dylanmorgan
@dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Ray is basic. 1 week ago:
Or at least lichens.
- Comment on In this house 1 week ago:
More effective than and ADT sign or one of those “we don’t call 911” signs.
- Comment on The City of Encinitas, California is removing a protected bike lane to replace it with a painted bike lane. Cost? More than $3 million. 1 week ago:
Not knowing your city I can’t speak to that, but I’ve been both a cyclist and a pedestrian in those circumstances and it fucking sucks. People tend to spread out when they walk, and cyclists are typically moving fast enough that walkers are effectively stationary in comparison. So walking becomes a frustrating exercise in dodging bikes, and cycling becomes a frustrating exercise in avoiding clumps of people (along with whatever other crap is placed on the sidewalk without considering cyclists.)
- Comment on The City of Encinitas, California is removing a protected bike lane to replace it with a painted bike lane. Cost? More than $3 million. 1 week ago:
Jake Gotta WHAT??
- Comment on havent had it since friday🫠 1 week ago:
Damn, being stranded on a weekend trip suuuucks. Stay safe, friend
- Comment on havent had it since friday🫠 1 week ago:
Not hating, but a genuine question: have the majority of your exes decided to become nuns? Because it sounds like you might inspire some…dryness.
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas Remaster Hopes Go Into Overdrive as Support Studio Drops Tease 1 week ago:
I’d much rather play Fallout: Seattle, or Fallout: Minneapolis, or Fallout: Beijing (or Moscow or Lagos or Paris or Paris, Texas, or…) than a prettier rendition of 3 or New Vegas.
- Comment on A modest proposal 2 weeks ago:
And they all seem to know so goddamn much, I’m sure they’d be really effective on the battlefield.
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations | OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases 2 weeks ago:
There’s at least still debate that the nukes significantly impacted the diplomatic process, unlike the firebombing of Tokyo which killed more people and didn’t move the needle on Japan’s commitment to the war at all.
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations | OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases 2 weeks ago:
The training data contains writing that downplays the negative impact of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, probably along with a healthy dose of writing from people like Douglas MacArthur and Curtis “Bombs Away” LeMay, evangelists of the tactical use of nuclear weapons and the belief that sufficient bombing would “break” the will of an enemy (despite zero examples of that happening until the use of nukes on Japan.)
- Comment on The bad behavior of the richest: what I learned from wealth managers 3 weeks ago:
“I have to sit through a three hour, one thousand dollar a plate lunch meeting three times a week with the dullest assholes imaginable, that’s work.”
- Comment on HAIL HYDRA! 3 weeks ago:
It’s time for tzatziki sauce on everything
- Comment on Small little shenanigans 3 weeks ago:
MRIs work because strong enough magnetic fields will interact with any material, not just ferrous metals. This can be impacted by the structure said materials form (stents are a weave like a finger trap and therefore more prone to interaction with magnetic fields than say a solid cylinder) but I’d be inclined to say your friend was lucky. Ball bearings like in the OP are nearly always steel outside of specific high end applications and therefore would behave like they were coming out of a shotgun shell.
- Comment on Small little shenanigans 3 weeks ago:
I was told that because I have stents (plastic coated with platinum) I can never get an MRI again by my cardiologist.
A friend who makes knives felt the little bits of metal that he’s picked up in his skin over years of grinding blades getting pulled out of him during an MRI.
Maybe aluminum foil in your pocket would only “interfere with the scan,” but those magnets are powerful enough to make any metal in your body come out, violently.
- Comment on Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report 3 weeks ago:
The thing they are tracking is primarily money. If people are playing games they already own and spending money on crypto chasing a big win, that speaks more to increased economic desperation than loss of interest in video games.
- Comment on Annon relfects on W doing it for the love of the game 3 weeks ago:
Family of Secrets is such a goddamned mindfuck. That plus Chaos (about the ties between MKULTRA and Charles Manson) made my summer a few years back real freaky.
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 4 weeks ago:
I would argue that while nudity at home should not be an issue, the nature of the film industry means that even if the nudity is presented in a naturalistic fashion, the fact it is on film makes it exploitative.
Imagine being 10-12 years old, naked, and surrounded by adults (mostly men,) some of whom are more or less ordering you around. I can’t imagine a way to make that anything other than deeply distressing for a child.
- Comment on We really need to bring back the 70s conversation pits 5 weeks ago:
I know it’s a shitpost, but…
As cool as they might look, imagine trying to keep those things clean. Just constant vacuuming.
- Comment on The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance 5 weeks ago:
It’s the name of the stadium ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on You Are Being Misled About Renewable Energy Technology [Technology Connections] 1 month ago:
When I read a summary of a film before I go to watch it, I don’t assume that I have absorbed the intensity of an actor’s performance. I have been disappointed too many times by excessively long YouTube videos to spent an hour and a half without knowing what the general content of the video is.
- Comment on You Are Being Misled About Renewable Energy Technology [Technology Connections] 1 month ago:
ITT: deliberately unhelpful comments.
You know why text summaries are good? If I read a thesis statement and go “yup, I agree with the thesis and know enough about the major points raised to skip this” I save NINETY FUCKING MINUTES of my life. Alternatively, if I see something in the summary that piques my interest, I can watch the video to get more detail.
- Comment on Le Tits, Now! 1 month ago:
It looks like there was some weird drama around her but I couldn’t find any details other than some vague claims about death threats.
- Comment on it's right there 😖 1 month ago:
One of the many calls of the void I experience frequently.
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 1 month ago:
Appropriate that something in a neoliberal community is in the shitposting community too.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Every day is violent swinging between 7 and 9.
- Comment on Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...? 1 month ago:
Don’t Catholics subscribe to the doctrine of TRANSubstantiation?
- Comment on Apple Creator Studio is launching 1 month ago:
All good points. FCPX was by all accounts a major step back from FCP, the comparison I heard the most was that it was basically iMovie.
Also, wasn’t the main selling point of FCPX that it was cheaper? I feel like they sold it for ~$100 for a long time. Going from that to $129/yr is bullshit.
- Comment on Sold in Belgrade... 1 month ago:
So…the orcs are the good guys in this one?
- Comment on Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones? 2 months ago:
Nope, it was written for a minstrel show, to mock black folks. The songwriter later moved south to join the confederacy.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 months ago:
I have seen some sellers figure out workarounds. If you have a different SKU, it doesn’t get considered. So for example, Poppi soda sells a 12 can variety pack on Amazon. They sell a 15 can variety pack for the same price at Costco. Different SKU, lower price per unit.