skisnow
@skisnow@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 1 week ago:
Either they’re all ironic [] or none of them are ironic
Textbook false dichotomy, and not how I read it at all. Setup->Punchline is the most basic joke format in existence.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 2 weeks ago:
…and, without any sense of introspection whatsoever, continuing to miss the point…
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 2 weeks ago:
“Is it possible I’ve completely missed the point? No, it must be everybody else here who’s wrong!”
- Comment on Anon is going to be rich 2 weeks ago:
As long as the clerk hasn’t seen Guys and Dolls it should be fine.
One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to show you a brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken. Then this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of this brand-new deck of cards and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not accept this bet, because as sure as you stand there, you’re going to wind up with an ear full of cider.
- Comment on meanwhile on instagram 2 weeks ago:
A significant part of Jesus’ teachings is “don’t claim to speak on behalf of God”. Whoever made this meme is a blasphemer.
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 2 weeks ago:
I also thought this was a joke until I read the comments. Pistachios have always been pistachio coloured in the rest of the world.
There’s something very American about drowning a perfectly healthy natural product in brightly coloured dye.
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 2 weeks ago:
military ufos
So, not aliens then.
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 2 weeks ago:
The sightings stopped happening round about exactly the same time as everyone started carrying a video camera in their pocket.
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 2 weeks ago:
Is it me or are people just not that bothered about aliens, compared to in the 90s?
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 2 weeks ago:
Most old UFO sightings were in areas that are now known to be places where drone technology was being developed and tested.
- Comment on it keeps getting momentum 2 weeks ago:
The sad thing is that when it bursts it won’t do it in a hilarious “billionaires all get shafted” way like it didn’t any of the previous times. It’s far more likely to take the form of the most powerful AIs suddenly only being accessible to the wealthy.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 2 weeks ago:
LOL, the sole one single point I made in my post is that I only ever see assertions without evidence, and your response is a bit of handwaving and an ad hominem. Thanks for demonstrating my point so perfectly.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 2 weeks ago:
Literally anything other than bad faith conspiracy-theory assertions, please.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 2 weeks ago:
They’re accelrrationist who want conditions to get so bad that their ideas actually seem good.
I’ve seen this claim made a few times before, and it’s never accompanied by a shred of evidence.
- Comment on Uhhhh sure? 2 weeks ago:
I’m willing to bet that sometime between last year and now, an LLM got involved.
- Comment on One of the most interesting things that happens when you are old 3 weeks ago:
Does it count if it was 2020 and the person is also your age? I feel like a LOT of people have a weirdly revisionist memory of the first few months of the pandemic.
- Comment on One of the most interesting things that happens when you are old 3 weeks ago:
Haven’t had that yet, but having travelled a lot I find it jarring how many other countries seem to think that Thatcher was a great leader to look up to, and not a dreadful callous nightmare who sold the country out on multiple levels to create the illusion of prosperity, and even that only for the sort of people that voted for her.
- Comment on Follow me for more shitty diet tips 3 weeks ago:
Or you could get aides
- Comment on I Live In Eastern Europe And I'm Making A Creepy Game About Authoritarianism (Demo Is Live) 3 weeks ago:
Ok but that photo of a building you posted could just as easily have been taken in any British town in the 1980s
- Comment on This guy gets it 3 weeks ago:
He’s the one that begins with an “S”.
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 4 weeks ago:
It’s not so much that it’s ChatGPT in of itself, as it’s ChatGPT and therefore, as per usual, sounds superficially clever until you actually read it and realize it’s meaningless nonsense.
- Comment on it's true 4 weeks ago:
I read it as criticising reductionist views of the many diverse nations that existed in North America before Europeans showed up and decided that the whole continent was Terra Nullius.
To this day a significant number of US high school American History textbooks only discuss the tribes in terms of their interactions with European invaders, and shy away from anything that might make them look like they were ever legitimate nations. Referring to them as ‘Native Americans’ instead of by name also has this effect.
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 4 weeks ago:
I find people who keep making cracks like that far more tedious, unoriginal and unpleasant than any of the groups you just listed.
- Comment on The dream! 4 weeks ago:
Likewise Singapore is mostly immigrants. This guy is wrong by such a huge degree that I don’t think it’s even a mistake, I think he knows he lying.
- Comment on Yet everyone swears they existed 4 weeks ago:
I think they’re exactly what their username implies.
- Comment on Draw! 5 weeks ago:
You can take it literally at face value. They want to know about you, so they asked. The idea that an interviewer would conclude that “renovated my house” is a wrong answer that get you blacklisted, is something that person seems to have just decided for themselves.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 5 weeks ago:
I’m still bitter at Steam for taking a bunch of my single-player games off me that I’d already paid for when I moved to another country, and refusing to refund me because I’d already played 10 hours. Also the support guy treated me like I was a criminal for even trying.
- Comment on Draw! 5 weeks ago:
There isn’t a single question you can possibly ask in an interview that doesn’t have a million threads like this complaining about it and assuming the worst about its intentions or what the interviewer will conclude from its answer.
The general rule seems to be that any kind of question that you might do badly on, is a bad question.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Not even an exaggeration, I just dug out my old laptop that I bought in 2012 to check, 16Gb it’s got.