Varyk
@Varyk@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Being in the trash is better then being frozen in the freezer. Forever waiting. Forever wondering. 1 day ago:
holy moly that is some serious ice cream hardware.
i prefer gelato to ice cream, does your ninja really mix it so different as to clearly make one or the other?
- Comment on Being in the trash is better then being frozen in the freezer. Forever waiting. Forever wondering. 1 day ago:
truth.
truth
have you tried using an immersion blender to make an airy iced pudding?
I haven’t, but i like banana ice cream and just thought of this last week, and I’ve been obsessed with the idea for days.
- Comment on Thicc 2 days ago:
6 of one
- Comment on Day 252 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 3 days ago:
what a great game, good call
- Comment on how do they decide where to put bus stops? 3 days ago:
the municipality asks civil engineers, who ask their computer, then forward the results back to the municipality.
usually the public has a window where they can offer input.
if nobody checks or notices anything weird, they start allocating funding and you have your bus stops whenever they have time and funds to build them.
i like civil engineers, and a lot of them seem to care about their jobs, but their jobs have a lot of restrictions and regulations, so not everybody will be happy with the results.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
“am I just imagining some idealistic version of the past that never existed”
yup.
Americans have always been this stupid, but stupid people aren’t the problem.
everyone is stupid, greedy, or otherwise morally corrupt at some point or another or in some situation or another, that’s why legal rights and protections were so important, to keep the playing field level and the trains running on time when the assholes wanted to run riot.
the successful conservative suppression of civil rights and removal of restrictions on corporate and wealthy political stuff civil activity, particularly the allowance by the Supreme Court of money to dictate political action, has removed the guardrails that used to protect the stupid and keep corrupt people in line.
- Comment on Request to mod c/silenthill 5 days ago:
dagger Moon sounds sincere, I second the motion.
- Comment on How exactly are people lighting Teslas on fire? 5 days ago:
foam retardants aren’t effective? is the battery burning too hot?
- Comment on Hungy 5 days ago:
oh definitely, I’ve been searching for these numbers forever, I didn’t really know where to ask. I think I tried Ask Lemmy once but no dice
thank you so much! it’s great to know that the national distribution is so wide, even considering those statistical biases.
thank you smjarf.
- Comment on Hungy 5 days ago:
I am so curious how large the furry population is in general compared to the demographics on Lemmy.
I’m also curious about the country distribution on lemmy.
- Comment on Divided and conquered 1 week ago:
The public gets things wrong, that’s why it’s important to set the record straight rather than serve up pablum.
“The whole point of eroding civil rights is to help billionaires…”
claiming an absolute regarding complex and differentiated issues is how you know something is pablum.
The long-term conservative judicial and legislative campaign the meme incorrectly refers to has a lot to do with race and religion, for example.
“Always has been”.
this is just a line from a short-sighted meme that is often incorrectly used, including here by you. it’s a fun phrase that means nothing, it’s confetti stuck in your sock.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 1 week ago:
I’m not sure where these questions are coming from, there are tens of thousands of people conducting dozens of protests across every single state at every level of government, and multiple stories about those protests in this feed.
there’s absolutely some media suppression since Trump is friends with the owners of some media outlets, but there is also a lot of media documenting the literally Nationwide protests.
there’s a super popular post like a few tiles up about the dozens of ongoing Tesla protests going on that are tanking the company.
- Comment on Spooky 1 week ago:
closer to fifty percent, but yea, That’s 700 million people waiting to get online, more every day.
- Comment on Divided and conquered 1 week ago:
this meme is dumb and short-sighted and the commenters are right.
it isnt a culture war conservatives are inciting, it is a war on civil rights.
- Comment on Is there any negative consequence to wearing socks inside out? 1 week ago:
I have worn my socks inside out for over 20 years now.
I like the smoother side of the socks. feels nicer than the fuzzy side.
it looks weird to you and me, but it doesn’t seem like anybody ever notices. Even when I wear shorts. you should be fine.
in fact, I had a girlfriend of nearly 4 years and she didn’t notice my socks were inside out for the first two or three?
so she tried it out and even years later, she still wears her socks inside out as well(we’re on good enough terms to discuss sock developments).
- Comment on How much of a risk is it for naturalized US Citizens (or those with Derivative Citizenship) to protest against the US government, compared to natural-born US Citizens? 1 week ago:
that sounds like you’re talking about permanent immigration.
another easy way to permanently immigrate is to move a place on a tourist or digital nomad visa, and then stay there legally or otherwise until you’re allowed to apply for citizenship.
spain and portugal require about $40,000 a year for their digital nomad visas.
The thing is, it’s even easier to move without changing citizenship and you can still stick it to the US government.
if you don’t change citizenship, and you live outside of the US 11 months out of the year, you don’t have to pay taxes on earned income. so you’re not supporting the current administration.
The cheapest golden visa is $75,000 for the whole family in the Philippines, btw, not 500k.
I still wouldn’t pay that.
I travel full time, you can easily get 3 to 6 month visas in a bunch of countries, Visa-Free travel in the others, live permanently abroad, legally avoid US taxes and enjoy a much lower cost of living in countries that aren’t tearing themselves and their constitution apart.
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 1 week ago:
thanks, full time traveling’s been going exceptionally well for over a decade now, so i can’t complain.
- Comment on What does a week of groceries look like to you? 2 weeks ago:
I walk each day to the local markets and grab whatever I feel like that day That’s a good walk and is usually my cardio for the day.
