skisnow
@skisnow@lemmy.ca
- Comment on I can still smell them 12 hours ago:
I’m still slightly wary of them after (mildly) burning a knuckle attempting a whole strip
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 12 hours ago:
Can’t tell if you’re joking or just a dickhead.
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 15 hours 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 19 hours 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 1 day 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 1 day ago:
“be wheat” yeah like anyone here has ever been wheat
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 3 days 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 days 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 days ago:
I defy OP to link me to a source of someone both:
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unironically making fun of Superman for having a rock as his weakness, and
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not already being challenged immediately on their statement within that same source
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- Comment on I love science 4 days 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? 6 days 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? 6 days 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 ☝️ 1 week ago:
if the birthrate hit 0% we would be facing societal collapse
Bit strawmanny that. Nobody considers 0% a reasonable target.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
In certain Austroasiatic languages, your wrists and ankles are your hand-necks and foot-necks.
- Comment on Attitudes 3 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. 3 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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* 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
profoundly stupid
Hey, that was my favourite movie when it came out.
- Comment on A Jamaican accent just makes me smile 4 weeks ago:
A lot of races in Star Wars are dodgy stereotypes. Watto was so bad I think people just blanked it out.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 4 weeks ago:
For a moment I thought he was having a rare moment of clarity, but no, he was having a common moment of corruption
- Comment on I support this 4 weeks ago:
It’s hardly tinfoil hat time - I defy you to name a single poster anywhere on Lemmy who reads more like a repost bot than that particular user.
- Comment on I support this 4 weeks ago:
Yup. Also the post captions always read a bit too engagmentey, if that makes sense? Like either the account is a bot, or it’s one that being run cynically by a professional who’s following a set of guidelines to maximize reach over anything like sincere interest or value or humanity.
- Comment on I support this 4 weeks ago:
I’d recently blocked “LadyButterfly she/her” because I was getting fed up of her constant low effort ragebait, so I was surprised to see this post appear on my feed - it turns out she’s posting from multiple instances, presumably to get around either blocks or bans.
- Comment on Honestly wtf? 5 weeks ago:
Yes that puzzled me too, I checked like 5 different transcripts and they all said the same thing.
- Comment on Honestly wtf? 5 weeks ago:
The swallow may fly south with the sun, or the house-martin or the plumber may seek warmer climes in winter; yet these are not strangers to our land.
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 5 weeks ago:
My 3rd generation iPad became functionally useless after only 6-7 years even though the hardware was pristine. Almost half of the apps on it, including some major ones like YouTube, started refusing to run because they had a mandatory Update, and the App Store wouldn’t provide updates for the newest iOS version that the 3rd gen could support.
Meanwhile my Windows laptop that I bought at the same time is still in service after 12 years.
Fuck Apple to infinity.
- Comment on I dunno 5 weeks ago:
There’s billions of people, literally billions of them
On lemmy?