GraniteM

@GraniteM@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  ADBS originated over fourteen years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Art of Surrender⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  • Be born rich

  • Spend the rest of your life falling up stairs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨shiny ❍⩊❍⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They are so grateful!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have the power⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You guys like Bruce Lee movies? I saw Enter the Dragon six times.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Trippy" Reality⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

• And no paper towels to use on the handlelemmy.world ↗
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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"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨get zapped, idiot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  God, smiting dinosaurs one by one: “This is taking forever! There’s got to be a better way…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biological Women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same energy

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dwarf Planets are people too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  See also: Galaxy Quest, which is like the third or fourth best Star Trek movie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't click my app controls!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found myself in a similar situation to OP, where a given app presumes that everyone is using gestures and conflicts with the buttons, and I don’t appreciate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't click my app controls!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t care about that small amount of extra screen space, and I don’t like gestures, and I should have the ability to choose which solution I prefer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox as a platform is officially dead⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like to see what’s going on in the handheld emulator world!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missing Letter⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death, Is the man who deceives his neighbor, And says, “I was only joking!”

  Proverbs 26:18-19

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes geography⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbilisi or not Tbilisi, that is the question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Littering 🚯⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m familiar with all of the technology involved, but I’m not sure about the applications you’re describing.

  With a Have-A-Heart, the specific goal is live capture and release. There is no killing involved. The animal might be properly freaked out at the experience of being trapped, but that is specifically so as to permit an animal’s live relocation.

  With a bolt gun, it’s meant to be used in a slaughterhouse scenario, which is a whole moral discussion of its own, but at bare minimum one wants the animals to be kept as calm as possible until the bolt gun is applied, because stressed out meat tastes worse than calm and placid up until the moment of death.

  With hunting, the goal is to kill the target as cleanly as possible, preferably with a single bullet. That’s the Scenario A I’m describing above.

  If one were hunting an animal with the intent of killing it, then a trap, followed by a knife or bolt gun, would maximize the terror felt by the animal to be killed. Sure, one may be putting less lead out in the environment, but at the cost of putting the animal through… almost the most appalling experience of death possible, with the admitted exception of a poorly-aimed bullet or arrow, followed by a wounded flight through the woods and slowly bleeding out.

  So… if one’s absolute maximum goal is to reduce environmental lead, yes, that is one way to do it, but the moral implications of that method seem pretty rough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Littering 🚯⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Scenario A: You’re minding your own business, when a bullet passes through your heart/lungs and you’re dead in seconds.

  Scenario B: You get caught in a trap and wait for hours for an ape with a knife or a bolt gun to come along and finish the job.

  Honestly, if I were an animal, I’d prefer Scenario A.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Gambling and crypto” reminds me of when I was in DARE and they would refer to “drugs, alcohol, and tobacco,” and I thought “aren’t those all drugs?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The green lean mean killing machine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Annon relfects on W doing it for the love of the game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was gonna say. His entire fucking cabinet was his handlers. Shrub couldn’t have successfully managed a baseball team if he hadn’t been surrounded by more competent people.