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- Comment on Stride and Speed 4 days ago:
It could probably be made fairly stable for the riders - think of a chicken’s head.
But imagine what it’s doing to the road.
- Comment on Prehistoric Crossroads 2 weeks ago:
Naw, my gut instinct was just straight up wrong, dog. It’s Ok. It’s neither the first, nor the last, time I’m going to be wrong. It’s good, because it means I sometimes verify before making claims.
But I appreciate the spirit of your attempt to make me look less ignorant.
Doveryay, no proveryay.
- Comment on Big Marijuana don't want you to know... 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I think I’m just cursed that the first noticeable effect is nausea. From what I’ve read, it’s not entirely uncommon.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Legalized prostitution is liberal, though. Worker’s rights, protection, medical care… in every country with legalized prostitution, prostitutes have a better deal.
Note that I’m not saying that legalized prostitution is always good - human trafficking is still an issue. I’m just saying it’s a better environment than places where prostitution is illegal.
There may be liberals who see prostitution as exploitation, but more broadly, legalized prostitution is more supported by liberals.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
$20? No. $200? Still no. $2,000. Nopers.
But $100,000 USD? Yeah. That’s dick-sucking money. Now, if it came with caveats - swallowing, whatever - probably no. But for $1,000,000, I’d swallow.
It’s, like, eating human shit. Assuming it’s been sanitized and I’m not going to get some illness from it, for $1M, I’d do it. There isn’t a lot that’s not life-threatening I wouldn’t do for a million dollars, especially if it’s under a half-hour’s work.
$1M would dramatically reduce my retirement age.
But $20? There’s not a lot I would do that I normally wouldn’t for $20.
- Comment on Big Marijuana don't want you to know... 3 weeks ago:
I’m in a state where it’s legal, and I’ve been experimenting since the late 80’s. I’ve had a wide variety of doses of pot.
If it’s enough for me to notice more than a little fuzzy-headed, I get sick. Yes, there’s a threshold below which I don’t get sick, but I also don’t get a buzz.
- Comment on If I acted like a semi white power douche. On X Meta or whatever. And was a yes man to Elon and promoted the Orange Peel. While using fake photos of myself. Can I bilk them for alot of cash? 3 weeks ago:
You have to have something they want. Either a really good con, like… an idea to convert public schools to prisons, or something. They’re not just going to give you money just because you kiss their asses; they have a shitload of authentic rabid fanatics.
But if you think you’ve got a good con, do it for the cause, not because it’ll embarrass them. If you could somehow embarrassed Trump, you could find yourself with new lodging at Guantanamo, and good luck getting anyone in the lethal system to successfully get you out.
Neither of them are “givers”. They’re both con men themselves, so I think trying to bilk them is going to be challenging.
- Comment on Big Marijuana don't want you to know... 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. Some of us suffer from a paradoxical effect, where the entire time we’re high, we feel like we’re in zero-G, which is a lot like being made dizzy. It makes me so sick, I’m on the verge of puking. The. Entire. Time. 4-6 hours of being nauseous. It sucks, and I’m pissed about it.
I didn’t get it from mom; she was a pot smoker back in the day, and my sister is fine with it, so I guess I just got unlucky.
- Comment on Iron Fist Actor Finn Jones Continues To Advocate For His MCU Return 3 weeks ago:
“Mom, can we get One Punch Man?”
“We have One Punch Man at home.”
One Punch Man at home:
Image - Comment on Emerald Woodland 4 weeks ago:
Were you surprised that the single, glowing light turned into a fairy? Even with the full prompt, I wouldn’t have expected the little flame, fairy, or whatever it is in the puddle.
- Comment on Prehistoric Crossroads 4 weeks ago:
So, I came to ask whether that is really prehistory, given that we have cave paintings of wooly mammoths. So I looked it up, and prehistory is anything before the first known structured writing system, and cave art and bone carvings don’t count.
So, TIL.
- Comment on Stairwell To Happiness 4 weeks ago:
So adorable! What a cute smile! I can imagine the cat-eye makeup, maybe a studded collar, some black lace… I’m going in…
- Comment on Stairwell To Happiness 4 weeks ago:
I mean, that very well could be a goth GF down there.
- Comment on Between Worlds 4 weeks ago:
Wow.
One day, decades ago, my GF and I were driving through Germany from Munich to - Vienna, I think. Anyway, it was summer, and we had all the car windows down, and it was getting to be evening - just a the end of the golden hour, when things start to fade into darkness.
As the road wound out between some hills, we suddenly came out into a view almost exactly like this: a lake, surrounded by wooded hills, with the shores lined by houses, all lit up. They were more cottage-y, and less dense than this, but this captures really well that feeling I had coming upon an almost fairyland scene.
I don’t remember the name of the lake, or even where it was. For all I know, it was a glimpse into Faerie.
Thanks for the post, though. I’ve never seen anything that quite captured that scene.
- Comment on lords of chaos 5 weeks ago:
I believe that chaos monkeys will go down in computing history as being one of the century’s greatest innovations in testing.
- Comment on Tiny Face Vance 1 month ago:
That, too. It’s a face of many repulsive characteristics.
- Comment on Tiny Face Vance 1 month ago:
What? That’s just a normal picture of Vance. Voted “Most Punchable” 2 years in a row!
- Comment on Anon is deeply disturbed 1 month ago:
Thank you! No problem. I do that all the time.
