TheTechnician27
@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
- Comment on Reviewer 2 recommends the author gets a swirly 5 days ago:
- Comment on If it happened, would anybody even question it? 1 week ago:
monkei
- Comment on another TUI 1 week ago:
I think they also think they’re vegan while holding that position. Hey OP, the animal kingdom doesn’t stop at the doorstep of genus Homo, you fucking nutjob.
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 2 weeks ago:
- People in much more extreme climates bike at rates an order of magnitude higher than the US and Canada.
- People physiologically adapt to the climates they live in by being outdoors.
- North Americans who complain about the cold use the wind chill rather than ambient temperature when that’s not actually the temperature they’re feeling with clothes on that block the wind. They also take the coldest data points and just say “that was the whole winter”.
- Poor weather magnifies the US and Canada’s unsafe bike infrastructure. If we had safe, well-maintained bike infrastructure, it would not be nearly as much of a problem (shown by the Nordic countries biking all the time in the snowy dead of winter).
- In extreme weather, you can still delay your trip, take public transit, or take a car. Commuting via micromobility isn’t a binary yes/no thing; if you can’t on some days, then don’t.
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 2 weeks ago:
People in normal countries who have to commute 65 km take the train. Sorry the car lobby has deprived you of that.
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 2 weeks ago:
And you must live within walking distance of a train.
Or they just take a bus? It’s crazy to think about, but not all buses are US and Canadian ones that come every hour and take two hours and five connections to get you to the station.
Also, locking up a bike is comparatively very easy to parking a car. The only reason car parking is often easy in North American cities is because of ridiculous parking minimums that subsidize car ownership through free storage for giant metal boxes, blanket the landscape in otherwise-useless asphalt, and vastly inflate the distances between locations for the people not using cars (including from, say, your house to the train station).
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 2 weeks ago:
Thank you, Not Just Bikes, for finally giving us this video when someone pretends that winters are normally -25°C.
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 2 weeks ago:
They’re not remotely safe for this shit in most places
Yes, good, and why is that? Keep that thought going.
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 2 weeks ago:
That, and the nearest grocery store being 15 miles (25 km) away is highly unusual even by US standards. The fact that someone chooses to live in bumfuck nowhere shouldn’t mean that the other people who live in a town with population > 5 shouldn’t get to have safe, affordable, well-kept walking/micromobility/public transit infrastructure.
People don’t suddenly stop driving cars when not-cars becomes the predominant form of transportation. Like I said, “main form of transportation”. That cars are by far the main form is the problem because, among other huge problems, it induces reliance on cars and creates expensive, unmaintainable sprawl that makes other forms of transit completely impractical. Hell, even bumfuck nowhere towns used to have passenger rail that came through them before the tracks were ripped out.
“What do you mean ‘boats shouldn’t be the primary form of transportation’? Did you ever consider that I chose to live on an island off the coast of Michigan??”
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 2 weeks ago:
setting has bikes and trains still using cars as main form of transportation
- Comment on requirement 2 weeks ago:
AROOOO, BROTHER. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN LIFE IS THE CONNECTIONS WE MAKE WITH OTHERS. CHERISH THOSE AROUND YOU LIKE YOU CHERISH THAT MF’IN HOG.
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- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t “think I got you”; I was leading into something: what was it about Photopea prior to this that made them fundamentally different from Digikam, Slackware, and discuss.tchncs? I’ve donated to Lemmy too and various other FOSS projects, so I authentically appreciate that your donations strengthened that interconnected ecosystem.
You clearly got plenty of use out of them, indicating how integral this apparently was into your workflow. You don’t show any indication you had problems with the Photopea maintainer’s actions or attitude before this. Was it the fact that Photopea isn’t FOSS? I’d agree it’s a huge difference, but at the same time, they’re basically free as in beer, and you weren’t just idly not paying them; you were actively using their finite resources. Wouldn’t you agree that, even if you don’t want to give money to proprietary software (assuming again that’s the reason), they at least deserve to break even? If so, you could’ve just whitelisted them on uBO. But I also resent digital advertising for ethical reasons and because it’s a vector for malware, so I’d understand not wanting to turn off uBO and not wanting to give €5/month in compensation. But then it looks like, despite being plenty familiar with the FOSS ecosystem, you never gave it a fair shake. You just called GIMP icky and didn’t do the bare minimum level of searching that’d tell you ImageMagick exists for batch edits.
So realistically, it sounds like you were never going to support the Photopea maintainer regardless of what they did or how they acted, and now that they’ve cut you off from using their service for free, you’re acting like this is some kind of principled stance rather than being a lazy, entitled cheapskate.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 4 weeks ago:
I am not financially supporting developers who act like this.
Are you financially supporting literally any developers at all? You made it clear you were not paying for a Photopea subscription and were using uBO, so there’s not a carrot or a stick here for the maintainer of Photopea (I guess there’s a very tiny carrot for losing you as a user in that you’re not using their resources). I mean that as a genuine question, by the way:
- What software that you use have you paid for and/or donated to?
