blargh513
@blargh513@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 1 day ago:
It is less about the output in lumens of the lamp, but more about the angle and color temperature.
In most cars, the difference between regular headlight operation and “brights” has nothing to do with the output, it’s about the angle of the beams. Of course, when you angle the headlights up so you can see farther down the road, now you also point them at oncoming drivers eyes.
The scourge of “blue” headlights amplifies the problem. They’re no brighter, but they are more uncomfortable to stare down.
In most cars, there are a variety of ways to fine-tune the angle of the beams with often little more than a screwdriver. The problem is that most people have no idea that they need to be adjusted. This is why regular inspections are important as well as some sort of standards that can be applied across a wide variety of cars.
The reality is that correcting poor angle on headlights is a trivial task, should only take a few moments. Additionally, most modern headlight systems are active and can adjust the angle by pointing the lamp down or using shutters or individual LEDs to change the angle or beam pattern. Eventually, this will just be an irritating thing of the past, but it will take a number of years before every GM truck and SUV is off the road as well as a lot of current Hyundai/Kia products (anecdotally observed by me to be the worst offenders).
- Comment on Slice of ketchup anyone? 2 days ago:
I know a person who hates ketchup with all of her soul. Same for mayo, mustard, bbq sauce, any condiment.
However, she’ll eat a sloppy joe drowning in that sauce from the can like it’s her job.
Y’all ketchup haters is weird.
- Comment on Handy tip 2 days ago:
Nope, dreams and nightmares are good and vivid.
- Comment on Handy tip 3 days ago:
Same here. I think it was actually this meme that did it. I saw people commenting that they could not and I’m like “ha yeah, of course you can’t, who can do that?”. The lots of people are like, yeah, I can create a complex 3d shape in my mind and manipulate it, turn it, get closer, etc. I’m like WTF who are these megamind savants who can do this. Turns out, most people.
I felt very alone and very incapable after that realization.
- Comment on Handy tip 3 days ago:
All I got is dark gray static. No cows. The occasional moving blob of different dark gray static.
- Comment on Kitchen 4 days ago:
Exactly. Unless you’re cooking or cleaning GTFO of the kitchen. There is a living room, a porch, and several other places you can be. I even put the food in the dining room and people STILL want to stand in stupid places. If you come in then I’m giving you some shit to do. Here, take the trash out you vagrant or get the hell out of here.
- Comment on borger 4 days ago:
Get borger. Cheap, not waterproof, but you can eat it whenever you want in the shower.
- Comment on Is it just me or is Lemmy less active than reddit? 1 week ago:
It is quieter.
Post some new shit, comment a little. It ain’t no good if y’all just lurkin.
- 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 2 weeks ago:
Don’t count out us cheap bastards. I love buying used gear. I don’t play games on them, I just run my own stuff. Local llms home servers for media and such.
Of course with proxmox, my need for multiple devices has shrunk considerably. I’d be happy if I could get an old mining rig with a few midrange gpus in them. I’d rather run my own llm than pay a premium for a subscription. I can have it run my home automation and use it for filthy sexy chat bots. Could also use them for coding agents.
If you’re dumping 2-3 year old nvidia hardware, I’m buying.
- Comment on They're somehow always baffled that their cakes are melting 2 weeks ago:
I did not think I said anything terribly controversial but the response is deeply entertaining. Clearly have touched a nerve.
- Comment on They're somehow always baffled that their cakes are melting 2 weeks ago:
They make the whitest desserts on that show. They’re all white, gloopy, creamy, mushy, wet, gross desserts.
It’s like they’ve never heard of chocolate, caramel or anything that’s not pale.
- Comment on It's about the *option* 2 weeks ago:
What’s wrong with a standard beige sedan?
Infiniti M37x is a delightful beige sedan. Big comfy, quiet, a delight in so many ways.
- Comment on It's about the *option* 2 weeks ago:
I remember when everyone made fun of getting a sports car or muscle car saying it was a way to compensate for a small dick.
I guess folks who drove jeeps wanted in on that particular segment of being made fun of and went hard into it.
Now those of us who do drive fast things are largely left in peace with our tiny peckers.
- 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 2 weeks ago:
I watched a woman get out of her car during a traffic jam (on a packed freeway) drop trou and just piss in the road right in front of me. Didn’t try to hide to one side or open the doors to block the sightline. Just busted piss in the absolute middle of the road.
Either she was mad out of fucks or she took a dare. Didnt even wipe. Just hiked her pants up and got back in the car.
