JillyB
@JillyB@beehaw.org
- Comment on CNC 2 days ago:
Babe, you got a Haas? I said I wanted to try CNC, not this Fischer Price Tinker Toy shit.
(I don’t actually hate on Haas but I know they’re often more light-duty than some other options.)
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I’ma throw up
- Comment on 3 days ago:
That’s macaroni salad. Never heard it called mayonnaise salad.
- Comment on California startup to demonstrate space weapon on its own dime 5 days ago:
North Korea is the only one that could fall under that category. It just seems like a ton of resources to throw behind a tiny fraction of the nuclear threat to the US. Couldn’t we station boost-phase interceptors in South Korea and/or Japan for a whole lot cheaper? An anti-satellite capability is much easier to get than a nuclear ICBM. If they can make a nuke, they can take out a satellite.
Ultimately, Golden Dome is a wunderwaffe. The Trump administration is excited about it for the same reasons the Nazis were excited about their military vanity projects. It’s hard to discuss it purely in it’s own merits without also considering the reason it is being pursued. It isn’t being pushed by top people in the military or Pentagon. It’s pushed because some high up fascists saw the Israeli Iron Dome and were like “we gotta have one of those, but BIGGER, and make it GOLD”. It’s an aesthetic marketing halo project for MAGA fascism.
- Comment on California startup to demonstrate space weapon on its own dime 5 days ago:
The second key is, in order for it to be viable, you need enough of them in space to actually have the impact that you need.”
This is the part that makes Golden Dome non-viable IMO. Golden Dome is attempting the holy Grail of ballistic missile defense: boost phase intercept. The idea is that the missile is slowest, biggest, and easiest to detect and track immediately after launch. Golden Dome is attempting to place the launchers in orbit.
The problem is every satellite takes a predictable path, so the launching country could just wait until it’s not overhead and launch. This means you need a bunch of satellites in a spaced out orbit so there’s always one over the launcher. And you need that for every potential launch site. And most nuclear capable countries have road-mobile ICBMs, so you need enough to cover the whole country. The launching country could just knock out a satellite to punch a hole through your defenses and then launch in the brief window. So now you need redundancy. But every redundant satellite you place can be countered by one extra anti-satellite missile. Anti-satellite missiles will always be cheaper to build than satellite-based interceptors. China has 110 nuclear ICBM silos in one field in the desert. Are you going to be able to shoot down 110 missiles launched at the same time from the same area?
The author makes it sound like Reagan-era Star Wars was infeasible but now it’s fine because of technology. I really don’t think the fundamental economic issue has been resolved. It would take these satellites becoming much cheaper to deploy or some kind of counter to an anti-satellite missile.
- Comment on WATER BENDING ACTIVATE OR SOMETHING IDK IVE NEVER WATCHED ATLA 1 week ago:
I think it’s moreso the quality of the toilet that determines if it gets clogged. It could be something about American toilets that makes them susceptible or something about your place’s toilets that makes them immune.
- Comment on Name a game that you found SO FUN, but no one talks about it anymore. 1 week ago:
Me and my friends used to get high and play geometry wars on the 360. Lots of fun passing the controller around to see who can get the farthest.
- Comment on Hardest version I've seen yet 1 week ago:
Disturbing the cat results in no attacks. It just means that the peaceful cat gets woken up from their cute nap, which is bad.
- Comment on It just plain doesn't work, please stop telling people to do this 2 weeks ago:
Is this how I debug my phone?
- Comment on Oh god oh fuck 2 weeks ago:
It’s a blue-ringed octopus, which has one of the most potent poisons known. The person handling it could easily die.
- Comment on Switch 2 continues to break US launch sales records, selling more in its first three months than PS4 | VGC 2 weeks ago:
It feels like there’s only two new games
That’s all Switch 1 needed in the beginning (Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild)
- Comment on It’s official: EA is selling to private equity in $55 billion deal 4 weeks ago:
I doubt it. The Saudi-Arabian monarchy doesn’t invest in things because they want to make money. They do it for power, image, and influence in the world. They just threw a lot of money into the E-sports world cup in Riyadh. I think they’re buying what’s needed to make Saudi-Arabia a gaming hub. They’re doing the same thing with sports and racing and all sorts of entertainment. For that reason, I doubt they’ll strip EA for parts. All of the competitive games that EA makes will suddenly have tons of prize money and developer-backing for competition and E-sports. And the final big event will always be in SA.
- Comment on It’s official: EA is selling to private equity in $55 billion deal 4 weeks ago:
Co-op/freelance > small business > large single-owner business > publicly traded business > private equity business.
