Skyrmir
@Skyrmir@lemmy.world
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 days ago:
He wasn’t against gay rights, would probably be the best description. He specifically avoided the topic while campaigning in order to avoid his earlier controversy entrapping men from the Navy by sending men out to have sex with them. Not because he hated gays, he was just given a job, and wasn’t against over doing it. Eleanor took a lesbian lover later on, and he hired a known gay man to serve in his cabinet. For the time, that’s about as progressive as it gets. In modern times, Gore was to the left of Obama and Biden socially.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 days ago:
Bernie was more liberal, FDR ran and won 3 times on a more liberal platform.
- Comment on Kevin sounds nice! 4 days ago:
The choice was, be a friend, or be pig food. Kevin chose wisely.
- Comment on Looks legit, but can it actually be a real thing? 1 week ago:
Shorts covered with quartz sequins would scatter the image enough to blind the scanner. Make sure they’re mounted with glue instead of metal mounts, or they’ll fail the metal detector.
- Comment on Size of an adult Moose. And they are not as friendly as Bullwinkle 1 week ago:
Everyone involved in that picture is too close to that moose.
- Comment on Trump tariffed Columbia in response to not letting a plane of deported illegals in. 3 weeks ago:
He’s putting himself first, and America last. He’s so weak he couldn’t deal with Colombia before trying to sneak abused prisoners into their country.
He got played by Brazil putting the last plane load all over the media. Leading to Colombia stopping flights in the first place. Because his pea brain only sees making more people suffer as the next step to isolate America from the world and destroy our alliances.
- Comment on USA Question | How much is a dozen large eggs near you? 3 weeks ago:
Just bought a dozen today for $4.59
- Comment on [Elon Musk] January hasn't even ended and we already have the Photo of the Year. 3 weeks ago:
Remember back in January when it was wild to see Elon talking to radical right wing Germans?
- Comment on USians - Uh, *we've all seen this* right? 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t seen any corroboration of it yet, but it is exactly the fight they were having over TikTok. Not that China is stealing private data, that they would use the algorithm to affect the election.
And none of this is new people. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica
They’re just putting into practice what they already learned and super charging it with AI agents.
- Comment on Feminists in their natural habitat of bigotry 5 weeks 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 month ago:
builtin.com/articles/top-space-mining-companies
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 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 3 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 3 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’ 3 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 4 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 months ago:
Stop hosting them and set up a permanent Olympic village in Greece with international funding. Standardized facilities and courses.