Rhaedas
@Rhaedas@fedia.io
- Comment on Company truck with hands holding soil and a plant. 3 hours ago:
Someone knew what they were doing. Malicious compliance?
- Comment on Skill Issue 😓 1 day ago:
Yep, the text is great, but that's the punchline.
- Comment on Fucking AI bullshit 1 day ago:
You can tell it's AI because the person is all distorted, and now they don't seem to have the right number of fingers and limbs.
- Comment on I'll watch any Muppets movie no questions asked 4 days ago:
Never thought about it, but don't most of their movies have 4th wall breaks anyway?
- Comment on Why don't politicians during a hearing let the person they are questioning actually answer questions and speak? 4 days ago:
It's all Republicans, and some Democrats. Oh, and some Republicans that call themselves and even ran as Democrats. Which should be illegal and prosecutable as election fraud.
- Comment on Brought to you by RFK Jr. 1 week ago:
An organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host. The ends to the mean is worth the sacrifice to most mothers and often intentionally planned for or accepted, but yes, a fetus qualifies.
- Comment on Badge of Honor 1 week ago:
That's a great summary, and now so many of the posts complaining about how Lemmy didn't feel different than what they had come from suddenly could have been a red flag that no one understood. Maybe not, but sure seems a bit correlated.
- Comment on Honestly...How She Do It?!? 1 week ago:
Me too. The brain sees what it wants to see.
- Comment on Honestly...How She Do It?!? 1 week ago:
So what was the illegal part? Clothing? Needing a permit? Did the manatee consent?
- Comment on Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening? 1 week ago:
I've been lucky in that in the few interactions I've had, they've been mostly courteous and to the point. It's usually been about a car tag and my fault. But they either gave a warning or a ticket that I could avoid by taking care of the tag. It does help I'm a white male.
There was one though, long ago when I was just 18. He probably let me go for the same reason, white male, and I was scared to death. But his first line was that I was speeding. I looked at my Dodge Aries K-Car and even in my fright almost laughed. In this POS? Really? I think because it was late at night and I happened to get in his way he was being pissy. He also said I should pay attention to my rear mirror as he had his lights on the whole mile before the interchange where I pulled over. Total BS. We all know how damn bright those lights are.
- Comment on Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening? 1 week ago:
That's the kicker, when they finally let you go all pissed off because YOU wasted THEIR time.
- Comment on Workers Need a Legal Right to Full-Time Hours 1 week ago:
Separate health benefits from employment.
- Comment on EverQuest legends release on July 28th 1 week ago:
I had my run back in the original. Lots of fun times but the grind for the rogue was too much and it was such a broken and forgotten class.
Was disappointed in EQ 2 and how it removed a lot of the danger factors that made EQ a legend, even if they were unfair. And the rogues were worse.
Had a brief reliving of the nostalgia with the free servers, but because everyone was a twink and anything could be gained with money, it lost any joy I had from trying it again.
This sounds worse. It's the original game, but made easy to play, and I guarantee none of the flaws are addressed. It's just trying to recapture memories while making it not group centered, which always discouraged casual players.
- Comment on Where has the "www." gone? 1 week ago:
I think before all browsers ended up filling it in, it was standard practice to set up the server to intercept anything missing that part before the domain name and stick a "www" in front so it wouldn't just dead end. Basically a redirect.
- Comment on But whhhhyyyyy? 1 week ago:
What aggravates me is how fragile the cabin filter holders can be. I guess this can go for a lot of the things that should be regularly checked and changed, but are both made very inaccessible and easy to break. By design, probably.
It's not like I haven't seen PIA stuff in the past. Anyone else done the very regularly needed (and messy) oil change, air cleaner oil change, regapping of points, plugs, and valves on an old VW Beetle? But once you learned how, it was just part of having one and most of it wasn't plastic (none?) that would break off by looking at it.
- Comment on The Republican Party used to be very big on smaller government. What caused them to turn into the party of big government over reach? When did it happen? 1 week ago:
It's like them championing state's rights. Or free market. They're all about the slogans if they get the votes, until they aren't.
