archonet

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[–] archonet@lemy.lol 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

the second one for specific, more anonymous use.

Just say you have a porn alt, I and many others would respect you more for it.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 1 points 18 hours ago

I believe Quebec already lays claim to that title.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like "the last time I did drugs, I ate someone's brain and spent 10 years in a padded cell" would be enough of an incentive to not go back in for more. Evidently his psychiatrist knows him well enough to believe so.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

They're making a profit on the printer too, now

https://youtu.be/MHzREY32tYQ?t=15

You have no idea how much I want them to just go under already.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 13 points 1 day ago (7 children)

The state’s Psychiatric Security Review Board granted Smith conditional release from the hospital on Friday after hearing from a psychiatrist, who said Smith’s schizophrenia and alcohol and drug disorders were in full remission as a result of medication and other treatment.

Addiction sucks, and compounding it with schizophrenia... yeah, I could see how this would happen. It's tragic and awful that it did, and gives us all the knee-jerk "what the fuck why would they release that psycho" reaction, I get all that, but as long as they remain on their prescribed medications and sober from other mind-altering substances, they should have the opportunity to be part of society again. When your brain chemistry is that fucked up, you are not in the drivers seat.

now on the other hand, if in the future he decides to stop taking his meds like a fucking dumbass, yeah, put him in a padded room and keep him there since that's a conscious decision to live in Hannibal Lecter Land.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I liked BB, I thought it was pretty good, and BCS I still have yet to finish (got up to season 3 and then got distracted), and thought it was also pretty good.

What did you find lackluster in BB that BCS did better?

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 7 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Meanwhile I know someone who watched the entirety of a very popular series (can't remember which one at the moment) just so he could tell the obnoxious fans of it, that it was shit, and exactly why it was shit.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's somehow worse when you do get the sleep, but your brain has decided to do this in your dreams. You wake up feeling angry and, rapidly, can't remember half the reason why.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 9 points 1 day ago (5 children)

This is the same company that sells an entire printer at a loss, as a semi-disposable item, so you'll be suckered into buying their proprietary ink cartridges at the low low price of an arm and a dick. Inefficiency? From the company that makes disposable fucking printers? yeah that sounds about right.

and yes, it is bad business, but there are many things that HP does that are "bad business", and yet they continue to exist like a cancer on the consumer computer hardware market. Again, this is normal for them.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm just saying, I would be at least 3x as miffed as a kid getting black licorice, or raisins, or some other bullshit in my candy pail than candy corn.

When you're an adult, it's different, you can have whatever kind of candy whenever you want, regardless of the time of year -- when you're a kid, you'll take candy corn every day of the week over a lot of other subpar halloween hand-outs. And even as an adult, sure, I wouldn't willingly buy a bag of it to eat for myself, but if I were given the choice between eating a handful of candy corn or a handful of Good and Plentys, yeah, I'm taking the candy corn.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 9 points 1 day ago (45 children)

I imagine it's because their use is evident (no need to advertise what they do, since they've been common in households for the past half century), and they've likely peaked in terms of function. You can't really improve much beyond what we have now, the last great advancement in the microwave was probably the turntable for consumer units, and the moving fields that commercial units have. You're limited in power output by the outlet you plug it into, so "faster cooking" is a no-go (unless you stuck a 240v plug on the end, and good luck getting that to fly with your average consumer in the US, we already find those annoyingly sparse for dryers and ovens and such) -- what else can you innovate to differentiate your microwave from every other microwave on the market?

 
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