- Comment on Just watched the movie Hacksaw Ridge. Got me thinking can people in the military turn down an order because they disagree with it on sensible grounds? Like Trump ordering them to invade CN? 1 month ago:
You can refuse to disobey an illegal order. The military has a fairly clear list of what constitutes “illegal,” like executing unarmed non-combatants. The UCMJ makes allowances for this; it protects you from being court martialed for refusing to obey an order. However, the soldier doesn’t get to decide whether the order of illegal; it can’t just be something they disagree with, like invading Canada.
I do believe that, if such circumstances came about, a soldier could probably get away with a fairly broad interpretation of “illegal orders.” However, this is mostly theoretical.
First, if you thought peer pressure on high school was bad, it’s nothing compared to the Army.
Second, it doesn’t stop there from being immediate consequences, some of which might very well result in you being dead, many of which would just make your life hell. There are an almost unlimited number of legal orders you could be given that would make your life hell.
Third, it’s really predicated on the illegal order being given fairly low down the chain. If the commander of the US forces sends down orders to kill all the orphans in a town, the USMC isn’t going to help.
Fourth, the person giving you the order could threaten to kill you, right there, unless you obey. Sure, they might get in trouble later, but that doesn’t really help you now, does it? And maybe they won’t get in trouble. Maybe they say they gave you some other legal order you disobeyed, and no-one is willing to gainsay them.
But really, your question is whether there’s any protection if you disagree with an order, and the answer is “no.” There’s a narrow set of defined “illegal orders” which you can, theoretically, disobey.
In peacetime, you can decide to become a conscientious objector, and look forward to spending some time in prison. Once you join, you have almost no option for rejecting a legal order, without facing some sort of punishment.
- Comment on Anon is deeply disturbed 1 month ago:
I didn’t see anything where the customer was suggesting the server should bypass the rules. I was talking about the Anon responder who mocked the Anon customer for bitching about the policy.
- Comment on Anon is deeply disturbed 1 month ago:
I’m with the customer on this. The responder is singer sort of shill who probably is responsible for decisions at their company that nickle and dime customers with hidden fees.
Fuck those deceitful bloodsuckers.
- Comment on Smile Phantom 1 month ago:
Someone needs a hug!
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 1 month ago:
Well, I don’t use Wayland, and Qt and Chromium are going to completely new to my system, but maybe I’ll give it a shot.
Cheers
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 1 month ago:
Luakit has a lot of problems. The biggest one right now is that it has some scrolling bug where it just… won’t. It’s extremely annoying, but it beats having to
kill -9Nyxt multiple times an hour because it hard-freezes.Why haven’t I tried Qute? Is it keyboard-control oriented?
- Comment on Dancing Lights 1 month ago:
They look like they’re on bicycles.
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 1 month ago:
They’re all very niche. Keyboard driven. A fair number of issues; they’re all built on WebKit, with all of the compatability issues that comes with.
I mean, it doesn’t hurt. But it’s like picking up vim: there’s a learning curve. They’re not for everyone, just fair warning.
- Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs? 1 month ago:
I’ve been half-assed monitor shopping, and the USB-C capable ones are still far more expensive; they exist, they’re just pricey. I’ll consider USB-C to have “won” when the price difference is negligible.
- Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs? 1 month ago:
BNC is better, but I’ve only encountered it, like, twice.
Honestly, I’ve never been happier since USB-C took over. I compare today to the early 90s and having 8-12 different connectors - two of which looked identical but were incompatible - to hook up a single Sun workstation. I clearly remember dreaming of a day when there would be a single connector for everything, and we’re really close. Higher wattage demands and video connectors (HDMI, DP, DVI) are the only hold-outs - and I’m not sure why USB-C hasn’t conquered video yet, unless it’s a cost thing, because it’s certainly capable.
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 1 month ago:
Maybe. Not everyone is just going to ignore this, though.
I waffle between Firefox and other browsers, depending on how tolerant I’m feeling. Not using Firefox is more work. Sometimes I’ll spend a week or two with Firefox up, but normally, I’m in Luakit.But when I hit that web site that just doesn’t work with WebKit, I hop over to FF for it. Now, with this, I’ll probably start jumping to Nyxt which - while also WebKit - seems for some reason to work with more sites. Nyxt is faster, too; luakit is really slow and has a persistent scrolling bug that drives me nuts. But Nyxt hard-hangs multiple times during each hour of its, requiring a kill -9 and restart, so … Luakit.
Like I said. It’s harder to not use Firefox. But this change in policy is enough to make me change my habits and use something else when I have issues with Luakit. Or surf. Or vimb. Or whatever I’m fancying this month. Problem is, they’re mostly WebKit, and while in grateful for it, it struggles with many web sites - and especially the JS heavy ones.
- Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs? 1 month ago:
In not the person you replied to, and I can’t speak about the engineering merits; but as a user I hate F-type connectors. They’re bad enough when you have to only install them once in the lifetime of the connected device - it’s the threaded screw that’s the worst, I think, for which no non-technical user owns a tool beyond their fingers, from which the bevel invariably strips the flesh; although I’ve also bent enough of those pins trying to get something connected in an awkward place, or because I was tired, or being sloppy. It’s not a connector that’s convenient for amateurs, and most of its users were and are amateurs.
As a connector for multiple, frequent dis- and re-connection, it’s an utter disaster. Sure, that’s not what it’s designed for. It was designed to be a semi-permanent extension of permanent wiring, and I’m sure it’s great at that.
The context of the whole thread, though, was end-user, repeated, frequent connections for people who have to be reminded by a manual that the thing needs to be plugged in. Coax is horrible for that.
