Signtist
@Signtist@bookwyr.me
Formerly /u/Signtist@lemm.ee
- Comment on I baked eye ball cookies for Halloween 8 hours ago:
All my homies got eye nipples.
- Comment on N. 5 1 day ago:
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 4 days ago:
Sorry to hear that. The isolation definitely exacerbated my mom's conspiracist ideation as well.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 4 days ago:
No worries, I hope your parents manage to get themselves out eventually. If they're anything like my mom, no amount of outside pleading will change their mind.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 4 days ago:
The one she talked about all the time was called the Minnesota Assembly. I think it's an offshoot of the whole sovereign citizen thing. I believe they used a telegram group chat as their main way of communicating. She died a little over a year ago, after they convinced her to treat her breast cancer with the herbal teas they sold instead of going to a doctor, so I'm not sure what's going on with the group anymore.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 4 days ago:
Oh, yeah, I don't necessarily think that every toxic site was specifically designed to be toxic, most were just designed in a way that people are drawn to. But when enough people flock to a place, it becomes toxic eventually. That just happens to coincide with the fact that when someone becomes wealthy from their website taking off, they often become corrupted by the attention and become the big figureheads we hate. They were probably assholes before, but now they're rich entitled assholes, which is much worse.
In the end the biggest issue with the internet is that too many people becoming easily connected to one another must also include toxic people easily connecting with one another, spreading the toxicity until it's inescapable in the community. I think we could slowly overcome the issues associated with connectivity on our own in time, and we were for a while, but the internet opened the floodgates and gave us too much connection before we were able to handle it.
My own mom went from a staunch democrat to believing Trump was literally the second coming of Jesus Christ sent to deal with actual honest-to-goodness Lizard People running the government, all because some small community of 100-odd people she found on the internet said so, and that many people can't be wrong.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 5 days ago:
Fair, I used the term as a catch-all that ends up inadvertently catching less-harmful sites as well. However, while there are only a few toxic sites, they're the most popular, and even when they fade into obscurity, they're replaced by other new toxic sites. They're designed to draw people in, so it doesn't really matter how few there are, they're always among the most popular websites on the internet.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 6 days ago:
The real question is whether the benefit of better access to scientific research offsets the detriment of social media. Unfortunately, I think social media use is much, much more widespread, and is thus having a significantly stronger detrimental effect than scientific research access and every other benefit combined.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
It doesn't actually matter to him what the truth is, it only matters that you can't prove it's not what he's claiming it to be. It's the tried and true strategy for bigots everywhere.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Being a conservative just boils down to being scared that people will do to you what you do to them.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
The loophole is to deny the humanity of the people you dislike.
- Comment on Anon is an artist 2 weeks ago:
My door growing up couldn't even latch, much less lock. Though I was smart enough to ask my grandma if I could have my late grandpa's giant old desk so that I could put it in the corner of my room and nobody could see what I was looking at or doing.
- Comment on Is Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII Worth Playing in 2025? 3 weeks ago:
It was my friend's favorite game when it came out, though I never played it myself, and he was a huge FFVII fan, so it might've just been viewed through rose-tinted lenses. Still, if you're big fan like he was, I'd say you might as well give it a shot if you have the opportunity. If I recall correctly, he said it was only 5-10 hours long, so not too much of a commitment.
- Comment on Years ago while drunk and high I sent my sister a syphilis plushy. 4 weeks ago:
They had these STD plushies at a store my family visited several years ago. My sister and I were checking them out, so I picked one up, read the tag, and told her "I got The Clap." I assumed that she'd read the plushie she had picked up, tell me which one it was, we'd have a chuckle, and find something else to look at.
Apparently she hadn't yet figured out that they were STD plushies, and thought I had chosen that moment to tell her in confidence about an STD I had contracted. It was pretty awkward, but it was at least nice to know that she'd have brought me to the doctor in secret if I'd needed her to!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
About half of my family photos were taken in black and white film throughout the 90's. I think the film was marketed as having a "classic touch" or something to keep people buying it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
After I got my first girlfriend, now wife, through a dating site at 25, I found out later that her best friend's mom and my best friend's mom are friends, and we only found out because the two of them just happened to be talking on the phone and got on the topic of how people in their lives had recently found love, then realized they were talking about the same couple. The connection may have been a little late for me and my wife, since we'd already gotten together, but it would've been a great match otherwise.
