Skyrmir
@Skyrmir@lemmy.world
- Comment on Feminists in their natural habitat of bigotry 1 week ago:
I see one of the right wing “Men’s Rights” advocates has escaped their programming center.
It’s all well and good to be offended by this trash, but consider that it’s being intentionally targeted to young men as a way to create loyal followers for political violence. The fascists these days aren’t going to wear brown shirts, they’re going to have a whole range of color choices.
- Comment on What is currently holding us back from mining in space? 1 week ago:
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Investment and systems development/integration. We have all the parts needed, but they’re expensive, and you can’t really just stuff them on a rocket and hope they’ll work. There’s a billion details to get straight before launching, and each detail costs a lot.
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- Comment on Jimmy Carter was the end of an era in presidential politics 3 weeks ago:
Tomato tomahto, he was the last normal president before our politics were hijacked by the right.
They lost their damn minds over Nixon, and didn’t have a plan in place when Carter won.
- Comment on Why is daisychaining multiple extension cords considered unsafe, even if only done to the length of a standard cable? 3 weeks ago:
Check the neutral pin at the pedestal and the connection. After a few months running an AC unit, it’ll be char broiled somewhere along the way.
- Comment on How do we know the government doesn't just have a secret hardware backdoor in all our devices? 3 weeks ago:
Every phone has a radio with remote root access controlled by a security key that is supposedly only in the hands of the manufacturer. A manufacturer that could be forced to give up that key, and forced not to tell anyone they had done so.
At least with a PC you can control the physical access to transmission, giving you a way to possibly audit before send, and physically control all input.
The reality is that any large scale communication network will be breached by the controlling government, or it will be shut down. If you want actually secure communication, you have to do it by broadcasting in the clear using an unbreakable cypher that’s been physically passed on.
- Comment on Trump Transition Live Updates: Ethics Panel Draft Report Accuses Gaetz of ‘Regularly’ Paying for Sex and Using Drugs 4 weeks ago:
Who knew this and didn’t have him indicted? Isn’t that an accessory to the crime?
- Comment on US solar industry downplays climate in strategy for Trump era 5 weeks ago:
Solar makes more power, for less money, than coal, while employing more people locally. There’s just no argument for more fossil fuels.
- Comment on Keira Knightley Told ‘Love Actually’ Director on Set That Cue Card Scene Was ‘Creepy’ at 17 Years Old: I Had to ‘Redo It to Fix My Face to Make It’ Less Creepy 1 month ago:
And her on screen husband was 25 or 26 at the time.
- Comment on ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant and Hamas commander - BBC News 1 month ago:
I’ve always said there are no good guys in the Israel/Palestine conflict. Just a whole lot of victims and angry people.
- Comment on If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP? 2 months ago:
There is never a path for the speaker of the house to become vice president. Either the President and Vice President are dead and he’s president, or he’s still just the speaker.
As others have pointed out, before or after the electoral count is completed, makes a minor difference. It would be interesting to watch it play out.
- Comment on What has Critical Theory actually achieved? 2 months ago:
It has informed legislators that laws they otherwise might support, have racially biased flaws. That’s pretty much the sum total of it’s influence on anything.
- Comment on New Xhitter policy just dropped 2 months ago:
If he’s using AI scraping, we should set up bots that invent other Trump family members as orangutans. Also label all cat and dog photos as the opposite. All insect pictures labeled as republican or conservative.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 2 months ago:
The US still makes massive amounts of cotton. That all gets exported to other countries before getting turned into garments and things.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 2 months ago:
Coffee, tea, and everything you’re wearing right now.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard releases today, and players are celebrating the famous ‘Bioware Turn’ 2 months ago:
I’m waiting a month to see how public reception goes. Give the public a chance to marinate their response before I try it out.
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 months ago:
I dunno if you’ve tried, but I’m here to tell ya, cobble stone streets will absolutely stop speeding really quick.
- Comment on Opinion: Increasing the minimum wage comes at too high a price for workers | CNN 5 months ago:
Except the people that elect it’s leaders, which would be the employees.
- Comment on Opinion: Increasing the minimum wage comes at too high a price for workers | CNN 5 months ago:
A union is only beholden to the employees rather than management.
- Comment on Opinion: Increasing the minimum wage comes at too high a price for workers | CNN 5 months ago:
Minimum wage is a crappy way to improve wages. The better option are well regulated trade and labor unions, and mandatory labor representation. But since this is America, we’ve got a minimum wage, and that’s about the best we’re going to get.
- Comment on Why no one wants to host the Olympics 5 months ago:
Stop hosting them and set up a permanent Olympic village in Greece with international funding. Standardized facilities and courses.
- Comment on Who was in the wrong here? 6 months ago:
Pretty sure it depends on local jurisdiction. In some places the shop owner would be required to call the police to trespass someone. In others, the owner of the property has nearly the physical authority of a home owner in removing people.
- Comment on How long would it take to create a Pyramid 6 months ago:
It would be impossible to build today by any means. Not because of any technological problem. Physically it could be done rather quickly, as others have posited. The problem is that you could never combine the political and economic will to complete it.
It’s the same reason it would be easier to colonize Mars than to fix climate change. There’s a half dozen robots on Mars that will do whatever you tell them. On Earth, there’s 7 billion assholes who think they have a better idea of what to do.
- Comment on This is the way 9 months ago:
Don’t bother, if they can’t leave a message, you didn’t want to talk to them.
- Comment on Trump Received Millions From Foreign Governments as President, Report Finds 1 year ago:
Have you noticed the NRA is having money problems ever since they busted the Russian girl they were renting out?
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 1 year ago:
Financial stress. Go take a closer look at the crime stats that right wing racists like to hammer the black community with. Then adjust them for poverty rates in the community. All of a sudden the racial divide in violent crime goes away. If anything, poor white men are the most violent, but not by enough to really be significant. The driving factor, by around 10 or 15 to 1, is poverty.
We’re seeing declining standards of living across the country, while technology is hides the true depths of it. The whole, you can’t be poor if you have a wide screen TV and a refrigerator, is almost true. It’s just enough to make it look like having no bargaining power, being locked into your zip code, buried in debt, and renting everything you own, somehow represents wealth.
- Comment on Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression 1 year ago:
Those kids are playing in the market the Boomers created and set the rules for, before they were ever born.
- Comment on Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression 1 year ago:
As a political block, they’ve had control of our housing market for around 40 years now. The changes they made, and problems they ignored, for those decades have caused the problems we have today.
- Comment on How do you currently handle Covid infections? 1 year ago:
Schools are far too based on attendance, and often legally can only count kids with a butt in their seat at school. Even into college, progress is based more on appearance than ability.
It leads to crappy teaching, and draconian absence policies.
To be fair, forcing kids into school drastically cuts down on child abuse. So there is a logic behind it, just taken a bit too far.
- Comment on fuck netflix and their fucking clickbait sex thumbnails 1 year ago:
They’re playing on the latent puritanism in US culture. The only reason it’s done is because it pushes peoples buttons and draws interest. The other options are what you see over seas, where either free speech is harshly curtailed, or people get over it, and advertisers stop because it doesn’t cause concerned citizens to lose their shit any more.