AFKBRBChocolate
@AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Tight Pants / Body Rolls 2 weeks ago:
It’s because it’s all been so enshitified. Corporate profit optimization has just killed so much.
- Comment on Tight Pants / Body Rolls 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m old. I got my CS degree in 1985 - so I was into computers pre-internet, certainly pre-world-wide-web. When the web started booming and everyone was making we pages with all sort of content, and when search engines were really trying to just find the stuff you were looking for with no other agenda, I was so full of hope. I thought this was really going to be a technology that could get information to anyone who wanted it, people would be more informed, and it would really bring us all closer together.
In other words, I was a naive dumb ass.
- Comment on Tight Pants / Body Rolls 2 weeks ago:
I miss the old Internet, but I’m happy to find old Internet content that I hadn’t seen.
- Comment on How To Unclog a Sink 2 weeks ago:
What a moronic waste of eggs.
- Comment on Some cheeses are luminescent. 4 weeks ago:
Right - so?
- Comment on Some cheeses are luminescent. 4 weeks ago:
This make me sad, English major or otherwise. I mean, you can look up at the moon and see when the far side is at least partially illuminated.
- Comment on The way this egg peels in infuriating 5 weeks ago:
Oh, okay
- Comment on The way this egg peels in infuriating 5 weeks ago:
I think you misunderstood. Fresh eggs have that problem more. If you boil an older egg, the shell doesn’t stick as much.
- Comment on Anon makes some changes 1 month ago:
For sure - I’m glad the guy in the OP seems to be getting to a better place. His prior state sounds pretty horrific.
- Comment on Anon makes some changes 1 month ago:
I’m an old guy and have been showering daily since I was young. I feel itchy when I go 48 hours without showering. Never had any significant skin issues.
But there’s a pretty big difference between every three days and every month.
- Comment on Anon makes some changes 1 month ago:
What must his teeth look like? And his breath smell like? Ugh.
- Comment on Anon makes some changes 1 month ago:
I feel gross when I skip a shower for a day - I can’t comprehend how I’d feel after a month.
- Comment on How come in movies tv shows books etc at court they make it seem like swearing on the bible prevents you from lieing? If my family or I was in danger I would lie my ass off to get out of it.. 2 months ago:
Deeply religious folks often believe that if you swear on a bible to tell the truth, then lie, you’ll go to hell. If you aren’t religious, it means nothing. For others it’s a spectrum in between.
- Comment on Where did this mic come from and how to make it go away? [Android] 2 months ago:
It’s likely for activating voice input, but you didn’t give the keyboard app permission to use the mic or something. Usually on keyboard apps there’s a key you long press to get to settings, and you might be able to get rid of it there.
- Comment on Where did this mic come from and how to make it go away? [Android] 2 months ago:
Makes it sound like it’s part of your keyboard app
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 2 months ago:
Doesn’t look like this will affect everyone. From the release:
- Content Filters: Discord users will need to be age-assured as adults in order to unblur sensitive content or turn off the setting.
- Age-gated Spaces – Only users who are age-assured as adults will be able to access age-restricted channels, servers, and app commands.
- Message Request Inbox: Direct messages from people a user may not know are routed to a separate inbox by default, and access to modify this setting is limited to age-assured adult users.
- Friend Request Alerts: People will receive warning prompts for friend requests from users they may not know.
- Stage Restrictions: Only age-assured adults may speak on stage in servers.
I don’t use any of those.
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 3 months ago:
Where I am, they’re very often cut into rounds and served with a meal.
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 3 months ago:
I have not and stand corrected
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 3 months ago:
Apparently it’s just not a thing where I am. I’ve seen them used for little hors d’oeuvre things, but not for a meal-type sandwich.
I stand corrected.
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 3 months ago:
The sandwich bread is mass produced, baked in racks of loaf pans, designed to give very consistent and convenient slices for making sandwiches.
The second pic is the way many people prefer to bake a more rustic loaf. The dough is just placed on a flat sheet, so there’s much more crust, and it can just rise however it does. It’s less convenient for sandwiches.
No baguettes aren’t used for sandwiches, they’re used to serve bread with the meal. If you’re eating dinner, you don’t really want a slice of sandwich bread, you want something more convenient to hold in your hand, dip in you pasta sauce, or whatever. Plus it has a higher ratio of crust to insides, which can be nice.
- Comment on pro choice 3 months ago:
Nice, I missed that one
- Comment on pro choice 3 months ago:
I have a friend who had the license plate “ALEPH NUL” which I thought was good nerd humor.
- Comment on Anon and Rusty 3 months ago:
Yeah, she’s still clingy, but doesn’t seem bad like before.
- Comment on Anon and Rusty 3 months ago:
My cat is 15 years old, and has never really been alone for more than a few hours. My wife was normally home, and we had enough animals that when we went on vacation we had someone stay at our house. But my wife and split up early last year, and I ended up with the cat (and a bird), so it’s been just her and me for the better part of a year.
In November I had to go away for a week, so I had my brother come by once a day to feed her. When I got home she went nuts. Running along at my feet howling when I walked, instantly in my lap, rubbing her face against my chest when I sat down. The sad part was that, for a few days after I got home, she’d wake up in the middle of the night and start making this mournful howl. As soon as I’d say something or put my hand on her, she’d go right back to sleep. I think I gave the poor thing abandonment issues.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 3 months ago:
I’m American, but I’ve heard in a lot of countries they hate how we start talking to someone who is still kind of far away. Like when your friend is approaching from the other direction and you say “Hey, how’s it going?” but you have to talk more loudly because he’s several paces away.
- Comment on 94.3° F 4 months ago:
It does seem so. Cats’ internal temp is a bit warmer than ours - like 101 or 102F. Lots of blood vessels near the surface in a butthole, so it’s warmer than most other areas, though would expect it to be slightly cooler than internal. Not 8 degrees cooler though.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 4 months ago:
Hmm, I don’t think so. I’m in my 60s and I’ve always paid my credit cards in full each month when they’re due. Until very recently, I did have a mortgage and paid the regular payment (with occasional extra payments for principle), do they did make money off of me there. My credit rating has pretty much always been at or near the highest it can be.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 4 months ago:
That one actually makes sense to me. A utility bill isn’t credit, it’s a different debt, so paying it when you’re supposed to doesn’t demonstrate responsible use of credit. On the other hand, if you can’t pay off any sort of debt on time, you probably aren’t a good risk for loaning money to.
- Comment on Makes sense 4 months ago:
I started working at a company in the mid 80s, and stayed there for 40 years. They did Christmas parties until the f early 2000s or so. Honestly, I was kind of glad they stopped. There were always idiots getting drunk and doing/saying really stupid stuff.
- Comment on Increasing the surface area of a substance increases its reaction rate. Proof by garlic. 4 months ago:
I think I hate vampires less than mosquitos