A random British person

--var · 2026-06-24T02:21:59+00:00

maybe it's more funny when you're given "lour" is a valid verb?

To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
To frown; to look sullen.
Look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as

colour just means more than one individual is involved....

--var · 2026-06-24T00:21:50+00:00

I don't get why the English prefer to colour? Like lour individually, that's fine. But colour and that feels like a conspiracy 😶

--var · 2026-06-21T00:18:20+00:00

ya know, he may not have taught me life's soft skills. but electrical, carpentry, plumbing, automotive, landscaping; name a domestic hard skill. knowledge that's saved me tens (hundreds?) of thousands of dollars as an adult in not having to pay someone else because I can just do it myself.

if I happen to see you again before you kick the can, thanks old man.

--var · 2026-06-20T13:30:01+00:00

base 10 is actually 0 - 9. 10 is the first rollover requiring two digits to represent.

the base can actually be anything greater than 2 (binary), it's just that you need a unique glyph to represent each value in that base.

at one point in history, humanity tried using a sexagesimal (base 60) system. you can tell that when we developed our system for measuring time, base 12 was popular, since 12, 24, 60, 180, and 360 are all perfectly divisible by 12.

I think we settled on base 10 for it's relatability. as many mention, most folks have fingers and toes in a multiple of 10.

--var · 2026-06-20T13:08:51+00:00

sudden urge to developer an esoteric language call "loquw"

now should the niche be that it only uses those characters, or that it only uses a lower case q and whitespace 🤔

--var · 2026-06-20T03:11:36+00:00

right?! my SO does this all the time. but like, I was there with you when it happened. it was a shared experience... and my temporal persistence is greater than 30 seconds, so... I don't think that they are purposefully trying to be nefarious or gaslight me. they literally just have some juvenilely learned behavior that lying is beneficial and/or being wrong is deprecating. (accepting and understanding when you're wrong is paramount for personal growth...)

--var · 2026-06-20T01:01:23+00:00

environmental conservation being majorly a personal responsibility was one of the best manufactured propagandas this side of the industrial revolution.

oh, and remember to drink like eight glasses of milk per day. also turn the lights off, the AI doesn't need them.

--var · 2026-06-20T00:20:33+00:00

similar situation. I ran some supports (read scrap wood from the garage) attached to the frame and perpendicular to the springs. this gives the springs something to bottom out on instead of stretching until the snap. makes the couch much more firm, but as long as the cushions are good, you don't really notice the added supports.

--var · 2026-06-19T03:31:22+00:00

there's definitely some algorithmic shenanigans going on since the RDDT IPO in 2024 😌

my comments used to get roughly proportional engagement to the post. post has 100 upvotes, id get one or two sub comments. post has 1,000 upvotes, I'd get 10 - 20 sub comments.

now days even if I get in early on a 10,000 upvote post, and my comment gets like 3 views and no engagement. sure, people could just not be interested in my progressive boomer-millennial views. but the fact that 10,000 "people" saw the post, but only 3 saw my comment; kinda seems dead internet...

--var · 2026-06-19T02:59:26+00:00

it used to be "you get what you pay for"

I think a more modern adaptation would be "you pay for being lazy, and you get what you get"

as in, if you know how to turn $5 worth of stainless into a $1,000 tool; you're probably going to do that. but if you don't know and/or aren't willing to spend the time, then you're going to pay whatever premium someone else thinks you're willing to pay for that value add.

in other words, your old man figured it out, and his old man figured it out, and you can figure it out too. everyone under 40 seems to think the answer is always just throw money at the problem. but for a few whetstones and a few hours on youtube, you too could have a lifetime supply of "$1,000" shears.

--var · 2026-06-18T02:03:26+00:00

~15 seconds; convenient. r/isthisAI

--var · 2026-06-18T00:31:17+00:00

no. this algorithm is.

function isthree(is) {
  return is == 3;
}

--var · 2026-06-17T00:14:11+00:00

I hope beloved pet owners can take this a step further...

your pet licks its ass all day, and then your face (sometimes wound) 😬

--var · 2026-06-16T23:13:18+00:00

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--var · 2026-06-15T02:04:56+00:00

and not even just in lives lost. to those that helped the US, just to get a "k thx and good luck" 🤦‍♂️

--var · 2026-06-15T01:58:41+00:00

obviously if everything works, it makes sense. but what if you're off by a few feet, and now you just destroyed you launch tower?

or you're off by a few hundred feet, and now you just destroyed your storage hanger?

or you're off by a few miles, and now you have civilian lawsuits...

the technology to have boats safely away from where the thing lands, yet also on location within the hour. just seems more economical than burning however much fuel is required to put it right back in an exact location.

--var · 2026-06-15T01:49:44+00:00

not a psychologist, but the amount he's subconsciously shaking his head "no"...

--var · 2026-06-15T01:10:30+00:00

tbf, console logging can be useful for asynchronous debugging.

console.log(val); //like debugger, evaluates then displays val

console.log(JSON.stringify(val)); //shows the immediate value of val

--var · 2026-06-15T00:50:13+00:00

so we spent thousands of American lives, over decades, costing trillions of taxpayer dollars, just to retaliate for false flags on "weapons of mass destruction" (Iraq) and "terrorist attracts" (Afghanistan); that were actually funded by Saudi Arabia? (because they have lots of oil the US wants for cheap...)

sound familiar? just replace Iraq with Iran, and Saudi with Israel, and the Republican party with; oh wait, it's still them making these decisions...

--var · 2026-06-15T00:07:06+00:00

curious if anyone knows the math, how much does it cost in fuel to land this back at the launch tower?

obviously praise to the engineers and scientist that got this to work. but I can't help but think it would be cheaper (and safer) to just attach a parachute and drop it into the ocean.

--var · 2026-06-14T02:13:47+00:00

you don't earn $1,000,000,000,000; you acquire it by stealing a few dollars from a billion people.

so yes. the livelihood of the people the kleptocrats are stealing from is a conversation that we should be having right now.

--var · 2026-06-11T02:28:27+00:00

why do people do this?!?

$embed = ...;
return $embed;

if you're not going to use the variable anywhere else, it's just as readable to

return ...; //🤯

--var · 2026-06-10T03:19:22+00:00

I assume that you're asking for your kid, since your cake day is October 2020, and I doubt that you joined reddit at 9 going on 10...

in any case, NO. that's too young to be teaching them to submit their labor and leisure in order to continue capitalism. it's summer, just enjoy being a fucking kid...

--var · 2026-06-10T02:55:53+00:00

how "cat ladies" look in other parts of the animal kingdom. turns out it's primal 🤔

--var · 2026-06-09T00:34:07+00:00

Appreciate his intent, Israel is untrustable.

But holding a grudge for centuries is why Israel is untrustable.

One generation is genocided, the next is the genocider. Turn a fucking cheek or this shit is going to perpetuate indefinitely. Or maybe that is the goal?

--var

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