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- Comment on Bear posting. 3 days ago:
It makes the peas taste funny, but it keeps them on the knife.
It’s been a long time since I read that one, but it’s stuck in my head.
- Comment on Sir Patrick Stewart saved the universe 4 days ago:
We clearly have very different ideas of what hope is. What you’re describing seems thin and rather tenuous to me, and would do nothing to motivate me. You would not look at a broken arm and just hope it got better, you’d bind the wound, splint the break, maybe get help from someone who knows what to do, and you’d expect that to help. In the same way, when facing a broken or corrupted system, just hoping it gets better, maybe even believing it can be made better, achieves nothing, and encourages exactly the sort of meme post activism we so often see. Only deciding what you can actually do to make the situation better, and then doing it, makes a difference, and if you’ce planned well, you can do it with the reasonable expectation that the situation wil improve as you expect it to. Seeing how your actions move you towards a better situation is what drives more action, and what buffers you against setbacks. At least, I find it vastly better than just sitting and hoping.
- Comment on Sir Patrick Stewart saved the universe 4 days ago:
Perhaps you and I mean something different by “hope”, but a revolution doesn’t succeed on hope, it succeeds on determined action towards the desired goal. By all means keep that goal in mind, but, unless you are actively working towards it, you are just relying on others to achieve it for you, and if you are working towards it, then it’s not hope, it’s expectation, and that’s a very differentn and far more positive, thing.
- Comment on Total fabrication 4 days ago:
Code can work but still be trash. The important question is whether it’s actually maintainable. Can issues be fixed without creating more problems? Is it archiected to allow likely new features to be added without having to rebuild large parts of the code? Trash can certainly be produced by humans too, but LLMs don’t really take any of this into consideration, as they don’t think, so they have a very high chance of producing trash.
- Comment on Sir Patrick Stewart saved the universe 4 days ago:
Hope is the motivation killer. Hope is what encourages people to post memes rather than take action. Hope is relying on others to achieve your goals for you. Replace it with expectation based on deliberate action.
- Comment on Scrooge would definitely be on that list. 6 days ago:
So, I get where you’re coming from, but Scrooge McDuck seems to have two key differences from your average flesh-and-blood billionaire, one, his fortune seemed to be in actual, tangible, assets (mostly gold coins and other currency), rather than imaginary share valuations, and two, he was unwilling to spend a cent of it if it could be avoided, including on things like buying politicians. The net result was that the gold and currency was removed from circulation, which would increase the value, and thus buying power, of what was left, without exerting any influence itself.
Another key difference is that he liked to dive face first into his fortune, and if other billionaires did that, the problem would largely solve itself.
- Comment on Every pleasure is a treasure 1 week ago:
They’re not doing to Uranus what they did to Pluto, those heartless scoundrels! Uranus is a treasure of the solar system.
- Comment on Don't stop until you hit the saturation point! 1 week ago:
- Comment on Telegram automatically modifies your text message to "debunk" whatever you are trying to send 1 week ago:
It might nit be comforting, but it is important to be reminded. Someone else is reading your chats, and you should act accordingly.
- Comment on These gas station pills are getting sketchier 2 weeks ago:
which shouldn’t ever be taken together
If I had to guess, I’d say that the likelihood of there being any of the active ingredient of either in the capsules is as close to zero as makes no difference, and, if there is any, it’s in doses so low that it would make even a homeopath blush, regardless of what it might say on the packaging.
- Comment on Any form 2 weeks ago:
Don’t care, it could be potato plasma as far as I’m concerned, just add a good knob of butter and serve it up.
- Comment on Mmm, roasted apples. 2 weeks ago:
It’s not just the taste that would be affected by whether the sand was added before or after use.
- Comment on I will confess that I have obsessively watched merge requests on a daily basis 2 weeks ago:
Directory Opus looks like a file manager, so you might want to look at the options available on Linux. If you’re not fixed on one desktop environment, it’s worth checking several as they all have slightly different ideas. I can see Directory Opus has various other minor features, you’ll find many if them already included in existing file managers, but if something’s missing, you could request it, then you’re in the position the meme talks about.
- Comment on Where is this man? 2 weeks ago:
All you’ve seen is a picture of a picture of Cornelius. Is not $15 a small price to pay to see the genuine article?
- Comment on It used to be a library 2 weeks ago:
Gopher sites were great for finding information, if the information was actually there. The tree structure made drilling down to what you needed very straightforward. Mind you, the internet was also small enough that I had downloaded and pribted a book that listed every site and a short description of what it contained.
