frezik
@frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Could you though? 👀 1 day ago:
Lemmy is disappointing me.
- Comment on Winner winner! 3 days ago:
Venison dinner!
- Comment on FlatEarthers will work around it 4 days ago:
The Final Experiment in Antarctica about a year ago fractured the community. The way this sort of thing generally works is that a lot of them break off, but the remaining ones are even crazier than before. As examples, see the Great Disappointment among Adventists, or 1975 among Jehovah’s Witnesses.
That said, they still lost some major voices. If you don’t follow this sort of thing on YouTube a lot, you’re probably going to miss them completely.
- Comment on FlatEarthers will work around it 4 days ago:
There’s a few different solutions. They tend to invent brand new physics in the course of explaining it.
- Comment on FlatEarthers will work around it 4 days ago:
The great circle route doesn’t quite get over Antarctica, but it’s close. Planes generally avoid going over Antarctica for safety reasons even when it’s technically the shortest route. It’s better to go down in cold ocean where there’s a chance of being picked up by a boat, rather than going down over an icy hellscape where nobody can get to you.
- Comment on FlatEarthers will work around it 4 days ago:
You can do this same sort of thing in the Northern Hemisphere. It just gets more obvious the further you go south.
For example, check a direct flight from LA to Seoul. On a Gleason map (the most common flat earth map, though there are a few others), flights between those two should be going well over Alaska and parts of Russia. On a great circle route, they barely go over the Aleutians and don’t go into Russian airspace at all. Guess which one flights actually use?
- Comment on Amid EA's unpopular $55 billion buyout, Baldur's Gate 3 director takes time "to remind people that making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before" 4 days ago:
Truth. A big chunk of that book is explaining to nobels that war is expensive, and maybe you just shouldn’t.
- Comment on Amid EA's unpopular $55 billion buyout, Baldur's Gate 3 director takes time "to remind people that making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before" 4 days ago:
How many times do the developers of Baldur’s Gate 3 need to explain the basics of how to make a popular game and we all treat it like deep wisdom?
Not that there’s anything wrong with what they’re saying. I just feel like it only sounds like deep wisdom because the industry is so fucking broken.
- Comment on Penis Party 1 week ago:
If you disagree that the problem is penis, you’re just a prude.
- Comment on LinuX is The Most Un-Secure Barely Glued Operating System That Barely Work. 1 week ago:
Line-ew-ex
- Comment on Jeebuz Rode A Velocirapture 1 week ago:
Coincidentally, 41% is also approximately Trump’s approval rating.
- Comment on So she's saying that she's a sexual bull? 1 week ago:
Yes, no, it’s complicated.
Fascisim needs to blame some kind of out-group. Historically, that was Jewish people, but there’s no reason it has to be. The American right has spent a lot more time blaming Mexicans and LGBTQ+ people for everything. Antisemetisim does exist, but it’s somewhat vestigial. It manifests in some weird ways like “we support Israel because getting Jewish people back there will start the war of Armageddon”.
Also, many of them think Jewish women are hot, so take that extra bit of cringe.
- Comment on Action and reaction 1 week ago:
One of the times where you can have a cousin-nephew and it isn’t weird.
- Comment on It's not that complicated, guys. 1 week ago:
This guy may end up being the last Kennedy to be really high on the political ladder. What a way to finish a legacy. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer family.
- Comment on I mean... This is it. 1 week ago:
Last paragraph louder for everyone in the back. That’s the one big secret to a good sex life. The rest is details.
- Comment on US presidents are getting younger over time 1 week ago:
Except Abe Lincoln, as we all know.
- Comment on exausting 1 week ago:
FWIW, they also do some modeling work on the side while also being polyamorous, are fully open about it at work, and have never had a problem with cat calls or anything like that.
- Comment on girls be like 1 week ago:
To the surprise of everyone, cows make a poor airplane.
- Comment on introduction 1 week ago:
Almost there, failed to stick the landing.
- Comment on Who got raptured today? 1 week ago:
Can we circle back and reschedule the rapture for next week? Carrie is on vacation and we need her input.
- Comment on exausting 1 week ago:
Fuck that. An ex of mine (we’re still friends) is a welder, non-binary, and doesn’t put up with homophobic shit.
- Comment on Autism has been announced! 2 weeks ago:
Nah, that’s not how it will play out. These people have a very refined way of handling real time debates with things like Gish Gallops. Or say something so brazenly stupid that your opponent doesn’t know how to handle it (O’Reilly’s “the tides come out, you can’t explain that” comes to mind). It takes a very good debater to get around that while still caring that truth is a thing that exists, and it’s usually not worth the effort.
- Comment on cleansing 2 weeks ago:
Some people have kinks that they’re very ashamed of. It tends to come out in weird, unhealthy ways.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
The story of how North and South America were settled by the first humans. What I was taught was that the Bering Sea was frozen at the end of the last ice age, and then glaciers opened up and people migrated southward.
The problem is that the timing is too tight and the migration would have to have happened too quickly. Many native groups have long seen this story as flawed, as well.
This was covered in the book “1492”, and at the time of publication, researchers weren’t quite sure what model to replace it with. Probably some of the migration was using boats along the west coast rather than going over land. That book is getting pretty old now, though, and I’m not sure if or where things have settled out.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
It took them a long time to get there. As corporate ISPs took over from the government and universities, the Internet got built around a few large pipes rather than several smaller ones. It’s cheaper to build and maintain, but more prone to failure.
Some of the redundancy from the old ARPANET is still around in the US. Everywhere else, it mostly got built as above. One ship laying an anchor somewhere they shouldn’t has brought entire countries offline.
- Comment on When this aired, it was a joke. 2 weeks ago:
Kink.com delves into some CNC situations where they start with an out-of-character interview to show that everyone is, in fact, consenting, but the scene itself is a rape scenario. “Melissa’s Bad Medicine” (with Tommy Pistol and Melissa Stratton) is one where the scene switches up and both of them are “raped”.
I don’t think they put it on Tube sites, though, only on their pay site.
- Comment on Well then 2 weeks ago:
Certain scientific applications are one of the better uses of machine learning techniques. For example, an extremely long black hole jet was found by having machine learning go over a ton of data from radio telescopes.
It’s so long that the jet could not only hit another galaxy over, and not just a galaxy in a different cluster or even supercluster, but could go through the void in the filament structure of galaxies and hit another filament over.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
H has three of the top pizza traditions.
- Comment on Can't argue that. 2 weeks ago:
If it’s a random distribution, then we can’t say that neuroplasticity drops, either.
- Comment on Hue hue hue 2 weeks ago:
Not that. It creates atmospheric consitions where certain bands can bounce off the ionosphere and transmit beyond the horizon. You can get pretty damn far around the whole globe.