Right now, it’s usually a couple chorizos, and then I use the leftover oil to fry potatoes, seasoning the potatoes and then use the leftover oil/spice from the fried potatoes to fry a bunch of diced tomatoes so I have a thick fried salsa.
bag of tomatoes is five quetzales, same for a bag of onions or potatoes.
I grabbed a tamale and some carnitas yesterday for 4 bucks.
I like walking around and seeing what’s open and available each day.
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 2 weeks ago:
no, that might be why you’re confused.
objectively incorrect facts being spread are misinformation.
like your statement here:
“The world’s going down the drain.”
this is another vague, ill-informed statement that there is no evidence for; you’re just whining and repeating the same hogwash you wallow in.
- Comment on That's why it's called science fiction duh 2 weeks ago:
“I’m literally so confused”
you literally are.
“That Pew poll regarding scientific distrust is specifically related to the Covid pandemic”
correct!
“but you’re taking about measles”
incorrect! as I’ve stated multiple times and in every comment, I’m talking about the US-specific rapidly declining mistrust in science, leading to tragedies like the resurrection of the measles.
again, for your benefit, the key phrase here is “the specifically rapidly declining mistrust in science”.
“why are the sociological elements I’ve mentioned before not value added…”
because you are not contributing information that is necessary or requested.
you began with platitudes, moved on to inconsequential tangents, offered unprovable negative hypotheticals with a through line that scientific mistrust has not been increasing in the last decade, which Is objectively wrong according to statistical analysis, including the poll I supplied to you with and every other poll you can look up on scientific mistrust in the last decade.
If someone had asked, “were vaccines historically maligned?”, one of your tangents would have been relevant.
but no one asked you any of that, and you persisted in misinterpreting the meme and then continuing to misinterpret my statement as some sort of request for you to share misguided theories and misinformation, which i do not appreciate.
“…this over a simple comment about the Human Genome Project”
Yes, since you would not take me at my word initially and quadrupled down on your misinformation, i have had to repeat multiple times that your valueless comments are not appreciated and should not have been made.
- Comment on That's why it's called science fiction duh 2 weeks ago:
again, your adding a valueless comment about a hypothetical unproven concern is not helpful, you’re just wasting space.
here is an example of a value-added comment that supports my four comments and disproves all of your comments:
One of the polls I mentioned in the last comment showing a specifically recent drop in US trust and scientific authority and institutions:
pewresearch.org/…/americans-trust-in-scientists-p…
instead of making things up in your head and wasting time writing an incoherent and value-less comment, you could have easily checked the information I gave you and found that you were incorrect and I was giving you valuable information.
so, yeah. ya got slammed. again.
～>`)～～～
adrift.
- Comment on That's why it's called science fiction duh 2 weeks ago:
“There was never any “science appreciation” among the general public”
you are demonstrably incorrect and your confident ignorance is insulting and harmful in general.
but here I am, being the guardrail to your misinformation again:
less than a decade ago, measles was eradicated from the US.
since then, vaccinations and science in general have been maligned and you can see in national polls that scientific authority is less respected than it was a decade ago to the point that measles has been brought back and is now killing children again.
because in less than a decade, science appreciation has turned into scientific derision.
you are completely wrong here, and you are not helping anything by spreading misinformation and flaunting your ignorance of the matter.
value-added comments are what is needed.
If your comments does not add value, as your three have not in this thread, then they are value-less and should be with held.
you are adrift.
- Comment on That's why it's called science fiction duh 2 weeks ago:
unfortunately, that is a pedantic and unnecessary expansion of both what the meme and my comment succinctly stated; you are apparently still missing the point of the actual meme and my comment: the specifically rapid public shift from science appreciation to scientific derision.
I’m happy you’re finally learning about this, but please make it clear that you have discovered something new for yourself and the reason you are publicly sharing it, rather than pretending to bestow knowledge upon me as if I asked for you to make a perfectly understandable meme 40 times longer and less clear.
- Comment on Hotel Galactic (in development), a fantasy hotel management game set in a "flying age of sail ships" world, with beautiful hand drawn graphics and narrative focus, releases a demo on Steam 3 weeks ago:
I really liked it. and it doesn’t hurt that it’s only about 80 minutes long, but there was a lot of good animation and fun storytelling, and I was laughing out loud at Martin Short.
- Comment on That's why it's called science fiction duh 3 weeks ago:
more than any specific project the meme is referencing, it’s pointing out the difference between scientific acceptance and derision, which has changed more drastically in the last 10 than in the last 20 years.
- Comment on Hotel Galactic (in development), a fantasy hotel management game set in a "flying age of sail ships" world, with beautiful hand drawn graphics and narrative focus, releases a demo on Steam 3 weeks ago:
I just watched treasure planet like 3 days ago, so…cool.
- Comment on That's why it's called science fiction duh 3 weeks ago:
in less than a decade
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, I do, that’s literally why I answered this question correctly and you consistently sound like a buffoon.
- Comment on If everyone goes to baseball games by car and everyone gets wasted like Randy Marsh, how do people get home? 3 weeks ago:
a lot of them understand the concept of airfoils also, but holding a random concept in your head doesn’t prevent them from driving home drunk.
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 3 weeks ago:
all the advice I’m giving is from specific knowledge and experience, not assumptions, as I mentioned above.
The very fact that you commented on my experience without asking questions or requesting clarifications for what you didn’t understand means that you making incorrect assumptions and drawing false conclusions about my experience, which yes, you should be careful of.