imadethis
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- Comment on fedi is freedom 5 days ago:
Ya know, I thought about it for a second, and YOU may not do that stuff on the fediverse, but what’s stopping an instance from offering those services? Could the average person modding a community or even an admin really tell if the sudden up-welling of support for a post is organic or not? We’ve all seen a bot or two here on lemmy, but the other day I saw what looked like a large (25-50% of the replies) amount of bots on a post. The replies just looked… off, like slightly off topic while randomly dropping in bits of the post. So that would mean both ‘active’ and ‘hot’ can be gamed by people if they really wanted.
- Comment on magical girl theme rule 2 weeks ago:
A lot of people who speed up a song and then claim to be an artist.
A lot of it is pretty good though, my favorite version of ed sheeran’s castle on the hill is a nightcore edit.
- Comment on Oof 2 weeks ago:
Did someone from the original turn out to be anything (oh no, the horror)?
- Comment on Oof 2 weeks ago:
The entire bit about the weasleys being poor was just another example of the horrible writing anyway. Remember how a metric crap ton of the ministry of magic employees commuted to work? Floo powder. Remember what they had just laying around at home in the burrow? Floo powder. If the weasleys were supposed to be way below the level of others, it wasn’t shown very well in random moments, just the ones where the author was deliberately making that the point of the scene.
At best, arthur’s choice of transportation was because of his obsession with muggle stuff, but if it was supposed to be another example of their poverty…
If I’m being really charitable, the biggest thing that was going for the poverty/wealth divide in the magical world was where you lived. Castle/urban/picturesque = rich, while countryside/rural/cottage type = poor. But let’s not discuss the ‘magical villages’ because their details were always incredibly vague.
- Comment on Be prepared 2 weeks ago:
I would mow your lawn. You do keep it trimmed though, right?
- Comment on I GOT THE MOVES LIKE JAGGER 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon questions the epidemic 3 weeks ago:
Oh, agreed. Anyone who brings virginity into the context of adults having fewer and fewer relationships that matter is either an incel or a troll.
- Comment on Anon questions the epidemic 3 weeks ago:
My guess is that those hobbies are still very much judged by others. It doesn’t matter how many images you make listing famous actors/athletes and their manga/anime/etc choices, the majority of the population will not want to do anything more than call you a nerd.
Hell, some of my closest friends still don’t want to talk about the differences (and their preference) for manhwa vs manga because they think I’ll get judgy with them.
- Comment on Anon questions the epidemic 3 weeks ago:
More or less. There is a lot of brainpower involved in making sure numbers aren’t juiced one way or the other, though, so don’t think it’s just a shot in the dark.
- Comment on Anon questions the epidemic 3 weeks ago:
They were talking about it way before the epidemic. I remember at least as far back as middle Obama presidency that there was a show talking with one of his campaigners and they brought up the statistics on the number of people that would claim to have X amount of “close friends” declining.
There is a definite difference in the man/woman divide though on those numbers.
- Comment on Evil Bisexuals 4 weeks ago:
What I really learned to do was to stop sucking so many dicks in a row and to not get so full of cum
Teach me, oh master of wisdom. I’m reasonably certain my partner might suffer from chafing due to excess.
- Comment on Cruel and unusual 4 weeks ago:
I wonder if I’m just weird, because I swear I hate the printed tags more than the paper tags. I can feel the print sticking, especially if I sweat even the slightest bit.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
It’s apparently common enough that the military has a specific tool in basic training med-whatevers for cutting off the zipper.
I honestly never even conceived of the notion until I read that fact as a young adult.
- Comment on Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials 4 weeks ago:
It would work, but only to keep you from getting drafted. You’d probably be in some sort of military brig for a good long while.
Much more effective* is to shoot the bastards. We all know how much americans talk about doing it…
*I’m not going to lie here, it’s not more effective *for you*, just for everyone else after a few more follow your example. You’d be consigning yourself to death.
- Comment on Cannot tell you how many times I have asked this question 4 weeks ago:
You ever see the gut of a gorilla? They have much better mechanisms and microbiota to get all their nutrients from plants than we could dream of.
