niktemadur
@niktemadur@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 6 hours ago:
He might have won the very first Nobel Prize, had he not passed away just a few years prior, and much too young, wasn’t he in his late-30s or early-40s?
In fact, I believe that had Hertz remained alive and won his prize, the Nobel Committee would not have felt obliged to give it to Marconi a few years later.
Marconi was a back-stabbing asshole who became one of the wealthiest men in the world by abusing the gentlemanly trust of others, and coasting on someone else’s technology - particularly the way crystals oscillate, and some of them serve nicely as a sort of “translation point” between electromagnetic waves and the physical apparatus that transmits and/or receives the signal.
- Comment on Peak male form 5 days ago:
Some of these guy are packin’ some serious heat!
- Comment on magnum pi 5 days ago:
Euler and Gauss… the lads.
- Comment on Stop this tomfoolery at once 2 weeks ago:
Hey Farva! What’s the name of that restaurant you like?
- Comment on Stop this tomfoolery at once 2 weeks ago:
I swear to god I’ll pistol-whip the next guy who says “shenanigans”.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Imagine a sci-fi world, far in the future, where there are enough old unearthed pennies to be used as currency, but they are scarce enough to acquire great relative value.
“Hey, that must have cost a small fortune!”
“A hundred and twenty five pennies, to be exact.”
“Damn!” - Comment on demon named racecar 4 weeks ago:
The Majorana Superhero!
- Comment on My playlist, everyone 5 weeks ago:
Baby Shark & Wild Stallyns. Party on, dude!
- Comment on My playlist, everyone 5 weeks ago:
What’s the matter ese?
Don’t you know I’m goth-o? - Comment on james 5 weeks ago:
Best known for being produced by Brian Eno.
“Hey man, did you hear the latest James album?”
“What? No. Why, should I?”
“Check this out, man… produced by Brian Eno.”
“Get the fuck outta here! Are you serious?”
“Yeah! It’s… it’s pretty damn good, check it out.”
“Interesting…! Yeah, I think I will, thanks for the heads up, man.”
“Sure thing, buddy.” - Comment on Nice place to shop but sometimes gets sticky 5 weeks ago:
Food Lion
Citi Trends
Shoe Show…Yeah, this has the feel of some bizarro trickle-down generic capitalism alternate universe.
- Comment on Mouse 1 month ago:
And why is there Jennifer but no Jerryfer? Or Johnnyfer?
- Comment on How to 1 month ago:
Now put them both together!
And what do you get?
A toxic regular person! - Comment on The end is never the end is never the... 1 month ago:
Yeah but can you handle clickbait homescreen wallpaper?
- Comment on Sagan, you look high. 1 month ago:
“Scratch” his itch for some of that killer skunk weed, the devil’s lettuce!
- Comment on Sagan, you look high. 1 month ago:
Did Sagan say that in writing? I know he wrote a few things about his experiences with pot, but those were informal, anecdotal writings, and this sounds much more formal, almost like a public statement meant for publishing, or a speech.
- Comment on Steven Soderbergh Says It’s “Frustrating” When Mid-Budget Films Like ‘Black Bag’ Underperform At Box Office: “Not A Good Thing For Movies” 1 month ago:
Back in the early 00s, I had the supreme pleasure of discovering Alec Guinness as George Smiley in the BBC’s miniseries masterpiece Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy from 1979, then the sequel and conclusion three years later, Smiley’s People, not as transcendent but then again, how could it equal, let alone surpass, perfection.
Less than ten years later, my first reaction upon hearing of a remake was of complete disdain - “here is an already perfect miniseries, what is it with this incessant compulsion to remake everything?”
So I didn’t watch the Gary Oldman movie until a couple of years after it came out, it was playing on TV and decided to give it a try.To my utter astonishment, I realized I was watching what was to become my favorite film of the entire decade. What an achievement!
Now I love the film and the miniseries equally, as separate mountaintops. - Comment on 70 Years Later, Gunsmoke Has Become The Most Unlikely Streaming Hit 1 month ago:
Or go deep like the Marianas Trench, binge-watch The Cisco Kid, Colgate Comedy Hour and Texaco Fireside Theater!
- Comment on A bit of salt makes it taste more savory 1 month ago:
Not just fascists, also those who empower fascists by sitting on their lazy ignorant smug asses on Election Day, bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe, who want some sort of collapse to happen… because they fancy themselves at the top of their imagined new food chain, I mean… look at their purity! Aren’t they so special and so above it all?
They read things! On the internet! Wow!
They reject anything that doesn’t fit their narrative. They LOVE having their hollow ego massaged in circlejerks and by bad-faith actors.God forbid anything less than perfect and pure crosses their medieval path, lest they feel offended and… oh yeah, they do nothing. Which is why we’re in this goddamned mess in the first place. They allowed racist, misogynistic fascism to take firm root, good luck weeding it out now.
- Comment on this is not satire this is not satire this is not satire 1 month ago:
bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe… i’M sUcH aN aNaRcHiSt HyUcK hYuCk HyUcK!!!
It’s like these mentally lazy ignorant people look all around themselves, see how the horizon is basically at the same distance all around them, therefore conclude that they must be the center of the universe, then sprinkle in a few fashionable internet soundbites and catchphrases to “make themselves sound interesting” and “with it”.
- Comment on ⭐ Enviar un regalo 2 months ago:
Intergalactic spider-powered electromagnetic tentacled advertising droids!
- Comment on Elevated 2 months ago:
Elevated
…unquote.
- Comment on The good old days 2 months ago:
Ah yes… good ole-fashioned nazi Germany!
- Comment on Panic! on the trade floor 2 months ago:
Well… you keep on giving the most rabidly ignorant, recklessly greedy bigoted zealots the keys to the kingdom every 4-to-8 years, what did you expect?
Then when Democrats can’t fix everything quickly while under constant zealot attack and sabotage, you reward the saboteurs with the keys to the goddamned kingdom again. All while you proudly proclaim that you’ve got it all figured out, because you read a blog post or tweet somewhere:
bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe WhY bOtHeR vOTiNg? - Comment on When someone finally gives you the back story 2 months ago:
An elegant device, for more civilized times.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 2 months ago:
Yep, this is the one I was scrolling down to find.
Godfather. Godfather 2. The Conversation. Dog Day Afternoon. The Deer Hunter.
All five Best Picture Oscar nominees, three winners.
- Comment on D E A L 2 months ago:
Imagine getting drugged at some seedy nightclub and you wake up without a kidney… then a week later you get drugged again and wake up with the same defective kidney stuffed back inside. A full refund!
- Comment on Just this! But also more... 2 months ago:
And that’s all for today’s installment of “But Wait… There’s More!”
- Comment on what is the truth 2 months ago:
To us as a species just barely out of the African steppes and valleys, it registers as some sort of secular magic, is like being mesmerized by a kaleidoscope or being at the center of a room full of mirrors.
To pull out extra dimensions from math, and be able to see how the tips of our new lines wave about. To zoom in on the Mandelbrot Set. To consider infinities nested within infinities. To see how Pi literally goes on forever. To notice how Pi seems to pop up nearly everywhere, including where it wasn’t expected. To see prime numbers go in outward spirals and making intricate patterns that seem to comply with the golden ratio.
This is all very poetic, too. Maybe the purest kind of art. Surely the most rigorously rational, coming up with utterly unexpected and surprising structures, beyond our ability to imagine just with our senses at play.
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 2 months ago:
Is there a way to put NIN into both extremes of Angry and Horny?