The hordes of faceless shareholders is mostly regular people’s retirement accounts. It’s still a net-negative for society, but now it’s not even helping someone retire comfortably. With Saudi Arabia involved, that means it’s also going to be laundering the image of a monarchy.
A few years ago everyone was talking about how crown prince Bin Salman ordered the brutal execution and dismemberment of a journalist. Now the E-sports world cup is in Riyadh.
- Comment on Real easy 4 weeks ago:
I think the singer doesn’t count either since that’s someone’s name which could be anything in any language. Also the navy seal is named after the animal. It’s 2 frames. “Seal” the animal and “seal” the keep stuff in/out
- Comment on Real easy 4 weeks ago:
They’re all seals. The bad part is that this is really only 2 different meanings. The soldier is a navy seal but that’s just named after the animal. The top middle is a seal to keep oil in a machine. The concept of sealing something applies to the the oil seal, the deck sealant, and the wax seal.
- Comment on *A clean colon is like driving on a country road on a sunny day...* 5 weeks ago:
The graphic is urging a patient to actually do the required prep. The prep cleans you out.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 5 weeks ago:
That actually doesn’t matter. The stats are per Capita.
- Comment on Shh 5 weeks ago:
No they wouldn’t. Banning straws is politically expedient, not effective policy. Straws are a tiny drop in the bucket of plastic waste. But they’re visible, largely optional, and have alternatives. It’s easy to make them look bad so a politician can look big by banning them. Your average person can feel like they’re making a difference by buying a reusable straw. The industrial scale plastic waste that happens out of sight is allowed to continue because nobody cares about actually doing anything. Everyone wants to feel like they’re doing something.
- Comment on To the dismay of sweaty 'movement kids,' Battlefield 6 is nerfing Call of Duty sliding and jumping to maintain a 'traditional Battlefield experience' 2 months ago:
If it’s not a solid 10 minutes to load a map on my parents e-machines PC, it doesn’t feel like Battlefield.
- Comment on To the dismay of sweaty 'movement kids,' Battlefield 6 is nerfing Call of Duty sliding and jumping to maintain a 'traditional Battlefield experience' 2 months ago:
Is that the one with the A10 and cluster bombs?
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is coming out on September 4 2 months ago:
Holy shit it’s happening!
- Comment on 💋 💋 2 months ago:
Shai Haluud
- Comment on League Of Legends fighting spin-off 2XKO dangles Vi in front of fans alongside a closed beta 2 months ago:
As a fighting game fan, this one shows promise. The devs are the Cannon brothers. They are the guys that founded Evo, the biggest fighting game event. They also created and freely licensed rollback netcode, the gold standard for fighting game netcode. the core of the game will likely be excellent. The f2p model hasn’t really been done at this level in fighting games. Most games are sold at full price and they sell costumes and characters as dlc. I’m hoping this game will get more people to try fighting games and hopefully it doesn’t become a loot box simulator.
- Comment on Panama Proxima 3 months ago:
“The South will rise again” folks were right. They just had a much longer timeline than we imagined.
- Comment on Caption this. 3 months ago:
I have a special syringe for this. I had impacted ear wax a few years ago and I went to urgent care to get it rinsed. Turns out my other ear was also impacted, just not as bad. After the rinse, I could hear in 3D. I felt like I shouldn’t have been allowed to drive home because it felt like I was on acid it was so overwhelming. On the drive home I heard a crappy Honda with a bad exhaust drive by and I was scream-laughing at how visceral it was.
Now I rinse regularly in the shower and don’t get to have free acid trips :(
- Comment on Planck units 3 months ago:
Plank length: usually 10ft for 2x4s. Though, you can get them cut to length.
- Comment on Dots! 3 months ago:
No wonder cows are so fat
- Comment on i'm old graeg 4 months ago:
Fun fact: old Greg now hosts the great British baking show/bake off
- Comment on Gooner game of the year Stellar Blade's mods are 41% smut, ensuring gamers will never see the light of heaven 4 months ago:
The vid I linked to basically said that the game is ok but derivative and not that great. The main point he was making is to point out how the “controversy” around the game doesn’t actually exist. It’s a bunch of made up crap by grifters to make idiots foam at the mouth. And it worked. And now these idiots think Stellar Blade is the next coming of Christ and the bullwark against the woke mind virus games blah blah blah…
- Comment on Gooner game of the year Stellar Blade's mods are 41% smut, ensuring gamers will never see the light of heaven 4 months ago: