PolarKraken
@PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on GTA6 is gonna be crazy 🔥 1 day ago:
Who could? I already don’t use them. I wish more would do the same.
- Comment on GTA6 is gonna be crazy 🔥 1 day ago:
I’d argue it also thereby normalizes, memetically spreads, and even to a degree enforces the very thing it means to circumvent. Damn this horseshit, forever. Not attacking you, just the self-censoring nonsense.
- Comment on Just one more square bro 1 week ago:
I’m not sure where I came across it, but it’s out there somewhere. You can do it!
- Comment on Just one more square bro 1 week ago:
For the lolz? Little harmless fun? Sheesh.
- Comment on every time 1 week ago:
Oh neat, idk I could see lil glowy + magnet or Velcro for camping gear or something being useful.
- Comment on every time 1 week ago:
crikey, d’ya hear that?! That’s the unmistakeable sound of an aspiring young content creator - they’ve just spotted their elusive prey - an unfilled niche! Let’s go poke em with a stick, see what happens!
(RIP Steve Irwin, zero shade meant to a real one)
- Comment on Just one more square bro 1 week ago:
(this is the part where you tack on a silly harmless lie at the end, like - “this specific packing optimization improvement was actually discovered accidentally, through a small mini-game introduced into Candy Crush in 2013. Players discovered the novel improvement, hundreds of individual times, within the first several minutes of launch.”)
- Comment on every time 1 week ago:
Yeah, I have some of those already 😅. Was hoping for some weird nixie tube type clock or something, idk.
- Comment on every time 1 week ago:
Looks inside Becomes putrescent
- Comment on every time 1 week ago:
Dang, that’s dope. Any cool projects using those you’d know of / wanna share?
- Comment on ard 1 week ago:
My utterly baseless theory on braggart is that those folks have always been so MF irritating, through history, that people pronouncing the word just tend to do so using a clipped, terse voice.
“Oh, m’lady, pray tell? T’was Kevin spinning such fanciful yarns for thee? (grits teeth) UGH, that braggart”
I don’t care if it’s true.
- Comment on Ouch 2 weeks ago:
I tried to watch that interview (not this well-deserved rebuttal, this original) and just couldn’t. Despite Callaghan and team’s best (sincere) efforts, Nick just comes off like the fucking moron he is.
Ignorant about the things he himself has chosen to squawk about, while also truly lacking the mental “equipment” to engage with the topics in any complexity.
Like, any complexity, he seemed completely unable to manage the difference between the ideas “95% of Somali immigrants are law-abiding” and (his claim) “89% of fraud in Minnesota is committed by Somalis”. Those can actually both be true and they aren’t even very complicated but it was too much for him.
To be clear I’m not weighing in on those stats whatsoever, just the fact that he could not navigate the nuances between them at all.
He’s not just wrong and hateful, he’s flat out incapable of understanding the exact phenomena that he somehow feels called to scrutinize and then scream about. I’d love to just call him a clown and move on but his flavor of horseshit is SO dangerous these days, as we see!
- Comment on whatever tf this is 2 weeks ago:
Old man Da Vinci furiously scribbling while also delivering the overexcited stream-of-consciousness babble of a little kid with his favorite thing
- Comment on Liminal Space 2 weeks ago:
this guy coaxes
- Comment on The greatest subtitle in history 3 weeks ago:
Invincible had one that made us laugh and still gets used around the house -
[slumps wetly] - Comment on 4 weeks ago:
We need some bored individual to put up a leaderboard of sorts. We’ve all been seeing some real stunning moves in the “wreck this immortal golden god of a company” game - too much to keep up with honestly, these dorks are just as impactful as they always imagined! Who knew.
We’re over here watching the fucking Olympics of ignorant greedy douchery and we never even had medals made 😩
- Comment on You are allowed flavor 5 weeks ago:
On the most shallow and vague level, me too. I wouldn’t say it looks inviting, but maybe compelling somehow. I also unironically like brutalist architecture, so this feels like it’s cousin.
I am reasonably certain any yearning would fade mid-way through my first bite, tho, as gigantic armies of raw onion just route and slay whatever other piddling forces of flavor they can find. Cheese? Bread? Erased, never heard of em.
Not for you?!
- Comment on I've got a fever... 1 month ago:
Damn, rough.
