Warl0k3
@Warl0k3@lemmy.world
- Comment on no comment 3 days ago:
Got some of that devil’s lettuce, huh?
- Comment on no comment 3 days ago:
Now do plasma.
- Comment on An American city has been without power for 2 weeks, unacceptable. 3 days ago:
Unfortunately while there are many alternative approaches of equal or greater value than the Shanghai rankings, citation analysis really isn’t a great alternative. It’s one of the most criticized methodologies for some very good reasons and, while Leiden does better than most at controlling for things like citation mills, their methodology has some real flaws (their criteria for designating “core journals,” for example). This is one of the most interesting topics in meta-academics right now, and as can be shown in this somewhat infamous paper from fudan university the reason is that impact is a great deal more complicated than any simple metric can represent.
- Comment on Two ICE agents in plain clothes punched and tried to handcuff an Australian man at Las Vegas Airport. When they saw they were being filmed, they quickly left. 4 days ago:
Dude, don’t you realize you have no chance with this argument? Mechoman is the chair of the Nebraska Board of Tourism! He’s the genius mind behind those award-winning slogans we all remember, like “Nebraska: We’re relevant, damnit!” and “Nebraska: Don’t scratch it, that will just make it worse!”.
Seriously though, if you wanna get stuck in with them I can really recommend it - poking holes in their arguments is like bubble wrap for the rhetorical soul - but I just wanted to chine in and mention that you’ve brought some truly excellent points, and to make sure nobody’s taking this goober too seriously.
There’s a lot of stuff that either sucks or is downright horrible in the world right now, honestly even more than there was last month, and some people really just aren’t worth considering.
Anyways, you seem cool. I hope your day/night/timezone is going and continues to go well for you. Peace.
- Comment on Spiderman Arrested In Ukraine 5 days ago:
So you have a source for this! We’re all eager to hear about it, please do share it!
- Comment on Spiderman Arrested In Ukraine 5 days ago:
I’m not sure how that’s it’s relevant here, but neato.
- Comment on Spiderman Arrested In Ukraine 5 days ago:
Oh absolutely - I just wanna know what the story was, and we’ve only been given the one detail to work with (and which doesn’t really match details in the image)
- Comment on Spiderman Arrested In Ukraine 5 days ago:
I can’t find a source with any more details beyond “this was in Ukraine”, but it looks like it was either posted to initially or originated from /pol/. A little skepticism is therefore probably warranted?
- Comment on Who says romance is dead? 6 days ago:
Man, I wouldn’t want to the insurance agent on this one…
- Comment on America needs a moratorium on AI data centers 1 week ago:
Yeah I usually do the same thing - the only users I have outright blocked are reddit repost bots and, apparently, them. Probably just an accident, idk
- Comment on America needs a moratorium on AI data centers 1 week ago:
Different but related concept! Moratorium weeks are institutional blocks of time (generally in college and depending on the schedule in highschool) where you’re not allowed to engage with your sport - no coaching, no practice, etc. Generally these are for things like finals/midterms.
- Comment on America needs a moratorium on AI data centers 1 week ago:
(Huh, I wonder why I had you blocked? Odd.)
Anyways: my initial point was that it’s a very commonplace term in the US - so much so that it invites an unflattering conclusion about that user for encountering a primary school term so rarely that they’re lead to think it’s uncommon. You’re right though, I was commenting right after waking up and misunderstood grey_matter’s comment as being a comment on me; the “sportsball” thing threw me, I haven’t seen that earnestly used since we purged the Big Bang Theory fans.
- Comment on America needs a moratorium on AI data centers 1 week ago:
I don’t quite see how, but thats fine I suppose.
- Comment on America needs a moratorium on AI data centers 1 week ago:
(While I get what you’re going for, I think it might possibly be not all that flattering to consider this an uncommon word…)
- Comment on It's about logic and not "feelings" 1 week ago:
… You know there are places other than the US, right? It seems like a really unhealthy mindset to assume everything you can’t personally relate to must therefore automatically be about America.
