jballs
@jballs@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Caught in the act 2 days ago:
RIP trailcam.
- Comment on Trump cosplaying 5 days ago:
I saw an announcement yesterday saying it was from the onions.
- Comment on Anon loves sunny days 5 days ago:
Get a son shirt, homie. Reflects the sun off your skin so you’re cooler, plus you don’t have to wear sunscreen.
- Comment on No excuse 1 week ago:
A bad driver never misses their exit.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 1 week ago:
Sapiens and Homo Deus are both such good books. Lots of little anecdotes like that we’re just so fascinating.
- Comment on Hmmmm 1 week ago:
I feel like that’s good advice for reasonably intelligent people. But it’s kind of a slippery slope, especially for people that are dumb as shit. For example, my neighbor became a hard antivaxxer during COVID.
She mistrusted everything that was actually science, assuming that she since she didn’t understand what qualified professionals were saying, they must be wrong. But if someone could make a simple (even if incredibly wrong) argument on YouTube, shed eat that shit up.
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare coming to PC October 29 2 weeks ago:
I’m curious if this is a straight port or if they updated anything.
- Comment on Hippos 3 weeks ago:
I just did the math and that’s the equivalent to a little more that 3 and a half Chipotle burritos. I can’t imagine trying to flush that down my toilet.
- Comment on Anon enjoys time with his father 3 weeks ago:
Fake: Anon got a free house, obviously every millennials dream
Gay: Anon fucked their dad
- Comment on Megaflopolis 3 weeks ago:
That sounds interesting. I feel like that tiny but of context would probably draw more people to see it. Not sure why they kept it all mysterious.
- Comment on Megaflopolis 3 weeks ago:
Any idea on what the movie is actually about? I saw an interview with Aubrey Plaza where they asked her and she gave a very vague answer.
- Comment on Has to be the manor 3 weeks ago:
Of course it is. God dammit.
- Comment on Has to be the manor 3 weeks ago:
That would all be paid DLC if made today.
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 3 weeks ago:
One day if we are brave, we will get rid of the U in a lot of British words like color and armor, but by God we will keep the British U in the word glamour!
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 weeks ago:
Hard to say. That study you linked mentions reductions in speed and crashes in the vicinity of the camera, which to me indicates that people are only slowing down because they know a camera is there. I suppose someone would have to do a study to see if speed cameras reduce speeds and crashes in areas where there aren’t currently cameras, but have been in the past. Meaning that people are slowing down in areas where they think there might be cameras.
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 weeks ago:
I think the sentiment against them stems from the fact that there are ways to reduce speeds without feeling like they’re being used as a revenue stream.
Personally I like when there are warning signs saying “Speed camera in use ahead” since it has the effect of slowing down traffic and not feeling like a “gotcha” moment.
- Comment on Anon takes the welding pill 4 weeks ago:
And do you, Phyllis, take Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration, to be your lawfully wedded husband?
- Comment on American Airlines Flight Attendants Just Won Boarding Pay 4 weeks ago:
I was a consultant for most of my career until recently where I switched to a salary employee.
- Comment on American Airlines Flight Attendants Just Won Boarding Pay 4 weeks ago:
This is seriously insane to me. I start getting paid as soon as my ass hits my chair. And when I was working in an office, it was as soon as my foot went in the door.
I can’t imagine interacting with the public on behalf of a company without being paid for it. Wtf.
- Comment on No Poop Challenge Champion 4 weeks ago:
Godspeed
- Comment on No Poop Challenge Champion 4 weeks ago:
The Lemmy no poop challenge memes were when I realized this was where I belonged.
- Comment on I always get them confused. 4 weeks ago:
Orson Scott Card actually weighed in on a simple way to determine if something is fantasy or sci-fi since he writes both:
The difference between science fiction and fantasy…is simply this, science fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.
- Comment on The four horsemen of the dogpocalypse. 4 weeks ago:
I have not, but I can’t remember the last time I was in a KFC. Is it any good?
- Comment on Something... 4 weeks ago:
My neighbor sent a text to his wife once that said something like “make sure to get that pussy nice and clean for me cause I’ve got plans for you this weekend.”
Except instead of sending it to his wife, he accidentally sent it to his dry cleaner.
- Comment on The four horsemen of the dogpocalypse. 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s physiological response to that teal color in food. There are lots of green foods that are ok to eat, so the immediate revolution wasn’t as strong.
But yeah, that Baja Blast teal is something you only see in nature on mold.
- Comment on The four horsemen of the dogpocalypse. 4 weeks ago:
That Baja Blast one provoked a physical gag reflex in me.
- Comment on Anon plays Persona 5 4 weeks ago:
A friend of mine tried to convince me to get Factorio a couple days ago. Couldn’t help but feel like he was a junky trying to get me to try just a little bit of heroin.
- Comment on In order to pay import duties, these crazy fuckers are expecting me to enter my bank logon details into their website. What. The. Fuck. 4 weeks ago:
Aww but I thought I was special.
- Comment on My Tool phase 5 weeks ago:
Back in the day, my stepdad worked overseas so we found ourselves at the airport quite often. Remember how they used to have those courtesy phones where you pick up, talk to an operator, and ask them to make an announcement in the airport to have someone pickup and connect you?
My brother and I would go to those phones and request that they page Reverend Maynard James Keenan. Then they’d announce over the intercom “Reverend Maynard James Keenan please pickup a white courtesy phone. Reverend Maynard James Keenan please pickup a white courtesy phone.” Then we’d lose our minds laughing. I don’t know why we thought it was so funny, but hopefully some other Tool fans at the time were walking through the airport and did a double take.
- Comment on Launches 1 month ago:
Y’all need to pay some Kerbal Space Program. It’ll teach you more about orbital mechanics than a physics degree and a job at NASA (according to XKCD). The only problem is, once you have this knowledge, a lot of sci fi becomes annoying.