agamemnonymous
@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Hulu quizzing about the ads played 5 minutes ago:
To be fair, the last time I flew the jolly Roger was over a decade ago. Finding a stream/torrent that:
- Wasn’t potato quality
- Had seeders
- Wasn’t shut down since last time
- Wouldn’t give you a virus
- Was actually the thing you were looking for (I did not have sexual relations with that woman)
was a much more time consuming process.
- Comment on Hulu quizzing about the ads played 2 hours ago:
Back in my day, it was a much more involved process.
Once it’s on the disk it’s fair game.
Do people really rewatch stuff that often?
- Comment on Hulu quizzing about the ads played 9 hours ago:
Piracy is a hassle, the convenience of streaming made the cost worthwhile. They’ve forgotten this. Once the cost outweighs the convenience, the hassle won’t seem like such a hassle anymore.
- Comment on Anon has cold feet 11 hours ago:
Unironically, roll them down just over the heel
- Comment on What are some actual good *sour* sour candy? 12 hours ago:
Slightly different qualifier, but I hate sour powder. It tears up your mouth too much. I love Haribo Twin Snakes because, while they aren’t incredibly sour, it’s the gummy itself that’s sour, no powder involved.
- Comment on fight fire with napalm 12 hours ago:
Wait are Concord grapes really that tenacious? I love concords…
- Comment on Contributing to the local economy 20 hours ago:
My years of hospitality were pretty darn convenient. Sure, it was hard scheduling things with people working 9-5, but errands were always a breeze. Virtually no lines anywhere, everything open, negligible traffic. I could swing by the DMV on a whim.
- Comment on Religion 1 day ago:
Krishna isn’t even really part of the Trimurti, he’s an avatar of Vishnu. You could draw parallels to Christ, “personal” is a crucial qualifier there.
- Comment on Religion 1 day ago:
It was my understanding that even then, Vishnu and Shiva are aspects of Brahman. It’s just that Brahman is so abstract and transcendent that you don’t really “worship”. If you view worship as a form of evocation, Brahman doesn’t really give you any attributes to focus on.
It’s like playing music to evoke a mood. Holding down every key of an organ can only really convey the idea of “EVERYTHING, undifferentiated”. It’s certainly a compelling idea, but it lacks nuance and texture. If you want to convey something more “useful”, you have to be more selective.
- Comment on "The biggest threat to America today is not communism, it's moving America toward a fascist theocracy" - Frank Zappa, 1986 2 days ago:
Trump is not the end all be all of political aspiration. His flavor was not the dominant streak at the time of this interview. Before, and beside, his relatively recent claim to political power were, and are, claims predicated on theocratic moral justification.
- Comment on "The biggest threat to America today is not communism, it's moving America toward a fascist theocracy" - Frank Zappa, 1986 2 days ago:
Theocracy is always about lip service. The ones who are actually about service to God aren’t concerned with power. Religion, as an institution, just provides a convenient “moral” claim to power to be exploited by power-hungry individuals.
- Comment on Religion 3 days ago:
There are 2 or 3 candidates for that
I’ve never heard that. I’ve always heard that Brahman = God, the Trimurti (Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma) are the three main “aspects”, and every other “god” is a further “subdivision” thereof.
- Comment on David Lynch, visionary filmmaker behind 'Twin Peaks' and 'Mulholland Drive,' dies at 78 3 days ago:
I got really bored with Twin Peaks at one point. Just felt like the magic was gone and it went stale. But I stuck with it, and the magic came back in a big way. After a little research, turns out my boredom exactly coincided with the period when Lynch was gone working on something else.
Shine on, you crazy diamond. The world is a bit less weird and interesting with your passing.
- Comment on Do girls also wiggle the fuel hose or is this just a male habit? 3 days ago:
Rotate the nozzle 180° so the angle is steeper, then wiggle
- Comment on "2 bedroom" AirBnB. 6 days ago:
It was $60 when I looked
- Comment on "2 bedroom" AirBnB. 1 week ago:
More like a studio apartment with a separate space with a separate bed.
Yeah, it’s a van. It’s cheap and it’s on the beach. Some people are into that. The reviews are great, the people who went for it knew what they were getting and were happy with what they got. It’s a fun novelty for the kind of person who’s into it, I’m not sure why people are upset about it.
- Comment on "2 bedroom" AirBnB. 1 week ago:
There’s still the loft, which has the sole function of having a bed.
- Comment on "2 bedroom" AirBnB. 1 week ago:
What else would you call a closed space with a deliberate, designed space for a bed?
- Comment on "2 bedroom" AirBnB. 1 week ago:
It is described as such already, and there are multiple pictures to show exactly that. It is a camper van with 2 sleeping spaces, that is reflected in the listing
- Comment on "2 bedroom" AirBnB. 1 week ago:
There are two spaces to sleep, the main bed and the loft. How else would you communicate that information on the site?
- Comment on "2 bedroom" AirBnB. 1 week ago:
What’s infuriating about this? Maybe I’m biased because I’ve seriously considered van life before, but a couple nights in a camper on the beach seems like a fun novelty trip.
- Comment on Time to wake 1 week ago:
Newton’s Second Law
- Comment on Disgusting money driven mindset 1 week ago:
Scrum is an Agile project management methodology. Basically it centers around iterated short term “sprints” of about two weeks where team members have relative autonomy, and after which there are meetings to consider any emergent issues before committing to the next sprint. It’s supposed to be more flexible and responsive than traditional “waterfall” project management, where an entire project is planned out in advance in a linear progression. Funnily enough it actually was named after the rugby term
It’s very popular in software development in particular, since oftentimes development can be broken into modular tasks that can be worked on in parallel. Many argue that it’s a fad that’s been shoehorned into applications where it isn’t useful, or that some practitioners focus so much on the structure that they big down the process with endless meetings.
A scrum master is a specialist who helps an organization implement scrum.
- Comment on May I? 1 week ago:
I’ve got a nickel
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 1 week ago:
I got Kim to dance with me in the church in Disco Elysium
- Comment on Why would Dumbledolf do this 1 week ago:
I read this in Brad Neely’s voice.
- Comment on If me and a bunch of my lemmy friends got on a yacht. Went into international waters what could we get away with legally and what would still be illegal? 2 weeks ago:
Panama is mostly because of cheaper rates to go through the canal, if I’m not mistaken.
- Comment on What is the origin of aliens looking like humans? Why and when did it become the norm? 2 weeks ago:
Convergent Evolution might explain why intelligent species wind up being bipedal tetrapods.
I think there’s a competing argument here. Certainly not all aliens would be bipedal tetrapods, but the ones who go on to be tool-using, space-faring species probably would be.
- Comment on Anon discovers Japanese jazz 2 weeks ago:
Music from a famous Japanese band, sold by a Japanese person, delivered with a bunch of stereotypical Japanese things. Seems a bit disingenuous to generalize that to just “music”
- Comment on Hubris 3 weeks ago:
Every biscuit I’ve ever had has been way more dense than a croissant