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papalonian ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6a3a4b33-9ca9-445f-b15f-accb8904f492.jpeg

papalonian ,

This guy lemmy’in while driving what a champ

papalonian ,

So again, why pick? Choose freedom.

Ok, I’ve chosen freedom. Now what happens

papalonian ,

So no real tangible advice then, right? Just telling people on the Internet they’re not doing enough? Got it, thanks

papalonian ,

No, but you came in and started doing it anyways, lol. Just wanted to see if there was any substance behind your “do better” message.

papalonian , (edited )

Choose freedom.

Be a leader.

Dis u?

People generally don’t not “choose” freedom. We didn’t wake up one morning and say, y’know, I feel like giving away all of my personal data to the government. Telling people whom you’ve got no idea of their struggles to “be a leader” from your keyboard isn’t constructive. It’s noise at best, and condescending at worst. But you do you.

papalonian ,

Holy crap, I’ve been here almost a year. Well I was using kbin at first but still.

papalonian ,

One time pirated some video editing software and after rebooting my Steam had janky early 2000s sidebar ads.

papalonian ,

When I was a child, I genuinely thought that’s what these signs were supposed to mean. In my area they were kinda scattered around the place, oftentimes not even near a construction site, so I thought they were just random propaganda signs.

papalonian ,

They are signs indicating that the road work you assumedly have just driven through has ended.

papalonian ,

I’ve switched to Firefox but there’s definitely a few things that irritate me about it.

First thing is when I boot up my computer, launch Firefox, it launches long enough for me to click a bookmark then closes to perform an update. And then doesn’t automatically reopen…

I also have it set to not “remember” my tabs after closing. Yet when I launch Firefox for the first time after rebooting or closing ally tabs, it gives me a “hmm… we’re having a hard time finding your previous session” message. Uh, yeah, I told you not to look for it… can I just have the regular “new tab” page?

It also might just be because I’m used to chrome, but I feel the mobile app is severely lacking. I hate that I can’t access my bookmarks directly from the new tab page, and that the tablet version doesn’t show you your bookmark bar. The synchronization between mobile and desktop isn’t great either, I’ll have a very long specific search query that I’ve used multiple times on my phone, yet it doesn’t offer it for auto-complete on desktop, I have to search the entire term again or go digging through my history. When you’re searching long model numbers and the like, this is incredibly frustrating.

Finally, and I don’t know if this is a Firefox issue, but there’s some memory leak that occurs when viewing a webcam stream from my raspberry pi that only has happened in Firefox. The first time I noticed it happening my PC slowed to a crawl, when task manager finally opened Firefox was taking 23GB of RAM. So I have to use chrome to keep that steam open for more than a few minutes at a time.

papalonian ,

I swear, y’all will find anything to complain about Windows, lol. Not that it isn’t sometimes justified.

papalonian ,

Took me a second too.

The words in the speech bubble are supposed to represent the average/ stupid movie viewers take away from a movie, while the top text (ie the text going “over the viewer’s head”) is the actual message that is being missed.

This meme is satirizing the format by switching the two locations, implying that the main message Mad Max is trying to get across is no deeper than, “living in Australia fucking sucks”

papalonian ,

I’ve got you tagged as “nobody trying to sleep with him” for some reason and I can’t remember why. This is like the 3rd time I’ve seen your name though. Maybe a DnD thing? Lol

papalonian ,

I wonder if this is the actual philosophy Google had at the time or if they always planned to be what they are now.

papalonian ,

And some broken fountains, apparently

papalonian ,

“Oh yeah? Well what’ll happen if I push this button and then turn all the knobs to max?”

“Everything will be fucked up.”

“Well I just did it. Now what?”

“Everything is fucked up.”

“Bet ya didn’t think of that 😎”

papalonian ,

Weird that you randomly got downvote bombed for asking a question. Lol.

papalonian ,

It’s made up, from the classic Theseus’s Ship paradox.

papalonian ,

Is this why sometimes my computer says I don’t have permission to access my files?

papalonian ,

But they claimed to have used dilution formulas to achieve these percentages. Pretty sure it’s BS.

papalonian ,

I know you can, I do the same haha. What I’m saying is, they couldn’t have both accidentally read the 50mg as 50% while simultaneously claiming to have calculated exactly how much would be needed to dilute it to 49%, because diluting it to 49mg and 49% would be two different calculations and it’s unlikely they’d make that mistake after doing the calculations.

papalonian ,

I’m not trying to be rude here, but the math is not my problem, I understand dimensional analysis.

