netvor
@netvor@lemmy.world
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 6 hours ago:
Don’t fold them diagonally before wringing them out.
Who does that?
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 6 hours ago:
Ah that’s why he’s small and bald: he cleans so hard he scrapes a layer of himself off every time.
- Comment on Is there a name for the vocal technique used for characters like Sméagol? 5 days ago:
- Comment on If Browser and Wario are Mario's mortal ennemies, why did he invited them for a kart race? 1 week ago:
r?
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 1 week ago:
Teach him kindly and lead him to be a better man. Only if he will not be led, cut him down with a regretful stroke and send him to Buddha.
Just for entertainment, I’m going to assume your post was a Markdown equivalent of “teaching kindly”
- Comment on Is it really worth starting a lemmy community? 1 week ago:
And you stare at it forever and wonder what you could have done better.
Or move on after realizing that there’s no way you’re going to learn stuff without doing a LOT of stuff, most of which won’t work out or even go anywhere, and it’s perfectly normal and fine to have lots of unfinished/dead/dormant/abandoned/(call-them-whatever-helps-you-move-on) projects.
- Comment on What is this colour? 1 week ago:
It’s called “khlute”. (From now on–I made it up.)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Man I’m 45 and I don’t blame the youth for any problems now. But maybe I’m just charging my blame lasers so that I can go even harder when I’m 65. Like, “when I was younger I never blamed the youths for problems but NOW, with YOU it’s justified!”.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 1 month ago:
Not acting “for free” does not mean zero-sum game.
I am no expert but I don’t think nations need to (or do, in general) operate on a zero-sum game. Actions can benefit both sides.
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 1 month ago:
I call it a (wo…)manmade organised dogmatic religion. Sure, it might be just with a member of one (which is kinda cool and all and probably makes the organizing part a little bit easier) but it’s still kind of the same thing…
But seriously, it really depends on the details on such belief. It might be anything from harmless cope to superstition to delusion to paranoia. Or a first brave step in escaping a cult–which I would genuinely applaud.
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 1 month ago:
It loosely reminds everyone of everything because “other planes of existence” is an all-encompassing meaningless term.
Just about every religion or fiction fits this, because they can–and do-- say “oh but it’s in oThEr pLaNeS oF eXiStEnCe!”. Which is a silly excuse because just about only concrete property that “other plane of existence” implies is that things on beings on it can’t affect things or beings on this plane of existence, so any theory (as in “has to make useful, verifiable predictions”) involving interactions between planes of existence is kind of dead on arrival.
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 1 month ago:
Someone has to teach those little gangstas how extortion is done.
Well at least you tried…
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 1 month ago:
I see, So that’s what the jack-o-lanterns are for?
So they are actually not lanterns but temporary toilets, but then someone got an idea to put candles in them so that it at least makes the “trick” part kind of uncomfortable. Right?
- Comment on I have no idea what this is about 1 month ago:
OT, but the comment under the video is pure gold:
“Sharks have a similar metaphor, ‘swam under the Fonzie’.”
- Comment on When washing, should I turn garments inside out? 1 month ago:
I usually dry inside and I make sure to turn stuff inside out before hanging it on the rack but I do it because I believe it dries better when things like pockets can be stretched out.
UV is a great point, I never realized that.
- Comment on When washing, should I turn garments inside out? 1 month ago:
So it looks like I’ve been doing it all wrong all the time. Especially with hoodies, there’s always a t-shirt under them, so the “dirtier” side of the hoodie is more likely to be the outside.
With jeans it’s kind of the same, assuming not too much sweating (and proper underwear turnaround).
- Comment on When washing, should I turn garments inside out? 1 month ago:
Just about the only thing I remember was that my mom always said that one should zip them up and not leave the zipper open – specifically so that it does not clank around and perhaps scratch the washing machine drum or get its tiny teeth brush and the moving part tangled with other, softer garments.
Turning the hoodie inside out might mitigate that a little bit more, but not much…
- Submitted 1 month ago to [deleted] | 30 comments
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 1 month ago:
honestly with drawings like that I half expected at least one panel be involving bloodletting
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 1 month ago:
wow, so Trump is doing “Liberatem resigno” (“I give up my freedom”) but with rubber shackles.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 1 month ago:
Still, maybe if Zucc did it people would actually find him cool.
(“Cool” as in, like an average politician, which is still way cooler than he is now.)
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 1 month ago:
LOL that’s why I will never be a politician. I would be so frustrated by not being allowed to touch my face! The irony of it would just overwhelm me.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 months ago:
Too bad we can’t really do that with movies & series. Cinema aside, I basically start at step 4.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 months ago:
In order of preference:
- buy flac directly from the label
- buy flac on Bandcamp (or equivalent, although i’m barely aware of any real alternatives)
- buy CD and rip it to flac
- despair
- try to fight it
- give up and get it via torrent.
Streaming services are evil and i wish for them to fail.…but more seriously – I get why streaming services exist. Although I will almost certainly will never use one in my life, in principle it’s fine, I get the point. When I’m online I’m actually OK to stream from an indie radio (eg. soma.fm) or from a RSS based podcast player (eg. Antenna).The problem i have is that, AFAIK, the business models are almost always abusive and hostile to both user and the artist. Some kind of federated system could work better, but I’m not sure it’s doable. As it is, I’m afraid this middle man model just won’t ever work properly without heavy regulation – which is kind of a problem in the globalized world.
- Comment on Who benefits from the "14 Min Read" estimates popping everywhere? 11 months ago:
Or…
…or in 30? That’s how it would work for me since I’m a very slow (distracted!) reader.
I get the point, though. Thanks.
- Comment on Who benefits from the "14 Min Read" estimates popping everywhere? 11 months ago:
Maybe I’m more like a bovine when it comes to digesting.
I graze on stuff, then later I will regurgitate it and slowly chew and process it again. (…and sometimes again, etc… until I suddenly realize that I’ve learned something…) The grazing is separate process, and my greed makes it already unpredictable enough. (The thing with Internet meadows is, there’s always another meadow nearby.)
- Comment on Who benefits from the "14 Min Read" estimates popping everywhere? 11 months ago:
Yeah I have bad attention span but all that means is that even if the article is 5 minute I will be googling every other word and and opening every other link, and THAT’s far more significant than the length of the article.
After all, there’s a reason I did not end up reading the original “14 min article” (which by the way got rated almost an hour by Firefox reader mode, go figure) and went on to post this… :D
- Comment on Who benefits from the "14 Min Read" estimates popping everywhere? 11 months ago:
How does the estimate help you decide?
I don’t get it. If I’m interested in something, I’m interested in it regardless of the length of an article, right?
I mean, maybe I’m not interested in all of it, but then I can just spend, say, 30 seconds evaluating whether the article is any good and whether it spends a paragraph or two on the very topic I’m curious about. Length of the article does not have much bearing on that, it’s more about whether I know the terms I’m looking for and can spot them. (Of course, massive length may hint I will spend more time sifting through, but peeking at scrollbar is enough to realize that.)
If the thing I’m interested in is buried in a massive wall of text, so what? I can ignore the rest of the article as much as I can ignore the rest of the blog (or the internet…)
The real unpredictable thing for me is always that even if I’m looking for topic X, I might actually need to learn about W first, and often I’m underestimating the relevancy of W and its own depth. So I could spend 1 minute reading about X but still find myself unable to use the knowledge. That’s regardless of whether the knowledge was in a 1h long article or 10 min.
- Submitted 11 months ago to [deleted] | 27 comments
- Comment on Anon doesn't wash 11 months ago:
Me
