Dasus
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- Comment on I c it! 12 hours ago:
Yea, but you could achieve this by placing a circle of cardboard in the middle or a ring that you attach to your lens.
I don’t remember the guy but YT shorts I’ve seen a guy testing all sorts of different shapes and filters in front of his lenses or even just in front of his sensor without a lens.
Can’t recall who.
Anyhow
- Comment on Happy 20th anniversary to the Corrupted Blood incident! 13 hours ago:
Who else remembers learning this from Cracked articles (which they read at work)?
- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 16 hours ago:
hold onto a thought longer than I.
If you were speaking about someone else, would you use “he/she” or “him/her” in this context?
Because if it’s the former, then you use “I” to replace it, and if it’s the latter, you use “me”.
other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than she.
Doesn’t sound right.
other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than her.
Sounds better.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 1 day ago:
But armies wouldn’t be made of rich people.
Also also, it’s either diabetes or the HFCS, but Americans have a very distinct, plump look all around. Whereas here it’s often just a huge belly people have and maybe an extra chin or something.
But not all all around Michelin man.
My dad worked at a theme parn in Finland, driving the guests around in a sort of road-train. And he wasn’t a small man by no means, every gluttonous and always thirsty. Died at 70 that’s how healthy he was.
Anyways, he was shocked and told me that he’d never seen “people shaped like that”.
No offense.
Well some probably.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 1 day ago:
I prefer like a bent triangle, then you grab it by the tip and then put as much salsa on it as possible. The chip to salsa ratio is off the charts.
Although these rounds ones have a bit more chip to salsa, their structural integrity is better and didn’t break as triangles often do.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 1 day ago:
It’s not weird at all.
A perfectly natural consequence of laissez-faire capitalism leading what should and shouldn’t be regulated.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
I find it incredibly weird to imagine that some people think it normal that you can’t walk to a grocery store with fresh vegetables etc.
Never had Doritos or Funyons or Twinkies in my life. I tried Oreos once, but I’m more used to the equivalent we have here (copied and slightly altered by some decades and decades ago.)
I don’t think there’s anything I prefer as the American version. Perhaps like if you use the word to encompass all American countries, maybe, ~authentic Mexican is pretty nice and usually gluten free.
It’s a lot about food deserts and infra and regulation, but also using HFCS instead of some other sugars does have an effect.
Even though we got very gluttonous people as well, somehow ours aren’t just ever as Michelin Man shaped. It’s more like a huuuuge belly with skinny legs and arms and head. Well some diabetic people do tend to swell up quite a bit but…
- Comment on titta... slosh 1 day ago:
I’m 110% sure this isn’t a joke, as I’ve been on those boats and seen way heavier shit. Literally and metaphorically.
- Comment on Do you think he knows? He's gotta know. 1 day ago:
Fuck that, Elon isn’t man enough to 1) be depicted as a bull and 2) being comfortable enough to reverse sexual roles.
- Comment on Wear your seatbelt 1 day ago:
Having seen some videos of North Americans (sans some Alaskans and Canadians) driving in snow, I wholeheartedly agree.
This is gonna come off as racist and sexist, but anyway, the day I was on the track, during winter, there was three of us in the car + the teacher. Me, my mate and a muslim woman who hadn’t lived in Finland for too long, and was from a theocratic and patriarchic society. When it was her turn, and the teacher eventually pulled the handbrake just to simulate her losing control… she let go of the wheel, placed her hands on her eyes and started screaming. But she got over it by the end of the day, so…
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 1 day ago:
- Comment on Wear your seatbelt 1 day ago:
When I was doing my driving licence, here it’s mandatory to visit a a slick course before you get your licence. In summer it’s soap and oil or in the winter its ice and water.
Anyway, they had this tiny rig. A car seat, but it’s on a rail, but the rail is only some 1m-1.5m (3-5ft) long, and on like a 5-15° angle, but it simulates a dead stop at like 10-20km/h or smth kinda low. And even that was pretty brutal.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 1 day ago:
I served in a military in Finland in peacetime. That’s basically what we use instead of a national guard.
There was no crisis when our company was on-call, but at least one or two companies stated every weekend to make sure there’s enough people to rapidly deploy assistance anywhere.
My older brother had to go and help a city out. But yeah, it’s basically just assisting people in crisises.
Unless Putler decides he wants to give it a go, but I strongly doubt it.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 1 day ago:
Holy fuck Americans, honestly.
Your obesity issue is out of hand.
So is your fascism, but geowd dawm those are some chunky soldiers.
When I was in the army these boys would’ve prolly not been able to keep up and would’ve been sent home to eat Ozempic and diet for a year or two before returning to the brigade.
Hell, I’m a supply NCO, trained as a quartermaster as well and I don’t think we’d have sizes big enough, lol.
- Comment on 💩. 2 days ago:
Your mom is so fat that it took this guy 14 years to walk over the digital mode of her ass
- Comment on 💩. 2 days ago:
But sausage is minced food stuffed into bowels. Literally the same the same thing as shit. Not literally the same. But literally so superfluously similar that their descriptions overlap quite a bit.
