Internet of shit
-
@mott555 said in Internet of shit:
If it's a lithium battery, you'll have an emergency firestarter in winter, as well as emergency antidepressant medicine.
Both sounds perfect for
But I'll pass anyway
-
@Cursorkeys said in Internet of shit:
When I'm God Emperor I'm going to come up with some kind of solution for those kind of people.
@Cursorkeys for god emperor!
-
@cvi Ah, but @GodEmperor is already taken…
-
@dkf said in Internet of shit:
@cvi Ah, but @GodEmperor is already taken…
Ah, then he'll have to identify as a female, and use @GodEmpress
-
@dkf said in Internet of shit:
@cvi Ah, but @GodEmperor is already taken…
I see two possible solutions:
- A small friendly coup
- Use @GodErnperor and mandate use of a font with worse keming.
-
Cross-posting because this is the most topical thread:
EDIT: Bonus replies:
-
@Carnage said in Internet of shit:
@dkf said in Internet of shit:
@cvi Ah, but @GodEmperor is already taken…
Ah, then he'll have to identify as a female, and use @GodEmpress
The full title should be God, Emperor and Tyrant anyway.
-
This week I was at IFA Berlin to bring you some WTFs. There were some actually interesting things, but most of it was the usual, boring, bigger faster harder stuff. Displays are 120“ 8K screens or 88“ 8K OLEDs, phones are faster with more cameras, gaming stuff with more RGB, a Nolan-style Batmobile, and all that jazz.
Besides that, everything was “smart” or with “AI”. Forget Shakespeare’s lawyers, the first ones against the wall when the revolution comes will have to be marketing people. From things that weren’t actually smart at all (a “smart” bike helmet was just a helmet with LEDs, nice idea stupid name), to lots of stupid “smart” features. The Asian guy who demonstrated to me their fingerprint padlocks was so proud of it I didn’t manage to tell him we have a whole thread about how stupid that is. What I almost liked were the “smart gardening” things, but since I have little clue about gardening, that must have been an instance of Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
Similarly, they had “translator earbuds”. A real life Babelfish would sure be nice, but we can all guess how well that thing works.This “health” item to reduce winter blues with “light therapy” seemed particularly ridiculous since most phones and laptops now have features to reduce blue light in night mode.
This was too good to pass on, the world’s first literal Internet of Shit device.
And not a WTF but just for completeness, here we got some real purple dildos for women and men, bendable!
-
@topspin said in Internet of shit:
bendable
Do they hold their shape? I can't imagine "bends" as the crowning feature...
-
@topspin said in Internet of shit:
This “health” item to reduce winter blues with “light therapy” seemed particularly ridiculous since most phones and laptops now have features to reduce blue light in night mode.
I don't think it's quite the same thing. The feature you mention is supposed to prevent screen light from upsetting your sleep pattern. Light therapy is supposed to combat the winter blues caused by lack of sunlight.
-
@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
@topspin said in Internet of shit:
bendable
Do they hold their shape? I can't imagine "bends" as the crowning feature...
Yes. They had several joints (about one each inch) inside so they kept the shape you put them in.
-
-
@Gurth
Honey, I got a surprise for you. shows new sex toy
Faints from shock of actually getting some from his wife
Honey? Honey? Are you ok?
-
@izzion said in Internet of shit:
Honey? Honey? Are you ok?
Are you OK honey?
You've been vibrated by, a smart criminal (with an SSH exploit).
-
@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
@topspin said in Internet of shit:
This “health” item to reduce winter blues with “light therapy” seemed particularly ridiculous since most phones and laptops now have features to reduce blue light in night mode.
I don't think it's quite the same thing. The feature you mention is supposed to prevent screen light from upsetting your sleep pattern. Light therapy is supposed to combat the winter blues caused by lack of sunlight.
Indeed. I didn't really have winter blues, but we got the 10 000 lux light they mention some time ago to help us wake up in winter (along with a “sunrise” alarm clock) and it does work (in a sense that is also upsetting your sleep pattern, but with the purpose of keeping it aligned with your work schedule rather than that pesky daylight).
-
@topspin said in Internet of shit:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
@topspin said in Internet of shit:
bendable
Do they hold their shape? I can't imagine "bends" as the crowning feature...
Yes. They had several joints (about one each inch) inside so they kept the shape you put them in.
Hm, using joints to keep in shape for sex …
Also, do I have to add one more thing to the list of thing Europeans use imperial units for, or does this come under "plumbing"?
-
@LaoC said in Internet of shit:
Also, do I have to add one more thing to the list of thing Europeans use imperial units for
Huh? I don't use "inch" other than for screen sizes and for the sake of conversing with Americans. This was the latter.
