phughes

joined 7 months ago
[–] phughes@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I have to say that, in spite of surely well earned the reputation furries have for being nice people, that is one of the weirdest suggestions I've ever heard.

Substitute furries for any other sexual endeavor.

Look up BDSM groups around you. No, you don’t have to be a dom/sub to go to one.

Look up gender transition groups around you. No, you don’t have to be trans to go to one.

YES, YOU FUCKING DO!

[–] phughes@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The problem is the inability to be attracted to “regular looking” people.

The problem is that you're shallow. That's a personality problem. Improve your personality until you see the people around you as more than objects.

[–] phughes@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

’ll remind you that all 3 Back to the Future movies originally were supposed to be one movie. Then they realized it was waaaaay too long, and chopped it up into 3 movies, and added some padding on the 3rd movie.

That's retroactive marketing bullshit. "It was always envisioned as a trilogy, which is why the first one is a standalone movie and the second and third are two halves of a movie" Once you notice this talk you see it everywhere. The Matrix, Pirates of the Caribbean… really any big hit that they cashed in on with two more sequels.

Just like Lucas' nine part saga BS, when really he hadn't thought past the end of A New Hope.

[–] phughes@lemmy.ca 35 points 7 months ago

It sounds like what your friend is attracted to is attention.

[–] phughes@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 months ago

Objective–C is a strict superset of C. Anything that’s valid C can be used in an Objective–C file.

[–] phughes@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago

I'm not sure what your point is. Union leaders are elected by union members to represent them as… a union. Of course press releases are written by the leaders. They're the leaders. That's part of the job. The fact that not everyone in the union agrees with the path the leaders have decided to take is neither surprising nor an invalidation of their leadership.

[–] phughes@lemmy.ca 59 points 7 months ago

The word they're avoiding is "suppress". It needs to be suppressed because they don't want anymore CEOs getting what they deserve.

[–] phughes@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago

I realized I'd inadvertently crossed into Switzerland due to a wrong turn when my rental car's navigation system alerted me to the fact. Whoops.

[–] phughes@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 months ago

That was literally part of Chris Rock's skit:

I take care of my kids.
No shit _, you're supposed to take care of your kids!

[–] phughes@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why would you want to heat non-living space? That is a waste of energy. The attic is outside of the house as far as your furnace is concerned.

[–] phughes@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I rode a two speed kickback bicycle similar (operationally) to this for about a decade. It was the lowest maintenance bike I've ever owned, but the gearing was inside the rear hub and it only had a single chain. I can't imagine that the mechanism being outside improves that.

[–] phughes@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago

If my choices are a z-wave/zigbee thermostat that connects to my HomeAssistant instance and a Raspberry Pi that I have to maintain, I'll pick the z-wave one (and I did, 10 years ago. It's been rock solid.)

For my smart devices I prefer devices that can't send information over the internet no matter what. I don't want to worry about my thermostat mining bitcoin for some dude in China.

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