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Cake day: June 19th, 2023
  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.workstoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What is with the antenna between the R and E on an oreo?
    5 hours

    It’s not an antenna.

    The design around the oreo name is the same as the Nabisco logo. An oval with a cross on top.

    Now, there’s some disagreement over why the design is what it is. The got that redesigned the cookie has one story, Nabisco has theirs, and then there’s the fringe symbolism crowd that points to some kind of quasiconspiracy with ties to the Knights Templar (with the degree of it being some kind of woowoo deep secret varying on who it is talking about it)

    Basically though, it’s supposed to be similar to things that represent quality. The designer said that he was inspired by old illuminated manuscripts made by monks in Europe before printing. Basically; I’m paraphrasing because I can’t be arsed to look it up again.

    The antenna is also said to be a kind of cross, as are the little flowery things in the circle around the oreo symbol. But Nabisco was using that oval and cross thing before they made oreos; it’s still part of their logo. So, whatever the reason for that design, it likely applies to the cookie as a reflection of that

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's the laziest thing you have done?
    6 hours

    Pissed out of a window rather than walk ten feet to the bathroom.

    In fairness, I had the flu, and was a teenager. Feeling like hammered vulture shit, with a window right there and open anyway? No way was I getting out of bed. The window was just barely above the top of the mattress, so all I had to do was roll over, kinda prop up, and let 'er rip.

    Surprisingly, not only did it not go horribly wrong, but the little forethought I had with a fever that high managed to prevent any drips from being a problem. Well, a problem then. Still had to wash the towel later, and that left me without a clean towel for fever sweats, but I had bandanas I could use for that.

    Look, I was creeping into dangerous fever levels lol. Not the best set of decisions, but it worried out in the end

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.workstoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Do you think that sitcoms today are horribly unfunny? Compared to older shows?
    2 days

    Mostly, yeah, but then again genuinely funny ones were always rare.

    Worse (in terms of sitcoms as a genre) they almost never stand up to time. And that’s where some of the older ones have an advantage. Survivor bias. The shitty ones aren’t in syndication any more. So we only see maybe the top ten percent of all of them with any regularity.

    But it is damn hard to come up with the right combo of writers, cast, and zeitgeist. Look at the Dick van Dyke show as an example. Some of the best comedic actors in the business all in one place, with the best writers or the era, making a show that is about a situation that’s damn near immortal because it focused on core segments of life. Because of that, even the less acceptable humor (and it never went bad) is easy to shrug off.

    Since the executives in charge production are a product of decades of cynicism and money only thinking (it was almost always money first, but that is different), they take no risks, and want mostly reheated dreck. That’s never a good foundation for comedy. It has to happen by accident when that constrained.

    That being said, it does happen from time to time. While I’m not a sitcom fan, and not into it, always sunny manages to work for most people because they’re willing to keep riding absurdity so that they don’t need a real sense of continuity. There was the office (which, again, isn’t my thing) that was one of those perfect storms of on-screen and off talent being allowed to go ham in a situation that is damn near universal in scope for its target area. Even if you haven’t been stuck in an office, you likely know someone that has. It makes the jokes hit better, and the ones that don’t can get carried by the cast’s talent.

    But, yeah, I don’t think the current era is good for sitcoms. The old networks are running scared and chasing an old paradigm. The steamers are past the point of throwing money and seeing what sticks. The audience is spread out even more than the cable dominated era. It’s hard to justify a non proven formula, and formulas don’t work as well as they used to

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.workstoOpensource@programming.dev•Astra: For All Your High Fidelity Music Needs and Absolute Control
    2 days

    So, I’ve been fucking with it.

    In terms of overall functionality, it’s solid.

    It isn’t a musicbee killer, at least not at this point. The deep ability to manage one’s library isn’t there (there’s a raft of options in musicbee), and that’s one of the things that I value highly.

    That being said, it’s at least as good as anything else that’s Linux native that I’ve found. The ui in particular, I prefer to the usual suspects.

    Fwiw, IDGAF if a developer uses Claude to reduce their workload. I only care if the end result is shit. So far, this isn’t. Everything works, it’s not conflicting with anything, and I’m not even finding little bugs or glitches. To me, that means claude was used the way it should be; a hel per rather than the developer. Again, idgaf, and any absolutism on the matter isn’t going to do anything useful.

    In terms of what it needs next, it’s the expanded library control; file conversion, batch renaming, that sort of thing where you can pull in what you rip or download and standardize it to the rest of your library in one place, while listening to and working with the music itself. Players are a dime a dozen at this point.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.workstomemes@lemmy.world•Lead the way
    4 days

    Jfc, I literally just had a dream where I was taking care of a baby during custody issues in court, and the baby babbling and making noises had everyone in the entire building stopping by to act silly for it, including the judge leaving their place to come ask if she could hold the damn baby.

    No fucking clue why I would have that dream, never had a baby of my own.

    But I’m sitting there in a dream court, and the proceedings are interrupted by a judge needing to play with a damn baby.

    What’s worse is that I was equally enthralled by the little mindflayer monkey.

    Which has nothing to do with the fact that if a toddler comes up to me and extends a little hand, opening and closing their fingers in a “come walk with me” gesture, I’m going to play hell not doing so, no matter how much common sense tells me that it’s a trap because toddlers don’t just appear out of nowhere to ask you to walk with them.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Does anyone else experience stomach activations?
    5 days

    Acetylcholine.

    There’s plenty of things that can trigger it being dumped into your system. It’s a neurotransmitter, and works throughout the body like most of them do.

    One of the things that triggers it is eating. You eat, it gets released. It gets released and fairly quickly hits the receptors that are open to it.

    One of those receptors in the gut then increases bowel/intestinal motility.

    Thus, you wake up, and your body starts pumping out fresh chemicals. You eat, and the chemicals related to that crank up. Then, poop happens.

    There’s a shit ton of things besides eating that can get the job done, but it’s extremely common for a post prandial poop to pop.

    Me? IBS has fucked my shit up for ages, and I can usually time when that first rumble will hit after I start eating. Fifteen to twenty minutes. It isn’t always urgent as that’s determined by a wide range of factors, butt it’ll definitely hit in that time range if there’s no stimulants involved (and I’m real sparing with caffeine). So you aren’t alone at all :)

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.ml•Canonical's New AI Tool Wants You to Talk to Ubuntu Instead of Type
    6 days

    Being real, this is why I fucking hate the bullshit, corporate greed hype of LLMs and generative software. All the “bubble” shit? It tars all versions of the technology with the same brush.

    This? This is exactly what it should be used for. And, ffs, earlier speech to text was really the same fucking thing in essence. Software that took input in the form of voice, compared it to a set of data, and made a best guess at what you meant. Yeah, the details are different, but it’s the same concept.

    This? This is fucking awesome. Locally run, and doing a job that’s vital in accessibility, with the side benefit of being useful to others. Assuming canonical is being honest anyway.

    But this kind of thing should be the way things are done.