wjrii
@wjrii@lemmy.world
- Comment on When you are proud to get a diploma while being illiterate 21 hours ago:
I get it. We skew older here, but somebody playing around on the fuzzy edges of spelling a gen-z meme is not illiteracy. To be clear, I am also a clueless old, but I thought I’d look it up before piling on.
- Comment on Rhymes, motherfucker 1 week ago:
“What’s worse than lies but not as bad as statistics?”
“DAMNED LIES, MOTHERFUCKER.”
- Comment on Cultural impact 1 week ago:
At this point, I think its most lasting cultural impact is everyone’s opinion on how little cultural impact it had.
- Comment on What character is the king of plot armor? 2 weeks ago:
That’s a fair take, but for me it just went past the point of willing suspension of disbelief, and I don’t find that meta-narrative compelling. It may well be a reason for me to re-evaluate it though, to decide if I think it’s poorly done versus something where what they wanted to do simply didn’t connect with me.
- Comment on What character is the king of plot armor? 2 weeks ago:
I recently finished Blue-Eyed Samurai, and Mizu’s increasingly powerful plot armor comes very close to ruining the whole show.
spoiler
They make a point of inflicting fairly realistic injuries, and of showing the required treatment, and in the early going they even need time to heal, but the farther we get into the plot, the more intense and more frequent the injuries, while at the same time the less time it takes for Mizu to heal enough to function at a superhuman level. The arrow through the ankle is one that comes to mind. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with power-fantasy anime (or anime-adjacent animation), but it felt like a bait and switch, especially since no one else seems to have it so the stakes end up yawningly low.
- Comment on Why dogs are better pets than cats - The Brock Press 2 weeks ago:
This is definitely the right community, LOL. I am absolutely a dogs>cats person, but this junior-high school-paper article has me questioning 20 years of a catless house.
- Comment on It was different vibe back then 2 weeks ago:
So many rainbow explosions…
- Comment on Here I come! 2 weeks ago:
Show what you know! In most parts of the US, there is no train!
- Comment on How do abortions work exactly? I get you lose the kid or whatever. My ex rapist used to tell me if I ever got pregnant he would RU486 me. Wouldn't a person rather go to a doc instead of a pill? 2 weeks ago:
I agree, but ol’ Don is, if nothing else, a curator of interesting writing prompts.
- Comment on Not even a big melon 2 weeks ago:
The DeBeers-ish sentimental marketing is also a bit of a scam, which ends up working nicely with the cost being a scam. I am very happy with my 25 year old English Lit degree; it was was what I was able to get through with where I was discipline-wise, and I did learn all those critical thinking and life skills, and it even opened adequate doors, career-wise. I reckon my grades were inflated somewhat by my professors’ sheer relief that I was engaging with the material and, for all their flaws, my papers were obviously my own work. Still, I think my memories would be very different if I had graduated with $180k of student loan debt from a bucolic college somewhere in the New England hills instead of a $2k balance on a Discover Card, incurred over 4.25 years of nonsense at local state U.
I’m all for college, and not just STEM and business. Frankly some our current generation of tech leaders could use to have taken a few more philosophy classes (except for Peter Thiel… oh my) or at least smoked a few more bowls with the liberal arts kids. Still, people need to be clear-eyed about what a degree will and won’t do, and they need to understand that you absolutely can and should put a price-tag on the experiences.
- Comment on What’s all the hubbub about this Marks guy he seems pretty chill 3 weeks ago:
Bloemfontein, I think.
- Comment on yummy 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks ago:
The Eternals was a documentary.
- Comment on Sovereign Of The Highland. 3 weeks ago:
nowlookhereaintnoneogothicpeninknonsenseahtellyoowhutahjustsumdangoletexashillbilliessippindangolecocktailsknowhudimeanandwearinbowlerhatsandtiesandwatchindeadtreesandguesswhatwell…
dangoledwardgoreymaniguessthat’sboutright.
- Comment on This will never stop being funny to me 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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. 5 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 1 month 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)? 1 month 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 2 months 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? 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.* 2 months 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 2 months 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!