JohnnyEnzyme

Seriously, I keep waiting for that 'Triumph the Comic Insult Dog' moment to kick in, where he explains that the whole thing was a joke in bad taste, you know..?

"For me to poop on!"
But no, that context is seemingly lacking, wtf?

I'm honestly baffled, here. Jim Jefferies is normally GOLD in everything he touches, but... *&$@# is this anti-woman shizzle?

I MUST be missing the joke, right? Right..?

Part 1 here:
https://piefed.social/c/comicstripedits@lemmy.world/p/2060361/richard-scarry-updates-some-job-titles-ruben-bolling-edit

Once again, although these may have started as edits, at this point they're more like parody / tributes. I'm sharing this series because these are topical and seem to go over well. I do have a lot more pure edits that are pretty much in the 'potential lead balloon' category, so you know...

https://piefed.social/post/2215171/comment/12141440#comment_12141626

Many late-coming technologies are issues of concept. Slow-sand filters are incredibly simple, for example, but require an understanding that did not arise until the 19th century (some possible examples in Mesoamerica excepted). Gliders are not actually particularly difficult to acquire the materials or tools to make, especially in cultures that use kites, but require, again, an understanding of the principles involved to provide controlled flight (with gliders requiring precise balance of lift and drag, whereas kites primarily need only light weight and wind stability). Fire pistons are conceptually advanced and were not discovered in Europe until long after they were in Southeast Asia, despite some Southeast Asian cultures which produced and used fire pistons being literal stone-age cultures, in terms of available material tools.

Hot-air balloons, I would imagine, follow the same principle. If you lack the concepts behind the invention, the only way to discover it is by accident, which is generally unlikely. It’s why so much material development is concentrated in the modern and early modern period - we started to piece together how the world, on a fundamental level, works, beyond pure trial-and-error.

Also, hot-air balloons before plastics were often made of silk (and rubber), since most other materials are either too heavy (at least for practical purposes) or too thermally sensitive, and that’s an expensive experiment to be undertaking if you haven’t the first clue how it works.

IIRC, PF-dev Rimu recently explained exactly why he was trialing such limits in a recent software update post. I.e., to create a more efficient internal & external software / HW backbone, for us users, AFAIK. Based on network / host / server loads etc, as I read the updates.

But yeah... the amount of recent negative reaction so far upon that seems... weirdly outsized?
(like, WTF?)

Like-- who the heck comes here exhausted upon corporate social media, and expects a free, open-source community of devs not to tinker with the road-posts and such..?

Pardon my puzzlement here, but I'm a happy PF contributor, and love @PugJesus@piefed.social. Both the dev here and PJ are friends of a sort, and some people I will always try to support.

(I had to learn that the hard way, tho)

A bit of an optical illusion if you will...

Is it OCD or simply his mundane little passion project? (we all kinda have them, right?!)

Funnily enough, I have Big Bird, The Count, and Cookie Monster hand-puppets, and when I was younger and less-disabled, sometimes strolled around the local shopping district, doing their voices and interacting with kids. The good ol' Muppets still seem to be remembered even in this late-stage digital age(!)

Another pastime was to perform the puppets singing songs at our local karaoke night. Not sure how many people remember these songs, but let's take a look at two: (one for Count and one for Cookie)

TV shows sure were different those days...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNuVifA7DSU

It's always nice to enjoy a snack with one's friends:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVg4mxMG_1Q

The traditional problem for me personally is that when I'm doing a good job of 'faking it,' with fecking bells hanging off (oops, slipped in to Father Ted mode), I feel like I'm a downright Superman dealing with my chronic illness, but of course... people around me tend to assume that's just me using my normal amount of energy / alertness. And that's even coming from people who've known about my issues since forever.

Which amounts to a recurring problem, in which strategically-speaking, 'faking it' for appearances is seemingly one of the worst possible things one can do.

Loads to unpack there of course, but... you guessed it, I'm tired and need to lay down for a bit. Lucky me, because some ME/CFS-sufferers can barely make it out of bed for the most basic of needs. ("not you, Grandpa Joe!") And its heartbreaking when that's happening to teens & twentysomes, their young primes being wrecked by this cursed syndrome of diseases.