ExtremeDullard
@ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
- Comment on The Trump Administration Is Coming After Birth Control Access in a Terrifying New Way 10 hours ago:
MAHA - Make Abortion with Hangers Again
- Comment on So... is Iran blocking the Strait thing and then the US is also blocking it? So is it like... double blocked? Is it like "no you can't close the Strait, I'm closing it"? 2 days ago:
Iran lets Iranian ships and ship from Iran-friendly countries through and nothing else.
The US lets all ships through apart from Iranian and friends’ ships.If you’re into electronics, think of it as a band-pass filter followed by a notch filter. And it’s just as fucking stupid.
- Comment on hmm 4 days ago:
I wish ratemypoo.com still existed. I best a photo of Donald Trump would have scored high.
- Comment on I guess I'll shit on the floor. 5 days ago:
You misread the sign: They just want you to leave your business in the bowl.
- Comment on These Chimps Began the Bloodiest ‘War’ on Record. No One Knows Why. 1 week ago:
Meaning, the orange utan in the White House also starts wars and nobody knows why either.
- French government says it's ditching Windows for Linux — country accelerates plans to ditch US-based software in digital sovereignty pushwww.tomshardware.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@beehaw.org | 0 comments
- Comment on As a soil scientist, I don't recommend this one neat trick that doctors hate 2 weeks ago:
Borax cures chemtrails?
That’s exactly what I need tonight: I had refried beans for dinner and I’m creating a friggin microclimate inside the house!
- Comment on Pressure mounts on Kanye West to be pulled from headline role at summer music festival in London 2 weeks ago:
Does this nincompoop realize Adolf Hitler considered people with his skin complexion animals?
- Comment on The reason for egg season. 2 weeks ago:
If you’re questioning that one, you might also wonder why a flying fatman in a red coat distributing cheap Chinese toys to children is the symbol of Jesus’ birth.
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not just in different languages, but sometimes in different variants of the same languages.
For instance, in Belgian French, “tournante” is any task in which people take turn, like a card game. In French French, it’s specifically gang rape.
And then you have words that aren’t spelled exactly the same way but seem like an obvious translation (actual false friends, which aren’t usually exact matches), like the Spanish “constipado”, which means to have a stuffed nose and not what you think.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Leaded paint no doubt.
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Those
concentration campsICE detention facilities are really visible from the sky. - Comment on Average cig 2 weeks ago:
That reminds me of the 3 parts of the cigar in French, which I learned when I lived in France and I was a cigar smoker:
- The first third is hay ("le foin"): it’s light and not very good
- The second third is divine
- The third third is manure ("le purin"): it’s tarry and gross
Two third of a cigar is not really enjoyable. Considering the cost of a good cigar, that’s not good value 🙂
- Comment on How come I can vote a yes or no vote for new taxes or bonds? But cannot choose where the money I give goes to? Should that also be my choice? 2 weeks ago:
You can choose where your money is spent: it’s called elections.
For instance, vote for orange pedophiles and your money is siphoned off and given to billionaires, Gestapo-like paramilitaries, middle-east forever-wars, fuck-flights and Barbie advertisements for the DHS Secy, and personal jet-setting for the FBI Director.
- Comment on If you're fond of restoring 30-year-old PCs, but then you see some old PC parts being obliterated by scrappers just to get small pitiful pinches of gold. 3 weeks ago:
It’s not hoarding as long as it doesn’t impair your ability to lead a normal life in a livable home. Beyond that, to each their hobbies.
- Comment on If you're fond of restoring 30-year-old PCs, but then you see some old PC parts being obliterated by scrappers just to get small pitiful pinches of gold. 3 weeks ago:
…now
You have to be very patient and have an awful lot of storage space - and bet that the junk you’re storing will be worth something some day - to even bother keeping crappy stuff in any large quantity to turn a profit when the stuff is still crappy and not worth a damn.
The reason 386s are getting rare is because nobody in their right mind made that bet when they were still around and completely deprecated.
The only person I met who made a similar bet and won big money was a Brit who bought 6 Jaguar E-Types sight-unseen when they came out, and put them in storage for 30 years (prepared professionally for long-term storage too). When those cars came on the market, brand new with no mile on the clock, they sold for millions, the guy bought a nice house in Hampshire and retired in comfort.
