[-] spinne@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago

You say this like drawing blood from wild beavers is a trivial task!

[-] spinne@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sounds more like a problem of failing to moderate bigotry, not a social issues problem. The existence of LGBTQ+ people who stream is not a social issue; assholes demanding they go away is

[-] spinne@sh.itjust.works 71 points 3 weeks ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence in English that is often presented as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs through lexical ambiguity. It has been discussed in literature in various forms since 1967, when it appeared in Dmitri Borgmann's Beyond Language: Adventures in Word and Thought. The sentence employs three distinct meanings of the word buffalo:

  • As an attributive noun (acting as an adjective) to refer to a specific place named Buffalo, such as the city of Buffalo, New York;
  • As the verb to buffalo, meaning (in American English[1][2]) "to bully, harass, or intimidate" or "to baffle"; and
  • As a noun to refer to the animal (either the true buffalo or the bison). The plural is also buffalo.

A semantically equivalent form preserving the original word order is: "Buffalonian bison that other Buffalonian bison bully also bully Buffalonian bison."

[-] spinne@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that's completely true. It's up to each person to decide what their standards are and where they draw the line. Like Roman Polanski anally raping a 13 year old and using his money and fame to leave the country and avoid the prison time may be across one person's line while another person says, "Eh, what can you do? It was almost 50 years ago." Also true, but that piece of shit is still alive and making money--from people who like his work at least enough to keep consuming it.

[-] spinne@sh.itjust.works 81 points 2 months ago

"It's important to have a job that makes a difference, boys. That's why I manually masturbate caged animals for artificial insemination." -- rando convenience store customer in Clerks, 1994

[-] spinne@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 months ago

Fast food joints already offer lower prices in their apps than at the drive through. You pay the difference through all the data they harvest.

[-] spinne@sh.itjust.works 54 points 2 months ago

Shit, some of them charge the authors to publish.

[-] spinne@sh.itjust.works 17 points 9 months ago

The failure was in supplying nitrogen to an array of 16 freezers. Unless samples were split and stored in different arrays without the same coolant source, they'd still have lost everything.

It would be easy enough to create multiple sample sets to be stored that way, but it'd add an extra variable researchers would need to account and test for in their work as well as reducing sample capacity by at least half. A place as mighty and prestigious as the Karolinska Institute probably has a ton of graduate researchers, too, and everybody knows those people just graduate and leave all their shit behind without clearing out old samples.

The whole thing is heartbreaking.

[-] spinne@sh.itjust.works 32 points 10 months ago

Whenever I see a toddler with a cold or the flu, I feel extra bad for them. They're all congested, sneezing, coughing, possibly pinwheeling in the bathroom... a lot of them have never felt worse than that, and it's like, "I'm so sorry. You've got decades more of this to look forward to, little friend"

[-] spinne@sh.itjust.works 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Oh, geez. I grew up in the US of the '80s and '90s and was talking to a friend about all the abortion clinic bombings we had back then--like not just murdering doctors (although that did happen), bombings--and how, thinking back on it, that was a super fucked up normal to grow up with.

[-] spinne@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

Homie-in-law is gender neutral

[-] spinne@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

Libraries are entirely about the free sharing of information, and supporting everybody's ability to access it. πŸ‘πŸΌπŸ‘πŸΌ

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by spinne@sh.itjust.works to c/fountainpens@wayfarershaven.eu

I started off using different colors because I liked them. Turns out that my brain really likes this style of information organization, and it's helped me a bunch when it comes to learning and sticking with good design habits!

Notebook: Colorverse Nebula

Pens, L-R: Platinum Preppy (fine, Colorverse Brane), TWSBI Eco (broad, Birmingham Pen Co. Lightning Twinkle), Opus88 Mini (fine, Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-budo), and Bonecrusher (medium, Diamine Writers Blood)

Photo description: Stationery items on top of a large desk mat printed with a night forest scene. A Colorverse Nebula notebook is open to two pages of notes and drawings on tips for designing snap-fit joints on 3d printed objects, written in different ink colors. The notebook is surrounded by pencils (a Bic mechanical and Tombow 4H), a plastic pencil sharpener, and a test tube rack holding four fountain pens.

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I just started playing Curse for the first time the other night, and the gameplay/mechanics have been so much fun. I've tried claws, machete, pistol, and whip so far, but I'd love to hear about which weapon combos or full builds you found the most fun! What all did you like about them?

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