Bluewing
@Bluewing@lemmy.world
- Comment on I use Ubuntu btw. 3 hours ago:
I love me some atomic spins…
- Comment on I use Ubuntu btw. 4 hours ago:
It often does because even commercial wild rice is expensive and cutting it with regular white rice makes for a much cheaper dish. And the bland white rice offers no extra flavor to the dish.
But there are those of us who have access to real wild rice that has been hand harvested and hand parched over an open wood fire. That’s God tier wild rice. And I would never disrespect that wild rice in such a fashion.
- Comment on MEGASOTA 2 days ago:
Some things are just not in the cards.
FTP!
- Comment on MEGASOTA 2 days ago:
As a Minnesotan, we don’t want Wisconsin. We don’t believe in it. Too many Wisconsinites sneaking across the border illegally and stealing our jerbs and bragging about their cheese. And don’t get me started on who has more lakes. We do.
- Comment on MEGASOTA 2 days ago:
A pretty close guess, but the actual number is 11,842 lakes. We have more coastline than California. And that means we also own the most boats of all the states with 143.6 boats per 1,000 residents. An amazing number of boats considering we can only use them about 3 months out of the year. The rest of the year we can drive on our lakes and move tiny houses out on them to drink beer, watch football, and fish for walleyes in our underwear at -20F.
I myself own 2 motorboats, one I bought and one I inherited. Plus a canoe and a kayak, 2 wheeled fish houses, and 2 popup canvas fish houses. Again, one of each bought and one of each inherited.
- Comment on MEGASOTA 2 days ago:
And cause 80% more different problems.
- Comment on MEGASOTA 2 days ago:
Thanks to the Angle, we have already started the annexation of Canada.
First Winnipeg, then Ottawa! We’re coming for you Nova Scotia!
- Comment on When Windows users find the Threadiverse 2 days ago:
It’s Ok. You don’t need to like Linux. (Evil villain accent slips out)-- You vill use Linux! Und you vill like it! Even if you don’t like it. Ooops! Sorry! That just slipped out somehow.
An OS is a tool no more, nothing less. Use what you like and like what you use! And if you decide to try Linux again some day in the future, great! If not, that’s great also!
- Comment on ngl it gets you pretty buzzed 2 days ago:
But they die in misery. Execution at it’s finest.
- Comment on ngl it gets you pretty buzzed 2 days ago:
First there was just cheese. Then we refined that cheese into plastics. Because cheese is just a mere handful of polymers away from plastic. And you wonder why you get constipated when you eat too much cheese…
Then we got better and developed celluloid to make exploding billiard balls and false teeth from. It also got used to make pocket knife handles because you could make the most beautiful tortoise shell handles and Mother of Pearl, (the tortoises and oysters were very happy about that). And colored handles were bright and vibrant and stayed that way. But the off gassing would often rust the blades to dust in short order.
Today, we have a thousand different plastic formulations for a thousand different uses. And it’s everywhere from soda bottles and cell phones, to cars, airplanes, artificial hips, and rocket ships. And even your balls.
It’s a brave new plastic world.
- Comment on You need to think long term 4 days ago:
I had the exact same reaction…
- Comment on You need to think long term 5 days ago:
No offense to you, but why does that handle conjure up a vision of someone with a “Karen hairstyle” wanting to speak to the manager?
- Comment on You need to think long term 5 days ago:
Yep. I’m old enough to have 2 such email addresses.
- Comment on WOMEN. 6 days ago:
Games are mostly just applied maths with pretty colors.
- Comment on Engine auto-off 1 week ago:
Let that be a lesson to ya.
(Fuckin’ Quadra-Jets)
- Comment on Aerosol 1 week ago:
For a good while now I just felt old. But not today. Today I feel fucking old.
Two weeks ago I had an MRI to see if I need knee surgery. Tomorrow I get to talk to Ortho about my impending knee surgery-- A lateral tear of the meniscus in the cleft with some degeneration of the joint. I’m sick of walking with a cane and wearing a knee brace.
Saturday I drove 360 some miles to get an MRI to see if I have prostate cancer. No results yet, but I have my suspicions based on my PSAs. The question is: Is it the slow cancer or the fast cancer?
Thursday I need to drive another 100 miles to talk to another doctor about what is now a very minor issue.
So yeah, I’m mother fucking old today…
***Oh, and yes I remember Bardot vividly from my youth. And a host of others you may or not remember. From Marilyn Monroe to Jane Russel to Maureen O’Hara.
- Comment on Aerosol 1 week ago:
I remember the beehive hairdos. True monuments to structural engineering that would make any architect spiral into a pit of inadequacy.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Counter-counterpoint: If you get pregnant, at some time in the very near future, somebody is bound to notice. Whether you say something about it or not.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
As an 'Merican, I cannot say I have ever met anyone who has this kind of hangup about sex. You should see the stupid sex reveals some couples do these days.
It’s a funny meme sometimes, but remember that old Ben Franklin sexy-timed his way across Europe. He was a first order philanderer. And Britain’s dismayed complaint against US troops during WW2, “overpaid and oversexed.”
