RegalPotoo
@RegalPotoo@lemmy.world
- Comment on That time of year for wearing Crazy Christmas sweaters 2 days ago:
Kiki
- Comment on About to turn the car to a flying car 2 days ago:
Same, but in my line of work (programmer) it makes me look like a damn savant. “How did you know how to do X?” “Oh, I vaguely remembered something from reading the API docs 2 years ago so I just went and looked it up again”
- Comment on How would you forgive someone that poisoned your dog when they only offer bad faith apology ? 6 days ago:
If they did it deliberately and I could prove it, I’d rent a billboard across the street from where they worked
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
I’d say the only ethical way to be a residential landlord is if you are renting out the only house you own because you aren’t in a position to use it as a house - say you’ve brought a house, but had to move somewhere for a few years for work and intend to move back at some point.
The moment you own 2 houses, you are profiting from a system that only works because of inelastic demand - you could have put your money into the stock market and made it do something productive, but instead you are collecting rent, making it harder for others to meet their own basic needs, and profiting from a speculative bubble
- Comment on Desks 1 week ago:
shrug if you think you can run 100 ft faster than concrete can fall 30 during an earthquake so strong you can’t stand then more power to you I guess
- Comment on Desks 1 week ago:
Having lived through a major earthquake - if it’s a brick or concrete tilt-slab building, you are way better off inside the building. The risk isn’t so much some random piece of something falling off, it’s the entire facade of the building coming down on your head.
- Comment on Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable about people making such big deal out of whether they're "black" or "white"? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t have a good answer to your question, but to me “white” as an ethnicity makes about as much sense as “Christian” does as a religious description - they both cover such a wide range of backgrounds and beliefs to be essentially useless. Do a Catholic, a baptist and a modern evangelical actually believe the same things beyond how they frame those beliefs?
To my mind, same goes for ethnicity - “white” can mean anything from the baltics to western Europe to north America, and to my mind, is kinda racist. It lumps people from as diverse places as Ireland and Russia together purely based on appearances. I get “black” as a self-selected descriptor of people who do have a big cultural touch-point in common - our ancestors were enslaved, brought here against our will, and we still feel the impacts of that even if our ancestors themselves were from a wide background.
I guess “white” is an easy antonym to “black”, but then that still comes back to a racist tint - “we are white because we aren’t Them” - and lumps in people who have nothing to do with the lasting impact of slavery in the US into this “oppressor vs oppressed” false dichotomy.
- Comment on Anon goes to school in Arlen 2 weeks ago:
Better than the half dozen Cartman wannabes at my school
- Comment on Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons? 2 weeks ago:
The MAD doctrine aims to make the intentional use of nukes in war unworkable, but in doing so makes their accidental use due to mishap, misunderstanding or miscommunication much more likely, and the more people that are party to the MAD doctrine the more likely accidents are.
You don’t need to look very hard to find examples of cases where billions of people would have been killed if not for people choosing to ignore doctrine even when the information they had at hand said that they should use their weapons
- Comment on Meal prep 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure that counts as a hate crime against the English
- Comment on Anon has an idea to get laid 3 weeks ago:
Plenty of places would happily pay a couple of million not to find out
- Comment on Since the government can theoretically access the location of everyone's phone, wouldn't it be unsafe for an undocumented immigrant to have a phone? 3 weeks ago:
Idk, if you are at the point where law enforcement is going to a cell provider with a location request warrant you are pretty much already fucked. They know who you are, they know your phone number, they probably know where you live and work
- Comment on Since the government can theoretically access the location of everyone's phone, wouldn't it be unsafe for an undocumented immigrant to have a phone? 3 weeks ago:
Idk, I wouldn’t carry one across the border any more than I’d take one with me to a drug deal
- Comment on Anon creates a business plan 3 weeks ago:
Not being an American the whole idea of not including tax in the stated price just seems so alien. You expect me to work out what 12.5% of my bill is on the fly as I’m shopping? Fuck you, that’s your job. You are the one actually paying the tax to the government, you work it out
- Comment on Anon doesn't want to join the flesh nexus 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, my daughter is just about 2 and I can’t imagine being as disconnected as I’ve seen some parents be
- Comment on Anon doesn't want to join the flesh nexus 4 weeks ago:
Lol same. “Bro you should play Elden Ring”. I have maybe an hour a week where I could reasonably play games, it would take me a decade
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Right up until we have an Arch Duke situation
- Comment on Not the worst sales technique. 5 weeks ago:
This is a weirdly body-positive message for a gym; you can be fat and beautiful or skinny and ugly
- Comment on Can't sleep, he's watching 5 weeks ago:
28 megawatts at peak. Enough power for 21,000 homes.
