Draegur
@Draegur@lemmy.zip
Poly-Panro-Ace It/They
friendly neighborhood wholesome degenerate abomination from beyond the stars (mostly harmless™).
Atomic energy enthusiast. Architecture enjoyer. Mecha appreciator. Sci-Fi reader.
Winged caniform cybernetic biped techno-lich in its dreams.
- Comment on State of Mind is free on GOG. 1 day ago:
damn i love gog so much
- Comment on Happy Labor Day! 1 day ago:
the epstein class are the ones who have the biggest fakest email-jobs.
- Comment on We ain't happy anymore... 2 days ago:
i wonder what kind of song would capture the cultural zeitgeist now, if he were to write it…
because yeah it definitely would not be ‘happy’
- Comment on currently busy 😅 6 days ago:
I assume they are seeking information beyond just the obvious fact that I’m already occupying the stall. I will attempt to be charitable and volunteer how many more minutes I believe I’ll be
- Comment on Mood 6 days ago:
“it costs you nothing to be nice”
Yeah but if I’m cruel enough I might just be rewarded with getting you to fuck off and mind your own business :3
- Comment on Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials 1 week ago:
Of course never would i EVER frag a commandant of the New Reich in his own tent with his own ordinance, trust me bro! Why would I, a humble conscript, ever lash out at the fascist regime that’s rounding up so many of my loved ones for summary extermination? Golly that would be awfully mean of me, just too cruel of me by far, to return even the tiniest, barest fraction of the gut wrenching agonizing tragedy they inflicted on us all BACK to them. Goodness forbid.
- Comment on Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials 1 week ago:
Whether to boot camp or concentration camp, this Reich has camps for all of us ._.
- Comment on The body you really want 2 weeks ago:
oh my gosh! I’m SOME of those! :D a fem-leaning androgynous (but functionally genderless) cybernetic wolfthing with trillions of bodies across the multiverse all subliminally linked to the same consciousness!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Boltzmann has entered the chat!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been leaving behind a few more dead timelines than usual lately. deja-vu-like flashes of mistakes I’m concurrently avoiding AND making at once. tripping down stairs that i actually made it safely to the bottom of. catastrophic car accidents that everyone actually ends up driving away from unscathed. I see it flash before my eyes and divert my course… I try to tell myself it’s just experiential pattern recognition providing examples of what could go wrong, why to be cautious and take care. But… Yeah, this hits freaky
- Comment on Like a dragon sitting on a hoard of memes 3 weeks ago:
For a second there i thought this was going to be about Mitch and waiting for him to finally fucking croak.
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 4 weeks ago:
Surprisingly I’ve found some gas station food that doesn’t suck O.O
the rolly-grill has seldom ever done me wrong.
Just stay away from the sushi XD
Up here in the northeast there’s this place called Cumberland Farms and somehow it’s managed to eclipse McDonald’s(partly because mcds has crashed their ‘bar’ through the floor of hell’s basement…). I like their hot snacks. Filling “guilty pleasure” comfort food that doesn’t take a long time and doesn’t even murder my wallet. And usually their bathrooms are pretty good too.
- Comment on Friends. 4 weeks ago:
Look, no one TOLD you life was gonna be this way…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
From the olden times in the era before the plague (COVID) there were tales of stray dogs who had learned to utilize public transit infrastructure to move throughout a city. I believe the city in question was said to be Moscow? My memory is fuzzy, what with 2020 through 2024 being the longest continuous year I’ve ever experienced in my life (so FAR…).
It’s crazy how 2016 feels like “a couple years ago” right now even though, concurrently, 2019 feels like “a couple decades ago” ._. maybe the doctor was right; Maybe time really is made of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff.
I miss when AI was not yet a thing…
- Comment on Alternative medicine 1 month ago:
I’m surprised you KNOW four people rather than very specifically KNEW, past tense, four people…
- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 1 month ago:
It is a sarcastic observation of the shallow and reductive take that “nineteen eighty four is when the government does something i don’t like!”.
I find it less likely that anyone who uses lemmy would sincerely think it is actually good that people become parasocially addicted to a hallucination box that has been finely tuned to lie to them as convincingly as possible.
However, I admit this inference is doing a lot of gravy lifting; this is, after all, why Poe’s Law exists. There are so very many excessively dim, narrow-minded, and ignorant people who WOULD indeed unironically cry “1984!!” whenever any government does anything that such a person being right here, right now, is always a statistically significant possibility that cannot be dismissed out of hand without risk.
