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- Comment on Montrealer who dumped water on unhoused man's face issues public apology. 3 days ago:
Very interesting, thanks for linking it! And they even have a name for the phenomenon I described.
“Intentional shifts in terminology might seem like a game of Whac-A-Mole – an ultimately unsuccessful effort to outrun a concept’s ugly implications. The Harvard professor Steven Pinker dubbed it the “euphemism treadmill”.”
- Comment on Montrealer who dumped water on unhoused man's face issues public apology. 3 days ago:
Every few years some people decide you can’t use certain words because they have become negative terms to some group. So they invent a new term for the same thing and as the years go by and more people use the new term, it gets the same negative association that the old one had. Then the cycle begins anew.
Sometimes it’s good - a lot of slurs that were ok for anyone to say when I was a kid are now socially unacceptable and that’s great. But sometimes the SJWs take it too far and I think this is one of those times. I don’t understand the reason for the push to call them “unhoused” but I’m willing to be educated.
Once you hit middle age and have seen this happen a few times you’ll usually just roll your eyes and carry on.
- Comment on New Doom reveal hinted at by Zenimax trademark 5 days ago:
Never heard of this guy in my life. You seem to be keen to white knight for a bad tech journalist though.
- Comment on New Doom reveal hinted at by Zenimax trademark 5 days ago:
I would then ask, why is idfa the exact same as idkfa except you don’t get Keys.
No matter what the answer, it never stood for what this article’s author just fucking made up out of thin air so that he could rant about Google SEO or whatever the fuck.
- Comment on New Doom reveal hinted at by Zenimax trademark 5 days ago:
The author of this article is bad at his job. I don’t know where he pulled that backronym for IDKFA from but it stands for id (as in software) Keys, Full ammo, Armor.
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 1 week ago:
Only stupid people
- Comment on Everyday thoughts 1 week ago:
Before the revolution can happen.
- Comment on A question about Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. [Spoilers] 1 week ago:
Oh boy, have I got uncomfortable news for you about how nature works…
- Comment on The Duration Time on this Cookie... 1 week ago:
You add an exception to your browser to not delete them for that domain, if you need the cookie for the website to function.
That way your sites keep working, and everyone else putting shit in your browser gets their stuff deleted.
- Comment on The Duration Time on this Cookie... 1 week ago:
Privacy. By using containers and deleting cookies frequently, you can minimize the amount of tracking and data collecting these scum sucking corpos are doing.
- Comment on Checkmate, science 1 week ago:
Because it makes the vehicle too long to park in the average garage or driveway.
- Comment on The Duration Time on this Cookie... 1 week ago:
If you don’t have your browser set to delete all cookies you haven’t made exceptions for, every time you close it, I don’t know what to tell you. Except… “you should do that”.
- Comment on Bonza staff queue at Centrelink for emergency payments as airline administrators confirm April wages will not be paid 2 weeks ago:
You aren’t going to be able to do back of the napkin math on that one, it’s an incredibly complicated business.
There’s a reason most airlines have failed and many of the survivors have needed government bailouts. And the reason is not mismanagement across the board, although there’s plenty of that, too.
- Comment on Sprocket: Tank Design is such a fun game! 2 weeks ago:
This whole thread smells like an ad.
- Comment on Anon works in a high end restaurant 2 weeks ago:
There’s no juice can in the world that would melt at 500F. Even lead doesn’t melt that low. I think the person that wrote this might have been lying on the internet.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Tell him you’re shy but you like him and would like to meet him.
Er, I mean, tell your friend to say that.
- Comment on Does wb get any money from sales of adult swim published games on steam? 3 weeks ago:
There are Adult Swim games?!?! Off to search and see what’s out there…
- Comment on Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Ralph Fiennes To Star In ‘28 Years Later’ For Danny Boyle And Sony Pictures 3 weeks ago:
Only three more movies until it turns into a Warhammer 40k franchise!
- Comment on What is your most watched movie, and how many times did you watch it? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah! That’s why the movie holds up after all this time. Glorious practical effects. There’s no CGI to look outdated. The limitations on the flight scenes I can forgive.
- Comment on What is your most watched movie, and how many times did you watch it? 5 weeks ago:
Same for me. I used to watch it 20 minutes at a time while I did my boots and uniform every night. Probably watched it 100 times total in 3 years, in 20 minute chunks.
20+ years later I can still say pretty much all the dialog as the movie plays, which as my ex can attest is initially impressive and quickly becomes irritating. 😁
- Comment on We Found The Happiest Workers In America | More Perfect Union (10:52) 1 month ago:
I love to see it. The hope emanating from these people as they talk is infectious. People just need good opportunities, healthy society will follow.
- Comment on California law would give employees the 'right to disconnect' during nonworking hours 1 month ago:
What in the hell am I looking at here? My brain is not processing this.
- Comment on Do fingers ever stop growing? Do they shrink as you get older? 1 month ago:
Stop growing longer? Yes. And when you get much older your whole body will shrink a bit. Plus they can always get fatter or skinnier! Nobody is gonna bug you about how accurate your tattoo is though. ;)
- Comment on Gearbox Suffers Employee Layoffs Following Embracer Sale 1 month ago:
That was fast.
Fuckers.
- Comment on Is it normal to forget things from the previous day often? 1 month ago:
That’s what I was going to ask. I’m real close to 50 and the truth is, we start breaking down eventually (mentally and physically), no matter how well we take care of ourselves. It’s slow but inexorable. There are so many variables that you’ll see older people with a huge range of capabilities, but generally speaking there aren’t any 80 year olds out there for functioning as well as they did in their 30’s.
- Comment on Would you drink breast milk if it was commercially available? 1 month ago:
Nah. I switched from cow milk to plant milk a couple years ago and while it wasn’t awesome at first, once I discovered oat milk my troubles were over. It’s so damn good. I don’t see how human milk would be an improvement.
- Comment on That gourmet luxury blend... 2 months ago:
How old is that bottle? I looked at their website and they don’t even sell this product.
- Comment on Will people show off their old computers and phones in say, 30 or 50 years in the future? 3 months ago:
Damn I feel old now. Used every single one of those. Owned several of them. Still have piles of Amigas in my basement too. Like, at least five of them that are functional plus a couple that don’t work anymore.
RIP my A3000T.
- Comment on Do people who are in late stage dementia still aware of the concept of death? 4 months ago:
That gets rid of all the memories.
- Comment on UFG bottle fights 4 months ago:
Why did I watch the whole thing?