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- Comment on Yaay 15 hours ago:
Definitely not:
spoiler
Nothing tops the Jolly Rancher story. Steve and his girlfriend Samantha went off to college in August. She went to Florida State, he went to Penn. So, she decides to fly to PA to visit him. He was really happy to see her so he decided to give her some oral action. He had done this numerous times before and he always enjoyed doing it…but for some reason, this time, she smelled really horrible, and she tasted even worse. He didn’t want to offend her though because he hadn’t seen her in months…so he put a Jolly Rancher in his mouth to cover it up, even though it didn’t do much to help. In the course of eating her out, he accidentally pushed the candy inside of her… and stuck a finger in to grab it out. He took it out, and put it back into his mouth and bit it. Only…it wasn’t the Jolly Rancher. It was a nodule of gonorrhea. As in, the blister-like structure that gonorrhea makes filled with diseased pus was the size of a fucking Jolly Rancher and the poor guy BIT it. I guess it was really dark in the room. He freaked out and started vomiting all over the place when it exploded in his mouth… He demanded to know what was going on, turns out she had cheated on him at a club like, the first week of college, and fucked some random guy and the stupid bitch had no clue what was wrong with her. She noticed a strange smell though. So now, Steve is freaking out that he now has gonorrhea of the mouth and God knows what else.
- Comment on Yaay 15 hours ago:
I love the gif/image replies. It makes me nostalgic for when every thread was mostly images and gifts (not that I’d like to go back but it’s nice occasionally)
- Comment on POV: It's January 19th 6 days ago:
Yeah that’s kind of why people are doing it.
- Comment on Look Ma, No Batteries! Hands On With Lenovo's Self-Charging Keyboard 1 week ago:
Ianother problem is whatever you have that charges the keyboard, you’d need ~109 of them. I still think it’d be cool tho
- Comment on Look Ma, No Batteries! Hands On With Lenovo's Self-Charging Keyboard 1 week ago:
Where are you getting that number? There are many different types of supercapacitors, which cary in lifespan wlquite a bit and the conditions (mostly voltage and temp) also have a big impact. The article doesn’t specify the type of cap used.
For instance this paper tests a supercapacitor rated for 2.7V at 2.5 and 3v. At 2.5v the cap is estimated to have a lofespan of 100yrs, with 3v scenario it’s 10.
Keyboards don’t get very hot, and the voltage draw is very predictable so I don’t think designing a long lasting capacitor for this usecase is particularly tricky.
I would be worried about the lifespan of the solar panel.
- Comment on TikTok tells LA staff impacted by wildfires to use personal/sick hours if they can't work from home 1 week ago:
Isn’t tik tok closing down in the us in a day or so?
- Comment on Let's discuss: Assassin's Creed 2 weeks ago:
Not to be overly negative, but what are fans playing for these days? I only played the original 2 games and the (first?) North American one.
It seems people hate the modern stories, the gameplay is shallow at best and it’s parkour has been far surpassed by many other games by now. The games are very often used as examples of modern AAA studios having no creativity and just churning out the same game over and over. The games look beautiful and I’ve heard the educational versions are pretty useful, but what are the primary draw these days?
Again I don’t want to be a hater, that’s just what I’ve picked up from other people talking about it.
- Comment on I love magic 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Remember the iconic paintings of The Last Supper? This is what it would look like if it happened today 3 weeks ago:
Shitpost ≠ shitty post
- Comment on Don't forget Big 3 3 weeks ago:
Most small vendors offer a pretty nice discount for cash (even though thats technically against cc’s tos), as soon as I started to buy almost entirely local my cash usage went way up. I do almost all my groceries in cash these days from a farmers market.
- Comment on and we thought our thing with beans was bad 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on No one showed up to his party 5 weeks ago:
It’s a bit blurry but that is definitely a NA plug in the background.
- Comment on Congratulations. 5 weeks ago:
And you don’t do it why exactly? It’s Wikipedia after all
- Comment on ohh ... 5 weeks ago:
People in those countries absolutelly aren’t going bankrupt due to being denied life-saving treatment and having to pay for it from their own pocket.
