wizardbeard

joined 2 years ago
[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Lol, you mean "go outside"? Pretty high bar for some internet denizens.

I've had plenty of conversations with religious folks that didn't touch upon their holy texts at all. And plenty of conversations with atheists that were interminably about what they thought those texts said.

Whenever someone generalizes a group so drastically like this, I tend to wonder about how limited their life experiences must be.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 10 hours ago (7 children)

Holy shit, I can't be reading that right. FOUR espresso shots?

The issue isn't your anxiety, it's your completely unhinged idea of what a cozy little coffee is.

That's close to the FDAs safe reccomended daily limit for caffeine, of fucking course you're gonna spike your anxiety.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

- O U T - O F - I D E A S -

Can't see see that saying without this starting to jam out in my head.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 hours ago

I get more frustrated at how many people, especially IT folks, don't get that these anti-features are configurable.

5 minutes (at most) in regedit and/or Group Policy to disable this bullshit entirely? No, let's add a three second mental hitch where I have to recall the magic key combo every time I want to open the program. And still leave the problem in place for everything else.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 hours ago

Credit where it's due, science built the plane.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 hours ago

Not sure if it was taken off FDroid for lack of updates or something, but I've found the github here. https://github.com/jakehilborn/speedr

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Not sure if it was taken off FDroid for lack of updates or something, but I've found the github here. https://github.com/jakehilborn/speedr

The math doesn't add up right. All I can go off of is my memory of the results after a year of driving in a way where I thought I was speeding often.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (5 children)

There's a nice little app on F-Droid called Speedr.

Edit: Not seeing it there anymore, but found the github for it: https://github.com/jakehilborn/speedr

It checks your speed against what open street map has set as the speed limit for the road. It will record how often, how long, how much you drove over the speed limit during your drive.

It will then use that data to estimate the amount of time you actually saved.

I regularly drive ~15 mph over the speed limit to keep up with traffic. Do a long drive of more than eight hours at a time around every other month. In a year I saved under 20 minutes.

Maybe a more aggressive driver could get more savings, but as far as I'm concerned I'll just leave a little earlier.

Edit: Also, not sure that math adds up. Going off of my memory from a few years ago.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I have some bad news for you

Do you seriously not know how to read? It's a reply to a comment that literally raises the question of where a turtleneck would go.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'd like to interject for a moment...

Yeah, layering the black border behind the letters for readabiltiy, then jamming the white letters together so tight you can't see the border between most of them is definitely a choice.

 

Someone gifted this to my wife and I after our successful IVF. Still haven't put our photos in it, and everytime I see it I giggle.

Miracle Love Baby sounds like some magical girl anime shit.

 

Honestly? That's rookie numbers.

 

Bah humbug.

 

PrefaceI'm not trying to call out the mod action of removing my post from the comm so much as I'm calling out the complete lack of mod action leading to the comm becoming shit and having the current top post by scaled, hot, and active being a post that explicitly targets another lemmy user.

That out of the way... !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world has clearly been slipping from the purpose of the comm for a while now. Most of the posts are actually infuriating and/or political. I understand that what qualifies as either of those can be different for different people, but I feel most of this shit clearly isn't mundane or simple enough to fall under the label of just mildly infuriating.

Here's some examples from the first page right now, sorted by scaled.

While I could have sworn the sidebar had a no politics rule, it doesn't at the time of me writing this up, so politics are arguably acceptable, although I personally feel these all clearly don't match the theme of the community, violating Rule 7.

Sidebar, and expanded rule 7

A few other posts have been made calling this out.

Mod harder and [META] What actually constitutes "mildly infuriating" content?

################################

Beyond all that mess, we have what was the final straw for me.

Rule 1 (and less so 5), and the current top post by scaled, hot, and active.

I cannot accept that a post to mildly infuriating that targets a specific user while not even removing their username is respectful, and I personally consider it harassment (while it may not violate rule 5 as there is no call to action). Removing the username is usually the bare minimum even in the fucking reddit brigading subs, for plausible deniability.

And regardless of whatever arguments can be had about interpretations of the community's specific rules, it's a dick move. Just block the guy. It reminds me of the god awful reddit dogpiling and brigading. I don't want any of that to come to lemmy.

So I reported it, then saw the recent posts asking mods for action that got no response. I then looked at the mods.

  • LillianVS@lemmy.world (Aer) has not been active in two years.
  • STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world (Striker) has not been active in one year.
  • Tenthrow@lemmy.world had not appeared to be active for six days at the time I reported the post, but upon checking the community mod log was likely active two days before (assuming that the other two wouldn't be just lurking and modding for over a year).

So I did something dumb as hell. Roughly an hour after I reported it, I made my own post (now removed from the comm). I find people who make call out posts about others, and the absentee mods allowing it, mildly infuriating. Yeah, childish as shit. What's done is done.

Modlog:

Removed for "doesn't fit community", but what do you folks think? Does it really not fit when the top post is what it is? Personally I think both should be gone, lest that comm descend further into shit.

Either way, now that I have this yell into the void out of me, I'm blocking the comm. Maybe I should have made my post in actually infuriating? (kidding)

 

That is a threat.

From some back to school flyer.

 

We understand that this is a jarring and sudden change, but we're proud of our audio team's ability to create suitable replacements with such short notice. We hope that in time, these new sounds will grow to hold a place in your heart just like the old ones.

(Original post: https://lemmy.world/post/38428736)

 

I have so many great memories from childhood vacations to Mystery Flesh Pit National Park. I cant believe the disaster happened all the way back in 2007.

At least someone has been collecting and documenting everything they can find from the old place: https://www.mysteryfleshpitnationalpark.com/

I still can't make it all the way through the disaster report.

 

This ancient video has ruined this song for me. My toddler is getting into Sesame Street, so the original song is on rotation in the car for the kid friendly playlist. Hard to keep from giggling.

Post name is from the video.

 

Jerboa's not too bad, as the URL field is the same field the link to your uploaded image ends up overwriting, but I swear I see people making this mistake every fucking day. End up posting just an image when they wanted image + link.

Apologies, as I'm sure there's proper channels for this, and open source projects tend to not have the best UIs. Just shouting into the void.

 

Definitely a repost, but it fits the season

 
view more: next ›