JuxtaposedJaguar
@JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 2 days ago:
Their opinion is stupid, but I’m also not sure what you expected when you asked some random sales rep for deep technical info.
- Comment on At least 4,500 Americans per year die from hydroxyl acid exposure 4 weeks ago:
Pure DHMO is actually pretty inert. It’s only once you add ions of sodium (a highly reactive metal) and chlorine (a highly toxic gas) that it starts damaging metal.
- Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material 4 weeks ago:
I’ll just change my browser agent then; you’re a fucking website, you don’t need to know which OS I’m using.
It’s amazing how many “unsupported” web apps work perfectly fine once you change the UA. It’s often a completely arbitrary limitation so that they can hire less qualified support staff.
- Comment on shrimp colour drama 1 month ago:
Blue blue green greeeeeeeeeeennnnn
- Comment on shrimp colour drama 1 month ago:
Hey now, you could be the person to force manufacturers to add a new type of warning label to random products!
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 1 month ago:
My thermodynamics professor made so approximations in his derivations that all of his equations had an “O” term to represent the inaccuracy. Every time he made another approximation he’d say “and, of course, the O sucks up the error”.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 1 month ago:
My high school English teacher still has night terrors about me starting sentences with conjunctions. And that was the least of their problems.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 1 month ago:
The trick is to round everything. Pi? Basically 3.
- Comment on I hate the modern web 2 months ago:
> Reddit
🤢🤮
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 2 months ago:
Tell those particular people. Maybe screenshot those particular messages as proof. But don’t publicly share everything.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
While most of them are debatable, the middle right is objectively a penis. Sorry OP.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You should probably get those black bumps checked out
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 months ago:
I asked my MAGA coworker whether he thought Trump broke the law in the hush money case, and his response was “she should have kept her trap shut”.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 months ago:
“Shut up about eggs”
- Trump’s retweet
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 months ago:
Trump knows that his supporters are going to turn on him eventually, which is why he’s working so hard to set up an infrastructure that can crush opposition without due process. He’s also testing the waters about ignoring court orders.
If the supreme court lets him use the AEA then that means the president can use war-time statutes without Congress needing to declare a war, which means that he’ll be able to use a different statute to deploy the military on US territory. At that point, US democracy is officially over.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 months ago:
I’m not sure it’s possible to blame Trump rather than his voters when he literally promised to make most of these changes. It might be more effective to say that Trump was misled by Musk.
- Comment on Dentures 2 months ago:
…put your dick in it.
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 2 months ago:
I guess aircraft-grade aluminum isn’t good enough anymore.
- Comment on Sam Bankman-Fried is angling for a pardon from Trump 2 months ago:
The only question is: what can he offer Trump? Advice on crypto scams, perhaps?
Another few pumps (followed by dumps) of Trump’s meme coins.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Interesting, thanks!
Do you know what level German you are at?
I took a full-year German course in university a few years ago, and by the end of that I was probably A1. I’ve forgotten most of it since then, but I could probably relearn it within a few weeks. Every time I visit my German side of the family I try to brush up on it, but that isn’t very often.
Now it’s been 15 months learning daily and am at the B1 level. So not an expert just intermediate with more to learn.
Good for you. I feel like the hardest part of German (as a non-native speaker) is regularly practicing.
- Comment on Spotify Premium "Ad Free" plan 3 months ago:
Could someone please explain this post?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I don’t remember most of the grammatically correct genders, but when I was trying to learn them I had the distinct impression that stereo-typically manly nouns were masculine and stereo-typically womanly things were feminine.
I have heard nonbinary people find neuter as being offensive because it’s infantilizing them. At least that’s how it was explained to me.
I haven’t heard anything about that but that’s really interesting. Do you know how they prefer to be addressed?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
This is arguably subjective, but I think making masculine and feminine words neuter is the only way to counteract the inherent sexism of gendered nouns. If you make everything masculine, you’re still tacitly supporting the previous categorization of masculine nouns as correct, and vice versa for making every noun feminine.
- Comment on Anon discovers real life 3 months ago:
Shouldn’t have trusted that fart.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
*Aromantic
Your washing machine still tosses (clothing) salad on a regular basis.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I don’t know how German compares to French or Spanish, but in German things can be masculine, feminine, or neutral. What I do—which is partially as a protest, and partially out of laziness—is to assume every non-person noun is neutral.
It works surprisingly well in IT where basically all nouns are neutral, but I probably sound like Kevin from The Office in every other context.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Interesting! Thanks for the source.
It looks like short haul flights actually produce 12% less emissions than driving.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
IANACS but I think the levels of pollution are actually similar.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Nevermind, that’s awesome. Is he looking for additional friends?
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 3 months ago:
Assuming you’re correct, what alternative is there besides MAGAs getting gut-punched with reality? All the issues that you say contribute to the problem are being exacerbated by Trump.