skisnow

@skisnow@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to therapy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the only sensible response I can see in the whole comments section. Lot of replies from people who think a therapist’s job is to cheer you up with a wholesome pep talk and send you on your way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon time travels⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not even an exaggeration, I just dug out my old laptop that I bought in 2012 to check, 16Gb it’s got.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If only⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s weird is I saw this meme years ago with the same photo but the kid’s name was Cody. I don’t know what happened in between then and OP, I can only assume some in-joke that got lost

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If only⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well acshually… anything above 6x wasn’t actually what it said on the tin. CD data starts from the inside ring, and there’s a physical limit to how fast you can spin a plastic plate before it tears itself apart. So you only got the full 52x speed at the very last part of the burn, and even then only if you filled the whole disk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tips⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  for some people this is meaningless bullshit, in that they are struggling to pay for groceries

  Good point, and I think this runs to the heart of a lot of ragebait meme stuff like this. It wasn’t written for that audience, it was written for people driving an Audi TT on a VW Polo salary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wokeness ended, check mate leftists ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t expect you to know who that model is because I didn’t know either, but what I did do was skim the comments first before posting a giant tirade and getting wooshed… ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opinions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I always used to hear these things in pop culture about both Taco Bell and Chipotle fucking up your stomach and representing some kind of test of physicality, and I thought it was supposedly because they were very spicy. And then I visited the US and tried them and discovered that no, it’s not spicy, it’s just extremely poor quality to the point of being unfit for human consumption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy: Beans ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely if it’s full of missing women’s driving licenses it’s not a sock drawer, it’s a missing women’s driving licenses drawer. Is the sort of reply I’d post if it were reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can still smell them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still slightly wary of them after (mildly) burning a knuckle attempting a whole strip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad Ganymede noises⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t tell if you’re joking or just a dickhead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad Ganymede noises⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just the right. The entire Taiwan situation is entirely due to the Chinese being taught at school that Taiwan just is part of China like it’s an immutable fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad Ganymede noises⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird how many people seem to think it’s like a competition or something. It’s a descriptive label.

  The whole Pluto thing taught us a lot about the psychology of letting go of something taught at a young age. People getting proper frothing at how they shoulda just let Pluto keep it, just to save themselves the extremely minor cognitive dissonance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will the government be able to put 2 & 2 together⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is particularly dumb because there’s a plenty long history of courts ordering sites to be blocked for piracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about wheat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “be wheat” yeah like anyone here has ever been wheat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mom with the real questions ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing I find crazy is that at least half of all monitors today are the same res as CRTs from a quarter century ago. I had a $250 no-name brand CRT that handled 1600x1200 quite beautifully in the 1990s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mom with the real questions ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Never met her but there’s a chance she might genuinely not have known.

  My grandparents and great-grandparents thought a lot of family stuff was worth something but they never actually got it professionally valued. One thing that really stuck out was an ornate silver tea set that looked really nice, was in great condition, was a complete set, hallmarked, turned out to be worth fuck all because nobody actually wants silver tea sets in the 21st century, but they were a big thing a hundred years ago so there’s millions of them out there flooding the market.

  There was also a minor hoo-hah over inheritance of the family piano, which then turned out to be a mass-produced budget model that was no longer physically able to be tuned to concert pitch without risk of damage. Turns out budget pianos don’t become antique, they just become old and you have to pay someone to take it away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I go crazy will you still call me Superman?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I defy OP to link me to a source of someone both:

  1. unironically making fun of Superman for having a rock as his weakness, and

  2. not already being challenged immediately on their statement within that same source

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love science⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At school, topics are divided into Arts, Science and Humanities. The majority of Bachelor’s degrees are titled Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science.

  Using the word “Science” colloquially to describe anything that isn’t the Arts or Humanities is entirely consistent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Otherwise I have a new piracy idea

  New in what sense? It’s literally what they’re already doing.

  The problem from a legal standpoint is that the rules on what qualifies as commentary are fuzzy enough that you have to actually go to court for a decision, which nobody likes doing. Even the copyright holders are slightly wary of it, on account of the longer-term implications if they lose and set an unfortunate precedent.

  jdsupra.com/…/reaction-videos-and-copyright-law-b…

  Equals Three, LLC v. Jukin Media, Inc. A YouTube show used viral clips from Jukin Media’s library while adding comedic commentary. The court found that some segments were transformative and fair use, while others were not. The decision emphasized that each clip must be analyzed individually based on its purpose and editing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a clause in most countries’ copyright laws that allow you to use material for the purposes of “commentary”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have an idea ☝️⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if the birthrate hit 0% we would be facing societal collapse

  Bit strawmanny that. Nobody considers 0% a reasonable target.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In certain Austroasiatic languages, your wrists and ankles are your hand-necks and foot-necks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attitudes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Post is in the correct sub and yet everyone in the comments is taking it entirely at face value. Are you all new, or are you just playing along?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Word.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LibreOffice is as good as Word. Which sadly means there are still no really good document editors out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not actually sure. I’ve always answered it at face value, but I’m not a native speaker. I’ve probably been committing a faux pas, like disagreeing with a British person when they say “lovely weather today”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Chinese for “how do you do” translates as “have you eaten yet?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ten years ago my position on piracy was broadly, “do it if you want, but don’t act like you’re justified or ethical”.

  Now I’m convinced piracy is more ethical than feeding these monsters.

  I also don’t consider it a change in my own values. It’s a change in how fucking awful and in need of dismantling the Corporation has got.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I should save this comments section for when I need examples of why social media should be banned. A ton of people being dicks to each other over whether they use a honey dripper or a teaspoon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Splitting Hairs, Splitting Atoms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  profoundly stupid

  Hey, that was my favourite movie when it came out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Jamaican accent just makes me smile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of races in Star Wars are dodgy stereotypes. Watto was so bad I think people just blanked it out.