RedFrank24
@RedFrank24@lemmy.world
- Comment on Word. 16 hours ago:
99% of issues people have with Word are because they never bothered to learn how to use it. Remember those IT classes back in school where they taught you how to do a mail merge? Yeah I bet you can’t remember how to do that now.
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 1 week ago:
I’m always careful with loud noises, and yet… I’ve had tinnitus ever since I can remember. There’s always been this high pitched whine whenever I’m in dead silence, and it’s always been the case. I used to think I could hear the electricity running through the walls or something.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, and Israel can’t pretend they aren’t choosing to bomb hospitals. It’s almost never “Oops we didn’t intend to do that”, it’s “Well there was a Hamas bunker under that. They were using those playing children as sandbags, we simply had to blast through them!”
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 weeks ago:
I’ll be honest, I’d rather the best engineers be there to create weapons that are extremely precise. The weapons are gonna be made regardless, but I’ve seen photos of what happens to cities when bombers are dropping unguided munitions. Back during WW2, if you wanted to hit a factory in London, you didn’t just drop 1-2 bombs, you dropped hundreds of bombs, you flattened absolutely everything in the area because that was the only way you were gonna hit your target.
At least with precision munitions, if you’re doing war ‘nicely’, you only hit what you intend to hit, not your target + everything else even remotely close to said target. With precision munitions, you can’t ‘accidentally’ bomb a hospital, so when you inevitably do bomb a hospital, you don’t get to go “Oh oops no it’s not my fault it’s the bombs’ fault!”. The sights are crystal clear, the plane/drone moves exactly where you want it to, there’s nothing interfering with the guidance, the bomb locked onto the target you wanted to hit, and you dropped it, all thanks to engineers making those systems. You had everything going for you as a bomber to know exactly what that target was, and you dropped the bomb anyway.
- Comment on eat the rich and go to libraries 3 weeks ago:
Technically libraries don’t give away books for free, they lend them out but they also pay for them. There’s a reason publishers are more than happy to sell books to libraries, but hate Internet Archive, and that’s because a library can only lend out however many copies of the book they have at a time, but Internet Archive lent out hundreds of generated copies.
- Comment on "Does Hitler have a right to privacy?" and other big questions in research ethics. 4 weeks ago:
Fetuses don’t pay taxes either and yet the GOP are really interested in making sure they have rights.
- Comment on "Does Hitler have a right to privacy?" and other big questions in research ethics. 4 weeks ago:
Under that argument you could grind up the dead and use them for fertilizer. I guess if you’re being 100% practical it makes sense, but humans have a certain sentimentality for their loved ones, dead or otherwise, and so don’t tend to like it when you use the corpses in a way contrary to the wishes of the estate.
- Comment on do no harm 5 weeks ago:
I would have thought a 10 would be “Kill me, right now. I am in so much pain I would much rather be dead than spend another minute like this” and anything below that depends on where the pain is, like if it’s your arm I would consider a 9 to be “This hurts so much you can get out the hacksaw and chop off my arm because at least then the pain will be gone”.
So… Not so much “How much does it hurt?” as “How far are you willing to go to stop it hurting?”
- Comment on Police Department Shooting Range 1 month ago:
I don’t see a dog shaped target.
- Comment on PC Master Race 1 month ago:
Where are you living where you can get a good console for $400?
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 month ago:
I am immediately skeptical of the 90% claim. There are a lot of Windows games, going back decades! Not even 90% of those work on Windows, let alone Linux!
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 1 month ago:
Ah, Real Cheese brand cheese flavored product.
- Comment on #environmentalist 1 month ago:
Some people can’t hold objects with any dexterity due to disabilities etc. So they use straws.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 1 month ago:
You’re not quite there yet. It still says ‘real cheese’.
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 2 months ago:
Yahtzee’s book Will Save the Galaxy for Food actually covers this, in a sci-fi way. In the future, all transportation is done via Quantum Tunnelling, so guess what job suddenly became obsolete? Space pilots. Space pilots now only exist because people have nostalgia for the old days, reducing pilots to little more than tour guides and adventure holidays.
- Comment on Ferns 2 months ago:
The thing is, back in the day, you couldn’t just look up ferns on the internet, you actually had to go looking for information on ferns specifically, and it’s very likely that after a lot of really annoying visits to various libraries looking through botany textbooks, an author (or a group of authors) decided they were going to collate everything they found about ferns and stick it in one collection.
