[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 weeks ago

Thinking one step further: Even if I somehow got into MENSA (unlikely), I can't imagine ever saying, "I see you have a MENSA discount..." ugh.

[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 weeks ago

This goes a bit deep. Seems like it's going to be about customers being too stupid to figure things out, but it ends up for me a story about engineers not accurately anticipating customers' needs.

[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 131 points 2 months ago

Remember, kids: Don't do genocide, or else after only two years of murdering people wholesale the UN might say something about it and let you keep murdering.

[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 months ago

They have access to it if they threaten/indimidate/blackmail you into giving them access. Dummy phones are a real thing; saw a post today on masto by a company... person (?) who said they keep a stash of clean burner phones for when employees travel through US borders. These are all reasonable, and maybe even CalyxOS's decoy partition (does it still have that?). The larger problem is that few people will use these things, not even bringing a clean phone. And once they start threatening your family and your long-term safety and freedom, it's highly likely you'll give them access, if they know there is any access to be had. Which they increasingly do, because universal surveillance blah blah.

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In light of recent ICE/DHS shenanigans in the US

[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 months ago

It's your brain. Advice like "think of what could you have done differently" or "slow down and consider the consequences," etc. does not help in the least, because the part of your brain that does the thinking and the considering and the slowing down is the part that has the problem.

[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 months ago

Imagine staying onboard with someone promoting nearly every horrible thing in our world just so you can have easier email access.

[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Ohy god it took me a full minute to realize that I wasn't looking at three stylized vaginas.

To be fair, I have seen several neolithic Venus figurines lately.

[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 88 points 2 years ago

Even Muad'Dib started out small.

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This drives me nuts when I see it done wrong, but it's actually kind of complicated because English is orthographically deranged.

Lead (/liːd/) [verb, present tense]: to guide, etc. I asked them to lead us in a rousing revolutionary anthem.

Led (/led/) [verb, past tense]: as above, but past tense. Later, we were led to a blank concrete wall.

Lead (/led/) [noun]: A soft, poisonous metal. Bullets are most often made of lead.

Just to make it confusing...

Lead (/liːd/) [noun]: kind of like "leader". Officer Johnson was our lead on this operation. (Note: it also means "leash"; e.g., I clipped the lead to Bowser's collar.)

Lede (/liːd/) [noun]: The first bit of a news story, often the first sentence. I didn't read the full article, but the lede suggested the protesters were decimated by police.

Leeds [proper noun]: A Town in England. Leeds is the worst place to stage peaceful protests.

And finally...

LED (ell ee dee) [noun, abbr.]: Abbreviation for light-emitting diode. For the love of any gods you might believe in, fucking capitalize it. Electronics hobbyists I'm looking in your direction.

More Examples

  • Wrong: I was lead into the woods by a stranger.

  • Right: I was led into the woods by a stranger.

  • Wrong: The lead in an ad about cheap bulk led lead me to lede my leed dog to Leides on her led lede.

  • Right: The lede in an ad about cheap bulk lead led me to lead my lead dog to Leeds on her LED lead.

(The last example is stupidly confusing, but it was fun to write.)

[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years ago

Depends on the metric. Direct threat to democracy, increasing violence and dangerr for millions of Americans, harming economic futures for Americans, etc.: probably Trump.

Sheer body count: maybe Bush, but don't forget about all the people who would still be alive or more healthy if Trump had not actively sabotaged COVID response.

Okay I'm back to Trump.

[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 years ago

Incels gonna incel

[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years ago

One of my favorite time travel versions in SF is that of Connie Willis: When you try to travel back in time, if you would have changed the timeline by any noticeable amount, you either (a) just don't go--the machine doesn't work--or (b) you go, but the timeline adjusts by like dropping you in Siberia 20,000 BCE or the center of the Pacific or something. Either way, the timeline is what it is, and you can go observe, if you're very careful not to change anything. Your time travel is part of the timeline, and obviously it didn't change anything significant because here we are...

[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago

OK weird thing for me: I'm in the US. If I click that link I get told to go to the US site (savethechildren.org not savethechildren.net) and the US site appears not to have that story, at least not in that form. I used their search function for the article title and found nothing.f

Maybe they just titled it differently and I should search more carefully, but it seems odd right now.

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