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- Comment on Now you know why your wife gave you a can of WD 40 3 days ago:
It was never a real ad. It’s a pre-internet fax and photocopy meme redone for the web around 2014-ish.
- Comment on drip not allowed 3 days ago:
This motherfucker is bringing back god damn sumptuary laws?!?! Is this god damn 14th century London?
- Comment on Can we just put them in charge? 4 days ago:
Squid actually posted something about this on !science@lemmy.world a week or so ago. If I didn’t quite fall down the rabbit hole of cetacean evolution, I at least tripped over it.
- Comment on Can we just put them in charge? 4 days ago:
So long, and thanks for all the nugs.
- Comment on Farm-raised breaded chicken on a bed of mac au gratin, served with sweet tomato reduction 4 days ago:
And what, pray-tell, is your description of our little stellate amuse-bouche there?
- Comment on Ordering coffee in the USA triggers me 5 days ago:
So with a soda fountain or similar soft-drink dispenser at most fast-food or fast-casual restaurants int he US, asking for light ice or no ice will still get you a full cup. That said, the general understanding here has always been (don’t know if it’s strictly true across time and space) that the cups cost more than the drink, and even if the particular place is not offering free refills or you’re ordering to-go, that’s a pretty normal expectation so being stingy with the Coke would reflect poorly on the restaurant beyond the value of saving a little bit of syrup and CO2.
Dunkin’ is definitely a massive fast-food chain, but a latte beverage, even iced, is kinda pushing the boundary of even what most Americans would expect with generous pours. OP might have reasonably hoped to get a full cup, but IMHO they shouldn’t be disgruntled that they didn’t get it.
- Comment on Ordering coffee in the USA triggers me 5 days ago:
If they have a machine, you’re getting exactly the full amount of coffee you paid for; you’re just not getting more by removing a filler that they normally include, and that some people like. Now, I’m not saying there’s anything morally wrong with gaming the menu at a giant chain if it can be done without fucking over the staff, or that it wouldn’t be shitty if Dunkin’ has done some sneaky shrinkflation, but there is a certain mechanical clarity here that I can’t get too riled up about.
- Comment on What year is it 1 week ago:
The video posted elsewhere in this thread shows a clay tablet containing an expanded ruleset from the Hellenic period that allows the basic rules to be intuited with more confidence.
- Comment on "2 bedroom" AirBnB. 1 week ago:
It was just a tiny mixup. It’s a “two-bed room”.
- Comment on Lubricate first pls 1 week ago:
…when the parameters for your LLM can fit on a floppy disk.
- Comment on True expert 1 week ago:
I can also appreciate that he cut right to the chase.
- Comment on Always remain prepared in case you need to evacuate with your fridge during an emergency 1 week ago:
- Comment on Always remain prepared in case you need to evacuate with your fridge during an emergency 1 week ago:
If you look close, you can just make out the little bullwhip and fedora!
- Comment on Enjoy this out-of-context conversation with my wife. 3 weeks ago:
And I think “making eggs” is a joke about having kinds in a way.
In my case, when I’m cooking for my cartoon-obsessed kid, she knows she’s not supposed to go anywhere but also realizes she has a captive audience.
- Comment on Ancestors 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on She’s deid 4 weeks ago:
Nobody wants that Two-Buck Chuck “Queen Consort” bullshit! Queen Regnant or GTFO!
- Comment on Enjoy this out-of-context conversation with my wife. 4 weeks ago:
Right now I just get lectured about Gravity Falls when I make eggs.
Could be worse.
- Comment on Time for Christmemes! 4 weeks ago:
Man, I don’t know what it is, but I absolutely detest this song. There’s nothing objectively wrong with it, just some slightly schlocky 80s pop with a nice-enough “I will survive” kinda vibe to the lyrics. Not really my thing, but you do you, Whamaholics. Or at least, that’s how I think I should feel.
Something about the specific combination of arrangement, lyrics, particularly the lightly Christmasfied aspect to tie into giving away your heart, and George Michael’s falsetto, it just drives me up a fuckin’ wall. I genuinely prefer the Mariah Carey song, though it’s a close thing.
- Comment on Superman | Official Teaser Trailer 4 weeks ago:
since when is “there is a dog” something that you put triumphant music over
Since today, LOL.
