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- Comment on Borders 2 weeks ago:
Sigh Unzip. If that’s what I’ve got to do to carve out some space, then so be it!
- Comment on Do I belong in tech anymore? - On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal. 2 weeks ago:
That’s a good article, thanks. The core beliefs they articulate at the end really resonate for me, but it was getting hard to convince people they were worthwhile even ten years ago, long before LLMs were infecting people’s minds.
- Things that are worth doing are worth doing well.
- Things that are done well require time and effort.
- You make meaning through the doing.
- Ideas are common; effort is not.
- There are no shortcuts.
- Comment on And toxic in large amounts! 2 weeks ago:
I think California is known to cause cancer in the state of California, you can bet cinnamon is too.
- Comment on they are literally hanging our tax dollars right over our heads 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, that will stop any 5g chips from affecting you.
- Comment on Teenis 3 weeks ago:
I believe we refer to “shaking Mr. Boopsy by the hand”, not “cranking my Mr Boopsy”. How uncouth! Tsk.
- Comment on Teenis 3 weeks ago:
Bravo! A delightful tale of the first meeting of Mr Boopsy and the Wrightie sisters. I do hope that we shall read more of their adventures and undoubtedly growing friendship in future.
- Comment on Post title lol 3 weeks ago:
Similar shorthand was used when sending telegrams, as they were charged by the character too.
- Comment on NASA scientists says astronauts should not masturbate in space 3 weeks ago:
Oh cum on, it’s going to be really hard to handle that. Mind you, I’d be more concerned about the stray ‘liquid’ getting into machinery and shorting something, rather than accidentally impregnating three women at a time.
Fortunately we don’t have to worry about this yet as “This article was originally published on 23 July 20222”.
- Comment on Land where 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, on at least one occasion it was. Cosonaut Vladimir Komarov was killed when the main parachute failed on his Soyuz 1 capsule. Probably the worst part was he knew, before launch, that he would probably die: CW:An all around grim story, and a picture of his, unrecognisable, charred remains
- Comment on Glizzy in a bottle 3 weeks ago:
Why, and please understand that I ask this in a spirit of genuine enquiry and desire to expand my understanding of the scope of the human mind, in the name of all that is good and reasonable in this world, would you do such a thing? I’m trying very hard not to imaging the smell if it were opened a few years from now.
- Comment on Fuck yeah democracy 3 weeks ago:
I’d prefer they have “a very harrowing almost escape to Moscow, then a long time contemplating their misdeeds in prison”, but I don’t think that would fit on the poster.
- Comment on Apple fail ✂ 4 weeks ago:
That still wouldn’t help, as you’d crush your fingers with the amount of extra travel they’d need to actually close.
- Comment on English has too many words for animals 4 weeks ago:
You can cleave something apart, but the halves might cleave together.
- Comment on English has too many words for animals 4 weeks ago:
If you think “spring” is bad, go check hiw many different meanings there are for the word “set”.
- Comment on cool cool cool 4 weeks ago:
Read that as a command to read it as ‘white people’.
- Comment on It's over 4 weeks ago:
I see your point, they just switch the rolls.
- Comment on Space Honey 4 weeks ago:
because the new metal straws have pierced the brains of anyone who did them.
I am confused by this, straws go in the mouth, if people are sticking them in their brains, they’re doing it wrong, or are you saying there is a crack team of assasins out there who’ve vowed to keep this knowledge secret in a particularly gruesome manner?
- Comment on Wacky 4 weeks ago:
Where do you think the expression “cocked up” comes from? It’s what happens if you tip over when doing cock pushups. Remember to always stay safe in the cocknasium.
- Comment on Wacky 4 weeks ago:
What kind of prehensile pps are y’all having??
Just the normal kind.
Are dicks supposed to have 6-packs?
You need to put in the work to get the best result.
Or is there a secret fellatio technique that includes pelvis-deep sucking?
You really have been missing out…
- Comment on Wacky 4 weeks ago:
Difficult to cut off, maybe, but not so difficult to crush.
- Comment on Really incredible. I want a set. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Rather than “AI”, that looks quite a bit like something that’s been badly scanned, run through a basic OCR to create text, which has then been laid out by someone who doesn’t write the language well enough to kniw it’s gibberish.
The line “1 tablespoon (om Jto paste” for instance, was almost certainly “1 tablespoon tomato paste”. You can see the similarity oin the character shapes between the gibberish and real text.
- Comment on Pass me some 1 month ago:
Have you tried licking random millipedes to see what happens?
- Comment on Pass me some 1 month ago:
I’m curious about the assertion that this is ‘to protect themselves from malaria carrying mosquitoes’. How do the scientists know this is the motivation, rather than a helpful side-effect?
- Comment on get zapped, idiot 1 month ago:
This one was probably pretty Thor afterwards.
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 1 month ago:
Xorg 4 lyfe!
- Comment on Had a chuckle 1 month ago:
Indeed, and IPv7 is already marked obsolete. So are IPv8 and 9 from what I can see, so we’d probably actually need to jump to IPv10, or maybe IPvA?
- Comment on Had a chuckle 1 month ago:
Where’s IPv5?
- Comment on Haha yes society is great 1 month ago:
What 3rd spaces did we have decades ago that we do not now ?
It’s not necessarily that they’re entirely gone, but there’s fewer of them, and they may not be as accessible. Off the top of my head, a few examples might be things like:
- Public libraries
- Social clubs/Youth clubs
- Open spaces
- Skate parks/outdoor gyms
Some communities are managing to hang on to their third spaces, or even create new ones, but it seems to be very uneven.
- Comment on Do I have to? Ok, fine... 1 month ago:
Don’t pooh-pooh the idea unless you’ve tried it. It’s pretty cool.