wjrii
@wjrii@lemmy.world
- Comment on What’s all the hubbub about this Marks guy he seems pretty chill 1 day ago:
Bloemfontein, I think.
- Comment on yummy 1 day ago:
I don’t know if they still do, but for a long while IKEA was selling tabletops and shelves that were a honeycomb of cardboard with a very thin frame of some softwood or manufactured wood product, and then a synthetic woodgrain veneer. Super light, and pretty strong… for their weight.
- Comment on It can't be coincidence they're so perfectly placed. 4 days ago:
The Eternals was a documentary.
- Comment on Sovereign Of The Highland. 5 days ago:
nowlookhereaintnoneogothicpeninknonsenseahtellyoowhutahjustsumdangoletexashillbilliessippindangolecocktailsknowhudimeanandwearinbowlerhatsandtiesandwatchindeadtreesandguesswhatwell…
dangoledwardgoreymaniguessthat’sboutright.
- Comment on This will never stop being funny to me 5 days ago:
Theorizing about and then venting about Ocean Gate is one of my formative Fediverse memories. God what an ass Stockton Rush was.
- Comment on The Great Ice Ball Earth Theory 1 week ago:
I also love that this version of flat earth theory is perfectly okay with our living on the surface of a huge spherical object floating in space.
- Comment on Some people really lack civic sense 1 week ago:
According to the reddit OP, it’s the Vande Bharat Express in India. The ports look like the typical travel adapter ports that can handle several different plug types, but the UK plug sort of asserts itself visually, LOL.
- Comment on Steam refund 1 week ago:
Only Steam refund I ever got was for a Pool of Radiance re-package. Spent WAY longer than the testing period just generating the party, because JFC was it tedious on early gold-box games, and by the time I started running into bugs (introduced in the update? original? Who even knows?) barely outside the gates to Old Phlan. I had to explain a forty-year-old game to the poor customer service rep, but I got my 8 bucks back.
- Comment on Well then. 2 weeks ago:
- The New Madrid fault is a slow beast, but not to be taken lightly. There are large lakes in that region that exist solely because of earthquakes changing the path of the Mississippi River.
- I once drove through Cooter, Missouri on my way to a wedding in northwest Tennessee specifically to send my wife a cheeky postcard, and those motherfuckers didn’t postmark it until they’d carted it over to the next town with a larger post office. My disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined.
- Comment on average red state university 4 weeks ago:
Having attended several red state universities, I chose to take it as a statement that alongside the ubiquitous plaza preachers, who are never affiliated with the school and are generally no one’s favorite campus characters, there’s also plenty of standard college silliness and shenanigans. Apart from the big blue cities, the college towns of the south are generally the most educated and forward thinking enclaves of the red states, hence the huge pressure campaigns from their governors to being the schools themselves to heel.
- Comment on How do I ACTUALLY get hired by the United States Postal Services (USPS)? 4 weeks ago:
In addition to FecEx and Dominos, there’s other restaurants, Amazon, UPS, newer Chinese-owned final-mile carriers, Uber including Eats/Pets/Courier/etc., Lyft, Doordash, medical couriers, legal couriers, etc. etc. It’s tougher outside the cities, and it’s all kind of a neo-Victorian dystopia of poor wages and no support, but if what’s you actually want to do, “driving places cuz other people can’t or won’t” is a very doable job-description in the US. Just make sure you’re factoring in car expenses if you do the gig-based ones.
- Comment on FML 1 month ago:
I call it replicator chicken. It looks perfect, striking you as having been cooked in pristine oil, is consistent and properly fried, but then when you taste it you get the world’s blandest recipe. It’s really like a well-meaning computer’s idea of chicken tenders.
The sauce is decent, and utterly necessary, but it’s really not worth it, even within the space of fast-casual chicken fingers. I prefer Layne’s or even Zaxby’s.
- Comment on What's the deal with people liking old devices? 1 month ago:
I agree with the general takes here, and can add one for specific situations. I have some very old keyboards, and frankly even my newer ones rely on designs that are over 40 years old. In this particular case, I find the old tech superior, because they simply feel nicer to type on, and that’s what a keyboard is for.
I also have quite a few fountain pens, but whereas with a little effort the keyboards are as good or better than an average modern model, I’ll admit there is a fussiness and mess with fountain pens you have to weigh against the nicer writing experience.
