Steve Dice

That kind of van looks so sketchy it might as well have “free candy” written on the side, so I don’t know if there ever was a not awkward time for a white male to be driving one.

Very sad indeed.

Yeah, I fault people for not finding out they’re marrying Nazis and then acting surprised. Again, if you believe the bottom line of that is me calling you stupid, that’s a you problem.

My, ahem, speech was literally “Find out who you’re marrying before you marry them”. If what you heard was “everyone else is stupid if they get fooled and I’ll never be fooled by anybody”, then you might have some introspection to do.

Do you really believe you’re making a point here?

Are you 11?

I didn’t say I magically know everything about anyone. I said if I’m marrying someone, I make it my business to find out who they are.

That’s different. I’m sure she still holds most of the same values she did when you two got married. Cheating, of course, is awful, but it doesn’t touch all aspects of your life so it’s much easier to hide. I’m talking about people who end up marrying someone who turns out to be a Nazi or the likes. I find it hard to believe that they didn’t know before marrying them.

In a relationship, sure. In a marriage? Can’t help to fault them for not finding out.

You really shouldn’t be spending your days in a room at 45 °C.

Get a slightly bigger heatsink.

Yeah… no. Old laptops idle at around 50 °C.

Not gonna lie, I was here to call you an asshole for not even hearing out the request, then I read it was a random dude on the street. Nah, refusing to engage with strangers on the street in any capacity is not rude and, depending on where you live, it may be a smart thing to do.

Do you mean New Mexican Spanish?

You don’t seem to understand the difference between free as in freedom and free as in beer that is literally the cornerstone of the free software community.

He also says, Palestine supporters and Hamas supporters are, and I quote, one and the same.

I spent more than I’d like to admit wondering “what the fuck is a wel relation?!”

Yeah, I don’t think that’s gonna happen. The Switch OLED is already more powerful than the Switch but Nintendo artificially limits the performance because… reasons.

A couple of figures of speech from Mexico that I find equally nonsensical:

Simón: Means yes.

Nelson: Means no.

Mátala(o) (kill it): to finish a drink or a snack.

Jalar (pull): To go somewhere or agree to a plan. You may also hear its long form “¿jalas o te pandeas?” (do you pull or do you bend?) meaning “are you coming or not?”.

¿Se va hacer o no se va a hacer la carnita asada? (Are we doing or not the carne asada?): It means “Is the plan still on?”

Chapulinear: There’s no literal translation for this one but I guess it would be like “grasshopper-ing”. It means seducing a friend’s partner.

Tirando el perro (throwing the dog): Flirting.

Arma la vaca (build the cow): Gathering money for a small collective purchase.

Huele a gas (Smells like gas): To leave. That’s kind of like an advanced figure of speech because it comes from Fuga, which in and of itself is a figure of speech meaning “to leave quickly”. It literally translates to “leak”, as in a gas line leak, because you’re supposed to leave in a way that mimics gas leaking from a pipe. So, when we need to leave but not as quickly, we don’t say “leak”, we say “smells like gas” implying there might be a leak.

Here’s a modern one:

Quesadilla: Means “that’s so sad” because it sounds like Qué sad (illa)

I remember one time I was arguing with some guy about I don’t remember what but I left to do real-life stuff and didn’t check Lemmy for like 2-3 days and came back to find him arguing with someone else and being adamant that I created another account just to make it seem like more people disagreed with him. Some people prefer to make shit up than to face that they might actually be wrong.