rob_t_firefly

rob_t_firefly , 1 day 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 , 5 days ago

All carp are bastards.

rob_t_firefly , 5 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 , 5 days ago

You wanna play with your fidget spinner, buddy?

rob_t_firefly , 7 days ago

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

rob_t_firefly , 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

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

rob_t_firefly , 7 days ago

Thank you!

rob_t_firefly , 5 days ago

This warms my heart! Thanks.

rob_t_firefly , 8 days ago

🤌 also illustrates a “chef’s kiss” motion that someone might do when they make something delicious or are really impressed by something.

https://www.wikihow.com/Pinched-Fingers-Emoji

rob_t_firefly , 8 days ago

I was going to say "lol, why do we have to be Milhouse?" but then I thought about it and yeah, we're totally Milhouse.

rob_t_firefly , 8 days ago

*FuncoLand

rob_t_firefly , 8 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 , 8 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 , 8 days ago

The Southern Sun > the Galactica

rob_t_firefly , 8 days ago

I got my dad's Enforcer for the weekend!

rob_t_firefly , 8 days ago

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

rob_t_firefly , 8 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 , 10 days ago

Striker was the baddest motherfucker around, as evidenced by Striker's mother's deep postcoital disappointment.

rob_t_firefly , 10 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

I see a background

And I want it painted black

No icons anymore

I want my desktop black

rob_t_firefly , 20 days ago

Statement! One-love.

rob_t_firefly , 26 days ago

Nothing, I'm creative.

rob_t_firefly , 26 days ago (edited 25 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 , 26 days ago

Okay, Dude. Have it your way.

rob_t_firefly , 26 days ago

Six years in Evil Medical School.

rob_t_firefly , 26 days ago

Thank you! This is the link OP should have posted.

rob_t_firefly , 27 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 , 29 days ago

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

rob_t_firefly , 29 days 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 , 29 days ago

Any way the wind blows...

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

This is entirely true. Censoring words you type like this is actively working against the main way people who are trying to avoid such triggers can take care of themselves.

You can set up a filter to block stuff containing a sensitive word, but your filter will fail against the countless ways there are to censor the word with asterisks or whatever. The censorship is well-meaning but misguided.

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

Him getting that Phil Spector mugshot "what his head really looks like without cosmetic assistance" reveal would be so delightful.

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

Nice hat.

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

A wizard did it.

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

In which case it's lucky they didn't catch Lyme disease from him.

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

Gel is a liquid.

Gel is a thick liquid.

Gel is a thiquid.

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

A closer analogy would be if we were at a table across from each other, in person, and you asked "where can I find a table around here?" In that situation as in this one, you might get some justified razzing in response.

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

And now I have a new amazing artist to enjoy a lot. Thanks!

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

The table would already be right in front of you and you would be actively sitting at it when asking where the table is. There's nothing wrong with asking a question, even a silly one - inquisitiveness is good! - but if you want the person also sitting at the table with you to actively refrain from noticing the clear absurdity of the situation, that's probably not going to be the easier path for most folks.

The comment to which you were replying was not only the name of the artist, but the link to more of the exact info you were asking people to give you. If the level of "nice" you generally expect from folks requires that amount of hand-holding, you may be inviting frequent disappointment for yourself.

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

Simply smashing, what?

rob_t_firefly , 1 month ago

h