chiliedogg

@chiliedogg@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beans⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll be the one storming it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relatable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait until a loose toilet seat at a public bathroom slides to the side, and with all the motion, they get pinched between the seat and the porcelain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relatable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sneezing is one of the top ways people throw out their backs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philosophy moment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to see the answers on the right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For all you inked people⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a real struggle for a lot of people. I’ll admit to habitually coming into the office at 8:15 or 8:30. But I found a career where that works, so it’s okay. In an old job where punctuality was more important (shift work), I had to buckle down a bit more.

  Meanwhile, my parent’s housekeeper that comes in once a month or so for a deep clean absolutely cannot hold a regular job, because I’ve never known her to arrive within 3 hours of when she planned. The first time she was hired was for a make-ready on their house that was being built while we were all living in campers on their property during Covid. I went over to the new house to grab some ice from the freezer at like midnight, and found her dusting the master bedroom because she hadn’t arrived until like 5pm and make-readies take all day.

  That being said, she does and I’d recommend her to anybody, so long as they’re okay with the housekeeper occasionally being there at like 7 or 8 at night when they were supposed to be there from like 10am till noon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1994 white Kevin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My school had a number you could call and they’d dispatch a golf cart with 2 student workers to take you anywhere on campus for free, 24/7 (minus holidays and breaks when University offices were cosed).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used lots of FOSS software, and GIMP is by far the worst I’ve come across when compared against its paid competition.

  I hate Adobe the company, but Photoshop really is the gold standard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s more difficult to set up, then it may not be better for everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like it or not (I do not), the most important determining factor in American elections is people’s feelings about the economy. The horrors being done by our government are easy to turn a blind eye to. But the cost of living is something that can’t be avoided or suppressed.

  Economic ruin is how we beat these motherfuckers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a fun new game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same!

  What ZIP code and CVV number did you get?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pens in Space⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sharpen the pencil and create a bunch of tiny shavings then put them in a pure O² environment. They’ll light up real fast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space Quarry⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  JJ Abrams aimed the camera.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make gravity your bitch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There goes all our bragging about humanity’s physical superpower being endurance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well at least there’s not a fuckton of methane hydrates on the ocean floor that are now releasing a greenhouse gas 30 times more potent than CO2 refrom the ocean floor as the water gets warmer. And that isn’t a self-feeding loop that means it’s probably too late to save ourselves now.

  Because that would be bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Creative Curse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They could crack down more on pirated Photoshop, but they don’t want to.

  The money is in the commercials licensing, and people who can’t afford Creative Cloud pirating it and learning it is good for them when they need software for work later.

  I’m a massive fan of FOSS. For my GIS work, I use QGIS over ESRI. For 3D modeling, I use Blender. For streaming video, I use OBS. Many FOSS solutions are extremely polished, and even for those that are clunky, they can be made to do what you need with a little work.

  But when it comes to photo editing, the reality is Adobe’s overpriced market leaders also happen to be far and away the best products. It’s not even close. Photoshop and Lightroom are untouched by the competition, paid or free. They’re simply excellent products that provide functionality that isn’t replicated elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is unfair!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Sir, that is all you can eat for $15.99”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peak Trump Performance⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer this to when he went to France and called servicemen killed at Normandy losers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon orders food⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was told blue looks good on me by a girl.

  10 years later, most of my shirts are blue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon takes an exam⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a professor in my government and private organizations interactions class who was clear that he’d never given a “true” 100% on a paper before and was confident they never would. They’d just adjust it so that the best paper would get bumped to 100, and everyone else would get the same bump. So if the best was what he’d consider an 85, everyone would get a 15 point bump.

  He was essentially making the point that the subject was too complex. I took it to mean that he was a harsh grader and expected way too much out of students.

  Later that semester, I had a paper and presentation in which I decided, stupidly, to try and map out the history of the intersection between corporate personhood and campaign finance. I basically wanted to bitch about Citizens United (this was in like 2013).

  So I started with Citizens United and worked my way back through Supreme Court cases tracking precedent. I got a little obsessed because I actually found it fascinating, and I ended up having like 25 SCOTUS cases summarized across over 200 years and before I knew it, I had a 60-page paper.

  At that point, I knew it was way too long (there had been a 10-page minimum), but I was out of time, so instead of editing it down I just had to turn it in at 11:59pm. My presentation was like 20 minutes in which I was rushed, and I felt pretty bad about it.

  The next week the professor came in and opened with 2 announcements. 1 was that there was now a 15-page limit on any papers, and that for the first time in 35 years he’d given a “true” 100. Because of the presentation I’d done, everyone knew it was me that blew the curve, so I didn’t know whether to be proud, embarrassed, or scared about it.

  The laptop I wrote the paper on was stolen a few months later and I didn’t have a backup of the paper, which is a shame because I’d love to read it today and see if it really was good, or if I just wore him out with citations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roommates⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My parents have been married for nearly 50 years. My Dad likes to introduce her as “my first wife.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rocky rock rocking⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everybody arguing rock, stone, or pebble.

  It’s a jpeg.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horror⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to see how that cane works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flushing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please tell me they flushed the signs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's just eccentric⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Autism has always been here. But instead of labeling someone as autistic and trying to improve understanding and communication, people were like, “That’s a weird dude.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It also feels like something Kavenaugh would have been into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in CA for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. The woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor with 16,000 citations.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Citation” is one of those words that’s always important but has very different meanings.

  I work in a government position where I both make code citations in public notices and plan review, and also issue citations summoning people to court for violation of city ordinances.And in my academic past I was published for research on stormwater discharge, so I also have my share of citations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bernard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The end part about Americans traveling the world being respected again in 2010 is really depressing in 2025.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World travelers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So the coconuts migrated, but the majority population of many of the islands were taken there as cargo?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I grew up around guns. I was shooting 22s early like you, had a compact shotgun by the age of 10, etc.

  We didn’t live in the country, so while we had guns in the house, we did NOT have ammunition in the house until I was 15 or so, just in case me or my sister ever decided to play with a gun. We bought ammo on the way to the range or the hunt, and anything we didn’t shoot was given to a family member.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 50 TV Shows Of All Time Ranked by the most known sources of ratings like IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic etc. Agree?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of this is fairly recent, and I think it’s all available to stream pretty easily.