[-] Offlein@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I've noticed this too, and I imagine it must be a side effect of Lemmy's largest value prop having an outsized appeal to autistic people.

[-] Offlein@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

What's more concerning is when a society is populated by people who have take the most facile understanding of a position, and then go about confidently as if they understand it. Like, say, if a news article has a rage porn headline and then people don't read it to understand what actually was going on but make comments on websites as if there was no nuance to the subject whatsoever. ... Very concerning.

[-] Offlein@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

This is funny, and really speaks to a fundamental issue we have during education as to assigning agency for what amount to"random" events.

OP is presumably educated and intelligent, and the takeaway they had was that bees "are pollinators" which is true with regard to our interest in them, but definitely implies agency that they are intentionally pollinating, which (I am pretty sure) isn't true.

It feels like the same question that gets asked in a million different ways of "why did XYZ evolve that way when ABCD?" (Because evolution is random and tends toward selecting for energy conservation. Not to "achieve" some specific goal.)

[-] Offlein@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
[-] Offlein@lemmy.world 409 points 1 year ago

What the fuck are all these comments?

It's an article about an unresolved and recurring problem with a popular drive that the ostensibly reputable manufacturer is trying to hide.

But 90% of the comments are people jerking themselves off about how smart they are for using RAID, which is irrelevant to the point of the article... But never miss an opportunity to pleasure yourself in public I guess?

[-] Offlein@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

passed a law

Are you sure?

[-] Offlein@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Seek a therapist who practices Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

[-] Offlein@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I always go .gay myself.

[-] Offlein@lemmy.world 85 points 1 year ago

True and a, great example of an unnecessary comma.

[-] Offlein@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If this comment isn't the perfect distillation of the frustration people have with GIMP, I don't know what is.

OP makes a very even-handed, consciencious treatise to gather more info about alternatives to GIMP based on the UX issues they themselves have been struggling with and which are commonly recognized throughout the community, with at least one example, while acknowledging how incredible and powerful an undertaking a piece of software GIMP definitely is, and...

... The same cookie cutter response on every single GIMP discussion since 1998: "IT IS VERY POWERFUL. WHAT FEATURE IS IT MISSING?"

Similar to GIMP itself: You're not wrong you're just... Not being anywhere near as helpful as you could be.

[-] Offlein@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

God willing, Google can have six new apps out this year that each do a piece of what they had accomplished circa 2014.

[-] Offlein@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

I know a girl who thinks of ghosts. She'll make you breakfast; she'll make you toast. But she don't use butter. And she don't use cheese. She don't use jelly, or any of these.

She uses Vaseline.

Vaseline.

Vaseline.

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I don't know why, but this big complex pipe structure was situated above the urinal. When you flush, the red light goes off and the green light goes on, and all the pressure dials start going crazy.

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