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  • No but I sure you’ll find people in the US who’ve just had a regular job at McD’s manager for a few years with practically zero free days and usually 10-12 hour days.

    So he’ll be a master in his “craft” pretty quick. Might still be in their 20’s though, and a Karen pulls up and thinks they know better because “they’re just a kid”. Ugh, would be so annoying.

    I started driving a taxi about two years before I legally should have (I had the training but technically no permit) as I drove my dad’s taxi.

    So by the time I was like 24-25, I had clocked more than 10k hours. And people 10+ years older who didn’t even drive as a profession would talk down to me and question the most basic things. It was alway nice showing them how wrong they were. Or some times just pretending to be that naive for idk, please the customer or smth.

    Still my point is 10k hours isn’t as much as one would think but obviously for a musical instrument or smth it’d kinda lot.




  • Having player around with that size empty barrels in the army (and one or two we had at home since I was a kid in our outbuilding sauna for kids to bathe in), I’m not really that worried for a bloke Dorne’s size, except for that lid.

    The barrel itself is rather bouncy because of how big it is. As long as the bottom or the lid doesn’t fall directly on your head, you should be fine, and if the barrel is actually sideways completely and you hit the large center part, it’s just like a slight push. Might topple a smaller, unprepared dude, but not people Dorne’s size. The fact that he has to somewhat awkwardly fall on purpose after that (because the empty barrel was acting the role of a very heavy full barrel) is what has made it a meme, imo. As in, the barrel clearly didn’t do jack shit and he has to fall down himself.

    Well that’s my memory of it. So I rewatched it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBG1dW17Mas

    It actually could just as well be a stunt, as we don’t even see the actors front when the barrel actually hits. But it’s dropped from just above the cameraline and falls squarely with the flat side to the largest part of Worf’s (Michael or stunt) back.

    Now I accept I can be wrong and I don’t know how it was actually done but I assume at most a small padding on the back should suffice. Because on that cut Worf is crouching the camera is slightly more zoomed in (not even noticeably). If the barrels dropped from as high and as long as it’s made to appear to, sure. But it’s just out of the camera line.

    I don’t know, I’d like to do it myself and find out. I’d like to be a nameless stunt on some productions. I know how to take a fall really well and don’t really care for personal injuries anymore as long as they don’t stop me going. I think as a pretty average sized 183 /6ft dude I might be able to replace the generic whiteman hero type as long as I’m not facing the camera. Maybe even then from a bit further.

    And yes I’m saying this all sober.





  • Speaking the language doesn’t mean knowing the context.

    I feel strongly that this is still why London slang exists.

    Calling you a berk won’t get me a ban probably, no matter what it actually stands for. And I’m not calling you that, just to make sure to point that out.

    Im Finnish, and while you can use “Finnish person”, colloquially we’re known as Finns. But please don’t try using the same logic for Pakistan.



  • Hmm, I wonder if it is actually. I think it’s just a euphemism for it’s wrong how" or “it’s weird how we as people keep allowing this to happen in a democratic world”, but I honestly don’t think it’s sarcasm.

    I get the point and I write that way all the time too, but I thought to see what happens if I just stop participating in the pretense of it being weird.

    But yes maybe it is just sarcasm, but like the same sort of rhetoric is often used to talk about problems which are sort of too complex and large to easily assert something which should or even could be done.

    But yes. Sarcasm.


  • I’m no small-dicked overweight authoritarian dictator, but if I had to make guesses as to their thoughts, I’d say Putler was on the ropes last year, but since he managed to affect US elections enough that Trump won, Putler basically won.

    Now unless Europe takes the agreession or at least strongly unifies behind Ukraine, Ukraine might be forced into some kind of deal. I don’t belive they will go for any, so that’s not gonna work from Putler, despite him making Trump push it.

    But since Trump is actively burning down the US, I believe your assumption about a North-American war.

    If that happens though, Europe will weaken, and Putler could decide to ally with Xi Pooh, and… I don’t know who the fuck would stop them at that point.

    But… if world order is already a bit fucked at that point I propose legalising drugs to make it an actually usable market which will generate wealth (and we should already but no-one listens), because drug markets are global, so then South America might actually start straightening itself out if the cartels could see reason. (They’re brutal, but idk how many of them are actually ideologically fascist more than capitalist.)

    I really wish I’m wrong, but I predicted drump’s colonialist ambition over Canada years ago. I also remember being laugh at by everyone around the table at a diner so saying conservatives were making nazism acceptable again. Well guess what.

    Me too man. I read an NBCNews article today about Greenland and the way it was written, oh boy. Putler has given Trump a little bit of friendly advise on what sort of propaganda to start spreading. Or Putler is doing it for Trump idk.

    But it’s clear they’re trying to influence Greenland and eventually will support independence for it, so it’ll become less stable and better to be annexed in some way or another, by either Putler or Trump.

    I’m sure Putler would love a base on Greenland.


  • Bixby is better at basic tasks on the phone, like a calendar meeting.

    Gemini is better at controlling my lights and to talk about something not too objective, like asking about cooking recipes. Or it’s not bad if you need to calculate solution strengths while mixing drinks or smth. But aside from maths and other fixed constants, it’s really shit at any sort of facts.

    You can not get a reliable answer to as when a show/movie is airing because the times announced usually shift a bit and the datasets are old. In last December, before Kraven the Hunter was premiering, I asked it when that would be. It told me, in December 2024, that “Kraven the Hunter will premier in May 2024” or something. As in the future tense. And date 6 months in the past.

    So yeah.

    They’re useful for certain things but they’re still far from anything akin to Jarvis, lol. I’ve been meaning to give the one free month of Gemini Pro a go just out of curiosity at some point to see whether it’s equally shit.

    I can definitely see potential in these. It’s pretty nice being able to control my lights just by telling my phone what colour where, how much light. Also I use it for a smart plug on my screen so when I’m watching things in bed I can just hit pause and tell google to shut my screen off for me instead of having to get out of bed or put it on standby (because then the annoying blue led will stay on).