Swedneck
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- Comment on Capital of Estonia after a visit from Swedish football fans 1 day ago:
Perhaps more mildly infuriating is that the mods here seem to be on vacation
- Comment on What’s a reasonable tip for a barber? (America) 2 days ago:
so here’s my “no stupid questions”: How on god’s green earth could you possibly afford tipping a barber 20%? Are american barbers dirt cheap or do you just actually consider it perfectly reasonable to pay closer to 100 bucks for someone to trim your hair?
- Comment on What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all 6 days ago:
eh, i don’t think things’ll have time to regress that far before the pendulum swings back, plus it’s only getting easier to set up your own connections over long distances.
What i can see disappearing are things like youtube and global multiplayer gaming, because that’s just so incredibly data-heavy. But lightweight stuff like sane websites, forums, chats… that’s quite feasible on something like a globally interconnected mesh. At worst you’ll have to wait a bit for things to load, but like… we would probably benefit from that…
- Comment on What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all 6 days ago:
honestly i’ve been slowly working towards that kinda lifestyle for a few years now and i kinda hope the “internet” fucking dies so i’m free to go all the way, it just seems like what things should be like if our recent development wasn’t so directed by corporate interests or just happened more slowly.
Old-timey life was really quite a lot better in many ways, like we’re just not evolved to constantly read about every single horrible event that happens to any human, and we need to be a little bit bored sometimes.
But also smartphones are fucking awesome and i like being able to call emergency services if i’ve fallen and i can’t get up, which even the actual amish recognize.Also the aesthetics/vibes of judicious mixing of technological eras is fucking impeccable, i want the countryside to look like Hobbiton, small towns like 18th century sweden, cities to look like 1920’s new york with everything VIOLENTLY art deco, and all of it connected with trams and trains that look like metal caterpillars and where 30-minute departure frequency is seen as bordering on not even having service.
- Comment on What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all 6 days ago:
hope for the best, prepare to go amish
- Comment on I hate Android! 6 days ago:
when you say “every single iteration”, does that include stuff like lineageos? Because that’s what i’ve been using for ages and i still struggle to believe how non-shitty it is.
- Comment on I hate Android! 6 days ago:
ironically google’s pixel lineup is one of the best options available, i’ve been using that for many years now and it’s so fucking easy to install lineage on them.
- Comment on I hate Android! 6 days ago:
seriously, lineageos after having dived into every setting is by far the best mobile experience these days, i’m almost never even slightly annoyed by it.
- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 1 week ago:
how the fuck is anyone taking these discussions seriously lmao
- Comment on Just to get this straight Odysseus angered the gods by just trying to survive the only way he could at the time? 2 weeks ago:
and then there’s finland, where the world was born from a massive egg or some shit, there’s a lady sitting naked in the ocean, and the main dude is an old weirdo who seems to have severe ADHD (basically a non-edgy version of odin, it’s great)
- Comment on How come in America Cunt is such a egregious word but not the same in Europe? 2 weeks ago:
i mean, i would absolutely get rid of the need to poo if i could. A significant amount of the mass in poo is just red blood cells, which you could surely engineer the body to just recycle. It seems to me that poo is almost entirely a symptom of unintelligent design.
Pee is a different matter because there are things we simply have to get rid of, and flushing them out with a bunch of water is a sensible way of doing that. Just tweak things so it doesn’t need to be so very dilute, and you have the ideal waste disposal method.
- Comment on How come in America Cunt is such a egregious word but not the same in Europe? 2 weeks ago:
we can create it, i propose “to cun”, because that will be funny.
- Comment on New textbook for 9th grade students in Greece promotes right and alt-right ideology 2 weeks ago:
I’m so confused as to why this is even a textbook at all, do you actually have classes where kids are told how to behave??
