Kitathalla

@Kitathalla@lemy.lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tig ol bitties⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In the defense of the ancients who were naming things like other things they sort of looked like… what OTHER substance was around at that time that was both white and liquid?

  …

  Because maybe we should be grateful for the milk metaphor instead of the option that only nuts would choose…

  .> Would you rather it be called after dough?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨👁👄👁⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So, interesting and maybe-not-so-fun fact? Most parasites that kill their hosts do so without caring because they can survive elsewhere. We call it a reservoir of infection.

  REALLY fun fact, there’s some cool life cycles involved. You remember our old friend anthrax? One of its favorite tricks is killing its host, the zebra. When it dies, the anthrax bacteria go down into the soil beneath the corpse, and put on a fresh new coat of paint and open up shop again. Only, this time, they act as a super friendly bacteria that participates in the nitrogen cycle and ensure that the plants in the soil can get everything they’d ever want out of that oh-so-convenient zebra corpse rotting away up above. Why do they do this? Because in their ‘friendly’ infection of the plants growing (oh, did I forget to mention what plants they infect/cooperate with? It’s grass), they get offered right up to the hungry mouths of the next zebra to come along and see an exceptionally vibrant area of green grass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaires shouldn't exist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, why wouldn’t they? You can’t really convince me that ‘taking away’ ownership from the founder is a big deal… by the time a company’s net worth is high enough to give him a billion dollars worth of stock, that company has far more than just him alone making the company worth that much. You also can’t really say that the janitor is less of a deal than any other random employee and thus deserves no stock… It takes everyone to make things work.

  As to the actual ‘value’ of the company, and therefore the owner’s worth? Ask him how much he wants for his shares, and he is forced to sell at that amount for say, the next 6 months if people want the stock. This prevents him from giving a ridiculously low value and gaming the system so he doesn’t have the net worth he truly does, because it would trigger a rush of people buying the stock for such a good deal, and it also prevents him from giving a ridiculously high number to manipulate people into buying stock, as it would push the net worth too high.

  Would that idea work for every company? I know there would be issues with implementation. Is it the owner that gets asked the stock price? The board? A shareholder meeting? The employees of the company? Each would have its downsides, and manipulation possibilities.

  I don’t know, mate, these are just things off the top of my head. I’m sure with some serious thought from people much more in tune with these concepts than I am, we’d have a good framework to go off of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This fucking bot is still out there messaging⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. It’s why the scams by phone are so irritating to most of us, as another example. It’s just obvious and a time waster, but by making the scam easily visible to people who have the characteristics to not be vulnerable to them, it weeds out all the false positives the scammers would then have to deal with. They don’t want you, mr. bright eyed and bushy tailed, who is ready to catch them out only after hours of trying to get you to give them the code to your gift cards. That’s a lot of wasted time. They just want granny who will follow every direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ultra Gullible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that an ‘interesting’ area? I drove by once and thought the namesake was neat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This fucking bot is still out there messaging⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like the misspellings in the phishing emails: it ensures only people who will fall for the trick will respond. If some model messaged you out of the blue, you’re more likely to be suspicious or you feel that you’re super attractive and a model might actually reach out to you. Either way you’re more likely to not bite on the bait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This fucking bot is still out there messaging⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, I got mine yesterday. I’d always felt sooooo left out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is also when I conveniently forget you called, making your preferred method of communication incredibly slow compared to texting.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And then I call you again immediately, because I don’t call unless it’s a very time-sensitive matter… but that’s probably why the meme isn’t referencing me in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Cybertruck shaped man is destroying our government⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Body armor typically covers from around the belly button to around the manubrium of the sternum. The reason I don’t think the body armor thing is true true is because of the indents just under the breast/nipple area. Unless the vest is reeeally shaped like that, those curves would not show up. I think back to when I was wearing body armor and remember a pretty obvious line on the front portion where there was an obtuse angle formed as the shirt met the stiff portion and cascaded downwards, but no odd curves where the shirt was pulled tight after that, just wrinkles and folds where the fabric was loose.

  Now, that being said, if this is super light body armor (and he’s probably enough of an idiot to wear a level I vest and think it’s enough), those might show up. The oddities on the back of the shirt do make it appear that something is going on underneath. The thick black line where the shirt is folding inwards could be because of the bottom of a vest, as it lies just around the level of the navel, as you’d expect with body armor. Just in front of the left elbow is another dark patch, which could be due to the fabric being pushed outwards around the location where the straps attach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaires shouldn't exist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Did the tongue stutter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaires shouldn't exist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Easiest implementation would be shares start getting shared to all other employees. No more big owner when profits come from the laborers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dirty 🦑 jobs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Never heard of this band before. It’s amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a gamer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And here I am struggling to get into orbit with my duct tape and boosters. Hour long burns seem insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a gamer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I am rural

  This is a big factor. I think I doubled my time on the computer when I moved to an area with no true neighbors for miles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the hell is there not a Green Arrow video game?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At first I came in here to say it was a silly idea, but almost every argument against it could be thrown against other games that have been done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have an entire cabinet currently storing empty jars...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember before I stopped drinking I loved collecting the extravagant liquor bottles. I must have had a dozen of the old kahlua ones that were all dimpled and ridged, and the cool but terrible tasting tequila skulls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emulating PS2 for my Steam Deck, would love any recommendations!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Try Dynasty Warriors. It’s a genre I don’t see much anymore, but you take control of a general and blast through tons of minions in a big battlefield, aiming for enemy generals to turn the tide of battle (reflected in overall ‘morale’).

  All the games tell the same story of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Obviously just play the last one available, because it has all the quality of life improvements, but I’ll only play 3, because it’s the only one that has Gan Ning with his super-pimp sword resting on top of his super-pimped no shirt tats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emulating PS2 for my Steam Deck, would love any recommendations!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was coming here to say this. For being a ‘game within a game’ and on the PS2, they made such compelling gameplay to go with the story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emulating PS2 for my Steam Deck, would love any recommendations!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How could you forget the best AC? Ace Combat: Zero!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to impress a woman at the gym⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Latter*

  Also, don’t forget the ever fun Mallory-Weiss tears if your sudden exertion involves something like jumping, or, since it’s also associated with heavy alcoholism, after a long and good barfing session.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I trimmed the bushes around it so it looks bigger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DIPSHITS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You gotta ride their butt until they come up on traffic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our love is like⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate you so much right now.

  /said while brushing legs off repeatedly