laranis

@laranis@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Love this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There are definitely patty cake cool bumps when you become a parent of a toddler and a grandparent of a toddler. In those moments your coolness is off the chart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the worst spelling you've seen?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Shithead”

  Pronounced: shi-THEED

  Spelled: Shit Head

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lies, Damned Lies, and LLMs: AI is a Con⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So are all the leaders at my company.

  Confidence is promoted over competence every time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PBS President Says Trump’s Executive Order to End Funding Is “Blatantly Unlawful”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, man, I’m gonna go to hell for this, but… Reap what you sow, motherfuckers. You played both sides in 2016 and sane washed his entire first term. Not just public broadcasting, of course, but if anyone was ever going to stand up for the people it should have been the media outlet funded BY THE PEOPLE. From the moment he got the nomination you should have treated it like the shitshow it was. Instead here we are over the fascism cliff, Thelma and Louise style. And it is your fault as much as anyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A completely useful compulsion I have.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this is a common sense thing. If you don’t balance the mass the next time you pull it out of the fridge there’s a good chance the imbalance causes the carton to twist or to bang it on something on the way out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would this list look like for your generation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do this as well. Killed “bruh” in a weekend. The t-shirt idea is next level, though. Kudos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hottest Star Trek character?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing wrong with appreciating a strong woman. However, that sounds terrifying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hottest Star Trek character?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dr. Leah Brahms

  “So you’re the one who’s fouled up my engine designs.”

  Never been so turned on in my life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Popped into my head randomly today so I queued it up. The universe sent me that song just so it could be in my ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bette Davis Eyes in my ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm just happy you thought it was funny, dear⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  not an internet person

  This phrase confuses me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cherry pickers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for explaining. I’m embarrassed I didn’t get it on my own but I’m grateful for the help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone remember this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, going to scream into the abyss here…

  I had Netscape on my 486DX2-66 with a 33.6 modem. Win 95, along with ICQ, mIRC, some NNTP reader I can’t recall… You get the picture.

  Everyone I’ve told this to thinks I must have been out of my mind. But for a period of time that I recall as months I had some sort of phenomenon where Netscape would stop loading a web page (could take 10s of seconds, you know) unless you MOVED THE MOUSE. Continuously. The animated “N” on would freeze and if you didn’t move the mouse the page would just be blank, or partially loaded. Move the mouse, it resumes. Stop moving the mouse, it stops. I used to have to move my mouse in figure-eights, cajoling the machine to not give up and keep downloading.

  You’ll think I’m crazy, too. But when I share this story I keep hoping someone, somewhere had the same experience. And maybe, someone who knows what was going on will chime in on some obscure IRQ conflict in Windows along with some optimization used by Netscape in one iteration caused this bug for a brief moment in time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to agree with this sooo badly. But I have some empathy for crazy gun guy. And in some dispicable sense, the gun guy is acting completely rationally, if being severely short sighted.

  Hypothetical: You drop litter on the ground. On purpose because you’re a thoughtless asshat. Someone calls you on it. Shouting ensues. They slap a magnet on your car. You rip it off and throw it on the ground because you have already demonstrated your unwillingness to give a shit about leaving things to rot in mother nature. They, in response, give your car a nice new scratch with a key and the damage is now permanent.

  What’s your next move? Walk away? Call the police? Try to get their license plate and submit to your insurance company? Shame them on Tik Tok?

  You’ve lost because your opponent was willing to escalate to vandalism, a crime for which you suffer and that no one is likely to take seriously enough to bring justice.

  Society has broken down in this little ecosystem of two. Anyone can injure you, threaten your livelihood. Take away your security. What’s stopping them?

  Until you unholster that 1.5lb mechanism of steel, lead, and brass. Now, you’re back in control. You are secure. Things are certain again. No one will be scratching your car, breaking your window, stealing food out of the mouths of your children.

  There’s a certain rationality behind it, is all I’m saying.

  Of course, we as rational thinkers can see the folly inherent in this escalation. Every petty spat becomes a life or death scenario. If we assume the rule of law still punished outright murder, then you are right back to your original quandary of whether to walk away or be the ultimate kind of “right”.

  This is where mores in a society become critical. Maybe we’ve lost our sense of right and wrong behind a veil of rule-of-law. Maybe we’ve become too virtual to truly have a society based on mutual values. Maybe I’m just high and should go stare out a window.

  TL;DR: Don’t litter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is about to be found out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can your employer compel you to provide a DNA sample?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is about to be found out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sus. If there was a security camera they would have checked that first.

  Keep your head down anon, it is a bluff.

  Also, stop putting shit in drinking water you sick fuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you see it....⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  DVI-L chef’s kiss

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When my husband calls me over for cuddles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Awww. You got me in the mood for a cuddle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any non-zero possibility Musk was not doing a Hitler Salute?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazing write-up. Thanks for the insight. I appreciate your contrast of the power/money dynamic in “Trump fascism” versus the ethnically driven dynamic in Hitler’s Nazism.

  I’m having a moment of self reflection at my gut response of, “I hope FourPackets is right and all the human suffering and death is only due to defacto conditions and government passivity and not active genocide.” Both are awful but I guess this is the path we’re on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any non-zero possibility Musk was not doing a Hitler Salute?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First, I hope you’re right. Still a shitty world but less so than what I’m imagining. The whole “we understand power so we are smart and everyone else is not as smart” is spot on.

  But, I think it starts with no intention of gassing the Jews. But after a few generals have been replaced with lackeys, and those “deportation camps” in Texas start to be more trouble than they’re worth, and how convenient it was when that one bunch of them happened to die, a new final solution starts to look more probable. And of course the perpetrators of the new genocide are not the bad guys. They’re making the hard choices. They’re the smart ones and of course it made sense to do it since digging a mass grave was cheaper than feeding 10,000 recently ex-Americans in a camp far away. That’s just good economics, people! You have to think like a billionaire!

  That might have gotten away from me, but I do believe there’s a slippery slope and our new President and his orange skinned bff are waxing up the toboggan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hurry⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cherish that. Those dinners made with love, devoured in seconds, all in the presence of loved ones, are special.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You hate to see it happen⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, true. The depth of my equine racism becomes apparent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You hate to see it happen⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did anyone tell the donkey it was vaccines for Senegal?

  Just trying to understand whether this was a tragic accident or if the donkey is a racist asshole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gives up dating apps⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wild.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some men dis other men who sit to pee? (& follow-up questions)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sincerely, thanks for being willing to provide a thoughtful response.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tough Shit⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Excuse me. I have to go take care of something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon sells girl scout cookies⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Always has been.

  Teaches girls to be entrepreneurs so they can grow up and sell Tupperware or Pampered Chef or whatever bullshit is getting hocked about these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mike⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a loss meme?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drake⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Best ride of the day.

  Um, this thread. This thread was a ride. Not whatever the thread, um, was about. Damn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And this is the high quality and thoughtful Internet comment I’m going to end my night with. Thank you Internet stranger. There is good in the world, after all.