HiTekRedNek
@HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Real Purpose of Wealth 💸 3 days ago:
Because we’d get caught and then destroyed in the media by the elite who want to keep doing it.
Can you imagine the outcry from the hardliners of either major US political party if someone with even minor leanings towards their “enemy” kills one of their elite?
The reality is, while many people say they’d willingly do that, the vast majority of people have too much to lose if they do, and they know it.
That’s the real issue. The political elite have been pushing us right up to the breaking point for 100s of years, and they’ve learned just how far they can go without starting an actual revolution.
- Comment on Say hi to Flocky! 2 weeks ago:
Consistently. Like the 500mL bottle of water I’m currently drinking in coastal Alabama?
Like the 2 and 3L sodas sold in stores all across the USA as far back as I can remember? I’m about a month and a half away from 50 years old btw.
Or maybe like how all our drugs medicines, over the counter, and yes, even the illegal ones, are all in milligrams or grams?
Or our military using kilometers to measure distance across land, although calling it a klick because it’s faster to say than kilometer?
Or how most of our weapons are measured in millimeters?
That sort of consistency?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Considering that Linux existed long before SSDs did…
I first installed Linux in 1993…
- Comment on What is the deal with IPv6? 3 weeks ago:
So I have Starlink. I run a full suite of self hosted servers at home. I can access them from my workplace, which is an ipv4-only network setup.
How? I have a virtual private server (VPS) that is connected to my home network over VPN, and I connect to the IPv4 address that the server has, which is then forwarded over the VPN to my home network.
It’s a bit of work to set up, but works just fine for most things.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 3 weeks ago:
Always pissed me off when Mythic sold out to EA, and then DAoC just imploded. I loved that game. A realm vs realm (PvP) that actually mattered to the rest of the content, and had something for everyone, really.
They didn’t have “two teams of all the same classes and skills” they had THREE teams, and the play style for all three really was wildly different from each other, from how magic worked for each, to how different classes could do things better.
It really was well thought out, and graphically well ahead of its time, too.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 4 weeks ago:
Oh Eugene…
- Comment on Where are you supposed to put your eyes when you're not using them? 4 weeks ago:
Yay masking.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
A spiritual successor to Lord of the Rings Online, which is still active?
- Comment on Need for Speed: Most Wanted – The game that got me into racing 4 weeks ago:
My favorite NFS was the OG Hot Pursuit released in 1998: NFS 3.
You could even play as a cop and try to stop the racers.
Split screen with a friend, but only 1v1 with more computer controlled opponents.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Need_for_Speed_III:_Hot_Pursui…
But as far as the entire genre? Gran Turismo. I’ve played them all.
But the very first racing game I ever played? Other than the simple light road one near the top of the comments?
Pit Stop 2.
It was formula style open wheel racing, and you even had to pit and control replacing fuel and tires.
- Comment on What's up with all the captions on short form videos? 4 weeks ago:
Algorithm cheating.
The text is almost always related to some story or video that has high numbers so it gets associated with that.
- Comment on I would like to play a calm game 4 weeks ago:
You need to go watch an 80s.movie with Matt Broderick in it called WarGames.
- Comment on I would like to play a calm game 4 weeks ago:
How about a nice game of Global Thermonuclear War?
Or maybe just tic tac toe.
- Comment on It's about the *option* 4 weeks ago:
You forgot Really Ain’t Moving.
- Comment on We're not going to make it 5 weeks ago:
chuckles in deep south
If I let it grow, my yard would look like a jungle within a few years…
Hell, there’s grass and stuff growing in the little narrow spot between my house and garage that is well over waist high now because my riding mower won’t fit there, and my push mower is dead and buried.
Oh, and one of my trimmers won’t start, and the battery powered one has a broken clutch and won’t spin the head.
And any money I could’ve spent to fix either has been going to the daughter who graduated high school last Tuesday.
That bit of growth happened in less than a month by the way. I used that battery trimmer there about a month ago and was on the process of using it around the rest of the house when it just … stopped. I haven’t had the time or inclination to take it apart yet. The gas one? The pull start won’t even turn the engine, just freewheels. That’s what I get for letting some kid “work on it” to replace a fuel line… When he put it back together it never worked again.
Sigh.
- Comment on rat :3 5 weeks ago:
Daaaaaad, staaahhhhp!
- Comment on What is wrong with Pop OS? 5 weeks ago:
“It’s mainstream now so it’s no longer cool.”
The same hate Ubuntu got when it first came out (and still gets, tbh).
- Comment on What do you think realistically would happen the moment we meet extraterrestrials? 5 weeks ago:
When one civilization meets another,.far more advanced, civilization, ehat tends to happen to the less advanced one?
Yeah, that. It’s gonna suck.
- Comment on systemd 5 weeks ago:
The UNIX philosophy is “Everything is a file.”
systemd doesn’t follow that, with its binary logs and stuff.
