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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.ziptoScience Memes@mander.xyzoops
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    22 hours ago

    It’s that bullshit when they take a vertically oriented picture/video, stretch it and blur it to a 4:3 ratio, and center the content over it.

    Imo a waste of bandwidth and computer power for people who can’t cope with the idea of vertical content on a horizontal screen, on a platform primarily accessed by phones anyway.




  • Screenshot of a social media post with title “Always check your child’s homework”.

    Below the title is a picture of an elementary school worksheet…the type with an area to draw on top and a writing prompt with a few blank lines below. From top to bottom:

    A drawing, seemingly made by a child, maybe 6-8 years old. Drawing is of a woman wearing a crown with a glass bottle in one hand and a microphone in the other.

    Below that, the prompt: “To relax, my mom likes to”.

    Below that, the child’s response: “drink tequela and sing”

    Mistaken spelling of tequila was present on the page. Personally, I like to think that if this is real, the child asked their mom without context how to spell the word, and she drunkenly stammered out the letters you see here.





  • This. Speed limit laws are bullshit and their selective enforcement is proof of it.

    The dangerous drivers are the ones that are impeding the flow (i.e. going well below the speed limit when road/weather conditions don’t necessitate it; cruising in a passing lane, etc) or driving unpredictably/erratically (cutting people off, weaving, etc).

    Not necessarily the speeders, though there can certainly be some overlap, particularly in the latter group.

    But speeders are the ones that get ticketed over while those asshats just crash into schoolbusses.











  • Anybody ever get Winmodems to work or did they all give up on it?

    Back in the day, it was hard enough getting dialup internet working on Linux (especially before you had internet in your pocket, so you had to print out HowTos or write down a bunch of notes before you tried to do it).

    But it was downright impossible with a class of modems that was designed essentially as a softmodem, heavily reliant on closed-source firmware and drivers, making them practically impossible to work on Linux.