faythofdragons

@faythofdragons@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Somehow Walmart is leading innovation, launching a butthole logo in '07. Truly ahead of their time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t just say you made a youtube rant about it without posting a link.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨90s band alignment chart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nirvana is on the blue line by Sad, Tool is above it in the pink/purple

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PROTEIN BRO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dad was a gym rat, and it is absolutely a real thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't there mass protests in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The revolution will not be televised

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Win win⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least I’d be getting charged more for a real thing and not the normal made up reasons behind price hikes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cathy, do the math.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s a complicated problem. To start with, the studies are usually paywalled. If you can afford to purchase access, you still need the capacity to understand and parse the formal academic language. Most people have neither of those requirements, and have to rely on the media to report the statistics accurately, which doesn’t happen.

  This leads to a situation where the media keeps trying to say, idk employment statistics are better than ever, and then everybody updates their mental blocklist to filter out the word ‘statistics’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You should probably just throw it away"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on what you use your computer for, really. My partner isn’t very tech savvy and doesn’t use their computer for anything more than watching youtube and writing emails, so porting them directly to Ubuntu was super easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm just happy you thought it was funny, dear⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Frosted butts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will not elaborate⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You lie! It was never fashionable to hang an onion from your belt!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will not elaborate⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Something something, you’re a boomer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will not elaborate⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Excuse me sir, is this the right room for an argument?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thinkpad for the win⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, laptops have those bricks on the cord that help protect it from power oddities.

  And that one weird slimline computer I had once that didn’t have a traditional PSU and had a laptop charging cord, lmao.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For those who want more info on this, here’s the wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no way you can convince me that gentrification is actually good for kids. Property tax funding education does nothing but punish poor families.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spent half an hour on it. Felt good.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hated them as soon as I figured out that they were taking material from the public domain, and trying to deny other people the right to use the same public domain material. I think I was in middle school when I ran into their copyright bullshit with my Little Mermaid fanfic after I read the Andersen version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please answer.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know whether entheogen was the material in question.

  En-theo-gen, where ‘theo’ is the same as ‘theology’, roughly means ‘to commune with god’, so it’s any psychoactive substance used religiously. It covers everything from the wine in christian communion to a witch’s psychoactive sybian, haha.

  Forgot to thank you for the clearly knowledgeable response!

  Any time!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please answer.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like a few different things got mashed together there. Ergot is a hallucinogenic fungus that grows on rye, and is speculated to be the cause of some of the witch panics. It’s not the same fungus found in Roquefort, but it is what they use to make LSD.

  Witches flying is hypothesized to be entheogen use, since a common side effect is feelings of floating, flying, or otherwise ‘being high’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why even cheat on that? The universe has a billion ad examples.

  I’m not one of your students, but I do remember how I thought in high school. Both of my parents worked, so I was the one that had to cook dinner and help my little brothers with their homework, then I had multiple hours of my own homework to do.

  While I do enjoy analyzing media, the homework I struggled with would get priority. I was the oldest, so I didn’t have anybody to ask for help with questions, and often had to spend a larger amount of time than intended on topics I struggle with. So, I’d waste the whole night struggling with algebra and chemistry, then do the remaining ‘easy’ assignments as quickly and carelessly as possible so I could get to bed before midnight. Getting points knocked off for shoddy work is far preferable to getting a zero for not doing it at all, and if I could get to bed at a reasonable time, I wouldn’t lose points in the morning class for falling asleep.

  It just… makes sense to cheat sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨no ragrets⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the primary problem comes down to there being enough demand for a breed that unscrupulous breeders will stop taking temperament into account in order to produce more puppies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Nightshade Family⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You never heard about mom having kittens?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nets⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can find both paper stick and plastic stick next to each other on the shelf at my local grocery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is it weirder to put the sun at the center than to put the earth at the center?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1987⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew up where we did casserole instead of hotdish, but that looks like it’s rice, celery, carrot, onion, and canned cream of mushroom soup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon sees a happy couple⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you aren’t saying “mixed race = porn”, then I actually don’t know what you’re talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon sees a happy couple⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What? My family is proudly mixed race, and half of them think porn is evil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nuked from orbit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just make sure the source code gets posted to Github

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Erasure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Three things, don’t forget that American companies got a lot of European contracts to help rebuild after WWII. There’s too many people out there that ignore that influx of money and try to say the economic boom of the 50s was because misogyny and racism worked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The price breakdown of my flight is kinda funny, 80% taxes and fees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t done it in decades, so I don’t know if it’s changed, but there used to be an option called flying standby. You’d buy a ticket without a seat assigned, and you’d just go to the gate and wait to see if a flight went to your destination with an empty seat you could claim. It was cheaper, but no guarantee of getting a flight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some laws exist if everyone is expected to just break them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US it’s technically a target, since you can be ticketed for going too fast or too slow.