drekwithoutpolitics
drekwithoutpolitics t1_je5jdis wrote
Reply to comment by blackbeardslim in Me and two friends playing NES, 1989 by blackbeardslim
Are you the one all the way on the left? I was trying to compare with the other picture on your profile but the angle’s different.
This is the cutest picture, buddy in the middle is so expressive!
drekwithoutpolitics t1_j68n07g wrote
Reply to comment by Ailyssa in TIL about foreign accent syndrome. This is a very rare (~100 cases worldwide) but real medical condition where people abruptly begin speaking in a foreign accent following head trauma like a bad migraine, accident, or stroke. by veety
He’s doing the best he can, mate! Lol
drekwithoutpolitics t1_j68jj32 wrote
Reply to comment by Ailyssa in TIL about foreign accent syndrome. This is a very rare (~100 cases worldwide) but real medical condition where people abruptly begin speaking in a foreign accent following head trauma like a bad migraine, accident, or stroke. by veety
It might be subconscious. People frequently mirror body language and speech patterns of people they like (or maybe want to be liked by).
drekwithoutpolitics t1_j5wpye5 wrote
Reply to comment by joynerstyle in Me helping the family move in 1995. by JAlbert653
The movie this mask is from wasn’t even released until 1994.
The date’s just wrong on the camera. It happened a lot with these cameras. OP mentions it elsewhere
drekwithoutpolitics t1_ixhywqt wrote
Reply to comment by koopz_ay in Driving Simulator tool on Google Maps that lets you virtually drive through routes from anywhere by t-bands
SimCity 2000 had an expansion called Streets of SimCity. SimCopter was before it, which I had. It was so fun!
The graphics were quite bad I thought, even in 1996. But I still had a blast.
drekwithoutpolitics t1_ix3nd2t wrote
Reply to comment by DMala in TIL after a seizure left him paralyzed except for his left eyelid, Jean-Dominique Bauby (1952-1997) wrote the bestselling book "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" by blinking to select each letter as an assistant recited the alphabet to him. by chumloadio
I could see Morse being harder to get started and way easier to get discouraged if I’m already quite disabled and wanting to write a novel.
Someone mentioned they had an alphabet ordered by letter frequency, so I could see the two of them optimizing quickly.
Like, at the beginning of a sentence,
“S” blink
Ok… it’s not another S. “A…” no blink “E,” etc. as a simple example.
drekwithoutpolitics t1_ivfob3y wrote
Reply to comment by DasherPack in TIL about "The Pearl": An underground pornographic magazine issued monthly between 1879 and 1880. Its contents were three serial erotic tales simultaneously, devoted to sex in high society, incest, and flagellation. It was shut down by the British authorities for violating standards of obscenity. by DasherPack
Aha! Thank you, that makes sense.
I’m a little surprised it only lasted one year. I guess I assumed they could keep it under wraps longer
drekwithoutpolitics t1_ivfesyd wrote
Reply to TIL about "The Pearl": An underground pornographic magazine issued monthly between 1879 and 1880. Its contents were three serial erotic tales simultaneously, devoted to sex in high society, incest, and flagellation. It was shut down by the British authorities for violating standards of obscenity. by DasherPack
Can someone tell me what the fuck “simultaneously” means in the title?
They were simultaneously devoted to sex, incest, and flagellation?
The issues were simultaneously published?
“Three erotic tales simultaneously,”
r/Titlegore
drekwithoutpolitics t1_iv20qwa wrote
Reply to comment by Herpderpxee in Painting a small mural by nilsrva
What do you mean? They know six muralists in Lexington, Kentucky. They know what they’re talking about. Idiot.
Seriously though, yeah it seems so.
drekwithoutpolitics t1_iuka4am wrote
Reply to comment by Jahobes in TIL - Contrary of what everybody thinks, if you park your car at a dark spot at night, the chances of theft are smaller, because thieves don't like to use lights. by JosZo
Reminds me of a kid whose car got broken into in college. Thief left the change but stole his pen. Lol
drekwithoutpolitics t1_iug2qs3 wrote
Reply to TIL about the "Raines sandwich;" an inedible piece of "food" that served as a way to bypass prohibition laws. by Alabussy
Gosh does anyone know if something like this happened during covid restrictions? Maybe in NYC?
/s
drekwithoutpolitics t1_iuejvl2 wrote
Reply to comment by RichardBCummintonite in My Mother with random guy some time in the 70s by Independent-Yak2187
A dope parrot on her knee!
Which I feel makes it even cooler. OP is really burying the lede with this title!
drekwithoutpolitics t1_iu096f0 wrote
Reply to comment by hodorhodor12 in Facebook owner Meta sales continue to fall by umberto_pagano
I still don’t think that’s talent, but I appreciate the weird “knocking down others to make yourself feel better.” That’s me, knocking down Mark Zuckerberg to make myself feel better!
What a weird way to spend your time, defending Mark Zuckerberg’s supposed “talent.” Are you sure we have the same definition of “talent?”
Talent: a natural aptitude or skill. That asshole absolutely did not have any natural aptitude for taking companies public, he barely had a natural aptitude for programming. He had tutors from a young age. He stole an idea and got others to help him run with it.
As if a whole company didn’t do the things you’re listing. Give me a break.
But keep going! Apparently there are Zuckerberg apologists and I’m here for them.
drekwithoutpolitics t1_itzqnw1 wrote
Reply to comment by grandpasghost in Saudia Arabia Is Going to Get a Hotel with A Ski Resort on Its Roof by theablazefeces
Oh huh, I hadn’t been interested in Tropico until now
drekwithoutpolitics t1_itzjx5m wrote
Reply to comment by Less-Astronaut-8904 in Facebook owner Meta sales continue to fall by umberto_pagano
But that’s still a very bad sign to me, given that most people seem to know their VR research isn’t likely to pay off for a long time, if at all. Net income down 35%? Holy shit, even if 15% of that was for the (vanity) VR investment, that’s insane to me!
The VR investment reminds me a little bit of Microsoft buying Skype for $8.5 billion in 2011. It was Microsoft’s biggest purchase ever at the time, and you could argue it absolutely didn’t pay off investment-wise for MS. The tech isn’t worth $8.5 billion.
The difference is that Microsoft had other things going for it. Meta has WhatsApp and Instagram, but it’s not clear to me how they’ll recoup their losses on this VR stuff without shutting it down in a few years in another embarrassment.
drekwithoutpolitics t1_itzhzdo wrote
Reply to comment by hodorhodor12 in Facebook owner Meta sales continue to fall by umberto_pagano
I don’t think it takes talent. It takes connections, wealth, and a staff of people. But talent doesn’t have a ton to do with it. It’s not like he took the company public, the company had thousands of employees at that time.
Being a sociopath might help, but that’s not a talent either.
Also, “almost nothing” is kind of misrepresenting how privileged he was as a kid.
Talent. Ok. 🙄
drekwithoutpolitics t1_je5ko7y wrote
Reply to comment by sincethenes in Me and two friends playing NES, 1989 by blackbeardslim
I want to say that consoles with discs were where I started thinking that I shouldn’t put them on the floor… but I still might have until the PS2, I can’t remember exactly.
For me it was a combination of: me getting older (and having something to put a console in/on), consoles existing that took up less space (the PS2 could be vertical, for example), optical drives potentially being more sensitive to dust, and the consoles having more fans.
There’s more factors to it than I expected when I started writing this, haha. That generation of NES was like a tank for me too, the only thing that ever had problems were the contacts to connect to the cartridge. Everything else worked like a charm until I finally had to get rid of the thing.