shalafi
@shalafi@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 7 hours ago:
Similar to my ex-wife who grew up on well water with loads of minerals. She found tap water to be disgusting and said it tasted of chemicals.
- Comment on We'd all be a lot happier if we understood this core truth 1 day ago:
Don’t feel dumb. Just figured out a couple of years back that hats are useful, often necessary, in the sun. I’m 54.
- Comment on so how do the kids defeat this clown, stephen? 3 days ago:
I love King’s work, LOVE IT. Never read anyone who taps into what childhood was actually like so much as he does. Can’t speak to the girls, but us little boys were exactly as described. OTOH, his child characters are always a few years ahead of their time.
*The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" was a perfect example. She’s fucking 9 years old! Kids are basically retarded at that age. I have/had one of each sex. I could go on forever. King nails those childhood thoughts and actions, but he ascribes them to kids a few years shy of how they really be.
I would say that times were different for him growing up, and maybe that’s my problem. I’m old enough to be his middle-aged son. And yes, we grew up far faster than kids do now days. And reflecting on that, yeah, maybe that’s why I feel he’s out of touch? Sometimes I find social media opinions on what constitutes childhood to be way out of whack. I was fucking like Armageddon was next Tuesday when I was 17, yet lemmy tells me I was a child?
Does that make sense?
- Comment on Google will reduce Pixel 6A battery capacity due to overheating issues 3 days ago:
Never happen without legislation. People want super thin phones, manufactures want you buying new phones.
- Comment on Caption this. 5 days ago:
Colombian drug runner getting damned innovative these days!
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 5 days ago:
Those were invented to separate two people.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 5 days ago:
You might just love Blind Sight. Here, they’re trying to decide if an alien life form is sentient or a Chinese Room:
“Tell me more about your cousins,” Rorschach sent.
“Our cousins lie about the family tree,” Sascha replied, “with nieces and nephews and Neandertals. We do not like annoying cousins.”
“We’d like to know about this tree.”
Sascha muted the channel and gave us a look that said Could it be any more obvious? “It couldn’t have parsed that. There were three linguistic ambiguities in there. It just ignored them.”
“Well, it asked for clarification,” Bates pointed out.
“It asked a follow-up question. Different thing entirely.”
Bates was still out of the loop. Szpindel was starting to get it, though… .
- Comment on How often do you take him for a walk? 5 days ago:
(Apologies. Got a little excited there.)
- Comment on Just the usual bike ride in Florida 6 days ago:
Sigh, never get to see gators. I’m usually on the water while they’re in it so they run away before I get close.
- Comment on Are most people who avoid turn signals do it to feel more normal? (Imitating their parents, avoiding perceived stupidity of using turn signals when it seems useless, etc) 6 days ago:
Had two girlfriends (in a row!) that hated turn signals because they kicked off their “repetitive noise disorder” (misophonia). My wife hates the regular motion of her windshield wipers, fucks with her head, uses them manually.
We can’t expect this many humans to play together nicely.
- Comment on kisses 💋 1 week ago:
I usually don’t get that close a look as they run away, usually straight into the water. (Cottonmouths around here.)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It was much the opposite! Yeah, we only had 3 or 4 news sources on TV, but they mostly said the same things. Being caught bullshitting, or having even a little bias, was unthinkable as trust was the only selling point as to what station you watched.
As to criticizing the government, catching politicians bullshitting was the national sport for journalists.
Bloom County was a great comic that covered American culture and politics from 1980-1989. You won’t get many of the references, but it’s a perfect snapshot of the 80s.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Gf and I were in collage in 90 or 91 and another couple was simply amazed by us.
“You guys are so crazy! Whenever you want to learn about something you just go to the library and grab a bunch of books!”
- Comment on His last pickup rolled over. 1 week ago:
Am old, didn’t know either.
- Comment on boy u nasty 1 week ago:
You gonna love puffer fish mating rituals!
- Comment on Anon's split personality 1 week ago:
Why wife uses a bidet and soap, every single use. She’s never had a UTI or any other issue down there. Explain.
- Comment on If we replace most plastic with a non plastic alternative and would that really be better? 1 week ago:
Try 40 years ago. My dumbass sister was advocating for plastic bags, as if we were chopping down old growth forests for fucking paper.
Forestry is an awesome practice, and we’re damned good at it. I’d advocate for waxed paper in place of plastic.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 1 week ago:
No, the GOP hates it because it will cut into their poorest voters, big time, such a cut that Fox won’t be able to explain it away.
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 1 week ago:
The one where Tony blew him off and made him look a fool?
- Comment on Repent, ye clownish sinner 1 week ago:
I’m coming to hate lawns. All I see in a nice lawn is a vast wasteland, nothing but death. Call me radicalized?
Y’all should see my yard! Some needs chopped, but it’s getting pretty wild. At the same time it’s reaching a sort of equilibrium where I may not have to mow next year.
Got tadpoles by the hundreds in my micro ponds! Hoping for dragonflies next year, and loads more the year after.
- Comment on ??? 1 week ago:
Love oceanic evolution.
“That’s goofy as fuck, looks like a child drew it.”
“Does it fuck and make more?”
“Well, yeah, I guess, but…”
“GOOD ENOUGH. Put it in production.”
- Comment on Bugs are the tits 1 week ago:
Got nailed by a wasp today for the first time in 20-years! I ignore them, they ignore me, no hassle. Even had a small nest over my front door last year that I left alone.
Fuckers started building under an outside table, right at knee height, all but touched the nest. I ain’t mad. I slaughtered them all and showed their aborted children to my kids as a science lesson. “EEWWW DAD!!!”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Meh, space might as well be B&W to our eyeballs. About every space pic we see is dialed into particular wavelengths.
- Comment on Why is having a lawyer present during police interviews "opt in" rather than "opt out"? 1 week ago:
And where are we going to get this army of professionals?
- Comment on Anon goes camping 1 week ago:
If you’re in an emergency in the wilderness, the car is, but definition, far away.
“Don’t want to freeze to death? Pack extra clothes in the trunk!”
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- Comment on Do people confuse your nationality? 1 week ago:
Nah. People easily recognize my hillbilly roots.
- Comment on Anon goes camping 1 week ago:
Said a moment ago, one saved my ass. Cut the top off a beer can and sucked river water out of it kayaking. Tasted like nothing, like tap water that’s been in the sun for a while.
- Comment on Anon goes camping 1 week ago:
wilderness for an extended amount of time person driving
Those don’t seem to fit together quite right.
Anyway, bring a LifeStraw or the like. Saved my ass onetime.
- Comment on Pull to enter, you say? 1 week ago:
That’s bad UI, not you. Your brain was pattern matching for something that looked like a button, didn’t lock onto the non-button thing, because why would it?
