Adderbox76
@Adderbox76@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Dispute 2 days ago:
Clearly hubby got caught with a side-piece in the nest when mom came home early.
- Comment on A bear, exhausted from abuse, attacks its trainer— Hangzhou Safari Park, China 3 days ago:
“Oh shit! That bear is attacking! Quick, you go get the emergency basketball hoop and I’ll bring the parrot.”
- Comment on French Anatomy 4 days ago:
That’s not a fail. That’s just french.
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 1 week ago:
100%. It’s a matter of where does the technology stop being about “useful for us” and starts being “useful for them”.
A digital whiteboard would be a good feature (not ‘necessary’, but cool). It’s when they decide it needs to be connected to the internet that it becomes “is this technology serving us…or serving them” that’s the problem.
I’m not anti-tech at all. Quite the opposite. But I remember the mid-2000s when all of this tech was getting off the ground and it was being innovated and invented for OUR benefit, not for the corporations. That’s when this kind of stuff was fun.
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 1 week ago:
It’s depressing to notice just how much pop culture from teh 80s onward was trying to warn us about this coming shittorm. It’s like, as soon as Reaganomics came on the scene, there were those who immediately saw it for what it was and started fighting. (Punk Rock, Literature, Movies, etc…) and it wasn’t enough. No one paid any attention and we are now where we are because as a culture we got sucked into chasing more shiny shit at the expense of our own good.
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 1 week ago:
I remember when fridges with screens were first becoming a thing, and one way they tried to sell them was the convenience of being able to leave notes, shopping lists, photos, etc… for other members of the family. And even back then, before the advertising apocalypse, I remember thinking, what in the actual fuck makes this 1000 dollar feature any more useful than a 20 dollar magnetic white board and a dry erase marker?
- Comment on [Android] How is Florisboard not popular? 1 week ago:
Privacy. I don’t need Google recording my keystrokes.
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 2 weeks ago:
It was the seventies.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
If a seagull lives to it’s thirties I imagine it’s flying around with nothing but Smashmouth banging around it’s brain all day.
- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 3 weeks ago:
I mean, I guess that’s true in a peculirar sort of way in which nothing really exists outside of our perception of it.
What I mean by that is that whatever we see, hear, taste, etc… is merely neurons firing in our brain, processing a signal that it receives. So if we’re looking at a tree for example; that tree is just light/energy waves vibrating on a specific frequency. It’s only when it hits our optic nerve and travels to our brain that it’s translating into something that we call a “tree”.
So when the eyes are closed, the random interference pattern could indeed be interpreted as you say. Goog catch. Kind of makes you wonder.
- Comment on Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations? 3 weeks ago:
Simple answer without typing a textbook is simply that the longer a language exists, the more individual “quirks” it picks up.
Words or idioms from a different language, regional differences in pronunciation that become common, changes in preferred spelling, etc…
Language is protean and ever evolving, which means that no (natural) language is ever going to be without it’s own unique weirdness.
- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 3 weeks ago:
What you’re seeing is the inner workings of the holographic universe we inhabit. Your brain interprets the signal as static.
/Obviously I’m not serious…
- Comment on Is capitalism or consumerism at fault? 3 weeks ago:
IMO, consumers aren’t necessarily stupid as much as corporations have very expertly learned to weaponize FOMO through advertising; allowing companies like apple to inflate their profit margin from something reasonable to “whatever the consumer is willing to pay.”
Is that “capitalism”? Yes…technically. But to me, it goes against the spirit of capitalism, which at its heart sums up as “Farmer has a cow that produces milk. Farmer sells the chicken farmer down the road his extra milk and charges enough to be reasonable but doesn’t get greedy because he needs eggs.”
Corporations don’t need our eggs. They don’t believe they need anything from us and so don’t care about being reasonable about profit.
Its “capitalism”, but in my opinion, a perverse, stilted form that should have been kicked to the curb the moment Reaganomics started making it popular.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 4 weeks ago:
Doubt I would ever do the VR headset. I simply don’t play the kind of games that work well with (or even need) VR. Although come to think of it, a VR Civilization VI game would be wild.
But the Steam Machine would be interesting to replace the old laptop I currently have running as my multimedia box on my television (streaming, retro gaming, steam mirroring, etc…) It would be more powerful than the well worn old dude I’m currently using.
- Comment on Train collides with 18-wheeler hauling cars, intersection reopens Monday morning 5 weeks ago:
Did anyone else’s parents tell them when they were growing up that it you put a coin on the tracks you could derail the train?
