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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Just order your maid to dust it twice daily with a feather duster, duh

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Left: useless because it's ugly as hell and won't fit in anywhere. Right: useless because it falls apart if you sneeze at it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

When an interviewer asked Maurice Sendak (of Where the Wild Things Are fame) about Dahl, his response was memorable: "The cruelty in his books is off-putting. Scary guy. I know he's very popular but what's nice about this guy? He's dead, that's what's nice about him."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The shitpost is correct. Bony fish, or the superclass Osteichtyes, absolutely is a scientific classification, and by the way modern cladistics work, every single thing descended from them, which includes all terrestrial mammals, reptiles etc. are also bony fish.

In other words, if the common ancestor of tuna and squirrels and whales is a bony fish, they are all bony fish. The squirrel and whale cannot be demoted from their bony fish status.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

When a fizzy drink loses its fizziness, it's described as flat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I haven't read Ministry, but I'm not sure I'd call KSR a utopian. Aurora was some pretty bleak shit. (Great book though)

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I know what you are referencing, but displayport already covers everybody's use cases

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I legitimately switched back to local teletext as my main news source. No SEO bullshit, no ads, the articles are succinct and written by humans (for now).

 
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man, messaging is a nightmare. I use signal with a few of my closest contacts, whatsapp with most other people, sms as a fallback and for work I have to occasionally use Teams and fucking Viber (ugh). At least I managed to liberate myself from the clutches of Slack.

If only there was some standard way to get these apps to talk to each other so everybody could use what they want. Oh wait, there was, it was called XMPP, it worked perfectly and big tech fucking killed it and replaced it with the irritating clusterfuck that is the current status quo.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

As a European, all I can say is good riddance, you greasy fuckers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They are referring to the standalone expansion set in London in the 1960s for GTA 1 (the top down one), if I'm not mistaken

 
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