After doing that calculation, is it likely that you are going to mistake the term “percent” and “mg”, or after doing something so specific with units are you more likely to use the right one?

I’m saying that if OP actually did any of this (you say their math is on point but they didn’t do any haha) they’d probably be using the correct term rather than the incorrect yet common “street” term

papalonian ,

If I’m not wrong, NEET = Not in Employment, Education, or Training

Anon felt bad about being a leech off of society so he slicked his hair back and learned how to ride a skateboard, and is wondering why he still feels like a NEET.

papalonian ,

I wonder if there are any examples of glyphs that depicted clear, unquestionable children/babies? Like, maybe a picture depicting childbirth, or another clear indicator that the human being depicted is meant to be a child. We could then compare the depiction of these “tiny humans” from this post to those, and see what the artist may have been trying to draw.

I’m not one to blindly believe in something just because their profile says doctor in front of it. For all we know, he is just taking the piss on a funny post. (Not that we’re doing anything more serious, of course.) I just don’t think that we should disregard the idea that these ancient people with known myths about giants may have been drawing a picture of giants just because they could have also been drawing something else.

papalonian ,

I should clarify.

I don’t doubt the legitimacy of their degree, rather I don’t think that every Facebook post or tweet by every professional should be taken with the upmost seriousness. Like the following sentence from my comment says, sometimes people are just making jokes about something relevant in their field.

The post from the doctor in reference to this post, for example, is written in a joking tone, doesn’t seem to be adamantly declaring a position as fact, isn’t citing any sources or providing relevant info etc. Again, not saying they’re not professional, or that they should have provided sources or anything like that. But it’s a glyph with a tiny person that doesn’t look baby-like next to a tall person the size of a tree, from a society with myths about giants. Without more context it’s hard to say which one is more likely. Someone saying “babies exist” does not provide any more information than we already had, regardless of the education of the person who said it.

Like if I hear a song from a dead artist and say, “I think this song about getting in fights in school is a metaphor for war, they have other songs about war so it’s a possibility”, and a music major tells me “I’d like to remind you once again about the existence of school bullies”, that doesn’t really change my perspective.

Sorry if this sounds stupid or doesn’t make sense lol. I’m bad at putting some of these thoughts to words.

papalonian ,

The reason they say this, is because using inspect element is going to give you a cleaner result 100% of the time with way less effort.

If you use an image editor, you have to worry about making sure all of the pixels line up properly, the right font is used, right font size is used, make sure that the margins are the same, if you make a small mistake you practically have to start all over…

Right click > inspect element > find the text block you want to toy with > type what you want > done. And it looks exactly the same as if it were part of the website, every time.

Different strokes, yes, but if I see someone cutting their food with a chainsaw I’ll at least make sure they know how a steak knife works.

papalonian ,

First guy is saying, “there’s no point in trying to figure out the “answer to the universe”, it’s a lot easier to be happy if you just go with the flow”.

This leads the reader to assume that he’s got it all figured out and is a relatively happy guy, an assumption that is subverted when asked plainly, “are you happy?”

I don’t know that there’s a specific take away here, so much as it just being a funny quip in a larger exchange.

papalonian ,

Did you ever have a friend who would, no matter how many times they’ve already said it or how little sense it makes, always take the opportunity to say, “that’s what she said”?

I think it’s kinda like that, the guy on the left is trying to have a normal conversation but the person on the right here’s something that triggers their infested brain and they just have to blurt out the totally hilarious joke. This completely kills the conversation, and the one trying to talk is looking at his buddy like, what the hell is wrong with you?

papalonian ,

First time I’m hearing about “vaccine injured” meaning they think a vaccine caused autism or something. When I read the post, with the context, I thought it meant like a physical injury that someone with special needs might suffer if they moved around during a vaccine. It’s actually disgusting that this person wrote a story likely about a kid with some form of neurodivergence and called toted them as a “vaccine injured child”.

