Tlaloc_Temporal

Strangely enough, Bedrock is har to use on Linux. Java is so much better though.

Even better, no straw. Sip it straight from the cup.

The dot-com bubble isn’t the internet. The internet existed long before and continued to grow after. Companies that used digital posters on the internet had a crash, but the internet kept growing.

Digital posters do still have a use today, and there are still companies running on promises, but digital promises are simple and cheap. AI is not. At least not in this form.

Big tech hype will continue after this tech hype bubble pops, but that doesn’t mean the tech is good.

This was more like leaving all your valuables in a cardboard box on your front lawn. Anyone can just take it, if they care to look inside the complete unsecured box.

Someone just drove up and tossed the box in their truck. No lock involved.

Recycling paper (or not recycling) is far better than plastic is every respect. It’s not so much futility in this case so much as inefficiency.

Paper also is rarely, if ever, fully recycled, usually being downcycled into rougher and rougher materials like cardboard and egg cartons. No matter how well it gets recycled, it’s not going to displace primary production.

If you want to talk about futility here, the problem is way bigger than recycling. It’s consumerism, unrestrained capitalism, and ROI of power now vs power later. No amount of recycling of any quality will fix the world alonge but it is one step of many.

Paper can be composted or burnt, and will decompose relatively quickly if dumped. I can’t see any post-use situation where paper is anywhere nearly as bad as plastic.

It was a surprisingly fast change, to the extent that I wonder if they weren’t planning something along those lines as an industry wide PR stunt or lobbied industry takeover already. Or maybe paper straw machines are just really easy to setup.

It does show that widespread lasting change is possible. Even if it’s just a single step, we won’t get anywhere if we stop taking them.

The topic is sharing culture, where lots of very patriotic US things have their origins in other cultures. How so much of the US identity is a mish mash of other cultures. The US is even known as a cultural melting pot!

The hypocrisy is being ok with other cultures if you’re familiar with them, but hating ‘new’ culture. The comic is criticizing xenophobia by pointing out the (somewhat) xenophilic history of US culture.

The fact that One Trillion is as easy to say as One Million is a travesty. It’s great for coming to terms with astronomic scales, but it really hampers the average person in understanding just how much wealth a single plane of people hold.

This is my favorite attempt to show just how much wealth they’re actually talking about. It’s a bit biased towards phones, and it dates itself a bit, but it certainly makes an impression.

I don’t mind onions when they’re used as a real ingredient. French onion soup, stir-fry, onion rings, all good. Onions also make decent filler in soup and curry, but I think the only soup I’ve had without onion is cheese & broccoli. Every ground meat I’ve seen uses onions as filler, so every burger, nearly every taco, most sausages, every lasagna, every spring roll, all have that onion taste.

If leeks were used like this, I’d probably hate them too.

It also argues that municipalities create far too much parking space, reducing the amount of useable area in cities. This is one big reason why most US and Canadian city centers are dying, as more downtown plots are dedicated to parking, and new plots need a crazy amount parking.

New constructions all have huge parking lots like big box stores and fast food islands, surrounded by a sea of pavement. The lower density reduces propery taxes (as they’re usually calculated by the number of properties, not the used land area), and increases the need for a vehicle to reach locations.

Free parking in general may help to keep things accessible to everyone (with a car), but the amount of parking is choking everyone out and increasing reliance on car manufacturers and roadwork companies.

Disagree, one of the reasons I’m an onion hater is precisely because they’re in flipping everything. Anything savoury is likely to have that pervasive thickness that chases any other flavour out.

Moonbase Alpha has DECTalk as text to speech, and so in-game chat is spoken out by DECTalk. Anything stupid is immediately 10x funnier when a robot says it earnestly, especially when that robot has to interpret it.

It’s 14 years old now, dang

AEIOU repeating is the famous example, and spawned Moonbase Alpha covers of songs and similar text to speech implementations (like in R.E.P.O.).

Most “untoward” things become more well known from their euphemisms. This is just a rare non-sex case.

Rock paper scissors is so childish, upgrade to Boulder Book Jaws!

Hydraulic press?

It doesn’t pay taxes.

It’s kind of a thing in certain animals, but not wolves like originally claimed. The certain animals here being mostly primates, so it’s even more applicable.

That said, the politics of social primates are notoriously complex and many cultures have unique behaviors within the species, so there aren’t really any universal rules particularly among the most social groups.

There’s a reason the guy in the meme is dressed like a clown.

Even knowing about the sentence structure “Do x by today”, this post is phrased weirdly.

The top text uses the pattern "effect by amount", which leads people to see today as an amount in the bottom text. The bottom text is also a different kind of sentence entirely; “Shortening the lives of the rich by today” is a sentence fragment and needs to be modified, perhaps like “Me when I’m shortening the lives of the rich” to fit the format, or “Shorten the lives of the rich today” to fit the conclusion of the top text.

In any case, the format of the meme, the top text, and the bottom text do not rhyme, which makes them difficult to understand in relation to each other.