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SuckMyWang, in "Goats" by They Can Talk

Fear of Goats, God and school shootings. Using these three things are all you need to scare you’re child into behaving well and in turn to be a good parent. I personally like to weave all three together at once

Sotuanduso,

I dunno if it’s a great idea to warn kids about the goat god who shoots up schools, but you do you I guess.

SuckMyWang,

Method comes second to results

Annoyed_Crabby, in "Goats" by They Can Talk

Scare kid? Like the baby goat? Why would they?

EmoDuck, in "Nevermind" by MyNeighborAlienFungi

Maybe you should be a responsible adult and clean up after yourself.

Or be like me and wrap your plates with tinfoil so they don’t get dirty…

Phanatik, in "Yor's Body Count" by ASliceofAlan

Yor is one of the main characters from SpyxFamily. She's known for being a highly-skilled assassin and extremely gullible. She has these "friends" who don't really like her for some reason.

Just wanted to add some context for this post.

aaaa,

Spyx Family sounds like a slur.

sudo,

Spy x Family is also an incredibly entertaining anime

SuckMyWang, (edited ) in "Opposite Day" by Extra Fabulous

I know everyone digs deep and puts in the work to make Opposite Day what it is but this woman has outdone herself

onion, in "Opposite Day" by Extra Fabulous

Wouldn’t opposite day mean the women helps shove a baby up the doctor?

BongRipsMcGee420,

I think the premise is she’s doing the opposite of what she’s told, so she slurrp when she’s told to push.

SuckMyWang,

No, a lot of the time the negative cancels out the positive so after the chain is worked through the result can sometimes be surprising especially when accounting for the double negatives that are built on factors of 12

FlyingSquid, in Shanti
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I felt that way about the videos I used to make, but then people watched and commented and I had to deal with that shit and meh. Now I don’t have to worry about being creative and I like it more.

Pons_Aelius, in xkcd: Sign Combo

If this was on the diskworld, it would be an auditor trap.

emergencyfood,

In the real world, it can be a Tesla trap.

Kase,

Oof

I’m honestly curious what the Tesla would do. Can a computer have an existential crisis?

aeronmelon,

Shift into neutral and promptly explode.

emergencyfood,

Run over the sign?

bassomitron, in xkcd: Sign Combo

It’s obvious they want you to just drive off the road or go into the other lane in reverse. I see no problem here.

derfl007,

But if you reverse, then you will stop for a short period of time…

bassomitron,

Only with that attitude!

piecat,

Damn you fundamental theorem of calculus!

onion,

Not if you drift

nilloc,

Specially, executing a perfect J-Turn would do it.

De_Narm, in Hidden Beauty - Safely Endangered

I agree with the message that most of it doesn’t matter since I’ll slap a thick case on my phone, but the sheer amount of broken unprotected screens you’ll see in the wild makes you think.

_number8_,

i’ve had my current phone for 3 years and it’s been getting maddeningly slow lately. 2 weeks ago i took the case off and it legitimately feels sleeker and newer and somehow faster? or at least i’m better able to put up with the slowness cause it feels new? it’s very odd and i’m frightened at the psychology

Imgonnatrythis,

I bet if I stopped wearing my helmet at work people would assume I’m faster too, but they probably wouldn’t be as nice to me.

DrGoatSlayer,

The only way to explain it’s faster could be because the case was making the phone overheat. The chipset is made to protect itself by lowering the clockspeed (calculations per second) to avoid damage by heat resulting in being slower at performing tasks.

So maybe the case was isolating the phone so much it overheated constantly and after removing the case it could breath again and keep its original speed.

If you had a chunky case then maybe a sleeker design could offer enough cooling and still some protection. Best of both worlds :)

zockersanftmut,

So this summer it was like 30°C / 85°F at home and whenever I used TikTok or YouTube on my phone it would get really hot so I took off the case whenever I used it. My phone fell down one time (I’m not used to it being so slick!) and that’s why it’s now broken. In the back. Because for some stupid reason it’s made of glass or something.

Note to myself: my next phone should be one of these unbreakable military grade phones.

TwoCubed,

Lol, kinda dumb to use a heavily insulating material such as glass to slap on both sides of the phone.

nilloc,

Inductive charging doesn’t work very well (if at all) through metal.

And plastic is apparently a dirty word (one-time use plastic should be, mind you), even though most iPhone owners are also buying I plenty of Patagonia micro plastic fleeces.

PixxlMan,

It doesn’t feel like a premium material and it accumulates scratches and imperfections faster. Glass is either fine… or completely broken. Not a good heat conductor either.

onion,

I’d disagree. My pixel 3a feels really nice, when I got it I honestly wasn’t sure for a moment whether it’s plastic. It did get a few nicks and scratches, but it looks pretty alright for beeing used every day for three years without case, and me dropping it twice. Can’t say the same about the screen glass

Poem_for_your_sprog,

How many people actually use wireless charging?

