skisnow
@skisnow@lemmy.ca
- Comment on culture 1 day 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” 🙄 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 2 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Leveraged buyouts should be illegal
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 2 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 2 weeks ago:
there was a whole song about it in the Netflix cartoon
- Comment on Had to fight off the twinks for this bread 2 weeks ago:
yes well done
- Comment on Had to fight off the twinks for this bread 2 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 2 weeks ago:
Bread makes you fat.
- Comment on Apu sitting in the corner out of picture 4 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 5 weeks 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! 5 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 1 month ago:
So you’ve never run out of space on your HDD, or replaced your machine, or wanted to lend or sell your game? You’re in the minority.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 1 month ago:
Publishers have proved time and time and time again that they can’t be trusted to keep that download available to you after you’ve handed the money over.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 1 month ago:
Discworld (1995) came with an actual t-shirt in the box. But there was an insane period in the early 2000s where they’d stopped doing manuals, maps and other extras but still packaged the disc in a box the size of a 450g cornflakes packet.
I’m ok with manuals not being a thing, because it’s a reflection of improvements in both software and game design where you don’t need to read 24 pages of text before you can play a game. But I’m not ok with publishers basically killing the secondary market.
- Comment on my own personal Chatgpt 1 month ago:
- Comment on my own personal Chatgpt 1 month ago:
Hey now, I know not everyone is a Beatles fan, but you can’t deny Brian played a big part in their success; I think he’d give good advice.