@Doug@piefed.social
Doug
average man by day, average man by night. / you get more points being on lemmy than you do on reddit / movie enthusiast / formerly /u/doug on reddit
member since 20 Jan 2026 17:52
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- on The Wirule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 Sep 2026
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on The Wirule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 Sep 2026
Sometimes I can just feel the neolib oozing from an NPR host and their faith in capitalism to fix all things.
For me it really started when Freakenomics lobbed those softball questions to one of the Koch brothers, and then I had a moment of “…what the fuck are you doing? …have you always been like this? …and I’m just now noticing? …oh god …oh god! your previous episodes are so terrible too! how did I not see this?! it’s all bathwater! no baby! oh fuck!”
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on The Wirule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 Sep 2026
I remember hearing once that when your brain knows there is an option to depend on an external source for something it could’ve stored in its memory, it loses (or at least weakens) the opportunity to utilize the elasticity that would’ve made the effort into storing that information, and this problem compounds the more often one uses the external source.
I think about that whenever I turn to a search engine to look something up. I can’t imagine how much more I’d think about that using an AI to think for me.
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on let go rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 Sep 2026
The older I get, the more I realize I think I can pick up on things about a writer’s worldview, even if the work isn’t trying to make a point of the worldview details I might pick up on.
I’m pretty sure Ari Aster is ableist, Christopher Nolan and S Craig Zahler are republicans, and Todd Field did something heinous, but diligently oversees his own Wikipedia article and Google Alerts to a degree that ensures it’s hard to find/I’ve been too lazy to really dig into it.
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on Silence Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 Sep 2026
Guess I’m the only one who still uses ringtones. They’re mostly from EarthBound, except when Halloween comes around I’ll sometimes use the plucking sound from It Follows soundtrack for phone rings.
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on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
yeah no you’re still not worth my time. time to block your little wet fart of an existence. byeeeeeeeee
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on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
3 days later and that’s all you’ve got? No wit in that staircase. The only time you’re worth is the catharsis in telling you to kick rocks; so kick rocks.
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on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
complaints not parsed into action items aren’t worth anyone’s time.
Radiolab has some good stories, but the editing is so grating. I wish there was something with energy between them and Science Friday or podcasts where it’s just two people talking back and forth. I appreciate Radiolab’s effort to keep me engaged and science exciting, but… it feels insulting to my attention span to do it as much as they do.
…which is a fair thing to insult, but not that much.