UnderpantsWeevil
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- Comment on This ad that claims that windows 11 is 3 times faster than windows 10 4 hours ago:
I think it might be “We decided to outsource our non-English marketing team to an AI”.
- Comment on Anon discovers cigarettes 4 hours ago:
Idk about alcohol. I’m on the other end of the spectrum with that one. Reflexively loathe drinking because I associate it with feeling like shit in the morning. I usually only touch the stuff when people shove a drink into my hand.
- Comment on Anon discovers cigarettes 4 hours ago:
“You’re worthless suckers have no vices”
Vices are social taboos, not iron laws. And if you haven’t ever transgressed, I gotta wonder what kind of life you’re living (particularly in a society that’s puritanical in its ethics)
- Comment on Anon discovers cigarettes 4 hours ago:
Because it’s a drug that makes you feel good?
More specifically, its a stimulant that makes your brain more active and helps you cut through your exhaustion. Like caffeine, its a “work drug” designed to crank more units of labor out of you in a limited time span, at the expense of your overall health and well-being.
That’s why capitalist countries have been so loathe to outlaw it, when compared to the creative/transgressive stimulants like LSD and THC.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 9 hours ago:
I’m saying that from a third person perspective, theres nothing about them which inherently arousing
There seems to be ample evidence to the contrary. Whole pornographic industries exist to cater to people aroused by pictures of people in various states of undress.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 11 hours ago:
why breasts are considered sexual (they aren’t)
Breasts and feet are both sensitive and responsive to touch. If you’ve ever Netflix-and-Chilled, a foot rub is a classic opening move. Meanwhile, teasing someone’s nipple is classic foreplay.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 12 hours ago:
Your loss
- Comment on Viscous scoundrels 1 day ago:
Is that a tension wrench in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
- Comment on Weapons trafficking 1 day ago:
They put the kids in coach while the parents flew first class.
I mean, when you’re 8 years old, coach might as well be first class.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 1 day ago:
~ Mitch Hedberg
- Comment on Weapons trafficking 1 day ago:
I mean, that’s fine. But also it implies significant generational family wealth.
The point is that Kevin’s family is loaded. Dad’s likely an investment banker, mid-level corporate executive, white shoe lawyer, or other high income profession. And he comes from a family with similar wealth and status, such that they can afford to shell out five figures on an extended vacation abroad.
I think this is alluded to in the class character of Kevin himself, who seems fairly comfortable playing the spoiled rich kid, but is initially terrified and disoriented when presented with people living in poverty.
- Comment on Anon describes past 1 day ago:
Yeah north korea what an amazing place to live
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 2 days ago:
They care quite a bit.
Bots and spammers make for miserable revenue generators. If you don’t distinguish your marks from your players, there’s no way to make money at the poker table.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 2 days ago:
I mean, it’s a bit of both.
- Comment on Techno feudalism, here we come 3 days ago:
replace them
Don’t worry, you’ll still be doing the work. You’ll just get half the pay and none of the credit.
- Comment on Raised by extra strict hispanic catholic parents 5 days ago:
Parents: “You should be punished for having romantic feelings and a sense of independence”
Me: “I reflexively and ritualistically punish myself whenever I’m feeling romantic or pursuing independence”
Nah. Nothing here that I can see.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 5 days ago:
The rest of HS2 got cancelled.
Practically as an act of economic sabotage. British people hate their country and are actively trying to destroy it from within
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 5 days ago:
Why don’t they do lay-down-only seats?
Bigger and older passengers would find it more difficult to get into the top bunk than to ride a standing-only seat.
But it’s all shit regardless. Boeing can barely even make planes that don’t fall apart on the runway. The American airline industry’s fleet is increasingly defunct. The FAA is gutted. Airports are falling into disrepare due to mismanagement. You’ll be lucky to get any kind of air travel in another decade.
- Comment on They're unstoppable 1 week ago:
- Comment on Netflix puts AI ads in paid tier: pirate EVERYTHING at this point... 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️ 14:55 1 week ago:
- Comment on Netflix puts AI ads in paid tier: pirate EVERYTHING at this point... 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️ 14:55 1 week ago:
Rossman was making the same point over and over and over and over
You gotta pad out your content if you want to churn multiple episodes a week that are hours long.
- Comment on They're unstoppable 1 week ago:
You missed one.
- Comment on They're unstoppable 1 week ago:
- Comment on They're unstoppable 1 week ago:
Krillin
The exception that proves the rule?
- Comment on Who needs it? 1 week ago:
They still know your name, phone number, relationships, and every piece of info ever supplied to or from you in a text message going back as far as it is recorded on every phone which has ever downloaded the app.
Only because they bought the info off Microsoft, Facebook, and Google.
It’s a cruel and terrible world for those who aren’t ignorant.
At some point, being terminally anxious over the idea that a Chinese bureaucrat has access to a stack of high school yearbooks does nothing of benefit. There’s a long term material benefit to simply staying off social media (particularly the bigger instances) in a few rare but critical circumstances. But for virtually everyone else, none of this shit matters.
- Comment on Too many posers 1 week ago:
Vroom vroom vroom vroom vroom is my favorite single
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 1 week ago:
They’re run by the same average people who work for them. You don’t need to be an idiot to fuck up running something as large and complicated as a trans-national corporation. You don’t need to be a genius to coast in a position that already prints money.
We’re simply not that different from one another. The genius/idiot dichotomy is far more about variances in education, culture, and propagandized bigotry than finding actual differences in intellect.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 1 week ago:
Hollywood Executives can collectively only name at most seven actors at a given time.
- Comment on Anon describes past 2 weeks ago:
Don’t mind me, just thinking about how peaceful Americans were between 1949 and 1965
- Comment on doctors 2 weeks ago:
