[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I feel like it's a bit like terminally ill people suddenly finding religion. Parents with autistic children are desperate to find something to blame or believe in for their situation. So, they've latched onto this absolute fiction that vaccination can cause autism. Nevermind it was something like a single study done that has since been completely disproved. Notice Nicholas up there has an "older, vaccine injured sibling".

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I used to regularly mangle candles with paper clips I would heat up in the flame and then use to skewer them. There's something super cathartic about just melting the fuck out of things.

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Or when you have a problem that seems adjacent to another problem that many people have, but their solution doesn't work for your niche case.

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

The Star Wars universe doesn't make much sense spatially anyway. Locations are as close or as far apart as the plot requires, sometimes ridiculously so, and never more or less.

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Haha! Stupid tardigrade is bowing the strings under the bridge. What a loser.

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Haha! So true. The first video I ever downloaded was a fansubbed Cowboy Bebop episode sometime around 2000.

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

The older generation still skews largely conservative, and they (particularly the dreaded mother-in-law) expect certain behavior out of young, married women. When a couple get married, there is a prevailing attitude that the woman becomes a part of the man's family and is expected to attend all their family gatherings, do a shit ton of cooking while the men get drunk and play games, and essentially forsake their own families. The number of grown men I've met that don't know how to do a fucking load of laundry is disturbingly high because they're molly-coddled (largely by their mothers) their entire lives. Particularly first-sons who are the only children who really matter to a lot of Korean parents and grandparents. Many women are - rightfully - rebelling against this. As are a lot of younger, more enlightened men.

Men on the other hand, are also rightfully upset that they are required to join the military for two years, usually right around the time they would be attending university. Which is giving women an edge in some aspects since they graduate sooner and don't have their education interrupted by a military stint. Pretty sure the younger generation is in favor of getting rid of mandatory military service, but again, the older generation won't have it. Especially with the North up there rattling their limp sabers constantly.

Basically, old conservatives ruin everything.

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

As a hobbyist musician and coder: Csound. Cubic spline curves make particularly interesting noise.

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

I've learned this the hard way. Got two nice, different Panasonics in a row only to have both fail after a relatively short time period ("relatively short" kinda varies for me since I think things that happened five years ago happened "the other day" these days). After the second failure, I just got the cheapest of the Panasonics, and it's outlasted both of the previous ones already and does just as good a job.

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

I've noticed YouTube acting funny in Firefox, too. Full-screen no longer works on our Galaxy Tab A using Firefox with ublock. On my PC, YouTube seems to randomly switch audio devices to output to. Neither of those problems exist in Chrome or the YouTube app. They didn't exist in Firefox either until recently. Almost like it's intentional...

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Both franchises are apt to hand-wave science, so who knows? How does a warp drive compare to a hyperdrive? Blasters to phasers? Thermo detonators to photon torpedoes? Star Wars doesn't seem to have matter/energy manipulation like replicators and transporters, though, so Trek has an edge there.

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Haha! I didn't think it was possible for me to want them less, but here we are.

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