The meme has an “or” in it though. About 20% of Canadian bankruptcy is due to health and illness.Here in Canada the maximum disability in ~1500cad a month, which might pay your rent if you live in a really really cheap area. Part of the reason it’s bad like that is because it is so often compared to America, and often greatly exaggerated like in this meme.
- Comment on What happened to gaming? 1 month ago:
there’s plenty of “ugly” games here’s some I’ve played recently that came out this year:
- UFO 50: A collection of new games in the style (mechanically and visually) of the 8bit games. 8 bit graphics
- Balatro: A GOTY nominee, it’s a roguelike that is extremely loosely based on poker. modern pixel art style static images
- Children of the sun: a puzzle game where you are a sniper that bends and deflects bullets to kill whole rooms of people with 1 bullet. Graphics are pretty imo but not advanced.
- Echo Point Nova: a movement focused shooter. games plays on a potato. There is technically a a ray tracing option, but I think it’s more of a future proofing thing/a personal interest of the dev.
- Comment on [from 2020] Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? 1 month ago:
Ironically street signage is generally one of the more regulated forms of advertising. Those guys that spin signs were originally there to get around those laws.
- Comment on ROFL 1 month ago:
- Comment on New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi. 1 month ago:
I don’t love touch screens on ovens either, but you just press the lock button and then you can clean to your hearts content.
- Comment on 22 million on bluesky 1 month ago:
Do you think that’s low or high?
- Comment on 22 million on bluesky 1 month ago:
Having a fast way of getting announcements to people is important. Everyone from the WHO to official government announcements to musicians with a new album to activists announce(d) things on Twitter. For that purpose the first and foremost thing is maximizing the reach of the announcement.
Now there are a myriad of better platforms for this (irc or a mastodon instance owned by the org) but quite frankly they will never have the same populations as bluesky or Twitter (in the short term) because they are a as you out it a “good” social media that isn’t just about infinite growth.
Be glad that the billionaire actively and openly trying to censor the world is losing out to the billionaore that will leave it alone and sell out again in decade or two. And on the side mastodon picks up the more traditional social media role among those in the know and maybe one day sustainable growth will make it the biggest fish and can take over from the replacement for the replacement of bluesky as the primary announcements channel.
- Comment on Damn it YouTube! 1 month ago:
I want youtube to fail. I want content creators to move on to other platforms.
- Comment on Damn it YouTube! 1 month ago:
I use nebula and a handful of other platforms. But of course most creators are exclusively available on YouTube.
- Comment on Damn it YouTube! 1 month ago:
If you want YouTube to keep existing, you should pay for it. That’s why I use adblocker.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 1 month ago:
Yeah probably. If you told me in 2013 that reddit would go to shit in 2023 I would not really do anything different. Knowing bluesky will go to shit wouldn’t really change anything if I was a fan of the Twitter format.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 1 month ago:
Yep alongside
- Comment on This world is cruel… 1 month ago:
It’s unclear what countries this poll includes, having minimum paid leave is the law in most of the world. There’s also quite a few careers that involve forced time off.
- Comment on I swear to god 2 months ago:
A Giraffe’s shoulder height is like 8 to 13ft, no way ms.curly is only 5’11
- Comment on FearNoPeer is open for 48 hours 2 months ago:
Yeah that thread did seem fishy thanks ill give em a shot!
- Comment on FearNoPeer is open for 48 hours 2 months ago:
couple things:
- generally the rules prevent torrents from becoming incomplete
- usually theres a request system, which can be very useful for old or obscure stuff.
- usually much faster for all but the most popular stuff
- way more timely and consistent. Less problems where it takes a few days after a release for it to show up or for a series to stop being uploaded half way through a season.
- less chance of honeypots or other malicious behaviour (you should still use a VPN though obviously)
- more consistent quality and naming enforcement (which means it usually works better with *arr)
I can’t vouch for this particular tracker but in general (free) private trackers are very nice.
- Comment on FearNoPeer is open for 48 hours 2 months ago:
I looked up some reviews for the tracker and reddit was shitting all over it, claiming it’s pretty pay to use and the admins are tyrants. Can anyone share their experience?