Plus they build muscle by all the other things people mention, like genetics and weight lifting (their own mass).
- Comment on non con friendship 5 weeks ago:
No, comrade, we need a union.
We pull out guns
Hey boss, give us our money.
- Comment on non con friendship 5 weeks ago:
Sometimes you have to force it, ya know?
- Comment on Firebombs thrown at supercars outside Birmingham wedding venue 5 weeks ago:
If anyone was hurt there’s no way any news outlet would let such a juicy headline go past in favor of just reporting on the cars.
- Comment on Simply Bananas 5 weeks ago:
Ha! I loved beast wars, but yes, there were a great many much better shows… but also as a nerdy kid with only rabbit ears and a once every two weeks trip to the library, I watched whatever I could.
- Comment on People who get "happy ending" massages, is there like a common keyword or process? 5 weeks ago:
If I could massage myself, I would never leave the house.
- Comment on The Woke Veggie Tale Leftists Won't Tell You About This One 5 weeks ago:
The fuck is a tributary? Because there are way more rivers than just those seven that drain to the mississippi. Wikipedia even says that tributaries include streams, and good lord I know even the tiniest of rivers will have many streams feeding it. Declaring a certain size of river/water body to be a tributary is just fucking around with numbers to prove your point.
- Comment on Simply Bananas 5 weeks ago:
when you’re a stranger
- Comment on Simply Bananas 5 weeks ago:
Honestly, while the cgi shown is trash, it really isn’t all that bad considering what they had at the time for a kid’s show. They were producing a 30 minute episode a week on a budget that was surely a pittance, much less than 1/4 I’m sure, of a 2 hour film that we would consider really good at the time.
- Comment on YUM 1 month ago:
Which is weir, because chicken is one of the few items in the grocery store that I haven’t really seen a large increase in the price, and the all you can eat wings deals at restaurants have only slightly increased. Meanwhile, like you said, everything else that is chicken at a restaurant has noticeably risen.
- Comment on YUM 1 month ago:
So the brisket is generally an unappetizing piece of the cow corpse. A long time ago, some realized that slowly cooking it over a very long time, which has been ‘formalized’ into smoking it for 24 hours, makes the meat tender enough to eat. The brisket has different parts, some of which have more fat than others. The moist brisket is the portion where the fat is very thick. Generally the smoking process makes the fat shrink, but it’s still a significant portion of the meat. Think a layer cake where the icing is give or take 1/6 - 1/4 of the cake’s entire portion. That’s moist.
The lean brisket is usually where either the fat was thin enough to not be visible after the smoking, or it was deliberately scraped off before/during the smoking. The meat will not be dry like a piece of toast, but you won’t ever have a piece of fat in your mouth either. The way the particular bbq joint prepares it will differ, so assume these are broad strokes and not very specific designations.
Some people have preferences that are wild. My friend literally wants just the fat and will eat it like it’s candy, while my mother wants it the consistency of jerky.
- Comment on Not Enough Hate 1 month ago:
Never forget to point out the most common* form of gender affirming care is chest/breast reduction for men/young boys.
*maybe a factoid, but I’ve seen it in several places I wouldn’t expect a falsehood to hold up
- Comment on Not Enough Hate 1 month ago:
Limes are often a little too big. I’m more of a clementine, myself.
- Comment on YUM 1 month ago:
Which is insane. I remember 1/2 lb moist for $4.99. Brisket used to be a cheap meat because it was always thought horrendous, and smoking it was the only way to tenderize it enough to be palatable. Freaking ridiculous.
- Comment on 2048 1 month ago:
Dangit, now that you’ve pointed it out I can’t stop shuddering at it.
- Comment on Low rating 1 month ago:
apparently the card the insurance company sends you is not proof of insurance in Texas,
The fuck? How the hell is that not proof?
Also, as someone who has also had to pay court fees over bullshit, it’s freaking ridiculous how our society lets that sort of thing happen.