ultranaut
@ultranaut@lemmy.world
- Comment on Once lunar colonies are established, would they attempt to break away? What would independent lunar republics look like? 1 week ago:
Extremely unlikely. The moon lacks sufficient resources so any outposts established in our lifetimes will likely remain reliant on the Earth. Building the industrial capacity capable of sustaining a technological civilization on the moon is hard enough already on our planet. I would expect outposts on the moon to be culturally similar to those in Antarctica.
- Comment on Valve says there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, and prices are only going to increase: 'Honestly, it's still getting worse' 1 week ago:
You should look into what is actually going on in the industry, the bills are getting paid. Companies are even pre-paying for future allocations, and there is a transition towards 5 year contracts.
- Comment on Valve says there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, and prices are only going to increase: 'Honestly, it's still getting worse' 2 weeks ago:
Probably anyone who wants RAM. 2027 production is mostly already sold, the shortage isn’t going away until there’s more fabs. 2027 is more likely to see higher prices than lower.
- Comment on Valve says there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, and prices are only going to increase: 'Honestly, it's still getting worse' 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t really accurate, there’s been literally hundreds of billions invested over the past several years. The only reason prices are predicted to normalize after 2028 is because that’s when the new fabs come online that those investments are paying for.
- Comment on Well done, all of you! 1 month ago:
Has it started getting hot out where you are recently? There is always a spike in bad driving when the weather gets nice.
- Comment on How plausible is a medical tricorder? 2 months ago:
As far as I’m aware there’s not really a feasible path to miniaturization for most of the current medical scanning technologies. Physics and materials science are fundamental barriers.
- Comment on What do you think realistically would happen the moment we meet extraterrestrials? 2 months ago:
It depends on what the extraterrestrials are like. I think its probable they would be as incomprehensible to us as we are to fish or bugs. I am confident that a significant percentage of people will immediately freak out and react with aggression regardless of what they are like, and that the wealthy will be looking for any way to make money from them, even if it means selling out life on earth.
- Comment on Honestly impressive how pharmacies are able to find a new type of problem every time I go to pick up my meds 2 months ago:
Walgreens once gave me the wrong prescription, which I didn’t notice until after I already taken some. It was some weird drug for schizophrenics or something like that and it totally fucked me up to the point I had to take off work for the day. Instead of apologizing or trying to make the situation right the Walgreens pharmacist was a total asshole to me and tried to blame me for what happened, they acted like I had stolen someone else prescription instead of them fucking up and poisoning me.
- Comment on Are people who make 200k a year "poor"? 3 months ago:
Mostly no. If you are in a VHCOL area and have a lot of financial obligations, like a large family to support for example, it’s really not that much. Outside those circumstances its enough income to support a middle class lifestyle in any developed country on earth.
- Comment on (I can't see the aita community on this instance) am I in the wrong for asking as a young teen if they still hired at a daycare center? 3 months ago:
Extremely unprofessional. Acting like an asshole is only appropriate in certain contexts, and a rando calling about open positions is definitely not one of them.
- Comment on How do you feel about a 25 year old dating a 46 year old? 3 months ago:
Adults can do what they want, but that sounds like a bad idea and I question the judgment of both parties.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 4 months ago:
GrapheneOS on a Pixel 10. It’s easy to install if you ever want to step up from scrubland.
- Comment on Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’ 5 months ago:
One sent Mr. Epstein’s sexual partners elsewhere for gonorrhea treatment so that when their cases were reported to public health authorities, they wouldn’t be tied to Mr. Epstein. Some doctors also shared patients’ private health information with him, disclosures that at least one woman was unhappy about.
This sounds like active participation in a criminal organization by these doctors. If you’re helping sex traffickers by acting sketchy and violating your professional duties you probably should have some culpability for the crimes you are facilitating.
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 5 months ago:
This is how crime reporting in the US works too. There isn’t a connection really between crime rates and news reporting, the news media broadly choose to focus on certain types of crimes because they serve the interests of their owners and/or are popular with their audiences. There’s decades of polling showing Americans largely have never had any idea what the actual risks are of crime.
- Comment on You must tell me, please! 5 months ago:
“Pedo guy”
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 5 months ago:
I have a Plex server guy. He is one of my oldest and best friends although we don’t get to hang out much anymore. I know he has other friends he shares the Plex server with but I have no idea who or how many. I’ve been using it since Plex was new, not sure how long exactly but more than a decade. I occasionally buy him nice hard drives because the library is ridiculously huge and always growing. As someone who loves weird and obscure shit, it’s my favorite streaming service by far and he’s my hero for running it.
- Comment on If the protests in Iran win/topple the government what will it look like immediately afterwards? Also what would be the good or bad about installing a monarchy again? 6 months ago:
Reinstalling the monarchy is almost certainly not happening. If it did I wouldn’t expect the new gov to last, the monarchy lacks the popularity and infrastructure necessary for that to be successful. It’s tough to say what things will look like if the current government falls but some kind of civil war is very likely I think.
- Comment on Is there an endgame to Trump he is trying to obtain? Or is he making it up along the way at the cost of Americans? 7 months ago:
Both, and there’s more than one end game because there’s multiple factions behind Trump who have slightly different end games in mind. There is a shared purpose and common cause built up around Trump but also some fundamental tensions within the party about what the post-Constitutional order will look like once they’ve fully consolidated power.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 8 months ago:
I’m disappointed in the screens they used but it unfortunately makes sense that 4k microOLED isn’t feasible. I wish the new controllers supported Lighthouse tracking too. If the new controllers really are proprietary to just this single HMD that’s a big failure in my opinion.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Nonce
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 8 months ago:
This shit drives me nuts. I’ve put in a lot of effort to secure my accounts but a number of them require SMS without any opt out. We have known about the risks of SMS plenty long enough at this point.
- Comment on Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled 8 months ago:
I once had a phone with uninstallable Facebook bullshit and it is more than mildly infuriating. Fuck Nothing, they are dead to me now. This is unforgivable.
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 9 months ago:
Israel is integral to their eschatology. They can’t have Armageddon without certain conditions being met. Supporting Israel is intended to facilitate the the creation of those conditions.
- Comment on Found my people 9 months ago:
Are the pink things jelly beans?
- Comment on NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE 10 months ago:
xerces.org may have info you are looking for. Depending on where you live you may be able to find seeds of local flowering plants that do well as a lawn replacement, for example: northwestmeadowscapes.com
- Comment on Ibuprofen 10 months ago:
When you spice up your life for so long it starts to hurt.
- Comment on How do you introduce the Fediverse to other people? 10 months ago:
It’s like existing social media they are familiar with except there’s multiple versions run independently which are connected together using a shared protocol.
- Comment on How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ? 10 months ago:
They have significantly less sex than previous generations did at comparable ages. It’s been well established by multiple sources at this point, although I don’t think causality is understood yet so it could be unrelated, or more likely porn accessibility is only one factor in the decline.
- Comment on A warning 10 months ago:
David Brooks.
- Comment on A warning 10 months ago:
When did Charlie Kirk become a moderate? I think you have him confused with someone else.