rtxn

@rtxn@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is Bri’ish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The early idea was to support the state-owned and state-operated channels through taxes. Then the channels got privatized and now the taxes are going straight into the pockets of The Brexit Bunch. I mean why would they voluntarily cut off a money source that people were already paying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches youtube⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand why people are so shocked and horrified when it turns out that people who do entertainment for a living have been professional entertainers the whole time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon updates GNU/linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And leave the execute permissions on?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon updates GNU/linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Kids? I regularly interact with PhD students that don’t know how to open a fucking ZIP archive. I’ve had one that thought that “SSD” was a kind of RAM, and insisted on installing Windows on a hard drive. I’ve had one that couldn’t grasp the idea of 2FA. I’ve had one that only had a single copy of his dissertation and lost all of it when Bitlocker ate the disk.

  Organic intelligence is going extinct, I swear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon updates GNU/linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t be silly, chmod -x your willy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon saves up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hungary here. Can’t remember the exact wording of the law, but most employers only give out full days. My previous job, where I did rotating night shifts, counted the days that coincided with the start of the shift: if I had a paid day off on a Tuesday on a night shift week, I’d work from Monday 22:00 to Tuesday 6:00, stay at home on Tuesday, and start my next shift on Wednesday at 22:00 (just a hypothetical, I always tried to take full weeks).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns a new spell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, there are differences. That’s why one is called deflagration and the other is called detonation. But the chemical and thermodynamic processes are identical, and that’s what you seem to misunderstand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns a new spell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What, pray tell, do you think is in gunpowder? It’s not magic dust that goes bang. It’s a pre-mixed, pre-compressed mixture of fuel and oxidiser. When used in a gun, whether it’s a muzzle-loader or a cartridge, the confined combustion of the mixture generates thermal energy and expanding gases that impart kinetic energy on a moving component (the piston or a projectile). The only difference is that the combustion event in an ICE is subsonic (deflagration) while the combustion in a gun is supersonic (detonation).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has learned enough⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wants robux⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or hindering a possible investigation by implicating the kid that owns the account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon isn't a Microsoft fan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Layoffs also look good to investors (so consider this from the point of a roughly human-shaped scum-sucking parasite) on financial reports because those filthy little humans never deliver anything and only cost us money, they need to go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Slaanesh’s sixth circle of seduction: indolency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, that’s “incompetent”. “Invincible” means not having the means to pay for legal representation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets philosophical⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “When a gift horse is munching on one’s carrot, one must be very careful not to look it in the mouth.” - Albert Confucius, 1969-04-20

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a survivor⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure most squirrels are also terrible drivers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lempo isn’t a fertility god, though. His areas are erotic love, sex, and sexual prowess. He is also known by the feminine name Lemmätär or Lemmetär (-tar and -tär being feminizing suffixes). It’s not surprising that Christian revisionists turned him into one of the chief demons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes apple's practices⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only a Genius could come up with a scheme that offloads the cost of their own laziness to the customer. Exactly the kind of innovation that Steve Jobs stood for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I’ll pray for you” but it’s a prayer to Lempo, god of fucking from Finnish mythology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes apple's practices⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Get yourself a pocket president to legitimize everything you do and crime becomes legal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes apple's practices⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Battery is dead. Customer disservice can’t run diagnostics software on it because it won’t turn on because the battery is dead. They won’t replace the battery because the battery is dead. That entire cult is a fucking farce.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When we started learning about past tense (primary school, probably 6th year, amazing teacher), the first thing we learned was a list of irregular verbs. We spent at least a week just memorizing them before the regular -d/-ed verbs were even mentioned. I’d like to think it was a deliberate choice, to condition us to consider irregular verbs first when using past tense.

  That same teacher also taught us how to write and read the international phonetic alphabet. Again, she was an amazing teacher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Europe, but not an English-speaking country. No native speakers were involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My English-as-second-language teacher hated me because I kept correcting her spelling and vocabulary. But it was okay because I hated her right back and took every opportunity to annoy her (for the sake of rigorous accuracy, of course). Fortunately she couldn’t actually harm or sabotage me because I aced almost all of my tests and had good scores in national ESL competitions, and a sudden drop in grades would likely have been too obvious.

  The point where I’d had enough was a test about the anatomy of vehicles. She had crossed out my answer to “left side of a ship” because I’d written port or larboard (not that I expected someone with a master’s diploma to know the etymology of nautical terms, or not to confuse larboard with starboard because they looked similar), but what made my blood fucking boil was when she crossed out my answers of hood and trunk because I’d used the American words instead of the British bonnet and boot, and when I pointed out that she’d marked those same answers as correct in others’ tests, she went back and fucking changed the scores on the other tests. I told her it was “deplorable conduct for a teacher” (approximate translation, and as polite as I was going to get that day) and she dragged me to the principal for disrupting the class.

  That was the third year of high school (I think “junior” is the American equivalent). I took an option to graduate one year early from ESL, in part out of spite. I’m sure she was glad to be rid of me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes a thing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And Tolkien’s Legendarium is just a bunch of hastily-written bedtime stories, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes a thing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure Fabulous Bill has a couple of attachments that would make even Slaanesh blush.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes a thing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people are just really passionate about their tiny yellow plastic toy soldiers all having imaginary penises. The imaginary penises are important to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  > be me
  > have violent shit
  

  I have achieved Comedy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a warning for incels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, Jon scores 2 by the time The Survey is conducted.

  NSFL. Seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has been bullied⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  More likely to be asbesthos sheets. Still regrettably common in former Soviet countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has been bullied⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Home is where the heart is; cave is where the goon is.