Just part of why I keep going back to FreeBSD.
- Comment on How prevalent are cash transactions in the USA? 1 month ago:
I find it odd that many of the same people who don’t like large corporations, like Visa and MasterCard are, are also the same people who despise using cash.
Every single transaction you use your card, visa and MasterCard gets a percentage of from the place you just spent your money.
You’re enriching those corporations by simply spending your money somewhere when you use their cards.
- Comment on How do I drink more water? 1 month ago:
Step one, fill cup with water.
Step two, drink cup.
Repeat steps 1 and 2 until you’ve drank enough water.
- Comment on If you were in Jail would you stick withe bible or be interest in other religions? 2 months ago:
I’m in jail 8 hours a day, 5 days a week sometimes more if something breaks.
I have absolutely zero interest in some “magic” book about a megalomaniacal sky daddy.
Fuck off with that.
- Comment on If I got in a collision with a car from the 70s with a car today, would not the 70s car win out since it would primarily be metal? If so why don't people buy more 70's cars? 2 months ago:
And half the horsepower and half the fuel mileage. 🤣
- Comment on If I got in a collision with a car from the 70s with a car today, would not the 70s car win out since it would primarily be metal? If so why don't people buy more 70's cars? 2 months ago:
My 2006 Honda Accord weighs almost a thousand pounds more than a 1965 Ford Mustang.
In fact, a 1985 Ford LTD Crown Victoria only weighs about 400 pounds more than my Honda.
People WILDLY underestimate how heavy modern cars are, and how much better they are for safety of the occupants.
- Comment on Does anyone actually have a plan after Trump and clean up? Try as he might he's not in there forever. Can we be allies again with old ones while trying to stregthen ties with new one? 2 months ago:
The original idea of the first past the post setup was that the second past the post was the vice president.
We’ve undone that.
The House are the people’s representatives, the Senate was supposed to be the States’ representatives, and since each state is supposed to be equal, all states have two senators. It was supposed to be a check on the mob rule of the House.
We’ve also undone that.
It’s no wonder we are in the state we are in now. We’ve undone ourselves completely.
- Comment on How do you feel about a 25 year old dating a 46 year old? 2 months ago:
Am I, or someone I love, the 46 year old, or the 25 year old?
The only time I would care is if the answer to the first question is “yes” or if one of the parties isn’t acting consensually… Otherwise, its not any of my business, as they’re both consenting adults.
If more people worried about themselves, and less about what others are doing, the world would be better off.
Mind ya business, people.
- Comment on Why is us rail travel so expensive? 2 months ago:
Heyyyyoooo
- Comment on Why is us rail travel so expensive? 2 months ago:
In China, your populations are mainly confined to a few large, major cities. With farms and farming communities nearby those same cities.
I live in an unincorporated area about 30 miles outside of the nearest city, which has a population of about 250k people: Mobile, AL
It’s about 150 miles in the other direction to a fairly large city, named New Orleans, LA.
Thing is, there’s not any real “country side” between those cities. It’s all houses and neighborhoods. All of it. It’s not quite heavy enough population density to be a city, but still higher than farmland.
That said there is a passenger train service that runs from New Orleans to Mobile, with two trains, one leaves New Orleans and the other Leaves Mobile at pretty much the same time. 2 engines, 4 cars on the Mobile-based train, and 2 engines 3 cars on the New Orleans based train.
Thing is, they each have multiple stops along the way, too.
It’s a 4 hour ride in the train from end to end, and another 4 hour ride back. Each train ends up where they started at the end of the day.
So to use that train, I must drive 30miles into town, find parking, leave my car there for 8 to 10 hours, and spend maybe an hour or two in New Orleans,
Or, I could just drive for 2 hours, and spend however long I want to, in New Orleans, and not have a set schedule.
There’s absolutely not enough demand for more than the two trains in either direction for that to make any sort of sense, either.
- Comment on When if ever did "Throw Money at The Problem:" actually work? Instead of being about 75 percent useless? 2 months ago:
I mean that’s how governments always solve problems.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 3 months ago:
That type of thinking is no different than the christians who believe that unless everyone else believes as they do then they ALL go to hell.
That ype of “enforced community” bullshit is exactly that. Bullshit.
People spend way too much of their time worrying about everyone else. Yes, helping when you can is a good thing.
You, however, are the one professing all the doom here. If not everyone believes the right things then we are all doomed.
Except who decides what those right things are, and what will happen when you teach society to think in that way, and then some demagogue takes control, and decides to subtly start changing that that right thing is?
Why, you get what we’re going through right now, don’t you…
So no, group think is never a good idea even if the thoughts are the “right” ones.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 3 months ago:
Then let them. What does it matter to you? People are allowed to be complete morons if they wish.