Have a choNp
- Comment on 💩. 2 days ago:
Well the more correct term is increased or decreased intestinal permeability. Which very much is a thing.
But yeah you’re not completely wrong to be skeptic about the so called “leaky gut syndrome”, but that’s why you have to remember what syndrome means; just a collection or symptoms. People could have a collection of symptoms from different sources which still amount to the same syndrome. (Usually not though, but technically.)
Is the Gulf War - syndrome “woo bullshit” or real? Because if we apply the same standard as I presume you’re applying to the leaky gut syndrome, I presume you’d say it’s BS as well. Yet I bet there’s quite a lot of nasty vets who you wouldn’t dare to say that to their faces.
So just to reiterate; leaky gut syndrome, highly dubious en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_gut_syndrome
But increased intestinal permeability, also known as “leaky gut”: very much real but distinct from the other one en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intestinal_permeability#C…
- Comment on Is it? 4 days ago:
Actually a youtuber and a comedian. No idea whether he’s ever actually worked retail, well aside from in these skits where the point is to be Uncle Roger and act rude.
- Comment on Amen 5 days ago:
Ironically, not a requirement.
If you’re purely empirical/empiricist, you need at least one person to walk into a pole to prove it’s there.
If you’re a rationalist, you could rationalise where the poles are.
If you use both, you’re likely to hit yourself less than when utilising only one or the other.
- Comment on Amen 5 days ago:
Empiricism doesn’t work without reason, btw.
- Comment on In this dire time ... 6 days ago:
Also, an ad hominem is an attack against the person instead of the argument.
If you attack the argument and then the person, that’s not technically an ad hominem.
- Comment on whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders? 1 week ago:
I watched some Ted-talk’esque thing about a guy who chased the perfect coffee and he came to the conclusion that after toasting the beans, coffee only has a shelf life of two weeks, ground or not.
Obviously it keeps, but for optimal coffee…
Due to this he started developing small home toasting devices. I’d like to try that, see there’s any difference.
- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 1 week ago:
Actually I went to read after writing the comment and while originally they thought it might be a hominin, now they think it is actually more closely related to orangutans, making my comment kinda stupid.
Don’t tell anyone. Well you can tell the Librarian. We’re scheduled for coffee next week anyway in the L-space. Feel free to tag along.
- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 1 week ago:
I think it would be cool if it was something a bit more human-esque.
Like less contrast between the colours of his fur/face, overall a bit less hair, let’s suppose it’s just more mobile than gorillas but not as mobile and agile as we are, but that it could make it less hairy due to sweating and whatnot.
And chimp faces are just a tad more human in my opinion than gorillas. And gigantipithecus… sounds like it might be more related to us than gorillas
- Comment on EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes? 2 weeks ago:
Okay that’s not nothing but 200 000€ / year is hardly top 1% in EU, I think.
This is what slop gave me:
Based on available data on income distribution in Europe, a rough estimate for a gross annual individual salary to be in the top 1% across the EU would likely fall above €200,000.
When I asked how much you’d need to make in a year to be in EU top 1%. Didn’t even mention 200 000.
So yeah upper class but not necessarily top 1%. In Lithuania they’re probably top1% but not on the EU level.
Sorry for being pedantic.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 2 weeks ago:
Sitting in a tent labeled “prove me wrong” in the US while arguing against gun control is just… well, let’s just say the only disqualifying thing for him is actually the fact he has children.
If someone can prove their not his then we may have a winner.
- Comment on Mermaid Diaries 2 weeks ago:
If you train them to write symbols you show them, wouldn’t that make one a calamarigraphist
- Comment on advertisement 2 weeks ago:
Notice everyone, this isn’t for any taps/faucets you might want to drink from.
We do not recommend this technique for RO or filtered water faucets as it could contaminate your drinking water.
So idk who it’s even for lol
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Penn-E Farthing
- Comment on Sailing the high seas 2 weeks ago:
I’m a pirate and have been pretty much always, but I also realise that if literally everyone pirates, then where’s the funding for these things gonna come from?
Because when streaming began, it sort of deflated the DVD-market, and a lot of smaller but not exactly small projects have complained this. Because it’s made the investment riskier, but also more profitable. So now all we get is reruns and remakes and huge new shows for one season which then get cancelled.
I think public funding would be rhe answer, honestly. BBC studios are expanding, and I think that’s actually pretty smart of the UK. Hell, I’d donate some money to the BBC now for all the great shit I’ve watched for free over the years from YouTube. Peep Show, Quite Interesting, etc etc. And aI love Doctor Who, so it’s great Disney dropped them, BBC will want it back.
If there was like a straight up donation page for every movie / show etc and you knew the donation would count towards “ticketsales” but it was completely voluntary… idk. Something I’ve dreamt of.
So that the creative choices wouldn’t be in the hands of studio executives who don’t give a fuck about the art they’re making, just profits.
For instance Stargate has the fandom, people want it back, the creators want to bring it back, a lot of the old cast would be willing, it’s just the studios which are kinda the problem. Apparently they almost got into pre-production, had a script even, but then something something SAG-strike or covid or both.
- Comment on Sailing the high seas 2 weeks ago:
