skisnow

@skisnow@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't have a plan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just rude, it makes you look dumb as well. People can have different experiences and views to yours without it being a symptom of mental illness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gottem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  on the contrary, they love that shit. Gives them an excuse not to legislate poverty away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't have a plan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  to cut them off cold turkey

  How are you reading it that way?

  Having to “beg dad for money when I want a pizza” doesn’t sound like someone being coddled, it sounds like someone who’s been told a thousand times to get a damn job and move out. Plus they’re not even kicking OOP out immediately, they’re giving them until their birthday.

  I mean it is obviously fake, but still

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring it back⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s in the same place relative to China and Russia. It’s not clear how much of that is because this isn’t a Mercator projection, how much of it is tectonic shift, and how much of it is questionable choices on OOP’s part. Some lat/long markers would have helped

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨google's getting pissy about using their shit while logged out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s sad to see how time and time again companies build up a big user base by being the best service out there, and then just assume that they’ll be the market leaders forever and ever no matter how much they enshittify.

  The amount of vendor lock-in with something like Google Maps is very close to zero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨culture⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it must be a spectrum or something because I’m fully capable of mentally picturing things in detail if I want to, but it’s a thing I have to actually /do/. It doesn’t just happen automatically when I’m reading, I have to make a deliberate decision to picture the scene.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  no, but you’re not just comparing it with nothing, you might also want to compare it with other kinds of oil. The absolute number itself is barely relevant, what most people want to know is which oil products are healthier than others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Considering planting it in my garden at this point⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah I was gonna say, I once had mint and it sent the cat berzerk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube won't let me search for music by musician unless I remove the word "naked" from her name⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  but that’s also true of literally any other keyword out there. They wouldn’t particularly be driving any more traffic since that’s not what the user was searching for, they’d just be getting their whole site delisted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube won't let me search for music by musician unless I remove the word "naked" from her name⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  they definitely have the resources to whitelist valid combinations, but some shirt ran the numbers and decided it wouldn’t bring enough money in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delicious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  or the metabolism

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Send that probe deep y'all⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Uranus spins sideways.

  Uranus has a small rocky core.

  Uranus is one of the coldest in the solar system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone in the 21st century claiming to still be sore over the Napoleonic Wars or anything pre-dating them maybe shouldn’t be taken seriously

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an American thing that has slightly spilled out to the UK through popular media.

  France has a strong track record post WW2 of consistently standing up to the USA’s wars abroad; they were one of the first to kick US nuclear bases out of their own country during the Cold War, and were their biggest Western opponent at the UN regarding the second Iraq war. Hence the continued popularity of the “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” trope in American media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Leveraged buyouts should be illegal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the Home Alone house then and now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a thread recently where someone called it “Flipper gray”, because it’s actually being done by boomers trying to flip houses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Had to fight off the twinks for this bread⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  there was a whole song about it in the Netflix cartoon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Had to fight off the twinks for this bread⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yes well done

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Had to fight off the twinks for this bread⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  judging from the downvotes, it was a more obscure reference than I thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Had to fight off the twinks for this bread⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bread makes you fat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apu sitting in the corner out of picture⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  not so much; the topic had kind of become a whole thing within the comedy/entertainment circuit on account of Hari Kondabolu making a documentary about it.

  It was a detailed and nuanced discussion about the wider nature of invisible racism, and therefore attracted a ton of kneejerk reactions from people who hadn’t watched it but sure as hell had opinions. In the end it was just easier to let it lie than get tied up in an intractable discussion on whether an Indian person playing up an Indian stereotype for the entertainment of a mainstream audience is still harmful or not

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"We're all in this together"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  bless you for that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"We're all in this together"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a word, possibly German, for when you discover that the person you got douchey vibes off for years but couldn’t quite pin down why, is revealed to be exactly what you suspected? I just had flashbacks to Will Smith at the Oscars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"We're all in this together"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah I really fucking hate how this particular meme format seems to subtly imply we can just stop making an effort. Always downvote whenever I see it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I must con(FeS₂), this sparked a laugh⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  well done OP, you really stuck it to those stupid scientists

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨good idea, no downsides⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the worst part is that said electronic component will have been the cheapest one to physically manufacture, but because it’s the hardest to copy they can charge whatever the fuck they like

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More chickens!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a pair of tweezers confiscated. It’s all arbitrary, and everyone who has ever worked airport security is a wanker

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let it sink in.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  lol, I guess I was wrong then - I was about to say that OP seems to think the joke is a lot more difficult (with the post title and ‘wait what’ reaction) than it actually is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨good idea, no downsides⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Could go either way I reckon, acoustically coupling the walls of your house to a big spinning drum

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re just grasping now.