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- Comment on Bungee jumping 1 day ago:
… That roughly encapsulates many uh, exciting encounters I’ve had with various consenting, mutually nude people.
- Comment on Anon is an astronaut 1 day ago:
Is this intentionally referencing, or unintentionally recreating a large chunk of the plots of the Ender’s Game series, after the first book?
- Comment on Rules for a gun fight 2 days ago:
Well alright, thanks for the info!
- Comment on Rules for a gun fight 2 days ago:
Yep, yep, you’re right.
Dozzi92 set me straight, I goofed.
- Comment on Rules for a gun fight 2 days ago:
Oh, haha!
Whoops, I made a typo.
Bio engineered, not ‘buo’.
Either way… you don’t happen to have a donut, do you?
pathetic puppy eyes
- Comment on Rules for a gun fight 3 days ago:
Oh, fuck you’re completely right.
I somehow totally glossed over the digi cam.
… In my defense, I did not have my glasses on, and… well, the camo worked.
Fuck.
Ok, ok so… by your uh, constraints, this would have been basically more like mid 00s?
04 or later, but… prior to 09?
And, by old deserts… you mean the ole ‘chocolate chip camo’?
… I guess if you’re willing to induldge my mil-nerd questioning… do you know if the Army and Marines are mostly swapped over to some variant of MultiCam now?
Or does the digi stuff still exist in large numbers?
… Or am I just wildly off base with that line of questions?
- Comment on Rules for a gun fight 3 days ago:
I made another comment but my guess is the image in the meme is roughly Gulf War era… I’ve not been in the military but I don’t think ACOGs became a thing that was basically standard issue untill… well even before you went to boot in 09.
I’m thinking this picture was taken some time in the 90s, probably, is what I’m trying to say.
- Comment on Rules for a gun fight 3 days ago:
I think the used picture is even older than the meme itself, my guess would be that it is from roughly the Gulf War era.
- Comment on Rules for a gun fight 3 days ago:
And I know a mutant half human half angel thing who prefers .45 Long Colt…
… but also prefers to never use it to kill.
- Comment on Rules for a gun fight 3 days ago:
- Comment on Rules for a gun fight 3 days ago:
Yeah, this rule really irked me.
This is… its an older meme, motivational poster format, wouldn’t surprise me at all if it was made by a gung ho Gulf War vet either before or not long after Iraq 2 Electric Boogaloo commenced, drenched in Americana gun culture pride.
There are plently of pistol rounds other than .45 ACP that are quite good in combat scenarios, most at this point would probably agree that having more 9mm over less .45 is preferable, otherwise 2011s wouldn’t even be a thing.
Also: its less common, but uh… 5.7?
5.7 is actually more likely to pen body armor, than a 9mm or a .45, if your scenario is you’re fighting against other people with body armor.
And you can make a double stack magazine with it.
And there are a fair number of Police, Intelligence, Military organizations that use the FiveSeven regularly.
And… there are now even a growing number of hunters who will tell you that some kind of pistol in 5.7 is their backup, in case of something big ambushing them.
357 is of course very powerful, but they’re also huge rounds in comparison to .45 or 9m… kinda hard to fit into a semi-auto pistol.
Unless you wanna talk about the .357 SIG.
… but we don’t talk about the .357 SIG …
- Comment on Brand new bag 3 days ago:
I’ve never been to Germany, but… I am glad that at least somebody, some people agree with me.
I’ve worn a fanny pack like that before, like a very small messenger bag… it was a social faux pas, for some reason, despite being incredibly practical.
- Comment on Brand new bag 3 days ago:
Personally I’m on Team Satchel, and also unironically think fanny packs should come back.
While we’re at it: GIVE WOMENS PANTS REAL POCKETS
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
… This is a self fulfilling prophecy.
She’s met men who were hard to get with.
They weren’t interested in her, or they didn’t hit her radar level, and it never even occured to her to consider them as potential partners, or they were already married or in committed, faithful monogamous relationships.
She’s telling on herself, and doesn’t realize it.
If she’s only met men who were easily to get with… that’s all she’s looking for, all she can see.
And this applies in reverse as well, or in any other gender … direction.
This is just myopia, idpol… we’re really still doing this?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
That got a chuckle outta me, a knee slap even, hahah!
- Comment on Be ungovernable 6 days ago:
… You don’t know what to do with 250 swearing birds?
You start a comedy act, or show, is what you do.
Do a mockumentary.
… what do they mean ‘don’t know what to do’?
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 6 days ago:
Hah! Yep, you’re right.
I had been talking about martial arts earlier, had the wrong ‘feinting’ in my brain =P
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 1 week ago:
… I once saw a guy rip a page out of a Bible, to use as rolling paper for a rollie, rolled cigarette.
Called him ‘Holy Roller’, he thought it was funny.
I’m now imagining something similar but like, with an American Flag… nylon would make for like, the worst fucking rolling paper possible, but… I’ve seen worse… uhhhhggghhh…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
In defense of real fish:
They are actually very silly.
… also, you probably can’t make a.Swedish fish without water, so, no, it does need water.
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 1 week ago:
Ehhhhh… I have met a number of people who just naturally are that skinny, and not by way of anorexia or bulimia.
Not saying there’s no possibility of that here.
But I am saying that some people actually just are that skinny or thin, or of waifish frame, and they aren’t all feinting from headrushes or anemia or iron deficiency all the time.
This is about on the borderline, by my eye at least, of being able to definitively say one way or the other.
