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ericisshort,

A B Q named Finger

ericisshort,

Regardless, I’m glad they asked because I mistakenly read the tombstone as Robert Picardo to begin with, so their question clued me in that that was not what was written.

ericisshort,

You’re all misunderstanding the etymology. It’s called a flashlight because it was named after its inventor, Barry Allen.

ericisshort,

FYI not every bucees is the size of a department store, although most of the ones they’ve been building along interstates over the past 10-15 years definitely are.

There are plenty, especially near Lake Jackson where they are headquartered, that are the size of a regular gas station.

ericisshort,

All my rexes live in Texas.

ericisshort,

Murder

ericisshort,

Nope. Just generic murder.

ericisshort,

Glad I’m not the only one. Never feels good, but it would be even scarier if it did feel good.

ericisshort,

I also need to know what it’s from. It’s definitely giving horror comedy vibes.

ericisshort,

It’s giving off Charlie Kaufman vibes in the best way. This is my number one most anticipated at the moment.

ericisshort,

This is the only community I’ve seen that has far surpassed the Reddit equivalent. There was never this much brilliance in r/risa.

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Brb gotta figure out how to get this new odo/quark image out of my head. unzips

Adidas says it may write off remaining unsold Yeezy shoes after breakup with Ye (apnews.com)

Adidas said it might have to write off the remaining 300 million euros ($320 million) worth of Yeezy shoes left unsold after it cut ties with rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West. The company will decide in the coming weeks whether or not to do a third release of the shoes next year to generate more donations to groups...

ericisshort,

You obviously haven’t looked at the sales and resell value for the last round of Yeezys if you think any of these will be worth $300 let alone $3k on the resale market. Some vendors had to return part of their stock to Adidas because no one wanted them.

ericisshort,

Why would you assume that?

There’s nothing in the article that says they will be destroyed, just “written off,” and adidas execs already said that giving them away was one option they are considering with the last batch of Yeezys before they decided selling them and giving proceeds away to charity was the better option.

ericisshort,

That’s not usually the reason companies deliberately destroy inventory, and this has nothing to do with insurance. It’s a write-off, meaning they write the loss off on their taxes.

Retailers destroy inventory all the time, but it’s almost always to artificially keep scarcity high. Adidas would not be concerned with scarcity on these products because they have no intention to sell them in the future and are not interested in retaining the Yeezy brand.

ericisshort,

What’s a worse motivation?

ericisshort,

First of all, neither of those options are a possibility in the above situation. We are indeed stuck in an awful timeline, but this Adidas/Yeezy situation doesn’t add to the awfulness in any way.

Adidas are not concerned with perceived value of Yeezy, so there would be no point to destroy the inventory. It would only bring them bad press.

No insurance company is forcing any retail company to destroy inventory unless it is defective. How would purposefully destroying perfectly good inventory be in any way insurable? Just think about how ridiculous that would be for a second. It would be like your car insurance company ordering you to destroy your perfectly good car. It would never happen.

ericisshort,

I think you’re confusing Lemmy with Reddit. I have not experienced any of that bullshit hivemind groupthink here yet, but it’s probably inevitable as it grows.

ericisshort,

I recognize that toilet! No joke, I pooped in it when it was installed in the NYC Guggenheim (where this article’s photo was taken).

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When I was there, there was a short line to use it, so after I learned it was a special toilet, I just got in line. I try not to poop in public toilets as a rule, but this seemed like the ideal exception to make.

E: also, it’s a real shame that you weren’t allowed to use it, as use was the primary intention of the artist. I googled it to make sure I wasn’t misremembering…

From the Guggenheim’s website:

Its participatory nature, in which viewers are invited to make use of the fixture individually and privately, allows for an experience of unprecedented intimacy with a work of art.

ericisshort,

I can completely understand that conclusion. It’s the first and last piece of art that I’ve literally shit on, and it felt weird doing it. It also made me contemplate why toilet seats are the only item in the world that we are ok touching with our skin after many strangers’ bare asses have touched it.

ericisshort,

I was never assuming any anus touched a seat. I was only talking about cheeks.

ericisshort,

Yes, my point was that you can use it. I know because I did use it, and the quote was there to back up my experience.

ericisshort,

Haha. I’m with you on the “y’all” usage. Ambiguity is annoying.

