brygphilomena

@brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?⁩ ⁨⁨31⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  So weird how a generative image is able to make CSAM images unless it was training on CSAM material.

  So weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This stupid regime wants to spur domestic manufacturing. What better way to help than to cut us off?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The kind that has the condenser and evap coils.

  The area closest to the coils is coldest. The doors often open and close and the air nearest them when closed has to get cold again.

  And the air is often moved over the coils by a fan. If you block the air flow, then that area gets really cold and will freeze.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or all of the above. I doubt it’s just for a single use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be reporting requirements or KYC stuff. It might differentiate how much information to gather on the passenger or put restrictions on where they can sit, like exit rows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True of mine but he more than made up for it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It hasn’t happened. I only wrap around the beginning of December. So, I just wouldn’t wrap em both. But I forget what they are in like a few days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True of mine but he more than made up for it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I buy throughout the year whenever I see something I know they will like. By Christmas, I forget what I’ve bought and wrapped.

  This year, I asked my girlfriend if she will want something and tell her I’ll hold onto it until Christmas. Buy it with her, and then by the time she gets it, she’s forgotten. I did that with a bracelet that said “Mom” on it during the summer, that I would put her daughters name as the from so that she gets something from her daughter. I always try to buy something to be “from” her daughter. It is really nice for her daughter too, to have that experience “giving” something on Christmas too.

  I sat with her daughter the other night making bracelets for her to give out at our family Christmas party and the first one we made was for her to give to her biological Dad when she goes with him in a few days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gas is much, much cheaper. Like, insanely cheaper. Many homes were built long before it was normal to have 200 amp service.

  It’s only in relatively recent years where heat pumps are becoming more common. And resistive heat uses a lot of electricity.

  Gas has had decades and decades to be made safe. We have odorants so people can smell it, meters and sensors to monitor for abnormal usage and leaks, and it needs to be contained to cause an explosion.

  Leaks outside suck, but aren’t really that dangerous because they can dissipate and be blown away by wind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I drive a MR2 Spyder. I specifically don’t pull in all the way now so that I can see the ass end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If your federal government cut internet access to your whole town then where in your town would you think that "the people" would get together to protest ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s where they got that Picasso!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A field sobriety test cannot ever be used as evidence that you are sober in court. They can only be used by cops and prosecutors as evidence you were impaired.

  There is never a good reason to submit to them. Cops aren’t watching to see if you are sober. They are looking to see if you are impaired.

  If you are drunk, hope they don’t make you take a breathalyzer. Even then, you can refuse and they can make you take a blood test OR if you refuse that they take your license but they have less evidence you were drunk. I’m not entirely sure, but fairly certain they could get a warrant and compel a blood draw, but hopefully by that time you’ve sobered up a bit. You still forfeit your license.

  If you are just a little intoxicated, the time between being pulled over and a phlebotomist takes your blood could be enough to be under the limit.

  That said, even under the limit, they might still claim you were impaired anyway and hit you with the ticket/arrest anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, definitely.

  Fuck carry weight. Fuck inventory management.

  Unless there is a serious, compelling reason and they game is about that, let me turn off micromanage shit. I want to explore the world and dungeons and not worry about whether all the loot I can pick up is worth it or to decide each and every single item whether I want it or what I need to toss to pick it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cause and Effect⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Media literacy and how to validate sources. Unfortunately, the second part was primarily taught in college when I was still in school.

  Critical thinking is very difficult to teach. Its so much easier for people to just accept whatever confirms their current preconceived notion. It also requires that the person is both open to learning new things and that they are open to the idea that they may be wrong, misinformed, or not know everything.

  So many people are simply over confident about their own knowledge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your test for people?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I may tidy up. But I don’t stack. I won’t even stack at my house, I hate touching the dirty bottom of a plate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your test for people?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do have some caveats for this. As my parents both park in handicap, we’ve noticed that the cart corrals are super far from the handicap spots and I won’t blame someone who already has trouble walking half way down the parking aisle to a corral.

  I do tend to take the random carts from the parking lot in to use for shopping when I see them though. No reason to take one of the ones already brought back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Covers the bases⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve missed the point. Women are just people, like you.

  Stop putting them on a pedestal or as a prize to win by being some weird ideal or generic “what women want.” Women may not be “as horny” but they do get horny and they all have different preferences. So just do interesting shit that you enjoy and your enthusiasm for whatever it is will help more than you could imagine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With the NLRB it would have been illegal in the states. A form of preventing workers from organizing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is reportedly planning a Nintendo Switch-style PlayStation 6 portable | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I find a big impetus to mobile games (on phones) is the interface. Touch screens absolutely SUCK for most games. Holding a rectangle is uncomfortable.

