leftzero

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leftzero,

Does this show as a gif for anyone else? I’m using sync and that just shows a static picture unless I click on it.

Paused (but playable) video on Connect for Lemmy.

leftzero,

Christopher Reeve already proved it more than forty years ago.

leftzero,

Neither was Narcissus; guy was so sexually attracted to himself that he died of self inflicted blue balls due to being unable to fuck himself.

leftzero,

The term “narcissism” was only coined at the close of the nineteenth century, to refer to pathological self absorption, egotism, or sexual attraction to oneself over others.

In current usage, it refers to a self–centered personality style characterized as having an excessive preoccupation with oneself and one’s own needs, often at the expense of others, which fits Trump like a particularly small glove.

Sure, it’s named after Narcissus, from Graeco-Roman mythology, who is indeed said to have rejected everyone’s sexual (and romantic) approaches (guy was so mythically attractive that everyone fell for him)… but, according to most versions of the myth (including the ones that inspired the term), he was very much capable of sexual and romantic attraction… to himself, to the point that, being unable to properly fuck himself as he wanted to, he took his own life in frustration.

leftzero,

That’s the neat part: you don’t.

leftzero,

The nihilists should probably be represented by Black Hat…

This guy.

leftzero,

That explains why this just looked like it instantly teleported…

https://lemmynsfw.com/pictrs/image/4ad69ac7-1a1e-4d0a-bb3b-b658d8942b4d.jpeg

leftzero,

The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens (‘wise man’). In any case it’s an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.

— Sir Terry Pratchett, The Globe (The Science of Discworld, #2), 2002

Boeing Will Launch Starliner With Helium Leak (www.extremetech.com)

Boeing and NASA are moving ahead with the upcoming Starliner demonstration launch despite an active helium leak. The launch is now on the books for Saturday, June 1, at 12:25 p.m. EDT. If all goes as planned, Starliner will rendezvous with the International Space Station the following day and return to Earth on June 10. If not,...

leftzero, (edited )

They’ve launched dogs, monkeys, and whatnot before.

Sure, those were still way more skilled than Boeing executives, but there’s also uncrewed launches, so that’s no excuse.

Call them payload or cargo or ballast instead of astronauts if you want, what counts is launching the fuckers into space and (hopefully) not bringing them back.

leftzero,

I trust NASA

They’ve killed 21 astronauts so far (not counting X-15 pilots), most of them through criminal negligence…

leftzero,

I will always cherish my bones, too. They give me support.

leftzero,

Asimov didn’t design the three laws to make robots safe.

He designed them to make robots break in ways that’d make Powell and Donovan’s lives miserable in particularly hilarious (for the reader, not the victims) ways.

(They weren’t even designed for actual safety in-world; they were designed for the appearance of safety, to get people to buy robots despite the Frankenstein complex.)

leftzero,

downright messianic

Yeah, tell that to the rest of the intelligent life in the galaxy…

Oh, wait, you can’t, because by the time humans got there these downright messianic robots had already murdered everything and hidden the evidence…

leftzero,

Those who saw tigers where there were none were more likely to pass on their genes than those that didn’t see the tiger hiding in the foliage.

And now their descendants see tigers in the stars.

leftzero,

That’s why you give the cops one of the $120K bags you were bribed with, and keep the other two.

What are the bribers going to say, “hey, that’s only a third of what I tried to bribe them with!”…?

leftzero,

I remember installing Windows 3.0. (Or possibly 3.1…?)

It came in exactly way too many disks. (Like, a dozen or so, maybe…? Though it felt like at least double that…)

Reversi was nice, though…

leftzero,

I often cackle maniacally when I solve something in a particularly effective way.

leftzero,

Why rename the files when you could just categorise and index them…?

This seems unnecessarily destructive.

leftzero,

To be fair, it also rusts when not under the rain.

leftzero,

it was not the person calling the police.

At this point anyone calling the police in the US is a necessary accomplice, and guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, aggravated battery, and probably several other crimes.

leftzero,

I read the Ti in the periodic table as “titanium”, not as “tie”… I mean, if you don’t read them as the names of the elements, what would you even read, say, Pb or Hg as…?

leftzero,

Yes, of course, but I was trying to point out how claiming it means titanium doesn’t really work as an excuse to pronounce it “tie”; it’s either “tee eye” or “titanium”, but “tie” makes no sense.

leftzero,

Jraphics Interchange Format. 🤷‍♂️

leftzero,

Yes, exactly. It’s either tee eye or titanium, but I can’t see how it can possibly be tie.

leftzero,

Nah, coconuts don’t have the right kind of teeth and ear bones.

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