Rob T Firefly
Nerd of all trades from New York City.
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Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Waterloo City Hall abandons X. Says the platform is 'not a welcoming space'English
4 daysWaterloo, got off of X 'cause they needed to
Waterloo, Elon’s hellsite is too shit for you
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Streaming services’ obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in CaliforniaEnglish
4 daysI worked on a crew that took lots of long interstate drives when “We Like to Party” by the Vengaboys was a big radio hit. Every time that goddamned horn blasted in that song when we were on the road, we all frantically looked around to see the big truck that was about to kill us only to realize it was just the stupid Vengabus.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•I visited Meta's metaverse on the day it was supposed to shut down. I ended up in a horribly designed car park with no cars, for a restaurant that can sell no foodEnglish
4 daysThis article was written by award-winning verifiably-human journalist James Ball.
The image is credited to Benny Douet, a human professional illustrator with a legit body of work which stylistically matches said image.
By all means call out slop when it appears, but this isn’t it.
- 5 days
I was once shopping for an office chair, and since you can’t tell what a chair is like to sit in by browsing online listings I went to Staples to try out their chairs on display. I found one I liked, and was ready to buy it. On a whim I used my phone and the store’s wifi to look up the same chair on the Staples website, where I found it on sale for less money with free delivery included.
Still sitting in the chair in the store I ordered it online, saved some money, and then went home without having to take a heavy chair with me on the bus.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots. Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow on his new book, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI.English
6 daysTop tip: Getting computer-generated wrong answers in Chinese is just as useful as getting computer-generated wrong answers in English.
You don’t even have to read Chinese!
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's one highly extolled piece of media that you absolutely cannot stand in any way shape or form.English
10 daysMy entirely supportive and not at all abusive spouse isn’t a fan of the show.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's one highly extolled piece of media that you absolutely cannot stand in any way shape or form.English
11 daysCatcher in the Rye was always an unforgivable whiney crap-mound of a book. Its notoriety is based on its banning, and the larger issue of whether people should be allowed to read books with swears, misanthropes, and sexual references in them, but there are and were so many better books featuring those things out there.
Family Guy is a fascinating case of a crappy show insisting upon itself so hard that it successfully got itself uncancelled and forced into pop culture as a zombie endlessly repeating itself on the level of its inspiration and closest rival The Simpsons.
I also loathe Grease but its general appeal is pretty easy to explain: it came out in the 1970s as a rose-tinted nostalgia piece for white middle-class boomers who grew up in the 1950s and, as so many people of all ages do, idealized their childhood era as when things were so cool and simple. (Spoiler to folks of all eras: things weren’t actually any simpler when you were young, you were just shielded from more of the bullshit than you are now.) It was the same nostalgia that fueled the runaway success of Happy Days on TV in that era, though at least that show managed to be a functional sitcom with more substance to it than the empty-headed misogyny-flavored story of Grease.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's one highly extolled piece of media that you absolutely cannot stand in any way shape or form.English
11 daysI never saw the appeal of that show, but my former domestic abuser was a big fan.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's one highly extolled piece of media that you absolutely cannot stand in any way shape or form.English
11 daysI think I first encountered Ricky Gervais’ work in those YouTube videos which took clips of his podcast and animated them as cartoons. They were being passed around like the best thing ever for a minute or two back in the day, and I watched a bunch and didn’t get why it was supposed to be funny that two guys were being assholes at a third guy over and over.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their ColleaguesEnglish
16 days“Descent into” the main thing it’s been for 20 years.








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