rustydrd

joined 2 years ago
[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 49 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I think I read about it in a book once, where it was called "wrongthink".

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 22 points 5 days ago

What is this, a bike lane for ants!?

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Difficult to run with all that tactical gear, eh?

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They can also be both. Successful career, but forever haunted by a fear of inadequacy that just won't go away.

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

For sure. From what little I know about anatomy, ribs don't connect to the shoulder, and there aren't any ribs above the clavicle.

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Man, honestly. I thought using GIF as an example would be a funny way to illustrate this genuinely cool feature. I expected some craziness but not at this level. People comment with passion, holy hell.

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is about the phonetics tooltip on Wikipedia, the GIF page is just for illustration, because that's a phonetics topic that many people know.

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

"The ga-RAH-ge! Oh lah-dee dah, Mr. Frenchman."

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

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 76 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The fact that the cursor points at the correct pronunciation is purely by accident.

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

I think you might have misunderstood the headline.

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Me too, so this was a big revelation for me.

 
[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Also bad: When you ask XOR questions, but people think they're funny and give you OR answers instead.

 
 
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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by rustydrd@sh.itjust.works to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
 
 
 

My wife puts Tabasco sauce on her pizza, while I am convinced that an Italian person dies every time she does that. Help us sort this out, please.

 

Learned something new today while listening to a podcast about US politics.

 
 
 
 

Recently re-discovered this gem of a blog post, written in 2018 by Nikita Propokov, about his disenchantment with the state of modern software. Do you think it's still relevant today (perhaps more/less so than it was when it was written)?

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