rbos
@rbos@lemmy.ca
Canadian, sysadmin, trans rights are human rights, puncha-the-nazis, cats are pretty great, GNU Terry Pratchett.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 5 days ago:
If someone drive a truck full of money up to my house, I’d be hard pressed to say no. See Notch and Minecraft.
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 6 days ago:
Amen. About the only thing that unites Quebec with the rest of Canada is a mutual distaste for the French.
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 6 days ago:
The Anglo-Dutch wars. William of Orange landed troops in London in 1688 and took the throne with Mary II. It’s more complicated than that, but it was a whole Thing. Charles II died, leaving James II in charge, but Catholicism was on the way out, and conveniently, William of Orange, a Protestant, was married to Mary II.
The undercurrent of anti-Dutch sentiment started back then still has remnants in the language. See “going Dutch” “Dutch courage” “Dutch treat” “Dutch uncle”. :)
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 6 days ago:
Have to capture the Dutch-Canadian.
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 6 days ago:
Fun game. Hmm. Hans Van der Windmill.
- Comment on Fuck Fahrenheit 2 weeks ago:
That is a weird argument. TBH there are only like six ACTUAL temperatures: fucking hot, hot, warm, cool, cold, fuckin’ cold. Everything else is paperwork and doesn’t really inform your day to day. The difference between say 30 and 29C is maybe undoing a button on your shirt.
- Comment on Fuck Fahrenheit 2 weeks ago:
One quibble - it fully ignores humidity, as does C. The subjective feel of a climate doesn’t depend only on temperature. 50% humidity at 10C is very different from 50% at 30C.
- Comment on Fuck Fahrenheit 2 weeks ago:
Subjectively? I only really think there are like six temperatures. Fucking hot, hot, warm, cool, cold, fucking cold. My clothing choices change at each stage of that scale.
Just because F encapsulates that in a positive integer 1-100 scale doesn’t really make it appeal to me. C feels much more natural, more human, because you’re not dealing with ludicrously small increments that don’t matter for day to day use, and the 0-30 captures almost all temperatures you’re going to actually see day to day.
It irks me that people are trying to turn their personal prejudices and habits into like, objective universal laws.
- Comment on Fuck Fahrenheit 2 weeks ago:
There are very few places that experience -17C and 40C for that to be really useful. And I don’t get it at all. 0 is cold, 30 is hot. Not a difficult concept.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 2 weeks ago:
I’d check for native species of clover, which is invasive in most of Canada.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 2 weeks ago:
Do you run a BBS?
- Comment on It is what it is 2 weeks ago:
It’s great for testing a site when you’re not sure whether the issue is because you’re logged in or there’s some cached data.
- Comment on Spaceballs 2 | Announcement 3 weeks ago:
That would work too. Lots of great potential choices.
- Comment on Spaceballs 2 | Announcement 3 weeks ago:
So, Jack Black as Barf?
- Comment on It burns! 4 weeks ago:
Thank you! I love it
- Comment on respect dandelions! 1 month ago:
Dandelion leaves (blanched) are good in salads and pestos.
- Comment on Anon saved Portugal last month 1 month ago:
If I do an amazing job and the company ships another 10k widgets, I don’t see an extra dime.
- Comment on Minecraft will finally let you craft saddles instead of hunting for them 1 month ago:
Yeah. I’ve had a craftable recipe for saddles since a couple days after they came out on my minecraft server. Recipes that make players generate square kilometres of useless terrain chunks searching for items drive me batty.
- Comment on Anyone? 1 month ago:
Yeah, no kidding. I bought several so they’re usually nearby. If I chew on them, it’s game over, angry red swelling for a few days. I can usually hold off pong enough to get to the clippers. Usually.
- Comment on Anyone? 1 month ago:
Sure. That works preventatively. Once you have the peeling, best to clip and sanitize.
- Comment on Anyone? 1 month ago:
I find just snipping off the skin tags with clippers keeps it from going too far.
- Comment on Tulsi Gabbard Reused the Same Weak Password on Multiple Accounts for Years 2 months ago:
Or a manky Signal clone with backdoors transmitting everything in plain text…
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 2 months ago:
It’s where you see tigers.
- Comment on Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today] 2 months ago:
I would not ordinarily recommend Hitler’s tactics and strategies as a general rule, but he sure knew how to solve the Hitler problem, at the very end. Donny, maybe look into that.
- Comment on What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? 3 months ago:
Kim’s Convenience
- Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 3 months ago:
Down 5% today, not super stable. Could have been a dead cat bounce last week.
- Comment on Trust your training 3 months ago:
Well ‘meme’ is an older idea than image macros =p
- Comment on All things have a right to grow. The blossom is brother to the weed. 3 months ago:
Spider bro is my ally against the wool moths, at the moment. If I catch one I’m putting it in the closet.
They earn their keep.
- Comment on I'm just happy you thought it was funny, dear 3 months ago:
so uh this guy once ordered a pizza with no toppings but only beef on the left side and that’s why I have a 40-year-old man’s face on my shirt with a pizza background.
- Comment on Trust your training 3 months ago:
I think it comes from an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and exploded as a meme.