HiddenLayer5

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago

And with a longer bed because it doesn’t waste space with a “luxury cabin.”

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago

I hate having to almost circumnavigate the Earth for my commute!

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago

Exactly. Lemmy is a social media platform, not an archival service. People come here to talk to people, not bots.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

And god forbid you point out the fact that this attitude among consumers is exactly the reason these companies are brazen enough to pull this shit. People don’t want to hear how their attitudes around instant gratification and focus on convenience over absolutely all else just might have consequences.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago

Ah yes, the classic dish: Grilled Null Sandwich.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago

Remember when fruit stickers used to be paper and biodegradable? Now they’re all fucking plastic because they need their logo to be shinier I guess.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago

Denying profit to corporations is theft

Absolutely right. In fact, it should be illegal to see a product for sale and not immediately buy it. How dare you see a helpless corporation in need of money, freezing in the streets, and not immediately empty your wallet in exchange for trinkets that they so lovingly engineered to break in a set amount of time? You monster!

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago

All of you using adblockers are pathetic. You’ll willingly deprive companies of their revenue just because you can’t be bothered to see a few ads? It’s not like ads are harmful or anything!

…hang on I think porn just started playing on my computer I have to find where the popup is and close it… Right after I close this other popup that says I’ve won 69 trillion dollars, and this one for dick pills, and this one for free vbucks, and that one saying I have 420 viruses on my PC, and this one looks like it’s trying to download ransomware, and… Damn my battery just died from all the extra processing power those popups needed. Uh but adblock is still evil though, don’t forget that.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago

I’ve noticed that Lemmy has been shedding a lot of the Reddit style toxicity that was brought here from the influx. Presumably that has something to do with the terminally on Reddit people leaving.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

It really doesn’t bother me tbh. The fediverse isn’t for everyone and I’d rather people just use whatever platform they prefer than endlessly complaining on Lemmy when it’s clearly simply not for them. And that’s okay, use whatever platform suits you.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago

Hang on let me bring in a stick expert…

Jayfeather from Warrior Cats

(Someone please get the reference so I don’t look like a total idiot)

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

It’s honestly sad that nurses are so underpaid in the US that one could potentially imagine them doing this for free food.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago

Even completely ignoring all the history of the region and how the current State of Israel came to be and only focusing on the present in a vacuum, there is still is a glaring contradiction that I have never heard any sort of coherent answer from people who support Israel’s actions: If you truly believe that simply having a negative opinion of Israel’s actions against Palestinians is antisemitic (or simply being a Palestinian that’s still alive is antisemitic according to too many people), then surely it also holds that both Israel’s outright killing of Palestinians and their ongoing apartheid policies preventing Palestinians from existing in the same areas as Israelis is anti-Arab right? Is being anti-Arabic somehow preferable to being antisemitic? Are Arabs not human beings and do they not deserve the same rights and protection as Jews or literally any other human? What makes it okay for Israel to be anti-Arab then?

One of the half baked arguments I have heard is that Israel is “justified” in being anti-Arabic because “it’s in self defense against Palestinians that want to kill them,” but if you make that assertion, then what makes the other side different? Israel is certainly not just attacking the Hamas and there have been more Palestinian civilian victims than Israeli civilian victims so wouldn’t you saying that also automatically imply the inverse and equally justify the Hamas’ actions against Israel? You can’t attack someone while claiming self defense and then cry foul when they defend themselves against you.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago

And you just know that this is the family that will make your own camping trip hell if you end up beside them.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

“What are y’all doing just enjoying nature like that? BORING! I’m doing all of you a favour by spicing up your night with this bottom-shelf dubstep!”

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Willy Wonka is a true American businessman. A child is about to die horribly and all he can think about is loss of product due to contamination.

Edit: Ok I looked it up since I wasn’t sure if Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is set in the US or UK. Apparently it’s inspired by factories in the UK but the actual setting in-universe is ambiguous in the original book, though both movies set it in (IIRC) London. Reading it as a kid I definitely imagined it taking place in the US though, not sure why but the story just “sounds” American, what with the copious consumption of sugar and the seemingly total lack of government oversight on businesses.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Consent forms don’t protect you from negligence though.

They also don’t protect you from criminal charges which Wonka definitely has many of by the end of it.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Also, crying is not the only way to be sad. Some people regardless of gender just don’t cry easily when sad, doesn’t mean they’re not sad. Some people regardless of gender may not want to cry in front of other people for a movie. Or maybe they’ve already seen the movie alone and sobbed all day the first time but know what to expect the second time. It’s frankly none of your business to judge how other people react to sad things and you certainly do not have enough evidence just looking at them to declare they “have no feelings,” unless their ears are pointy and were the first to develop Warp Drive.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago

Poll time! If you HAD to switch from Linux to BSD, which one are you choosing?

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago

No, bananas are berries.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Yeah. If university bio has taught me anything it’s that botany classifications are way more numerous, way more complex, and have way more exceptions than zoology classifications (not to undermine zoology of course, it’s also super complicated). There’s just far more diversity in how different plants accomplish the same things compared to how different animals accomplish them, which makes sense since plants are quite a bit older than animals and also have way more species.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Some of my profs did! I had one class where the prof would have optional “bonus content” not in the syllabus as a further incentive for people to come to class instead of just reading the lecture slides later.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago

lead, led

don, dawn

but, butt

you, yew

so, sow, sew, soul

pain, pane, Payne

John, Jon, Jean, Jaune

Was only gonna due the first example butt turns out English has a Lotte of these.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Guys I’m really scared of falling into a volcano. I don’t care what the libs say, we shouldn’t tolerate active volcanoes in our cities! It’s against God’s will!