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- Comment on [deleted] 10 hours ago:
Oh don’t worry. At Thermo Fisher, they call them “absences.”
- Comment on Anon is dehydrated 2 days ago:
We can also breathe through our butts. Nothing new here. theguardian.com/…/ig-nobel-prize-goes-to-team-who…
- Comment on paid subscription 3 days ago:
- Comment on Game reviewers boycott publisher CGE, for publishing more Harry Potter themed products 5 days ago:
Allegedly Rowling was not involved in the game at all. I’d think of it as an act of goodwill from the developers.
You’re required to meet her in the game, so it’s not like anything was snuck in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8k8DseLCl8
- Comment on Game reviewers boycott publisher CGE, for publishing more Harry Potter themed products 6 days ago:
Legacy literally has an explicitly trans npc in it.
- Comment on Families took safety into their own hands by painting yellow cross walks. Now, the city of Los Angeles is removing them. 1 week ago:
I’m more of a West Seattle blog person. :)
- Comment on bird based storage 1 week ago:
It’s in the first minute of the video.
- Comment on Families took safety into their own hands by painting yellow cross walks. Now, the city of Los Angeles is removing them. 1 week ago:
Oh. I live in Seattle too. Wasn’t aware of that story.
- Comment on Families took safety into their own hands by painting yellow cross walks. Now, the city of Los Angeles is removing them. 1 week ago:
Drivers are required to stop for pedestrians when crossing the street at marked crosswalks and at intersections as well. That’s right it’s perfectly legal to cross the street at an intersection even without the aid of crosswalk striping on the pavement.
sdotblog.seattle.gov/2014/…/crosswalk-law-1-0/
Not like anybody stops for pedestrians, but they’re supposed to at least.
- Comment on How We Conquered the Whomp’s Fortress Tower (in 0 A presses) | pannenkoek2012 1 week ago:
I remember watching the entire A button challenge video a few years ago. Did they drop an A press since then?
- Comment on sharks are older than polaris 2 weeks ago:
45-67Million Years according to Wikipedia.
Sharks are hundreds of millions.
Also somewhat relevant: xkcd.com/1342/
- Comment on Its a draw🗣️ 2 weeks ago:
There is no way they got a horse to draw that carriage.
- Comment on Anon's grandpa does his own research 3 weeks ago:
So in Seattle last week there was a man who accidentally shot himself in the leg while driving his car. He called 911 because he obviously needed help, but tried to tell cops that he was shot by a stranger while driving. They asked why there were no entry holes in his car, and I think he went to jail for being a dumbass.
Anyway, how do we know JFK didn’t accidentally shoot himself and then try to cover it up because he was so embarrassed.
- Comment on GET BRUSHIED IDIOT 3 weeks ago:
In the original, you pulled them out, but parents probably got sick of losing the teeth.
- Comment on GET BRUSHIED IDIOT 3 weeks ago:
The children yearn for crocodile dentistry.
- Comment on Hedgehog X-ray 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon does some online shopping 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s interesting that in 2005, the internet had a ton of popups and scammy ads that told you “you just won a free iPod!” and everyone knew that was a thing. There was even a gag about it in Scary Movie 3: Image
Yet you don’t hear people complain about that as much today. It’s like so much of the internet has been cordoned off into walled gardens that most users don’t see pages out in the open.
- Comment on Lick it. 4 weeks ago:
I also suggest putting ketchup in the soap pump dispenser. Really throws them for a loop.
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 4 weeks ago:
There’s literally an episode of Doug where Doug’s standard outfit inexplicably becomes super popular. So watch 90s Nick to learn what to do.
- Comment on How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking 4 weeks ago:
If I remember from my USB product design days, as long as they don’t include any of the official markings on the product or packaging, they’re in the clear.
- Comment on That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose. 5 weeks ago:
That’s me with United Healthcare. They charged me $80 for an annual checkup that was supposed to be free. Part of that checkup was a $14 cholesterol screening that was literally listed among the free things that came with my plan.
I contested it, they said that they reviewed my case and found nothing wrong. I escalated, which involved writing and physically mailing an appeal. They sent me the same response back that they reviewed the case and found nothing wrong.
So yes. “Fuck it” as the article says. $80 is not worth it.
- Comment on Who turned on friendly fire? 5 weeks ago:
Zoomers are prime draft age for WWIII and it’s a popular haircut among them.
- Comment on Who turned on friendly fire? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 5 weeks ago:
McDonald’s specifically is famously a real estate company that happens to serve burgers on the side. The corporation owns all of the land that its franchises are sitting on, so they can park a restaurant on it and sell it for a profit after the land appreciates in value.
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 5 weeks ago:
In addition to moving away from marketing directly to children, the reason a lot of fast foot restaurants are rebranding to look like grey cubes is to make the buildings more generic and therefore more valuable as commercial real estate.
We’ve all seen the local Mexican restaurant that definitely used to be a Pizza Hut. This is to avoid that.
- Comment on 2017 called 1 month ago:
MJ Should be way more bloodshot/glossy
- Comment on Anon likes trains 1 month ago:
As someone who boycotted the TSA for like 5 years and only took Amtrak, the tickets are not always cheaper. I mean sure, you can get across the country for like $100.
Even when I was doing Boston-Baltimore on the Acela, it was routinely slightly cheaper to fly.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 1 month ago:
There were so many issues
- Final boss was lame and level leading to it was slow and tedious completely killing the momentum
- Camera system was wonky
- Rocket nozzle barely got any play
- Jet nozzle was too difficult to control to be useful outside of specific racing segments
- Pachinko machine physics were fucked
- The lily pad level was unfairly difficult
- There was no way to track which blue coins you found. Like even a grey coin marker for already collected coins would have been super helpful.
- The reward for getting blue coins was pathetic
- Yoshi was criminally underutilized. The whole juice mechanic was used like twice.
The whole thing just felt rushed. Like there was another third of the game that they didn’t get to make.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 1 month ago:
Super Mario Sunshine. I thought it was just hard as a kid. Come to learn it’s fucking broken.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Not so much overheating as dropout. Batteries lose both energy capacity and power capacity over time. If you draw too much current from an older battery, its voltage will drop significantly and possibly prematurely shut down the phone.
Lowering peak current (by slowing down the phone), can prevent your phone from shutting off while it still has like 20% capacity left.
Considering Apple was doing battery replacements for like $60 (before bumping to $100), and this was a setting that could be turned off, I think the only real crime was enabling it by default and not properly informing users.