- Comment on Behold, the future! 1 week ago:
That actually makes sense. At least to explain the picture. If you're going to concrete over the whole bay, an underground rail system is easy.
- Comment on Behold, the future! 1 week ago:
What I see lacking is a dedicated way to get all the trucks and trains in for the supply chain.
- Comment on What it's like to be in your forties 1 week ago:
It's meta, you don't give a fuck about even telling people you don't give a fuck.
Then in your 60s you begin to forget that you ever did have a fuck.
- Comment on Republicans in North Carolina Try to Reduce Early Voting on Sundays and on Campuses 2 weeks ago:
Reduce early voting, try to block mail in voting, voter ID laws to reduce certain demographics, limiting voting stations and have MAGA demonstrations near the ones left.
"But if everyone is able to vote, we'll lose!"
Indeed.
- Comment on Is a black hole spherical? How come it looks different each way you view it like on it's side or up and down? 2 weeks ago:
When the first image of black hole was due to be released, a few science channels had videos on what we should see (and did). And was also depicted as in the movie Interstellar.
Veritasium had one of the first and supposedly the best and easiest to understand using visual aids.
The very simplest reason is because of the accretion disk, which is the only part we can actually see, and how the black hole's gravity warps the back part of the disk around so we see many sides of it that we wouldn't without the strong gravity bending the light. I.e., we don't see the part of Saturn's rings that are behind the planet.
- Comment on What does "Woke" mean to you? 2 weeks ago:
The positive use has been covered by other comments. Aware of things.
The negative use is much like certain red hats. It helps show which people to avoid having discussions with, as they'll beat you with their experience in idiocy. My usual response to them if any at all is "the opposite of woke is sleeping".
- Comment on I say this as an ex-coder, but is it possible to ask for a paper ballot instead of using the stupid machines when voting? 2 weeks ago:
Then you're wasting their time and yours, as well as the effort to change anything. That's the funny thing about the "danger" of voter fraud, it rarely is a problem because of how little one vote alone has any power. Maybe a small local district that comes close to a tie. Not that your votes isn't important, but it's one drop in a bathtub of water. If no one votes, it's empty.
But they want you to think that it's the few people who may try this that's the problem so they can put in ID laws for other purposes, and to deflect attention from the efforts of mass manipulation of results or the disenfranchising of large demographics in strategic areas. That isn't done by the voters, but by those in control or who work for them.
- Comment on If you need a portable reader, is there any reason to choose an e-reader over your phone? 2 weeks ago:
The LCD screen and size were the selling point beginning with the first ones. Newer phones can do more, and for some that might be better, but I don't like the smaller screen, and will go to a computer before I try to see a website on my phone. Guess it depends on your needs and priorities.
- Comment on You ever catch your self working too hard at work and be like "let me chill they're not paying me enough for this" 2 weeks ago:
Getting ready to retire, and boy I do not want to be around once my scripting that everyone relies on breaks. And it will, it requires regular upkeep by me. Not by design or maliciousness, but because of Microsoft 365 stupidity. But oh well...
- Comment on In what medium be it print music movies or other was the first villain monologue delivered? What was it about? 2 weeks ago:
Not a real monologue, but Humbaba mocks Gilgamesh and Enkidu for their hubris and lack of wisdom. He specifically attacks Enkidu, questioning his origins and his betrayal of the wild. He vows to slaughter them both and feed their flesh to the birds and beasts of the forest.
- Comment on So true. 2 weeks ago:
Maybe it's not AI slop, but we're just too dumb to understand it.
- Comment on He was no friend to the middle class 2 weeks ago:
Even though if you didn't tell them about the part they're missing, they wouldn't realize because it's so little of the whole. But they have to have every damn cent they can grab.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
We don't know for sure. Maybe he was in terrible pain, briefly. Let's just keep that possibility to make us feel better.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 2 weeks ago:
I actually considered getting an ebike once to get to work, but then started mapping out a good route to take and realized the infrastructure isn't designed for that kind of travel. Bonus, it would be at night, so statistically someone in a car would be a threat to me eventually, because bike lanes are a joke.