BillyClark
@BillyClark@piefed.social
- Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about... 17 hours ago:
I’ve seen several times where somebody posts a picture saying “Look what socialism causes,” and the picture is like a tent city in modern America that was created under capitalism.
- Comment on What's going on with Tesseract and why are people upset? 3 days ago:
For anybody who doesn’t know what a front end is, the job of the front end is generally to take data from the back end and present it to the user. So for the fediverse, a front end might be the web page or app. The back end is the actual instance where you made your user.
Lots of front ends do filtering, but at the explicit instruction of the user. It’s better to do it on the back end if you can because it’s wasteful to send data to the front end only to throw it away. But there is a place for front end filtering, just not in secret.
So in this case, a person who used tesseract as well as, say, a lemmy web page interface, would probably expect to see the same data in both places, but the tesseract front end would actually be hiding a lot of stuff.
- Comment on When Stephen Colbert had The Colbert Report did the right ever realize he was doing a parody of them? 3 days ago:
You have to look at how it was presented. Part of a speech that was supposed to be humorous, but we all know he really wants to run again.
Also, that proposed amendment is a troll in my opinion. The guy who proposed it, some representative named Andrew Ogles, knows it has no chance of being ratified. So, why would he propose it? The likely candidates in my mind are to kiss up to Trump and to “trigger the libs” or whatever, at the same time. Proposing something that will never happen just for giggles is a pretty classic troll.
- Comment on When Stephen Colbert had The Colbert Report did the right ever realize he was doing a parody of them? 4 days ago:
I take all of my points from wisdom, and place them into intelligence!
Now, to challenge myself to build the world’s most polluting machine.
- Comment on When Stephen Colbert had The Colbert Report did the right ever realize he was doing a parody of them? 4 days ago:
There are two reasonable ways of interpreting The Colbert Report. One is that he was joking, and this we know is what he intended, because he made himself clear when he was off the show.
The other is that he was trolling. He was throwing things out there and he was joking, but not really. You now see this style from a lot of right wing people. Trump just did it in his correspondents dinner speech where he said he was going to run again in 2028.
It’s because other people come in with their own biased perspectives and they can make some sort of reasonable interpretation that they get the wrong idea and never correct it.
- Comment on When Stephen Colbert had The Colbert Report did the right ever realize he was doing a parody of them? 4 days ago:
People who are smart in one way are usually not smart in every way.
- Comment on Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening? 5 days ago:
It’s shit that you have to know exactly what to say in order to take advantage of your rights.
But one thing I should mention is not just to be careful not to say what you’ve been eating or drinking. Never tell the cops anything about yourself other than what is legally required. They often ask where you’re coming from and where you’re going, for example.
They often try to trick people into consenting to a search by phrasing an order as a question, and pretending like they were just asking a question. “Would you mind opening your trunk?” The response is “I do not consent to searches.” I would also lock my door if I stepped out of my car. There are many situations where they can pretend you implied consent to search.
- Comment on It's rigged 2 weeks ago:
Also, while paying my property tax bill, I noticed that the government has no problem taxing me for an assessed value of my property without me actually realizing my gains.
Of course, that is a property tax and not a capital gains tax, but it just shows that they definitely don’t have to wait until you sell to tax on capital gains. Just have an official assessment of value for investments.
- Comment on Why does dried pasta have an expiration date 2 weeks ago:
Despite the memes, apparently, Twinkies go stale pretty soon after they’re made.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Freedom for children to starve until they develop severe lifelong disorders and mental deficiencies.
- Comment on Anatomy of the Milky Way 1 month ago:
If you ignore the “100,000 light years”, this could be the anatomy of somebody’s spine.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month 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] 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
It is less dangerous than me sitting on my ass all day.
- Comment on Misaligned cabinet in apple wwdc 1 month ago:
I mentioned the stack of 3 books at the top exactly to rebut that statement.
- Comment on Misaligned cabinet in apple wwdc 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
- Comment on no chances for life around red dwarfs 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Sol seems to be a life star.
- Comment on Flipper!! 1 month 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! 1 month 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 1 month 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.