RedFrank24

@RedFrank24@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨eat the rich and go to libraries⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see a dog shaped target.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC Master Race⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, Real Cheese brand cheese flavored product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#environmentalist⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people can’t hold objects with any dexterity due to disabilities etc. So they use straws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Depression: Part Deux⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not quite there yet. It still says ‘real cheese’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finds a plot hole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t care enough to have an argument with you about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anons brother has some strong opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charging to tour rental properties...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They may end up having to, because the landlord will only take ‘verified renters’. So unless you’re the only one making a bid, you will never get the property.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what video game deserves to be in a museum?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on what your museum is trying to convey. If it’s moments of gaming history and games and consoles of significance, I’d go with:

  For the earliest video games, I’d show the Tennis for Two on the DuMont Lab Ocilloscope, released in 1958.

  You should also include the life of Warren Robinett, because he was the first ever game programmer to receive in-game credit for a game he made, because Atari never gave their programmers credit, but he snuck one in as an easter egg. He then went on to found the Learning Company which made all those Reader Rabbit games.

  For the Crash of 1983, you have to include ET for the Atari 2600 as the posterboy, but “Pitfall!” should also be included. Pitfall was a good game, but it was the breakout hit of Activision and therefore proof that third-party video games were viable, leading to the glut of video games which, in combination with ET being such a colossal failure, caused the crash.

  For the resurgence after the crash, the Nintendo Entertainment System, but specifically the one that came with the little robot to help you play games. It’s essential that you convey that Nintendo intended to sell it as a toy rather than a games console because the games market in the US had completely died in the crash, but the toy market was very much alive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't have good public transportation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You say that, but… Iraq was a dictatorship, and they weren’t all that efficient at anything other than killing Kurds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ill take a double scoop⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …That’s worse, gimme a country where everyone wipes with toilet paper, rather than a country where roughly half the population are walking around with shit in their trousers.