Kitathalla
@Kitathalla@lemy.lol
- Comment on THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DIPSHITS 5 days ago:
We stand on the shoulders of giants. I don’t know how many of us repeated the experiments in our chemistry textbooks to prove that what was claimed was correct. A few piddling things here and there, but when did I get to build a nuclear bomb?
- Comment on Why the Epic Games Store was hated during it's early existence? 1 week ago:
so instead they bribed lots of game developers to make things Epic exclusive.
Fuck Epic. I just lost the ability to play rocket league because they bought the developers, ripped it off of steam, and now force you to agree to some wickedly invasive TOS to have an epic account.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I hated to be the voice of reason whenever someone brought up sex on the beach or in the actual waves, but damn do some people need to learn that water is not a lubricant, and sand is just as bad as anakin whined about when in your crevices.
- Comment on Anon sets up a prank at school 1 week ago:
Someone figured out that you didn’t have to install starcraft to play it, just copy/paste the files. Those were some good times.
- Comment on Incoming!! 1 week ago:
You gotta ride their butt until they come up on traffic.
- Comment on Our love is like 1 week ago:
Bah, scientists who care about the phosphorus cycle are screwy in the head. Real sciency types are all about the nitrate cycle!
- Comment on We're in the endgame now 1 week ago:
Cersei
Power is power
Personally, I love hearing that from a skeleton with a wicked crown, so let me just show you the fella (the author, because everyone gets a turn to talk like this) who can make peter parker look downright mime-like.
- Comment on Kryptonite 1 week ago:
I don’t think it’s a real weakness, eh? You don’t see me moaning and groaning and laying about just because it’s nearby. Superman is just acting like a big baby for dramatic effect.
- Comment on Arachnid Army 1 week ago:
I hate you so much right now.
/said while brushing legs off repeatedly
- Comment on AHHHHHHHHHHH 2 weeks ago:
data science
Oh god, just imagining having to tweak the spectroscopy algorithms again in R has me whimpering.
- Comment on Help me remember this game [big mechs, small perspective] 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s it! It looks just as I remembered.
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- Comment on Man, their reputation really has gone to shit 2 weeks ago:
We’re in a galaxy marble, mate, how could there be any others?
- Comment on *poke 2 weeks ago:
I think most cops do swear to defend the people. It’s the betrayal that everybody saw coming.
- Comment on womp womp 2 weeks ago:
It’s obviously sarcasm, but people can get more upshits by pretending to not know and write a pissy comment ‘reproving’ the sarcastic comment.
- Comment on womp womp 2 weeks ago:
I can’t quite make out, but are those the fancy ones with the filters? Maaaan do the penny pushers get upset if they see you using those for anything, even their purpose.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
Which one? I see three in the last 12 years. I’m guessing it’s the 2024 one?
- Comment on I wonder how things are going in America today... 2 weeks ago:
You’re missing an O somewhere.
- Comment on Anon was mysterious 2 weeks ago:
No, no, he clearly meant hooved animal speech. Maybe an odd looking sheep that you just can’t shear.
- Comment on Animal Spirits 2 weeks ago:
I have a friend who works in veterinary emergency clinics, and it’s always hilarious to hear his stories, because the CPR doesn’t change on a cat/dog, but there are endless complaints about how different breeds are easier/harder because of their body shape.
- Comment on The first cult is the deepest 2 weeks ago:
I think it also has a factor of how well it blends with current/dominant society. You’d probably be able to find a large amount of folks who agree that the amish are a cult, for example. They’ve been around for a while, and they have relatively large numbers, but their rejection of modern technology flies in the face of the average modern person. If pressed on ‘why?’ those people considering them a cult likely have that unique quality behind the ‘cult’ reasoning.
Just off the top of my head, the snake handlers and the jehovah’s witnesses are both considered cults in my social circle (as in, these topics have come up and are generally agreed on), despite both being large enough to be known in many areas and have been around for quite a while.
