Grabthar
@Grabthar@lemmy.world
- Comment on Probably 2 months ago:
And I thought this was going to be a joke about her putting the audience to sleep.
- Comment on Nobel Prize in Lit 2024 2 months ago:
That’s just like, your opinion, man.
- Comment on Last channel rule 2 months ago:
We knew that if you pressed the satellite button and channel up/down, it let you manually move the dish, and it didn’t care how long you did it. There were also numbers to indicate the position of the dish. The rest was just sheer determination.
- Comment on Last channel rule 2 months ago:
Had C-band satellite as a teen. All the good channels locked. But if the satellite Spacenet 1 transponder 18 was locked, you could “fine tune” the reception from say, Galaxy 3 transponder 18 by holding the step up or down button, and manually swing the dish halfway across the sky to the same position where Spacenet 1 is. As the descrambler thinks you are watching a different satellite altogether, there is no more lock. And since you never actually visited a bad channel, no way to tell with history or last buttons.
- Comment on Do deaf people play media with sound on? 2 months ago:
Yeah, I’d love that. I think a good number of subs I end up downloading are written by some dude trying their best, and if they don’t know the language, they can’t really begin to guess how to spell the words. But anything released by a studio or on a streaming site has no excuse.
- Comment on dataisbeautiful 2 months ago:
True, and it even tracks with the lack of success for Joan Rivers’ talk show career.
- Comment on Who says OSHA compliance doesn't have to be fun? 3 months ago:
Some say that forklift is still running today.
- Comment on Uh oh 4 months ago:
0118 999 881 999 119 725 3 now though, right?
- Comment on Missing cold pizza 6 months ago:
- Comment on There's no such thing as too much garlic 6 months ago:
There was a shawarma place I used to go to that had an interesting “garlic sauce”. You couldn’t call it toum, as it was either not whipped with oil or they stopped after adding a splash. It had the appearance of being just very finely chopped garlic, like somebody ran it through a food processor until it was almost a paste. And fuck, it was so good on their donair pizzas. We used to get a small tub to go with it, but after a slice of the pizza, a sip of beer would set your tongue on fire. And the next morning, shaving would make the bathroom smell like fresh garlic. Definitely too much, but oddly worthwhile from time to time.
- Comment on Know the difference!!! 6 months ago:
That’s cuz ya basic like one :)
- Comment on Lions are just big cats. They like scratches under the chin and everything. 6 months ago:
But coming up against a full grown 800 pound tuna with his 20 or 30 friends, you lose that battle, you lose that battle 9 times out of 10.
- Comment on Why do people throw out old motors, bicycles, anything metal into rivers and lakes instead of a junk yard or the trash system? 6 months ago:
Canada used to do this, but then they switched to charging the disposal “eco” fee up front when you buy the product new. Everything from that point on has been free to dispose of. Any metal or electronics products are all saleable scrap though, so you can get paid for them if you take them to a metal recycler instead of the dump. A lot of places advertise free places to dump those products so they can take them in to sell. Some will even come pick them up for free as well. But if something doesn’t have an eco fee or isn’t otherwise valuable scrap or recyleable, you pay by weight to landfill it.
- Comment on Anon shows off Linux in class 7 months ago:
Thanks mom!
- Comment on Finally, fans are getting what they've been demanding for years, a crossover event between the Kelvinverse and... World of Tanks 7 months ago:
Bolos?
- Comment on Smooth 7 months ago:
There’s nothing like the sight of a shorn Skarsgård; it’s breathtaking, I suggest you try it.
- Comment on Dare you to try again 7 months ago:
Pkunk are (going to be) real?
- Comment on What was the best guest-acting role on TOS, and do you have any runner-ups? 9 months ago:
Not going to state the obvious with Ricardo Montalban, but I always enjoyed William Campbell’s Trelaine. And yeah, Windom was solid as Decker. Great episode all around.
- Comment on What would be a good glue to repair this spatula with that wont he toxic or come undone in a dishwasher? 9 months ago:
Ok kids, let’s go!
- Comment on Teams apparently can't call when using Firefox 11 months ago:
- Comment on Goodbye MatPat, thanks for everything 11 months ago:
Well, they did have a distillery in their tent, so maybe.
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 11 months ago:
Might have a wee something to do with the cost and availability of large parcels of land in and around cities in Europe versus North America. If Walmart thought this was a cost-effective approach, they’d be doing it, else they would likely be sued by their shareholders. To be clear, I am not making a value judgement on whether this should be the case.
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 11 months ago:
I suppose, but then it isn’t really any different than what we have now in the best of our cities worldwide. Unfortunately, it seems very few cities actually have the resources and the political capital to make that work.
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 11 months ago:
That’s why you don’t see 15 minute cities anymore. Capitalism already figured out that a few large stores allow you to hire more efficient numbers of employees, buy more for less, stock better variety, pass along some of the savings to customers and still make more profit than building lots and lots of repeated commercial infrastructure throughout residential areas. A return to that model would require more employees in low paying service jobs, and would sacrifice lower prices and better variety. Ironically, it would be far faster to use a car to skip from store to store to look for the best deals and the specific brands you want. I suppose we could also get rid of capitalism at the same time, but I’m not holding my breath. As much as I like the idea of walkable infrastructure, it comes at a cost that I am not sure many would be willing to pay.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 11 months ago:
I have a 100’ air hose that reaches anywhere in the house. I often run it outside and back in a window somewhere so it doesn’t end up in the way of family. I also have a small compressor for airbrushing rather than running permanent air lines from the garage to my basement workshop. You’ll still want cordless convenience for a drill and some other small tools though.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I have a handbanana stuffed toy somewhere downstairs. Perhaps I will go find it. Tonight.