The general vibe here is that this Suprman is good and kind, and the trailer is directly tying that notion to triumph. We’ll see if the movie bears that out (and if it’s just generally any good). Watching the trailer, I assume there’s going to be a part either at the beginning or in the middle where a set-piece in the more muted Snyder-y action-y suit is going to go very wrong and provoke a period of reflection, but I assume he’ll accept his inherent cheesy goodness by the last act.
- Comment on Superman | Official Teaser Trailer 4 weeks ago:
They say that escapism media tends to be a response to the particular anxieties of an era. Probably pretty telling that this looks like it’s going to be a multi-lateral, consensus-building, hope-inspiring take on Superman.
Truth, Justice, and [what we were sold as children should be] the American Way.
Also, KRYPTO! Dyno-Mutt and Blue Falcon movie when???
- Comment on Superman | Official Teaser Trailer 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t watched any Superman stuff other than the 80s movies. Did the other reboots use the John Williams theme?
- Comment on If a contestant on Jeopardy! gave the correct response "Alexandre Dumas" but pronounced the surname as "dumb ass", would the response be accepted? 5 weeks ago:
IIRC for Single vs Double the difference they will enforce the “form of a question” part. In either round, they will let you mangle the pronunciation as long as you don’t insert or omit phonemes beyond what could reasonably be the result of only having read the word.
So “Alexander Dumb-ass” would be fine, though you’d likely get some gentle chiding, or maybe even have to refilm the question (“portions of the show not affecting the outside have been edited”) afterwards, but if you were expanding NASA and left the ‘s’ off the end of “Aeronautics,” it would be wrong.
- Comment on I have read through this job ad multiple times and I still have no idea who they are looking for. 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like a middle management role at a property management company, managing teams that will do some combination of developing new software, procuring outside software, configuring software, doing shit with integrations including rolling in whatever clusterfuck of legacy systems and data any corporate acquisitions would bring in, and providing tech support under Service Level Agreements. My first impression is that the packages in questions would probably be about some combination of rent pricing, market analysis, maintenance ticketing, and contract lifecycle management.
Frankly, it sounds awful. 🤣 The word soup could also be partly that they’ve already identified internal candidates but have a corporate requirement to post publicly.
- Comment on The Evolution of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in dollars and Rotten Tomatoes scores 5 weeks ago:
Quite the reminder that traditional RT score presents “consensus that a movie was at least okay.”
Not that it isn’t impressive Marvel had such a long run of universally decent popcorn fare, but I always thought it was funny that there are two approaches to make a movie that will get a very high score.
- Comment on Or Polio. Guess we should invest in iron lungs. 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been to Galveston. This tracks.
- Comment on Or Polio. Guess we should invest in iron lungs. 5 weeks ago:
That’s a pole. Polio is porridge-like dish made from maize. Not grits, the other one.
- Comment on The 80's were weird 5 weeks ago:
A horse is a horse, of course, of course…
- Comment on Kraven the Hunter review – Russell Crowe busts up laborious superhero yarn 5 weeks ago:
I think the Pitch Meeting may be enough for me. Left to their own devices, Sony’s Spider-IP movies seem to be mostly pretty dreadful.
- Comment on "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" Reboot In Works 5 weeks ago:
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised anymore but the film is over fifty years old. A new modern version could capture a whole new audience.
Yeah, this particular type of remake has been done for almost a hundred years. Nothing to get too worked up about, though even as a kid I wasn’t interested in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Even for the rest of it, I’m at a point where I will just take these things on their own merits. Sometimes the creative hijackers who do their own story under cover of an existing property sometimes make something watchable (e.g. Foundation), and for most of the rest they were working with a property unlikely to inspire anything brilliant in the first place (e.g. Halo, which as a non-player still isn’t that bad… just “meh” with too big a budget).
People want to tell stories. I’ll watch as many of the good stories as I can make time for.
- Comment on Alfredo Linguini 1 month ago:
I’m gonna level with y’all. I have a certain number of areas where my palate is reasonably sophisticated and bougie (a nice dry cider… perfection), but in many ways I have the palate of a latchkey kid in 1993. I love a dozen kinds of fast food, sugary breakfast cereals, and yeah, I prefer other recipes over it, but I’m write films of regular Kraft Mac and Cheese/Kraft Dinner.
All of which is to tell you that I’m not sneering down from some Michelin-starred ivory tower when I say that Microwave bowls of Mac & Cheese are FUCKING DISGUSTING. Whatever combination of powdered milk and thickeners and Satan-snot they have to put into the bowls to make the process work at all is just nasty. It’s an abomination before the Lord.