TheTechnician27

@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐙 Octopus is Octopus 🐙⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s technically octopods

  This is true for the scientific sense that it’s order Octopoda (e.g. the plural for members of Hexapoda is “hexapods” and “decapods” for Decapoda), but then it’s kind of like saying the plural for “lobster” is “nephropids”. The names are close for Octopoda and octopus, but it’s still taking the colloquial name and pluralizing it into its scientific name. I think it’s a reasonable alternative since it’s so close, but it’s not specifically “to bring it in line with cephalopod”; that’s just how pluralization of taxa ending in ‘poda’ works generally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨regime change⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Somebody save the record of our debts!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is wrong⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I had my first actual small internal crisis the other day:

  The Titan submersible is less than two months from its three-year implosionversary. Time stopped feeling real. Like, no, right? Surely no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smoking Sonic's Stinky Feet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My dad has told me about a neighbor when he was a kid who made dandelion wine (I’ll have to ask him next time, but I think part of the story is that he was older and paid local kids to gather the dandelions for him).

  Still looked like his brain was falling down the stairs when I told him what weeds are. The utility doesn’t matter; it’s a weed because it proliferates easily on barren, manicured turf, and while you’re welcome to feel however you want about the weeds, they’re weeds all the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smoking Sonic's Stinky Feet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t get into specifics, but even concrete examples as a backup have failed. They’ll listen and understand the example on a narrative level (“this is a weed to Person 1 and here’s why, but not to Person 2 and here’s why,”), but everything fibre of their soul is clearly trying to ask indirectly: “okay, but how are weeds defined then?” It’s like you’d think they’re trying to square a scientific disagreement between Persons 1 and 2; it’s like they’re trying to figure out who was right.

  What’s especially crazy to me too is that this has never, I think, been in the context of me challenging what they consider weeds and suggesting they reconsider; it’s just come up sometimes. I’m handing them the absolute, irrevocable right to keep their categorization of weeds exactly the same, but they act like a cartoon character trying desperately to not remember they’re walking on air.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smoking Sonic's Stinky Feet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I swear I’m not exaggerating when I say I’ve talked to too many people who almost physically couldn’t comprehend that weeds are “plants that you personally consider undesirable in a given situation”. I watched their brain strain and creak under the idea that weeds are a useful, per-person per-scenario fiction and not a static clade of plants that exist to fuck up lawns and gardens. To the extent they ask follow-up questions, it’s trying to understand how it’s still a rigid group – like they think you’ve told them some niche, pedantic science trivia and not the literal definition of a weed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon works for Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  >be Amazon marketing employee with a macro fetish

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Innovation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to both agree that it’s a placement improvement in terms of ergonomics

  This has to be trolling. Like, no, it’s not, unless you prioritize the watch and functionally nothing else in your day-to-day life. (This is even just accounting for ergonomics, e.g. assuming this is achiral and can be transferred easily to the right hand – not how conspicuously stupid it looks.)

  • Putting it on is more complicated because you have to slide it over your thumb and do a tiny little strap and then an even tinier strap.
  • Want to hold hands with a partner? I’m sure this’ll spice things up.
  • What about that entire region of your palm? Who needs that all sensation when you have can a bunch of useless leather anyway?
  • Walking forward in a normal posture? Have fun near-inevitably smacking the shit out of your $300 smartwatch if you aren’t paying attention.
  • Hot, sweaty day? Good thing there’s way more surface area covered by your clammy, leather watch.
  • This genuinely looks like you’ll feel the edge of the leather hit your arm whenever you move your hand in certain ways. More importantly, you’ll feel the leather whenever you have your fingers curled in or hands together, and you’ll likely to feel skin too, so it’ll just feel weird because of the inconsistency.
  • The ergonomics of charging this thing are surely more awkward than just a straight strap. And it’s even screwed in, so you can’t claim you easily pop the watch out and charge like that.
  • Want to hide your $300 watch under a long sleeve? Too bad, fuckass.
  • Choosing to switch it to upside-down? Too bad, fuckass; it’s in this one position you absolutely cannot adjust even a little.

