halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on Why do some people with college degrees and an education, still act so fucking stupid? 2 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 2 weeks 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” 2 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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! 1 month 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’ 1 month 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” 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.
- Comment on RIP 1 month ago:
Meanwhile Russia and Belarus are banned from the Olympics because of the war in Ukraine. So the IOC already has an official stance with regards to the root issue. And it’s the side consistent with the athlete.
- Comment on How are locks and keys mass produced? 1 month ago:
They won’t bother rekeying, but they normally are buying enough that different sets are inevitable even if they don’t actively try.
- Comment on How are locks and keys mass produced? 1 month ago:
New locks usually tell you what key set they are on the package… So you can buy multiple of the same lock to rekey an entire house.
While the locks can be rekeyed to thousands of options, the prepackaged options will only be a few sets.
- Comment on Form over function 1 month ago:
Large vehicle suspension components scare the living hell out of me. Seen too many videos online.
- Comment on Form over function 1 month ago:
As a non-mechanic that watches various channels working on vehicle sin various states of use and repair… It seems that half of vehicle work seems to require hammers, and the other half a hammer should never be near. And knowing the difference is a mystical art form.
- Comment on Facial recognition error: Customer misidentified by Sainsbury's 1 month ago:
Yeah, 0.02% of 65 Million is 1.3 Million possible errors.
And that’s just based on the raw population, that accuracy rating could be based on raw number of scans instead. A quick search shows Sainsbury’s serves 16 million customers a week. That’s 320,000 errors every week if the error rate is just raw scans as opposed to unique scans.
- Comment on Nurses Get Bitten, Spat on, Thrown. That’s Why We’re on Strike. 1 month ago:
That was included in the show, as so many other things are to get people talking about it, but a punch isn’t a particularly out of the ordinary bad day according to all of the nurses I know. Even those that work in private practices have had to deal with violence fairly regularly from patients and/or family members.
- Comment on Ah, customer service 2 months ago:
20+ years in various customer facing roles has shown me that customers rarely know what they’re talking about. And they are not capable of reading either. The size of any sign is inversely proportional to their ability to even notice it exists.
