RegalPotoo
@RegalPotoo@lemmy.world
- Comment on When everything is fake and we continue to believe it 3 days ago:
Penn and Teller do a bit with a nail gun where Penn does a monologue about how they are magicians so there is obviously a trick, and that’s the point - they want the audience to come along and enjoy the show and watch them do things that seem dangerous, while knowing that even if something goes wrong they aren’t going to be complicit in someone getting hurt or killed by encouraging them to take those risks.
Idk, not really relevant to what you said, but I think about that a lot
- Comment on Ethereal 1 week ago:
- Stands on scale
- Presses tare button
- Immediately evaporates
- Comment on If people's voices become copyright protected in the future as a response to AI, will any non-commercial uses of voices be affected as well? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe? It depends on how the laws get written?
- Comment on potoo 3 weeks ago:
This pleases me
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Mayor of New York isn’t the end goal
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
No.
But…
The adage that “the dose makes the poison” is working in your favor here. A large city supply delivers millions of liters of water per day; by the time you dilute your poison into millions of liters of water you’ll either be adding absurd amounts of poison (someone is going to notice massive line of tanker trucks queued up outside the treatment plant), or you are dealing with large - but not unweildly - volumes of something so horrendously toxic that it’s still deadly when diluted that much. There are very few substances that toxic, and someone is going to notice if you start procuring hundreds of liters of botulism toxin or Vx because at that point you are dealing with outlawed chemical warfare agents
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 4 weeks ago:
You can’t use logic to talk someone out of a position they didn’t use logic to get into in the first place
- Comment on Make a new friend! 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 1 month ago:
This only works with rational actors
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 1 month ago:
Maybe don’t engage in a war of escalation with unstable people
- Comment on agi graph slop, wtf does goverment collapse have to do with ai? 1 month ago:
People keep imagining AGI like its going to be benevolent skynet, when it’s probably going to be more like the Tyrell corporation from Blade Runner
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 1 month ago:
It does, but it’s super dangerous to do unless you have it wired up properly. Proper installations will use a special connector so you can’t plug anything else into that receptical, and will have it interlocked against the main breaker - you can’t plug anything in without disconnecting from the grid. The dangers of doing it amateur-hour are:
- You now have a cable that you can unplug and have live ends exposed - which if you don’t realize is connected to an active generator is super dangerous, and even if you do one slip and you are now the ground conductor
- If you connect the generator while still connected to the grid, your generator is almost certainly going to be out of phase. This will probably cause damage to your generator and anything else plugged in at the time
- If you don’t have an interlock and run the generator while connected to the grid (say during a power outage) you will be back-feeding power into the grid. This is super dangerous for anyone coming to fix the outage, as things that they’ve isolated to fix can still end up being live
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I don’t know about strictly racist, but it’s definitely got colonial overtones. Europe has used “they are uncivilized” as an excuse for the way they brutalized their colonies, erased cultures and enslaved people for centuries
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Another point on this, in events like this the cell network is often under very significant stress as every single person tries to contact their family and friends at the same time to check if they are OK. The general advice is to avoid making phone calls if you can to keep capacity free for people who need to contact emergency services
- Comment on *hands to an undergrad* 2 months ago:
Over COVID I was given 3 of the widgets that my company manufactures to take home in case I needed to help diagnose a customer problem. Stuck them in my backpack and walked to my car, then realized that my backpack was now worth about $150,000. When I got home I emailed my boss to confirm that, if my house were to burn down, the widgets would be covered under the companies insurance policy
- Comment on Caption this. 2 months ago:
Existence is suffering
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 2 months ago:
If you are going to propose a law, you need to define “stupid”
- Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz? 3 months ago:
IIRC Ubiquity make a line of point-to-point ethernet bridges that operate in the 20GHz range (because more bandwidth, and if you have line of sight you don’t care about interference as much). Responsible vendors won’t even sell you one without sighting a license cos they can also get in trouble for selling it to you if it turns out you are operating it illegally
- Comment on When Lemmy got named did no one think that the "lemming" association might alienate people? 4 months ago:
There are two truely hard problems in computer science; P=NP, naming things, and off by one safety
- Comment on What's easier to shoot, a bow or a firearm? 4 months ago:
Beyond just being able to draw a bow, being able to draw it well enough to have a chance of shooting at all repeatably takes a lot of training - it’s not just lifting a 50+lb weight, pulling it towards you with one and and pushing it away with the other while keeping your arms stable requires a lot of strength in muscles the people don’t tend to use.
Source: former colleague is an international competition level archer - the sheer amount of core strength and coordination and balance you need to be a good archer is wild
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 4 months ago:
Oh one one eight nine nine nine…
- Comment on Trump Suggests No Laws Are Broken if He’s ‘Saving His Country’ 5 months ago:
Something something Luigi
- Comment on These still don't taste like Steve Harvey.. 5 months ago:
… My first thought was “is this loss?”. I’m probably too online.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 5 months ago:
Nah, cos the way the self driving thing will be structured will make it pretty much impossible to actually buy one - they’ll be crazy expensive to buy outright, but you can absolutely lease one - oh but if you are using it for commercial purposes it’s more expensive cos… insurance or something, oh and don’t forget the per-km fees, and the servicing fee, and the battery wear fee, and …
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 5 months ago:
Yeah, doordash can gdiaf. Local burger joint only does delivery through doordash, but adds 20% on top of the base price to cover the fees doordash change them (fair enough), then doordash adds the delivery fee they charge me on top of that as well. They double dip on fees by changing both the restaurant and the customer, what should be a fairly affordable lunch when I don’t have time to make something or go out and get it myself would end up being stupid expensive
- Comment on After completing my first job I'm thinking of quitting my regular job and doing plumbing full time 5 months ago:
Many years ago, the university I studied at did some construction work in the chemistry department, which included rerouting the supply lines from the big oxygen and LPG tanks so they could reach the new lab they were building.
Turns out the contractor was either an idiot or misread the plans, and ended up running the pipes straight through one of the fire-resistant walls designed to compartmentalize the building so fires can’t spread as easily - a hole in one is a Big Deal on its own, but then running pipes full of accelerant through it essentially voided the buildings safety certificate and insurance, and ment that if there was a fire, the main evacuation path would have been a deathtrap.
I don’t know what happened to the contractor, but labs were closed for a few weeks while they purged the lines of gas, removed the badly installed lines and repaired the wall
- Comment on Fill it up buttercup 5 months ago:
It won’t help, but not having it sure will hurt
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 5 months ago:
No worries - I’m a native, but still had to think about it a bit. English is weird
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 5 months ago:
Sort of, there is a parallel derivation where tool can be an innuendo for penis (“used his tool”), so describing someone as a tool is a slightly less vulgar way of calling someone a dick; unrefined, rude, obnoxious.
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 5 months ago:
In colloquial English, you can say that someone is an idiot with the construction “you absolute [noun]” or “you complete [noun]” or similar.
It doesn’t actually matter what the noun is, but it works better the more obscure or specific the thing is. For example “you absolute saucepan”, “you complete hose pipe”, or my personal favourite “you absolute strawberry plant”.