FanciestPants
@FanciestPants@lemmy.world
- Comment on If you could have any vision-related superpower, what would it be? 1 week ago:
That vision ability to see people’s names from Death Note would be helpful for avoiding those awkward social interactions where someone is talking to me but I’ve completely forgotten who they are.
- Comment on Casual wear 1 week ago:
- Comment on As you are doing it you never realize 5 weeks ago:
Screenshoting this thread to burn it onto a disc later.
- Comment on You mean it gets worse? 5 weeks ago:
I can’t remember which movie, but some basic rom-com. Girl was in a fight with her ex and trying to make him feel bad said, “I gave you the best years of my life.” And dude, utterly confused, responds, “those were your best?” The movie was forgettable, but that absolutely savage line stuck with me.
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 2 months ago:
Be engineer, draw pictures with numbers next to it that mean that your picture is important. Give picture to someone who agrees that your picture is important and presses on your picture with a stamp. Then give your picture to people that don’t work at desks to make a thing that looks like your important picture.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 2 months ago:
I don’t know why these are asked in the past tense like I don’t still do these things.
- Comment on are "brush" and "blush" really pronounced differently? i pronounce them the same. 4 months ago:
Totally fair. I only started paying attention after hearing a podcast about how the letter “D” is pronounced in names in some other cultures. I was doing it wrong. It was a similar issue with position of the tongue when saying words like “dentist” compared to “dog”.
- Comment on are "brush" and "blush" really pronounced differently? i pronounce them the same. 4 months ago:
Reading differences in pronunciation can be difficult, but in regard to tongue placement when saying these words, when saying “blush”, the tip of the tongue should press against the inside of the top-front teeth. When saying “brush”, the tongue should curl back and lightly press on the inside right and left side of the back teeth.
- Comment on Why Are People Surprised When Trump Actually Follows Through? 4 months ago:
When he said that he could grab women “by the pussy”, he followed through with it when he raped E Jean Carroll. But when he said that he “could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody”, I don’t think that he has so far.
It seems that his voters are thinking that he’s not serious about the murder thing, but it’s okay if he’s serious about the rape thing, when it’s quite likely that he’s serious about both.
- Comment on What is the weirdest argument you’ve overheard? 4 months ago:
“Look man, all I’m saying is that if it wasn’t for that song most people wouldn’t even know how to spell bananas”.
- Comment on What gives you hope to keep going? 7 months ago:
I think I may still be riding the hype of things like the JWST, and fusion energy breakthroughs. Our societies may be back sliding at the moment, but our species is still doing some amazing things.
- Comment on What gives you hope to keep going? 7 months ago:
I am going to click this, but God dammit if this is Rick Astley
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 7 months ago:
“This is not a warning. This is a sentence.”
- Comment on Hmmm 8 months ago:
Homeless looking guy sounds like he has way more chill than I would have in this situation. Good for that guy. I hope he had a winning night too.
- Comment on How is anime and manga more popular than comics and western cartoons? 8 months ago:
I don’t have any idea really, but one possible contributing element is the speed of delivery. My understanding (possibly incorrectly) is that western comics are more commonly delivered on a one book per month cycle, whereas Manga delivers a lot more content in the same time period. Part of this production time can probably be attributed to coloring time (Western comics color every panel vs Manga printed in mostly black and white).
There’s also the accessibility of Manga and anime, having relatively newer characters without the burden of decades of backstory (not accounting for One Piece). Running an anime with (mostly) similar story line helps to bring potential new readers up to speed quickly with Manga, whereas the animated adaptations of western comics often seem to pick specific story arcs of comics, or make up entirely new stories.
- Comment on When and why did democrats begin supporting fracking? 9 months ago:
Fracking technology has some potential upside in the climate discussion, time.com/…/fervo-fracking-technology-geothermal-e…
A ban on fracking might not be the best solution if you want to move the technology towards something more beneficial to the fight against climate change.
- Comment on The number 1 cause of death from chocking is having some sort of obstruction of the air ways. 10 months ago:
The number 1 cause occurs in more cases than the number 2 cause.
- Comment on I just got out of the shower. what is with the product placement ? 10 months ago:
I don’t know if those companies had any say in whether their products were used, but this wasn’t supposed to be for advertising. It was supposed to be a gimmick for what was stated to be a message on the economy, but the orange atrocity personified saw a squirrel and the whole address ended up being the same whiny bullshit.
- Comment on Bet y'all are very familiar with this 11 months ago:
I don’t know, but does it run Linux?
- Comment on The justices of the supreme court ruled that Trump was immune and effectively above the law while being president. What is now stopping Biden from bringing a gun to the next debate? 1 year ago:
I did not assert that the court gave full immunity for all things, but will now suggest that not every crime is a violation of the constitution, or could not be committed while carrying out a function of the constitution.
- Comment on The justices of the supreme court ruled that Trump was immune and effectively above the law while being president. What is now stopping Biden from bringing a gun to the next debate? 1 year ago:
Why would immunity be necessary if the act is not otherwise a crime?
- Comment on Low Effort System of a Down Meme 1 year ago:
I didn’t remember the mushroom people reference until I started singing the song in my head, and then lol
- Comment on Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her 1 year ago:
I’ll take this into consideration the next time I look for a new position. I’ve never been on the side of performing or requesting a background check on a potential employee, but have almost always been asked why I left my previous employer when I’ve interviewed for a new position. Thanks internet friend.
- Comment on Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her 1 year ago:
Seems like it would also have the effect of making the employee less appealing to any potential future employers. When asked in an interview why they left their previous job, these people have to decide whether to say honestly that they were let go because of mismanagement and risk their possible new job on whether the background check includes a call to the HR department of your last employer, or give the line that would match the HR record and say they were fired for poor performance. Either way is going to make it pretty hard to get hired, and so if Cloudflare ever needs to hire again in the future, there’s a decent chance these people will still be seeking employment.
- Comment on Nic Cage through the years 1 year ago:
From what I could tell, his “appearance” in The Flash, which is in quotes because I’m fairly certain it was all CGI with no dialogue, was an incredibly deep cut inside joke for a Tim Burton Superman movie that never got released. His “appearance” in The Flash should not be considered a Nic Cage performance.
- Comment on Not this guy again 1 year ago:
I’m not familiar with KajaGooGoo, but I remember the Goo Goo Dolls. Sounds like either would have been a fun opening act for Gaga.
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 1 year ago:
If we’re setting the calendar back 200 years, I’d have to guess that one of the contributing factors is records keeping and reporting. The definition of what is considered a “mass shooting” has also been fluid over the past 50 or so years.
These are not likely to be major contributors, but from Hollywood’s depictions, mass shootings may have been pretty common around 150 years ago.
