AVincentInSpace
@AVincentInSpace@pawb.social
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 20 hours ago:
ah yes, lemmy, the “biden is just as right wing as trump, harm reduction isn’t real, and if you don’t vote third party in 2024 you’re a genocide enabler” website, famously a right wing echo chamber
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 20 hours ago:
“Authoritarian” would require that we, you know, have some authority.
No, it would require you to support the idea that there should be some authority telling people what they should be doing. Which you do.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 20 hours ago:
no, everyone right of Bernie is a fascist
didn’t you get the memo
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 20 hours ago:
yes but you don’t participate in riots and vote for joe biden instead of third party, therefore you are no better than transphobes
/s if it wasn’t obvious
- Comment on bugs 5 days ago:
ah yes, thank you, my bad
- Comment on bugs 5 days ago:
- there is no scientific definition of “bug”. the entire category is a social construct much like vegetables
- this person’s first sentence defined spiderd as insects and the second sentence said they weren’t
- Comment on How Solar Panels Work 1 week ago:
yes but they charge batteries during the day
this is why men’s refractory periods are so much longer than women’s. solar does not produce much power and the battery only charges during the day
- Comment on Internet comments 1 week ago:
If that quote was trying to create a sense of revulsion, it’s failing miserably
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
#notallvegans is not a reason not to dislike vegans sweetheart
- Comment on How does harddrive failure work when there's multiple partitions? 1 week ago:
Seconding this. Op, get a new drive, get a live USB with ddrescue on it, and get that transfer started, stat.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
because vegans never, ever, miss an opportunity to tell you they hope the blood of baby seals that went into your burger was worth it
- Comment on Locomotion 1 week ago:
i’m so used to the blowfish symbolizing BSD and the crab symbolizing Rust that i spent a solid minute trying to figure out what programming related thing the shrimp was
- Comment on where's my fur coat smh 1 week ago:
“I want a fur coat”
“Isn’t that cruelty to animals?”
“You misunderstand”
- Comment on What is your favourite game console? 2 weeks ago:
Nintendo 3DS. Extremely hackable, not too shabby selection of games, and… I swear I must be the only person on Earth who likes the 3D feature, but I love the 3D feature
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 2 weeks ago:
This one is new to me. DDG isn’t helping much. What was the man’s name?
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 2 weeks ago:
This meme isn’t about who invented the technology though. Everyone with 0.25 of a brain knows business majors break out in hives when they get that close to actual work. This meme is about who founded the Tesla Motor Corporation, and who demanded credit for having done so despite having done nothing except show up with gobs of money once their business strategy was already proven.
- Comment on Come on, science! 2 weeks ago:
Actually, a while back, BlackBerry unveiled a phone with a physical keyboard that was also a capacitive touch sensor so you could swipe type on it. Idk how well it worked though.
- Comment on Come on, science! 2 weeks ago:
I miss IR blasters
Ditto. Literally the only thing I find myself using my Flipper Zero for these days. Wish more devices had this feature.
- Comment on What firing your PR team does to a motherfucker 2 weeks ago:
I did some Googling just now and all I can find is that there was bad blood between him and the directors. I’m also not nearly in the loop enough to know what “pulling a Chevy Chase” means (Google is no help there either). Could you please elaborate on that?
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 2 weeks ago:
There are plenty of women in STEM who deserve more recognition. Grace Hopper, inventor of the software compiler. Lise Meitner, discovered nuclear fission. Ada Lovelace, arguably the first programmer ever. But let’s not go around calling a woman whose name is one of two on a patent that furthered the development of a radio communication technique originally devised by Nikola Tesla which Wi-Fi no longer uses “the mother of Wi-Fi” and putting her on a pedestal as the only woman in STEM.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 2 weeks ago:
Capacitive touchscreens are a big deal but it kind of minimizes the work of the other technology that goes into a smartphone, like wireless internet, low power mobile CPUs capable of 3D graphics, lithium-ion battery packs, etc., to say nothing of the design engineers that worked on the exterior, the hardware, and the operating system. Crediting the holder of a patent from over 40 years before the iPhone hit the market with the creation of the iPhone is stretching the truth at best.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 2 weeks ago:
Calling her “the Mother of Wifi” because she invented FHSS is like crediting Thomas Edison with the invention of everything that used incandescent indicator lights because he invented the lightbulb.
- Comment on I learned so much 2 weeks ago:
And Terry Pratchett is boring? Exploring racial tensions through the lens of British humor is not worth reading because it doesn’t make me viscerally scared?
You do you, but if I’m going to read a book for high school, boredom is WAY preferable to revulsion. I’d rather read a physics textbook word for word than be forced to continue reading every time someone dies. Reading books like The Jungle and analyzing them as journalism is important, but I’d like some books that aren’t …that… thrown in for variety. If my parents didn’t thrust their Pratchett stash upon me at an early age I might’ve grown up thinking all Serious Grown-Up Literature was like that.
- Comment on I learned so much 3 weeks ago:
My brain is having trouble with the idea that anyone could read any of the books I just listed and come away feeling anything othet than revulsion
- Comment on I learned so much 3 weeks ago:
I’m talking about Touching Spirit Bear (a book that contains two chapters worth of graphic descriptions of a boy, having been mauled by a bear and barely staying alive, doing things like cramming a live mouse into his gullet to survive). I’m talking about The Jungle (a book my brain has blocked out most of which involves a lot of main character deaths, committing horrific sins just to survive and then not surviving anyway, and a general endless barrage of “so there’s this guy, right, and his life sucks. I mean, it sucks. His wife just died, he watched his coworker get chopped to bits, his boss is raping his sister and if he speaks up about it he’ll be fired and they’ll both starve, everybody has shunned him, oh his life might be looking up never mind he just got outed as a fraud, suffice it to say, his life SUCKS. Also communism is good.”) I’m talking about Fahrenheit 451. I’m talking about Lord of the Flies. I’m talking about books that make kids hate reading.
Why can’t we read Discworld instead?
- Comment on I learned so much 3 weeks ago:
can’t relate, all of my English teachers have been male and they have almost without fail been insane
- Comment on Really enjoying my first playthrough of Dwarf Fortress 3 weeks ago:
The Cyclops Athathi ÿivusaro Theÿise of course, can’t you read
- Comment on Tell Borts I said "Hi" 4 weeks ago:
Imagine having to grow up when your mom named you Bootus
- Comment on You did it. The crazy son of a bitch, you did it. 4 weeks ago:
With your donation to your local oil baron, we can change this
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 4 weeks ago:
you kidding? that’s its success state