christian

christian, 15 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

I don’t read five star reviews ever anymore. If I want to find a believable endorsement of a product, I’ll look for a four-star review that contains a criticism that isn’t that bothersome to me personally, but legitimate enough that I can imagine a customer who would be deterred by it.

We moved a year ago, and I found my favorite pizza guy, Tony, by maybe the most convincing online review I’ve ever read. The most recent review on google maps was a one-star that was basically like “I met Tony and he casually used foul language etc etc there is no need for profanity etc pizza was some of the best I’ve ever had though”

christian, 15 days ago

Tony’s great. He does a thing he calls “Detroit style stuffed pizza” which does not really seem to be a Detroit style pizza at all but it’s fantastic nonetheless.

A lot of people like his sandwiches and visually they look very appetizing, but for whatever reason they don’t hit the spot for me. His pizzas are spectacular, and good breadsticks and wings too.

christian, 15 days ago

Mathematician here, I can answer this. Equivalence relations are symmetric, so if staying home is a vote for Trump then showing up to vote for Trump is the same as staying home on election day.

christian, 15 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

That doesn’t make any sense. The idea that staying home could be a vote for Biden seems pretty silly on its face. If that were true, there wouldn’t be any point in going out to vote for him, because the majority (or at least a plurality) of the country stays home regardless. He’d win in a landslide.

christian, 15 days ago

Doesn’t that seem strange to you?

It doesn’t seem strange at all. I have never once heard someone suggest that staying home is a vote for Biden, but it’s pretty well agreed upon that not voting is a vote for Trump.

…so Trump should win in a landslide, right? Yet he lost once. This seems like a glaring error in the idea that a protest vote is a vote for Trump.

Only if you believe that election wasn’t stolen.

christian, 15 days ago

I feel bad about this and I’d like to make it up to you.

If you tell me your favorite candidate I promise to stay home on election day to cast a vote for them.

christian, 15 days ago

A vote not cast is a vote for Aaron Bushnell.

This sounds a lot more productive than election day usually ends up. Thanks for making this election season inspiring.

christian, 15 days ago

There was a local r4r dating subreddit I posted to in 2014, somehow my (now) wife saw it like two or three months later. I titled it “Creepy guy seeks woman way out of his league”, which I am still very proud of as a great title for a personals ad.

A little over a year later we took a look back at that same subreddit and it was 100% hookups, the dating part had been completely phased out except for the subreddit name.

christian, 16 days ago

I use an adblocker, but I also drive a very old car and unfortunately my cd player just broke. I can confirm that there are tons of vaginal deodorant ads on the radio, always presented as a conversation between two women. There’s no intention to be funny, they’re trying to sound like a natural conversation two women would have in private and completely failing at coming across as anything short of awkward.

“So it works well for you?” “Yes! It lasts up to 24 hours, and four out of five gynecologists recommend it!”

christian, 16 days ago

I switched probably 2010 or 2011. I think I was on windows 7, but it might have been windows vista and I never got to 7.

At some point I had made a realization that software I downloaded from sourceforge (this website has been terrible for a long while now, but I think it was decent way back) was heavily correlated with not being shitty. After making this observation, I was able to generalize it to open source software tends to be less shitty and I had a year or two of experiences afterwards that reinforced my theory, which led me to try experimenting with linux installs.

I started with dual-booting Fedora, I had no idea what I was doing and didn’t like the user experience as much as windows at first. I did a little bit of distro-hopping to see if there was something more appealing to me, but during that time I discovered the free software movement and that resonated with me a lot more than open source had, so I decided I wasn’t interested in going back to windows. Moved to Trisquel (originally an Ubuntu derivative, and fully-free to the point of being FSF-approved) and grew to love it.

After a couple years, I decided I was curious enough to learn more about how the system works, so I moved to Parabola (fully free Arch derivative) to force myself to learn. I really learned barely anything, but I got very good at getting things working by trial-and-error while reading documentation I don’t fully understand. I haven’t progressed very far beyond that point at all in the years since, but I got too comfortable to make a significant change.

