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- Comment on bee movie turns 18 today btw 16 hours ago:
No
- Comment on I can't believe they still push this fear narrative myth about "tainted" Halloween candy. It's the Satanic Panic that refuses to die. 17 hours ago:
My dad just sent me a nextdoor post claiming to be from the police saying some kids found sewing needles in gummy bears… How to know if it is a hoax?
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 1 day ago:
I will add one more: a quick once-or-twice blink of the hazard lights indicates “thank you” if someone let’s you merge in front of them, etc.
This seems analogous to the video game “Killing Floor”, albeit with much lower stakes. This game is an FPS, and playing it requires your attention. Voice chat exists, similar to CB radio in cars, but many people opt out, to avoid the distraction.
The game has a “quick chat” feature which cannot be disabled, which allows for messages like “follow me,” “get out of here”, “medic”, “thank you” and a few others.
Perhaps a quick chat system for cars would be an improvent over the ambiguous “hazard lights / high beams / honk” messages which can be misunderstood.
Although the first concern would be to limit their potential for abuse / distraction.
Possible messages:
- My vehicle is stopped
- My vehicle is moving slowly
- Hazard ahead
- Let me pass
- Wait
- Thank you
- Turn on your headlights
- Turn off your high beams
- You have a light out
- Something is wrong with your vehicle
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 1 day ago:
There is a highway near me where the limit is 55, but the average speed in the fast lanes is 70+.
I don’t get it. This makes everyone a criminal. I isn’t realize that 75+ would be a felony.
- Comment on Treat 2 days ago:
Why is the snail?
- Comment on Coastal Peacock Spider: Mating Dance 6 days ago:
Who is thus artist!
- Comment on Are there really no stupid questions? 6 days ago:
I will try!
Is halloween good? This video says it is stupid (link)
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
He’s I NS of annoying on his videos tbh
- Comment on eel butts 1 week ago:
You’re a tree!
- Comment on eel butts 1 week ago:
The feces doubles as moisturizer.
- Comment on We gotta be more encouraging 1 week ago:
How is a lay person supposed to discover “the usual channels?” Or do you basically have to go to community college at least?
- Comment on CNC 1 week ago:
Tim Curry <3
- Comment on Fictional 1 week ago:
Well, akshually they started out as being earth specific, as convenient ways to measure human-relevant amounts of space and time, and were standardized after that. So really God still wouldn’t care to use meters or seconds, but would probably have their own units which could also be standardized with natural phenomena.
- Comment on Is compressed air the best way to clean my pc that I consider dusting once every 2 years? 1 week ago:
I’ve heard this causes static electricity but I don’t really know
- Comment on ANTI PEE PAINT 1 week ago:
I suppose we will have to agree to disagree. I don’t think it always affects others if you do it in private in a place where people don’t walk, and rain can hit it.
Everything has an effect, especially if lots of people do it. You do not want to pee within 100 ft of a stream if you can help it. It is better to let the pee break up in the soil. The real problem for ecology is the salts in urine. That’s why if a dog pees in the same spot every time, plants die.
- Comment on ANTI PEE PAINT 1 week ago:
Just a logistical question about how this works , does the pee reflect equally in a hemisphere normal to the surface, or does it reflect off the wall like a normal reflection.
If it is option 1, how does that work physically? Is the surface multi-faceted? Even with a hydrophobic surface I would still expect a normal reflection.
I don’t really see what’s so bad about peeing outdoors so long as it regularly rains, and you’re not peeing in a way that will affect others.
- Comment on Have you done US district court jury duty? What CAN I bring with me to the courthouse? 1 week ago:
Is gum allowed? Caffeine gum?
No coffee allowed is cruel
- Comment on Is there an anti- sleep-paralysis device? 1 week ago:
In my experience, I’m awake, I’m conscious, I just can’t move.
But if I logically think “this is sleep paralysis, that’s pretty dope” the feeling of looming malevolence fades eventually and I’m able to move again.
If a person or device shakes you awake, do you more quickly regain the ability to move?
- Comment on Which fly came first? 1 week ago:
Fly, you fools!
- Comment on Which fly came first? 1 week ago:
Pretty sure insects first evolved flight.
Unless you are counting fungal spores or some shit.
- Comment on When baking, if your oven can't reach the temperature stated in the recipe, do you then just adjust for time? 1 week ago:
Some people use the self ceaning cycle of modern ovens to achieve a higher temp for pizza, bit this is obviously somewhat dangerous and definitely not intended.
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 1 week ago:
Where are ppl doing that?
- Comment on Is airtags really useful? 2 weeks ago:
Not time afaik
- Comment on Does having to hold down a comment to open a downvote prompt make it less likely for you to downvote? 2 weeks ago:
It took me quite a while to dial in the swipes just right for me. I ended up getting rid of all the downvotes shortcuts because I kept activating them by accident (I couldn’t really far while I’m reading comments and deciding if I want upvote or not at the end.)
- Comment on Be safe this Halloween¡¡¡ 2 weeks ago:
The only realistic one
- Comment on How would you quickly describe Lemmy to a non-fediverse person? 2 weeks ago:
It’s reddit but instead of me/ we have c/ and there are different servers, not just reddit.com, but most of them talk to each other. Also the devs are tankies, don’t use .ml
- Comment on Is airtags really useful? 2 weeks ago:
Tiles don’t require a subscription. But iirc they stopped making the ones with the users replaceable battery. I have one of those old ones and it still works great.
- Comment on Is airtags really useful? 2 weeks ago:
My tiles have saved my butt so many times. It’s too bad the same technology can easily be used to stalk people. Not sure how to get around that.
- Comment on Pants too! 2 weeks ago:
If they’re good enough for your hands…
- Comment on one bright second 2 weeks ago:
Why use lot words…?