BillyClark

@BillyClark@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  How long are we to wait? If we wait too much longer, we’ll have waited for longer than the Confederate States of America existed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Underground is not necessarily better for the environment. I think if we compared the ideal underground build to the ideal above ground build, underground would actually be worse for the environment.

  Think about it this way: The advantages you might get from underground are related to reclaiming ground and comprehensive city planning. But you can reclaim roof space to make up for the ground, and you can get the same benefits from city planning building above ground.

  The idea that you’d just leave pure wilderness on the ground level when you build underground is not realistic. You could grow the crops you need right there above it, instead, for example. A certain amount of land is needed to support each person. But either way, people would be going to the surface every day. If you build underground, you’ll also be building above ground.

  Meanwhile, underground requires quite a bit more stuff. You have to plan more to manage heat and ventilation. It’s difficult to increase density underground because you can build higher more easily than you can dig deeper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In fact, there are some “child prodigies” out there who are simply drilled from a young age to pass specific intelligence tests. If you’re a overbearing parent desperate to live vicariously through your children, you can turn a fairly normal child into a “child prodigy.” It only costs you a lot of time and money and it only costs your child their childhood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One advantage of red cups is that you can more easily see names written on them with a Sharpie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America continues to fall behind the rest of the world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Freedom for children to starve until they develop severe lifelong disorders and mental deficiencies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anatomy of the Milky Way⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you ignore the “100,000 light years”, this could be the anatomy of somebody’s spine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All of those cars and probably planes causing god knows how much pollution, just to get one of the world’s most despised men to a meeting where he’ll be too incompetent to have any effect.

  Seriously, why do we even have ambassadors anymore?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If this were a movie, some clueless garbage truck would have pulled out and blocked the road.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is our battery/junk drawer dangerous?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is less dangerous than me sitting on my ass all day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Misaligned cabinet in apple wwdc⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mentioned the stack of 3 books at the top exactly to rebut that statement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Misaligned cabinet in apple wwdc⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t care at all about that because something else is far more offensive about this piece of furniture.

  If you look at the top above the plant, there is a stack of three books. THERE IS ENOUGH DEPTH TO PUT BOOKS THERE WITH THEIR SPINES FACING OUT, YET ON THE RIGHT, THEY’VE TAKEN AWAY ALL OF THAT DEPTH SO THAT THE SHELF WILL ONLY HOLD A SINGLE HARDCOVER BOOK, COVER FORWARD.

  This furniture screams, “I want you to think I like books, but truthfully, I don’t even know how to read. Hardcover books are more expensive, so I’m fooling you even harder.”

  It’s furniture for braggart morons. Let people brag all they want. Let them be morons all they want. But don’t make specialty furniture for braggart morons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Differences of Opinion by Wendy Cope⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some parts of the internet which are moderated may remove content that they believe is bigoted towards certain groups. Moderators may not always have the luxury of taking the time to understand exactly why a word that is normally inappropriate might be appropriate in a specific situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Differences of Opinion by Wendy Cope⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was an episode of South Park where the kids claimed that a word that we view as a bigoted slur against gay men actually referred to people who loudly ride motorcycles at night.

  If reason doesn’t work for flat earthers, maybe we should use one of the well-known euphemisms that we no longer use for people whose mental abilities are far below average. You know, like, “special”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just saw this yesterday, and that article had an estimated yearly impact of how much money farmers/ranchers would lose every year if screwworm comes back to the US, and IIRC, it was something like $900 million.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whales are Chinese⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whale language is comparable to Chinese, and so therefore whales are Chinese? What an anthropocentric way of putting it. Obviously, the whale language came first, and it is the Chinese who have appropriated whale culture, maybe even without permission!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boom⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was scientists who pushed for the American government to create the atomic bomb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨no chances for life around red dwarfs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried jumping as high as I could, but it turns out my momentum is keeping me in orbit around Sol, and it would take an astonishing amount of energy to overcome that.

  Plus, I have a suspicion that I’d succumb to the Death Space before I could get close enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨no chances for life around red dwarfs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sol seems to be a life star.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flipper!!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if it was a human, Chris would be wrong with his lie about “90% of scientists.” Not sure why people think a lie will help their argument in cases like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liars!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are electrons talking in the cartoon, not atoms. This could have easily been fixed by drawing a molecule with many atoms rather than a single atom, and having the atoms speak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Urges Canceling Freedom 250 Concerts After Artists Drop Out⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically all of the artists were told they would be participating in a nonpartisan event to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary.

  Then, they learned that Trump would be opening the event with a speech and they realized that rather than being nonpartisan, Trump was going to try to make the thing into a Trump rally that was funded by taxpayers.

  Basically if you look at which artists are willing to work with Trump, it’s the has-beens, the never-weres, and the praise-Hitlers. No sane artist wants to appear to support him at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobody wants to work anymore...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Work is exactly the place where I discovered that I don’t want to work anymore.

  Lots of people say that they want to work, but then, when they accumulate enough money to retire, not only do they stop working, but they throw a fucking party to celebrate the fact that they’re not working anymore.

  So anyways, if you throw a party when you stop doing something, and nobody asks, “Why are they throwing this party? It’s nonsensical,” then it’s all a big lie and everybody secretly knows it. They just don’t want to say it and stand out from their group.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried proton-ge, using proton plus, and I got no flashing screen, even when playing a 1v1 competitive match. Hopefully, it will still work when I play with my friend later.

  Thanks for the tip. I think it probably worked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smell the Roses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Rose’s are red,
  Violet’s are blue,
  Ethel’s are green.

  A poem about old lades’ panties.

  (Shamelessly stolen from an episode of 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown, but I couldn’t find the link. And their version was far more British. I think they said something like “pensioners’ knickers”.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks I’ll give it a shot. Especially because I don’t want this technical problem to ruin this long tradition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I always switch back and forth between hotfix and experimental to see if one works better. So basically, I use those two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, when I load the game, sometimes at the title screen, but more frequently only when I start a competitive game, the entire screen starts flashing black and then back to the game maybe once or twice a second. It often settles down after a minute and stops flashing, but sometimes it starts flashing again or it won’t stop for the entire game. And then, sometimes, the entire screen turns black and stays black and I have to restart the game to get the graphics to return.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been playing Rocket League for years, just because it’s a good way to hang out with a friend who likes it.

  For probably the past year, I’ve been playing it in Linux. But recently, suspiciously at about the same time that they added the anti-cheat software, Rocket League has become barely playable in Linux, at least for me.

  I don’t really see the need for either anti-cheat or an engine update. I only anticipate that it will make it run even worse in Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazon will drop customers who return too many items. They have to protect themselves from ongoing fraud just like every retailer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is chess the most frustrating game to lose in?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Whether the game is chess or League or whatever, your tilting comes from yourself, not from the game.

  You probably know some people who play those same games and don’t tilt, even when they get a really bad break. Use those people as role models and get control of yourself.