My friend himself met his wife through a recommendation from his pastor, whose niece was also a shut-in who loved manga and anime; you might as well take the opportunities that come along. It might not work out, but the only way to get good at asking people out and dating is to ask people out and date.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 5 weeks ago:
20% has actually been the norm for a while. Maybe it was a bit on the upper end a couple decades ago while now it's more default, but I remember my parents tipping 20% for normal service back in the 90's. Of course, with prices soaring tipping is still getting pricier and pricier, but the expected percentage here has been relatively stable.
The thing that's out of control is where you're expected to tip now. I often see a tip prompt come up at retail stores where the only service the employee provided was ringing up the items I brought. I never tip in those kinds of situations, and I doubt the employee would see any of it even if I did.
- Comment on Deep dish thought 5 weeks ago:
Love me a Papa Murphy's stuffed pizza.
- Comment on Anon updates GNU/linux 1 month ago:
I used to tell a story about how my boss had to call me into his office to show him how to maximize a window after he accidentally changed its size. I had to do similarly basic instructions for several young news hires lately, and most don't seem to be picking it up very well.
It's less that kids are dumb with computers - since everyone's dumb with computers when they're inexperienced - and more that they're as unwilling to learn as my grandma; I'll show them how to do something, and they'll completely forget how by the next day.
I saw computers as an exciting new thing, but the next generation seems to think of them as outdated tech.
- Comment on Pro tip 1 month ago:
It definitely was, but now I can only find this pic.
- Comment on Did you have one of these? 1 month ago:
It was pretty useful until I had an argument with my mom and the lights would constantly turn off and on.
- Comment on Sad but true 1 month ago:
Guilty in the legal sense means you've been found to be guilty in the court of law. Until you've been tried, you're not guilty. Otherwise anyone could just say "that guy committed a crime" and it'd be their word against yours.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Videos that pushed this rhetoric were the first step in turning my mom from a normal shitty person into a full-blown conspiracy theorist. This is definitely going to be a problem.
- Comment on Cheat Codes Activated 1 month ago:
I used to have a 1.5" leg length difference, so I had to wear a big lift in one of my shoes throughout middle and part of high school as I had a few surgeries to slowly fix the difference. It was a major pain, and I often rolled my ankle in gym class and sports.
- Comment on Resources 1 month ago:
That's the heart of the issue, though, isn't it? Most people do care about the state of their washing machines even as countless children have nothing to eat. People chastise their kids for not eating their vegetables by saying "kids are starving in Africa," without doing anything to help any kids in Africa. People want more for themselves even while acknowledging that others have so much less. Studies like this assume that human selfishness is negligible, while it's actually one of the largest variables that needs to be factored in. Most people don't actually care about human suffering unless it's happening to someone they personally know - they care much more about their washing machine.
- Comment on Idibiks Oiho 1 month ago:
Forbidden PEZ
- Comment on Cheesefull 1 month ago:
Fuddruckers still exists, but they've downsized significantly since the mid 2000's when my friends and I used to go there a lot in high school. There aren't any locations left in my state anymore.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 1 month ago:
...those are all corporations. Nationalization would make it a public service, rather than a corporate profit-driven service like how it is now.
You can bet that if libraries, for example, became privatized, we'd quickly see several different library companies pop up, each with their own paid book subscription service with exclusive partnerships with various popular artists, much like we have today with streaming platforms. Conversely, if we were to nationalize those streaming platforms, we'd likely see the service transformed to be more akin to our current library service.
It's why the rightmost parties generally want to defund many public services and move them to the private sector - it transforms services that we spend money on to benefit the people into services that the people spend money on to benefit corporations.
- Comment on Think about it 1 month ago:
Technically those trees generally became coal, while oil is generally from marine life.
- Comment on Doing a pack a day 1 month ago:
Yeah, I've never liked them in a carrot cake. Most older recipes will call for both raisins and some kind of nut, but I've never had a problem leaving the raisins out.
