laranis
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- Comment on best comment under a video about the new iphone 17 2 days 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!
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- Comment on Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive 1 week 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? 1 week 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 2 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
I’ll admit to survivor bias in this case.
- Comment on Creating dogs 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never met a dog who wouldn’t willingly make this trade.
- Comment on Incident 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 1 month ago:
Bond. James Bo- hack cough wheeze rasp gasp… cough hack wheeze stumbling fatly
- Comment on Everything is a problem 1 month ago:
First world PTSD intensifies
- Comment on Everything is a problem 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 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 2 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) 2 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 3 months ago:
That’s awesome! Well done, and keep up the hard work. Don’t forget to stretch.
- Comment on Running monkey 3 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 3 months ago:
Seconded. The only reason I use Google is if I actually want an ad served to me.
- Comment on I'd choose 4 tbh 3 months ago:
#4 three times. The rest seem fleeting (money) or attainable through hard work (strength). Unlike others in these comments, I think being happy constantly would be its own type of hell.
But being tall is like being attractive. It is life on easy mode. As a slightly-less-than-average-height person an extra 6 inches would probably be the most permanent, positive impact any of these would have.
- Comment on Love this 3 months 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? 3 months ago:
“Shithead”
Pronounced: shi-THEED
Spelled: Shit Head
- Comment on Lies, Damned Lies, and LLMs: AI is a Con 3 months 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” 4 months 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. 4 months 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? 4 months ago:
I do this as well. Killed “bruh” in a weekend. The t-shirt idea is next level, though. Kudos.
