Can i make a ufo out of this?

Etymology of ascii characters is something I never even considered. New hobby unlocked

Cooooollllllll! It’s like computer morse code

I read your comment 3 full times and I still don’t understand how anything explains why they wished for a white Christmas.

Edit: after thinking about this more, this reads like one of those stories that gets passed around without much evidence. It doesn’t really make much sense when compared to the lyrics of the song. 3 weeks is not long enough to establish “just like the ones i used to know”, and if they were jewish and wanted to write a song about remembering their late nights infant child…why be confusing and reference a holiday you don’t even celebrate?

Here is a sample lyric: “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white”

This is a regular Christmas song. If anything, it’s simply a coincidence his child died on christmas, and had very little to do with the creation of the song in any way, but gets passed around as for some reason probably just cuz infant death is dramatic. It might sound harsh in 2024, but 100 years ago losing a child at 3 weeks was sadly much more common and likely not as traumatic as we consider it today.

Edit2: i looked it up on Wikipedia:

“Accounts vary as to when and where Berlin wrote the song.[7] One story is that he wrote it in 1940, in warm La Quinta, California, while staying at the La Quinta Hotel, a frequent Hollywood retreat also favored by writer-director-producer Frank Capra, although the Arizona Biltmore also claims the song was written there.[8] He often stayed up all night writing. One day he told his secretary, “I want you to take down a song I wrote over the weekend. Not only is it the best song I ever wrote, it’s the best song anybody ever wrote.”[9]”

The Wikipedia states they had a son who died in infancy, but makes no claims anywhere about it being on Christmas day so who knows about that even.

If i know China, it’s the same as Bluetooth but with code tweaked enough to be distinct, while also funneling data into shady servers.

Wait, we had networking like that in the 70s? I’ve never heard that, do you have any other specific information I can look up? A computer at a school talking to another school remotely to use its processing power in the 70s sounds like alternate reality. That’s literally just the internet. What were they pushing the data over? Surely not phone lines?

I loved irc 20 years ago…i have no clue how to get back into it. How do you even find a cool server in 2024??

Isn’t soda stream also very pro trump?

Can i make a ufo out of this

My best guess: The thought processes required to ponder the possibility of a simulation are too important to the goal of the simulation itself to disable.

It’s funny, cuz i remember tons of responses like that when i used Reddit, too. But the onslaught was often worse cuz the larger user base had more power to bombard you with insults about how wrong you are, and give you 49 downvotes in 10 minutes just cuz you give some criticisms about a popular game you didn’t happen to enjoy and forgot to add reluctant praise to (“i recognize it’s a great game and well made, but its just not for me sad face.”)

I think this is just a bad part of the internet, in general. Similar things would even happen in AOL chatrooms if someone voiced a disliked opinion, I remember Diamond chat would get crazy

Isn’t he Jesus in that movie? Is jesus immortal? Tbh i dunno i don’t believe in magic

Ya!!! The prequel to nier ❤️

Drakengard comes to mind

Are you pretty consumercentric, or do you have some niche interests as well? Google is great at basic tasks and delivering product results and promoted content, and if that’s what you’re usually looking for it probably works great for you. People have trouble these days trying to find the specific stuff. Google used to really excel at this in the past, but now it’s buried under pages of promoted content or pages SEO gamed to the top but not being very helpful

He died in hs. I was in college. It was years later. Thanks for saying I’m basically retarded or a straight up terrible human because of a short post on the internet about Facebook.

You are the reason i left Facebook. I’ll just block you here on lemmy.

Deleted my Facebook in my freshman year of college in 2006 because a terrible person from my hs died from a drug overdose. I posted something like “death is sad but he was not a good person and i won’t miss him” and got jumped on by a bunch of people i already thought were annoying, so i said “fuck this whole website”. It was still when you needed to be in a school to join.

It’s been a crazy ride all these years watching all the terrible things that Facebook does, and people just keep using it. Helped elect trump. Steals and launders art. Takes advantage of all your data. Fosters terrorism and crimes. Just a huge shit hole. “but it has its own built in craigslist!” 🙄😒

Sick Sad World from Daria. I’d love that show

My 300$ earbuds can play two sources at once. But an uncompressed signal? Fuck yourself.

They are laundering the creative works of humans. That’s it. The end. They are laundering machines for art. They should be treated and legislated as such.