[-] drosophila 1 points 10 hours ago

Just a slang term for discomfort and anxiety.

[-] drosophila 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Oh wait, I think its Matilda. I guess i got my Roald Dahl chocolate scenes mixed up.

That movie also gave me the heebie-jeebies growing up.

[-] drosophila 3 points 20 hours ago

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory I believe.

[-] drosophila 55 points 1 day ago

Genuinely, switching to Linux full time was amazing for my mental health. I didn't have a feeling of dread every time there was a new update, wondering what settings would get reset or what new ways they'd try to fuck with me. I no longer felt like I was sharing a house with an abusive person who was going to try to hurt me the second I let my guard down. In the weeks and months that followed tension that I didn't even know was there melted away.

Of course that was years ago, and Windows is even worse now.

[-] drosophila 9 points 3 days ago

“Processed” is anything that goes into a machine. You want your beef ground up? It’s now processed. What’s added in the processing is what you need to isolate and be weary of.

I don't disagree necessarily, but food that's been ground up into a paste is essentially pre-chewed. It definitely makes it easier to gulp down more before your brain catches up to your stomach and you start feeling full. This goes for apple sauce as much as it does chicken nuggets.

[-] drosophila 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

This is such an incredible self-own.

Either:

  • C++ is such a horrific language and Rust is so vastly superior that a person with 6 months of experience in Rust can be as productive and valuable as someone with 30 years of experience in C++.

  • The person writing the post, and according to them C++ programmers in general, bring virtually nothing to the table other than knowing the syntax and semantics of C++, even after 30 years of programming.

[-] drosophila 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

A group of fit humans who know what they're doing can kill any animal on earth with sharp sticks.

This includes things like whales and woolly mammoths, which we hunted to near extinction or complete extinction using pointy sticks. Keep in mind that these animals were not only thousands of times stronger than a human, but the environments in which they lived were also completely alien to the one we evolved in. The ocean and the taiga can kill an unprepared human in just a few minutes simply by them existing in it, while the native animals are perfectly adapted to live there.

And despite all that we went onto their home turf and killed them all with pointy sticks.

[-] drosophila 1 points 6 days ago

How can the same SSN be issued twice?!?

The SSN system is bad in almost every way it is possible for an ID system to be bad. If you ask "does it really do this dumb thing?", the answer is probably yes.

[-] drosophila 69 points 3 months ago

This is more psychotic than any of the dialogue in American Psycho.

[-] drosophila 107 points 6 months ago

It needs a port that you can attach your bag of caffeinated noodles to.

[-] drosophila 76 points 8 months ago

I don't think I would have brought a new person into the world during any of the other time periods you mention either.

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