kalpol
@kalpol@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Anon gets rid of drop box 1 day ago:
Yup
- Comment on Lies, all lies 5 days ago:
Came to make sure someone had mentioned The Hu
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You are correct. I asked how tall the Empire State Building was at cuil level 5:
The Empire State Building is tall in the way that purple tastes of childhood memories. Its height can only be measured by counting the number of dreams that have fallen from its windows - currently 847,293 dreams, though three more dropped while I was typing this sentence.
You see, the building doesn’t exist on Wednesdays. Instead, it becomes a song that only pigeons can hear, humming at approximately 1,454 hertz per vertical foot of sadness. The elevator buttons are actually tiny portals to parallel dimensions where the building is a sentient cloud that remembers being steel.
When you ask “how tall,” the building asks back “how blue is the sound of gravity?” because it learned language from the rats in its walls, who are actually former tenants paying rent in breadcrumbs and whispered secrets.
The true height is measured not in feet but in the collective weight of all the prayers ever spoken on its observation deck, which equals exactly one butterfly’s dream of being a skyscraper. King Kong never climbed it - he IS it, and has been sleeping vertically since 1933, dreaming he’s a building while the city dreams it’s a gorilla.
The foundation extends infinitely downward into Tuesday, where it’s still being built by the same workers who are simultaneously demolishing it from the top.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Now there’s a meme i haven’t heard in a long time, a long time.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Claude does better with it
- Comment on Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll - how to check and turn it off 4 weeks ago:
Yeah most people can’t do that
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 4 weeks ago:
Daily Mail is British
- Comment on Monkeys on the Interstate 1 month ago:
Oh man Ernest Seton Thompson. I read Wild Animals I Have Known when I was like 7 and it stuck with me.
- Comment on Better Watch Out Eddy 1 month ago:
I got some doordasher with a typoed email who is apparently constantly driving under the influence for doordasher because I keep getting reminders that that’s against Doordash policy
- Comment on I could use some serious advice as to whether or not to do this 1 month ago:
Here’s the serious advice: whenever you have to think about it like this, don’t do it.
- Comment on Um... I'm not even using a VPN... Fuck you reddit. 1 month ago:
Not here
- Comment on Um... I'm not even using a VPN... Fuck you reddit. 1 month ago:
Just started getting this too today
- Comment on Are you so young that you have never been in a car with one of these? 1 month ago:
I had a 70 Olds 98 with the Rocket 455. You could literally hear the gas pouring into the dinner-plate sized carburetor when you floored it. Had it for two or three days and the jankt wiring caught fire and it burned up. Probably for the best really.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 1 month ago:
Of everything, this is low on the list of things to be annoyed about. While there were probably better ways, this is an area used for gatherings and DC being DC, it is pretty marshy and unusable as a lawn. There have been plans for a long time to do something like this.
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 2 months ago:
Have been in Manhattan the last couple of days, the bikes are a damn menace. The cars at least stop for crosswalks and signals. The bikes absolutely do not. Got stuck at that big bike crosswalk near Central Park West as hordes of bikes just blew the red light, meant specifically for them in their dedicated bike lane.
- Comment on W.XP 2 months ago:
Some old VMs, not one. Had 95,98SE,XP, 7, and 8.1. Also found NT install disks.
- Comment on W.XP 2 months ago:
Well it was two days ago because I found some old VM backups and booted them for nostalgia. Win 7 really was the best
- Comment on US | Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP 2 months ago:
This is more or less how FCIX got started
- Comment on Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong 2 months ago:
I have a solid memory of my roommate and I hitting Mine Cart Madness, and when I finally made it through we whooped and hollered so much the upstairs neighbor got mad and came down to shush us, at 4 PM on a Saturday
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 2 months ago:
I had not. And for free?? I shall explore it.
- Comment on wolf spiders 2 months ago:
Don’t make me stop this abdomen
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Is this new? I have some 10 year old ish Asus motherboards that have been really solid
- Comment on Peasants 2 months ago:
It changed my life. Mainly because of the automatic citation handling and bibliography generation in LyX.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 2 months ago:
Supreme Commander is good. It is the closest modern-ish game to Total Annihilation that I’ve seen.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 2 months ago:
Yes, second Talos Principal, it is excellent and the soundtrack too.
- Comment on Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads to 6 Minutes Per Hour 3 months ago:
Plus 2 minutes of credits
