kryptonianCodeMonkey
@kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
- Comment on Magnificent 33 minutes ago:
Oh the Bend and Snap! Works every time!
- Comment on Biden in Final Hours Pardons Cheney, Fauci and Milley to Thwart Reprisals 1 hour ago:
Good looking out. Not that it will stop them from trying, but that certainly makes the task harder for them to fuck over some political enemies with Trumped Up Charges™ (trademarking that now, as I imagine this will be a recurring phrase over the next 4 years. I’m gonna make bank in licensing)
- Comment on Conservative people are the moist toxic and aggressive people for no reason 1 hour ago:
Company holidays mean you’re lazy? Bro needs to get a grip.
- Comment on naughty naughty 23 hours ago:
The amount of money my wife and I saved earning our degrees with libgen is in the thousands
- Comment on Retribution would be not pulling out his teeth but his testicles 1 day ago:
She probably has to do a lot of shimmying of her hips as she pushes them down. Probably takes a fair amount of pushing, so she probably makes little grunts of effort too.
- Comment on If you save, we will charge you more 1 week ago:
There’s certainly some reasonability to that. However, if the person decides to terminate service, maintaining the grid doesn’t become any cheaper for the power company. The lines are already installed, the connections made, and the company will continue to upkeep your connection all the way up to your home, even if it is terminated locally. They’ll do that just in case you or future homeowners wish to continue service, and your neighbors will likely still be using it anyway. So by that same reasoning, maintaining a just-in-case service connection that you don’t typically need because you generate your own power also doesn’t result in increased maintenance costs to the power company. So there is also an argument to be made that that cost shouldn’t be pushed to them, but to the power drawers that the power company actually wants to serve.
- Comment on New delivery 1 week ago:
That’s cuz she’s the whole package. Cute, fluffy, lazy, and roughly box shaped. The whole package.
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 2 weeks ago:
Gotta get the kids started on associating themselves with our brand now. Subvert the competition asap.
- Comment on I never realized this 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t mock it. The meme did.
- Comment on I never realized this 2 weeks ago:
Sure. It would be personally meaningful. Changing your name is always meaningful, I would hope. But it is not contributing to the the dismantling of the patriarchal norms. Not every action has to be, of course. But the conceit of this post is implied to be that her intention was just that, a rejection of patriarchal naming conventions. If that was her intention, it was misguided and failed to achieve that goal.
- Comment on I never realized this 2 weeks ago:
The context of the meme implied she was doing it because she’s a feminist and that taking her mother’s name was somehow an expression of that. Of course she can do that, but it isn’t achieving anything if that was the goal
- Comment on I never realized this 2 weeks ago:
Wasn’t my post, just advocating for OP
- Comment on I never realized this 2 weeks ago:
Yeah… it can be interpreted that way. But even as a feminist myself, it is a dumb performative sort of protest. Paternal surnames are the least important fixtures of our patriarchal society, and, unless it was created wholecloth, there are no surnames that aren’t patriarchal historical lyrics, as the meme points out.
- Comment on I never realized this 2 weeks ago:
cough en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lee_Hooker cough
- Comment on The Greatest Cover Song of All Time? 3 weeks ago:
As a metal song, it’s pretty good. As a cover, I think it barely counts. They essentially just played a brief homage to the melody at the very beginning, then abandoned it entirely. They lifted the lyrics almost one for one, for the most parts, but it bared no other resemblance to the original.
I like Disturbed’s cover because it transforms the song’s tone and the genre of the original while still being recognizable and truly paying homage to it. And it’s even outside Disturbed’s typical style. It’s incredibly unique.
- Comment on The Greatest Cover Song of All Time? 3 weeks ago:
Hurt is great too, but I was blown away by Disturbed’s cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s The Sound of Silence the first time I heard it. And even not it gives me chills.
- Comment on Jesse Eisenberg Says Lex Luthor Role 'Hurt My Career in a Real Way' 4 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, agreed.
- Comment on Jesse Eisenberg Says Lex Luthor Role 'Hurt My Career in a Real Way' 4 weeks ago:
True. I don’t love that for the character though.
