BillyClark
@BillyClark@piefed.social
- Comment on Anatomy of the Milky Way 1 day ago:
If you ignore the “100,000 light years”, this could be the anatomy of somebody’s spine.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days 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] 2 days 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? 5 days ago:
It is less dangerous than me sitting on my ass all day.
- Comment on Misaligned cabinet in apple wwdc 1 week ago:
I mentioned the stack of 3 books at the top exactly to rebut that statement.
- Comment on Misaligned cabinet in apple wwdc 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 2 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 2 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 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on no chances for life around red dwarfs 2 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 2 weeks ago:
Sol seems to be a life star.
- Comment on Flipper!! 2 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! 2 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 2 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... 2 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Thanks I’ll give it a shot. Especially because I don’t want this technical problem to ruin this long tradition.
- Comment on 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 4 weeks ago:
That’s not surveillance. That’s basic service, allowing the recipient of a call to know who is actually calling them. The same thing would also stop a lot of scammers.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 4 weeks ago:
There are a lot of things that can be pointed at as to why this happens so much in the US. But I think most people forget that this is a problem that can literally be fixed using laws and technology.
Swatting can only happen because the US telecom system is so full of holes and because the US legal system isn’t doing its job.
The primary thing you have to do is fix it so that the emergency operators can know where a call actually originated. And all we need to do to make that happen is to change the law so that telecom companies are held criminally and civilly liable when a person uses their infrastructure to fake where an emergency call is coming from.
Calls that come from foreign sources or from internet sources would harbor great suspicion. Imagine that the operator gets a big flashing notice that the call is suspicious right from the start.
I’m not saying that police and gun nuts and police gun nuts and incompetent police and nazi assholes don’t have a lot of culpability, or that we shouldn’t have severe penalties for people who do the swatting but the core fault lies in our elected representatives being too corrupt to hold telecom companies to account.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 4 weeks ago:
All cops are idiots.
“ACAI”???
- Comment on How do I type an apostrophe and use print screen on a European Spanish keyboard? 4 weeks ago:
Either you’re making some sort of joke that escapes me or you completely misunderstood my comment.
- Comment on How do I type an apostrophe and use print screen on a European Spanish keyboard? 4 weeks ago:
You’re a distinct character.