SlurpingPus
@SlurpingPus@lemmy.world
- Comment on YOLO 1 day ago:
Among metal bands that I’ve known for a long time is the goregrind band Purulent Spermcanal. Who at different times did split releases with Pulmonary Fibrosis and with Vaginal Herpes.
- Comment on The Warbussy 1 day ago:
/r/birdswitharms exists, now we have birds with legs too.
- Comment on Anyone in tech confirm? 1 day ago:
Reminiscent of how Brian Eno spoke on creating the startup sound for Windows 95:
The thing from the agency said, “We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah-blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional,” this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said “and it must be 3¼ seconds long.”
I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. It’s like making a tiny little jewel.
In fact, I made eighty-four pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music. I was so sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then when I’d finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time.
- Comment on Have YOU ever done this? 2 days ago:
English and a,language that’s highly inflective and flexible. So I can’t decide if it’s worse than C++, but that still seems unlikely.
- Comment on Have YOU ever done this? 2 days ago:
It would be me, except I swear a lot under my breath when I encounter problems with software or things.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 4 days ago:
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 4 days ago:
When I last used Imgur about ten years ago, they communicated exclusively in gifs and meme phrases. It’s a bit odd.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 4 days ago:
I remember a post on Reddit of someone taking around 1000 mg and going to the bath, then realizing their mistake and being stuck there for half a day and nearly having to call an ambulance.
- Comment on American exceptionalism 4 days ago:
I don’t think I would even be able to drink that. As soon as it touches my tongue, my throat would clamp shut.
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 4 days ago:
supermarket I was at once that had some “repeller”
Sounds curiously close to them ‘teenager repellents’ that emit high-pitched noise that older ears can’t hear.
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 4 days ago:
You can get custom fitted earplugs for specific decibel ranges now, which is what my construction buddy got. I have a pair myself for raves and concerts
Not just that, but giants of acoustics, like Sennheiser and AKG — don’t remember exactly who — make earplugs for musicians or concert-goers. With which one gets good sound, just quieter.
- Comment on Santa is working on those lists 5 days ago:
So they are ‘cosplaying’ as goth hotties? I don’t think much cosplaying is involved there.
- Comment on Santa is working on those lists 5 days ago:
The shitposting communities are full of random memes about corn, no need for hints. Basically, arbitrary meme is arbitrary.
- Comment on Santa is working on those lists 5 days ago:
Snapinsta is another Instagram frontend, but afaik it doesn’t have direct links to a post that could be shared (everyone will have to paste the original link by hand).
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 5 days ago:
Is that Cory Doctorow?
- Comment on Accidental rapture 6 days ago:
Ain’t happening, since belief in God is reiterated time and again as the main requirement for anyone to get any heaven time. Even Jesus was going “if you don’t believe my father and me, then get fucked”.
- Comment on Accidental rapture 6 days ago:
doesn’t mean He’d just disregard you
It’s said many times both in the Old and the New testaments that whoever doesn’t believe, is totally fucked for eternity. Read your own main book.
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 6 days ago:
ScummVM should work swimmingly and better than Wine. I used it on an Android tablet — though one game crashed at a particular point, thankfully not far into it.
- Comment on Sad, melancholic even. 6 days ago:
Yeah, iirc there are only four original naturally-occurring citruses, of which one is inedible. All the rest are hybrids.
- Comment on A Jamaican accent just makes me smile 1 week ago:
Thanks. I know there are thousands of languages, but Jamaican is the only ‘patois’ I’ve encountered in wide discussion, so amn’t used to differentiating. It seems also to be an umbrella term, whereas Jamaican Patois is actually a creole language.
- Comment on A Jamaican accent just makes me smile 1 week ago:
‘The Harder They Come’, a popular Jamaican film, was referred to as “the first English-language film shown in the US with subtitles” due to thick Patois used in it. So there’s indeed pervasive confusion, but in the end Patois often just can’t be understood by English-speakers.
Fun fact: Patois developed starting in the seventeenth century, and mixes languages of West and Central Africa, used by the slaves, with British and Irish English and Scots, used by the slaveholders. Where Scots is itself a sister language of English, descended from Early Middle English.
- Comment on Elon Musk, doing Elon Musk things. 1 week ago:
Yeah, the salute is just him appealing to his Ancient Roman base.
- Comment on A Jamaican accent just makes me smile 1 week ago:
Patois is a creole language whose vocabulary largely comes from English, and there’s a gradient of dialects between Patois and Jamaican Standard English, but pure Patois is considered mutually unintelligible with Jamaican English and thus a separate language. Moreover:
A 2007 survey by the Jamaican Language Unit found that 17.1 percent of the population were monolingual in Jamaican Standard English (JSE), 36.5 percent were monolingual in Patois, and 46.4 percent were bilingual, although earlier surveys had pointed to a greater degree of bilingualism (up to 90 percent).
- Comment on Is there a uBlock Origin filter or extension for LLM slop in search results 1 week ago:
Ironically you need AI to detect AI in the content offered to you and to block it.
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 1 week ago:
Where I am, games in Steam cost about five to ten bucks normally, and two or three bucks on sale. Ten bucks goes quite far here, and without sales many wouldn’t buy games at all. Now, is it good value to buy games instead of not buying any?
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 1 week ago:
Yes, it’s better to have companies that have no power and do nothing.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 1 week ago:
More like, how many Mars orbiters have been lost because of the US measurements?
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 1 week ago:
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 1 week ago:
Apparently ScummVM supports the game, though idk what’s with the file size in this particular upload.
- Comment on Have LLMs killed all future programming languages? 1 week ago:
because the UK spent so long as the dominant world power and just saturated all international discourse
From what I’ve heard, German was still the go-to international language in academia until WW2, when it fell out of favor and US’ post-war boom took over. So it’s a bit more complicated.