InternetIsScary , to lemmyshitpost
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What if any Fediverse instance's make this DRM that Facebook has, with posts being locked for users not signed in. This can help with those who are scared of AI “taking over” because let's be real, AI just grabs the information you post online. If we do this, would AI “die”?

I don't personally care so to speak, as AI will not care, or sorry, these companies developing the AI LLM's will counter new strategies to obtain PII from websites.

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papalonian ,

Multi-billion dollar AI companies when they have to log in to see a post: 😯

papalonian ,

Usually when I get into a relationship with someone and their kids have had vibes I immediately start abusing them, like no questions asked

papalonian ,

Don’t let @Grayox hear you saying that. He may not like you speaking ill on his God.

papalonian ,

I think you’re describing me trying to do 75% of my interests/ hobbies.

papalonian ,

I’ll posit a (very poorly and drunkenly abridged) story from the Buddha that I actually think of on a somewhat daily basis, in contrast of all the Buddha-bad comments:

A man approaches the Buddha in the city. He says to him, “I hate you Buddha, you are always telling people how to live their lives and what they need to do to be happy, how can you have all the answers?”

The Buddha says, “I will ask you a question. If I give you a gift, would you accept it?”

The man says of course he would not.

The Buddha asks, “If you do not accept my gift, then to whom does my gift belong?”

The man says, “The gift belongs to you, because I did not accept it.”

The Buddha replies, “Then I treat your hatred as a gift. You offer me anger, and I do not accept it; therefore, your hatred and anger belongs only to you, and only you may suffer it’s consequences.”

So when people get angry at me over things that are beyond my control, I reject their anger, let them yell at what they think is the problem, and move on.

Then the Buddha punches me in the face and I am enlightened.

papalonian ,

I don’t think he asks that question in the original story. Drunk me was just giving him more dialogue.

papalonian ,

I don’t accept the IRS’s gift

papalonian ,

This could actually be a really good idea for someone with a disability that makes reading a traditional clock difficult. Someone with dyslexia, for example. Maybe rather than a slow changing gradient, the color could fill in a portion of the face as the hour goes on. They’d set up a color for each hour, and after a short while of getting used to it they should be able to very quickly read the time.

papalonian ,

There’s these which are prescription only, but you can also down a bottle of magnesium citrate as an OTC alternative.

papalonian ,

After reading the bottom portion, I have to wonder which substance might this container be filled with 🤔

papalonian ,

I’ll take $75 of my profits and buy a shit new bike whenever someone I can’t beat up takes it

(I cannot beat up many people. I would not profit from this model.)

papalonian ,

Depends on who’s stealing it/ why. Could be stealing it purely for means of transportation.

papalonian ,

Plot twist: it’s actually a nice, stolen bike that I buy for $75.

papalonian ,

I mean… not really? I get the meme but there are a ton of merit badges you can do sitting in your room. I was a scout 15-20 years ago, I remember going through my handbook and doing all of the badges I was able to without going anywhere or buying anything in one weekend and asking my leader for like 15 badges the next day.

Though I may have to correct myself, I think these were belt loops I was earning at this point, I don’t remember the difference (I think the fancy sash comes a little later, at which point… maybe my comment was unnecessary.)

papalonian ,

My friend, you’re 44 and haven’t learned the art of not giving a fuck what people think of you? Wear that sick trench coat. Worst case scenario, someone laughs at you, and you brighten their day a bit.

papalonian ,

I see the joke, but just wanted to say that this feature was way more of a hassle than anything. I guess for the intended purpose of saving bandwidth it’s nice, but it was difficult to get it to even work (steam kept wanting to download from their own servers instead of the host computer) and when it finally did, it was painfully slow, just transferring the program data manually over the network was going faster.

papalonian ,

I wonder if I have something set up in steam that is bottlenecking, then. I use my home network to transfer files pretty frequently so I know that’s not my issue. Oh well, I don’t have limited bandwidth and my Internet is pretty decent so I don’t really need it anyways. Glad it works for others though!

papalonian ,

even fictional ones like Jesus.

HEYOOO wow spicy comment of the year right here guys

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