taladar
@taladar@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on What causes this 40 minutes ago:
That isn’t Lemmy, that is just your client.
- Comment on Anon tries to save money 1 day ago:
It is not that difficult to understand. Selling a service that costs money each month to run for a one time price is not sustainable.
- Comment on Anon isn't fooled by planes 5 days ago:
In my mind nothing that big made of metal should be able to flex that much.
You can observe on a small scale that many things made of metal do, e.g. a saw or a spring.
- Comment on Anon describes past 2 weeks ago:
A nice rule of thumb is that the doubling time for anything growing by a specific percentage is roughly 70 divided by that percentage. So inflation of 2% annually means something will be twice as expensive every 35 years. A 2% increase in energy use means we will use twice as much energy in 35 years. And those fossil fuel deposits (or other raw materials of choice) that are going to last a couple of hundred years “at current rate of use” will be used up twice as fast at 2% increased use every year in a mere 35 years and four times as fast in 70 years at which point those “hundreds of years” of reserves are probably almost gone.
- Comment on Anon missed /pol/ 4 weeks ago:
I sincerely hope Trump will not end up being revered decades or centuries later like those two presidents.
- Comment on Anon missed /pol/ 4 weeks ago:
What do shootings do? Do you genuinely believe a couple of people with handguns or rifles are going to achieve anything at all?
- Comment on Anon missed /pol/ 4 weeks ago:
Non-violent protests in large numbers would be one option. It is much harder to get the military or police to shoot a crowd of a few tens of thousands of unarmed civilians, especially when it is people from their own communities. And when you do it anyway you have a very hard time suppressing it in your and the international media.
- Comment on Anon missed /pol/ 4 weeks ago:
I wasn’t the one who used the “the armed left is preparing” argument in a public forum. I just consider it a stupid argument to use if there isn’t any evidence that that is happening.
- Comment on Anon missed /pol/ 4 weeks ago:
Guns are pretty much giving the government the excuse to just shoot you as a crazy gun nut (or extremist group,…) and shoot you without any morale repercussions in the people they use to do so and without any PR nightmare in the greater population for them.
- Comment on Anon missed /pol/ 4 weeks ago:
People acting like the armed left isn’t preparing.
Citation needed.
But, more important, why does every motherfucker shooting their mouth off about this think that you win a fucking civil war by just going out and shooting things? Like, does nobody get that attacks need useful intelligence, planning, logistics, transportation, and it can’t be out in the open, you gotta either fight it guerilla, or you’re just dead.
Exactly the point of everyone who ever pointed out that your guns are completely useless if your government ever goes off the rails.
- Comment on Anon uses Windows 5 weeks ago:
And most of the troubleshooting was just stuff like “reboot, reinstall, remove and re-add printer,…” which really does nothing to the actual issue and just fights symptoms.
- Comment on Anon uses Windows 5 weeks ago:
Switching from Windows to Linux about 25 years or so ago was when I finally realized that computers actually behave in deterministic ways so no, Windows was never really a joy to use.
- Comment on Anon plays old games 5 weeks ago:
I would hesitate to call any unreleased game good, not because I think good games won’t come out in the future but because it is so hard to distinguish hype from reality until actual, regular people get to play it without any restrictions (like NDAs,…).
- Comment on Anon has regrets 1 month ago:
Simple really, cure the STD called life and stupid and horny are gone too.
- Comment on Anon learns the truth about "The Art of the Deal" 1 month ago:
There are a few politicians who wrote their own (e.g. Churchill) but usually there is some sort of agenda involved in terms of how they want the world to see them.
- Comment on Standard tRump supporter 1 month ago:
aborting post delivery?
Up to 120 years post delivery?
- Comment on Standard tRump supporter 1 month ago:
Such people have nothing more to lose,
This is a very big flaw in that kind of argument. It might look like that but there are plenty of worse situations human beings have been in historically. There is no war going on, food and clean water and shelter (even with heating and lighting) are actually available,…
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 1 month ago:
My point was that making people feel worse about their situation likely won’t improve the outcome. People either would be happy without a partner or they won’t and those who won’t don’t need an external push to try to find a partner and both groups might feel worse if they are publicly branded a failure for not having a partner.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 1 month ago:
That only works if you would consider the kind of person who likes to spend time at bars as a potential mate though.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 1 month ago:
One more reason to consider suburbia a dystopian hellscape.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 1 month ago:
Unless the person you respond to is trans the fact that they describe themselves as being referred to as a “chinese boy” would suggest that they are likely not a girl.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 1 month ago:
Might be a good time to downplay the importance of a relationship for a happy life then instead of trying to push the message that your life sucks if you don’t have one.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 1 month ago:
I think the effect of other societal changes not immediately associated with relationships might be underestimated here too, such as the commercialization of any and all free time activities where one might casually meet people of the preferred gender on a regular basis combined with the limited disposable income. Or (in the US at least) the elimination of sidewalks and other public places where one might encounter people from your own neighborhood outside of a car. More customized media consumption leading to fewer guaranteed shared topics to discuss compared to the time when generally everyone watched the same things on TV and read the same news at a similar time. I could probably come up with other examples but the point is that a lot of things changed that make just meeting people to consider to ask out much more difficult than it used to be a few decades ago.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 1 month ago:
I sometimes wonder why so many people consider negative effects of porn on relationships obvious while completely disregarding negative effects of romance fiction on relationships (among other things the concept of a soulmate you have to just find and then everything in the relationship is effortless afterwards).
- Comment on Anon is waiting for Japan 2 months ago:
Name one category of tasks that you would feel confident it can perform with at least a 90% success rate.
- Comment on Anon is waiting for Japan 2 months ago:
So good in fact that apple spawned a whole new category of memes making fun of how badly that works.
- Comment on Anon gives a former president some feedback 2 months ago:
I mean they literally came out and said that they hate empathy.
- Comment on Anon builds a new PC 2 months ago:
Dwarf Fortress (old style ASCII mode) is a good one after buying a new graphics card.
- Comment on Anon builds a new PC 2 months ago:
It has become a sort of tradition for me to play some sort of game that really doesn’t need the performance as the first game on any new computer I get.
- Comment on Anon is smarter than a genius 2 months ago:
Considering how much control Apple tries to exert over how you use your devices that does seem pretty close to the truth.