bstix
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- Comment on Metal genres 3 days ago:
Not really. Whether or not a piece of music is boring has very little to do with the time signature.
It’s more like a framework.
Perhaps it’s also boring that most paintings are done on rectangular canvases, but I don’t think a painting necessarily gets particularly more interesting by being done on an oddly shaped canvas.
- Comment on This was a big deal. You could play a game on your cell phone 6 days ago:
That was a little later than 3210/3310.
- Comment on This was a big deal. You could play a game on your cell phone 6 days ago:
Yes. You could pay some geek to type it in during recess.
- Comment on Anon is a fact checker 1 week ago:
It doesn’t have to be meaningless. It’s perfectly meaningful to have innocent fun with somebody else.
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 1 week ago:
It’s more of a journalist thing. They take the words out of your mouth to reach their own conclusion fast and deliver an answer that’ll fit inside the allocated screen time.
“When you heard that people use things instead of measurements to explain the size of other things, exactly how shocking was it to you?”
- Comment on 50 mph man 1 week ago:
Great, now it’s not getting done.
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 2 weeks ago:
I once lost my glasses and used an ordinary drinking glass as a monocle as substitute. It wasn’t perfect, but good enough for me to find my glasses. (This was before cell phones had cameras).
Having been very near sighted for most of my life, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really that big of a handicap. It’s mostly an issue for reading things, and even that can be done when putting it close enough.
I can’t really think of anything in a hypothetical apocalypse where 20/20 vision would be absolutely necessary.
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 2 weeks ago:
It’s just salt water.
- Comment on this is exactly what copper would say 2 weeks ago:
Thieves don’t care if it’s a nice neighborhood. It happens on building sites everywhere. They don’t mind driving a long way.
- Comment on sponsored by raycon 2 weeks ago:
Edit: this is the exact voice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aieHMRm7R7s
- Comment on sponsored by raycon 2 weeks ago:
I had one that said “the bluetooth device has connected as successfully”
- Comment on What if a billionaire wants to help you? 3 weeks ago:
They just make a bank transfer. The real issue is the taxation.
Every country has a threshold for how much someone can receive without paying taxes.
- Comment on It looks scared 3 weeks ago:
It’s a shitty light post.
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 3 weeks ago:
Canada should join the Nordic countries in a new Kalmar Union. Everything you mentioned is in common, unlike USA and EU, which both span different climates, and thus different ways of life.
Don’t get me wrong, I like both EU and the former USA, but I think there’s just more mutual ground in latitude than longitudes.
- Comment on Time to pluralize titles. 3 weeks ago:
Girls with adequate number of cups.
- Comment on Black Holes 4 weeks ago:
That’s sounds exactly like what someone trapped inside a singularity would say.
- Comment on Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer 4 weeks ago:
Close but no, Siddhartha is the name of Buddha. You’re thinking of Sepultura.
- Comment on Is it safe to assume the guy i went out on a date with, just wants to sleep with me? 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s impossible to assume anything at all. With cultural, age and gender differences, it’s difficult to figure out what the intentions of another person are, unless they state them clearly. Neither you or he did that.
As a guy, I can assure you that guys do not understand subtle hints or can even logically deduce where this casual acquaintance is going from what you have already described.
You’ll need to be very clear. Maybe then he will also tell or show you his own intentions more clearly.
But first you need to know yourself what you actually want to hang out with this guy for and if it’s worthwhile maintaining the friendship for whatever reason. It makes sense if you have mutual interests or benefits from keeping in touch. However, my best guess based on your description of him offering a back massage is that he might have more romantic intentions than you. In that case it’s best for both of you to be brutally clear and end his hopes instead of “friend-zoning” him. It might feel unpleasant, but it’s crucial to be clear. If he reacts negatively, well, there’s your answer.
- Comment on Anon did philosophy 4 weeks ago:
Yes, it was covered by health care. It’s not common that early in life, but I think it makes sense to get it sorted out as soon as possible before it makes the issue worse. I have never thought much about it, but in hindsight I think it must have been hell for her to go through.
- Comment on Anon did philosophy 4 weeks ago:
You can’t really tell from looks alone. I went to school with a girl who got a breast reduction at age 16 due to back problems. It didn’t look crazy or anything or maybe she hid it well, but it was just some issue she had that no one knew about or would have guessed.
