makuus
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- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 4 weeks ago:
Put simply: They’re being lied to. Consistently and perniciously.
The lie is that their vote is going to benefit them somehow. Or that it’s going to hurt someone else exclusively. And, sometimes, it’s both—that it’ll hurt someone else, while bringing a benefit.
In all three cases, the real truth—that they themselves will still suffer—is neatly hidden away.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 5 weeks ago:
Yay! I can finally afford a hous-… and Blackrock just bought it out from underneath me…
- Comment on Can You Cook a Steak with a Hairdryer? 1 month ago:
I’m getting “Wallace Shawn we have at home”…
- Comment on God of the Dead 2 months ago:
I’m getting strong Hide the Pain Harold vibes.…
- Comment on Not a bad guess... 3 months ago:
It’s one of those movies that I put on for giggles one boring evening many moons ago, and spent the whole time going “what the fuck?”
- Comment on 15 Best Cheesy '80s Sci-Fi Movies, Ranked 3 months ago:
Came to add Buckaroo Banzai myself. How that didn’t make the list beggars belief…
- Comment on Using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions 4 months ago:
For what it’s worth, they’ve had a “Neuro Fuzzy” rice cooker (www.zojirushi.com/app/product/nszcc) for years—ours is at least 10 years old at this point. And, I would bet this is a trivial extension of that—using some decision tables supplemented with heat feedback—with only the addition of a user feedback mechanism, rather than any, true “AI”.
- Comment on Don't. 5 months ago:
Just…
Don’t.
- Comment on Choose your Fighter 6 months ago:
I’ll pick the Stegosaurus… but only because the Triceratops is conspicuously absent from this chart.
(Secret fighter menu?)
- Comment on favourite drink 6 months ago:
Unflavored soju is my defense against drinking too much soju. I’ll have one bottle of that and be like “yep, I’m good”.
Meanwhile, everyone else is near the bottom of their second bottle of flavored soju and eyeing a third…
- Comment on Why data is being stored in glass and holograms 6 months ago:
I’ll have to buy the White Album again…
- Comment on "Yeah, yeah, I totally know what a lion looks like, just give me the brush" 7 months ago:
“My, I bet you monsters lead interesting lives. I said to my girlfriend just the other day - Gee, I’ll bet monsters are interesting, I said. And I’ll bet you meet a lot of interesting people, too. I’m always interested in meeting interesting people. Now let’s dip our patties in the water!”
- Comment on Alien | The birth and curious death of HR Giger’s Space Jockey 7 months ago:
That’s a great way of putting it. I enjoyed it. I liked it for what it was. I’m not sure I need to see it again.
- Comment on meow_irl 8 months ago:
Can it be a clicky Pop-o-Matic bubble?
- Comment on Just 5 more minutes 8 months ago:
“It is God…”
- Comment on Can you live a fulfilling life with autism? 9 months ago:
Oh, I bet that “reason” is to achieve some kind of mythical “purity”, as though such a thing was even desirable…
Well, at least you got one thing right: I’m very much entitled to my opinion. And, I opine that I don’t want to live the same, boring, homogenous, inbred, weak life as everyone else. If you think that’s what you need to be happy, happy trails and good fucking luck. 🫡
- Comment on Can you live a fulfilling life with autism? 9 months ago:
Really? As a weirdo, I’m not sure I agree with that.
- Comment on Can you live a fulfilling life with autism? 9 months ago:
You say “weirdo” as if that’s a bad thing…
- Comment on When you want to quit drinking 11 months ago:
I appreciate how far NA beers have come since O’Douls. It’s gotten to the point where I can much more easily replace the want for a certain kind of beer in some situations—a party, working out in the yard, eating certain foods—with a Partake or an Athletic, and not feel like I’m missing something.
But, gosh, I want someone other than Guinness to make a good NA stout.
- Comment on When a employee training video goes insane 1 year ago:
Nearly 24 minutes of instruction, and not a word on when to drop a thrown chair, or how to mark a knuckle sandwich for a customer.
- Comment on This is the way 1 year ago:
If the bottom one actually worked, I wouldn’t do the top three.
- Comment on Is it legal to be out in public in just underwear? 1 year ago:
Advertising not withstanding, that was still a fun watch.