- Comment on Jesse Eisenberg Says Lex Luthor Role 'Hurt My Career in a Real Way' 4 weeks ago:
I mean, it was a bad movie and an odd choice for casting, but this things are not his fault.
On that note, I think Jesse is a good actor, but… he’s not a Lex. Why do we seem to be trying to cast young skinny dudes as Lex and directing them to play him as a rich spoiled manchild? One of the very few things that have me concerned with Superman 2025 is the casting of Nicholus Hoult. Again, a good actor, but I’m worried about his physicality and his ability to be menacing/physically intimidating.
- Comment on What do people (as in, IRL) actually think of the [alleged] perpetrator involved in the NYC shooting? 5 weeks ago:
… said the prosecutor reading the defendents online statements to the court.
- Comment on What do people (as in, IRL) actually think of the [alleged] perpetrator involved in the NYC shooting? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t really want to discuss this IRL since I’m a bit paranoid of mass surveillance and getting my voice recorded saying anything anti-establishment could put a target on my back
Wait till you find out the CIA can read…
- Comment on This happened today at a company in India. Better keep a smile on your face 1 month ago:
I like that “fostering a healthy and supportive work environment” translated to “CULL THE WEAK!”
- Comment on This happened today at a company in India. Better keep a smile on your face 1 month ago:
I like that “fostering a healthy and supportive work environment” translated to “COOL THE WEAK!”
- Comment on This happened today at a company in India. Better keep a smile on your face 1 month ago:
Also incidently everyone remaining is extremely stressed about feeling stressed and getting laid off. Good luck, yall.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 month ago:
So as always, it depends and there is a spectrum. The scum of the scum are scum lords, i.e. landlords who buy property, do not fix up or maintain it, fill it with any old tenant that is desperate enough to take it, well evict someone at the drop of a hat, and constantly charge exorbitant amounts on property the own outright because the protest value went up this year. It doesn’t necessarily have to be that bad, but people that buy property simply as an “investment”, i.e. get passive income from people with less money than them to buy property, are leeching off the less fortunate. There are certainly scales of badness to that, but that idea is simply immoral.
But there are other situations where one may be a “landlord” and it’s not really a moral problem. For example, a cousin of mine had to work overseas for a bit over a year and was put up in a hotel during that time. He didn’t want to sell his home, as he would be returning to it later, but also didn’t want it to sit empty. He ended up signing a year long lease over to a couple students, charged them little more than the mortgage (enough to cover the mortgage, taxes and any minor repairs that may be needed afte they left) and returned home to a house that was still in decent shape, hadn’t had any break ins, infestations, or damage from the elements, and the students got some inexpensive housing for the year. No one was taken advantage of and he wasn’t just milking poor people for profit. Everyone won. That is clearly different.
- Comment on 'Baldur's Gate 3': Patch 8 Will Get TWELVE New Subclasses In 2025 1 month ago:
Cool. Now add Artificer.
- Comment on Percentages 1 month ago:
Yeah it was Letters from Whitechapel.
- Comment on Percentages 1 month ago:
Letters
- Comment on Percentages 1 month ago:
My wife, father-in-law and I were playing a board game with my brother-in-law. In this game, we were playing as detectives who have to try to find his character, but each turn he could move in secret in one of several directions. We were a few turns in at one point and he could have been in any of dozens of places at this point. We drove him nuts by saying “he’s either in this spot or he’s not, it’s a 50-50 chance.” He kept arguing “I could be in a ton of places! It’s not a 50-50 chance!” But we just kept pretending we didn’t understand and arguing that there were only two possibilities, he’s there or he’s not, so it was clearly a 50-50 chance. He got quite angry.
- Comment on Starbucks wants a Bachelor's degree for a barista 1 month ago:
No that’s not how LinkedIn works. If a job lists specific qualification tags like that, it marks those tags with symbols and colors them red or green to indicate if your LinkedIn profile has those qualifications listed. Those can be education requirements, certifications, skills, etc.