- Was it because you had to, or because you felt strongly that they deserved compensation for their work?
- Did you ever at any point stop giving said software maintainer money when you felt they were no longer acting in a way that comports with your standards?
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 4 weeks ago:
I don’t really understand why you’re using ad-supported proprietary software that you’ve never paid a dime for (or given a dime to, since you use uBO), claiming that you don’t use GIMP or Krita instead because the former “is terrible” and the latter isn’t meant for cropping (a trivial, fundamental feature of the software), and then acting entitled to use the Photopea author’s own personal work with zero compensation. So you have free alternatives, refuse to do even the bare minimum to learn how to use them, and then go full “you took my only food; now I’m gonna starve” when Photopea’s author stops you from using their own site for free that they run and maintain at their own expense.
If anything, you seem ignorant and entitled, and I say that from the perspective of someone who resents digital advertising and proprietary software.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 4 weeks ago:
It’s 100% grammatically correct, for what it’s worth. If it helps, swap the two comma-separated components: “Turn them off, please.”
- Comment on And the pre-peeled containers for 4x the price are a ripoff 5 weeks ago:
No, pomegranates are actually very healthy. They’re rich in polyphenols (a class of antioxidant), fiber, and a variety of micronutrients, and they have a low glycemic index.
- Comment on And the pre-peeled containers for 4x the price are a ripoff 5 weeks ago:
“And just beat the devil out of it.”
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- Comment on oh cool 5 weeks ago:
Juno was mad, he knew he’d been had…
- Comment on Why didn't he just call on his powers to stop the bullet? 1 month ago:
Here’s what a 7.62x63 (“.30-06”) does to level III armor (think basic rifle protection, the kind that would actually stop the round that hit Kirk). This particular one is a large, very conspicuous plate of steel 8.5 mm thick and weighing 4 kg. You don’t just slot this in under your shirt and look inconspicuous.
And it would have to have been hard armor, i.e. a rigid plate. Soft armor 1) wouldn’t have stopped that round (that’d be more like a step down to level IIIA on the high end) and 2) would’ve embedded the round rather than ricocheting it.
- Comment on Why didn't he just call on his powers to stop the bullet? 1 month ago:
Firstly, the burden of proof says it’s their job to demonstrate that Kirk was wearing a bulletproof vest in the first place (let alone that the bullet struck him in it first), not yours to debunk it. We’ve really lost sight of how important this is in recent years.
- There’s zero evidence Kirk was wearing body armor whatsoever.
- I don’t think we’ve ever seen evidence of Kirk wearing body armor to debates elsewhere.
- A bullet would’ve left at minimum a noticeable mark on Kirk’s clothing.
- Neither journalists nor investigators mention anything about this even though there’s zero compelling reason for them not to and, for journalists, incentives to do so.
- The rounds were 7.62x63 mm fired from a bolt-action rifle.
- If that round strikes body armor, in order for it to stop (let alone ricochet rather than embed), the armor needs to be so thick that you cannot hide it under clothing. The armor would’ve been readily visible to everybody in attendance. Armor Kirk realistically could’ve been wearing would be a non-factor.
- Even if this magically happened, the improbably fucked-up physics required for a bullet to bounce from the torso into the cartoid artery seem vanishingly unlikely at best and implausible at worst.
While much of this just shows extreme unlikelihood, the thickness of the alleged body armor is impossible to reconcile with the round and the weapon it was fired from.
- Comment on Why didn't he just call on his powers to stop the bullet? 1 month ago:
He was not. This has already been categorically debunked over and over again by people who know literally the first thing about ballistics.
- Comment on Me and Boost 1 month ago:
“We’ve taken X into not just the second but the third dimension! XYZ is the new town square of the metaverse!” —Elon “illegal immigrant” Musk
- Comment on Anon eats Italian 1 month ago:
This isn’t necessarily true. Italian meatballs are usually small, but polpette alla Napoletana are often on the larger side. You just need to be discerning.
- Comment on Llama 2 months ago:
Killer whale.
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- Comment on Call me... 2 months ago:
Funnily enough, that Unidan copypasta is 100% correct. I don’t know why, for as long-winded as it is, though, he doesn’t use use more taxonomic names to make it precise: jackdaws are in genus Coloeus, and crows and ravens are in genus Corvus, both under family Corvidae. The apes are the primate superfamily Hominoidea, which Homo sapiens sits under. There, Unidan; that’s all you had to say.
- Comment on Call me... 2 months ago:
For those who might be confused, “daddy longlegs” colloquially refers to two totally separate things. Spiders are of the order Araneae under class Arachnida (they’re arachnids; go figure).
“Daddy longlegs” often refers to cellar spiders, the family Pholcidae within the spiders. However, “daddy longlegs” also refers to another order of arachnids altogether called Opiliones, also known as harvestmen. So if this doesn’t look like the daddy longlegs you know, that’s why; they’re not a “different type” of the cellar spider you’re familiar with.
- Comment on Good for plants 2 months ago:
I only give my plants real country music.
