Onomatopoeia
@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
- Comment on How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies? 8 hours ago:
You mean OP’s?.
Because it is. Right out of the gate he doesn’t define what he means.
Are we saying defend in the legal sense when accused of a crime? Because damn right I want that person properly defended against government accusations. Otherwise we’re just behaving like a mob, and that goes nowhere anyone wants to be.
- Comment on Air or electric powered? 1 day ago:
Battery, all day these days baby!
The improvement in battery tech became a game changer for impact tools about 15 years ago. Crazy.
- Comment on Paywalls on local news sites 4 days ago:
I don’t think new stuff goes to microfiche, and the old stuff has probably mostly been scanned by how and just sits in an archive somewhere.
Of course I’m sure that depends on the size of the library.
- Comment on Microsoft Paint and Photos Embed Server-Issued GUIDs as Invisible Watermarks in Locally-Generated Images 4 days ago:
I haven’t used either of these since forever.
And here MS is working diublr-time to push people to Linux
- Comment on Helping an "Angry Little Fella" cross the road 5 days ago:
Hahahaha, omg at one point there’s a “No mom I don’t wanna!”
- Comment on Hiccups just fucking suck 6 days ago:
Never worked for me, which explains your confusion.
- Comment on Every payment option has a fee 1 week ago:
Best part is all these payment methods, including checks incur the same processing fees since 2006 with the Check21 regulations.
This made all transactions - debit card, check, transfer, function the same way through the same processing.
So a check genuinely costs them more - from not charging thebfee, to requiring at least some manual oversight.
- Comment on What would be a biological equivalent to an EMP? 1 week ago:
Do you really think no one else was working on such things?
Keep in mind the US had a demonstrated monopoly on atomic weapons for 4 years. They could’ve easily threatened the entire world to capitulate to them.
- Comment on $29 in San Francisco 1 week ago:
Surprisingly low for SF - that’s a common price all over the place these days.
Which is why I don’t go to such places anymore.
- Comment on How do you defy an immersive sim? 1 week ago:
I just say “no”
- Comment on U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk 1 week ago:
I want to see the agent’s proof that he entered the pin correctly
- Comment on U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk 1 week ago:
This started long before the current admin.
This was in place under Obama, and I’m pretty sure it started with 9/11.
- Comment on This drip coffee is now $5 dollars, up from $2.50 3 years ago 1 week ago:
4.99
- Comment on This drip coffee is now $5 dollars, up from $2.50 3 years ago 1 week ago:
Same with other super cheap drinks like iced tea, soda, etc.
Fuck em. I refuse to pay those exorbitant prices for your shittily brewed iced tea and coffee.
I didn’t mind paying a buck for shitty diner coffee. We had a deal - you serve cheap-ass shitty coffee for a buck, free refills, I make it tolerable with creamer, and that’s that.
Now you wanna make a killing on something that I know exactly how much it costs? Fuck you.
- Comment on Welcome to 2026 1 week ago:
*fewer
- Comment on Windows NT 4 went on sale 30 years ago today 1 week ago:
Ouch
- Comment on Buying new electrical outlet, and the grounding are just a decoration 1 week ago:
Could go either way.
I think a surge protector needs the ground to detect the surge.
I own many power strips that are grounded, but have zero surge protection. These are commercial-grade units with built in, real circuit breakers.
I have a bunch of cheap ones with ground too.
I don’t buy surge protectors. They fail in weird ways.
- Comment on No one spells "lose" anymore 1 week ago:
You can.
But with diet.
As my bodybuilder friends would say - abs are made in the kitchen (for them anyway, rest of us fatties just get less fat in the kitchen).
- Comment on No one spells "lose" anymore 1 week ago:
Guess what?
All of Italian sounds the same to me, a non-native speaker.
- Comment on No one spells "lose" anymore 1 week ago:
Native English speaker here, lose/loose are tough ones.
Looking at both words I could see how either one could be pronounced either way.
Thanks French (I suspect)!
It’s useful to keep in mind that written words are merely an attempt to record sounds, and when these spellings occurred these words were very likely pronounced much differently than today.
- Comment on Anon visits IHOP 1 week ago:
They get it wrong when I use their gibberish, so I say what I want
- Comment on One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives 1 week ago:
“Meant to”
That really depends on your definition of meant to save your life, vs meant to mitigate any possible liability for the manufacturer.
Now if you turn anything off (like that stupid autobrake that brakes for cars in the left hand turn lane beside me), they’ll use that to say “it’s not our fault, the driver turned it off!”
Stupid crap.
- Comment on People who get "happy ending" massages, is there like a common keyword or process? 1 week ago:
Upvote for explaining the joke, or I would’ve missed it!
- Comment on People who get "happy ending" massages, is there like a common keyword or process? 1 week ago:
I agree - that’s been my experience too.
Guess I grabbed “masseuse” because it’s shorter, haha
- Comment on How do I turn fresh tomatoes into pasta sauce? 1 week ago:
- Comment on People who get "happy ending" massages, is there like a common keyword or process? 1 week ago:
Don’t worry, professional masseuse will make it clear to new clients that it isn’t sexual.
If they don’t…
- Comment on DEA to Join Investigation Into Hayden Panettiere’s Death 2 weeks ago:
Seriously, she had the money to hire any independent doctor.
Not a great example of what you’re complaining about.
- Comment on google's getting pissy about using their shit while logged out 2 weeks ago:
No matter how much I contribute, OSM is so far behind google they’re not even comparable in any way.
- Comment on google's getting pissy about using their shit while logged out 2 weeks ago:
Gmail and Drive for work?
Oh boy…
- Comment on From Old English to Modern American English in One Monologue 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s unlikely we’ll see another major shift.
This one is the result of the Norman Invasion in 1066 - it just took a few hundred years to get to Shakespeare’s time and modern English - which is also a result of English becoming the common language with French being the language of the gentry.
Unless there’s another language invasion, it’s not likely to change so much.
Just look at the difference from British to American English over a ~300 year period, and that’s with both Jefferson and Webster intentionally trying to make American English uniquely different from British English.