- Comment on Anon watches Puss in Boots 3 weeks ago:
Poor anon. Now he has to live with the knowledge that his past history has led his little brother to the same tree with the same fruit he ate. That delicious, delicious fruit.
- Comment on listen 3 weeks ago:
I mean, your logic is fine and all, but his was longer, so it must mean he is more right.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
they believe it’s every believers duty to give people opportunity to repent hence going door to door (I think they’ve stopped doing this now) or standing on the street offering their standard magazine “Awake”
They now stand outside places, like a university a few miles away from me, and have incredibly idiotic stands meant to take advantage of people going through hard times.
they practice ‘shunning’ family and church members who won’t repent of sin which sees some parents totally rejecting their children, people acting like people don’t exist if they see them on the street. (Again to be fair, this is what the new testament tells Christians to do). For this they (rightly) get flak for being cultish and overly controlling
They do far more than that to be considered cultish. The elders of an area have a large degree of input on things like marriage, for instance, which goes hand in hand with men moving their new wives to areas far away from any family. Combine that with the typical cult emphasis on only socializing with people in the cult, and you’ve got a beautiful combination to keep women oppressed and without options. I’ve had to sit and listen to a poor woman come to terms with leaving everything, adult children included, behind and hope that her family would still help her after 30 years, because she had no other means of support. It was horrifying, because even the resources I was trying to pair her with wouldn’t be enough to help.
- Comment on Shut up, haters 3 weeks ago:
Huh, well, that’s an odd route you’ve forced my brain to take this morning. I’m now having to wonder… dogs and cats drink by lapping up liquids as adults. They don’t really have lips like humans do. How do they suckle as infants?
- Comment on Meme gift (and note in thread) 3 weeks ago:
It had way more fear inducement than any ‘children’s movie’ had a right to.
- Comment on Would you like to finance your hot chocolate with a loan set at 69% apr? 3 weeks ago:
Eh, I have similar feelings, but there is a reason for the wedding price increase. As a florist once told me, there’s a reasonable amount of ‘oops’ that can happen with a regular customer, and they’re often accommodating. Only 11 roses came to the door on valentine’s day, but they ordered 12? An apology and a discount is often more than enough to make the customer happy. If a bride doesn’t get a perfect flower arrangement, it’s already too late.
Extend that to the other sorts of merchants you’ll be dealing with at a wedding, and look at the cost increase as buying super, ahead-of-time insurance to ensure that everything is perfect. For something like the cake or photos, that means you have to dedicate more time or resources than usual to make sure absolutely nothing goes wrong (enough to notice). Two photographers instead of the single photographer for a corporate shindig, three cakes baked just in case one of them turns out slightly flat, that sort of thing.
- Comment on It was impossible to resist 3 weeks ago:
On the older, non-silicone CPR models, the foam has the exact same texture as these nerf balls. How do I know? Because one of the idiots in the CPR class decided he was a real man and real men go after foam CPR model tits.
- Comment on Spreading my curse 3 weeks ago:
Hmm, just spitballing here, but what could you point to on an elephant that’s unique (and/or in the public thoughts of elephants)? Memory, size, trunks, large ears, grey skin, tusks, fear of mice, (name of them?) pachyderm?
For memory - Because they’re the only animal that can remember how to score a strike?
Trunks - Because their trunks have room to spare?
Size - Because even the lions aren’t willing to tell them they crossed the line.
Mice thing - Because they always beat the mice’s half ounce balls.
Or maybe it’s something to do with bowling? Turkeys, lanes, (heavy/big balls), spares, lines, shoes…
Shoes - Because they can finally borrow shoes that fit?
Turkeys - Even elephants love getting turkeys?
Spares - I dunno
- Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit 3 weeks ago:
I remember when Amazon first started there were good deals on good quality items
I remember when the primary use of amazon was buying secondhand items. The deals on used discs for PS2 or gamecube were amazing. It was ebay without bidding.