- Comment on The Art of the Deal 1 month ago:
Also, won’t anyone think about the fact that Trump literally makes energy policy based on the fact that he thinks wind turbines are ugly?
- Comment on Star Trek: Legacy Series Fans Want Most Is “Never Gonna Happen,” Says TNG’s Marina Sirtis 1 month ago:
It’s at about 43:00 in the embedded video, and yeah, that’s probable, but the question was posed to the panel about what their characters would explore in a hypothetical Legacy show, so unless she’s been right on top of it, it feels like a fair assumption for her to have made that they’d be among the leads.
As an aside, I think I would absolutely love hanging out with Marina Sirtis for exactly one day, and I would be utterly exhausted at the idea of spending any longer than that. In her interviews, she is always a delight, but also a lot.
- Comment on Infinity vape gauntlet 1 month ago:
While they’ve got it apart, they can make sure to use a high quality battery!
- Comment on Conservatives: Libz don't even know what a woman is. Also Conservatives: *constantly engage with purely synthetic creations thinking that they are women.* 1 month ago:
That one’s not actually a problem. The flag is always “hoist side forward” to symbolize a no-retreat mentality. We shall ignore Vietnam and Afghanistan, and how that goes in the reign of President “why they no helping me?!?” remains to be seen.
- Comment on The spirit is willing but the body is weak 1 month ago:
I believe the correct adjectives are “spongy” and “bruised.”
- Comment on Meirl 2 months ago:
I particularly did this when I was in the UK or Japan, but that’s more because I have no faith that I will remember to pick the correct way.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 2 months ago:
I’m not trapped in here with you. You’re trapped in here with me!
- Comment on How we are brought into this world 2 months ago:
- Comment on Linux rules! How do you like my desktop? 2 months ago:
It really kicks the
llama’sgnu’s ass - Comment on Ads used to be different 💔 2 months ago:
The actual ad, if one is feeling like a fuddy duddy.
- Comment on 29 years since our homecoming queen was taken from us 2 months ago:
Like a candle in the wind…
- Comment on Expecto patronum my ass! 2 months ago:
The first Fantastic Beasts movie is set in New York, and it makes several appearances in the supporting lore books. Apparently, Americans don’t really like Quidditch, preferring some sort of magical-explosions basketball-ish game.
- Comment on I assure you, it's not good. 2 months ago:
Okay, so I’ll point out that Murray Rothbard and David Gordon are prominent in the “Everything should be completely equal and fair as long as we first enshrine my generations of privilege” Austrian-school economists, beloved of white guys everywhere who never got over their Ayn Rand phase.
- Comment on Anti-Woke means asleep. A pictorial example inside. 2 months ago:
With apologies to the baseball fans in the room…
The definition of woke:
You can’t just be up there and just doin’ a woke like that.
1a. Woke is when you
1b. Okay well listen. Woke is when the woke mob
1c. Let me start over
1c-a. The blue haired liberal is not allowed to say to the, uh, patriot, that prohibits the patriot from doing, you know, just trying to oppress the fringe groups. You can’t do that.
1c-b. Once the blue haired liberal is in the kindergarten classroom, she can’t be over here and say to the patriot, like, “I’m gonna get ya! I’m gonna teach your kids about pronouns! You better watch your butt!” and then just be like he didn’t even do that.
1c-b(1). Like, if you’re about to teach about racist history and then don’t teach it, you have to still teach. You cannot not teach. Does that make any sense?
1c-b(2). You gotta be, pooping in the right bathroom, and then, until you just wash your hands.
1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the drag queen, like this, but then there’s the children you gotta think about.
1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. Woke is when the teacher, err drag queen, says or does a thing that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the history and CRT
Do not do a woke please
- Comment on I still remember this and how the cable guy said, "give me $20 and I will activate every premium channel" 2 months ago:
My buddy’s older brother did the thing where you remove the little filter cylinders from the coax in, I think(?), the curbside junction box. I saw the cylinders and the result, but not the deed.
- Comment on Get. Out 2 months ago:
- Comment on Would the tart blueberries taste as good if you didn't have to randomly power through 3 to 5 bland ones between each good one? 2 months ago:
Interesting. These say they’re from Mexico. It would be pretty underwhelming if there’s a blander variety.