laranis
@laranis@lemmy.zip
- Comment on My feelings on the Super Bowl 2 days ago:
ITT: my people.
I love this community.
- Comment on Not sketchy at all 1 week ago:
Ahh, yeah, maybe. Looked like exposed copper to me but it might be covered.
All good then!
- Comment on Not sketchy at all 1 week ago:
Top right… Wire that comes from the top of the left breaker probably used to go to the right breaker is hanging in mid air. That’s the one most likely to change someone’s life.
- Comment on Come on, I left Napster running and my mom got Choco Tacos. 1 week ago:
“Left Napster running.”
JFC that’s a mind melt. I forgot that we used to “leave things on” to let them do stuff like download music. “On” was not the default. Now, everything is on all the time and I hadn’t realized until this moment how much I was attuned to that. I want to go back.
- Comment on ICE agents attempt to arrest US Citizen in St Peter, Minnesota 1 week ago:
That unmarked car stops me without warning and four masked men with guns drawn jump out of the car I’m assuming I’m in a fight for my life.
I’d lose, but you’re dead either way in that scenario. This woman came within moments of the end of her life.
- Comment on Why do I push people away if I'm so lonely? 2 weeks ago:
Beautiful. Fuck dog and parent… never had a graph make me well up with tears.
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 4 weeks ago:
Had someone unironically suggest that if Trump takes a third term that it would open the way for Obama to run again.
Anyone citing the old order of rules, laws, and fairness is delusional or under informed.
- Comment on no training award 4 weeks ago:
The temu tacti-gear is a nice touch. Can’t even SS properly.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I drive a car that was made when I was 6 and it is eligible for antique plates. Nap time, indeed.
- Comment on Do people actually believe those "gurus" on the internet that supposedly "give advice"? These seems very sussy and feel scam-adjacent, isn't it? 5 weeks ago:
If they had a secret/method/process they’d use it to get rich instead of fleecing people.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 5 weeks ago:
Time. A regime as dysfunctional as this can’t go on indefinitely… Like, it is physically impossible for it to think far enough ahead for it to be resilient enough to last. Unfortunately, a lot of good people will suffer before then.
- Comment on No, I will not identify all the pictures with bicycles in them. 1 month ago:
No, plumbing supplies of all ridiculous things.
- Comment on No, I will not identify all the pictures with bicycles in them. 1 month ago:
Most frustrating one I came across recently was between the shopping cart and the payment screens. Are you fucking kidding me? I want to give you my money. I’m about to pay you. That’s why you exist. And you put three fucking captchas between me and the “buy” button? Fuck you.
- Comment on Education is important. 1 month ago:
Fear the 1%.
- Comment on fEEt 1 month ago:
I would have totally expected the downward gradient from head to foot, but I can’t grasp that little bump at the lower leg. Any thoughts on why that is there?
- Comment on What can you tell from this photo alone? 2 months ago:
Fair. I missed the anteceding piss headwater. It pains me to think our antihero died perhaps with a full bladder.
- Comment on What can you tell from this photo alone? 2 months ago:
This is art, but for the lack of mention of the piss spot on the far right. My guess is that he gave up on all decorum or hope for the future and started pissing almost over the side of the balcony. Then as he leaned over to see his last attempt to create something meaningful splash on the pavement below he looked a bit too far. It was not a planned act of finality, yet in that moment of weightlessness his last, fleeting thought was, “Probably for the best…”
- Comment on Are people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram? 2 months ago:
People selling refurb PCs are looking for any excuse to hike the price. It is how the market works. I guarantee you paid a premium for any device with a memory chip, new or used.
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 2 months ago:
I bet you pronounce gif wrong, too.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 3 months ago:
You paint a beautiful, utopian picture of how life could be.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 3 months ago:
Evidence shows performance holds or climbs when people choose flexible setups with solid support from managers and peers.
That’s the part these chuckle-head RTO folks willfully ignore. In a virtual environment you have to lead differently, and since they’re never the ones who are wrong it must be everyone else who is broken.
With the right leadership and support mechanisms virtual work absolutely can raise all boats. But that means you have to be willing to change. And open-mindedness is not typically an attribute selected for in corporate senior leaders.
- Comment on I just want it, jack! 3 months ago:
Looks like a DIY opportunity.
- Comment on World would be a better place 3 months ago:
I would keep snacks and beverages on the ready. “C’mon in! The iced tea is cold and the muffins are just about done. Now, what were you saying about cumulonimbus formations and their impact on dairy production?”
- Comment on it's that time 3 months ago:
I love the animals with bone ears. Dogs, cats, rats. Should have people with bone ears on the sides of their skulls. That would be fantastic.
- Comment on See ya. 3 months ago:
Honestly, I think six is likely the right number for this to work. I don’t recall how many boys were in Lord of the Flies, but you get to 10-15 and you’re absolutely going to start forming factions. And a hierarchy. And with more opinions you get more disagreements, and you’re right back to Lord of the Flies.
- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 4 months 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? 4 months ago:
Easy Macius
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 4 months 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? 4 months 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 4 months 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.