- Comment on That's just science 1 week ago:
I came upon a silly scene,
As they opined 'bout blue, “The lemming’s comment rhymes!”, I screamed
An experience quite new! - Comment on It's about logic and not "feelings" 1 week ago:
I can only answer for myself, but in that case then we’re going to figure something out. It would be a shitty situation, but not one that can’t be overcome.
- Comment on It's about logic and not "feelings" 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t the answer be “for what?” I’ll help a friend out with medical payments or car stuff if they can’t commute no problem - if they’re needed asking me for cash for something dumb, I probably aren’t friends with them in the first place.
- Comment on How can MicroSD cards store so much data? 1 week ago:
How shallow would our appreciation of beauty be, if we lived in a world without suffering?
- Comment on How can MicroSD cards store so much data? 1 week ago:
They were once as grains of sand on a beach, now their very being courses with images of art, hums with the captured essence of music, blends stories, romance, pain, memories (and, wow, so much furry porn. Jeeze.) They’re given life and purpose, a life millions of years long finally able to burn with the essence of uncountable people - and you think that’s cursed?
- Comment on The line cook quietly handed me this 1 week ago:
You’re god, bork. You will judge us all, ultimately.
- Comment on The line cook quietly handed me this 1 week ago:
"What this food really needs is to taste like plant farts, bring on the mustard!"
^-^ ^You^^(this^ ^post^ ^brought^ ^to^ ^you^ ^by^ ^the^ ^ketchup^ ^gang)^
- Comment on business is business 1 week ago:
Did something happen in the past 86 years that now makes it impossible to shoot the same, great pictures with that camera?
Well, yes? The massive infrastructure built to support film photography disappeared. It’s an incredibly expensive medium now.
- Comment on business is business 1 week ago:
- Comment on business is business 1 week ago:
Walker Evans famously shot with a Zeiss Contax I (among many other cameras) - which retailed for an inflation-adjusted ~$2,700
I’m gonna stick with “art is expensive”. Yes, good equipment isn’t required to make art (a claim I didn’t make) - but the reason to have good equipment is because you don’t have to fight your tools to get the results you want. Sure, I could fuck around with gels and can lights to get the cool effects I want - but unless I have a stack of ~2.2 million gels, a Westcott RGB point-light is going to be both more capable and critically less time consuming so more of my time is spent doing art than it is futzing around while my model slowly wilts. Similarly, you can produce incredible paintings with a stick and chewed berries - but the time spent going out to pick a bushel of pokeweed, then process that into a usable format, can’t be excluded just because it’s a more authentic process. Don’t be an elitist about what constitutes art, either - stock photography is absolutely an art form even if you sneer at it.
- Comment on business is business 1 week ago:
Only if they manage to get past my labyrinth of cunning traps and ticket system auto-emails!
- Comment on business is business 1 week ago:
And then there’s lights. A decent portrait setup will run you thousands easily, and if you want to do anything even slightly abnormal (colored lights, say) it can be astronomically high. Art is expensive.
- Comment on business is business 1 week ago:
1-3 hours working directly with the client, and then 3-6 hours spent editing (or more, depending on the type of shoot). Even if they don’t have a studio, $100 for an on-location shoot in a park is ridiculously low for the amount of work involved.
- Comment on Good luck dickhead 1 week ago:
Not necessarily! Most models of Roomba were extremely open platforms - a ton of development for FOSS autonomous systems, including tons of work on SLAM, was done on irobot hardware. While it would go poorly with a stock model, there are plenty of pet behavior routines available for the roomba that include both “nuzzle” and “attack” modes which would pair well with a claymore.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 2 weeks ago:
Hey, while you might not win on education, healthcare, quality of life or cultural attitudes towards racism, you can always come at the west coast over this BS:
“It’S tHe IcE tHaTs ThE pRoBlEm” sure, and the fact there’s eight whole plows in the entire state and nobody even understands the concept of winter tires is just totally unrelated…
