floquant
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- Comment on Caption this. 5 days ago:
Did You Get You Arms Replaced By 2px-wide Vertical Lines During An Argument With A Technowizard? Learn How To Dance Again In 3 Simple Steps
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Sure, not saying that’s guaranteed. But it’s definitely a red flag
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Adjective-noun-number profile? That’s a bot
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 2 weeks ago:
Signal goes the other way around. Laptop -> TV -> router -> somebody else’s computer
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 2 weeks ago:
Some brands have been confirmed to send periodic screenshots of your content, no matter if it’s through “smart apps” or HDMI.
- Comment on Florida ounces 2 weeks ago:
As always, just a great unit of measure.
- Is called “fluid weight”, but is actually a unit of volume. All liquids have the same density right?
- An “imperial fl.oz.” is ~28.41mL
- A “US customary fl.oz.” is ~29.57mL
- A “US food labeling fl.oz.” is 30mL
Also found out that you have “liquid pints” and “dry pints” as well, for some reason.
- Comment on Apart, low in cholesterine 2 weeks ago:
Still better than oxygen-infused water
- Comment on Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer 2 weeks ago:
It’s not strictly a password, it’s a recovery key for the encryption. The drive is unlocked automatically at boot by the key residing in the TPM, if the system “hasn’t been compromised”
Bitlocker is enabled by default on new Windows installations, and you can run into this situation by resizing partitions or messing around with your EFI partition. Disabling secure boot without disabling bitlocker first will result in this.
Make sure you have your recovery key, or completely disable bitlocker until you’re done provisioning your system (or uninstall windows altogether)
- Comment on Dirt Man 2 weeks ago:
I love the bear monkeys
- Comment on Will Chat Control affect P2P apps such as Briar? 3 weeks ago:
Technically or legally?
- Comment on Ze princess 3 weeks ago:
Why is there a Z on Princess and an L on Zelda?
/s before you nerds lynch me
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 4 weeks ago:
latex-project.org says “lah-tech” or “lay-tech”
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah your mom is right. An entrance signal is useful on smaller roundabouts, but is always less important than the exit right signal
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 5 weeks ago:
Behold: Decimal time
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like you need a 2-laner and drivers who understand how they work
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 5 weeks ago:
Sure OP is a girl. Guy In Real Life
- Comment on High Fashion 5 weeks ago:
Jumping spiders are so cool. You can probably readily find them if you know where to look, and some will jump on your finger if you just stick it out in front of them. They’re super curious and smart, and their vision system is mindblowing (Veritasium video about it, highly recommended!) - and so cute when they swivel around to look at you in the face!
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 month ago:
Ah shit, is this ZA/UM all over again?
- Comment on Just.....why? 1 month ago:
The amount of information that can be inferred, especially when coupled with more data from other “brokers”, is crazy. You might be flagged as a depressed person if you skip brushing some/most days. The time you wake up and go to work might be an indication of your social status, together with how often you replace the head.
- Comment on Just.....why? 1 month ago:
If you can’t run Doom on it, is it really your toothbrush?
- Comment on >:( 1 month ago:
Pluto’s not a planet, but he doesn’t care because he knows he’s hot shit.
- Comment on Sweatshop 1 month ago:
There is definitely no space for a 2-segment to the right of “heat”. You can check by looking at it from a flat angle, you should be able to see all possible legends reflecting light off the LCD
- Comment on Sweatshop 1 month ago:
I thought that any wet bulb temperature above your own body’s is cause for concern as sweating basically becomes useless, is that not accurate?
- Comment on A metaphor for capitalism? 1 month ago:
so maybe the spider was put into the glass on purpose to make the photo? So the spider was sent to a gulag to die because it wasn’t ideologically pure enough.
logic.png
- Comment on A metaphor for capitalism? 1 month ago:
It’s also the author of it, so it would definitely belong
- Comment on Anon pitches a new game 2 months ago:
Infinite growth mentality vs remembering the customer as a human
- Comment on Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’ 2 months ago:
Seriously - LLMs are much more adequate to do a CEO’s job than an engineer’s. Maybe the crazied scramble to push AI “features” into products is to distract customers, workers and shareholders from this fact?
- Comment on Too bad we can't all act like this 2 months ago:
Yes
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 2 months ago:
When some chud on YouTube in 2025 says “‘Woke’ is ruining gaming,” he means that awareness of systemic racism is ruining gaming. For him.
I don’t think it even goes that far tbh. Especially for less political, more gamer-type “conservatives” it just means “the other side”, forcing so many girls (1) into their game. Maybe it’s just to deflect having to admit to being a misogynist.
And when an American politician calls himself “anti-woke”, he’s saying that he opposes the awareness of systemic racism. Not that he denies the existence of it, but that he’d prefer no one talk about it, so that it can continue.
Yes, exactly. No sane person would call themselves “anti-woke”. Unless they’re successful in subverting its meaning to be “those we’ll put in concentration camps”
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 2 months ago:
It’s not about claiming the moral high ground, it’s just that you can’t have a word that can be used to mean its opposite, even if “sarcastically”. The word woke is just the past tense of wake, nothing else. It can be used to represent someone “waking up” from the hide-your-head-in-the-sand routine, or becomes able to see things from a new perspective. For the right, it doesn’t really mean anything, but they are pretty much using it as the new “sheeple”. Which doesn’t make any sense.
But the important thing is this: if someone is ridiculing people for wanting to be informed, involved in society, or generally just themselves, the only thing they’re actually insulting is their own intelligence and heart. If we let them have their use of woke as a generic mean insult, we lose sight of that.
More than swastikas, I think this case is closer to saying “you can use literally to mean figuratively because it’s common use” to which I also say no, fuck that.
But yes, swastikas forever symbolise Nazism. That doesn’t negate their original, positive meaning previously found in history, religion and culture. This is not an “achtually it’s ok to draw swastikas because they are actually good”. I’m just saying that context, and intent, matters. Should those cultures stop using it because it’s now “forever bad”?