I’m sure the translation doesn’t help, but like… This reads like storybook for little kids that suddenly starts talking about date rape, what the fuck? - Comment on How often is normal to masturbate? 2 weeks ago:
you should visit a mechanic
- Comment on How often is normal to masturbate? 2 weeks ago:
not really, maybe if you do multiple days in a row with 5 sessions each
- Comment on What is it like being drunk? How much control do you have? 2 weeks ago:
Hm, when i get tired like that i don’t really get loopy, i get giggly when REALLY zonked out but otherwise my brain just feels full of molasses, it’s hard to think but the same thoughts come out.
- Comment on Settle a debate can potato's and noodles go together and taste great with sauce and other things? (I say it can) However my mother says two starches should never be cooked because it's too much. 2 weeks ago:
just use less of both?
- Comment on Non-stick pans? 2 weeks ago:
but also the seasoning really isn’t that difficult to reapply, wipe some oil onto it with a bit of paper and put it in the oven for like an hour or whatever it is.
An aged seasoning is great but AFAIK they work perfectly fine with a basic seasoning, and frankly given the state most pans are in i don’t think people would even notice a difference between their current pan an an unseasoned carbon steel one…
- Comment on Why does dried pasta have an expiration date 2 weeks ago:
how do you even put a date on fruits and veggies
- Comment on Why does dried pasta have an expiration date 2 weeks ago:
amusingly some meat, i think it’s mostly cuts of beef, will have a best after date because it needs time for tissues to break down slightly and whatnot so it’s maximally enjoyable.
- Comment on Why does dried pasta have an expiration date 2 weeks ago:
3 year aged cheese, expires in 1 year
- Comment on Why does dried pasta have an expiration date 2 weeks ago:
A lot of packaging here has the text “Best before, often good after:”, and for extra credit they might add “Use your senses: Look, smell, taste, before throwing away.”
- Comment on How come they don't do a cooking show for poor or middle class people? Something that is under 10 bucks that will last a couple days and be great. 3 weeks ago:
well no, you kinda need access to the ingredients for that cuisine… Like, nordic (and even a lot of central european) grocery stores don’t just have galangal or whatever. Plus if they do it’s gonna be horribly expensive, since it’s imported.
- Comment on Mitch McConnel's Wikipedia page has been heavily edited the last few days, with the last ones being 4 hours ago. So around 1PM EST. What could that mean? 3 weeks ago:
there are no stupid questions, but there certainly are questions that seem to have bad intentions…
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
it’s the kind of thing i would enjoy, but i just fundamentally do not understand how it’s supposed to be better.
The way it works just feels literally painful and absolutely isn’t faster or easier than just pressing buttons. - Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 3 weeks ago:
they pulled out their cyberdeck (a commodore 64 with an armstrap and a small CRT display affixed) and started typing furiously
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 3 weeks ago:
i checked their post history and they reference being drunk while commenting previously, so i can only assume they went on one hell of a bender and fixated on dishwashers while struggling with some sort of trauma…
- Comment on Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground? 4 weeks ago:
Not really, no. This is the same kind of silver-bullet thinking as self-driving cars, it may feel cool but in reality the best way to improve things are boring and have been known for centuries if not millennia.
Some things absolutely benefit from being underground, like railways in dense urban areas, but for most things it’s just a ton of effort for not much benefit and introducing a bunch of problems (flooding is only going to become more common in the future).What we should be doing is returning to everything being designed for the specific local environment, stop building everything identically all over the world.
Look at traditional construction and you’ll find tons of small features that together make a HUGE difference, a prime example is how hot places had walled backyard gardens with a fountain in the middle, which basically turns the garden into a swamp cooler. - Comment on Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground? 4 weeks ago:
Putting big roads underground is what norway does, once you see it done it becomes very obvious that it should be standard (plus it helps prevent large roads from being built at all, which is even better).
- Comment on Are products "for curly hair" supposed to straighten hair, make them more curly, or just formulated not to effect the curl at all? 4 weeks ago:
i’m worley
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