In the past five or so years, I’ve to some degree dropped the free software philosophy in favor of a philosophy that the problem runs much deeper (no hope of a successful free software movement in a capitalist society, and software is not even close to the most beneficial consequence of getting past capitalism), and I’ve moved to legit Arch rather than Parabola.

I’ve basically gone ten years without real issues on arch installs, but I still have no idea what I’m doing, I’m just comfortable with it and don’t want to put any effort into a change. I feel like if anyone from the arch forums or anyone knowledgeable in general took five minutes to look at my pc they’d be like wtf are you doing. It’s whatever, it works well enough for me.

christian, 18 days ago

OP comment got me to open the video, but this was somewhat frustrating to watch. It felt like as the video ran on it was becoming more and more just the guy rewording things he’s already said in the past couple minutes. Is padding for time a youtube algorithm thing?

christian, 17 days ago

That’s fair. I guess what I was getting at is that your observation was fun enough to get me to click the link even though I very rarely watch youtube, but the video itself wasn’t really my thing. Makes sense to cite as where you came up with the thought.

christian, 18 days ago

I have scarlet and caught walking wake before, if I join a raid hosted by a violet player would I be able to throw a ball after defeating iron leaves?

christian, 23 days ago

My favorite thing about this post is that question 2 is asked based on the assumption that you’ve answered question 1 correctly by picking “cat”.

christian, 24 days ago

The soy thing is just a dumb meme right? I’m having trouble imagining a person stupid enough to actually have that concern.

(Just to clarify so no one infers bad intent behind my question, I do think veganism is cool and good.)

christian, 24 days ago

Farmer here, I can explain this. After eating chicken breasts, the seeds passed through his digestive system. When he pooped outside, the breast seeds went on the soil encased in a natural fertilizer. Most people go straight to a toilet, and since breasts can’t grow there they never really think about the possibility of growing breasts after eating chicken.

christian, 24 days ago

Some parts of that regular season were ugly. After the season ended someone in management admitted there were two different games that season where they had agreed on Trotz being fired if we lost, but both of them set off brief winning streaks. One of them was a game against the wild, I forget who the other game was against. (Pretty sure Trotz himself was not informed about the specific games until after the run, but he was undoubtedly aware that he was on the hot seat.)

In a season where he played in the all-star game and won sixteen games in the postseason, Holtby was pretty regularly bad and there really wasn’t much controversy that Grubauer had won the starting job for the playoffs. Brooks Orpik played like shit basically every game for an enormously long stretch. I was genuinely frustrated that DSP had a roster spot game one because I felt like he had provided essentially no benefit through the regular season, which is yet another piece of evidence that it’s not just an unhappy accident that NHL teams choose not to reach out to me to request my insight.

I also remember thinking it was the worst preseason I had ever seen from the team by miles, and I don’t think they’ve come close to matching that since then either.

christian, 27 days ago

If we beat the flyers tomorrow we’ll be playing the Rangers round 1. Crazy.

christian, 27 days ago

I’m still not too fond of their coach.

christian, 29 days ago

That was pretty terrifying.

christian, 1 month ago

Make-up calls are stupid but I’m actually glad they gave them one, feels like it legitimizes the win a little more.

christian, 1 month ago

I want to watch it just because even without knowing a single thing about it I absolutely love this parody video and would like to get a more sophisticated appreciation for the comedy there.

christian, 1 month ago

Came here to post this too. 2011 two-door Hyundai accent, and I really value how small it is with two doors rather than four, easy to maneuver and park and drive in general.

It’s had some issues (horrible repair job after an accident led to me driving it a while with badly leaking transmission fluid, I really think that’s contributed to 90% of the problems over the years) and a few months back I tried looking into new cars and I literally could not figure out if anyone sells a car that size in the US anymore. So I’ll stick with dealing with it breaking down once or twice a year.

Breaking down can be a huge headache depending on timing, but I’m not interested in buying used because I don’t feel like I have enough intuition for cars to test drive something for an hour and feel confident I’m not putting $10,000 or whatever into a lateral move.

christian, 1 month ago

Brilliant.