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- Comment on Judge Orders Bannon to Surrender for Prison Term by July 1 5 months ago:
I am staunchly against cocaine. Not because I think drugs are bad (mmmkay), but because people on cocaine are really, really annoying. lol
- Comment on Judge Orders Bannon to Surrender for Prison Term by July 1 5 months ago:
Aside from the order to report to prison, this is definitely my favorite part:
Judge Nichols’s decision seemed to catch Mr. Bannon’s lawyer, David Schoen, by surprise, and he approached the podium after it was issued and started arguing with the judge.
Judge Nichols dressed him down. “One thing I think you need to learn as a lawyer is that when a judge has decided, you do not get up and yell at them,” the judge shot back.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
It happens to me (I notice it on the webcam preview) when I’m not wearing my glasses. I guess I squint without realizing it, and that seems to give me that look. I’ve since started wearing my glasses when I’m on video calls lol.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Sadly, yes.
- Comment on Trump’s Conviction Binds the G.O.P. Even Closer to Him 5 months ago:
What are the chances Trump is the One Ring and the GOP just crumbles to dust when he’s finally out of the picture?
- Comment on Do 9-5 jobs still exist in the U.S.? 5 months ago:
Flex time alone was worth the pay cut I took when I went corporate to non-profit. You can’t buy time, but flex time is the next best thing.
- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x09 - Lagrange Point 5 months ago:
Oh, then I missed that. I knew they missed the mark with the jump but thought they had closed the distance by that point. Thanks for pointing that out.
I haven’t had a chance to watch the finale yet, so I may go back and start S4 over and watch them all like 10 a hour movie. Will watch for that when I do.
- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x09 - Lagrange Point 5 months ago:
I know you’re being sarcastic, but that is exactly how I felt for about 15 seconds. 😆
- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x09 - Lagrange Point 5 months ago:
I definitely appreciated it on that level after the moment had time to sink in. Maybe that’s what bugged me so much about it. Watching sci-fi, I suspend a certain amount of disbelief. When something entirely plausible happens, it just hits me off guard.
- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x09 - Lagrange Point 5 months ago:
I’m finally caught up, so I can participate in these now :)
t would be silly if, say, the Breen dreadnought was to show up and simply yoink away the structure with a tractor beam while we’re still in the cold open, and the Lagrange point did not matter for the rest of the episode.
That bugged me so much. I literally yelled at the TV: "Why didn’t you just do that?! Or, technobabble away why you ‘can’t just’ "
Granted, all the cool stuff that followed wouldn’t have happened, but still.
- Comment on Double chocolate 5 months ago:
Could also be two different types of chocolate (adding up to the same amount overall). Both packages are 225g, so the overall weight is certainly not doubled.
- Comment on Dr. Paul Parkman, Who Helped to Eliminate Rubella, Dies at 91 5 months ago:
I’m sad he passed, but I’m more sad he lived to see the anti-vax nonsense of the last decade.
- Comment on New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC 5 months ago:
Worst case, they’re saving it to an encrypted blob storage, calling that encrypted, and hiding deep in the ToS that you actually agreed to that
And then it’s discovered that bucket was accidentally set to public. Oopsie daisy! But you can’t sue us because also in the ToS was a forced arbitration clause.
- Comment on Shooting Something Into the Sun is HARD 5 months ago:
The “what” gets shot into the sun is less important, lol. I just found it interesting that shooting anything into our sun is more difficult than sending it to another sun.
- Comment on Shooting Something Into the Sun is HARD 5 months ago:
Thanks for that. I was watching it via the embed in the article and didn’t realize the YT link I copied had the timestamp from my current position.
Updated the post.
- Submitted 5 months ago to videos@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- Comment on Are all phone calls voip (voice over Internet protocol) now? 5 months ago:
Re: landlines
Technically they are from the CO (central office) once they hit the carrier’s trunk.
Re: Cell phones
I’m not sure about 3G, but VoLTE (voice over LTE) is VoIP.
- Comment on Wtf did I just read 6 months ago:
The moment you think you understand it, that superposition collapses and you’re back to “huh?”
Every damn time.
- Comment on Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down 6 months ago:
…yeah.
I had that thought after I replied when I realized that most of the reputable search crawlers will publish the IPs/ranges they use in addition to the UA. The disreputable ones (cough Bytedance cough Xiaomi cough) will just spoof Chrome on Windows 10.
That said, I may still continue looking into working with one of the actual search engines (vs meta search) and see how well that works.
- Comment on Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down 6 months ago:
s it because you expect other search engines to follow suit until there are no search engines anymore, only hallucination machines?
Basically, yeah.
- Comment on Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down 6 months ago:
I fear that as well. I use Searx-NG at home, so am expecting that to start dying a death of a thousand cuts soon.
Was thinking about standing up (or contributing to) either YaCY or Stract, but you made a good point about the bot allowances for the Googlebot et al crawler UAs. Wonder how frowned upon it would be to spoof the crawler UA in a self-hosted one?
- Comment on Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down 6 months ago:
Same. I don’t mind it as an option if that’s what some people want, but stop “enhancing” the default experience with it and shoving it down my throat.
- Comment on Nature Valley: 10 bars in 5 packs 6 months ago:
On the bright side, at least it wasn’t labeled as “up to 10 bars” like ISPs get away with.
- Comment on Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down 6 months ago:
Sigh. AI has basically added a rocket booster to the enshittification train.
Hopefully this doesn’t impact DDG.
- Comment on "Features" 6 months ago:
Thank gods I’m able to use Linux for my work PC. Group policy and enterprise config can only hide so much of Windows’s BS.
- Comment on Microsoft extolling the benefits of cloud storage in their Office save dialog 6 months ago:
Microsoft needs to go back from “This Computer” to “My Computer”.
When they renamed that OS staple, it really highlighted how they see the device you paid for as theirs.
- Comment on Searching for the "most representative" Star Trek episode 6 months ago:
Yeah, same. I felt bad recommending it as “average” episode, but it checks all the other boxes. Still, it’s a fun, easy episode to just drop into without needing any background info besides “They’re on a long journey home, and then this happens”.
“The Void” is definitely a solid choice, too. Teamwork and Federation principles save the day, a little action, and a first contact.
- Comment on QI | What Was The Chainsaw Invented For? 6 months ago:
Crossposting to !quite_interesting@dubvee.org
- Comment on How Does David Get Revenge on Victoria? | Would I Lie To You? (4:26) 6 months ago:
“Even though you just wished, on television, for my marriage to fall apart, I still consider you an adequate colleague”
😂
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 6 months ago:
Hey, that’s my line!