Humans are similar to cancer cells

Cancer cells are cells that keep growing even when they are told to stop. They continue to grow even when they are a detriment to the body. They consume a large amount of resources and they have no regard for the future even though their unsustainable growth will always lead to the death of their host and to themselves....

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Yep, here is a link to the monologue.

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It’s a useless feature that almost no one uses that everyone keeps adding to their product when they are all out of ideas.

ericisshort,

Interesting. I’ve browsed mostly using voyager (which copies the look of Apollo for Reddit), so it looks like I should direct my question there.

ericisshort,

No. Currently it only shows you the post and comment count.

Example:

Posts = 3
Comments = 10

In some instances/apps, it used to show you a score of your total upvotes for those posts and comments. So if you had 3 posts that each net 7 upvotes and 10 comments that each net 5 upvotes, your score would be:

Posts = 21
Comments = 50

The entire score has been removed, so you can rejoice.

ericisshort,

While collecting more data is better, it is also more time consuming. And honestly who checks more than the last dozen comments when looking at a user? I would always do that in addition to looking at the score. Now I only look at the last comments and therefore have less data on which to draw a conclusion.

ericisshort,

I also had a similar experience in Texas.

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Either that or the chicken spaghetti at Chickelinni’s

ericisshort,

Everyone knows you put water on sloppy steaks, and I also used to be a piece of shit.

ericisshort,

Bruh, as someone who spent over ten years in Texas and got out, you are lying to yourself. Everyone i know that still lives there wants to get out but can’t for one reason or another.

ericisshort,

I wonder if she also looks at her children the way her father looks at her.

ericisshort,

Ooooh yeah! I second the name Fartsgerald Dickworth.

ericisshort,

The only solution is to arm every 1st grader in America!

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It’s the definition of stochastic terrorism.

ericisshort, (edited )

Why’d you choose that over the pi+plex?

ericisshort,

Ohhhh I had xbmc like a decade ago, before I gave up on the aye matey lifestyle, so I’ll probably choose that over plex as well. Thanks for the info. I’m looking up libreelec now, but I was just assuming it was some other hardware solution in my last comment.

ericisshort,

Thanks, one last question… What rpi do you recommend?

ericisshort, (edited )

I’m aware, but that doesn’t really answer the question I asked.

Edit: lol at everyone downvoting a genuine question. It’s pathetic how angry people get when someone is confused. The Lemmy community is quickly becoming exactly like Reddit in some of its most toxic qualities.

ericisshort,

We’re up to 9k now.

ericisshort,

Sorry to burst your bubble, but this oft-repeated piece of Trek trivia is not true.

The first interracial kiss on American television was William Shatner and France Nuyen (of Asian decent) on the Ed Sullivan show, which happened in 1958, nearly 9 full years before William Shatner kissed Barbara Luna on Star Trek (1967).

And the absolute world’s first interracial tv kiss was in the UK during either the broadcast of the film The Seekers (1954) or during a BBC presentation of the play Othello in 1955. It’s either/or because the actual air date of The Seekers is unknown.

source

ericisshort,

I find that starting with an apology makes people more receptive to corrections. I’m not really sorry for furthering knowledge, but the apology preface helps the knowledge go further.

But yeah, it is kind of crazy that it was still Shatner, but what’s most bizarre is that he let this common mistake persist for decades. I’m pretty sure I saw him talk about being the first interracial kiss at some convention or interview, and he never bothered to correct when they said it was in Star Trek. Most likely he simply forgot or never knew since it was a merely a clip of a play that was shown on Sullivan’s show.

ericisshort,

Agreed, and it’s not a novel idea. At least a few smarter countries already create policies that periodically update according to a formula.

ericisshort,

What a ridiculously obtuse take

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