  Glancing to look at your watch is not that onerous even when done relatively frequently. Literally what could your day-to-day life possibly be that this is more ergonomical?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doing the Lord's work.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Does anyone have something to clean the cum stain off the word “fucking”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon found a plot hole⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Diabolical. I’m still at least holding out hope that, at some point, children’s TV character Arthur Read and talk show host Conan O’Brien have cowritten for the Finnish broadcaster Yle – else why would it be advertised on the covers of those books?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't blink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the eyelashes get absorbed into the eyeball; it’s basic eyeballogy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon found a plot hole⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  > Sherlock Holmes

  > Probably never once locks a home in the books, let alone multiple; try proving me wrong if you dare, liberals (I haven’t read them)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teehee⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Where’s the money, Lebowski?!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teehee⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know that stock image lady is supposed to be laughing, but her expression looks a bit more like she just lost a finger and is in traumatic shock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 can now auto-configure games for you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  PCSX2’s GameDB is tied to a version just the same. If the DB file changes on GitHub between versions (stable or nightly), that’s reflected when the user updates. Coming to think of it, RPCS3 might just download its updates from the RPCS3 website. I use Flathub, so I’ve never checked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 can now auto-configure games for you⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks at a (very) quick glance like this is going to be a file that downloads from https://api.rpcs3.net/config/, not something shipped with RPCS3 by default like we ship the GameDB YAML file with PCSX2. Optional like ours.

  Aside: Shame to see RPCS3 still on Twitter. They’re a great team and deserve better than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Walmart wants a fucking review of this common ass jug of milk. Go ahead shitposters, review the fucking milk.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Competition is the catalyst of innovation. Keep going, and you can make better-quality milk to sell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Astronauts are funny⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  the crew decided to record a parody of those bad 80s sitcom intros where everyone turns and smiles at the camera

  🎵 It takes a lot to make a stew 🎵

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pro-self language⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No?? Oh my gosh, was there a second paragraph I forgot to read or something? Shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pro-self language⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Terrible guide. You’ll get nowhere in life if you act like this; everyone around you will think you’re some kind of insecure loser, and they won’t want you in their lives.

  This is because you’re wasting so many perfectly good opportunities when you replace “Thank you” with nothing at all instead of e.g. “No need to thank me” or “It was my pleasure” or “No sweat”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Out of Ketamine, I was.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Freedom, I do not seek.

  Mean nothing, these lives do.

  The ketamine stash I left in Jesus’ tomb do I desire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i made this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s 100% fair; I wasn’t meaning to imply public domain doesn’t mean “you should never credit it”. I should’ve been more clear that I was just adding a neat tidbit rather than criticizing the good practice of citing sources (albeit done here superfluously for comedic effect).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i made this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  On Wikimedia Commons, we designate the logo as public domain on the following grounds:

  This logo image consists only of simple geometric shapes or text. It does not meet the threshold of originality needed for copyright protection, and is therefore in the public domain. Although it is free of copyright restrictions, this image may still be subject to other restrictions. See WP:PD § Fonts and typefaces or Template talk:PD-textlogo for more information.

  And I agree. There’s nothing copyrightable to steal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[METAMATRIX]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Matrix as seen through the Doom engine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I guess I'll shit on the floor.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sink in the piss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the simulation jumped the shark with the is Trump guy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe that, in which case “that’s not from Trump” isn’t something they can say matter-of-factly; they’re just guessing (and I think poorly, at that). It’s just palm-reading the post and then giving a definitive, with no caveats, “Nope, Trump didn’t write this.”

  I linked to the article because trying to definitively say Trump didn’t write something definitionally has to be reserved for fake posts, not real ones that come from his account with no disclaimer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the simulation jumped the shark with the is Trump guy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, a d if you want to argue “a staffer did it”, then “staying on point”/“generally cohesive” is a stretch to make the argument work. This has extremely jumpy flow, and trying to move it further back and say “bUt NoT fOr TrUmP” just turns this whole thing into an unfalsifiable hypothesis facilitated by an infinitely movable goalpost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the simulation jumped the shark with the is Trump guy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Rosechu has no connections to 4-cent_garbage.com, so quit asking

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the simulation jumped the shark with the is Trump guy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You say that with such effortless, breathlessl confidence without even having bothered to check, and not one of those 10 people who upvoted even tried to check. golf clap

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨type shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Could’ve at least saved it for a little foreskin calamari is all.