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- Comment on I miss Levis 5 days ago:
Levis makes a huge range of quality. The stuff at shopping mall department stores is crap. But the made-on-Mexico shrink-to-fit 501s you can find at hardware stores are phenomenal. And they are still only like US$50.
- Comment on Is there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward? 1 week ago:
Tall data centers do exist in cities where land is expensive. It’s the same reason everyone builds up in cities. Where land is cheap and available it’s usually easier and less expensive to build things low and wide.
- Comment on Elon's Woody 2 weeks ago:
ಠ_ಠ
- Comment on Elon's Woody 2 weeks ago:
That’s actually a big improvement. Still an ugly vehicle, but at least this version has better character.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 4 weeks ago:
Hell yeah. There’s an unassuming restaurant in my town that hosts local all-ages punk and metal shows after the kitchen closes. The underground scene is alive and well. I’m looking forward to having your experience myself as my kids grow up.
- Comment on The 1980s summed up in a single photo. 4 weeks ago:
I still remember a Burger King with smoking and non-smoking seating areas. As if anything ever kept the smoke on the smoking side of the room.
- Comment on Several News Outlets Reject Pentagon’s Reporting Restrictions 1 month ago:
The press association that lobbies for Pentagon reporters issued a statement on Monday saying, “This Wednesday, most Pentagon Press Association members seem likely to hand over their badges rather than acknowledge a policy that gags Pentagon employees and threatens retaliation against reporters who seek out information that has not been preapproved for release.”
Another curtain comes down Wednesday Whatever limited visibility Americans had to the inner workings of their military is now lost. “Democracy dies in darkness,” and we are headed deeper into the tunnel.
- Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 1 month ago:
Borders have existed as long as humans have claimed territory. Borders are only meaningful to the extent they are enforced, so border control has existed in some form or another for all that time.
Borders have been a bit fuzzy at many times and places. The farther one travels from a seat of power, the harder it is for that power to patrol and control the area. Thus we get borderlands, places at the fringes of a government’s authority.
In addition to borders, documents analogous to passports have existed for millennia. If you wanted to travel from your kingdom to another kingdom, your monarch might send you off with an official letter requesting your safe passage through whatever kingdoms you need to cross.
- Comment on 2022 vs. 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices 1 month ago:
Between the ticket prices and the, ah, challenging political climate in the US, I am really curious what game attendance will be.
- Comment on I'm looking for a particular community in Lemmy. It's kind of like ask Lemmy, But with really bad responses. It's more of a joke community. I've seen it in the past but can't find it 1 month ago:
Maybe one of these?
!shittyasklemmy@lemmy.ml
!shittyasklemmy@lemmy.uhhoh.com - Comment on be gay, do crimes (in space) 2 months ago:
Headlining this Friday night! With special guest Gay Zombie Super Soldiers
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 2 months ago:
I remember an mp3 going around where a guy turned it into a song, complete with the chorus, “I don’t like the DMCA.”
- Comment on What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet? 2 months ago:
- Comment on What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet? 2 months ago:
And it continues up to the present day. There was a Ukraine war fundraiser where you could pay to have a custom message written on munitions.
- Comment on Not trying to disparage first responders on 911. Why aren't nurses included with fire and police departments? Did we not take care of people on the backend of the rescuing? 2 months ago:
Originally, fire departments only dealt with fires. In the 1960’s and 1970’s it became clear that a rapid response health service would be beneficial. Rather than create a whole new system from scratch, that function was tacked onto the existing fire service by having EMTs and paramedics on staff. And the initial focus was primarily on providing rapid transit: delivering the victim to a hospital as quickly as possible. Response time was the dominant metric used to grade emergency medical providers. It took more decades to fully appreciate that treatments applied at the accident scene or in transit could be as important as, or more important than, response time.
There’s a good argument to be made that modern fire departments are largely obsolete. They spend most of their time dealing with medical and mental health issues, not fighting fires. We would probably benefit as a society by replacing a lot of firefighters with house call nurses to help manage people’s long-term health issues before they become emergencies.
- Comment on What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia? 2 months ago:
One of the main Lemmy devs is working on a federated wiki project called ibis:
https://ibis.wiki/article/Main_Page
I only know that it exists. I have not used it so I can’t give any opinion of its maturity or usefulness.
- Comment on What is the first electronic device kids get these days? (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Phone, Game consoles?) 2 months ago:
V-TECH toys. Noisy, annoying garbage that people love to gift to infants and toddlers.
After that it’s a toss up between a phone, tablet, or Chromebook.
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 2 months ago:
Every kid in my high school knew the “half your age plus 7” rule for bounding are gaps:
Age of younger person in the relationship = (Age of older person in the relationship / 2) + 7
So if you are 30 then you can date from 22 to 46. Science!
Though, really, beyond your mid-20s I think you can date as old as you like. As long as everyone is consenting, open, and honest, then have fun.
- Comment on The Biogeography of Lions 3 months ago:
There are a couple, but they don’t roam very far.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 months ago:
Yep. Robert Putnam’s book “Bowling Alone” turns 25 this year, and it’s as relevant as ever.
- Comment on 🏹🏹🏹 3 months ago:
Nah, wood is expensive with the tariffs and all. That’s just the new range staffer holding the target.
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 3 months ago:
That is an amazing little ad hoc study!
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 3 months ago:
That’s Austin 3:16
- Comment on Horrible kerning 3 months ago:
It’s better, but still horrible in its own special way.
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- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 3 months ago:
Black and gray flags are used by the US military on some uniforms. Civilians also sometimes display them as “no quarter” flags, meaning the person displaying it will show no mercy to any perceived enemies. For both of these reasons the right-wing nationalist crowd likes them.
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 3 months ago:
iPhones are actually designed in the US. My point is that the phrase is almost certainly a lie in this case.
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 3 months ago:
Another commented mentioned this is from a US distributor that repackages Baofeng products.
But to be honest, there are so many Baofeng/BTech radios for sale on the internet I was never confident about which were legit and which were knock-offs. I just went for it and hoped for the best. They seem to work fine, at least so far.
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 3 months ago:
Yeah. I have seen the monochromatic flag referred to as a “no quarter” flag, and initially wondered if that was the intent. Or maybe they just wanted to minimize colors to reduce printing costs.
- Submitted 3 months ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 132 comments
