skisnow
@skisnow@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Anon gets his life in order 2 hours ago:
Lol, I have a friend exactly like this. Zero self-discipline, when he’s single he just stays at home slowly becoming more and more delinquent on the rent. We keep telling him he should join the army, cause it’s the only way he’s going to get any structure in his life.
- Comment on Why are some shows so dark? 5 days ago:
I can tolerate that, the one I can’t stand is Netflix shows where the ~dialogue is a mumbled quiet~ and random bits of foley try to blow my speakers out.
It makes it especially noticeable just how dodgy a lot of foley work is, eg when someone throwing a punch and missing still goes WHOOSH at the same volume they use for gunshots
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 week ago:
It doesn’t stand up on its own terms on other levels as well.
Even the most cynical misandrist interpretation of how research is funded would still lean towards men being given the agency on whether sex lead to pregnancy.
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 1 week ago:
It’s a good way to get answers to Password Recovery questions that people forgot they used when signing up to some website or email service 15 years ago but are still active on
- Comment on sucked in losers 1 week ago:
Sadly also too tall for the blood to reach their brains, resulting in Shit Art Syndrome and Dick Hygiene Forgetfulness.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 1 week ago:
Lucky I’ve not encountered him, the urge to talk to him like a 5 year old would be too great.
“What a big truck you have! And it’s so high up! I bet you have to do a big jump to get up there. And look, it says “WAR” on the front, that’s fun! Did you put that on yourself, or did you ask a man do it for you?”
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 1 week ago:
If money is speech, what is a company “saying” when it donates to both parties?
- Comment on Fictional 1 week ago:
Yeah I’m with you, because I don’t understand why a “dumbass” would be the speed of light.
Makes more sense for God to measure things in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units
- Comment on Banana 2 weeks ago:
Some people find the smell very strong. Something to do with receptors idk? I know someone with a banana allergy who can immediately tell if he’s entered a room with bananas in it from smell alone, even if they’re not peeled.
- Comment on Banana 2 weeks ago:
also, banana strings
- Comment on Helpful guide 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on English moment 3 weeks ago:
That said, the English language shows how messed up its history is.
The irony is that Britain is, to the best of my knowledge, the only country other than Sweden whose mainland hasn’t been occupied by a foreign invader in over 950 years.
- Comment on tiny tot engineering 3 weeks ago:
The duality of man -
Wholesome: dad gets involved with his kid’s hobby and helps him win
Not wholesome: kid shows up to play with a rigged beyblade someone else made for him, in order to participate in a one-sided competition, predictably breaking the other kid’s toy
- Comment on one bright second 3 weeks ago:
I dunno, I feel like neither empty space nor vast aeons of darkness are particularly pulling their weight in terms of really doing existing with any real level of conviction. It’s easy to be vast if you’re doing fuck all with most of it.
- Comment on The Duckstein Files 3 weeks ago:
Ugh why did you have to make Quaxwell hot
This is going to be a complicated wank
- Comment on Anon uses GOG 3 weeks ago:
I wondered why some guy on my Discord kept giving out tons of free GOG keys. Guess it’s probably that?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Yeah whenever I see them I think what story are they trying to tell? Are we supposed to believe that this man decided, right, I want to post something online about $TOPIC, so I’ll get my whiteboard, write my post on that, go to the harbour, get someone to take a photo of me holding it up, and then I’ll upload that photo online so people can see what I think?
- Comment on See ya. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, fragmenting into groups was an important part of the book.
- Comment on Sunlight special 3 weeks ago:
Yeah this whole thread feels like either I’ve been dropped into a parallel universe or there’s something wrong with my monitor settings. Is it really that weird to not want your food totally blackened all over? The bacon and hash browns in particular look like they was taken out at exactly the right moment, just as they’re showing the first spots of browning. I wonder if maybe the details aren’t showing up clearly on mobile devices or something and people are reacting to that?
I’m not judging anyone who likes their food overcooked, but there’s no need to be a dick to people who like to taste the meat not the heat.
- Comment on hows keto working out for you 3 weeks ago:
Yup. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blubber
Blubber is the primary fat storage layer for some mammals, especially for those that live in water. It is particularly important for species that feed and breed in different parts of the ocean. During these periods, the animals metabolize fat. Blubber may save energy for marine mammals, such as dolphins, in that it adds buoyancy while swimming.
Blubber has advantages over fur (as in sea otters) in that, though fur retains heat by holding pockets of air, the air expels under pressure (i.e., when the animal dives). Blubber, however, does not compress under pressure. It is effective enough that some whales can dwell in temperatures as low as 4 °C (40 °F). While diving in cold water, blood vessels covering the blubber constrict and decrease blood flow, thus increasing blubber’s efficiency as an insulator.
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 3 weeks ago:
that was a good joke, but I don’t think 16 out of 20 people got it (at the time of me writing this).
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 3 weeks ago:
After the liberation of the concentration camps in 1945, all the people who had been put there for being gay, just got moved to other camps and prisons, since homosexuality was also illegal under the liberators’ laws as well.
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 4 weeks ago:
Me at the 19thC Royal Society, all cocky like: Matter is energy, E=mc^2
Michael Faraday: interesting, how would I go about proving that?
Me: no fucking clue. Something to do with either spaceships or massive bombs?
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 4 weeks ago:
The reaction in that picture is also bang-on though, because Semmelweis got a huge amount of pushback from the medical community at the time, who took offense at the apparent accusation that they were so dirty they were killing their own patients.
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 4 weeks ago:
There’s a guy at IBM who has thousands of patents with his name on.
He works in the department that helps people write patents.
- Comment on Punch Time 4 weeks ago:
The fan translation of Oruchuban Ebichu added a 2 minute section at the start of every episode, explaining all the puns and cultural references. I’m disappointed that this isn’t more common.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 4 weeks ago:
It’s weirder than that, they don’t seem to have chins at all. Their heads are like perfectly round melons.
- Comment on soda 4 weeks ago:
Haven’t noticed. Are you using the right syntax? I’m not sure if ‘AND’, ‘OR’ have to be capitalized or what ahrefs.com/…/google-advanced-search-operators/
- Comment on soda 4 weeks ago:
As a side note fucking Googles LLM make this type of research hard by spitting fake info at you.
The web in general is fucked, since most sites less than 3 years old are now entirely written by AI. :(
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 5 weeks ago:
You laugh, but AI is a pretty good fit for EA. Repeatedly churning out new iterations of the same exact thing over and over every year, with the roster changed and the art fucked about with a tiny irrelevant amount? Yup
