apfelwoiSchoppen
@apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
- Comment on [Discussion] Should Twitter links be banned from lemmy.world? 1 hour ago:
Yes
- Comment on How can I determine how much to contribute to charity to reduce US federal taxes? 8 hours ago:
I wish I could not fund military spending, otherwise taxes are good.
- Comment on There is a scene in Saving Private Ryan where a soldier gets shot in the helmet and it bounces off. Now a days soldiers seem to get shot in the helmet and it goes right thru. How come and why? 3 days ago:
Helmets only give lthe wearer a better probability to survive a direct shot to the head. Helmet engineering has improved just like other engineering disciplines. That said even a WWII helmet gave the wearer a higher probability of surviving certain calibers and bullet types more than without. Take the example of a high angle/glancing shot. Most of the kinetic energy does not transfer to the head or helmet in either case. The head will still absorb more of the glancing forces than a helmet, thus giving the wearer a higher probability of surviving.
Nowadays helmets are made to improve the absorption and deflection properties, thus giving an even higher probability of survival. That said bullets of sufficient size as well as shrapnel can penetrate the helmet if precisely placed.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Dev Fuels Nintendo Switch 2 Direct Fever With a Picture of a Chocolate Cake 4 days ago:
Hey do you need some tin foil for that cake?
- Comment on Good morning, I choose potash 1 week ago:
Heck of a view of that there potash from Dead Horse Point State Park.
- Comment on Baba is *near* you 1 week ago:
Such a good game.
- Comment on POV: It's January 19th 1 week ago:
In other words, broad regulation on the industry instead of cherry picking TikTok for China reasons.
- Comment on Why does it seem like Americans have become so hateful and destructive in the past years? 1 week ago:
And that minority gets an outsized place at the media table due to billionaire oligarchs who want total control.
- Comment on Feminists in their natural habitat of bigotry 1 week ago:
Alcoholism is a serious thing, don’t go flagrantly casting aspersions in ignorance. Seriously touch grass my friend.
- Comment on Feminists in their natural habitat of bigotry 1 week ago:
Follow the advise of your handle.
- Comment on They fucking geoblocked blahaj.zone 1 week ago:
Thanks for the clarification. ✌️
- Comment on They fucking geoblocked blahaj.zone 1 week ago:
Law law?
- Comment on They fucking geoblocked blahaj.zone 1 week ago:
Saudi Arabia is shit, but anyone who uses the term Sharia law is a dolt.
- Comment on Anon gets a job 1 week ago:
These stores are not open at night. They sometimes have overnight staff that process loading bay trucks and/or restock shelves on the retail floor.
- Comment on U.S. drivers lost 42 hours—a full work week—to traffic in 2023: Congestion 'hinders economic growth,' expert says 2 weeks ago:
42 hours with family, friends.
Corporate media’s sycophantic bias laid bare.
- Comment on If the United States has Cuba banned from things, how does Guantanamo Bay exist? 2 weeks ago:
It is an acute example of the whole world’s problem with American military bases on foreign soil. They want them to leave but can’t make them.
- Comment on Maybe next year 2 weeks ago:
I’m with you, but frankly I never had any delusions that this was gonna be my year. 🫠
- Comment on Maybe next year 2 weeks ago:
August, lol. Try late January.
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 2 weeks ago:
This may be be best bit of all time. I think about it far too frequently.
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 2 weeks ago:
Dump terrifying greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere at industrial levels, go into debt if you have to.
- Comment on If you are a young person you have no idea how bad everyone and everything smelled until at least the 1990s. 3 weeks ago:
Hit the ground in Germany, bombarded by smokers almost instantaneously.
- Comment on Well damn it, now I'm going to have to wait a whole year to ask for this. 3 weeks ago:
So that’s the Slim referenced by Weird Al. As with all things Weird, I assumed incorrectly that Slim was fictional. My naivety once again comes to the fore.
- Comment on Video game journalist Jason Schreier's top 10 games of 2024 list 3 weeks ago:
Jason Schreier is the exception. For years and years, he has done Pulitzer deserving work covering the industry.
- Comment on Hubris 3 weeks ago:
We make our biscuits and cinnamon rolls in these parts. Worth the few more minutes effort. So no pop here. No judgment though, we are all busy.
- Comment on Why is daisychaining multiple extension cords considered unsafe, even if only done to the length of a standard cable? 3 weeks ago:
Extension cords are rated for certain levels of resistive load based on their length. It typically has to do with the gauge of the wire used in the chord itself. Electrical resistance is typically converted into heat energy. If you daisy chain extension cords and have them plugged into appliances, then the resistive load of the chained cords can be higher than the rating of one or more of the extension cords. This can cause fire.
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good 3 weeks ago:
It is hard for me to take seriously a hand-wringing industry that makes more money than most entertainment industries. Capitalism is the primary cause öd articles like this. They simply demand moar each year, otherwise it is somehow a sign of stagnation or poor performance.
AAA studios could be different, but they choose to play the same game as every other sector. Small studios and independents suffer much more because of the downstream effects of the greedy AAAs establishing market norms.
We need unionization, folks. Broad unionization across sectors to fight against ownership/investor greed. It won’t solve everything but it will certainly stem the worst of it.
- Comment on Hurry 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to murdering health insurance CEO 4 weeks ago:
Look at him when he was initially arrested and then in the extradition photos.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to murdering health insurance CEO 4 weeks ago:
I mean, the police sculpted his eyebrows before extradition to make him present more like the assailant. He does not look like the same person, so of course he is. He seems like an innocent person who’s had charges pinned on him for the appearance of a functioning justice system.
- Comment on questions about sex toys: would it be a bad idea to fully insert a vibrating egg in my bum? 4 weeks ago:
The addage Without a base, without a trace is important to remember y’all!