You wanna see really serious weight retention issues?
Look up Eugenia Cooney.
Uh, depending on your constitution, NSFW/NSFL tag on the above suggestion, I guess.
Yeah, I’m not even gonna post an image here, many pictures of her, that she publishes herself… yeah… thats what really serious anorexia looks like.
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 1 week ago:
Prada, 2023:
Prada, 2022:
Prada, 2018:
I might have switched up 23 and 22.
But uh… what?
Like, I’ll give you that Prada seems to consistently go for models that kinda look like aliens, with pretty big eyes and generally chiseled or striking features, they try to emphasize triangular faces and chins, strong cheekbones…
But… are these not generally attractive women?
… I was going to ask what this person is smoking, but I’m guessing its meth.
- Comment on Anon's dad is a tailor 1 week ago:
I mean, I would generally call myself part of the anti AI crowd.
But that means I hate how its being used and inplemented in society, by people, how much money is getting thrown at it, how many people are acting like it is or is going to be something it currently isn’t and can’t be.
I hate how many companies are rushing headlong into it and fucking up workflows, security standards and workforces, how many corpos are just lying and saying they’re doing AI related restructuring, to mask that they’re actually just collapsing as a company… etc.
But, theres many more approaches to AI than just LLMs.
Theres many more ways LLMs can be designed or implemented or trained than the way we’re currently doing it.
… I run a lightweight local LLM on my damn Steam Deck.
What I don’t do is go around making claims and accusations wildly, with no basis, no ability to defend what I am saying.
I agree with you that running around screaming basically ‘everything I don’t like is AI’ is incredibly immature and annoying.
But its very possible to have a more credible and consistent view of and behavior regarding AI than that.
Like, my instance has a ton of comms devoted to AI art. I don’t care for them, by and large.
So I just block them, so I don’t see them, as opposed to constantly telling them that AI art is shit, in every post.
Everybody wins.
- Comment on Anon's dad is a tailor 1 week ago:
Goddamnit, that’s art right there.
- Comment on Facial age checks are now required to chat with anyone on Roblox 1 week ago:
Yeah this is all completely insane, the ‘solution’ here isn’t a solution (its not hard to generate a fake face) and as you say, its actually a problem itself… give up your face, so they can selp it to Grok, so Grok can churn out synthetic CSAM.
This is all fucking nuts.
- Comment on (TW) Phishing mail in 2026 2 weeks ago:
… You guys get phishing emails?
I guess I must be doing something right.
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 2 weeks ago:
Ok, so, Pluto is more spherical than Mercury, but the most important criteria is local gravitational dominance.
Which Mercury has, but Pluto does not.
I do not see how this is a difficult concept to grasp.
Yeah, sometimes you can make a hasty definition, and then refine it to a level of consistent clarity, after it is justly critiqued, though it may be multi tiered and somewhat complex.
Thats… thats how science works, thats like the entire fundamental concept of it, right there, improving the level of detail to which you understand reality, via empiricism, logic, participatory debate.
The primary purpose of the planet defition refinenment is to emphasize the importance of relative local gravitational dominance.
I’m trying to imagine you using this kind of logic with like, biological taxonomy.
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 2 weeks ago:
At that point the only really ‘planety’ thing about is is basically that it is spherical.
Its not primarily orbiting the sun, so much as it is the barycenter of itself and charon.
And there are moons that are bigger, and more spherical, and more massive than Pluto.
And while it does have the vaguely heart shaped terrain feature, Mars has a smiley face crater, Saturn has an eternal hexagon on its north and south poles, despite being a gas giant, Jupiter has the spot, Mimas kinda looks like the Death Star, etc.
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 2 weeks ago:
Its because its a colloquial phrase that more or less the media picked up and ran with.
Actual astronomers and astrophysicists use math to describe what they’re talking about, math that you can find and learn fairly easily on wikipedia.
Lay people tend to just evaluate a phrase for its extremely literal meaning, not realizing that it is at best just pop science jargon, short hand to refer to a pretty well defined and precise concept, that is difficult to summarize without losing specificity.
There are many, many other examples of this kind of thing happening with other phrases or terms used to refer to complex concepts.
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 2 weeks ago:
What is going to be funny is if/when they discover planet 9, and all the apparent Pluto superfans just utterly lose their shit when they attempt to comprehend that there can be another actual planet, and no, pluto still doesn’t count.
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 2 weeks ago:
You could just look up the actual astronomical or mathematical definition of a ‘cleared orbit’ if you wanted to, you know that right?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearing_the_neighbourhood
As a consequence it does not then share its orbital region with other bodies of significant size, except for its own satellites, or other bodies governed by its own gravitational influence.
This latter restriction excludes objects whose orbits may cross but that will never collide with each other due to orbital resonance, such as Jupiter and its trojans, Earth and 3753 Cruithne, or Neptune and the plutinos.[3]
As to the extent of orbit clearing required, Jean-Luc Margot emphasises “a planet can never completely clear its orbital zone, because gravitational and radiative forces continually perturb the orbits of asteroids and comets into planet-crossing orbits” and states that the IAU did not intend the impossible standard of impeccable orbit clearing.
Pluto and other plutinos are bodies whose orbits are significantly governed by Neptune.
Go look at all the numerical values provided by various algorithms that measure essentially the extent to which a celestial body is locally gravitationally dominant, the extent to which it has ‘cleared its orbit’.
You may notice that everything considered a dwarft planet scores orders of magnitude less, by literally all the metrics.