Yeah… About that…
- Comment on TEETH 5 weeks ago:
If there’s ever a link I will never press…
- Comment on TEETH 1 month ago:
I’m generally a pretty stoic guy. I don’t get “creeped out” by much. But there are two things that never fail to invoke a creepy unsettling feeling in me.
- A toddler skull with all of their teeth. Shit’s just terrifying even though I know it’s natural.
- There’s an old black and white clip of an eyeball being sliced into with a straight razor that just makes me shudder every time.
- Comment on Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled 1 month ago:
I’d like that. I’ve enjoyed being on Motorola for the last few phones. Good, serviceable, middle-of-the-road priced phones and a company that doesn’t think so highly of themselves that the majority of the price amounts to a prestige tax. (ahem…Apple and Samsung)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Last relationship ended in 2016. Been single since then.
A few different reasons. The two most important being that being in a relationship requires going out and actually socializing with the public, which is usually something i tend to avoid. And secondly being that I don’t think I’m in any position emotionally, financially or psychologically to be of any use to a woman.
- Comment on World would be a better place 1 month ago:
I prefer Mormons. They have better porn
Five little mormons jumping on a bed?
- Comment on World would be a better place 1 month ago:
I’d be dead. A serial killer would use it as an excuse to come inside and I’d immediately be an idiot and say “absolutely come on in. I love Venus.”
As I was writing the above sentence, I suddenly had an idea for a story about a Vampire who tries to use religion as a way of being invited over the threshold of strangers homes, and get increasingly frustrated when people tell him to fuck off.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 1 month ago:
The world is kind of a shitty place right now. And to be honest, I’d be surprised if it wasn’t, at least to some degree, affecting everyone’s calm.
- Comment on Was the fall of Rome this stupid? 1 month ago:
The fall of which Rome?
I still contend that this isn’t equivalent to the fall of the Empire. It’s equivalent to the fall of the republic and the rise of the empire.
The US isn’t dealing with Astragoths and Huns pillaging their cites. They’re dealing with an exceptionally stupid version of Caesar trying to usurp power and proclaim an empire.
Buckle up, America. If you don’t take care of this now, your in for about 437 more years of this shit.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 1 month ago:
I get it. Younger demographic, new audience. Star Trek is no longer made for me. I understand that, and I get it.
But…
Regardless of who it’s made for, regardless of who the target audience is, there came a point in Star Trek history (ahem…2009) when they stopped making somthing designed to be “Star Trek” and starting making “X…with a Star Trek Theme applied on top”.
- “Star Wars…with a Star Trek Theme applied on top”
- “James Bond…with a Star Trek Theme applied on top”
- “Futurama…with a Star Trek Theme applied on top”
- “Battlestar Galactica…with a Star Trek Theme applied on top”.
- and now introducting, “My So-Called Life…with a Star Trek Theme applied on top”.
That’s why SNW was (at least until the latest season), a breath of fresh air; because it dared to be a “Star Trek…with a Star Trek Theme applied on top.”
Hell…Discovery tried to be “EVERYTHING ABOVE…with a Star Trek Theme applied on top” depending on the season.
I get it. Chase the audience. But it’s maddening.
- Comment on Pop-up Amazon TV ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan. 2 months ago:
There’s definitely something in their terms of service that says the ad-free doesn’t apply to their products.
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 2 months ago:
If I remember my highschool biology correctly (which I probably don’t, so take this with all the grains of salt), natural sources like berries, fruits, etc… create natural glucose which is what every living organism (including us…use for energy). Meaning when we eat berries and fruit, that natural glucose doesn’t need to be converted or processed in order for our body to make use of it. That also gives it a more stable effect in our system.
Refined sugars, on the other hand, need to be processed into glucose before it can bind to (oxygen? I think?) and pass into our bloodstream. That process leaves a lot of junk leftover which can have detrimental effects.
Again…I’m trying to remember a 35 year old highschool biology course, so correct me if I’m wrong.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That can happen when they leave the microchip a little too close to the surface and it causes skin irritation.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Ich bin ein berliner
- Comment on Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop 2 months ago:
InXile was most famously the Wasteland series, the spiritual successors to the original fallout designs (1 and 2). But they also did Tides of Numeria and Bards Tale (I think, but don’t quote me)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
No. And to be honest, it’s kind of stretching the limit of the title of the community.