rob_t_firefly

rob_t_firefly , 1 day ago

Except neither the entertainment nor the bread is free. I wonder what percentage of the average person's income is spent on food and/or entertainment.

rob_t_firefly , 1 day ago

Trying to source this quote, all I could find was this tweet attributing it to politician and former professional athlete Joshua Turek. Interesting if that's correct.

Also, for the sake of putting the text in question here in text instead of a picture of the text:

I wonder if future generations will look back in bewilderment that citizens allowed themselves to be taxed to build sports stadiums that billionaires then charged us to enter for the sake of rooting for millionaires to play children's games whose outcomes distract us from getting robbed by rich people for things just like this.

rob_t_firefly , 2 days ago

Though I know it means "et cetera" when reading my brain has always "heard" that word - whether in the context of the word "etc." or the computing /etc - as pronounced "ettick." As in, "you need to edit your ettick f-stab file."

rob_t_firefly , 4 days ago

Is that really an enforced rule somewhere, or just one of those loose intentions from the early days of domain names?

rob_t_firefly , 6 days ago

All carp are bastards.

rob_t_firefly , 6 days ago

If you like boiled eggs, you need a boiled egg timer.

It's a clear "egg" made of heat-tolerant plastic with a color-changing temperature gauge visible inside. You throw it into the pot when boiling eggs and it lets you know when the eggs are soft boiled, medium boiled, or hard boiled. It's very readable even in boiling water, and the results are always perfectly accurate. These things are totally worth the few dollars they cost.

rob_t_firefly , 6 days ago

You wanna play with your fidget spinner, buddy?

rob_t_firefly , 8 days ago

Subject is about to pull the trigger with all thirteen of their fingers.

rob_t_firefly , 8 days ago

Another bonus of showing them "Corbomite" first is that they won't be wondering what the hell the deal is with that freaky face thing at the end of the closing credits when watching other episodes.

rob_t_firefly , 8 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

"Darmok" is so far the only Trek episode I've shown my spouse, because she wanted to know what the deal was with a t-shirt I had with that episode's famous line on it. It did the job, she seemed to get into it despite being only vaguely familiar with the show.

rob_t_firefly , 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

"Who Watches the Watchers" is self-contained but you can also show someone "The Drumhead" after they've seen it. Beyond that also being a good episode for newbies as suggested elsewhere in these threads, the callbacks to "Who Watches the Watchers" nicely illustrate how threads from one story can keep affecting and enriching the show's universe.

rob_t_firefly , 8 days ago

Wibbly wobbly, seasony weasony...

rob_t_firefly , 8 days ago

I admit to being old and out of touch, but why is this meme a sandwich?

rob_t_firefly , 8 days ago

Thank you!

rob_t_firefly , 6 days ago

This warms my heart! Thanks.

rob_t_firefly , 9 days ago

*FuncoLand

rob_t_firefly , 9 days ago

A business model wherein the thing someone makes and sells brings in a profit just by customers buying the thing, without the long tail of continuing to sell the customers' eyeballs to whoever forever after, is not an unreasonable concept. Countless indie games and smaller publishers have managed this for generations and still do.

If EA and the other massive blockbuster publishers can't figure out how to make their business model work in a non-exploitative manner, too damn bad about it. We don't actually need them.

rob_t_firefly , 9 days ago

This thing seems to be a later iteration of the Atari Mindlink idea from the 1980s, which presented the illusion of controlling the game with just your thoughts/brain waves/whatever but which was actually just reading the neuromuscular voltage from your forehead (meaning you scrunch your forehead muscles around to control it).

rob_t_firefly , 9 days ago

The Southern Sun > the Galactica

rob_t_firefly , 9 days ago

I got my dad's Enforcer for the weekend!

rob_t_firefly , 9 days ago

The lack of response to this question by OP further reddens the flag.

rob_t_firefly , 9 days ago

To use pro-wrestling terminology, this is an obvious "work."

