wheeldawg
@wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works
Reddit refugee
- Comment on Yeehaw 6 days ago:
The cowboy hat always subtracts like half of what I would otherwise assume their IQ to be.
I have never seen or heard of someone smart wearing a cowboy hat. Outside of doing a satire or parody.
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 1 week ago:
Yeah I leave it at my brother’s house for our weekly movie and TV day, and he had them already so I didn’t spend more than like 15 minutes looking at those.
But it’s on the back burner for a QoL update like that.
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 1 week ago:
I still use the 5.1 system I got with my first computer in '04.
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 1 week ago:
I’m just stupid and not thinking.
This sounds like the mental math did to me, but I forgot to carry the reality.
- Comment on Checking in 1 week ago:
You fail the horny check.
- Comment on Checking in 1 week ago:
wouldnt have though nothing of it
So without the comment what did you think of it?
- Comment on *cough cough* GOLLUM *cough cough* 1 week ago:
Can’t he just get depressed and kill himself already? That would be one of the few times that practice actually benefits society.
- Comment on *cough cough* GOLLUM *cough cough* 1 week ago:
I bet that’s what they tried to say but autocorrect fucked it.
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 1 week ago:
Which then travels… over HDMI. I realize that’s not what you meant but technically…
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 1 week ago:
If they were, they should be free. Yet there’s still triple and quad digit prices on these things that probably cost like 8% of that to build (because of slave labor probably), and the subsidy on top should mean they’re literally paying us monthly to have their screen.
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 1 week ago:
This really seems to be the right answer. At least while computer monitors stay dumb.
Get one of those tiny PCs that you can just leave behind the TV, get a wireless mouse and keyboard too.
Nothing on TV isn’t available online anyway. Paying the cable company for anything more than an Internet connection seems like setting money on fire to me. Maybe sports would be difficult, but that can literally be found if you know what you’re doing. Even games you wouldn’t be able to with TV.
Cable TV just seems to me like a boomer’s version of the Internet. It has no place in a world with the Internet, change my mind. The ads on TV are worse than what you find on any popular website/app.
But as usual, capitalism is messing everything up with the marketing. In a world where hi speed Internet is widely available, “TV” just has no use. None. And worse, the commercials are now leaking through your literal screen.
I’m not saying that ads aren’t a problem, but there’s a hell of a lot more you can do about them.
In a perfect world, there would be a place you could go whenever you wanted something and find products and solutions for that thing, and there wouldn’t be ads in anything else at all.
But until there’s an actual argument to say TV technology isn’t totally worthless, my stance is simply “no TVs are necessary or useful”.
- Comment on Maybe, just maybe, a company that refuses to give you time off if you have a bullet inside of you is a really really shitty company 2 weeks ago:
Having a job where you’re responsible for dealing with a cover gives me the work ick.
Bro, I’m sick. Take the L and live without me, nothing is my problem today. I can’t live on pins and needles about going in when I’m dying just because I can’t find a replacement. Or being terrified that my day off might belong to someone else who needs cover.
That’s just a hostile workplace imo. The instant I feel like shit I instantly don’t gaf at all. Just calling to say I won’t be there is already annoying and work-like enough.
Granted I’ve only had jobs where I was a replaceable cog (well, mostly replaceable-made myself pretty knowledgeable) so it wasn’t like I had individual-specific responsibilities and clients that would be put out or anything.
But work life balance kinda depends on not having to only get sick when someone else feels like voluntarily covering. That shit is oppressive af in my eyes.
- Comment on DC Scrambles To Remove 'City Ads' Calling Trump Supporters 'Trash' 2 weeks ago:
This seems like it’s indicating trump, not a follower to me. Not a pristine drawing, but it would be bizarre to have one resemble him that much but not indicate him.
- Comment on Anon hates Apple 3 weeks ago:
Well I tried to give the benefit of doubt even after hating Apple in general. I’m out of ideas of ways he wasn’t a complete idiot that was doing stupid things for stupid reasons. And I’ve always been happy he’s dead since I heard he was.
I actively celebrate deaths of stops and evil people alike. I’ve never seen the point of curbing it under terms like “I don’t wish him dead, but I won’t be sad to see his obituary”. No I am actually am happy he’s dead and just giddy to see his obit.
Kinda like I’m sure everyone was glad to see Hitler dead. I just get happy about evil AND stupid people’s deaths.
- Comment on Anon hates Apple 3 weeks ago:
Well if the treatment is specifically miserable, that could be a factor.
- Comment on Anon hates Apple 3 weeks ago:
Jobs was an idiot. Chose homeopathic crap instead of medicine. I don’t give him credit for anything if he’s that dumb.
He’s free to do that, sure, but anyone doing so is safe to be labeled “moron” by everyone else.
Unless I’ve heard a messed up version of events he will stay in the “idiots that were not beneficial to humans in any way” trash can.
- Comment on What games have you sunk the most time into? 3 weeks ago:
You’re me.
- Comment on Hurry 3 weeks ago:
This is mine as well
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 1 month ago:
I didn’t even express an opinion. You reply to the wrong person?
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 1 month ago:
He’s got milk and cigarettes for everyone!
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 1 month ago:
Assuming calling them evil means that they’re not people is presumptive.
People can be evil.
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 1 month ago:
The lack of the joker’s line disturbs me.
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 1 month ago:
Correct. It’s absolutely hilarious.
- Comment on Screw you, Apple. 1 month ago:
A standard headphone jack, at least. But it did come with (or maybe they were just available at the time) a set of headphones that plugged into the home in the center.
- Comment on Is it possible to have a "free speech" platform that simultaneously stops "hate speech"? 1 month ago:
It will probably never be free speech happening. It’s always been free speech with exceptions.
I think one measure of society is how strictly it imposes some kind of penalty for people that use speech that crosses those boundaries. No one should get away with racist comments and not be penalized in some way. Not necessarily legal penalties, I mean including smaller stuff, like limiting the pool of potential friends. There’s a lot of range with these.
Another measure would have to do with what the penalties even are.
- Comment on Sleepy Bees 1 month ago:
Not in my experience.
There have been so many yellow jackets and wasps that used to live in front of this house, and they tended to dive bomb anyone headed between the driveway and front door.
That and I got caught up in a swarm when a friend of mine stepped on a yellow jacket best when we were all about 7 or 8. I just happened to be nearby and got stung 16 times. My younger brother got hit at least 18 (they list count at that point) and he needed an epi for even though without a known allergy to bee stings. Maybe after almost 20 songs you get symptoms anyway.
Either way, I’ve never forgiven bees since that day and I never will. I’m not out hunting them down or anything, but if I encounter them, and it’s somewhere I have regular need to go, they’re getting evicted without warning with prejudice. And I will laugh while they’re dying.
- Comment on Sleepy Bees 2 months ago:
Didn’t care. If they got stingers and live too close to me, they are getting squished out poisoned without mercy.
- Comment on New Xhitter policy just dropped 2 months ago:
Except the AI is trained. Not the art.
- Comment on Amazon Bans Its Drivers From Moving Their Own Lips Too Much At Work 4 months ago:
I really wanna go to an event where we’re just literally roasting selected billionaires over a fire, eating popcorn as we listen to their screams, and watch their flesh darken as it burns. So whole celebrating how much negative karma is leaving the earth all at one time.
I’m not even kidding. I would literally enjoy physically going to such an event. Bezos and Musk would probably be the stars of the show.
Does Bezos even “do” anything at all? Ever? Or is he just cashing checks while underlings deal with all the “work stuff”?
I mean I would be downright ashamed if a company with my name all over it was looked on this badly.
- Comment on Stay away, you might fall off the edge of the flow of time 4 months ago:
I totally get the comparison now. That movie was horrifying as hell though.