bUt iTS soLaR!
- Comment on I have a very strange question about washers, dryers and the Middle East. 1 month ago:
Not in the US; in NZ most houses will have a “wash tub” - essentially a sink in a metal cabinet specifically for doing “dirty” jobs like laundry. That will have water hookups for the washer, so that goes next to it where there is space, then the dryer will do next to that or on top of the washer.
The last few places I’ve lived in have all had the tub in a corner with space on its left, so it’s been dryer, washer, tub. Annoying, my dryer door opens to the right and the washer to the left, so it’s harder than it should be to move clothes between them
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 1 month ago:
If you follow it, you quickly end up with the Infinite Improbability Drive from The Hitchhikers Guide - if you have an infinite number of typewriters, an infinite number of them will be loaded with paper that already has the complete works of Shakespeare written on it
- Comment on Do PhDs HAVE to use Dr? 1 month ago:
“Doctor” is a title you become entitled to use by virtue of holding a PhD - you have the option to use it, but nothing compels you to do so if you don’t want to.
Note that the reverse isn’t true - representing yourself as holding a doctorate when you don’t can be a fairly serious crime - if you did for the purposes of getting money from some, then it’s probably some kind of fraud
- Comment on Anon questions physics 2 months ago:
This game has far too many mechanics. The dev team should prune it back to the essentials and focus on polish rather than getting over ambitious and not executing anything well
- Comment on Anon questions physics 2 months ago:
Also diffusion and vapor pressure and latent heat - reality is messy
- Comment on What happens when the US runs out of SSNs? 2 months ago:
I want to see the high-octane action thriller where the grizzled old hand and the renegade upstart trek to the remote compound in the woods of Montana to find Bob, the last man alive who understands how some obscure part of the IRSs core systems works and bring him back in from the cold for one last job… to save America(s neglected computer systems from decades of under investment)
- Comment on Congratulations to Tom! 2 months ago:
Imagine the most stereotypical Australian you can. Now imagine he has a PhD in chemistry but no money for a lab, so does all his work out of a literal tin shed full of spiders using stuff he found at the hardware store
- Comment on I'm radicalised by this photo 2 months ago:
Personally, if I’d paid $1500 for 1000 of something and got any less than 1000 units I’d be kinda pissed
- Comment on I'm radicalised by this photo 2 months ago:
In highschool I worked a shitty job at a butchery, and one day the boss decided to “test how smart” I was or something by asking me to get him 1000 wooden skewers out of the box.
Being an attention to detail kind of person, I spent a few minutes counting out 1000 cos I wanted to make sure I gave him exactly what he asked for - wouldn’t want a customer to order 1000 and get 995 or something cos I miscounted right?
Apparently not, cos that was the dumb way to do it - boss slapped 10 skewers on the scale then weighed out 100x that and was really proud until I pointed out that the certificate of accuracy only guaranteed the scale to +/- 2 skewers, then apparently I’m a “smart ass”. Can’t win with some people
- Comment on Anon has a plan 2 months ago:
I’d say that if all you want to do is scare the shit out of some scientists in Antarctica you probably only need 1 polar bear
- Comment on Having fun with text scams 2 months ago:
Pig butchering