Glitterbomb
@Glitterbomb@lemmy.world
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 1 day ago:
Every single Crichton book was a cautionary tale about tech bros.
- Comment on How much spacing while stopped at a red light? 5 days ago:
In the US I’ve noticed a difference between west coast and the rest of the country. West coast tends to use these circle bandsaws to cut circles into the pavement, everywhere else uses a circular saw to cut rectangles into the pavement. Either way, these are the things you want to be stopped right on top of, especially if you’re on a side street or left turn where you might get skipped if it doesn’t sense you. If you’re on a motorcycle, try to scoot up a bit so a car can be on them. They probably won’t sense a motorcycle.
- Comment on Somebody 2 weeks ago:
I was just thinking the other day there could be a business behind selling fake CRT shells that you can snap modern flat screens into. Just because. They could even include custom styles like this Shrek or hello kitty
- Comment on no way right 3 weeks ago:
The US invented this new technology called aircraft hangers
- Comment on no way right 3 weeks ago:
3 sonic the hedgehog movies in 5 years. We should fear the Erinaceidae
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 5 weeks ago:
When your starcraft LAN matches keep lagging out on the default option IPX. You try the other option but it says not installed. So you have to figure out how to reconfigure your network adapter in windows 98 to use this new thing called TCP/IP. You’re in middle school and youtube doesn’t exist.
- Comment on I will step on you and spill your food, my small friend 2 months ago:
I think you can blame God for that one
- Comment on So true 2 months ago:
Does soda have pairings like wine? I had no idea, I just cracked open sodas. What kinda faux pas have I been doing all my life? Oh God, is everyone looking at me weird when I drink soda wrong?
- Comment on it's making the frickin frogs gay 2 months ago:
Someone told me if you apply a little heat it just disappears! Leaves zero trace. What kind of freak invents this stuff
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
FWIW PG&E is the entire west coast - WA or OR is probably lower cost of living than CA. It’s also a pretty terrible company from what I’ve seen. I’ve surveyed a lot of really nice power grids and then I visited CA and saw what they call a utility pole… Not to mention every year it seems like they burn down half the state.
Those recent LA fires had PG&E releasing public statements saying it absolutely wasn’t them this time, before anyone even suggested it was.
- Comment on What's a highly-rated, critically acclaimed TV series that you couldn't get into, or have no interest in? 2 months ago:
Spartacus. I had never heard of it until I stopped by a friend’s house and they had it on. They told me it was neat and showed me the scene they were watching. Like clockwork, the scene immediately changed to full frontal dick. My friend downplayed saying that happens once or twice, his wife piped up and said nah it happens every episode with a grin on her face. They continued to talk about how many dicks are in the show and i just couldn’t be bothered to investigate on my own.
- Comment on Anon contracts herpes 2 months ago:
Here’s the really fun part of the above stat: the majority of those cases are spread via family members kissing.
- Comment on Cox charges you $25 if your credit card is declined 2 months ago:
I suppose with Cox we could be talking about TV or Internet. If it’s Internet I’ve heard it called a duopoly. The cable TV company and phone company both had wires running to every house when the internet showed up on the scene. Typically these are the only two options available in an area, and when you zoom in further usually one of them has given up on a particular street or neighborhood, and you better just go with the one that has decent wires.
We sort of had protections in place at the phone company level for a while to stop this. ILEC and CLEC laws forced Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (the big phone co in the area, owns the lines on the poles) to share their last mile phone lines with a Competitive LEC, granted the CLEC shells up for their own equipment and puts it in a special section of the ILECs central offices. Bam, competition.
The problem is that the laws only specified copper, so when fiber rolled around, ILECs specifically targeted their upgrades to cripple the competition. The houses still would do DSL on copper, but the backhaul for the CO would get upgraded to fiber and the competition would have to also upgrade their handoff on their equipment to be fiber or just lose all their customers in the area. They would also set up fiber fed cabinets halfway closer to your house and offer VDSL. CLECs weren’t allowed in those cabinets and could only offer 1/5th the speed on regular old ADSL due to distance. There were a lot of dirty tricks…the laws that were supposed to help just let the big company absolutely batter the smaller ones once they started their fiber upgrades.
- Comment on Have there been any major changes noticed in countries that have recently split? 2 months ago:
A few of the stans switched (back?) to a Latin alphabet at the fall of the USSR. Kazakhstan is in the process of doing the same.
- Comment on Does anyone have ideas for cable management here? 2 months ago:
Do you have attic access over that wall? A really long HDMI/RCA could go from behind the TV into the wall, up to attic, skip a few studs, then down to a brush faceplate behind the consoles
- Comment on Anon makes life choices 2 months ago:
He probably knows a whole lot about soil biodiversity collapse. Close enough
- Comment on The Sims Competitor inZOI Sells 1 Million in a Week, Krafton Declares It a ‘Long-Term Franchise IP’ 3 months ago:
People already made nude patches. The second there’s official mod support, this game is getting a permanent reputation as a porn game, I guarantee it
- Comment on Would it be a bad idea to show up at a protest outside a Tesla dealership with a sign that says "Deny Musk, Defund Doge, Depose Trump"? 3 months ago:
Yeah, instead OP should fill a gas can with Gatorade and casually sip from the can while at the protest. If anyone asks, say you brought it to show your support for combustion engines. There’s no way that can be interpreted as a threat, right?
- Comment on Which game is it? 3 months ago:
I just spent 20 hours on the demo for the new game roadcraft. I’m just pushing dirt around in a tractor like I’m playing with Tonka trucks back when I was 5. I haven’t really done anything interesting, just leveled dirt. Anyway, ill probably put in another 6 hours today after work.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 4 months ago:
Ya I have no doubt him and his gremlins are manipulating stocks. They probably heavily invested in EU MIC like Rheinmetall before starting all the drama that caused it to spike and US MIC to dip. In a week they’ll cash out, buy the dip on Raytheon and suddenly trump publicly reverses a ton of bullshit. Rinse and repeat on all of his drama he starts. These tarrif games are screwing heavily with stock prices too. No doubt they’re making bank with the whiplash they’re causing.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Please reread that amendment slowly, word for word. See if you maybe missed something the first time.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I hate to sound like I’m attacking OP, but unprotected border snuggles are a risky behavior. Please consider having protected border snuggles instead. It feels the exact same, I promise.
- Comment on Anon sees a happy couple 4 months ago:
Right. OP is probably confused why noone wants to listen to him talk about Fallout 76.
- Comment on Yeah, tunafan9000?? 4 months ago:
I’m surprised he didn’t tip on the entrance ramp. Makes me think he dumped his load at some highway construction and had barely started going before this happened
- Comment on imagine 5 months ago:
This sounds like the back of a Crichton novel, and I want to read it
- Comment on It was Steve 5 months ago:
Are these trash?
- Comment on listen 5 months ago:
I don’t know why, this reminds me of that cursed Animal Crossing ‘playthru’
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Knowing Better is such a fantastic youtube channel. I can’t recall this video specifically but ALL of his videos are worth the hour long watch.
- Comment on USA Question | How much is a dozen large eggs near you? 5 months ago:
All the downvotes are from bakers
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 5 months ago:
I have an old android phone I keep around because it has an IR LED on top and I loaded it with a few free universal remote apps. They all work offline and it’s come in handy so many times.
