Wolf314159

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hot take: Most metal is just Classical Music II Electric Bugaloo.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The nostalgia is the point. Nobody stores crackers in barrels anymore, but everybody did then because it was the best option at the time. Same reason the save icon is a floppy disk.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'd ask a couple thousand people to guess in private. So the most popular answer would probably be either surprisingly close to correct or Cuppy McHazelnutface.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Same era, I used to playing games on my calculator. I suppose you still can, but I used to do it. I remember I had RISK on my TI-89, but the games on my TI-82 were on par with the version of snake shown in the post. We would even trade the games around with the kids that didn't have a computer and/or Internet at home. We'd connect them with funky little cables that looked like audio jacks.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, nothing on the face of this box indicates any relation to chocolate anyway, except the company brand by implication. My only other clue as an outsider was that the wording "Dairy Milk" was just a little too weird to be taken at face value.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This example has really bad optics though, unless you're trying to shine a light on medical cartels and their part in the capitalist distopia Americans live in.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 5 days ago

Wait till they hear about the people farming, harvesting, and shipping the vegetables.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 24 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Primates make tools to help eating ants, among other things. It's a bit of an unusual snack, but people eat ants too. We are anteaters? How much of your diet needs to be ants before you're considered an anteater?

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 6 points 5 days ago

Not to be confused with disco snails.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 23 points 6 days ago (51 children)

Have you never actually seen a crosswalk before? Because I'm having trouble figuring out which part of these rainbow flag colored crosswalks makes them look any less like a crosswalk or makes them less visible or recognizable in any way. Literally the only other pavement marking that comes anywhere near looking like or being placed in the same way on a road is a stop bar. And guess what, car drivers routinely mistake the plain crosswalks for stop bars, thereby blocking the crosswalk. Making the claim that painting a pedestrian crosswalk in bright colors somehow makes them less visible or recognizable has got to be the dumbest argument I've heard this week.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 8 points 6 days ago

I'm in awe of a stomach so delicate it can be turned by an animated stick figure physics diagram.

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