-
@topspin said in Internet of shit:
@LaoC said in Internet of shit:
Also, do I have to add one more thing to the list of thing Europeans use imperial units for
Huh? I don't use "inch" other than for screen sizes and for the sake of conversing with Americans. This was the latter.
Oh, OK. Though if you want USians to see the light, it's fine to shine it into their eyes once in a while :)
I thought plumbing in Germany was still sold as ½″, ¾″ etc.
-
@topspin said in Internet of shit:
I don't use "inch" other than for screen sizes
I refuse to go along with that. It’s not that I need a device with a screen, but I would damn well refer to it by its diagonal in centimetres to the shop assistant. I mean, “9.8 inch” tablets? That looks suspiciously much like it’s got a 25 cm screen but mark(et)ed in inches due to Americans.
Fun fact: it’s illegal to sell things in other measurements than metric in the Netherlands. However, virtually no electronic device with a screen will have its size indicated in metric measurements in shops, adverts, and similar. If you’re lucky, a TV will have it in smaller numbers next to that in inches, but tablets, laptops, etc.? Not that I recall seeing.
-
@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
Fun fact: it’s illegal to sell things in other measurements than metric in the Netherlands. However, virtually no electronic device with a screen will have its size indicated in metric measurements in shops, adverts, and similar. If you’re lucky, a TV will have it in smaller numbers next to that in inches, but tablets, laptops, etc.? Not that I recall seeing.
In France, it's sort of similar, except that I think the centimetre measurements are more visible in shops, although people seem to refere to inches ("pouces") when talking about them.
And of course the British standard measure of beer these days is 568 ml, although for some reason, this quantity is called a "pint".
But I wouldn't know about that, because I'm French(1).
(1) And I have a document from the Ministry of the Interior to prove it.
-
@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
@topspin said in Internet of shit:
I don't use "inch" other than for screen sizes
I refuse to go along with that. It’s not that I need a device with a screen, but I would damn well refer to it by its diagonal in centimetres to the shop assistant. I mean, “9.8 inch” tablets? That looks suspiciously much like it’s got a 25 cm screen but mark(et)ed in inches due to Americans.
Fun fact: it’s illegal to sell things in other measurements than metric in the Netherlands. However, virtually no electronic device with a screen will have its size indicated in metric measurements in shops, adverts, and similar. If you’re lucky, a TV will have it in smaller numbers next to that in inches, but tablets, laptops, etc.? Not that I recall seeing.
TVs back in the CRT era always went in centimeters, I don't recall even seeing inches. I don't know what the current state on taht is though.
-
@PleegWat said in Internet of shit:
TVs back in the CRT era always went in centimeters, I don't recall even seeing inches.
Here (France), TV screen sizes were usually expressed in centimeters, while computer monitor screen sizes were usually expressed in inches. Go figure.
@PleegWat said in Internet of shit:
I don't know what the current state on taht is though.
Same. Monitor sizes still use inches, but I've got no idea about TVs.
-
@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
@PleegWat said in Internet of shit:
TVs back in the CRT era always went in centimeters, I don't recall even seeing inches.
Here (France), TV screen sizes were usually expressed in centimeters, while computer monitor screen sizes were usually expressed in inches. Go figure.
That's how I remember it, too. When they made it illegal to use weird units to sell your shit, some called them "n-inch CLASS monitor (m cm)".
-
@LaoC said in Internet of shit:
n-inch CLASS monitor
That terminology is used for TVs (and maybe monitors) in the US, too. Mostly, I think, because it allows them to sell n-0.999 inch screens as "n-inch class" screens.
-
@LaoC said in Internet of shit:
@topspin said in Internet of shit:
@LaoC said in Internet of shit:
Also, do I have to add one more thing to the list of thing Europeans use imperial units for
Huh? I don't use "inch" other than for screen sizes and for the sake of conversing with Americans. This was the latter.
Oh, OK. Though if you want USians to see the light, it's fine to shine it into their eyes once in a while :)
I thought plumbing in Germany was still sold as ½″, ¾″ etc.It is. It's rather annoying but not really something you can change because of existing plumbing.
-
@PleegWat said in Internet of shit:
TVs back in the CRT era always went in centimeters, I don't recall even seeing inches.
Same, I was going to mention that but decided not to.
I don't know what the current state on taht is though.
They’re in inches. The inches are even in the TV numbering system of most manufacturers, despite nearly all TVs being made by manufacturers in metric countries.