- Comment on Indeed 🕵🏼 2 weeks ago:
No, that way round they’re just fuzzy and like to lick you back.
- Comment on *hissssss* 3 weeks ago:
“Alphas” should understand that their time is up when a Beta appears.
- Comment on Can certain mods see "downvote or upvote brigading"? I don't care either way just wondering. Can any site see it? 3 weeks ago:
Lemvotes will show you who’s voted, and which way, on any post or comment. By “brigading”, are you thinking of activity over more than one post or comment?
- Comment on just build the planes like that 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, if that thing ever got off the ground, it probably would be safe from enemy fire, as they’d be too busy laughing at it to actually shoot it.
- Comment on laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas 3 weeks ago:
Google maps says that journey would currently take 14:45, presumably at a legal speed, and while that’s long enough to split over two days, you probably can do it in one go. It’s not speeding that’ll get you, but tiredness.
- Comment on nice sleeves 3 weeks ago:
It casts a touch range spell, the somatic component consists of switching it on and applying it to the spell’s target in the right way, and the result is typically the target squirming around and making happy noises. They have disadvantage on all checks for 1d12 rounds.
- Comment on BONNGGGG 4 weeks ago:
Ah yes, thank you, it was, indeed, bertstrips@lemm.ee. It looks like they tried to move to !bertstrips@moist.catsweat.com, but it’s been a year since anyone posted there.
RIP lemm.ee, it was an excellent server, and my previous home.
- Comment on They all look like this 4 weeks ago:
I think the idea is that a light colour tends to make the room look bigger and “fresher” than a dark one. It’s also definitely a lot easier to paint over than a “Teal Ripple” feature wall. Neutral colours and basic but nice looking furniture also means a potential buyer isn’t put off by the current occupier’s decorative tastes.
- Comment on They all look like this 4 weeks ago:
The better quality stuff has quite a thick ‘wear layer’, with the effect all the way through that layer, so they don’t lose it too quickly.
- Comment on BONNGGGG 4 weeks ago:
We used to have an entire community filled with these sorts of Sesame Street memes, but I think it vanished in one of the early server deaths. Is there somewhere they still exist?
- Comment on What can I put on a street lamp to stop the light in one direction? 4 weeks ago:
Talk to your local council, or whoever looks after lighting in your area, they should be able to put a shade on it tgst blocks light from hitting your window. It might take sime effort to persuade them, but it’ll be the best solution.
Failing that, or in addition, as others have mentioned, blackout curtains do wonders.
- Comment on Autumn Steam sales 4 weeks ago:
No no, green means go! The monitor was telling you that you need to buy all the new games.
- Comment on A good reminder that it can always get worse 4 weeks ago:
AI democratizes creativity in the same way as kneecapping everybody democratizes dance.
- Comment on flat housing 1 month ago:
These are mostly code words designed to keep those pesky foreigners confused.
Pavement comes from the latin root “pavire” meaning to tread down. Vehicles drive on the road, a word which may stem from a proto-indo-european root meaning “to ride”. If there’s one thing we like more than tea, it’s tradition, and millennia old words really scratch that itch. Besides, only crabs walk on a sidewalk, or do you lot all shuffle along like you’re trying to get through a narrow gap?
Windscreen is, again, perfectly logical when you consider that in the 14th century “screen” referred to a barrier that might be used to block draughts. If it was a good enough word 700 years ago, it’s good enough now by Jove!
I must take exception to your description of a jumper being a shirt. A jumper does not open at the front, and so cannot possibly be compared to a shirt, whose defining feature is the opening, typically finished with a placket on each side, unless it’s a tee-shirt, but it’s too chilly to wear those here, so we don’t talk about them. The garment you are referring to is, of course, a cardigan. Both the jumper and the cardigan do share the trait of being a made of a heavier material, or knitted, often by your Granny, out of heavy wool.
- Comment on flat housing 1 month ago:
Oi! Knock it off bruv!
I’ll have you know that the u in colour is very important. It nake the other o sound more like a u. Furthermore, check is a perfectly good word, but you cant pay with it. For that you need a cheque, and you can’t pay with those in most places now either. You car would have a bonnet and a boot, but a lorry would only have the former. Decending in a lift is no more unexpected than doing so in an elevator, and it significantly fewer letters too.
Now, having sorted out these minor linguistic quirks, would you care for a nice cup of tea and a chat about the weather?
