GraniteM
@GraniteM@lemmy.world
- Comment on The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek. 6 days ago:
Thanks, Industrial Revolution…
- Comment on Evolution 2 weeks ago:
A lot of aerodynamic designs seem to look a lot like the world’s fastest birds.
- Comment on dont do it 2 weeks ago:
You’d be amazed what a determined meth addict with a crowbar can do.
- Comment on How is Alexander the Great so great he gets that name, but not so great that just “Alexander”doesn’t disambiguate him? 2 weeks ago:
Charles Le Magne
Charle
sLeMagneCharlemagne
Save three letters per instance of the name being used. If it’s a history of French royalty, that adds up!
- Comment on How is Alexander the Great so great he gets that name, but not so great that just “Alexander”doesn’t disambiguate him? 2 weeks ago:
“Boss, I can save you a couple of deniers’ worth of ink and paper over the course of the tome by writing Charlemagne instead of Charles Le Magne every time we refer to the great king.”
“Brilliant! You get an extra serving of gruel for lunch!”
- Comment on And toxic in large amounts! 2 weeks ago:
Compromise and call it a broth.
- Comment on My shopping list: Coal 2 weeks ago:
The artist here is Brom, and he’s so fucking good. Gives Goth Boris Vallejo vibes.
- Comment on Theories on Theories 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Theories on Theories 2 weeks ago:
Psychology furiously staring from the corner but afraid to speak lest it be made to sit at the folding table with Astrology and Tarot readings.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 3 weeks ago:
Someone remade Portal as a browser based side scroller, and I fucking loved that game.
I played through Horizon: Zero Dawn and Forbidden West, and with how hard every NPC was flirting with Aloy, I wondered “Why isn’t this a post-apocalyptic dating sim?”
- Comment on Anon gets scammed 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 4 weeks ago:
Let this empire burn and 50+ flags fly freely
Later, in the smoldering ruins:
“I meant 🌹 🌺 ❤️ Balkanization🌈 🎂 🦄, not 🔫 💥 🔥 Balkanization 💀 🪦 💣!”
- Comment on The End of an Era 4 weeks ago:
If less than one percent of Nader voters (not all Florida voters, just Nader voters) had voted for Gore instead, the margin in Florida would have been wide enough for Gore to unquestionably take the state, and he’d have become president.
- Comment on I'm gonna pay you $100 to fuck off 4 weeks ago:
ADBS originated over fourteen years ago.
- Comment on The Art of Surrender 4 weeks ago:
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Be born rich
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Spend the rest of your life falling up stairs
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- Comment on shiny ❍⩊❍ 4 weeks ago:
They are so grateful!!
- Comment on I have the power 4 weeks ago:
You guys like Bruce Lee movies? I saw Enter the Dragon six times.
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 4 weeks ago:
The podcast “You Made It Weird,” with Pete Holmes is great. He has a lot of smart and funny people on, and the pattern is usually to start with “What’s going on with you? What are you working on? What makes you laugh?” for the first two thirds of a given episode, and then the last third is stuff like “Do you believe there is a purpose to life? Have you ever seen a ghost? Have you ever tried psychedelics?” Pete is clearly on his own spiritual journey and has a lot of heavy stuff to talk about and share, and he makes good a great conversation.
Two highlights were when Reggie Watts talked about going on a trip in a bathroom where he traveled to a parallel universe and met with a sentient planet, and when Judd Apatow talked about how ayahuasca brought him into a meeting with the embodiment of his childhood self.
I don’t necessarily want to get into psychedelics, but it’s a very interesting topic of conversation, if the person is smart enough to ask and answer intelligent questions.
- Comment on Cry cry cry 4 weeks ago:
What’s the over-under on Trump demanding that both things get named after him / trying to sell the naming rights, and then when the IAU says that’s not how that works, he throws a tantrum, names then after himself anyway, and starts a Legion of Doom alternate IAU chaired by himself, Steve Bannon, and Kid Rock?
- Comment on And no paper towels to use on the handle 5 weeks ago:
This is true. The Mythbusters episodes about double dipping tortilla chips in salsa and about leaving your toothbrush in the bathroom convinced me that the entire world is covered in an invisible layer of poo and there’s nothing I can do about it, so I’ve got to just try to accept it.
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- Comment on PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible" 5 weeks ago:
I have literally never in my life bought the next generation console because I had run out of games that I was planning to play on the current generation, and my first console was a NES. I’m not sure how concerned game companies are with the upgrade demographic as opposed to the “I’d like to buy a new console” demographic, but if everyone bought new consoles the way I do, the industry would have crashed back in the 90s.
- Comment on po-tay-toes 1 month ago:
- Comment on get zapped, idiot 1 month ago:
God, smiting dinosaurs one by one: “This is taking forever! There’s got to be a better way…”
- Comment on Biological Women 1 month ago:
Cyber women.
- Comment on Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people 1 month ago:
Same energy
- Comment on Dwarf Planets are people too 1 month ago:
It’s not a direct connection, but trying to say a dwarf planet isn’t a planet, when it’s got the word planet right there, is generating the kind of semantic confusion that, carried forward, would lead to the conclusion that people with dwarfism aren’t people. The -oid suffix already conveys “is almost the thing, but not quite,” such as in words like humanoid, asteroid, android, and (most importantly) the aforementioned planetoid. Making planetoid the official word for “is in ways like a planet but actually isn’t” would have been working with existing etymology, rather than creating needless confusion.
- Comment on Dwarf Planets are people too 1 month ago:
There are plenty of linguistically unintuitive artifacts kicking around (a peanut is neither a pea nor a nut, a jellyfish is not a fish, all of the “berries” which aren’t berries), but if we’re deliberately creating brand new labels in the 21st century, it might have been nice if we’d avoided that kind of oddness, given the opportunity.
- Comment on Dwarf Planets are people too 1 month ago:
My objection to “dwarf planet” is purely a linguistically aesthetic one.
“Dwarf planet” ≠ planet
…implies…
“Dwarf person” ≠ person
…and I feel like the people under 4’10" (147 cm) would object to that distinction.
Also, “planetoid” was a perfectly cromulent word which Star Trek had been using for decades already.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 1 month ago:
You’re going to get into the blurry distinction between a ripoff and a tribute or an homage.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier has a lot of Three Days of the Condor, but is that a ripoff, or an homage?
Ditto Star Wars and Hidden Fortress.
Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More were uncredited remakes of Yojimbo and Sanjuro, and as I recall Kurosawa was pretty annoyed, so that probably counts as a ripoff.
Oreo cookies came out four years after Hydrox cookies, and I’d say they surpassed the original.
