I like comics like these because it’s really just Calvin talking through all these things with himself… so deep down somewhere he felt that way the whole time and just needed to talk through it, alone or not. Healthy introspection.
I find that really relatable. My self-talk is usually negative, but I’m sure at some point in the past it wasn’t, maybe it was even constructive like this.
Every time I read something like this I’m glad I’ve been ignoring the upgrade popups for the last… how long has 18 been out…?
I got this pos thinking… hey if I’m gunna spend a ton I at least want it to get updates for a long time for a change… and then I nearly immediately stopped updating due to the ai nonsense… I don’t want that shit in my phone so I noped out on the first actual upgrade that came down after I got the thing. What a waste.
If not for the back glass being shattered (despite being in a case since day 1… I still don’t know how it happened…) I’d just sell it and move to… idk what since Linux phones aren’t there yet, but something else.
It is, there used to be a place around me that catered to adults for bouncy inflatable things.
$10 and some mushrooms and it was an amazing time.
Oh man hearing that I’m super glad I got the hell out of the SaaS support job I had.
It was for a business-end tax filing company. I bet they are deep in the shit this year.
Gimme your top 10 series, maybe your top 10 “you probably haven’t heard of this” if you like.
I pretty much only watch animated (prosopagnosia makes live action considerably more difficult to follow) and am always on the hunt for good new (to me) stuff.
I’ll give you a list in return based on what’s on yours!
This won’t help fix anything, but you may want to consider giving yourself a few days a week where you actively avoid the news and anything related to it. It’s not like knowing about it will change anything for you in the immediate term, and even in the long term, enough other people have to wake up to it for anything to hope to happen and that’s probably still a ways off yet… plus if it really matters it’ll still be in the news in 3 days when you get to it.
So if it doesn’t do any good to consume the negativity, maybe just don’t for a few days a week, and see how you feel.
For me it helped substantially. Nothing is fixed, of course, but ignorance really is bliss sometimes. There’s just so much shit coming down the chute that my tiny little dump truck of a brain can’t unload it fast enough and I just get super overwhelmed by the sheer volumes of shit… but if I pick and choose what to load into my bucket in the first place, or space out the release of the shit chute contents, well that’s more manageable.
I hope things improve for you (and everyone for that matter) random internet friend!
That’s such a weird gif… it has two clips looping one after the other, doing nearly, but not quite, the same thing…
I don’t think I’ve seen a gif do that before.
What you mean you don’t enjoy the challenge of going through page after page of solutions, going “hmm, that doesn’t quite look right/make sense/sound familiar but I’ll try it any- oh, the dependencies are missing, well nvm on this option…”?
Oh is that who is behind the painting? I was wondering.
Rice and vermicelli is rice and pasta, and it’s wildly common, especially the cheap bagged side dish stuff.
So I guess I do.
Nah, one of his psycho followers with a tongue so far up his ass they can taste his boogers will create it for him, trying to suck up. Just like all the other absolutely insanely bizarre shit they’ve been saying/doing/trying for the last few months.
She should have used grape or green apple so he could actually see the change!
Or given him spots. I accidentally dripped henna on my white cat’s paw and that spot drove him nuts for weeks.
I wanted to listen to it, so I went looking.
And I am wildly disappointed that the only human-read video I could find is a freakin’ ASMR video. I can’t watch that shit.
The computer-read versions make it sound like it would make a great tongue twister memory sort of thing. I’m honestly a tiny bit surprised it hasn’t been done.
At this point, I’m more impressed that there’s always someone ready to share the relevant xkcd, than I am that there happens to be a relevant xkcd for everything.
If you take each medium in isolation, no you can’t reach those numbers.
But for a whole day across all the various ways advertisers have found to shove shit in our faces? I just think you might be under-estimating how many ads are out there, or maybe not considering all the things that count as ads, especially in meatspace, and how little most people actually do to avoid them, if they can even be avoided.
Like that 30 seconds for every 2 minutes of music is often while driving and seeing billboards and vehicle advertisements and stuff as well.
Boy idk, with my pihole I can see all the places where ads are supposed to be on articles and stuff and there are a freakin ton of breaks and funky formatting.
That’s not including highlighted word ads, video ads at the top and sides of the screen (especially the ones that follow you) and sponsored results in every search (Google, Amazon, etc.). The top result bar of the main used search engine, Google, shows you an entire scrollable row of related product ads, followed by another block of ad links after. When you buy things online, there’s often a pop up about related products or things you might like before you check out, which is 6-12 more ads. That’s not including the multiple ads that may already be present on each product page.
I can’t comment on social media sites in depth, but there they likely have static ads in addition to volumes of sponsored posts, plus a solid chunk of the “content” is also advertising.
Does this include real life and not just the internet? Radio ads, gas pump ads, billboards, ticker messages and printing on vehicles are all ads as well. Oh, and all the clothing with logos.
I absolutely believe 4,000-10,000 for an average person without blockers who uses normal sites. Video ads probably make up a relatively small proportion but ads are -everywhere-.
3 looks like my grandmothers sugar spoon from one of those little jar and spoon sets
I miss the old windows colored bubbles, where your screen was still visible and the bubbles just moved around on top of everything.
I think it was from 7. In 10 they changed it so there was a black screen with the bubbles. Not nearly as much fun (I do zero secure things on my home computers). They also seemed to churn more, like glass balls, rather than bouncing off each other like they originally did.
I’m not on windows anymore but man I do miss that one.
They probably have.
But if you came across a random bug, especially a big one like that, wouldn’t you assume other people already knew about it? I would.
I mean sure you might take a pic and send it to a few people, but they would probably also assume it’s known.
Balan wonderland. It looked like a dumb kids game graphically, and I never saw it cost more than $10 new. How good could it actually be?
Picked it up because why not, $10. And it’s actually a great little platformer with cute and engaging mechanics.
I wish the clock did something if you complete it; spawning the kings is a gigantic pain and very confusing for something that does nothing at all, but it’s a very cute little side project, so it should have had a purpose. The use of consumable costumes sucks. It should just be an unlock thing rather than needing to farm the level, since farming is just standing next to the spawn point, which is tedious and dumb. Other than those two minor complaints, it is really engaging and a lot longer than I was expecting. Lots of hidden stuff, great level design, and just complicated enough to make you think without being overly frustrating.