GreyEyedGhost
@GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca
- Comment on Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger? 3 days ago:
There is Fossify Messages. A caveat. Fossify is a fork of some apps that were abandoned or had the license changed. After that happened, they were unmaintained for a while. That appears to have changed somewhat, but it has been 2 months since the last update on F-Droid.
- Comment on How do you feel about a 25 year old dating a 46 year old? 6 days ago:
The line I use is, “If I was going to bet on this situation, I’d bet against it, but it’s not enough information to make a good judgement in this case.” Much like age differences or wealth differences in relationships, or indigenous status and domestic abuse. If that’s all the info you have.
- Comment on How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us? 1 week ago:
State-run prisons where labor can be required would also qualify as slavery by any definition.
- Comment on An original Lemmy shitpost 1 week ago:
These are not the pixels I was looking for!
- Comment on An original Lemmy shitpost 1 week ago:
Pixels coming at a premium in this picture.
- Comment on How would you rate your country's constitution? 1 week ago:
The notwithstanding clause can’t negate any part of the constitution, but that is a distinction without a difference. That said, it does make it easy to call any politician who uses it a slimy piece of shit and have something to refer to for why you believe that. Not that I would ever call a politician a slimy piece of shit - our slander laws in Canada do not have a clause to use the truth as a defense.
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 2 weeks ago:
Well, the scientists are talking about 95%, which is 400 million people, and if people started dying out due to climate, you would see regions where people have a better time living. These would most likely be in the temperate bands, which are a narrow strip across South America and Africa, and a larger strip across North America and Eurasia. Those northern bands are thousands of kilometers long, and people have traveled those distances on foot before. Moreover, those 5000 people don’t have to be in one place, they need to join up in a few generations at worst. Also, climate collapse isn’t instant, as we are experiencing it right now, so those 5000 can start congregating before the collapse is complete. For reference, 0.1% of 8 billion is 1.6 million people. 5000 people is a third of a percent of that.
Killing every human is pretty hard.
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 2 weeks ago:
Civilization collapse in 200 years is pretty plausible, which would go along with 95% of the population dying. For humans to go extinct would take better than 99.9% dying. 5,000 individuals would be a comfortable minimum viable population for humans to survive.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 2 weeks ago:
What I’m saying is, either civilization is going to fail or it isn’t. If it is, urban centers are going to collapse and a lot of people are going to die and most gasoline cars will be useless in a couple years. If it isn’t, utilizing the frameworks of civilization to handle disasters will be as effective as anything else we can do, hence no need for extreme resilience (growing you own food, canning, making your own clothing) or rugged individualism.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 2 weeks ago:
I understand the mindset, but civilization hinges on working together. Being resilient enough to survive on your own is rarely going to involve growing some significant portion of your own calories for an urban population. Being handy will certainly help in general, and having a method to repel bad actors are useful in a complete collapse, but relying on gasoline powered vehicles doesn’t make sense if you think society is going to fail.
- Comment on I'm not a doctor, nor have I played one on TV. 2 weeks ago:
Maybe OP can tell us what kind of doctor he isn’t.
- Comment on there goes your ram btw 2 weeks ago:
There was an utterly surreal burger commercial someone prompted that I just loved. It wasn’t really good, but it was a lot.
- Comment on ShitpostID: 4185519047 2 weeks ago:
“I’d like a Coke.”
“Is Pepsi okay?”
“It will have to do.”
Or
“Do you have Dr. Pepper?”
- Comment on I'm not a doctor, nor have I played one on TV. 2 weeks ago:
Certainly possible. I haven’t bothered looking into what types of shifts are typical for doctors in hospitals, but $430k is certainly more attractive.
- Comment on I'm not a doctor, nor have I played one on TV. 3 weeks ago:
I absolutely agree, for me, but is it enough to attract a doctor who probably has $240k in student loans to pay off and can make more elsewhere? To someone in that position it may not be worth responding to.
- Comment on I'm not a doctor, nor have I played one on TV. 3 weeks ago:
Assuming you get 5 12-hour shifts per month, that’s only $216k per year. Sure, you have a lot of time off, but you can make much more as a doctor, depending on what kind of specialty, of course. Maybe OP can tell us what kind of doctor he isn’t.
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 5 weeks ago:
It was referenced in every episode, but one episode was about the people who had one.
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 5 weeks ago:
It’s a greentext from 2013 apparently. It can be found on reddit, and I’ve seen it here, but I doubt I could find it.
- Comment on Ouch 1 month ago:
To be fair, all names are made up, and not just for places. But yes, Farmington is a little more simplistic than say Louisiana.
- Comment on Top DuckDuckGo Image Result for "Morse code chart". It gets worse the longer I look at it. 1 month ago:
As a non-American, I should be unsurprised I’m more familiar with International Morse Code.
- Comment on Fuck the IRS 1 month ago:
Here’s a quote I stumbled across a couple decades ago.
I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
- Comment on Must be nice 1 month ago:
One definition of humor is pain plus distance. The pain is possibly moderate, and the distance for me to do that is impossible to bridge. Sounds pretty funny to me.
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 1 month ago:
I think what they mean by “community blocklist” is a blocklist maintained by the community which users can have applied to them. This means, rather than everyone having to deal with blocking the trolls individually, only one user has to and the rest get the benefit of that.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 1 month ago:
Is that the sound of the warp drive in space? It certainly isn’t the sound effect the explosions in space use.
If it wasn’t for artistic license, they could have gone with what happens when the inertial dampers fail in the spaceships in David Weber’s books, which is a more realistic outcome (assuming realism is what you’re looking for in a setting with warp drives and inertial dampers), but writing off the crews of ships that don’t matter to the storyline in a red paste probably wouldn’t go over well in a family drama. About as well as people sitting around in a pitched battle with the occasional hum or shudder.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 1 month ago:
I suppose if they’d been in a more relaxed pose they would have flown farther?
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 1 month ago:
And where are the seat belts?
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 1 month ago:
These ships all had inertia dampers, otherwise the crew would be paste during most maneuvers. Seatbelts would just cause a different kind of mess. And even if they didn’t, are you suggesting Picard’s grip is sufficient to combat those forces? Because he didn’t have a seat belt, either. Maybe it was the force of his presence that you think was going to keep him seated?
- Comment on Been putting a lot of thought into this 1 month ago:
The ideal technique for when they’re sweaty or sticky.
- Comment on Been putting a lot of thought into this 1 month ago:
The ideal technique for when they’re itchy.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Remnant Trailer 1 month ago:
The motorbike can be fun, getting big jumps can be awesome, and you can explore caves easier. Other than that, yeah.