Slumbous Respect Zone

a candle for you

[baeddoll]

you betrayed everyhting you stand for and all you got in return was a kickass sword and ability to start fires with your mind and d cups. pretty good deal !

[makingtrouble]

It's my cat's birthday (anniversary of me getting him) so I told him the story of his life while petting him real good

Highlights include:

For your first two years (when you were small) you lived in a foster home with people who raised you into a very polite young man. Two is like you plus me, that's what two is.

Some people adopted you before me and they called you Timmy (which is a stupid name) and they returned your ass almost immediately because you were so annoying at that age.

Like think about how annoying you are right now at seven years old, but way worse.

I'm better than them though, I don't call you Timmy and I wore earplugs to bed for three years because you love to scream at bedtime. Earplugs are like when I roll over and go back to sleep even when you are yelling so so so loud.

I got you at a time in my life when I was really sick (being sick is like when I'm up late because I'm throwing up and you are a very handsome good boy who sits with me) and they had to put me asleep for a procedure. A procedure is like what happened to you when they put you asleep and took your balls away.

Now you've lived with me for five years. Five is like the number of toe beans on one of your feet. When I clip your nails five is when we're halfway done. But we're hopefully not even halfway done with how long we get to be together. I'm gonna have to figure out new ways to help you count.

[makingtrouble]

Actually I've decided this is a poem

[makingtrouble]

This is getting notes so let me just say

Himb 💞💝💘💖💞💝

[contemptible-scoundrel]

sexpervert dark sorceress is attempting to sexually manipulate me but I keep pointing out the rhetorical fallacies in her innuendo-laden attempts to convert me into a sex-crazed minion and shes gotten so angry she cant even get a hardon from hitting me anymore

[hadesisqueer]

Two World Cup finalists from opposing teams in this fucking picture, this sport isn't real

[hadesisqueer]

Context for anyone who is wondering: Lamine Yamal's parents won an UNICEF raffle for a charity photoshoot in which Barça players posed with kids, and 5 month old Lamine happened to get 20yo Messi. Which is like. Literally insane

[joyflameball]

[bagofbirds]

when you have a cat you can experience sensations! some of them are soft. some of them are painful. many of them are wet

[worsecats]

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

the fact that dune opens with a witch appearing in paul’s bedroom in the middle of the night to go “nyeh heh heh… nighty night late bloomer, you need to sleep well before your scary test tomorrow” and he’s just like. huh. okay. I trust that all will be explained to me later.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

she’s so impressed by paul guessing that the bene gesserit meddle in politics lmfao. girl what else would the mysterious order strategically placed within every echelon of the landsraad be doing other than politics. also. what other possible conclusion could he come to as to why his mom knows secret mind control techniques.

the degree to which bene gesserit powers and agendas are actually secret is so ambiguous lol. the harkonnens know about the voice via yueh but after neutralizing jessica it never comes up again. you’d think that information would be more valuable even than control of arrakis but then a couple years later they just invite bene gesserit to feyd’s birthday party and he’s not even warned against fucking her. all these people are stupid as hell every last one of them. I love this stupid book.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

chapter 1 does such a tidy and seamless job of juggling exposition through dialogue and narration. chapter 2 opens like “greetings fellow bad guys, we are gathered here today to exposit unnaturally to each other” it’s so fucking funny it’s so awkward and heavy-handed. even granting that the framing device is “explaining things to a sullen teenager” it’s like they’ve never had a conversation before. it’s giving improv troupe breaking the forth wall. they are all cheating out to the audience.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I forgot that the personal shields emit ozone during combat. I feel like that’s such a missed opportunity for a fight scene in which one person avoids being stabbed but dies of asphyxiation anyway.

I also forgot the Gurney: “I eavesdropped on you singing dirty songs” -> Paul: “yeah well I put sand in your bed” exchange. Cute. But tbh I would expect a higher caliber of pranks of a 15 year old with mentat training.

[parakeet]

little known fact about me i was actually isekai'd into this world from the video game world. i used to be a peggle orb

[somethinginthebasement]

peggle 1 or peggle 2?

[parakeet]

peggle 1... peggle 2... who's to say... it was just 'life' back there... to me... to my fellow orbs.......

[penandinkprincess]

truly an honor and a privilege getting to witness everyone's first time in public ever every single time i go grocery shopping

[nudityandnerdery]

Just off the top of your head, don't need to try and look it up to check out anything:

Can you name a web search engine that you used before Google?

Yes

No

Don't know/just want to see the results

Voting ended onJul 26

The book I'm reading suggests that Google became so market dominant that most people couldn't name a search engine that came before it, so I'm curious.

[alex51324]

HotBot.

[akinmytua2]

Askjeeves

[whatbigotspost]

I primarily used AltaVista and Yahoo before my 10th grade English teacher told me about Google in 2000. I have such a vivid memory of being like, "oh shit this IS a great tool..." which is hilarious to recall 26 years later.

[skopostheorie]

[ratbagfemme]

[batteriesandflashlights]

[baraphalloplastyclinic-deactiva]

[tastylemonbread]

[egregore-engine]

inheriting the Evangelion mechanic of "the mechs are as big as the scene needs them to be for them to be Epic"

[egregore-engine]

to be clear the mechs are evil.

[bafahy]

[windowz97]

you have to remember jow special it is that when a black cat loves the sunbeams so much , its fur will get more colours because ghe sun loves it back . you cant let yourself forget

[thoughtportal]

the things that are reported matters. the language used matters. what is left out of the story matters.

[gamebird]

This is very important. Systemic problems trump individual action all the time.

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

When Europeans call Americans lazy for driving everywhere. I need them to see this and understand something.

[geyfrog]

Referring to someone as your “partner” sounds as if you are deliberately obscuring their gender and may subtly out you. “My ex”, however, is entirely unobtrusively gender-neutral. #breakupallrelationships

[yourreddancer]

The European Union already forced Apple to abandon its proprietary charging port and adopt USB-C across its entire iPhone lineup. It just did something bigger. A new EU mandate requires every smartphone sold in Europe including Apple devices to feature a battery that can be replaced by the user without specialist tools, without voiding a warranty, and without sending the device to a manufacturer approved service center. Batteries must maintain a minimum capacity threshold after a set number of charge cycles and replacement parts must remain available for up to ten years after a model goes on sale.

The consumer electronics industry built its current business model around batteries that degrade, cannot be replaced at home, and create a natural upgrade cycle every two to three years. The EU just legislated that model out of existence in the world's largest regulatory market.

Apple, Samsung, and every other manufacturer now faces a choice between redesigning their devices for the European market or accepting that their current hardware architecture is no longer legally sellable there.

Given that no company walks away from European consumers voluntarily the phones are going to change and once they change for Europe the rest of the world will ask why theirs still do not.

[benelopes]

constantine, 2005