Tar_alcaran
@Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on America Is Abandoning One of the Greatest Medical Breakthroughs 22 hours ago:
America is abandoning a LOT of progress lately.
- Comment on Has cancel culture gone too far? 1 day ago:
Kane lives in death!
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 1 day ago:
The ads said they could tell if you were watching telly. I suspect they detected aerials, but that was in the days of Cathode Ray Tubes, and maybe you can detect them being on, I don’t know.
You can absolutely detect a CRT from outside. A CRT is basically a small particle accelerator with a magnetic deflection system, inside an unshielded plastic (or wooden, if you go back far enough) box. Of course, it will need to be turned on, just the presence of a TV doesn’t show up. It’s probably a fair bit harder to actually detect which house the signal comes from, but you can solve that with a big enough directional antenna. With analog TV, you might even be able to detect which channel they’re watching, based on the exact frequency, which makes it easy to tell a TV from a computer monitor too.
Spotting a flatscreen TV is probably a LOT harder, and distinguishing between a TV recieving a signal and computer monitor seems (to my lay skills) pretty much impossible.
- Comment on YSK - The new RTS Stormgate silently full released 2 days ago:
It’s “we have StarCraft at home”. They did a mediocre copy of all the surface visible features, and that’s about it.
- Comment on Zotero is still better. 2 days ago:
As a reference manager? I just use sticky notes that I place on a second monitor.
- Comment on Toot toot 2 days ago:
I’m very upset the randomized control didn’t involve fake shells.
Participants received either intervention of shankh blowing or a sham procedure (deep breathing exercise) for 6 months.
- Comment on 🤝🤝🤝 2 days ago:
Don’t think of it like that, think of it as 10% of your total blood plastic!
I wonder if doing plasma instead of whole blood is better or worse. Does microplastic stay behind or go back in?
- Comment on playlist for one of those days 2 days ago:
Propaghandi is an amazing band name!
- Comment on And this time I want to share my thoughts, I hope this time you will at least understand a little. 2 days ago:
But it is difficult for me to express my thoughts briefly. Or how do you think it can be shortened?
Well… You could chatGPT to shorten it for you.
- Comment on AI art 3 days ago:
Crappy AI slop, and being proud of it…
- Comment on Anon wants to be Truman 3 days ago:
They’re people who have no idea what an emotional attachment is, they’ve never had one. To them, women are for sex, decoration and menial labour.
- Comment on Me too. 3 days ago:
Just because it didn’t work the last 17 times doesn’t mean it won’t suddenly work now!
- Comment on It's on your blood! 4 days ago:
I mean, it might… but we haven’t shown it does.
- Comment on Companies be like 4 days ago:
For the good of all of us
(Except the ones who are dead) - Comment on Blackbird Interactive acquires full ownership of Hardspace: Shipbreaker IP 4 days ago:
Era One (very recently into early acces) feels a LOT like homeworld 2 used to. But the “build your big ships from blocks” is definitely something you need to get used to, and need to like.
And it’s from the Homeworld Complex people, who do not exactly have the best trackrecord in developing.
- Comment on Worst part about living in Europe 4 days ago:
There’s a really good reason they’re only used on low speed streets and squares, and now large roads.
- Comment on Air Canada flight attendants intend to strike this weekend, union says 5 days ago:
Good!
Hey industry, if you don’t want people to strike, there’s this one secret they don’t want you to know about. Click here to find out!
spoiler
Pay them.
- Comment on We will all be slaves 5 days ago:
“Are there no prisons?” asked Scrooge.
(…)
“And the Union workhouses?” demanded Scrooge. “Are they still in operation?” (…)
“The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?”Just a reminder this was the most heartless, most horrible man that could be imagined by a truly great author.
- Comment on Be ready! 5 days ago:
Planning is easier when your nose touches the screen.
- Comment on Permian Park 5 days ago:
Permian park, apparently
- Comment on Some heroes don’t wear capes 5 days ago:
Prison abuse is not a good thing, but I can’t help but smirk over this
- Comment on Some heroes don’t wear capes 5 days ago:
What’s that saying? Remind me, if you can’t do the time, what should you also not be doing?
- Comment on Permian Park 5 days ago:
My neighbor told me Permian Fauna keeps eating his lawyers so I asked how many lawyers he has and he said he just goes to the law firm and gets a new lawyer afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding legal representation to Permian animal and then his daughter started clapping.
- Comment on Every damn time. 6 days ago:
For Reviewer B to accidentally to misclick and lose all their notes.
- Comment on Every damn time. 6 days ago:
It’s archaic euphemistic jargon, and that’s why you generally don’t see it used outside of the niche.
- Comment on Every damn time. 6 days ago:
That’s what it’s called when it’s inhumane to let them live after an experiment.
Certain rats have incredibly elevated chances of growing tumors, for example. Letting them grow old is basically torture, so…
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 6 days ago:
Ok, I’ll bite. From the trailer, it just looks like another season of Discovery. Same look and feel, same era, many of the same cast members. And since I didn’t care for Discovery, I doubt I will care for this either.
Exactly!
The post apocalyptic Discovery future is just something I couldn’t care less about. It’s not interesting, and this show looks like a direct sequel to it.
They didn’t even change it to an actual Academy, instead also putting it on a spaceship to just keep doing the same kind of thing, but with more excuses for the “younger and edgier” crew. So many alarmbells ringing.
It doesn’t help that I grew up with the Starfleet Academy videogame, and thus that period is forever linked to it.
- Comment on Anon is feeling romantic 6 days ago:
The point is, if you’re in the woods with a bear, you’re probably never going to see it. The bear will actively leave you be. The human… You don’t know. They could be actively seeking you out for the sole purpose of hurting you for fun.
- Comment on Getting a little nature 6 days ago:
There is a shockingly large number of feathers in even a small bird.
- Comment on Bonk. 1 week ago:
It will release whatever it holds, and grab your arm instead!