TeddE
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- Comment on be gay, do computers 12 hours ago:
Technically true, but as an admin with root priviledges, I can access system private keys and directly manage it’s identity, such that it’s choice is usually what I told it to want.
Tangent, boy I cannot wait for neurolink to let Grok in my brain. I’m sure it will lead to lots of new ways of thinking for me. 🙃😶😶🙄
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 1 day ago:
Against banks? I love the enthusiasm but this is not the way. Banks as a whole have many of the best lawyers in the game on retainer (possession is 9/10ths of the law, and this industry banks on that and make bank.) The best crowdfunding campaign in history* is 800 million. The banks would be willing to spend at least that in their own defence.
*not including investments (nor blockchain)
Plus, a progressive lawsuit in this environment? Might backfire spectacularly - right now banks are cautiously picking on ‘safe’ targets. But with a green light from the supreme court the banks could go full Nazi. Yeah - there’s nothing good I can reasonably expect here.
- Comment on Shaming Crayfish 1 day ago:
Historically sure. But pup play with a praise kink is growing from a fetish to a full on counter-culture. Who’s a good [boy/girl/pup]?
This addresses the “what can you do” bit. We can turn their shame into a game and mock their mockery. Even without the slutshame/slutpride aspect, pup play often is fully nonsexual for a lot of pup groups and is a great way for lonely adults to meet new people, socialize, and remember to play.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US fill in the area in the Pacific to connect Alaska, Hawaii, and the mainland? Are they stupid? 1 day ago:
A construction plan of epic proportions. They’re calling it a freeway.
Eight lanes of shimmering cement running from here to Pasadena. Smooth, safe, fast. Traffic jams will be a thing of the past.
I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off. Off and on. All day, all night. Soon where the Pacific once was will be a string of gas stations, inexpensive motels, restaurants that serve rapidly prepared food, tire salons, automobile dealerships, and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see! My god… It’ll be beautiful.
- Comment on Gallium 6 days ago:
Excellent point. There’s a certain ‘sacrificial lamb’ vibe to this. With everything going on right now, how is this worth anyone’s time?
I’m not the biggest Coldplay fan, so let me extrapolate: if tomorrow we learned Weird Al Yankovic’s mother liked to kick puppies that would certainly be odd, definitely not good news. But I’d still think having Trump not releasing the Epstein files is a matter far more worth our attention.
- Comment on The good old days 1 week ago:
Shall I bring the amyl nitrates for after the kiss?
- Comment on The good old days 1 week ago:
Hot dang! From the Wizard Pope themselves! #jealous
- Comment on The good old days 1 week ago:
The other boxy thing is a black ribbon dispenser to hog tie the guy’s hands.
- Comment on Age + BUN = Lasix dose 1 week ago:
Oh, I absolutely meant the heritage foundation, but not just only them. I didn’t care to go with specific names because we could sweep away all the companies now and they’d be back with new names and new shell companies within a fortnight.
- Comment on Best feeling 1 week ago:
Not sure if you’re being silly, but that’s like 90% of pup play with a praise kink.
I have given so many adult humans scritches and would love to give you pets.
It may have started as a variation of a gimp suit, but pup play today is all about going to concerts and to parks and adults playing together and expressing their individuality with a colorful, (maybe customized) ‘hood’ (what’s worn over the face). The sex and BDSM stuff is generally de-emphasized or often prohibited (unless you go out of your way to find that stuff).
It’s great for people with anxiety or celebrity, the freedom to let yourself be “not seen as yourself” for a bit is empowering.
- Comment on Age + BUN = Lasix dose 1 week ago:
I agree. The reason Fox and similar think tanks like trump is because he keeps getting into scandal after scandal without time to digest anything.
I don’t think Trump plans all these scandals, but I do suspect there’s yes men teams deliberately arranging for the opportunities.
- Comment on Force is the last refuge of the incompetent 1 week ago:
I’m not sure I agree with that. I suspect that the practical effect of that for most orgs that issued a RTO would be to either defer rescinding the order (by just looking up the relevant timeframe,and putting the rescinding day on the calendar) … or just wholesale not rescind the order at all until they’re getting ready to pretty up the company for sale.
Both of those pass the harm along to the employee.
Instead, if we ever get to pass legislation on the subject - add bonus pay to work that requires physical presence, like overtime, but specific-where. Suddenly, RTO will become magically unnecessary, probably uncouth too. And if minimum wage on-location service workers accidentally get a well-overdue pay bump, … they deserve it?
- Comment on It’s the little things 1 week ago:
Capillary action; which is a combination of adhesion, cohesion, and surface tension and for superfluids the additional ack of friction.
Unfortunately, if cohesion is removed from water, this might drastically change if the water can crawl up the container (the details would be based on the specific physics of this imaginary universe).
- Comment on Just.....why? 2 weeks ago:
I love technology and gadgets!
Got this Cuckoo clock, and it never asks me to sign in. I have a compass gadget in my car - never have to sign in My propane camp stove - fun fact, no sign in! I have a #2 pencil - I sign in with it regularly … I own dozens of screws - brilliant tech helps me keep it all together, no sign in though
We’ve been doing great tech since the OG ‘Fire’. I’m beginning to think what we call the ‘tech’ industry has a very limited understanding of what tech actually is.
- Comment on Ethereal 2 weeks ago:
It tares my heart out.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 2 weeks ago:
I expect this is sarcasm (can’t know, because of Poe’s)
But for anyone genuinely thinking this you can see the dashcam source in her glasses reflection.
- Comment on Fun!!!! :) 2 weeks ago:
Chad died the way he lived … coating all his friends faces and bodies in a carnal blast of his essence.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 3 weeks ago:
Right? Like - talk about having the luckiest version of XKCD’s Ten Thousand!
- Comment on I am two of them 4 weeks ago:
Sucks that our society is structured to make marriage such a large gamble. While the asexual wife thing sucks, I hope you two can connect on other levels for a rich and fulfilling relationship (since it’s not all about sex)
To your larger thesis - I agree. The labels we use - “straight”, “gay”, “bi” rarely match what people think of their own sexuality. Sometimes even when accurate we can chafe at such harsh categories. It’s just more complex and nuanced then that. But society just loves it’s labels.
What would you think of the term heteroflexible? It carries the idea that as a prince, you might have a harem exclusively of women, yet as a pauper ‘any port in a storm’ as the expression goes. Or it could mean that you prefer women, but a good blowjob is a good blowjob - regardless of the sex of the lips giving it.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 4 weeks ago:
Fair, but the guys a politician - beating dead horses is too often just part of the job.
- Comment on Best way to drink coke? 4 weeks ago:
In my opinion, the original post was “some guy” reviewing their pics and asked “which of these beverage container photos is most photogenic?” - a super casual question, and @Anomalocaris@lemm.ee said “Coke-Cola is evil!” - which is absolutely true.
I tried to carefully reword the question to ask it in an unbranded way - what is @Anomalocaris@lemm.ee’s thoughts if we push past the corporation=bad thought stopper. However I failed - and you, @surewhynotlem@lemmy.world, jumped on the new thought stopper “sodastream”. I can’t say I believe sodastream is as evil as Coke™, but they’re also certainly not angels. I’m sure you can argue that case.
But the question wasn’t about really about Coke. The question definitely wasn’t about SodaStream. The question @Armand1@lemmy.world was asking is “Which drink vessel of mine do you like?” And I don’t think you two answered that part of the question. I do love the anti-capitalist messages - but would it hurt either of you to throw Armond1 a bone in your reply to address the aesthetical question they’re asking?
- Comment on Best way to drink coke? 4 weeks ago:
A) Your point? Just because a government has done evil things doesn’t mean its people are evil. Unless you want to demonstrate that sodastream is under direct influence of their government, this is just guilt by association.
B) Did I say we were using a Sodastream? We’re using a home made CO2 device connected to a food grade bottle that we use to fizz the drink - we just use the same screw thread size as the sodastream product because it’s currently popular.
- Comment on Best way to drink coke? 4 weeks ago:
Okay - how about if it were a homemade cola prepared in a sodastream style and the aluminum can in the right were sourced from a recycling center to reduce waste (and the others vessels are thrift ware)
Can you express a preference in that case? (I get the point you’re making, fine; but at least answer the question they’re about the aesthetic of the containers)
- Comment on Midweek feels 5 weeks ago:
All holidays are weird. Half are choosing to celebrate some minute facet of human life and the other half are some facet of human history (often blown up into legend)
In a world where we have holidays for a fertility god long since swallowed up by mystery cult god with the symbol of an oviparous hare, and we invite children to openly impersonate devilry each year in the autumn, or how we celebrate Columbus for their “discovery” when the continent itself was named after Amerigo Vespucci (and both events glossing over the indigenous people living here already) … and you think Juneteenth is the unusual one?
What do you find so weird about the day? (Enough to go out of your way to advertise your discontent in social media) - I’m genuinely curious.
- Comment on Midweek feels 5 weeks ago:
In case you’re being genuinely naïve, both your comments read as something a racist would say.
Calling Juneteenth a weird holiday implies it makes you uncomfortable. I personally wasn’t raised celebrating the tradition - but it only took a quick web search and reading a few articles to quickly find plenty of reasons to like the holiday. What precisely do you find weird about the holiday?
Your follow-up comment was even more damning - you were asked if you wore a hood (like a Ku Klux Klansman) and your reply was as though you were asked if you wore a hoodie (cliché stereotype).
Are you like openly racist? I’d ask if it is some misunderstanding, but you’re swinging zero for two so far.
- Comment on Post your favorite frogs. 1 month ago:
Removed from later works after the OG artist cashed out.
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 1 month ago:
Hello @DoubleSpace!
Is this where the line to top @voodooattack begins? I’ve brought a ✨fabulous✨ selection of headwear with me and I do daresay we’ll find the perfect fit. How uh, oh dear !, how do you plan to top @voodooattack?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Strictly speaking, if someone asked me to do something and I agree, that makes me responsible. So because they forgot they’re tectonically responsible - but that doesn’t mean the roommate is right. They’re still a stuck-up asshole.
- Comment on Into the meat grinder! 1 month ago:
But is it the same sponge? Inverse ship of Theseus!
- Comment on Praise jeebus 2 months ago:
The First Council of Nicaea (325) established common Paschal observance by all Christians on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox.[18] Even if calculated on the basis of the Gregorian calendar, the date of that full moon sometimes differs from that of the astronomical first full moon after the March equinox.[19]
They wanted “first Sunday of Spring” but defined using their calendar, but that calendar doesn’t mesh perfectly with our calendar (and has leap months every few years), so converting to Gregorian makes it appear to move around.
