Blue_Morpho
@Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
- Comment on 4 fundamental forces 1 day ago:
You can do nuclear without irradiating everything just like a nuclear plant doesn’t irradiate everything. The only reason it isn’t done is safety. Rockets fail too often.
The argument that gravity is in anyway a more powerful force than weak force (fission) or strong force (fusion) is wrong. The only thing gravity has is distance. The strong force is 100 trillion trillion trillion times stronger than gravity.
- Comment on Pope 1 day ago:
I don’t understand the Katy Perry hate. William Shatner took the same space trip and wasn’t dumped on.
- Comment on When your Powerbank is dying and u can smell electrolytes escaping 1 day ago:
Ooh, that smell Can’t you smell that smell? Ooh, that smell The smell of death surrounds you
Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Comment on 4 fundamental forces 1 day ago:
That, and have you seen the amount of propellant required to overcome gravity? Compare that to the amount of fissile material you need to make a viable nuclear device. It’s peanuts.
You inadvertently argued against your point. It takes only a tiny amount of fissile material to generate the energy needed to escape the gravitation of an entire planet.
But not really because you only compared chemical energy to fission.
- Comment on Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025? 6 days ago:
I didn’t say that the 70’s were worse than the 1960’s!!!
I said the 1970’s were worse than today.
- Comment on Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025? 6 days ago:
Compared to 1970? Trump is making it worse but it’s not that bad yet.
- Comment on Microsoft kills Windows Maps app 1 week ago:
I miss Streets and Trips from 2002. All the road maps without any internet needed. The killer feature that I don’t see in any modern apps is that you could click on roads in the trip summary and set the speed limit. So if you were planning a trip you could click on a section of highway that you knew you could speed on and put in the actual speed you’d be driving instead of the speed limit.
- Comment on Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box? 1 week ago:
Pregabalin - Just do it.
- Comment on 3 minutes and 8 seconds in Google Slides. Remember to study your humanities as well kiddos 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow gets a new 4K remastered Blu-ray release 1 week ago:
Such as? I remember enjoying it but I don’t remember anything about it.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 week ago:
Roberto Bolle wins unprecedented 17th championship against King Mouse in the Nutcracker cage match!
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 1 week ago:
Why won’t it be back in a week? There’s nothing stopping it from coming back.
- Comment on Repair Every Day, Not Just Earth Day 1 week ago:
Funny they show a toaster. Last year my toaster stopped so I opened it up to fix it. What “broke” was a surface mount IC. I gave up.
- Comment on He has risen 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Dark chocolate Toblerone to be discontinued in UK due to ‘changing tastes’ 2 weeks ago:
That and shrinkflation. Cocoa prices are up and dark chocolate has more cocoa.
- Comment on ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ Season 17 to Premiere in July With New ‘Abbott Elementary’ Crossover 2 weeks ago:
“seasons” are now so short that there’s not that much time invested. For example Season 15 was 8 episodes.
Back in my day a season for a TV show was 30 episodes!
- Comment on What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere? 2 weeks ago:
I looked at the script and it’s not in My Cousin Vinny. Is it ad-libbed somewhere?
- Comment on What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere? 2 weeks ago:
I believe it came from the popularity of Jon Stewart who often uses it as a joke catch phrase.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catchphrase
People picked up on it and use it to imitate this style.
- Comment on Aimee Lou Wood Says Her 'SNL' Portrayal Was 'Mean and Unfunny' 3 weeks ago:
Unpaywalled Link?
- Comment on Original 'Star Wars' Cut Will Be Shown at a Theater for First Time in Decades 3 weeks ago:
I want to dig out old forum posts where Lucas fans told everyone that Lucas wasn’t lying that there would never be an original release because the original prints were destroyed in the process of making his special editions.
- Comment on Land of the Free!* 3 weeks ago:
My suggestion of a PO box had nothing to do with you personally.
It was simply a refutation of your claim that it was illegal to not have a permanent residence.
Erdős, one of the most famous mathematicians of all time didn’t have a permanent home. He travelled and stayed in the homes of other mathematicians and scientists.
- Comment on Land of the Free!* 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know about Chile but in the US you only need a PO box. I suspect Chile is the same because there’s probably a middle upper class that travels in mobile home/boats in retirement like in the US.
Requiring a way for society to communicate with an individual isn’t slavery.
- Comment on A retro gaming handheld console has been amazing for me and I want to recommend it 3 weeks ago:
They run Linux but you don’t need to know anything. They work out of the box. Guides are for upgrading to different user interfaces. You do need to learn how to make a copy of anl micro SD card because the ones that ship with the devices are extremely low quality and will quickly fail. I use the one from Raspberry Pi. It’s for installing pi OS but it does anything. www.raspberrypi.com/software/
Installing a different OS on a hand held is only picking a different image file like Knulli or GarlicOS when copying onto an SD card.
- Comment on Land of the Free!* 3 weeks ago:
I was actually referring to the freedom to be a vagabond
I’m not sure how that relates to slavery. Freedom to be a vagabond still requires income from work.
- Comment on Interesting logic 3 weeks ago:
It wasn’t a refutation. It was added information.
- Comment on Interesting logic 3 weeks ago:
It’s really stupid to believe aliens visited earth given the size of the universe.
- Comment on Land of the Free!* 3 weeks ago:
Not owning a house is slavery? What country today or ever in history had guaranteed home ownership?
Ideally, land should not be owned. Land is kept from pure ownership in progressive states through property taxes. You are in effect only renting the land from the state but keep the right to not be removed and the right to sell it.
- Comment on Land of the Free!* 3 weeks ago:
Is there any country now or ever where you didn’t have to work until you died (on average) with a lottery (birth, talent, luck) that lets you be free by living off the work of everyone else?
Getting to choose your work has always been the only fredom.
- Comment on A retro gaming handheld console has been amazing for me and I want to recommend it 3 weeks ago:
I have/had ( bought for friends or myself) Anbernic 35xx, 35xx SP, rg cube x, 351 mp.
There are so many variations that it’s really personal preference. Like are you doing 16:9 games or 4:3? I wanted something for old arcades like pacman and space invaders so I got the cube. That screen ratio also happens to work well for Gameboy
Yeah Miyoo only makes a vertical and a flip. Retro game corps says the flip has some quality control problems.
- Comment on A retro gaming handheld console has been amazing for me and I want to recommend it 3 weeks ago:
I have an RP3+ but after using it a while, Android is too much of a hassle.
Miyoo Mini or Anbery equivalents running Linux are so much easier. There’s no setup- just put your roms in a folder and go. I spent hours on the Retroid just trying to to get launchers looking nice and emulators configured.
But the critical feature Android will never have is fast boot. When you hit the power on the Miyoo it saves the game state and completely powers down. It doesn’t go to sleep like Android where the bat is dead a day later. The Miyoo will have power weeks later. And because it boots in 10 seconds right into the middle of the game exactly when you hit power off, it’s not a problem to wait for a full boot.