- Comment on hygiene 4 weeks ago:
No, they don’t.
It’s either a weird coincidence or in perhaps that the fitness chains areusing the same plumber and that guy is doing a shit job.
- Comment on It would get old fast 4 weeks ago:
They have plenty of character.
Friend 1 is a banjo player. You can tell by the large porch facing the entrance of the cul de sac from where he watches everyone who comes and goes.
Friend 2 owns a large pick up truck. This is because his house has the best view of the agricultural fields to the left, so he identifies as a farmer, even if he works in a call center.
Friend 3 doesn’t have a driveway. He actually thought that he would be able to ride with his friends every day.
Friend 4 lives closest to the forrest so he wears outdoor clothing all the time and pretends to be the alpha male.
Friend 5 is the beta cuck who actually fell for Friends 4’s self proclaimed alpha status.
Friend 6 doesn’t exist. Nobody wants that to buy that house. The parked car belongs to the rela estate agent who pays regular visits to the house with potential buyers.
Friend 7 is a conspiracy theorist who keeps mostly to himself and sometimes disappear for days. The upper floor is larger than the ground floor and is filled with horded things that he calls his prepping storage. There might even be other people up there.
- Comment on How it feels using TOR as a Brit rn 🤘 4 weeks ago:
It bothers me that the sunglasses are in front of the diagonal. That diagonal is also the wrong way.
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 5 weeks ago:
The Japanese Elvis culture springs to mind.
Also, there are “cowboys” everywhere in the world.
You mentioned lederhosen and of course those types exist outside of Germany too.
- Comment on I just figured this out today 1 month ago:
Don’t know that one.
- Comment on In the cave 1 month ago:
The meme is referencing Plato, so I’d say it was originally his idea.
- Comment on Barbers HATE this one simple trick 1 month ago:
That’s no moon.
- Comment on Have a good trip 1 month ago:
With enginuity like this it should be possible to make a water trap to keep the smell contained.
- Comment on Does people doing things that upset others also upset you? 1 month ago:
A dog without leash shows that the owner hasn’t bothered taking dog training classes or in the case of my country that they haven’t bothered learning the law. If they can’t be bothered to do that, I worry that they are not responsible enough to take care of the dog, and they shouldn’t be allowed to own a dog. Dog ownership ought to require a license or mandatory training.
The person using the perfume might also not even know about the issue, but in that case, I don’t think it makes sense to blame the consumer. There are simply too many types of products that are potentially dangerous when used wrong. Perhaps the seller ought to have warned about it, but I doubt that would make much difference. You can still be upset about it being produced. Lots of things are like that.
Sometimes you can blame the consumer and sometimes you can’t.
- Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 1 month ago:
If you’re a mathematician how can you be dissing 5 like that?
Less than? Hell no.
5 is soo much more and soo many things that 25 isn’t and never will be.
Without 5 you wouldn’t even have 25. Some might even say that 5 is the root of 25. Show some respect for the roots.
Not only is 5 a beautiful prime number, it’s also the perfect number for a geometric shape. Everyone knows what a pentagon looks like. The Pentagon even named their institution as that. They didn’t name it after 25. Who the hell has ever heard of the icosikaiopentagon? Nobody that’s who.
Look at the American flag. It has 50 stars. Guess which shape they have? That’s right, each of the 50 states have stars with 5 points. Exactly 0 of them chose to have a 25 pointed star.
You know what a bad number is? Yes: 25.
25 is a shitty composite number. It’s shitty because it’s not even good at being a composite number; having only a measly 3 factors. Guess which? Yes. Itself, one and fucking 5 of all things.
That’s because it’s square and boring. Does it even look square to you? Uneven 25 is supposedly a square. I never made a square of 25 things. What’s the fucking point in that? If I had to make a square for any purpose whatsoever, I’d definitely chose a better number with many more factors, so I could actually use the squaredness to divide things and mark mid points and what not. 4 is a square. 16 is a square. They’re so much better at being square than 25, because you can cut them in half and make a grid with a midpoint.
So, yeah yeah, there are probably other numbers out there greater than 5, but it sure as fuck is not 25.