halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on dont do it 2 weeks ago:
Basically, but man traps are not usually airtight or even have a pressure differential. Usually just a room that can only be opened externally and only one exit can be opened at a time.
- Comment on When will gas stations start selling rotisserie chicken? 2 weeks ago:
Nothing prevents US businesses from doing the same. Just greed (in the interest of squeezing every penny of shareholder value) by instead stocking as little as possible that can go bad quickly. Which means minimal fresh foods. So shareholders get a couple extra pennies in exchange for the entire business being seen as a piece of shit with crappy products.
Other businesses do just fine with fresh food, look at something like QT for a direct example. They even have made to order products, not just product delivered daily.
- Comment on When will gas stations start selling rotisserie chicken? 2 weeks ago:
If only whoever runs 7-11 internationally would take over the US stuff to bring that state side.
- Comment on Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys 2 weeks ago:
I’m interested in joining this Torment Nexus. It sounds like a great opportunity and a perfect match for my extensive skill set. Where can I apply?
- Comment on NASA scientists says astronauts should not masturbate in space 3 weeks ago:
The chances of a solar particle hitting your RAM and causing a bit to flip are tremendously unlikely as well, but there’s hardware made to prevent that from happening (I realize ECC does more than that).
- Comment on I guess it's better than XP 3 weeks ago:
I mean, by definition, an ATM cannot be airgapped. It needs a network connection of some sort to verify your account info.
And that doesn’t even take into account the various banking networks allowing you to use ATMs from other banks.
- Comment on silly costume dance 4 weeks ago:
in order to do that we need to give them enough senators for constitutional amendments.
It’s a bit more complicated than that. Senators only affect 1/4th of the process.
To propose amendments, two-thirds of both houses of Congress can vote to propose an amendment, or two-thirds of the state legislatures can ask Congress to call a national convention to propose amendments.
To ratify those amendments, three-fourths of the state legislatures must approve them, or ratifying conventions in three-fourths of the states must approve them.
- Comment on The Struggle 4 weeks ago:
With fizzy drinks I found it very easy to shift towards flavored seltzers instead of it’s the fizz specifically. And if it’s sodas… Zero sugar soda tastes 99% the same as regular due to the mix of multiple sweeteners. Totally different from diet sodas which usually just use one or two, usually aspartame which also has a strong aftertaste.
If possible for chocolate, higher quality products often will hit that craving better than the cheap candy bar type stuff with 5x the amount of sugar.
- Comment on Why do some people with college degrees and an education, still act so fucking stupid? 5 weeks ago:
It also seems that the more specific a person’s education gets, it replaces general knowledge and thinking. For many it seems their entire thought process changes to focus on that specific thing, to the detriment of anything else. Doctorates seem to be less capable of working outside their specific focused niche compared to those with lower degrees. They’ve spent so much time focusing that they can’t unfocus very well.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
How the fuck did it spell Worcestershire correct but not the word sauce immediately after it?
Even dumbass autocorrect can do that. Spicy autocorrect can’t?
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Often it’s not just a deductible, but increased rates after the claim.
You can also just not provide the video, especially if your system is local. Just like you don’t tell someone that purposely brakes in front of you to cause an accident, that you have a dashcam. You tell the cop after the other person lies to them and gives their fake story.
The insurance company would need to know that you have video in the first place, and then request that specifically. Last I checked they don’t usually give discounts for having video surveillance systems, so there is no reason to let them know it exists.
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 1 month ago:
One might say even that is an over explanation.
The origin is a TikTok video about NBA player LaMelo Ball, and a conversation about his height being 6’ 7” and a lyric from the song “Doot Doot” by Skilla with the same numbers playing over that. Everything surrounding any reference to the numbers in general has spiraled from that, originally trying to get into further TikTok edits.
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 1 month ago:
Ah yes, an 80 year old definitely has the perspective to understand Gen Z. It’s possible, extremely unlikely, but there are always exceptions, just look at Skyrim Grandma.
Quickest way to tell is to see how they explain a current massive meme like 6-7. If it’s some overly complicated explanation, they clearly have no fucking idea what they’re talking about, degree or not. A degree just means you’re more educated in one specific thing, the higher that degree, the more specific that knowledge. Often that means anything unrelated to that specialization end up lacking. Some of the most educated people I know are the absolute dumbest as soon as it leaves their very specific knowledgebase.
