way down. Always has been. My “pride” is a small price to pay.
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 1 month ago:
And their parents allow them to blast the sound in public with no headphones. I can’t fathom the lack of give-a-fucks for their fellow humans (to include their own children).
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 month ago:
Maybe to help the OP I’ll add a bit to your answer. The entire face of an analog clock is divided into fractional sections. Sounds like you’re really good at parsing those fractions, likely due to lots of practice.
So, big hand after the nine and before the ten? Between :45 and :50. First half of that? Between :46 and :47. More toward the beginning of the split? :46
Maybe OP hasn’t had as much practice so has to think about what 9 is in minutes? Nothing but practice would help get over that, I guess.
- Comment on Creating dogs 1 month ago:
I’ll admit to survivor bias in this case.
- Comment on Creating dogs 1 month ago:
I’ve never met a dog who wouldn’t willingly make this trade.
- Comment on Incident 1 month ago:
Let’s not put the blame only on the parents. Anyone who has spent more than 30 seconds working for a corp would understand that taking credit for work does not mean the work got done.
Assuming the diapers aren’t tracked by barcode and there isn’t an independent inspector validating each operation, I would be MORE wary about my kid being well taken care of at a place that measures and tracks work this way. Especially since the types of management that would think this was a good idea are also the type to not understand how work actually gets done and drives to making the metrics look good at the expense of actually caring for human children.
- Comment on Incident 1 month ago:
Hadn’t noticed. I think you’d have to try to get translucent boxes versus a simple solid box. Seems intentional?
- Comment on I've often thought about this 1 month ago:
They had bratwurst for a brief period in select locations. Don’t think they were called McBrats, but damn they were yummy. If I suddenly found myself transported to 1996 I’d seek out McBrats and the bacon cheese burger burrito from Taco Bell.
Then my geriatric heart would explode and I would miss out on buying BitCoin, but it would be worth it.
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 2 months ago:
Bond. James Bo- hack cough wheeze rasp gasp… cough hack wheeze stumbling fatly
- Comment on Everything is a problem 2 months ago:
First world PTSD intensifies
- Comment on Everything is a problem 2 months ago:
Every time I have to wait for a 10 year old game to “update” I want to murder whoever is responsible.
- Comment on bad board games 2 months ago:
I suck at Scrabble. Not because I’m bad at words but because I’m always looking for the plays that will collectively give everyone at the table the best chance to make interesting plays.
Catan, though? I’m gonna block a sucker’s road and steal that grain, no hesitation.
- Comment on *Record scratch* freeze frame 2 months ago:
Nature.
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 2 months ago:
Yeah, he’s not getting made fun of for his shoes. They’re just a convenient target of ridicule. Son is about to learn a life lesson.
I’m sorry. People are shit.
- Comment on Anon predicts the future 3 months ago:
But, but, how will we monetize it? How!?
/s
I long for the early 2k internet. So much potential positivity for humanity.
- Comment on Factually correct number tier list. I will not be taking questions 3 months ago:
Not a bad list, but 6/9 being there and not pi or 11/32 is just criminal.
- Comment on Are most people who avoid turn signals do it to feel more normal? (Imitating their parents, avoiding perceived stupidity of using turn signals when it seems useless, etc) 3 months ago:
The idea that moving your finger slightly to support the smoothe functioning of traffic and the welfare of other humans is not “masculine” enough makes me want to castrate some fuckers.
- Comment on I feel attacked 4 months ago:
That’s awesome! Well done, and keep up the hard work. Don’t forget to stretch.
- Comment on Running monkey 4 months ago:
I was thinking, “Glad these are all of the monkey running away. Seeing that running at you would be terrifying.”
Moments later, “Yup, I would shit myself seeing that little guy barrelling at me like that.”
- Comment on Every news result on duckduckgo links to MSN 4 months ago:
Seconded. The only reason I use Google is if I actually want an ad served to me.
