atomicbocks
@atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Truth hurts! 15 hours ago:
The book came out in 1990.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
- Comment on conditional soap 2 weeks ago:
When I was in high school the trend was baggy pants and lots of women did wear men’s pants.
- Comment on On Venus. 2 weeks ago:
We absolutely saw those photos in school in the US… maybe this person just didn’t pay attention?
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 2 weeks ago:
Precedent for an exception would go to Ceres not Pluto.
- Comment on The shrinkflation 3 weeks ago:
You can reuse it several times by running it through a cheese cloth. Otherwise just put it in a jar/pitcher/empty oil bottle.
- Comment on Beer is for GIRLS 3 weeks ago:
That could easily be hot chocolate as well. Like how Strawberries aren’t berries, they are still called coffee cherries even those they aren’t.
- Comment on Beer is for GIRLS 3 weeks ago:
Seems quite a few people really like hot ground up roasted cherry pit water.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 3 weeks ago:
On the contrary, lots of people were radicalized by hearing people like new age healers given the same airtime as medical doctors.
It’s taken 20 years to fail at making the publicly funded internet a utility. The purpose of the doctrine was to govern publicly owned airwaves. I strongly believe it would have been and is impossible to expand the FCCs jurisdiction to include privately owned networks. I also strongly believe that the current administration would abuse the fuck out of these regulations.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 3 weeks ago:
People give the fairness doctrine too much credit; First it’s partially responsible for the current mentality of all opinions matter no matter how stupid. But more importantly it only ever applied to broadcast TV and Radio, not cable or satellite, or the Internet. So it never would have applied to Fox News, for instance.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 4 weeks ago:
You are correct. What they can’t do though is only allow you to buy the car with one method of payment, which is what is being described here.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 4 weeks ago:
I think you would be surprised how many states already have laws like that on the books. Mine does.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 4 weeks ago:
That isn’t how holding a business license works.
Sure everybody has the right to refuse service, but they can’t offer service only through one means of pay.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 4 weeks ago:
I think you just got a shitty dealership. “Legal tender for all debts public and private” means just that, they aren’t allowed legally to refuse dollars. My cousin also successfully did what you are describing.
- Comment on Niche species 4 weeks ago:
It’s originally a French word so I would guess that nitch is likely the more recent mutation.
- Comment on Niche species 4 weeks ago:
I’ve never heard anybody pronounce it that way, and since we regularly tell children to “sound it out” to spell things I am going to go ahead and say no to adding letters personally.
- Comment on Niche species 4 weeks ago:
I am confused, do you think niche rhymes with bitch?
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 5 weeks ago:
Time to ruin your day…
The words naughties and aughties are interchangeable and we have been calling them that since 2000.
- Comment on Sea Level 5 weeks ago:
The tides are also likely responsible for advanced life on this planet. So there is that.
- Comment on Lying motherfuckers 5 weeks ago:
You only need to do that if you are using an eink screen.
- Comment on Lying motherfuckers 5 weeks ago:
Click and drag the image. If the background goes with it, it isn’t transparent.
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 1 month ago:
The CBS/Paramount app has always had so much tracking in it that it’s blocked by most PiHole like devices and software. Even if you pay for the no ads tier they still won’t play the video if they can’t hit the ad server.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 1 month ago:
I guess we will just have to agree to disagree on that one. Personally, I think you are giving the Xbox far too much credit.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 1 month ago:
You clearly missed out on a whole era of shit like Pocket Tanks and Zuma.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 1 month ago:
When I think of the rise of indie gaming I think about the early 2000s when people could put their game on their own website and things like Steam were coming out. The Xbox doesn’t even cross my mind. Consoles were very much not the realm of indie games until like the Wii U.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 1 month ago:
The original meaning of indie was independently published. I would think having a publisher would pretty squarely put you in the not indie category.
- Comment on Shut up science!! 1 month ago:
If I let myself I will easily fall into a 28-30 hour cycle and end up only going through 5 or 6 “days” in a week.
- Comment on Shut up science!! 1 month ago:
When it didn’t go away when I was temporarily taken off my adhd meds as a teen. Before that they thought it was just because of the meds. That was apparently also the earliest indication that I would have adult adhd. If you have an adhd doc talk to them about it, it’s pretty common to have both.
- Comment on Shut up science!! 1 month ago:
I have Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome… light has no effect on me. Checkmate scientists!
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 1 month ago:
Bunch is made hams for Mac originally. The 2003 Mac version isn’t a port, It’s the original game. The PC and Xbox versions are the port. That’s why it feels like it’s behind those. Because it literally did have less development time despite coming out later.
They released another Halo for Mac a few years later that I think is the one the other commenter is talking about. It came out around the time of the MacBook Air and as a result is the only game I know of that has an official no-cd patch.