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 1 month ago:
Separate computers may be due to necessity. For example, one of the systems they need may have a provided computer to handle it that is managed and supported by that vendor on a separated network for security.
- Comment on How many cases from the TV series Unsolved Mysteries remain unsolved in 2026? 1 month ago:
There is a Fandom wiki that seems to have categories for both cases that are unsolved, and ones unresolved (partially solved but still have unresolved questions). As of posting, there are 670 unsolved and 248 unresolved cases listed across all seasons.
- Comment on its full, no air 1 month ago:
Probable. People are quite dumb. Anyone that works with the public can attest to that.
- Comment on Air Canada Express flight AC8646 CRJ-900 at LaGuardia crash footage 1 month ago:
ATC gave clearance, and then immediately realized and told them to stop like 10 times.
That being said, any vehicle crossing the runway is required to verify physical clearance before crossing active runways for this exact reason.
A landing plane is bright as fuck, even after they’re on the ground. Those landing lights are like little suns because of what they need to illuminate for the aircraft at a distance.
That driver clearly didn’t even attempt to check the runway before heading out.
- Comment on Interview: Rod Roddenberry Has “High Hopes” For What’s Next For Star Trek, Says New Paramount “Gets It” 1 month ago:
That doesn’t necessarily mean anything. The owners care more about the news type aspects of these purchases, not the entertainment side.
Look at all the vocal MAGA Trek “fans” that seem to completely ignore the history of the franchise when trying to say it’s gone Woke and similar shit. Just because the owners are fascists that doesn’t mean the showrunners will be forced to avoid tackling topics indirectly. That’s what Trek has always done, sometimes less indirectly than others.
- Comment on Paging SpaceCowboy 2 months ago:
That’s the same excuse as
“The Nazis genocide is so it’s fine if we genocide others”
- Comment on Trump’s High-Profile Oil and Gas Lease Sale in Alaska Has No Takers | No companies bid for the chance to drill in more than 1 million acres of water off Alaska’s Cook Inlet 2 months ago:
It’s almost like the current supply is enough for the demand. Drilling doesn’t help if they aren’t able to refine and sell it.
The US already produces more than we need. This isn’t the 19670s anymore.
- Comment on _uck _e _n the a__ ton_ght 2 months ago:
The number of contestants that don’t start with the most common letters is surprisingly high.
- Comment on New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes 2 months ago:
At the expense of everyone’s privacy even if you don’t participate in the loot box economy, because you know the laws won’t be written for only if you access them it’ll be a blanket requirement. That’s not the way to get rid of loot boxes.
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 2 months ago:
In the same vein… Maraschino cherries aren’t red, they are golden.
- Comment on "Moon landing" photo where the angles of the shadows are all off. 2 months ago:
The greatest adversary of the US, literally in a cold war using space as a proxy for active fighting, with every reason to expose any lies… Were in on it.
If they believe that they’re a lost cause. They can go back to their tin foil hat.
- Comment on "Moon landing" photo where the angles of the shadows are all off. 2 months ago:
It’s even simpler than that. The Soviet Union was the biggest US enemy at the time. They obviously would have tracked the flight from launch to landing. Why would they go along with a US conspiracy? Wouldn’t they be the first to say it was fake?
- Comment on I'm in! 2 months ago:
A reminder that’s exactly what Reagan did in California, with NRA support. The Black Panthers started to arm themselves and cop watch and that couldn’t be allowed clearly. California gun control really started with Reagan.
- Comment on Interview: Tawny Newsome On “Gargantuan Task” To Give DS9 “Resolution” On ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ 2 months ago:
Don’t forget the very first episode literally having Harry and Paris in Quarks Bar, and talking to Quark on DS9 before Voyager heads to the Badlands.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x07 “Ko’Zeine” 2 months ago:
First thing I thought was that the ship was going to be in Academy Mode because it was obviously landed and not in space, which we saw earlier seems to be able to simulate just about any scenario. Which would also explain why it was accepting commands from cadets without question.
- Comment on Interview: George Takei Talks Timeliness Of ‘Beam Me Up, Sulu’ Doc; Wants To Return As Star Trek Admiral 2 months ago:
As much as I want this… It’s a complicated timeline, that would be right in the middle of all of the 90s trek shows.
- Comment on The Duality of Lemmy 2 months ago:
This is one of the points covered several times in The Witcher series. The monsters are doing their thing, and should really only be messed with when they interfere with humans.
