DarrinBrunner
@DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world
- Comment on I hacked mars! 2 days ago:
I drew a factory with the smoke stacks making a u-turn and stuck into the ground. Seemed like a good way to keep pollution from going into the air.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 3 days ago:
It’s only a problem for our species. And, only for future potential members of our species. The declining birth rate isn’t going to hurt anyone alive today. Not even billionaires, not in any way that matters.
Overall, the Earth would be much happier and peaceful without us. We’re not special, we’re just selfish.
Finally, probably, even in the worst human-caused catastrophe, at least some pockets of humanity would survive. Again, though, not that it really matters.
TLDR; Don’t worry about it. It’s no one’s problem to solve. We didn’t ask to be born, and none of us owe our species anything.
- Comment on Who's on the market for...? 3 days ago:
You can sort of use it for sealing wax:
www.youtube.com/shorts/tSEwDGS4sGU
Here’s an episode of Candle Science about using Babybel wax in a candle:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6NLdujX_WE
If you didn’t know there was a Candle Science channel, you’re not alone. If you don’t care that there’s a Candle Science channel, ditto.
- Comment on True of mine but he more than made up for it 4 days ago:
My dad earned the money, my mom spent it. That worked for them, there were no complaints.
OTH, they were born during the Great Depression, and were both very frugal. Neither of them liked to spend money. As the fourth of four kids, most of my clothes and toys were hand-me-downs, and my mom made my clothes until I hit puberty, as well as making most of her own clothes her whole life. I don’t have any complaints either. Both of my parents loved their kids unconditionally, I grew up in a warm, and mostly happy family.
- Comment on Why do US airports have a lot more jet bridges than EU airports? 4 days ago:
I mean, it’s cold or hot and noisy out there, plus the exhaust. Much better to walk down a hallway.
JK
Everyone else has given reasons, I just know that I’ve boarded via the bridge every time, but one. That one time was at SJC (San Jose, California) about 20 years ago. Normally, back then I flew out of SFO, which was all jet bridge AFAIK.
- Comment on Stephen Miller Cites Children of Immigrants as a Problem 6 days ago:
Not even close to as big a problem as billionaires.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
So, feet fingers, or “feengers”?
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- Comment on You nomster! 1 week ago:
I admit, I do use the little nubbins occasionally.
- Comment on Increasing the surface area of a substance increases its reaction rate. Proof by garlic. 1 week ago:
“Surface area, Jerry!”
- Comment on Education is important. 2 weeks ago:
That’s North Canary Island. It’s not on many maps because it formed recently from a submerged volcano. Maybe you remember hearing about that a few years ago?
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Statistically, probably with the beetles. 🪲 3 weeks ago:
Outside, against the wall, alone. At least that’s where I sat in high school. So, maybe with the wasps?
- Comment on I fall for it every year. Every. Year. 3 weeks ago:
Have a McRib. I thought that was obvious.
- Comment on Gravity! 3 weeks ago:
I was late to the Flat Earth thing, I assumed it started as satire for a couple of years after hearing about it, but didn’t pay it any attention. I was disappointed to learn that it was not satire, and too many (more than zero) believed it was true.
On the upside, I suppose, I now am more aware of just how fucking stupid people can be, and that’s good. Gotta keep your guard up when meeting new people, ya never know, ya know?
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 3 weeks ago:
No, thanks. I’ll stick with my long-since-paid-for, 25-year-old Maytag. That is, as long as it works.
I recall reading in Consumer Reports many years ago that most refrigerators were discarded not because they stopped working, but because of cosmetic damage. Broken plastic door shelves, dents, rust, out of style, etc. The compressors were still fine.
- Comment on Its all over 3 weeks ago:
European, or African?
- Comment on Something is very wrong with the HBO Max 4K version of Mad Men 3 weeks ago:
If I still had Netflix, I’d watch just to see it. Maybe it will boost views.
Pretty good show, regardless.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 4 weeks ago:
No clue. The only time I have more than three open is when I’m researching some stupid question I have, and then I immediately close them after I get the answer. If it’s something I want to save for reference, I save it locally with the SingleFile extension, because contrary to popular belief, shit gets deleted off websites all the time.
- Comment on happy buy nothing day to those who celebrate 4 weeks ago:
I bought FO4 off GOG a couple of days ago, because I’m fucking tired of Steam breaking my game every few weeks with mandatory updates, I think it was on sale for black friday. If that doesn’t count, then count me in.
- Comment on I dunno 4 weeks ago:
My education system didn’t fail me, I failed it.
- Comment on I miss Levis 4 weeks ago:
Wrangler still makes cheap, basic jeans out of thicker denim.
Anyone else think $50 is a lot for a pair of 501s?
I have Levi’s that are about 25 years old that I still wear. (Of course, I went through a few years when I was too fat to wear them, so they just hung in the closet till I lost the weight. But, they are that old, and I do wear them now.)
- Comment on Parking police 4 weeks ago:
Rear view cameras have been required by law for a few years now. I’m pretty sure it was a ploy by manufacturers to get a screen on every dashboard so they could sell ads.
- Comment on Parenting advice 4 weeks ago:
I don’t see what one-day blinding stew has to do with hair biting. But, I’ll look into it.
- Comment on Change my mind 4 weeks ago:
Where does arguing on Facebook fit into this? Nextdoor? JFC, my neighbors are a bunch of blithering idiots.
- Comment on PetSmart won't let you leave a review if you have adblockers on 5 weeks ago:
Leaving a review on the company website is pointless anyway.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know much about the religion industry, but I suspect this is true for all of them. The fastest way to become a non-believer is to read the religious texts.
- Comment on Caption this. 5 weeks ago:
“STOP THROWING APPLES AT US! WE HAVE PhDs!”
- Comment on spongebob big guy pants okay 5 weeks ago:
Chat, is this true?
- Comment on 🧠 🧠 🧠 5 weeks ago:
The other night, I saw a weird spider on the bathroom mat while I was doing my business. The bathroom was lit only by a night light, so I could barely make it out. It was larger than our usual resident spiders, and writhing around like I had stepped on it and hurt it. I finished, stood up, and turned the light on to see the spider better. It wasn’t there. Apparently, spider hallucinations are common.
Several years ago now, I was talking to my girlfriend at the time about an argument we’d had about a week earlier. She listened for a minute and then said, “We never argued about that, where were we?” I told her we were in my car in my garage. She’d not been to my house up to that point. I realized I had dreamt it, but I completely and fully believed it was a real memory, but it simply could not have been. I freaked out for a few days when I read that people often confuse dreams for real memories. I now question which other of my memories are just past dreams. Why would trust any of my memories now, when any number of them might just be old dreams?
