@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Zerosquare My first thought was more along the lines of "do I look like someone willing to work with SAP," but that, too.
Yeah, I'm not enough of a SAP to work with Accenture either
@Zerosquare “Slowworm isn't a snake” is basically a meme around here in Czechia. It's the first thing most people remember about them because it was mentioned in some elementary school textbook or somewhere like that, and they are relatively common here so most people have seen some.
Honorary Florida Man:
Colorado man tries to pay for Burger King with meth, proceeds to go on least-successful shooting spree of all time
Move over Bitcoin, there's a new alternative currency on the market: Methamphetamines.
@Gurth said in “iPad doesn’t recognise fingerprint anymore, and the code also doesn’t work!”:
France ... old
No, not necessarily. France is well known for good food and good wine.
That may have some effects.
@PleegWat said in Fun with maps:
@loopback0 And then they'd been in Edinburgh/Geneva (Cross out what is not appropriate). Why would they do that to themselves?
To lay down at your door, of course.
@LaoC said in Nope:
@remi said in Nope:
@DogsB when something is literally orders of magnitude (10x or 100x) more expensive than another variety of something, you can be almost certain that it is not that amount of times better.
At that stage, the price difference is purely a marker of "I can afford it" rather than quality.
The best status symbols have negative use value, like gold leaf on your dessert that tastes either like nothing or like tinfoil, a Lamborghini on a Lao city street, or a diamond ring that never leaves the safe.
We had a pizza place in Sweden in an area where the affluent bought summer homes that served gold leaf pizzas, among other things. Their entire business idea was to get the kids of the super rich to come there to eat pizza for bragging rights, on daddy's dime. And they were entirely open and honest about this being the business idea. I don't know if they still exist, but they hung around for a few years at least.
All the ingredients were the most expensive version of what you'd put on normal pizza. For no difference in quality. I think a single pizza was something like €11k
@HardwareGeek you definitely heard of their spin-off project even if you didn’t hear of any of their actual games.
Basically, their games didn’t exactly sell massively well (probably because they weren’t particularly good) but they had the bright idea to found a little project to raise awareness of their games by hitching them to other games, and in the process founded Humble Indie Bundle, later Humble Bundle, later the Humble Store.
@DogsB said in AI Generated Music:
Are you going to risk £60 a go on an up and coming band
Might have to eat crow on that. Just got a Kris Barras ticket for £31.
@Zenith said in Recommend a website hosting service.:
my blood pressure tripling when I read "Kindly hello I am being Rajesh and you are being helping today what is your IP and SSN"
I wobbled my head reading this.
@BernieTheBernie said in Craters on the Moon:
The next crater is about to be created by Astrobotic. The Peregrine lander will surely not make a smooth landing (if it reaches the moon at all, that is):
Jan 9 / Science
Peregrine 1 has ‘no chance’ of landing on moon due to fuel leak
Astrobotic company says goal is now to get US spacecraft as far as possible before it loses power
We're all going to rue the day when the Moon People develop their own IPBBMs and retaliate against us.
Found a Colin fan (tho they never mention him)
Jan 2
Virginia officials inspect TikTok tunnel girl's viral project
A Virginia woman is gaining notoriety online after documenting a home project of digging a tunnel underneath her suburban home.
Video footage reveals the adorable culprit responsible for stealing over $125,000 in Koi from an English spa 🦦
Over the past few months, the Grosvenor Pulford Hotel near Chester, England, has been mysteriously losing Koi from its Asian Sensory Garden.
@pcooper said in Getting kids jokes past the adult censors:
But someone actually typing the URL on the packaging to test it?
I believe it was a QR code.
@hungrier fair enough. Though it's so insanely fast that I'm not sure they have time to look at anything. Then again, blind-folded records are significantly slower, so... I guess they do?
@TheCPUWizard said in The American Dream:
Ancient, but still funny (though some elements could use a refresh for those under 50)
Someone under 50 to whom something similar happened would have to write it.
It was discussed in the WTDWTF Discord like a week ago, and the whole collective nouns for animals angle gives some interesting opportunities.
Lion and Prejudice
The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Pig
The Rat Dog
Risky Weasel
Dolphin Person
Brother Rabbit
@ixvedeusi said in Unicode keep their eyes open :
@Kamil-Podlesak said in Unicode keep their eyes open ꙮ:
I would say that that eyes are ears are more common, or at least more pronunciated.
The serꙮph also stares back, you know …
@Applied-Mediocrity said in If "real" water isn't for you, try some hydrogen water:
@Placeholder said in If "real" water isn't for you, try some hydrogen water:
I hope they choose a particularly beneficial bond angle for all that extra hydrogen they added to the water...
Hydrogen water. Shaken, not stirred.
Don't overshake! Heaven only knows what potency might be inadvertently achieved! One must be quite careful with homeopathic treatments.