He told me he just knew that model would be highly desirable classic the minute he saw a picture, and almost bankrupted his family to buy them as an investment. Ballsy.
- Comment on If you're fond of restoring 30-year-old PCs, but then you see some old PC parts being obliterated by scrappers just to get small pitiful pinches of gold. 3 weeks ago:
My Mom had a saying when I was young(er): vintage is all the crap we couldn’t wait to get rid of and couldn’t throw away fast enough.
Decades later, I totally get what she’s saying: 30 year old PCs are utter crap in my eyes. Good riddance. Who wants to restore that junk: it was cheap-ass commodity hardware at that point. A PDP11 on the other hand… 🙂
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure I guess. I can’t count the number of PCs I brought to the recycler simply because I literally would have had to pay someone to take them back in the days. I wish I had kept them to sell to today’s enthusiasts and get back some of the insane money that stuff sold for when it was new.
- Comment on What happens if an instance gets down? 3 weeks ago:
The idea is to migrate the community to Piefed (which I suppose simply creates a local copy from the content in the remote community) then tell all the members that the community has moved.
That’s why I haven’t done it yet, because it’s a massive inconvenience to everybody, and I’m sure Piefed will lose content in the process. And the SDF instance is just functional enough that it’s not worth doing. But I’m really, REALLY close to pulling the trigger.
- Comment on What happens if an instance gets down? 4 weeks ago:
We’ll soon find out: SDF’s Lemmy instance seems to have snuffed it permanently. It’s been performing really poorly - and been inaccessible - for as long as I’ve known it, but now I think SDF just doesn’t care at all anymore.
Unfortunately, I have 2 communities there that I was planning on migrating to Piefed soon, and it might be too late. Hopefully it’ll come back online long enough for me to save them at some point 🙁
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Being in a shelter hardly qualifies as having a home. Unless you like shelters maybe…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Have you been to Finland?
6 months of the year, homeless people would freeze to death in short order if they were left outside.
Finland has homeless people, just not on the street.
- Comment on How do wealthy people know if the people they meet are wealthy or not? 4 weeks ago:
Then don’t be ostentatious with your wealth. Don’t advertise it. And if you can’t do that, then maybe don’t get so wealthy.
- Comment on How do wealthy people know if the people they meet are wealthy or not? 4 weeks ago:
Wealthy people don’t mingle with the rest of us. They literally live in a totally different world, and you ain’t invited unless you can clean their toilet or give them massages on a private Caribbean islands and shut your trap.
- Comment on Put the shoes on 5 weeks ago:
your MD believes you’ve healed. book says you should have years ago.
If your doc thinks that, change doc.
In my neck of the woods, doctors are so aware of phantom pains that I can literally walk into any doctor’s office, even one I’ve never met before, and ask for a prescription of Gabapentin or opioid of any denomination at any strength no questions asked. If I was still addicted, I would have no supply problem.
- Comment on Put the shoes on 5 weeks ago:
Well, I still have both my hands, so no 🙂
My feet however… Well no, I don’t have phantom limbs. Never had. Not everybody gets them. And I have very little phantom limb pain - which is a different thing. When I do get it, it’s either in the form of mild electric shocks, which are easy to deal with and possibly even pleasant like a TENS session, or in the form of terrible itching I can’t scratch that can last for up to 3 days.
- Comment on Put the shoes on 5 weeks ago:
Or get amputated.
The first times I went to the swimming pool in rehab, I remember feeling “more than 100%” naked in the changing room - if that makes any sense - because bits of me that used to be deep down inside of me were now only skin-deep. It’s a very strange feeling to feel even more naked than naked. Hard to describe.
- Comment on If Programmers are wizards then what are Computer Architects? 1 month ago:
Most computer engineers are only engineers in the original sense of railway engineer: they throw coal in the fire to run the engine.
Real engineers (with an engineering degree) are called “senior software engineer”
- Comment on If Programmers are wizards then what are Computer Architects? 1 month ago:
Computers architects are like real architects: they’re paid more to design buildings but they don’t know how to lay bricks.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Jerusalem is the source of most of the world’s problems. It’s been an open-air madhouse for millenia.
