ExLisper
@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
- Comment on Misunderstood the assignment… 1 day ago:
Obligatory WKUK: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHPaKAcOwUY
- Comment on Where does technology come from in Star Wars? 1 day ago:
I meant “today” in SF sense, like current century vs some time 1000 years from now :) Of course your right, the battle scenes were inspired by WW2 movies.
My favorite SF warfare descriptions come from Banks. Battleships firing at each other from light years away or hiding inside suns, everything controlled by AI, microsecond long battles. Absolutely not adaptable to screen.
- Comment on Where does technology come from in Star Wars? 2 days ago:
Star Wars is a nice movie but it’s a pretty mediocre SF. They mix very low and very high technology in mostly absurd ways. You have FTL and lasers but robots are mostly shit, AI is very basic and it’s use weirdly limited, warfare looks pretty much like today, only in space. I know they did it like this because of cinematography but as a SF it’s just not that good. So I really would bother trying to rationalize the tech. It’s mostly like this because “it looked nice”.
- Comment on Where does technology come from in Star Wars? 2 days ago:
12 parsecs?! Wow! And then what happened?
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 5 days ago:
Can I just sit on the floor like on a train in Poland?
- Comment on What would it mean for the world if America was confident they developed a technology that would act as a fool prove deterrent from nuclear attacks what would that mean for the rest of the world? 2 weeks ago:
It would just be another system they could sell to other countries. That’s it.
- Comment on Farming beans be like 2 weeks ago:
Kątomierz?
- Comment on So excited that the best editor is finally getting AAA representation! 2 weeks ago:
I’ve watched this and I didn’t see anyone using vi. WTF?
- Comment on Pope Joan 2 weeks ago:
The most reliable way to sex a skeleton is with DNA.
What about sexing a pope?
- Comment on Genius 2 weeks ago:
So this is it… I’m going to die.
- Comment on Sweet pic 3 weeks ago:
Is this some wallpaper or something? I don’t recognize it.
- Comment on I don't even have a PieFed account ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 3 weeks ago:
I don’t really care who writes the code. I care about what the code does.
- Comment on Ben Shapiro's sister 5 weeks ago:
Because it’s fake?
- Comment on Messing up my weekend schedule 5 weeks ago:
“The prophecy said 3 days but if you die on Friday evening and resurrect Sunday morning we can do it 40 hours max.”
- Comment on In the not too distant past this was a thing 5 weeks ago:
And I find watches with analog (non perpetual) dates useless because they will randomly jump a day at the end of the month so I can never really trust them.
- Comment on In the not too distant past this was a thing 5 weeks ago:
I definitely don’t love the look. There are tons of better looking watches but analog perpetual calendars are crazy expensive, classic digital watches are ugly and smart watches have to be charged regularly. The only other brand I was considering was Festina but their connected watches are huge. It’s crazy but g-shock was the only thing I found that had digital date in dd/mm format and didn’t have heart rate monitor.
- Comment on In the not too distant past this was a thing 5 weeks ago:
After something like a year of searching I finally got:
- solar powered, I never have to charge or change battery
- analog face with digital date, no need to adjust the date every month but looks good
- date in dd/mm format
- no GPS, no hear rate monitor, no notifications
Couldn’t find anything else that would tick those boxes.
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 1 month ago:
How much is it in normal units?
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 1 month ago:
Mind. Blown.
- Comment on Do you really have to let everyone know 1 month ago:
Maybe he lost a bunch of bets?
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 1 month ago:
No, you’re safe.
- Comment on Who would win in a fight, a Gorilla or a Bear of equal weight? 1 month ago:
Only one way to find out…
- Comment on Do it 1 month ago:
We are the Foolish in my ass
- Comment on Movie reviews that had me laughing 1 month ago:
“Snow White is not only the #1 movie at the worldwide box office this week, but it is also the #5 biggest movie of the year at the global box office. At the domestic box office, Snow White sits at #3”
Disney reacting to those reviews:
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 1 month ago:
Yes. Signing up is not easy. Most people here can understand written instructions and have some basic technical knowledge. People who are not stupid tend to lean left.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 1 month ago:
You communist!
- Comment on Little poser 1 month ago:
smells like ten spirits rape me nevermind
- Comment on I'm old 1 month ago:
Remember? Still got one.
- Comment on Now that's an interesting question 2 months ago:
Saint James
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
My theory is that it’s brain atrophy, not stupidity.
Americans are not stupid in the sense that they can’t learn and do things. They are perfectly capable to work in a bank, fix a car, fly a plane or be a doctor. But even if they do work as as accountant or a surgeon (like Ben Carson…) they rarely use brains for analytical thinking. They don’t have to. School is easy (you can just play sports), finding job used to be easy, buying home used to be easy, you were born into one political party and just followed it. You drive your huge car on endless highways surrounded by aesthetically sterile malls, eat your burgers, watch some football and that’s it. No need to analyze things so your brain kind of forgets how to do it.
Eventually the country split into the curious part that actually wants to study and understand things and the “stupid” part that just consumes propaganda and votes for Trump. As some point the “stupid” part became the majority. Now not everything is that easy for young people but I think it’s too late.
