ThomasWilliams
@ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world
- Comment on Not to arm chair general it. How come the US doesn't get a bunch of helicopters over to the Lincoln with food meds and whatever? How did it get this bad where we can't supply our own ships? 1 day ago:
Hello mate it’s an aircraft carrier, they could use planes.
The place is also surrounded by ships, that’s kinda the whole point.
I suspect the reason is due to logistical regulations and internal control. You can’t just order things, it has to percolate through a massive bureaucracy.
- Comment on Shhhh! it's sleeping. 1 day ago:
They dumped the tailings behind the building and it slid after heavy rain, toppling the building.
- Plainly Difficult.
- Comment on What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings? 1 day ago:
Most westerns use that same patch of ground in Hollywood that has a vehicular track used by the film truck.
- Comment on What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings? 1 day ago:
But that’s correct.
Tooth decay was fairly rare until sugar became widely available in the 19th century with the invention of the steam powered sugar mill.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
In order to protect students in school, students should be allowed to have guns. Obviously not all students, like not dweebs or DnD players, but popular kids like the QB.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I asked a question at a bank to a teller and they used Gemini to answer it. All they had to do was enter a term into their database (they did that later - because Gemini was wrong).
Yes, the LLMs that are famously bad at arithmetic are now being forced onto staff in banks. This will end well.
- Comment on 500,000 households cancel TV licence putting BBC future in jeopardy 5 weeks ago:
How is an organisation totally dependent on govt funding and legal backing (and whose board is appointed by the PM) in any way “independent” ?
- Comment on 500,000 households cancel TV licence putting BBC future in jeopardy 5 weeks ago:
Direct gov funding seems out of the question as independence is required for reputational reasons at least
It is dependent on direct govt funding now. The independence comes from being run by a trust.
The only politically viable solution is to abolish the licence and allow advertising on some services.
- Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective. 1 month ago:
Sony are stopping production of optical drives, of which the Playstation was a tiny proportion.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 2 months ago:
Dig Dug.
Train children to blow up harmless earth-dwelling creatures with a bicycle pump ? And then when one tries to run away you get bonus points for chasing it and killing it ?
More like DIG DON’T !
- Comment on Do young people still say words like "taped"? 2 months ago:
…and IPods could not actually stream, so they couldn’t use Podcasts.
- Comment on WTF is this??? 3 months ago:
Just ignore it man. Mines been doing that for months.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
When 80% of the funds go.to politicians bank accounts this is what happens.
You see this all the time in third world countries.
- Comment on Sony PS5 sales drop 46%, even before recent price increase 3 months ago:
This is actually worse than the headline because the sales collapsed over Christmas.
- Comment on Walmart wants a fucking review of this common ass jug of milk. Go ahead shitposters, review the fucking milk. 3 months ago:
Goes great with meths. 5 stars
- Comment on Walmart wants a fucking review of this common ass jug of milk. Go ahead shitposters, review the fucking milk. 3 months ago:
Tried it as a loudspeaker enclosure but the sticky tape won’t stick. 1 star
- Comment on If I got in a collision with a car from the 70s with a car today, would not the 70s car win out since it would primarily be metal? If so why don't people buy more 70's cars? 4 months ago:
A Datsun B210 weighed 750 kg. The dashboard was made from carboard and the thin metal skin was only one layer thick, the inside trim was made from cardboard.
- Comment on If I got in a collision with a car from the 70s with a car today, would not the 70s car win out since it would primarily be metal? If so why don't people buy more 70's cars? 4 months ago:
Heh no.
Cars in the 1970s were made from coffee tins and cardboard.
- Comment on Why is 'Philippines' spelled with a PH, but 'Filipino' is spelled with an F? 4 months ago:
That would be latin ? I’m pretty sure that’s where “Phillipines” originates.
- Comment on Why do some people (i.e. white conservatives) think all Spanish speakers (especially native Spanish speakers) are Mexican? 4 months ago:
Only latinos distinguish between europeans and native americans, no one else gives a shit.
- Comment on Knowing that boomers had the "hate my wife/husband" humor because they were rushed to marry borderline strangers and didn't believe in therapy but can't prove it 4 months ago:
It was just a thing comedians did to sympathise with people who couldn’t get partners.
- Comment on In the age of electronics, when is go to vote can I request a paper ballot instead of a machine? 4 months ago:
I don’t get it isn’t it expensive ?
Say each machine cost $500 to buy and maintain, multiply that by 30 booths and then tens of thousands of polling stations the costs would be massive.
You can just scan the ballots in to get a quick count and then hand count them later.
- Comment on The City of Encinitas, California is removing a protected bike lane to replace it with a painted bike lane. Cost? More than $3 million. 5 months ago:
That’s a dangerous bike lane, if the car turns off the road the bike is right in their blind spot.
- Comment on Candy cigarettes are illegal because they encourage kids to smoke 5 months ago:
Its starts with sherbet powder, by high school they’re snorting cocaine off the toilet seats…
- Comment on why is the beginning on the left and the end on the right? 6 months ago:
The number system is Indian not Arabic.
- Comment on why is the beginning on the left and the end on the right? 6 months ago:
Pictographic languages go top to bottom or sometimes bottom to top even.
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 6 months ago:
These are not enough ebikes.
They are 1000w twist throttle bikes they buy on eBay and AliExpress.
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 6 months ago:
How do you think they arranged the meet ?
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 6 months ago:
They use behavioral psychology, a system of rewards, i’s not violent.
Only wild horses are “broken”
- Comment on Why I gave up electronics club 6 months ago:
The current does flow from positive to negative. Electricity is not the flow of electrons - they just generate the field that the electric wave flows through. The electrons don’t actually move very far. The wave flows outside of the wire, not in it.