- Comment on I've got a fever... 2 months ago:
This is what I do (and have for almost 20 years). Once I notice what feels like a fever, ASAP I layer up and sleep for as long as my schedule allows. Seems to really work well.
The few things that stick around after that, though, those are guaranteed to fuck me up for a few days.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 2 months ago:
It’s so much worse than I think you even realize, but you definitely nailed some of the key pieces.
It’s correct that we don’t opt in, that it’s strictly private companies (3 of them), and that modern life in the US makes it impossible to avoid playing this game.
Some additional details:
- the 3 companies each keep their own records - usually they match each other closely, but not always
- wrong information in the consumer’s credit report is arduous to correct and basically 100% the consumer’s responsibility - too fucking bad, whatever outcome this may cause
- the only way to know if our info is being used to fraudulently open accounts is to periodically check these reports (noting the difficulty in correcting them)
- malicious use is such a problem that all 3 “services” (“extortion rackets” is literally more accurate) recommended “locking” one’s credit with each of the 3, so no accounts may be created at all
- many stories of kids finding out their parents loaded them up with debt, very difficult to overcome
- the score is a measure of how much lenders can expect to profit off you - financial decisions that are good for the individual are not necessarily good for the score
- evictions, like other records, stay active for 7 years I believe, and having an eviction on one’s record makes every part of renting worse and harder
And nothing I’ve said is even recent insanity, all of that’s been true a long time. It’s really staggering just how effectively the US has systematized destroying our working class. We’ve been the global leader in innovating oppression for decades, it’s been interesting watching the rest of the world start to catch on just how severe it is here.
- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 2 months ago:
That’s really beautiful.
- Comment on Careful, he's a hero 2 months ago:
Easy enough, guy was tryna line up the good stuff, it fell through, and he was like “well I’m not just gonna sit here and experience reality - cough syrup it is”.
Then later the acid came through after all, and he was like “well, it’s important to follow through on commitments”.
Could happen to anybody, really.
- Comment on Banana 4 months ago:
Haunted, made ravenous, beastly, low - by knowledge of a flavor too pure for this world. Left lurching, bereft, cursed to sin against kith and kin, searching desperately, urgently, for a satisfaction that can never be born.
The heavens weep!
- Comment on Banana 4 months ago:
Hate to tell ya but I had the same inverted experience. “How come this gross artificial banana tastes nothing like bananas?! Ohhhh…”.
It does kinda drive me nuts though, not knowing what the real deal tastes like. Can only imagine, for you!
- Comment on $96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs 4 months ago:
What a petty “haul” for completely fucking someone’s life up. We should express things in “$ per harm” more often if we can.
Just yet more evidence, these folks are monsters.
“You get ejected into a bad and worsening job market with no warning or recourse, throwing your (and your family’s?) life into a suddenly scary future.
In return, I get a used car, shitty enough it can’t pass emissions tests. I like this deal so much I want to do it thousands of times!”
- Comment on wax on 4 months ago:
Just out here rubbing bug goo on plant corpses, guess we’re weirder than the bees
- Comment on We keep the entomologists in the basement. 5 months ago:
I’m still waiting for my pheromone-overlord 😞
- Comment on We keep the entomologists in the basement. 5 months ago:
Some species of termite can effectively molt backwards, meaning they can physically return their bodies to a juvenile stage, AND THEN re-mature from that juvenile stage into a different adult body plan!
So adult worker (medium sized head and mandibles, etc.) -> juvenile morphology -> adult soldier (huge head and mandibles). And other forms I don’t remember, think they can go back and then become something with wings, etc. - big bug changes!
And what’s crazier is this is done in response to pheromones secreted by the mound’s queen. Termite Queen up in the mound playing Sid Meier’s Civ lol, controlling her city through different stinks! Too few soldiers after the latest bird incursion? Got a buncha workers with nothing to do? No problem, stink-compel em to go back to goo and come back as what the mound needs!
I got all this from a fairly goofy podcast a buncha years ago - be kind, anonymous grumpy expert, if this is way wrong lol
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 5 months ago:
Oh I was offering that as supporting evidence for your point lol. There’s roughly nothing (besides reason and compassion) these folks can shit out of their mouths that will surprise me anymore.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 5 months ago:
RFK Jr., noted brainworm host and multi talented repeater and innovator of quackery, said that shit within the last 24 hours lol