TwoCubed,

I miss the times where plastic was used in phones. Glass cracks and feels clumsy and insulates. Metal transfers energy from impact to the components inside. Plastic just cracks but at least absorbs some of the energy. And is easily replaceable and feels way better.

thepianistfroggollum,

Your first mistake was using tiktok.

Imgonnatrythis,

Makes Me think when are phone manufacturers going to focus less on a few more pixels on the camera and make a phone rugged enough that for routine daily use it doesn’t need a damn case? I’ve never liked cases but now so many phones have Cameras that stick out such that the only way to get them to even sit flat is to level them off with a case. Just make the battery a little bigger and thicken the backing of the actual phone! Also raise the titanium bezel just 1mm and the glass is much less likely to ever make direct impact.

RockyBass,

They tried that already with the samsung s7 active. It was a pretty rugged phone by itself but people still insisted on putting a case on it. They then complained about the phone being too big and it didn’t sell well.

Franzia,

Thanks, I never knew.

Imgonnatrythis,

Face-palm. We can’t have nice things.

fishy195,

Those still broke too easily. I tried out a couple models of the actives, and they would still break. One time I was sitting on the ground and my phone slipped out of my hoodie pocket and it shattered. It fell maybe 3-5 inches tops.

OneWomanCreamTeam,

I mean, phones are already designed to be obsolete pretty quickly to keep you buying more often. Longevity isn’t really a high priority in modern phone design.

Imgonnatrythis,

Yeah but you could still screw with the software, limit updates, use cheap chips, and shame customers to make sure we all continue to throw our phones in the landfill every couple of years, but I would buy the phone that at least I won’t worry about breaking tomorrow. Phone case culture just seems so silly to me.

Holyhandgrenade,
@Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world avatar

But if the phones don’t break every 2 years then slightly fewer people will buy the latest phone! Won’t somebody please think of the shareholders?

deweydecibel,

Frankly, if people are shelling out for higher end phones that break that easily, that’s at least partly on them.

Like, I’ve been buying mid-tier Androids for about 10 years now, and I can’t recall the last time I’ve had one shatter, and I’m clumsy as all hell. I’ve accidentally punted this thing across the office once, not a scratch. And as I’m so routinely told by the iPhone and more elitist Android spaces, this thing is supposedly a cheap plastic piece of shit.

It’s so weird they settle for something more expensive but also more breakable. Makes sense if you’re buying glass wear or something, I guess, but a device you keep in your pocket or hand all day? Shouldn’t it be nigh indestructible at that price point?

Holyhandgrenade,
@Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world avatar

True, I’ve been using the same mid-tier Samsung for 5 years now. It looks a bit rough but it still works just fine and I’ll continue to use it until it breaks

PP_BOY_, in "Opposite Day" by Extra Fabulous
@PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

Bit odd

lolcatnip, in "Opposite Day" by Extra Fabulous

If it’s opposite day, doesn’t that mean it’s not opposite day?

edgemaster72,
@edgemaster72@lemmy.world avatar

Yesn’t

tacosanonymous, in "Opposite Day" by Extra Fabulous

Thanks, I hate it.

negativenull, in Hidden Beauty - Safely Endangered

I can’t put my arms down!

z500,
@z500@startrek.website avatar

You’ll crack your screen, kid!

lobut, in Hidden Beauty - Safely Endangered

One of friends back in the day would lecture me on having a phone case. “why don’t you just not drop it?” I was like, dude, accidents happen. “I’ve never dropped my phone he’d say.” I swear, like a month after that happened, his friend stepped on his phone and a month after that he dropped his phone when taking it out of his pocket outside a burger joint.

I didn’t have a go about it. He’s not one of those that takes those types of jabs well.

seitanic,
@seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Some people have to learn about best practices the hard way.

Katana314,

The scary thing, then, is lessons like “Look both ways before crossing the street”. You fail that sort of lesson the hard way, and you don’t get a chance to learn anything.

Steve,

All people

NielsBohron,
@NielsBohron@lemmy.world avatar

Humans are unique in their ability to learn from the mistakes of others and their blanket refusal to do so.

kale,

Yeah. I know people who say stuff like that. I know someone who wanted a convertible car (they were 18). Someone mentioned the greater danger of they flip, and this person said “well I’m not going to flip a car”. We all gave them a hard time about whether they thought everyone who flipped a car did it on purpose. The next year, this same person flipped their car several times (and walked away OK somehow).

Some people can’t comprehend that bad stuff would happen to them.

Cethin,

It is unlikely that an average person flips their car. You have to weigh the pros and cons of it. We take risks all the time, but if we think it’s more beneficial we take them. Just driving a car is pretty dangerous alone. Personally, I don’t think a convertible is worth the risk or the cost, but I won’t say no one should get one.

kale,

Yeah, only the people who don’t flip their car should get one.

I have zero problems with owning one, and have owned them in the past. We knew this person was a crazy driver and that it was a bad idea.

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