  Its interesting to me that playstation isn’t new to the mobile market.

  They’ve had the accessories for the psOne to add a battery and monitor, the psp, and the psvita. They are one of the companies I’d be interested in another mobile platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When something still uses micro USB in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Usb-c is really susceptible to dust building up in the port, especially on phones on pockets. They often need to be scrapped out to get rid of the lint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe not the best word choices. But I don’t think they’re problems without knowing more about their relationship. Sometimes parenting you have to be hard and direct. You don’t always give choices, now I know they are 22 and that makes it a little weird. But parenting doesn’t exactly stop when someone turns 18.

  And “evolve” wouldn’t have been so strange if it were replaced with “grow”. It sounds more like “push yourself out of your comfort zone.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Giving their son a sex toy, whatever, not common, but it can help have a normal conversation about sex and realistic expectations.

  For his birthday, kind of weird. I don’t think it should so formal a thing. Just so it and have the conversation about safe sex and how porn isn’t like real sex.

  For his 18th, uhhhh little late to the party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Off topic⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For fucks sake, can we just get releases that have separate audio tracks for dialogue, music, and effects that we the viewer can decide how we want to hear it?

  Video games figured this out

  I don’t want the explosions to be so loud that it wakes my entire house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | FCC to Appoint a Babysitter to Make Sure CBS Isn't Anti-Trump⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ministry of propaganda.

  They could restore the fairness doctrine instead, but that would hurt fox, newsmax, and oan so much they won’t even consider it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This very much depends on the car.

  Most modern computer controlled cars will not discharge the battery at idle unless you have a powerful sound system or an alternator that’s already on its way out. And they can adjust idle anyway if needed, most will increase idle when AC is turned on now to compensate the increased load on the engine. Driving the AC compressor is such a light load compared to the moving a 2 ton vehicle.

  Also, many newer cars may even run an electric compressor instead of one driven off the motor. Think hybrid vehicles, it wouldn’t be feasible to have an AC system that turns off half the time if it’s running on the electric motors.

  What you might deal with is heat soak if the fans can’t move enough air over the condenser core. But modern vehicles are immensely more efficient than even 10 year old vehicles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Id still be using my clamshell iBook if it worked and supported a modern-ish browser.

  My eeePC only got sidelined because 4gb of ram is now too little for kubuntu releases. (I was going to install Debian, but after 30 min on it’s SLOW SSD it failed and I haven’t tried again) And I had issues with the screen resolution being too low for the smallest settings window before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lego games are great for just putting on and playing. So very little intro tutorials and learning. They just are fun.

  I’m in the same boat where I don’t want anything that takes too long to get into. I don’t have the time to learn complex mechanics anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And the diplomacy and politics.

  And scams. Or baits, escalations, and war strategies.

  I ran my small alliance for a bit. The organization skills corralling 200 active people for an op is insane. Spending days prepping and doing logistics moving tons of ships. Making arrangements and mutual defense agreements. It was arduous work.

  Then to have the fight not happen. Or the target not to drop. And having to manage the morale of everyone who devoted the time for it or purposely made sure they were free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon turns on raytracing⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think raytracing is fine for games that want a lot of realism. But I’m playing games with monsters and fantasy. My suspension of disbelief isn’t going to break because reflections aren’t quite right.

  But I’m pretty much in the camp of, I want my games to look and feel like games. I like visual cues like highlighting items I can interact with or pick up. So lighting is always non-realistic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It also somewhat helped curb alts. You couldn’t just have an alt that did a thing in day.

  But the isk and resource faucets were a problem from day one. It’s a resource hoarding game and it became too safe.

  That era to me was also filled with clever scams and IMO as CCP made it safer for people it took a lot of magic out of the game. You used to have to be smart and attentive to play. Now it throws warnings at you for all sorts of things. Or got rid of some very fun mechanics (like pos bowling and lofty wars)

  I also used to love spending 2m to war dec a corp. I would have dozens of wars going. And it wasn’t like small corps. It was fun to war dec all the big alliances at once with your little 5 man corp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh man. I had some good times with bomber bar. Both joining them and baiting them.

  I loved taking a rorq out with a massive tank and a full rack of smart bombs. Blowing up an entire fleet at once was so satisfying.