GooberEar

@GooberEar@lemmy.wtf

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The father of PlayStation" says everyone at Sony thought the PS1 would fail when it was first pitched⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As a kid, by the time I started hearing about the system via video game magazines, which were kind of like miniature websites but printed on paper and then distributed via mail and stores, I was convinced it would be the next big thing. By the time it was launched, I knew it was going to be the new top dog in the industry. When I finally got my hands on one, it was (pardon the pun) game changing for me.

  The system definitely had its flaws, but it was an evolutionary step up and order of magnitude bigger than anything I’d ever experienced before.

  And go figure, it was the last system I owned before I stepped away from the gaming hobby for nearly 2 decades. Life, uh, got in the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish to be remembered in a similar way.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What you don’t know is that he died when he was pulled into a jet engine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon applies for a job⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I sometimes miss the earlier days of Lemmy when folks were generally kind to each other by default. Seems like this kind of comment is becoming all too common.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, that’s just a cop-out if not an outright strawman.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not surprising here on Lemmy, but on pretty much every other site I’ve ever mentioned issues I’ve had with Amazon, the replies would be filled with people claiming it is the best customer service, that they’ve never had any issues with Amazon at all, and that it must be something I did to cause the problem.

  Personally I stopped using Amazon on a regular basis almost a decade ago after it was clear that the company I first started using back in the mid 2000s was irrevocably changed for the worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obama⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How many j’s has this photo been pegged? My dear sweet pixelated Jesus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another pisspost⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why you peeing in that thing, bro? The two big arches ought to be enough for any halfway intelligent person to realize that you’re supposed to stick your buttocks there not your beanie-weenie. Dries out your logs so that they don’t make as big a mess when you pick them up to toss them into the sink.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Butts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a saying amongst us ass breathers in regards to all you nose breathing assholes: “they hate us because they anus.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unwatchable!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like it would depend on the poison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meatspin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope your system is doing butter thesis dames.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meatspin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t swing on that one, Matt threw up on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jet Fuel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My best friend has an unnatural talent for this sort of thing and really enjoys toying with conspiracy theory nuts.

  When folks start talking about crazy shit, it makes me very anxious and I tend to shut down. Not my buddy. He eggs them on, encourages it, and gets them to say things or agree with things that are even more outlandish than where they conversation started. Things will start at “China invented covid to kill off old people” and somehow end up at “Hillary Clinton paid to have her chromosomes added to the covid vaccines so that DNA evidence can no longer be used against her in the courts”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Local cuisine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, cloudberries are overrated. Dingo berries are where it’s at these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Local cuisine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I reserve the right as I am from a different but somehow similar shithole, and recognize it is detriment to society.

  I will mock it at every opportunity until it cleans up it is act.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We should rename this place US political memes.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I too will be pampering myself with TUCKS Medicated Cooling Pads® tonight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Local cuisine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, I’m down to joke around about eating suburban pets, but I draw the line at discussions about Idaho. I do have standards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Local cuisine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Could really use some Labrador recipes right about now. Anybody got any good ones?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's true, I really do have concepts of a plan. Beyond that..?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as we’re eating pets, I’d like to have a Macaw. Anybody wanna split the bill?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨meow_irl⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I’m not a veterinarian and my words should not be taken as scientifically valid, but I feel like way too many stories like this are just … veering way too far into anthropomorphism. I mean, I’m fully aware that many mammals are way smarter than we give credit to and in some ways more human than many people are willing to admit, but this just seems a bit incredulous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Got You⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Scramble it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Got You⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly, I don’t get the appeal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Button⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno if it is intentional, but there’s a an additional layer of humor in this for me:

  Where I live, there’s a company called Labcorp and they are basically the de facto company for pre-employment and random drug testing. I’m sure they do more than just drug tests, but drug testing is about all non-medical folks know of the place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life advice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only did I accidentally break up your marriage 12 years ago, I’m also incredibly abrasive, smell like I’ve not showered in several days, and when I visit your house I always remove the toilet paper roll and make sure to put it the opposite direction when I put it back into the holder. And I hissed at your cat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok so coffee is made from coffee beans. And beans are *also* made from beans. Why is nobody making, like, black bean coffee?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any relation to Elton? He sings about food sometimes, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok so coffee is made from coffee beans. And beans are *also* made from beans. Why is nobody making, like, black bean coffee?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, if Alton said that then it must be true. Who’s Alton?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok so coffee is made from coffee beans. And beans are *also* made from beans. Why is nobody making, like, black bean coffee?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Edit: I need to see what dried beans I have and maybe go shopping. I will give this a try with a couple different types of beans and report back if I fart or not.

  Hope you have some alpha-galactosidase at your disposal.

  The simplified explanation: A reason beans give some people gas is due to certain types of sugars and carbohydrates they contain. Those sugars are water soluble. Seems like brewing beans would concentrate those sugars and lead to epic tootage.

  Also, one method for reducing how much gas that beans cause is to soak them in lots of water. Basically, soak them for up to 8 hours, drain, rinse, and repeat a couple more times. It works on the same principal, that the soaking process will remove at least some of the problematic, water soluble sugars. Supposedly adding a small amount of baking soda helps, too. I’m less certain about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explosions in the Sky⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds dirty. Will there be cheese?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Earlier this year one of my relatives came for an extended visit. We were discussing what we might have for dinner that week and both of us were on board for the same ingredients, such as asparagus. My relative was also happy with the video services I’m currently subscribed to because I have a couple options they don’t have at home, so they were telling me about how they were rewatching some older Harrison Ford movies. And then there’s the age-old (or old age) conversations about our current health issues.

  In the following days, my relative kept bringing up the fact that their phone and tablet are listening to our conversations. Proof? After we had the food conversation, their news feed was suddenly filled with asparagus recipes. They were also getting ads for more Harrison Ford content on the service that they don’t subscribe to. And to top it off, they were seeing ads for a prescription my dog takes but that they had never even heard of before our conversation the day or two before. Isn’t it obvious? They’re listening to our conversations.

  To me this was easily explainable by Occam’s Razor. All our devices are on the same IP address. After we discussed the asparagus I went home that night and did an online search for asparagus recipes. And when we were talking about my dog’s health condition, I used my phone to look up the active ingredient because I couldn’t recall off the top of my head. Plus, when Hulu or whatever random service sees you’re watching a lot of Harrison Ford movies, it makes sense they’d advertise others you might like.

  That makes a lot more sense and is a lot less complicated of an explanation than “our devices are always recording our conversations and uploading them to the internet as a basis to send us advertisements”.

  Sure it’s technically feasible, but if it were happening, surely they would be a lot more incontrovertible proof than a questionable and likely misinterpreted news source that seems to be more of a “sly” advertisement for a tech solution that the big players aren’t actually using.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wendy's⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where’s the memes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are collard greens called greens is it the color? And if so how come there is not a rainbow of different colored collards?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Collard greens are the leaves. Cauliflower is the flower head. Flowers are often a different color from the leaves, especially in species that rely on animals for pollination. Additionally, cauliflower is white, in part, because of a lack of chlorophyll. If collard greens had no chlorophyll in the leaves, then the plant would not be able to grow. If they can’t grow, then they aren’t likely to end up on a dinner plate or for sale in a grocery store.