Buddahriffic
@Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 14 hours ago:
That’s at least 18 horsepower!
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 1 day ago:
On that note, I find diamonds to be the most boring gemstone. Any of the ones with colour are far more interesting to me, I don’t get why anyone would want to pay more for diamonds (outside of their industrial purposes) even if they were actually rarer.
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 1 day ago:
Not doubting what you’re saying (because I’ve heard it many times already) but that picture looks misleading because of the different light hitting each stone. These marketing tricks are so obvious that at this point they can even make the truth look like a lie.
- Comment on Priorities 3 days ago:
Maybe he’s lashing out because someone else turned him into a pterosaur when he wanted to be a dinosaur.
- Comment on Priorities 3 days ago:
That one that looks like a lizard with a giant sail on its back wasn’t a dinosaur either.
- Comment on Searching for signs of life on exoplanets is tough. 4 days ago:
Would be funny if that failed star was actually an alien megaproject but we think it’s a natural explanation that means a planet teeming with ancient life is assumed to be barren like the rest of them.
Is there a name for that, when something very interesting is mistaken for something very uninteresting? Not that a failed star full of biosignature molecules sounds uninteresting, do they have any explanation for that?
- Comment on Not everyone has what it takes 5 days ago:
Oh, the possibility that he knew about Colbert but ate the onion hadn’t occurred to me.
- Comment on Not everyone has what it takes 5 days ago:
Did he (and whatever agents were involved in setting that up) really not know who Colbert was 10 years ago? Though it is hard to tell with the energy he had there, whether he was just playing along or genuinely didn’t know that Colbert’s whole thing is playing an ignorant conservative white dude.
- Comment on I c it! 5 days ago:
If you didn’t intend to imply that, it’s on how you communicated, not how they interpreted it. The way you listed what each does implied you were saying that’s how their images worked.
- Comment on I c it! 5 days ago:
You can glance at the sun but don’t stare at it. Even when it’s only 1% visible, it’s putting out enough light to strain or damage your eyes.
Though it’s fine to look at the eclipse with naked eyes when it’s total. You can’t really see the cool effect surrounding the moon during totality with the eclipse glasses on because it’s way dimmer than the sun usually is.
Your eyes will tell you if it’s safe to look. If it’s uncomfortably bright, then you shouldn’t power through that discomfort (and that applies to things other than the sun). If it feels like looking at anything else, then it’s probably fine.
- Comment on Happy 20th anniversary to the Corrupted Blood incident! 5 days ago:
And who else didn’t need an article because they were there when it happened?
- Comment on When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy 1 week ago:
Oh nice, infinite pixel version.
- Comment on titta... slosh 1 week ago:
Nope, from this day forward, you will be known as the guy reading the comic about the poopy toilet to some randos on your bus.
- Comment on Wear your seatbelt 1 week ago:
Same argument could be applied to parents who brutally beat their kids to stop certain behaviours. Which doesn’t necessarily mean you’re wrong, but that the overall morality of being an asshole to encourage some greater good is complicated.
Though I’d also wonder at the motivation. Was it to teach a lesson the only way OP knew how or because he was pissed at being defied and wanted to dish out some abuse and call it karma?
- Comment on Wear your seatbelt 1 week ago:
Agreed. This is like jamming something in someone’s eye because they refused to wear safety glasses. If you don’t want to drive someone who refuses to wear a seatbelt, then don’t drive them. It’s not a license to assault them. Guy who slammed on the breaks is the bigger asshole, even.
- Comment on What do you think the PPE is for 1 week ago:
It looks pretty much right to me. Though hydrogen is sitting on top of fluorine for some reason and there appears to be a box in hydrogen’s normal spot, but maybe it’s to emphasize the chemical similarities between hydrogen and that column as well as the column it’s usually shown in. The numbers are hard to read and I didn’t look anything up to verify, but they look correct from what I can see, if a bit less clear than most for how the actinium and lanthanum series fit in.
- Comment on A handy chart 1 week ago:
Friction heat from tidal forces.
- Comment on A handy chart 1 week ago:
It is lots of them.
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 1 week ago:
It’s because it was pretty much the Netflix of video games. Pay a subscription and you get access to a collection of games.
When it was 5.99 it was a no brainer. I think I cancelled mine around 13.99, though not because of the price but because I always forgot it existed and it tied me to windows. Switched to Linux and cancelling was a part of that transition.
- Comment on A handy chart 1 week ago:
The moon is slowly migrating away from the earth into higher orbits (due to the earth spinning faster than the Moon’s orbit), eventually it could escape with a gravity assist from Mars or Venus. It’ll have tidal consequences for Earth, but not like catastrophic (though I suspect it might allow the earth’s core to cool a bit faster, which could be the beginning of the end of life on earth).
- Comment on Remember the past 1 week ago:
I remember back when they were Vin Diesel jokes and then suddenly people were doing them with Chuck Norris instead. And I wondered why people were so into that guy on the Texas cop propaganda show.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 2 weeks ago:
If it were the case, how would one prove it or even show evidence for it? And similar question for if it isn’t the case, how would you disprove or show evidence against it? I’m not even sure how one would prove that cats have a concept of species.
- Comment on Anon learns about history 2 weeks ago:
Wasn’t there at least one other time where “failure means death” turned into “guess we might as well just try to take over”?
Time I’m thinking about was when an emperor had summoned some warlords to be there by x date or die and one group realized they weren’t going to make it by the date, so since they had their armies with them anyways, they just pivoted from answering summons to invading/conquering. Not sure that one worked out though.
- Comment on If you are in the US, and a karen threatens to call ICE on you, what's the best course of action? 2 weeks ago:
This is one of the reasons I won’t consider traveling to the US because I think how any of those work out is going to depend on the luck of how others involved are feeling in that moment.
- Comment on Anon gets rid of drop box 2 weeks ago:
Ironically, from what I understand (haven’t done direct comparisons myself), a lot of games written for windows run just as well or better on linux.
DOTA 2 is just noteworthy to me because it’s an exception to the “other than competitive games” exception. And while I can’t say for sure that no one is hacking on there, I have yet to see any blatant cases of it (though admittedly it might be difficult to tell in a game where it’s normal for some players to snowball significantly over others).
- Comment on nostalgia 2 weeks ago:
I find the “AI slop” commenters as annoying as the “that didn’t happen/everyone clapped/albert einstein handed you a $100 bill” ones. Their contribution is shittier than what they are commenting on even when they are correct, but it’s not rare to see a comment like that followed by the dumbest logic as to why they think that’s the case (especially on reddit).
- Comment on Anon gets rid of drop box 2 weeks ago:
Though on that note, I started playing a lot of DOTA 2 on linux without issue.
- Comment on Fatherhood 3 weeks ago:
Also the ships are run like military ships (which they are), starfleet is very top-down authoritative. I also wasn’t a huge fan of how they treated any local laws like gospel, even when they were about to cost a crew member their life or freedom for stupid reasons.
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 4 weeks ago:
But honey, the doctor said I could have sex with other women if I waited 8 weeks after the surgery, so it’s not cheating!
- Comment on Anon doesn't enjoy anything 4 weeks ago:
Though not first hand witness accounts.