Snowpix
@Snowpix@lemmy.ca
I’m just your average Canadian wolf. I’m a siren enthusiast and railfan as my main hobbies. I run the Civil Defense Sirens Wiki, and am working on restoring a few vintage sirens (such as a FS&S Model L and a rare Sterling Siren MOD. F) as well as a 1970s Safetran mechanical crossing bell.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 day ago:
Making the internet as easily accessible and dumbed down as possible didn’t help. It let stupid people easily find each other and reinforce each other’s beliefs while isolating themselves from reality.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 day ago:
The terrorists ended up winning the long game in the end. They caused America to tear itself apart from within and made it a pariah on the world stage.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 day ago:
Harambe wasn’t marked as Essential, but he was truly essential for all of us.
- Comment on Alpha males 3 weeks ago:
You’re on a 1 day old account with only 4 comments. You haven’t even tried to have a conversation yet. You’re also on the lemmy.world instance which is as close to Reddit as Lemmy gets, so what would you expect? Maybe try a different instance that’s closer to what you’re looking for.
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 4 weeks ago:
Exactly! And like cancer, it will eventually consume and destroy its host. It may take time, but it will.
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 4 weeks ago:
These people are genuinely sick in the head, this level of pointless greed is not normal. Of course they aren’t going through with it.
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 4 weeks ago:
They certainly are. They have some of the steepest adhesion railways in the world on those mountains.
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 4 weeks ago:
And the Trans-Siberian railway has existed for years, is thousands of miles long in awful conditions, AND electrified. We don’t have an excuse.
- Comment on Chad NATO 4 weeks ago:
You know nothing about Canada you fucking clown LMAO
- Comment on Anon does some online shopping 1 month ago:
The fake chats all seem to use the exact same image too. Apparently this one woman works for dozens of support sites if you were to believe she was real in the first place.
- Comment on Have a good trip 1 month ago:
Or hit a pothole. This wouldn’t be a viable solution in the east and Midwest.
- Comment on Correct Grindr Response 2 months ago:
When Protogens use Grindr
- Comment on Peak masculinity 3 months ago:
According to this meme, the local meth addicts are the manliest men to ever man.
- Comment on The four horsemen of the apocalypse 3 months ago:
On the bright side, Brendon Urie is doing solo projects now iirc, so he might have some good stuff to check out.
- Comment on The four horsemen of the apocalypse 3 months ago:
Well, was a pretty popular band. They broke up a while ago.
- Comment on How can you tell 23 subgenres of equally shitty growls and screams apart, but not see the most Metal basics? 3 months ago:
Surprise, the transphobe doesn’t like the anti-transphobic meme. Who would have guessed?
- Comment on How can you tell 23 subgenres of equally shitty growls and screams apart, but not see the most Metal basics? 3 months ago:
Check out Days N’ Daze. That’ll get you started.
- Comment on Go meet grass or touch your neighbors. 4 months ago:
Don’t be happy, nor horny, just bursting with rage
- Comment on Ben Starr recieves Balatro's BAFTA award in a clown costume 4 months ago:
Don’t feed the troll. They don’t actually care if it’s gambling or not.
- Comment on the scientific method 4 months ago:
A lot of people take failure personally, and become scared to even try in the first place. Failure is seen as shameful, rather than a learning opportunity to better yourself.
- Comment on I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre 4 months ago:
My entire extended family is in America. They voted for Trump, we will never be visiting them again most likely. America is not safe.
- Comment on Big Marijuana don't want you to know... 5 months ago:
Pfffffffft. Amateur.
smokes 12 joints at once
- Comment on Anon watches It 5 months ago:
I’m well aware of why they don’t use the actual sounds, I don’t expect them to actually go out of their way to get recordings for it lol. It’s just very noticeable when you’re familiar with the sirens.
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 5 months ago:
The happiest in sound, but the lyrics are definitely usually on the sad or angry side lmao
- Comment on Anon watches It 5 months ago:
Tankies never miss a good opportunity to bitch about liberals, even when it’s not relevant to the discussion at all whatsoever.
- Comment on Anon watches It 5 months ago:
As a siren enthusiast, it gets old hearing the same few stock sounds used for civil defense sirens in films. You’ll get British WW2 siren sounds despite the movie taking place in the US, or they’ll show a siren but with audio from an entirely different siren. Even the recent Twisters movie even got it wrong, showing an American Signal Tempest-121 mechanical siren going off with audio from a Whelen electronic speaker siren.
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 5 months ago:
No doubt it’ll also have Denuvo, just to make the game run even worse too.
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 5 months ago:
Yup. "Please bend me over and fuck me for all I’m worth, corpo daddy!* type energy. Some people just can’t get enough of being exploited.
- Comment on Scarlett Johansson Wants Marvel Fans to Let Black Widow Go: ‘Let Her Have Her Hero Moment’ 5 months ago:
It’s really sad how afraid people are to give compliments. It’s not creepy, and it often makes people’s day better. We should all be uplifting one another, not tearing each other apart.
- Comment on Favourite Mario Kart game? 5 months ago:
Wii. The driving always felt perfect in that game, the other games don’t control as well in my opinion. 8 Deluxe feels like a letdown with its lack of unlockable characters and karts which I felt was one of the most fun parts about Wii.