atomicbocks
@atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on flowers for the lost 6 hours ago:
You forgot Sojourner.
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 3 days ago:
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 3 days ago:
Mopeds have been a thing for a long time and electric has been an option for a long time. Also bike delivery has been a thing in NYC for a long time. That they are not street legal doesn’t make sense to me. Unless for the same reason a Mustang is street legal but a Mach E is not.
- Comment on After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17 4 days ago:
I played through recently and I beat it but I distinctly remember thinking that I didn’t remember it being that hard. It took me several tries and very precise timing, I think I even ended up coming back to it the next day.
Glad they are fixing it, though it makes it hard not to speculate more about an upcoming sequel. I think they will call it HL2 Episode 3 just to fuck with everyone.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 4 days ago:
I’ve literally never heard anybody pronounce them differently, your comment confused me at first but TIL.
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 1 week ago:
Ugh. We have spent so much on blackout curtains because of our neighbor’s insistence on having outdoor lights on all night. Same neighbor who once said to me “I just hate clover, don’t you?”…
- Comment on well? 1 week ago:
On the contrary; while I have heard the explanation that the commenter you replied to has said I have also heard a slightly different theory:
Our universe is the 3 dimensional event horizon of a 4th dimensional black hole. By extension we may find that black holes in our universe have similar funky 2 dimensional areas at their even horizons.
I am sure clickbait articles are part of it but there also seems to be several actual theories surrounding the idea of the nature of our universe relating to black holes.
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 2 weeks ago:
I grew up with the Magic Eye books and have never been able to do cross-view as a result.
- Comment on Nintendo bans Switch 2 owner after they played used Switch 1 games — decision eventually reversed after 'proving innocence’ 2 weeks ago:
Nintendo tracked the UID to a different Switch in a completely different geographic location logged in with a different account tied to a different bank card and still bricked it. Even Windows licenses aren’t that much of an asshole.
- Comment on Milking dust 3 weeks ago:
The books, Jurassic Park and its sequel The Lost World, are very good and very different from the movies. I also recommend Disclosure by the same author.
- Comment on Dolph is prime human 3 weeks ago:
The same reason the National Aeronautics and Space Administration isn’t NAASA.
- Comment on Enough is enough 3 weeks ago:
Not OP but just to hazard a guess:
Alcohol evaporates quickly. It’s probably there for the same reason it’s used in dry shampoos and antiperspirants; to make something that sprays but drys into a power or thickens to a gel in a very short period of time.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 4 weeks ago:
That Xbox would become Microsoft’s Steam has been the prevailing prediction for the better part of 10 years. I am immediately dubious of anybody who’s opinion is that a more capable than the Xbox device (as far as availability of games) has no reason to be purchased.
- Comment on It was all a lie, wasn't it? 4 weeks ago:
Probably;
Wood structures fair better in high wind and in earthquakes. Things we have far more of in North America.
- Comment on Sweatshop 4 weeks ago:
I have a thermostat that looks just like that at home. It doesn’t go to 100°, like the other commenter said.
- Comment on It's the dream 5 weeks ago:
In my experience it’s usually a “cherry on top” of whatever horrible personality that person has. It’s the difference between somebody who treats like they own you for 40+ hours a week and somebody who understands that people are hired for what they know and not for their output quantity.
- Comment on 🐇 🐇 🐇 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t really start hating it until not doing it for 13 hours a day meant losing my job because, and I quote, “we can have meetings all day because you have all night to finish your work”.
- Comment on Aging is fun 5 weeks ago:
If this is you, try drinking more water.
- Comment on Always there 5 weeks ago:
“After these messages, we’ll be ‘light’ back!”
- Comment on The real question is, which color? 5 weeks ago:
It takes all kinds to make a world; There are even people who don’t like chocolate and would just prefer the peanuts…
- Comment on Ok smartass 5 weeks ago:
They don’t look the same and it doesnt look like differences that can be explained by photoshop.
- Comment on A couple of Switch 2 owners are already reporting expanded back panels, Nintendo investigates possible causes 5 weeks ago:
I think I would be more okay with having to undo a screw or two as long as it was still just as easy to get the battery out. The way the Advance SP and DSs handled it. Lithium batteries are slightly more unfriendly to being handled than AAs and this is a device aimed at children. Your point stands though.
- Comment on Wanna tell the class the joke 5 weeks ago:
I actually knew a guy who had a stroke fairly young and lost partial use off the right side of his body but regained some of his mobility. His car had the gas on the left.
- Comment on 'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events 1 month ago:
Where I am from several years ago the city renamed the Christmas Parade to Holiday Parade in a bid to be inclusive of other winter holidays. A small subset of citizens got butt hurt and have held a competing Christmas Parade several times.
Apparently the war on Christmas is acknowledging that there are other options.
- Comment on Don't kink shame Oklahoma City. 1 month ago:
The locals still call it the cock ring though.
- Comment on 2025 be vibin' 1 month ago:
A piece of advice I wish I had listened to is “don’t turn your hobbies into a vocation”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
As somebody from Tulsa I can confirm that Oklahoma is a weird mishmash of ‘anything goes’. People will literally say “soda pop”.
- Comment on Happy PrIDE Month 1 month ago:
IIRC Apple drives, like those in the Mac Studio, use a version of NVMe that doesn’t have the controller onboard which is why they were so hard to reverse engineer.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 1 month ago:
I still remember using Windows machine for the first time after only having a Commodore 64 and Nintendos. I specifically remember thinking it was dumb because it didn’t have a cartridge slot.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 1 month ago:
Any Windows machine that does not support ACPI or has it disabled. IIRC Windows has required ACPI since Vista.