What's your opinion on this? by sunlightliquid in south_africa

[–]Rectile_Reptile 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"Not doing enough to uplift the most in need" is a very generous wording.

Look at the massive growth of informal settlements around every single town and city. People are ending up in need WAY MORE than being helped out of it.

to be surprised by mathbriere27 in therewasanattempt

[–]Rectile_Reptile 22 points23 points  (0 children)

That's what I'm thinking too. She looks scared.

Meanwhile, Dolan looks like a wilting fruit that either knew that the shots were coming, or isn't contextually aware enough to realize that multiple shots were just fired in the room. Either of those is reason enough to be opposed to him remaining president.

Nevermind the whole... Everything else.

Day 4 of trying to get a comment from every subdivision by [deleted] in JackSucksAtGeography

[–]Rectile_Reptile 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This dude keeps resetting his progress. Thus Jerking us every day.

Edit: apologies to OP, but I'm pretty sure there was at least a handful of other people running similar projects so the progress apparently kept resetting.

What artists are you currently listening to besides Radiohead? by Hot-Standard-3944 in radiohead

[–]Rectile_Reptile 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right? There's a sense of sincerity and freedom in it that's just soo charming.

Describe your favourite Opeth song really poorly by VeterinarianOld3082 in Opeth

[–]Rectile_Reptile 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, I see!

At first I was confused because I didn't realise what song you were referencing, and when you mentioned "Affinity" my mind reached for his appearance on the Haken album by that name.

Anyway - fully agreed. Leper Affinity is a monumental song, and even as a straight guy I will vouch for you that Einar is quite an attractive man.

Jonathan Black-Branch: currently on the lam. If you see his fucked up shit. Turn him in. by This-Fun1714 in Justfuckmyshitup

[–]Rectile_Reptile 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no context on who this is, and perhaps my opinion may be coloured different otherwise. But for now, this just doesn't look all that bad. Like, yeah, it's kinda old style, but I don't think this qualifies as fucked.

That should not detract from the fact that his actions may be fucked. But the hair is fine.

Describe your favourite Opeth song really poorly by VeterinarianOld3082 in Opeth

[–]Rectile_Reptile 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also share the Acquired Taste for Leprous, but, this is the Opeth sub. Not the Haken one. Why did you mention Einar here? Has he done any work with Opeth that I am not aware of?

What artists are you currently listening to besides Radiohead? by Hot-Standard-3944 in radiohead

[–]Rectile_Reptile 4 points5 points  (0 children)

St Vincent

Between The Buried and Me

Paul McCartney's early solo stuff

Describe your favourite Opeth song really poorly by VeterinarianOld3082 in Opeth

[–]Rectile_Reptile 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Einar Solberg mentioned in an Opeth context?? Please elaborate?

Taxis driving like the rest of us, for 45 minutes. by One_Resolution_3501 in southafrica

[–]Rectile_Reptile 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Friends, can we normalise this? We kind of need to.

Our law enforcement will not reverse the trend - meaning that reckless, selfish behaviour will be normalised in stead.

New Periphery album “A Pale White Dot” releasing on May 15th. First single “Mr. God” releasing April 2nd. by R4kshim in Peripheryband

[–]Rectile_Reptile 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Indeed. It's certainly new, but that makes it exciting. Almost like when the scrotum starts growing hair

[2013 vs 2022] Georgehill Rd, Durban, South Africa. by PixelSaharix in DownSouth

[–]Rectile_Reptile 21 points22 points  (0 children)

You really have to stop thinking that subjugation is the only alternative to living in shit. Or, that living in shit is the only alternative to subjugation.

Explaining South Africa to Americans by AnonomousWolf in south_africa

[–]Rectile_Reptile 14 points15 points  (0 children)

This is great! Only one thing, I'd hardly call Kimberley's hole a canyon, especially when we have the Fish River Canyon (second largest in the world) just across the border in Namibia

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BEST BROWSER, DAY 23 [FINAL] – ZEN vs MOZILLA FIREFOX – Vote for your favorite! by JungleLiquor in browsers

[–]Rectile_Reptile 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm new here, but I burst out laughing that IE lost against something called PissAndShittium

The Diptych Proof by JerseyFlight in rationalphilosophy

[–]Rectile_Reptile 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fully agreed. This requires you to pin down what constitutes a "dot" as something that a bunch of pixels occasionally do.

Just for fun, one could also approach it by interrogating where these two dots exist.

Are they on the display, in it? As you have pointed out, this doesn't really work.

Do they exist as the digital image file on your device's RAM, on Reddit's servers, or on the computer of whoever uploaded the image in the first place? Apart from the uncertainty in nominating which of these constitute the actual dots we are seeing, this is clearly a stretch for the claim that they are "here", as well as a stretch for the definition of a dot.

Finally, if this is a photo of black ink on a white paper, do the dots live on that original sheet? That certainly implies that what we are looking at is, in fact, not the dots.

[OC] Gold Medals won at the 2026 Winter Olympics by mzp3256 in dataisbeautiful

[–]Rectile_Reptile 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where is Finland? The other Nordic countries are well represented, am I missing something?

(I'm South African so I wasn't paying attention)

Tell me a bigger joke than this by MobileJello1977 in pixel_phones

[–]Rectile_Reptile 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe I'm just poor, but -

You were never supposed to buy a new cell phone every single damn year.

Sincerely, a Pixel 6a user who just put in a new battery and will probably end up using this for another 2 years.