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 RIP to Universe #342, hope they’re doing well without me 1 day ago:
Boltzmann has entered the chat!
- Comment on RIP to Universe #342, hope they’re doing well without me 1 day 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 days 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. 1 week 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. 1 week ago:
Look, no one TOLD you life was gonna be this way…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month ago:
I want that apple even more now.
- Comment on I got 99 problems 1 month 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 2 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. 2 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 2 months ago:
Shitposts can tell a little truth, as a treat.
- Comment on Haxxed 2 months ago:
It gave me a long term phobia of explosive decompression that fucked with me for decades after. I honestly can’t comprehend what the fuck the showrunners were thinking when they decided to portray a child taking off their helmet in the vacuum of space
- Comment on Haxxed 3 months ago:
> die
> arrive in afterlife
> ask god if earth is flat or round
> god says it’s round???
> realize the roundoid conspiracy got to him too
> sent to hell for doubting god
> persecuted for challenging the lies
> clearly the conspiracy feels threatened if they’re going this far to silence me
> validation! vindication! - Comment on Most could work on anyone really 3 months ago:
Went over his head, poor little guy.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
i agree that it’s mildly infuriating this sack of shit didn’t suffer justice for his inhumanity sooner.
- Comment on Gotta go fast 4 months ago:
Supercritical CO2 gas turbines are also a possibility.
- Comment on I have a plan 4 months ago:
… At this point i almost wonder if Mexican federal leadership would give our states a better shot at self determination.
- Comment on I have a plan 4 months ago:
A neutron device will suffice.
Nice and sterilized of all the virulent filth infesting it now
- Comment on I have a plan 4 months ago:
Do you promise, Canada? Really promise? If you do… You can stay. You don’t have to go. Let all of our regions be vassals until each respective reasons proves itself worthy of becoming a province. The province of New England would welcome you as liberators and celebrate your arrival as the new independence day…