MelodiousFunk
@MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
- Comment on No problems here 1 hour ago:
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- Comment on How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk 2 days ago:
Yas (pronounced yuhz)
- Comment on The Most Confusing Part of the Power Grid | Practical Engineering [22:07] 1 week ago:
I really enjoyed this video. It went into a few things I was fuzzy about despite having to ELI5 power factor to corpo suits on a semi-regular basis for about a decade.
Nebula link for those that partake.
- Comment on if jupiter gained enough mass to trigger fusion and ignite into a star... 1 week ago:
At least as happy as Ceres. At least people still remember Pluto.
- Comment on Depending on how you count 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 achieves ultimate catharsis by deleting landlords to fix spiralling rent prices in its next patch 2 weeks ago:
If only.
- Comment on Cop busted for unauthorized use of Clearview AI facial recognition resigns 2 weeks ago:
This is exactly it. But it doesn’t fit on a hat or bumper sticker so the details get ignored.
- Comment on yay, no dunning kruger for me! hold up, oh no 2 weeks ago:
I coasted through elementary school and ran up against undiagnosed autism, ADHD, and GAD (it was the 80s and I wasn’t disruptive) once homework started getting real. Had no problem learning the material, aced the tests, struggled with homework and writing assignments. “Not working up to his potential” became “lazy.” I took myself out of the gifted classes in middle school and bailed on “college prep” classes in my sophomore year. By the time I graduated I had failed English three times and wanted nothing to do with college and its endless papers I’d never write. Went to tech school for IT/electronics and did field service work for a bit before getting burned out and laid off. Landed in corporate IT and got real intimate with depression. 25 years later I’m still trying to recover from a lifetime of fighting uphill on hard mode against AuDHD, anxiety, depression, trauma, and the resulting burnout, keenly aware of my shortcomings the entire time while simultaneously fostering a deep seated contempt for the orphan crushing machines that define modern life.
My life would have been a whole lot easier if I had only been sociopathic.
- Comment on UAW president under investigation by federal monitor 3 weeks ago:
Wait wait… I coulda sworn I’ve heard this one before…
- Comment on Thou'st see-eth me rolleth, thou'st hateth 3 weeks ago:
I used to love Al-generated content when I was a kid. Still do, but I used to, too.
- Comment on natural wonders 4 weeks ago:
sad ex-planet noises
- Comment on natural wonders 4 weeks ago:
“Am I a joke to you?”
- Ceres
- Comment on Marxist Financial Advice 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Fear the fish women! 1 month ago:
That sounds like a nightmare.
- Comment on Fear the fish women! 1 month ago:
We talkin regular mermaid, or reverse mermaid?
- Comment on If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible? 1 month ago:
Those always over simplify every problem to a short, violent solution.
Yeah, entertainment totally didn’t do this before Marvel and manga. 🤨
- Comment on If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible? 1 month ago:
save it from the demon lord known as See Oh Too, and its generals Shell, BP, and Chevron.
HOORAY!
/S
…oh :(
- Comment on Scientists Find an ‘Alphabet’ in Whale Songs 1 month ago:
But all joking aside… what would you ask a whale?
I’d ask what it thought about Star Trek IV.
- Comment on Imagine denying other living and breathing lifeforms agency to thrive amd change lol lol lol 1 month ago:
Humans are bizarrely fond of stuffing their dead with preservatives, hermetically sealing them in a box, and/or incinerating them. Like, it’s our last chance to give a little bit back to nature, but nope.
- Comment on UHF in UHD: Weird Al’s cult classic movie will get its first 4K release 1 month ago:
This is one of the first movies I bought as an “adult.” DVDs were barely a thing back then, and the VHS was long out of print… so when I saw it in a used video shop I snapped it up, even at $40.
- Comment on Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet 2 months ago:
Most folks will probably freak out when they see a terminal window (“DOS box”) on a computer.
Many many moons ago I was working at a small mom and pop operation that used ancient PCs to run their registers. The entirety of the front end ran on a 3.5" floppy. One night after closing, I exited to the CLI and opened edit. I typed in “HELP, STEVE BROKE ME” and went to the back to count my drawer. The shift manager had a proper shit fit.
“What are you editing?!? If you break this machine the boss is going to have your head, it’ll cost thousands to have someone come out and fix it!”
I calmly exited back to CLI and ran the front end exe. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on PROOF 2 months ago:
Except there’s only one turtle.
The Great A’Tuin, swimming silently through the void 🐢 🐘🐘🐘🐘 💿
I was assured “it’s turtles all the way down.”
(Link is to a PBS Storied video exploring the origins and evolution of the phrase)
Obligatory “everyone should read Discworld” recommendation 🙃
- Comment on PROOF 2 months ago:
Thank you for posting the truth. It really hurts the heart to see all this disinformation being thrown around.
- Comment on An update to how many boring, repetitive communities I need to block to make Lemmy enjoyable 2 months ago:
So are mine. I’m bummed that most of my hobbies only have a token presence (if any) on Lemmy. I have a decent sized list of blocked communities to make /all a bit less tiresome. But I’m certainly not posting that list and whining about things not being exactly as I want them. I just upvote (mostly), contribute where I feel the need (no, I do not have the spoons to try and carry entire niche communities), and hope one day enough people trickle in that those niches feel less like ghost towns.
- Comment on My go-to formula 2 months ago:
It’s cruise control for cool.
- Comment on Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood 3 months ago:
I’d argue that the 20th century already selected for that and we are reaping the “rewards” as we speak.
- Comment on Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood 3 months ago:
It’s easy if you’re a sociopath.