Wolf314159
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- Comment on Smells Great 1 week ago:
This gives me God Emperor of Dune vibes.
- Comment on Everyone Who Worked On A Video Game Needs To Be In The Credits [Aftermath] 1 week ago:
They should hide somewhere in the game itself the real credits of the people that spent significant effort to make the game. An Easter Egg if you will. Like just after defeating the dragon, you find a scroll in their horde with the real credits.
- Comment on celibate discussion 1 week ago:
Just another way to dehumanize.
- Comment on I c it! 2 weeks ago:
The diffraction effects from a pinhole camera are not what make them work.
I didn’t say this, you did. You’re chasing your own tail.
- Comment on Not a game: Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs by ditching rules, explaining jokes 2 weeks ago:
Is this wit or a genuine request that one of us explainsthejoke.com?
- Comment on I c it! 2 weeks ago:
The ratio of the size of the image to the distance from the pinhole is the same as the ratio of the size of the sun to the distance to the sun.
- Comment on I c it! 2 weeks ago:
A pinhole camera has no lens. The effect here is like a pinhole camera, but a pinhole camera is nothing at all like a lens. Pinholes diffract light. Lens refract light.
- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 4 weeks ago:
Dude I’m not arguing that it’s correct or not, I’m saying that this is the way many people used to (and how some still do) use the language.
- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s why my comment was basically words and phrases have shifting connotations as time passes and contexts change.
- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 4 weeks ago:
Fake and real photograph used to have a very different meaning indeed.
This is a “real” photo of Denise Richards and Paul Walker:Denise Richards and Paul Walker
This is a “fake” photo of Denise Richards and Paul Walker (in the body of a cybernetic T-Rex): Fake Photo of Denise Richards and the soul Paul Walker in the body of a cybernetic T-Rex
- Comment on In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS 4 weeks ago:
It used to remember passwords, it briefly got a gig memorizing drink orders, now it mostly focuses remembering project numbers and does a little 2FA code work on the side.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 1 month ago:
So, far right parents in a conservative religion in a Republican town in a Republican state produced a child so tortured by a culture of hate and violence that as soon as they even start to lean either way their instinct is murder. Breaking the cycle of hate is relatively easy compared to breaking the cycle of violence. The statements they made to their roommate (even if that heresay is true) just confirm that they were a troubled child from a troubled culture trying to change. It should surprise no one that those childish attempts would be a VERY twisted reflection of the ideal. So no, he was not part of the left. Just a child in pain reacting the only way their conservative upbringing taught them.
- Comment on Metal genres 1 month ago:
Hot take: Most metal is just Classical Music II Electric Bugaloo.
- Comment on What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts 1 month ago:
I’d ask a couple thousand people to guess in private. So the most popular answer would probably be either surprisingly close to correct or Cuppy McHazelnutface.
- Comment on This was a big deal. You could play a game on your cell phone 1 month ago:
I used to playing games on my calculator. I suppose you still can, but I used to do it. I remember I had RISK on my TI-89, but the games on my TI-82 were on par with the version of snake shown in the post.
- Comment on We have always been at war with the Kingdom of Myrm 2 months ago:
Primates make tools to help eating ants, among other things. It’s a bit of an unusual snack, but people eat ants too. We are anteaters? How much of your diet needs to be ants before you’re considered an anteater?
- Comment on Disco Panic! 2 months ago:
Not to be confused with disco snails.
- Comment on 4011 2 months ago:
Somebodies lying (or at least being deceptive). I checked the link. There’s no mention of 20 countries anywhere. Nobody said 20 countries here either. Setting that pedantry aside. In fact, even if it were used by significantly fewer than twenty countries, the ones that without a doubt do use them are spread around the globe. Thus, they are used globally.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Is this AI slop or someone cosplaying David Byrne during Stop Making Sense?
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 2 months ago:
Conservatives really like the recycling myth because it puts the onus of waste on the individual consumer instead of the corporations actually producing the waste.
- Comment on Debatable 2 months ago:
Yeah that was my first thought after getting over the weirdness of it, “How manageable is this hair going to be after getting home and later as it grows out?”
- Comment on THIS is true wisdom 2 months ago:
Oh yeah, I was just venting. Every place has their quirks. I wish I had your lowkey Fridays.
- Comment on THIS is true wisdom 2 months ago:
LOL, not everywhere is like this. Fridays are always the day an emergency project gets dropped in my lap that absolutely must be done before the next Monday because somebody else has a deadline they need to meet (that they’ve known about for months) and they need our work for a critical part of it, but they never seem to remember until Thursday night.
- Comment on THIS is true wisdom 2 months ago:
I’ve also worked at places where the boss demanded a doctor’s note to return to work. I just said “No, I’m not doing that.” That’s always been the end of it. I returned to work once I was well and continued we all continued on as if it never really was about health and safety in the first place. Lots of places have policies on the books that are either outright illegal or unenforceable, but they get people to tow the line out of fear. If a few of us call their bluff, it’s better for them to quietly move on so that we don’t escalate the situation and shine a light on that policy. If word got around that the policy was unenforceable, they wouldn’t be able to bully the rest into compliance.
Moreover, not every “sick leave” is something that is contagious, migraines for example. I’ve even taken a sick day preemptively because I got to work and discovered that I’d have to work in close proximity to someone that was actually sick and contagious, but refused to stay home.
Also, if the company is requiring a professional evaluation in order to work, surely that is something that will be fully expensed to the company. I suppose that dynamic would be different under universal healthcare. But sending people that are recovering from a contagious disease that will resolve itself on its own would still be an incredible strain (and an unnecessary one) on the entire system.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 2 months ago:
There’s a lot of people in this thread proudly sharing how they stereotype and have preconceptions about people that they don’t actually know. And them their justification is that everyone should be a two dimensional single issue character archetype with literally no conflict or contradictions. Have you people even met any adults, especially professionals and academics, that aren’t your parents or your teachers?
- Comment on Anon updates GNU/linux 2 months ago:
My teacher one year gave me an F because he didn’t bother to grade anything in a timely fashion, also didn’t store (or organize) any student assignments that had been handed in, and when the end of the year came made me go digging through a giant stack of everyone’s assignments to find mine to prove I deserved a reasonable grade AFTER I had already been sent home with an F. I eventually got the grade I deserved, but I shouldn’t have had to fight for it like that. Apparently this was a common routine for this teacher, but lots of students didn’t bother to fight it. It didn’t get fixed until that cabinet was physically emptied and I handed all the assignments back to their authors.
I am thinking of the teachers. And I think OPs situation is remarkably similar. But kids, being kids, will not be heard by adults when they shout warnings, like “Why haven’t you graded and returned any of my assignments yet this term?” or “This valuable/dangerous thing should be secured, who responsibility is that?” It may not be moral advice, but like the song says, sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.
- Comment on Anon updates GNU/linux 2 months ago:
If you were in highschool at the time, really the only ethical thing to do for someone in your position is to delete all the files and shine a light on their bad security practices, but don’t say anything about it to anyone. It’s that last bit that always gets you in trouble. Absolute candor is something adults almost never want to hear from children.
- Comment on Good evening I choose getting the job done. 2 months ago:
Perfect is the enemy of good.
- Comment on She's a keeper 2 months ago:
I mean, come on. Being not too proud to ask for help, allowing someone else to feel useful and genuinely being appreciative of their help? That’s pretty fucking hot to be honest. Maybe I’m a slut for being made to feel useful and appreciated.
- Comment on She's a keeper 2 months ago:
OG sandals involved socks always. Granted fashion has changed a bit over the various millennia since the invention of sandals and socks.