- Comment on The local supermarket takes protein bar protection. Anyway does anyone know how to open these cases ? 2 weeks ago:
Personally, I like a Halligan tool for this kind of work. I’ve opened a few doors and broken some windows with one. Never leave home without your Irons.
- Comment on Just me and my cement truck 2 weeks ago:
Here is the thing about bunkers. Unless they have installed some way to power that bunker and provide water and food that cannot be destroyed, it’s a self-made trap. They can be ignored and the denizens will die in the cold damp darkness of starvation and dehydration. With a probable side dose of madeness.
- Comment on Can't wait. 2 weeks ago:
American English has never be bashful about filing the serial numbers off a word and then claiming it as our own. It can lead, (lead/lead/led?) to confusion even among us native speakers. At least until we sort it out.
Personally I blame the French, (for no reason other than I can), for all the ills in the English language.
- Comment on Anon is a paramedic 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, only once have I heard the whole ER seemingly go silent. It was when we brought in a young trauma victim, (car accident). The pandemonium of a 6 people working all at once, the voices calm but tense and a bit louder, and the er Doc standing in the corner watching and directing the action. We worked the code for maybe 5 or 6 minutes before the Doctor called it. Everything just stopped. People froze from what they were doing. And the whole ER was dead silent for what seemed like hours, but was only a few seconds before everything came back to real time.
Only twice have I had to hear the agony of a mother. Once when I did a drowning. We were searching for the husband/father. I found him in about 6 feet of water. (my big toe went into his mouth-- a feeling I will never forget). My partner and I got him shallow water along the shore. And I did the math and estimated he’d been down 25 to 45 minutes. So we agreed to call it. So I started walking to the house, all soaking wet, to deliver the news. I can still hear her wail right now as I told her and her young son that daddy was never coming home again.
The other time was when we were paged out to a 4-wheeler accident. And an 11-year-old boy somehow drove too close to a drainage ditch and rolled in about 20 feet down. I went down with a rope and found him pinned under the 4-wheeler face down in about 3 or 4 inches of water. He had been dead long enough to be beyond anybodies help. I climbed back up the ditch and explained to the mother her 11-year old son was gone. To this day I pray to whatever gods there are that he was dead before he drowned pinned face down under that 4-wheeler.
- Comment on Anon is a paramedic 3 weeks ago:
As an old and retired paramedic myself, there are definitely parts of me, as a human being, that will never grow back. And I worked in a rural area where you work on neighbors, family, and friends mostly. It was never easy to explain to the family that might be present that not me or god could fix what was wrong. I also did a few suicides over the years. Never easy and they leave a mark that won’t grow back by morning.
The worst thing about any of it, was meeting a family member in a cafe or store in our small town. And they would invariably come up to me and give me a hug and tell me how grateful they were that I was there for them. Despite the fact I couldn’t do shit for the dead person beyond calling dispatch and telling them to send law enforcement to come and do their paperwork and secure the scene until the funeral home got there to haul the body away.
- Comment on Anyone get this? 3 weeks ago:
Yep. He is doing the Rockefeller to buy his legacy. Tossing coins to children for photo ops and building libraries and schools to put his name on.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 4 weeks ago:
Oh, the consumer companies care. But they currently don’t matter anymore that we do. And let’s be honest, the if and when this AI bubble does pop and all the data centers have closed. The prices will drop enough for consumers to eat up the sudden surplus as if a dam broke because it will “feel cheap and a bargain”. There is no lose-lose here for DRAM manufacturers because consumers ain’t that bright.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 4 weeks ago:
“60% of gamers have no plans to build a computer for the foreseeable future.” The unspoken part is, “and the hardware manufacturers don’t care”. Maybe they will after the bubble pops, or maybe not.
I just bought a mini desktop-- Ryzen 5 with 16Gb memory and 1Tb SSD. It cost me almost $500US. It probably was $100 less last year. I’m not a gamer, but I do make heavy use of 3D CAD and sometimes with large assemblies. And my old Nitro 5 and 1650 nVidia had been starting to struggle.
I do like my new little computer, with Aurora 44 installed, win11 was aborted on first boot, it’s a snappy little box despite the modest specs. The downside is, there isn’t enough time to make a cuppa tea while waiting on a model regen.
And who knows, I may live long enough to afford another stick of ram, or I may win the lottery someday-- assuming I buy a lottery ticket first.
- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 5 weeks ago:
They are enforced.
Source: I spent nearly 20 years as a medic and a firefighter. And I have had cops arrest and ticket drivers for driving HUA, (Head Up Ass around emergency vehicles.) It’s an easy ticket.
- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 5 weeks ago:
Even drivers in the US are good about it 99.9% of the time if there is anywhere to go, they do get out of the way and stay out of the way. There are heavy fines. And if the Amp-a-Lamps driver can get your plate number, the cops WILL go look for you.
Source: I spent nearly 20 years in Amber-Lamps and fire trucks.
- Comment on References: [1] out of his ass 5 weeks ago:
String theory makes more sense if you take some LSD I think.