erogenouswarzone @ erogenouswarzone @lemmy.ml

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Perhaps the duck flew into a window on a building thinking it was more sky? Or maybe it flew into your windshield thinking something similar?

I was at an intersection once in a friend's car. This was about 20 years ago: cell phones, esp ones that could take videos and pics, were not there yet.

Anyway, we were on the way home from work, just sitting there not saying anything. Then here comes this jeep, flipping through the intersection. Now, the intersection is big, like 4 lanes intersecting with 4 lanes, but not exactly at a square angle, and it must've been about 3/4 of a football field worth of length this jeep flipped.

The front end would hit the ground and then it would bounce up and roll in the air, then the ass end would hit the ground and so on. All the while it's coming towards us slightly, but seemed to be drifting towards a gas station to our right. Now, this is in the middle of Rush Hour traffic, and somehow no one moved - everyone is just frozen, holding their breath, waiting to see if this jeep was going to careen into a gas pump and cause a huge explosion.

I'm not sure how many times it flipped, but it finally came to rest in a green patch of grass in front of the gas pumps right-side up, like some sort of insane Jeep ad.

The driver emerged - a young lady - she seemed to be ok, besides perhaps a little bewilderment and dizziness. She proceeded to just stand there staring at the jeep for a while. Then she looked around, as if to ask "Does anyone know if this is ok - what just happened?" I shrugged with my mouth agape, as if to respond, "I have no idea, and I'm a little freaked out." Then our light turned green, and we drove away.

I have never seen anything like that in my life, and I still think back about it and try to figure out how the jeep got into that movement, and I just have no idea. It was all over in a blink of an eye. So bizarre.

What about what happened to Reddit? It got popular, then got bought, then turned into shit.

In that case we were lucky enough to be told about it, but what happens when memes or lemmy.ml gets sold under the table?

Portal 1 is still great. It's way funnier, and I think has a creepier vibe, specifically because of how little information you're given.

2 is, yeah - a more fully realized game. Also, if you didn't already know: co-op mode gives a whole new set of puzzles that can only be solved with 2 people working together. Finding that and playing it with my friend was my fav part of either game.

But the power is not with the workers, it's with a representative body. And in a perfect union, the body would be able to consider and weigh workers needs with production costs. So why not let a computer do it?

I watch tv with closed captioning. Except with comedies because it ruins the jokes.

I tell you brother, 66 was fucked before anyone would even consider living in FroRo. They had lead in the ground from a ... I wanna say paint factory, or parachutes maybe or maybe paint for parachutes ... That was there in WW2. (They say it's better now, but I'd never live there)

When they redid the lanes, but only made it go to Manassas, I mean that was just a big desperate gesture to keep all the richtards happy living out that way.

Perhaps you're right, but NoVA is still one place where you can make consistent good money. So there will never not be a draw, and they will never stop building the area up. Except for when COVID happened, I think some parts are still struggling to bounce back from that.

Yes, Breezewood, what a fucking nightmare. Sweet username.

I'm glad you're liking it.

Thanks internet stranger, yes I'm not drinking anymore.

So now I'm remembering I had something wrong with my foot, or some sort of swelling somewhere. And it did help relieve the pain, but personally I wouldn't take it again for that because of the hangover.

Maybe, but ya know drugs affect everyone differently, and I can tell you it 100% felt like a hangover - like drinking, not like something I needed.

Me, personally, I noticed an effect. However, I've never been a potist.

I used it for when I was sick. I got some flavored oil and put a few drops under my tongue occasionally.

Yes, it helped calm me down. But, I was hungover after I stopped taking it. But I get hangovers very easily because my liver has lived a few lives at this point - I was a bit of an alcoholist.

I'd like to know more.

Lol, not to mention Cobalt and other horrors that are lurking in Legacy systems no one has looked at in 50 years.

I'm thinking mainframe terminals, where the character has to be in the right place on the screen in order to store something in RAM.

Even worse, how many systems are still using punch cards? How often do those cards need to be replaced?

I think apple would figure out some very creative ways to fuck it's customers, some more.

It's the rare Trilogy that sucks. The Hobbit, and the last 2 pirates of the carribeans are also good examples.

I actually liked Tenet though.

So when you're writing JavaScript, as I'm sure you know, it's bad form to add prototypes to primitives.

So let's say you have an Object, and it holds data about a person: hair color, eyes, weight, height, etc.

But if you want to make that object do something, like calculate the bmi, what do you do?

You could just go ahead and add ".calculateBmi" to Object, but that's bad form, right?

So you create a Person object, and it has weight, height and all the other stuff, then you can also assign it methods, like .calculateBmi, and that's great.

Well, in Chrome when you console.log the Person object, it's says "Person" and it lets you open it right up and look around to see what the height and weight are, and it's great.

However, In FF, it just says "Object." And you have to open it, then open a few other things underneath it to find out what type of object it is, and it's members and methods.

And its takes way longer to debug. And there's a few other, little things like that, that I can't think of. I'd love to use FF, but it's just not there yet.

Yeah, ok. Maybe if we got an AI to run everything.

I felt like every time it was picking up steam it would just stop being fun. It had no self-awareness.

It seemed like it could've been a great 90 minute movie, but no one would've believed a Nolan movie could've been good under 3 hours, so they just jammed in all this boring dialogue that went nowhere.

It was a good role for Matt Damon though. He can't carry a movie, but goddamn he does great cameos.