So when someone else comes along and goes “I need to know something about a very specific fern”, the librarian can go “You want that 8 volume encyclopedia on ferns over there” because they know that it has every single fern on the planet in there, and you don’t need to spend 8 hours looking through every botany textbook and making the room smell like cheap coffee.
What I’m saying is it was probably done out of spite, not genuine interest.
- Comment on Simpler times? 2 months ago:
What would I even SAY to goth baddies?
“Hey do you like tabletop? I do, I like playing Barbarians because it makes me feel strong”
- Comment on 2 months ago:
The trick is to find a game that has a mounted turret with infinite ammo and then tape the button down. The warthog in Halo, or the Street Sweeper in Mercenaries (with the infinite ammo cheat on).
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Assuming they’re a teenager, you trusted your parents not to search through your stuff a lot more than most. Parents aren’t going to give you any lectures or punish you for having a PS5 controller in your room.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
…So what learning styles are there?
- Comment on Lies, all lies 2 months ago:
I’ll listen to it, it doesn’t mean I’ll like it. If you can tell me what you like about it, maybe I’ll also like it.
- Comment on arriving 2 months ago:
British summer is nice if you have air conditoning, otherwise it’s hell. British winter is nice for exactly 24hrs if it ever snows. You know that first 24hrs when it’s deathly silent at night because the snow is deadening all the sounds, and when you get up in the morning and the snow is still fluffy? That’s when British Winter is good. The rest of the time, the snow melts but not enough so it just turns to ice, you’re slipping everywhere, it’s freezing cold and extremely wet so you’re just completely soaked at all times.
Autumn and Spring don’t exist. You have Cold, Hot and Overcast.
- Comment on IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO 2 months ago:
Great, I’ve been suffering through Capitalism and now I have to learn that it’s not even real Capitalism.
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 3 months ago:
Not fair to the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs got hit by a meteor, humans are destroying themselves.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 3 months ago:
Absolutely not, that would never happen. Why? Because there’s a load of stuff that runs on Windows that is ancient and only exists as legacy software and never receives updates.
If anything, Windows is the last operating system that will have locked bootloaders, because if they do, there’s gonna be some bank somewhere in the world suing them because their ancient counting software was originally made for Windows 3.0 back in the day and Microsoft has had to build their entire operating system around making sure that software continues to run.
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 3 months ago:
I don’t care enough to have an argument with you about it.
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 3 months ago:
It’s not the social housing that’s the problem though, it’s specifically the tower blocks. Social housing by-and-large worked pretty well, with some pretty nice council housing being put up and people living in them without too much issue. The thing is, there’s a big difference between a socially isolated tower block and a council house in the suburbs, a lot of which was eaten away by Right-to-Buy because it turns out they were really nice houses so people wanted them. Almost nobody wants to buy a flat in a tower block.
The 'Stay Put thing for Grenfell Tower was actually good policy… When the tower was built. Each apartment acted essentially as its own fireproof box, so under the original design, staying put is actually the best policy to have, because you knew a fire was only ever going to exist in one of the boxes. It’s when those boxes are compromised that things become a problem, stuff like unauthorised knock-throughs and especially the flammable cladding (that was added later) on the outside of the building. It turned all those fireproof boxes into fireproof boxes except on one side, so when that cladding caught fire, it just set fire to all of the boxes.
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 3 months ago:
Except a lot of the brutalist architecture in the UK looks like shit and the towers are shit, which is why they’re being knocked down. Those tower blocks are SUPPOSED to have shops and amenities inside them, but the British ones don’t, so they exist solely as shitholes nobody with a choice wants to live in.
It also doesn’t help that tower blocks very quickly became a dumping ground for local councils to throw unwanted tenants into, so troublemakers, those who can’t be housed anywhere else. The image of a tower block became one of high crime, social isolation and poor construction. Couple that with Grenfell Tower and you’ve got “Death trap” added to the list.
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 4 months ago:
Well it’s not like there’s much else.
Lemmy is dominated by exactly three topics and nothing else.
- Comment on Shamelessly stolen from Reddit 4 months ago:
The only time I would give a military discount would be if you are a military member that meets the following criteria:
- You were conscripted for a defensive war OR
- You volunteered (as in you weren’t paid) to fight a defensive war