ViatorOmnium
@ViatorOmnium@piefed.social
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 1 week ago:
I drank beer more often at 16 (which was the drinking when I was growing up) than I do now. And I did it for the flavour. Though granted I had better choices than american “Budweiser”.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I could find this particular one, but you can see examples like https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA23609, https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA25693, and https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA25017 to see what the pictures actually look like. While Jupiter’s storms seen from space do have a certain Van Gogh feeling, the one on this post has saturation and contrast dialled up to 11.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
NASA: heavily edits a grainy drab picture to make it look like a Van Gogh painting
Internet: Van Gogh must have had telescopic 3rd sight.
- Comment on No Enforcement ⚖️ 2 weeks ago:
Considering the 5 countries that were supposed to coordinate in enforcing the rules immediately went for each others throats and that two of them have a competition on who can accumulate more violations of international law, the UN is actually going an amazing job at preventing the world from going up in flames.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The prevailing theory in Europe at time was still Aristotle’s idea that a force was necessary for objects to remain in motion. The theories on how an arrow or any other thrown object remained in motion involved an impromptu Rube Goldberg contraption involving the object and the atmosphere.
- Comment on Urine Luck 5 weeks ago:
Wait until you find out where milk comes from.
- Comment on Yay, sponsored emojis! 1 month ago:
⚽ is also an Adidas World Cup match ball.
The difference is that the design was streamlined and iconic enough to be timeless and become the football design in public mind.
Before the Telstar footballs looked like this:
- Comment on A FYI from Skeletor 1 month ago:
A superhero can just say go fuck yourself to law enforcement.
At this point they would probably be seen as supervillains by most people, especially if they are routinely destroying half of the city they are “saving”.
- Comment on A FYI from Skeletor 1 month ago:
Most countries like to at least pretend universal rule of law is a thing. How much “collateral damage” each country would accept would depend on national culture and how much the super heroes accepted government oversight, but I don’t see any government tolerating the average comic book hero as they are portraited.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 1 month ago:
I just checked and the most expensive restaurant I found in delivery platforms in Berlin costs about 35 Euros per person (with drink, taxes and delivery but without the tip). In most restaurants that would be the price of both meals. 100+ for delivery food is bananas, especially since the transportation is never kind on the food.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 1 month ago:
What are you ordering? I’ve seen Michelin star restaurants with cheaper options.
- Comment on God of War Laufey - Official Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games 2 months ago:
They could move the story forward with Atreus as the main character, that would still be familiar enough. Prequels are very hard to do right.
Terminator is a special case, because time travel limits the interesting time span for the story if you don’t keep erasing the previous movies plot.
- Comment on God of War Laufey - Official Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games 2 months ago:
With the current state of the entertainment industry I’m surprised they still didn’t do a LOTR movie explaining Tom Bombadil.
There isn’t a single exec that understands why it’s important for big narratives to have mysteries.
- Comment on Well said 2 months ago:
Amid the French fry furore, Rimm has since clarified that he was merely suggesting restaurants offer smaller plates of fries.
Smaller, not literally 6 small fries.
- Comment on Well said 2 months ago:
It was an hyperbole that flew over the journalists’ heads: https://www.sciencealert.com/you-should-only-be-eating-six-fries-per-serving-advises-harvard-nutritionist
- Comment on Rebuilding 2 months ago:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/spinosaurus
Spinosaurus keeps getting reconned.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 2 months ago:
Those questions would only matter if this kind of police reaction wasn’t almost exclusive to the US. So American police are idiots.
In Europe there were a few cases in France, but they led to changes in police procedures to verify reports more thoroughly before busting through doors.
- Comment on Mint 2 months ago:
That’s why you always plant it next to strawberries and blackberries.
- Comment on Theories on Theories 3 months ago:
Do they claim that though? Neo-liberal economists often adopt praxeology openly, and the other ones are mostly deluding themselves.
- Comment on Batteries 3 months ago:
Perfect example, Skynet is an excellent engineer. Be like Skynet.
- Comment on Inside Project Nova, Firefox's biggest redesign in years 4 months ago:
Based on the rest I think they don’t mean actual natural language interface, but having enough personalisation options to setup the UI in a way that’s natural for your workflow. They are just speaking 2026-corporatise instead of English.
The full sentence is:
“Definitely, the idea of extensions and just customizations in general is: can you create more of like a natural language interface that lets people do everything they want?” Varma added. “For example, we announced an update that we’re doing to our design, which is called Project Nova. And a lot of people didn’t like the rounded corners modernization. Now, we can let people pick how round they want their corners. People care, so we put it in the settings.”
They also mention some misguided “AI” features, but not in this part.
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 4 months ago:
There are a few close ones between Portuguese and Spanish but I can’t think of any that’s spelled exactly the same.
Between Portuguese dialects, the first that comes to mind is “puto” which just means young boy in European Portuguese and it’s a swear word meaning male prostitute in Brazilian Portuguese (Brazilian Portuguese technically makes more sense because it’s symmetrical to the female “puta” which always means “slut").
- Comment on Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethane 4 months ago:
Not all plant based leather uses plastic. It’s unfortunate that plant+plastic mixes are allowed to call themselves plant based leather.
- Comment on Gotta go fast 4 months ago:
Hydroelectric power stations still rely on steam, it’s just in another part of the cycle.
- Comment on Can you also do this with languages that use the Latin Alphabet? 4 months ago:
We have a few cases like “estar bem” (being well) and “bem-estar” (wellbeing) but they are much rarer.
A superifically similar phenomena is when we move adjectives to be before the word (like “antigo regime” vs “regime antigo") to tweak the meaning.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 4 months ago:
Pseudo-dermatology is also not very far away. The gap between what dermatologists and influencers say would be hilarious if gullible teenagers weren’t spending ridiculous amounts of money ruining their own skin.
- Comment on This is what ignoring experts looks like. 4 months ago:
Bibi needs the war to last at least until October.
- Comment on [Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock) 4 months ago:
Some players will complain about everything, the industry is the one amplifying it. For example, Like a Dragon games have been recycling assets since forever, and so did Zelda TOTK and no one cares.
In the end, the players would also benefit if the games were made through iterative improvements instead of making everything from scratch every time.
- Comment on [Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock) 4 months ago:
Executives should still be accountable for inefficiencies and bad scoping.
- Comment on Which government he might be talking about 🤔 4 months ago:
They could fund a public healthcare system twice over with the money the federal government is already spend providing piece meal health care through several inefficient programs. The war crime fund could solve the housing problem though.
