laranis
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- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 4 days ago:
Bond. James Bo- hack cough wheeze rasp gasp… cough hack wheeze stumbling fatly
- Comment on Everything is a problem 1 week ago:
First world PTSD intensifies
- Comment on Everything is a problem 1 week 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 week 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 weeks ago:
Nature.
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 3 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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) 1 month 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 2 months ago:
That’s awesome! Well done, and keep up the hard work. Don’t forget to stretch.
- Comment on Running monkey 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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? 2 months ago:
“Shithead”
Pronounced: shi-THEED
Spelled: Shit Head
- Comment on Lies, Damned Lies, and LLMs: AI is a Con 2 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” 2 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. 2 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? 2 months 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 months ago:
Nothing wrong with appreciating a strong woman. However, that sounds terrifying.
- Comment on Hottest Star Trek character? 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago:
Bette Davis Eyes in my ass.
- Comment on I'm just happy you thought it was funny, dear 4 months ago:
not an internet person
This phrase confuses me.
- Comment on cherry pickers 4 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? 5 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] 5 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 5 months ago:
Can your employer compel you to provide a DNA sample?
- Comment on Anon is about to be found out 5 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.... 5 months ago:
DVI-L chef’s kiss