🤷
- Comment on I guessed 2 weeks ago:
I’m here to represent the Wolf In Your Neighborhood Movement.
With enough funds raised, we can deliver a pack of wild ass wolves to a neighborhood of your choosing. It might be yours, it might be that of a neighboring community.
Our wolves are bred to the highest standards and are promised to be the most lean, fast, and aggressive wolves you can find anywhere. They’re real assholes.
They solve many problems such as:
People who jog in the road Irritating pets left outside/unsupervised Irritating children left outside/unsupervised Too many deer Humans that lack common sense Humans that cannot run fast Humans that are taking out their trash Porch pirates Caribbean Pirates Door to door solicitations Religious folks
If you’re willing to donate money to our cause, we can have a pack of wolves into the neighborhood of your choosing in under 30 days.
- Comment on Recent conversations between Dawkins and sentient chat-bot Claudia (Claude) 2 weeks ago:
Buddhism would tell you that there is no “self” to speak of. Without a self how can there be consciousness?
The edges of our reality have never been anything we can perceive. However, it seems that they’re far away enough such that we can do fun things like have buttsex and smoke drugs, so I’m ok with it.
- Comment on Ew why are you like that 2 weeks ago:
What do you mean they like poop? That’s nasty.
Now drinking pee, that’s just classy.
- Comment on Ew why are you like that 2 weeks ago:
Outside bones!
- Comment on Ew why are you like that 2 weeks ago:
There is a big wet muscle squooshing away in the middle of your chest. All the time it is just in there, gooey and wet, writhing around making blood move around.
If it stops doing the mushing with the wet sloppy stuff, you die.
I’ll bet if it were out in the open it would sound like a toddler eating Mac and cheese by chewing with an open mouth.
- Comment on Ew why are you like that 2 weeks ago:
How dare you call pizza disgusting!
- Comment on Missed call 3 weeks ago:
I get them because I was jobless for six months. Now that a lot of job sites sell your data and some jobs are straight up fake to collect data, it is so hard to stay off a list.
- Comment on Yup 3 weeks ago:
Jesus fucking christ dude, I’d say you have a problem. I guess that’s one way to get off.
- Comment on Immaculate 3 weeks ago:
I know someone who did just that. She has been shagging the CRO for a bit and is now chief of staff. Everybody knows it. She’s a friend, so I’m not going to shit on her, but this is just kind of how she rolls. Judge all you like.
The company is ass. Tech startup and their product is crap, the company is poorly managed and it’s a clowncar of a place overall. So yeah.
- Comment on not being able to experience a full-body-orgasm is just another example of the sad male reality. 5 weeks ago:
Inhaled nitrous oxide is NOT the same chemical at all. Alkly nitrites are formed as a liquid and the vapors are what is inhaled. These are two entirely separate things.
- Comment on not being able to experience a full-body-orgasm is just another example of the sad male reality. 5 weeks ago:
It isn’t even processed in the brain. The NO that is left over after metabolism is moved through smooth muscles, not the brain. Anything that is not absorbed by smooth muscles is excreted after being filtered by the renal system in urine.
The main risk is hypoxia because once a body’s iron is low enough (consumed by the chemical processes) hemoglobin can no longer bind to oxygen. Pretty easy to avoid. Don’t be a twat by huffing endlessly and eat some spinach.
Don’t spread misinformation.
- Comment on not being able to experience a full-body-orgasm is just another example of the sad male reality. 5 weeks ago:
It’s fun until it’s over. Then, poop. I mean, u can rinse your butthole out before you do stuff, but kinda takes the fun out of it. “Babe, hang on, I gotta give my rectum a drink, swish and spit”.
- Comment on klown show 6 x-treme 5 weeks ago:
You have all but guaranteed that some dev will create it now–if they haven’t already.
- Comment on real 1 month ago:
Just here to say that Jay Leno is not funny, never was funny. I have no idea why he is so beloved. I’ve watched his standup, it was genuinely awful. Then again, Jimmy Fallon hosts now, so I guess that show just exists to give low-talent comedians a thing to do where they are beyond filthy rich.
Conan is and always will be the better man.
- Comment on Teenis 1 month ago:
peep if it is cold outside
pork sword when it’s sexy time. As in “I’m going to thrust my throbbing pork sword deep into the gooey inside of your ham wallet”.
The ladies fucking LOVE it. I know, I have had oh-so-many women.
Why are y’all laughing?
- Comment on Teenis 1 month ago:
not hot dog