I am giving the person to whom you are replying a generous benefit of a doubt, to be fair…
- Comment on Has anobody seen Odyssey? 1 month ago:
If there’s a movie I don’t like,
and I see the rating site consensus showing “low critic score + high audience score”,
THAT is more likely than anything else to re-evaluate my opinion.And if there’s a movie I DO like,
But it gets an AWFUL audience rating despite high praise from the professional critics,
That will ACTUALLY make me second guess and wonder if I’m wrong about how good I thought it was.I fucking hate the professional critic grift ._.
- Comment on End of an era? 2 months ago:
oh, allow me to clarify–!
I did not mean to sound as though I had been disagreeing with you ^.^; my comment was more intended to have a ‘yes-and’ kind of vibe~
but I really do like all that you had to say here and I still agree!
While they’re truly not stealing the electricity, what I would hope to imply is that they are nevertheless acquiring it via nefarious means–in that many of these data centers are building gas combustion generators to supplement their power usage in violation of environmental regulations, workplace safety standards, and generally all the laws that say “you can’t do that without proper documentation and licensing” etc.
So yeah–the “stolen thatch and stolen bamboo” isn’t literally stolen (like you said!) but rather just ill-gotten.
Also I have indeed noticed the way that there’s so much money being thrown around, especially the funds they’ve gotten from “investors” which are really just debt. They’re going into massive debt to pay contractors and vendors… and that cap-ex and op-ex? sometimes I wonder if that’s the real motive. Just a big stinkin’ money laundering racket to bilk people out of their savings (anyone with a managed retirement investment fund that happens to do business with these jerks) and squirrel it away on “other companies” who are “working for” them.
They AREN’T worth the effort. It’s the emperor’s new clothes all over again. The only thing they’re really actually TRYING to do, I hypothesize, is just keep everyone distracted so they can do exactly what you said they would: make themselves ‘too big to fail’ and then ride off into the sunset when the shoddy facade they propped up comes crashing down, leaving the public sector to foot the bill…
- Comment on End of an era? 2 months ago:
Not when you realize that the “something” they’re charging you for is:
a) bastardized cargo culted knockoff of “something” so insubstantial that it’s very nearly “something-shaped nothing”
b) the “something” is made of stuff that isn’t even theirs.Not only is it giving you a bamboo and thatch sculpture of an airplane when you ask for an airplane; it’s made of STOLEN bamboo and STOLEN thatch.
- Comment on Apple that makes eunuchs 2 months ago:
I want that apple even more now.
- Comment on I got 99 problems 2 months ago:
yeah scalzi friggin rules! :D
- Comment on Vote 2 months ago:
Perhaps we’ll need to replace the lawful-chaotic axis with another spectrum…
- Comment on Vote 2 months ago:
i need these sorted into an alignment chart
- Comment on Sniff sniff 2 months ago:
no wonder they can smell blood from miles away; they’re literally made of nose.
- Comment on He's an arborist 2 months ago:
you will find that if the branch snaps from the trunk, its perpendicular distance will be exactly the same number of milimeters.
- Comment on He's an arborist 2 months ago:
The radius of a circle is a fixed distance from its origin at every angle.It’s still the same number of milimeters distal of the trunk from the pivot point.
- Comment on He's an arborist 2 months ago:
The larger length, even if it’s at a near vertical acute angle, is likely to tumble if it breaks–which means the whole reason we’re interested in its measurement is a situation where the angle is no longer fixed
- Comment on He's an arborist 3 months ago:
The correct answer is “between 114 and 152 millimeters” because both measures are relevant and necessary from an engineering standpoint: For the purposes of sizing something such that it can utilize the branch for support, it must be made clear that the branch is solid and whole up to 114 millimeters from the trunk. For the purpose of accidental collision clearance, it is necessary to know the furthest extent of the branch’s reach no matter how damaged or distupted it is. Furthermore if the branch may break and fall off, giving it at least 152mm of clearance means that it is unlikely to accidentally catch upon something in its descent even if it “hinges” away from the trunk at the base.
- Comment on Can't wait. 3 months ago:
vaseline sounds like it should have been spelled vasilene but the i and the e got switched as a funny prank and it stuck.
- Comment on This is a shitpost 3 months ago:
Shitposts can tell a little truth, as a treat.