-
@levicki wake me up when anyone from a country that uses metric walks on the moon.
-
@pie_flavor look what happened that one time NASA used imperial units instead of metric:
-
@pie_flavor said in Internet of shit:
@levicki wake me up when anyone from a country that uses metric walks on the moon.
Be sure to notify me once you've found a justification that isn't based solely upon cherry picking, the Texas sharpshooter fallacy or any other manifestation of confirmation bias :)
-
@pie_flavor said in Internet of shit:
@levicki wake me up when anyone from a country that uses metric walks on the moon.
Wake me up when anybody is put on the moon by organization that uses imperial units. Most of that country may not, but NASA uses metric.
-
Wake me up when someone walks on the moon at all. Wake up, sheeple!
-
@blek @error_bot !xkcd sheeple
-
-
@pie_flavor said in Internet of shit:
wake me up when anyone from a country that uses metric walks on the moon.
Fun fact: the first legs to land on the moon wasn't American, but Canadian.
The landing legs of the lunar module was built in Longueuil on the south shore of Montreal by Héroux-Devtek.
-
@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
@pie_flavor said in Internet of shit:
wake me up when anyone from a country that uses metric walks on the moon.
Fun fact: the first legs to land on the moon wasn't American, but Canadian.
@discobot define American
-
@gąska American : (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the United States or its inhabitants
Full definition:
- Adjective
- relating to or characteristic of the United States or its inhabitants
- relating to or denoting the continents of America
- relating to or characteristic of the United States or its inhabitants
- Noun
- a native or citizen of the United States.
- a native or inhabitant of any of the countries of North, South, or Central America.
- the English language as it is used in the United States; American English.
- a native or citizen of the United States.
View on lexico.com
- Adjective
-
Tails.
Merriam-Webster, for example, puts the above as the second definition.
-
@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
@pie_flavor said in Internet of shit:
wake me up when anyone from a country that uses metric walks on the moon.
Fun fact: the first legs to land on the moon wasn't American, but Canadian.
The landing legs of the lunar module was built in Longueuil on the south shore of Montreal by Héroux-Devtek.
Were those really the first legson the moon, or were they the first legs carrying humans?
-
@PleegWat said in Internet of shit:
Were those really the first legson the moon, or were they the first legs carrying humans?
Since both the legs on the lander and the legs on a human carry humans there's no real difference.
-
@Rhywden I mean, did any prior (non-manned) soft landers have legs?
-
@PleegWat The first to actually land (and not impact) was Luna 9 (Soviet) but that one used a sand bag. The first one with legs was the Surveyor 1 (USA).
-
Color me not surprised
-
@Rhywden said in Internet of shit:
It is. It's rather annoying but not really something you can change because of existing plumbing.
You're lucky. Here, they seem to like introducing new, non-backwards compatible plumbing standards every once in a while. I'm sure that the fact it can turn a minor repair into a "must replace the whole thing" problem is just an unintended side effect.
-
@Zerosquare@Rhywden said in Internet of shit:It's rather annoying but not really something you can change because of existing plumbing.
thread is .
-
Hey, that's @Rhywden, not me!
-
@Zerosquare Sorry; fixed.
-
@levicki said in Internet of shit:
@pie_flavor said in Internet of shit:
@levicki wake me up when anyone from a country that uses metric walks on the moon.
Wake me up when the USA builds and starts using their own orbital station and sends people there in their own instead of in Russian rockets.
Do you mean Skylab?
-
@abarker said in Internet of shit:
@levicki said in Internet of shit:
@pie_flavor said in Internet of shit:
@levicki wake me up when anyone from a country that uses metric walks on the moon.
Wake me up when the USA builds and starts using their own orbital station and sends people there in their own instead of in Russian rockets.
Do you mean Skylab?
Side note: We need a Clippy emoji.
-
@abarker said in Internet of shit:
@abarker said in Internet of shit:
@levicki said in Internet of shit:
@pie_flavor said in Internet of shit:
@levicki wake me up when anyone from a country that uses metric walks on the moon.
Wake me up when the USA builds and starts using their own orbital station and sends people there in their own instead of in Russian rockets.
Do you mean Skylab?
Side note: We need a Clippy emoji.
Clippy?
-
@abarker said in Internet of shit:
@abarker said in Internet of shit:
@levicki said in Internet of shit:
@pie_flavor said in Internet of shit:
@levicki wake me up when anyone from a country that uses metric walks on the moon.
Wake me up when the USA builds and starts using their own orbital station and sends people there in their own instead of in Russian rockets.
Do you mean Skylab?
Side note: We need a Clippy emoji.