The goal of this setup is to continue to shore Ramaswamy up as one of the "good Republicans" so that those people who still identify as Republicans but who also consider themselves "one of the good Republicans, small government yadda yadda, not one of those bigoted ones!" and are at risk of leaving the party over its overarching fascism can latch onto him in this interview and still keep that R after their names. Meanwhile, the Republicans who agree with Coulter can cheer for her side of this.

The Republican party is more and more openly nazi every day. Stunts like this - including the whole phenomenon of Ramaswamy as their "look we're not racist, we have an Indian friend!" token - are to keep the party's numbers bulked up with enough unsuspecting "decent" people to empower the nazis at the top continue to nazi in all their names.

rob_t_firefly , 9 days ago

I’ve [fired a gun] a lot in movies, but there are too many guns in the real world. I know people with guns, and they always say the same thing. “If somebody breaks into my house, I have to be able to defend myself.” But what they’re really saying is, “I hope somebody breaks into my house so I can use this thing.” It’s so wrong.

Christopher Walken

rob_t_firefly , 11 days ago

Your Pi doesn't have Edge installed, but your eyes do.

rob_t_firefly , 11 days ago

In that they won't have any meaningful regulating done to them or suffer any actual consequences despite the obviously evil shit of which they're plainly guilty?

rob_t_firefly , 11 days ago

The scoutingest scout scouts who ever scoutingly scouted.

rob_t_firefly , 21 days ago

Statement! One-love.

rob_t_firefly , 27 days ago

Nothing, I’m creative.

rob_t_firefly , 27 days ago

From the article:

Quantum dots are already moving in the premium display category, particularly through QD-OLED TVs and monitors. The next step could be QDEL, short for “quantum dot electroluminescent,” also known as NanoLED, screens.

rob_t_firefly , 28 days ago

I read things like this and they make reasonable sense, but at the same time I’m fairly sure I remember being much younger than that and still knowing that it’d be wrong to kill someone.

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

This owl is so white it wears khakis to the golf course.

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

I’m surprised nobody mentioned the AI training data deal that Google and reddit have.

The linked article mentions it clearly.

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

Any way the wind blows…

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

And we’ll take at least ten minutes of the presentation time to try, fail, and retry to get the audio working.

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

Photoshopped guidebook cover with the title “Everything I Don’t Like Is Woke - A Book For Basic Dickheads.” The cover illustration is a kid pointing to the engine under the hood of a car and saying “This engine is woke.”

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

Does “militarily opposed to the death sentence” mean if someone uses the death penalty you’d want to send soldiers to kill them?

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

Ich verwende übrigens Arch.

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

I hope you made sure the rest of the evening was clear before showing her “Threshold.”

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

I loved Max Headroom (the American drama series) as a kid, and am now rewatching it and while there’s the odd bit of 1980s cringe, it still holds way up in a “how the hell did something this hip ever get greenlit on a major network?” sort of way.

My wife is not into cyberpunk dystopia stuff, but she’s watching for the first time with me and doesn’t hate it.

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

Good luck finding an affordable “dumb” TV. They’re just computer monitors and they cost a hell of a lot more at TV size than most people are able to spend. The smart TVs are so cheap because they are subsidized by the shit vendors paying the manufacturer to load their malware in front of your eyes.

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

You know what people tend to forget?

Shareholders = Consumers of the product too

I wonder how many of the people getting rich in the tobacco industry are smokers.

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

According to the evidence, the defendant clearly committed the crime with all 17 of his fingers. His lack of remorse is obvious by the fact that he’s clearly smiling wider than his own face.

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

Stolen.

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

Screenshot of the “Privacy and Safety” section of the user settings in Discord desktop. There’s an arrow pointing toward the switch controlling the “In-game rewards (aka Quests)” setting, with the text “Turn this crap off to stay out of the stupid new ad crap.”

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

And, generally speaking, ink is the stuff with a ridiculously draining business model which costs consumers far more than is justified for cartridges which quickly dry out over time even when not in use, while toner is relatively inexpensive stuff which basically lasts forever and keeps just as fresh and usable as the day you bought it.

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

I didn’t know they made a manga adaptation of The Room.

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

…one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terrible, stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever.

The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

Somebody rolled a five or an eight!