captain_aggravated
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast Took a temporary honorary demotion of one grade to honor Captain Kori.
- Comment on Is the pipeline true, fellas? 13 hours ago:
Divorcing a billionaire is how you GET billions of dollars though.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 days ago:
Organic chemistry was a mistake, one we have the arsenal to correct. Push the whopper button.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 days ago:
God I hope so. I have absolutely no reason to keep surviving, I hate being alive, I hate that any of you are alive, let’s get the nukes out and boil the fucking oceans.
- Comment on THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DIPSHITS 5 days ago:
There was one guy who designed what is actually an elegant experiment, placing several vertical surfaces, signs basically, with holes in them in a straight line a distance apart at the same elevation above sea level. If the Earth is flat, one should be able to see straight through all of the holes in the signs; if the earth is round, the holes will curve down and away. He observed that they curved down and away. Then of course proceeded to make up bullshit about how his own test was invalid.
- Comment on Working below minimum wage to save the planet 5 days ago:
I 3D print stuff for the wood shop a lot. Clamping doodads, tool holders, jigs, etc.
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 1 week ago:
Wider, longer, flatter, thinner, and harder to hold without touching shit at the edge of the screen. I miss being able to grip a phone by its buttons.
- Comment on Reddit Refugees 1 week ago:
The button they built got pushed before it was supposed to and everyone’s like “Why’d you build the button?”
- Comment on what are “female jocks” called? 1 week ago:
Gonna channel TierZoo for a minute here:
If you’re going to play High School, there are two ways to create the Jock build:
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You can go with the Prep class and then subclass in Meathead. You’re going to letter in baseball, soccer, golf and track and field, your girlfriend is a cheerleader, you’re probably going to be prom king and you’re going to the college your dad did and probably join the same frat your dad was in.
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Start out as trailer trash nobody and go for the “peak in high school” subquest, you’re gonna be on the football team and the wrestling team, you’ll date one of the three straight girls in the marching band’s color guard. You’re probably someone’s school bully. You’re not even going to apply to college. Ten years from now you’ll be other than honorably discharged from the marine corps and you’ll work as a bouncer at a dive bar in Jacksonville.
It’s kinda rare to see a direct distaff counterpart to either one of these. In the former’s case, you get a cheerleader. She might run track or something in the spring but these girls usually throw themselves into shit like student government, yearbook club, whatever student committee organizes the dances, she’s gonna major in poli-sci and marry a lawyer for his money or she’s gonna get an MBA so she can be a self-proclaimed “boss bitch.”
In the latter’s case, she probably doesn’t go for athletics or even extracurriculars at all, she’s a fixture at house parties with alcohol, she has basically no plan for life, through her 20’s she’ll waitress at various chain sit-down restaurants and/or cashier at Food Lion until she gets knocked up.
There is a somewhat rarer class of severe tryhard, she’s convinced she’s going to be an astronaut so she takes herself 100% seriously, isn’t accepted to the Air Force Academy so she enrolls in ROTC at ERAU, is in every sport the college offers to girls, does basically no socializing, ends up an officer in the Air Force but does not become a pilot, resigns as a Captain and opens a shelter for abandoned parrots. Athletics are just a byproduct of overachieving with nothing to show for it.
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I mean, they eventually do. Fetuses kick in the womb.
- Comment on Co-op campaigns are a rarity these days, and that should change 2 weeks ago:
Subnautica 2 will be optional co-op.
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 2 weeks ago:
Apparently a lot of males are still in alpha.
- Comment on Romance scammers are now in the fediverse 2 weeks ago:
Yes. People get scammed for millions this way.
A newer scam does an end-around the normal sniff tests. They don’t ask you to give htem money, they strike up a pretty genuine friendship, they have details that check out, so it feels like you’ve just made an actual friend. They’ll talk to you for months. And then they’ll mention that they’ve been making a lot of money on this cool new investment. Well you want to make a lot of money on an investment too, so you ask how, and they tell you how to download an app from the app store, which is supposed to be a safe place, and walk you through “investing” money in some crypto or whatever. Which of course is the payout.
- Comment on Do you need to adjust your speedometer if you change the size of your tires? 2 weeks ago:
The speedometer on my motorcycles were all driven from the front wheel so the final drive ratio did not effect it.
- Comment on I will take no arguments 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Don't wanna know how 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Are dating apps a fraud since the beginning? 3 weeks ago:
I think there was a time fairly early on when at least one was built to do the job it was advertised to.
I think more than half of Lemmy’s members were born after that though.
- Comment on the woke left is always like “we need less shootings” gun control so kids can’t commit domestic terror. but the right says i get wolf pussy so they win. 3 weeks ago:
I’m old as well but I’m plugged into the gaming scene enough to where I think I get it.
The original cartoon had the kid screaming something like “DIE DIE DIE” at a violent video game, because scapegoat. The original artist making the point that “No it’s not guns, it’s video games.”
But here, that text has been replaced with “Wolf pussy” meaning the kid is actually sexualizing an animal character (if you’re the exact flavor of old I am, you’ll know exactly what I mean when I say “Gadget Hackwrench”) and thus the game is turning him into a furry rather than a murderer, making the parents’ point about guns being the problem obviously correct with no counterpoint.
- Comment on Mmm kale 3 weeks ago:
Huh, I’ve been working under the impression this whole time that coconut oil is made of monounsaturated fat. That impression comes from watching some cooking shows that one time and thus might be incorrect.
Another thing about coconut oil compared to lard: You don’t have to take a band saw to a pig in order to make it.
- Comment on Mmm kale 3 weeks ago:
See my understanding of coconut oil is it’s a better substitute for lard or shortening because 1. it’s unsaturated fat rather than saturated fat and 2. it’s not hydrogenated. It’s a vegetable oil that’s solid at room temperature, which is why you see it used in packaged baked goods a lot, because in the words of Alton Brown, “It’ll stay moist and unctuous while having the shelf life of uranium.”
- Comment on In some countries (such as the USA), sending encrypted communications via Amateur Radio is illegal, but how likely will the government actually enforce it, and how severe would the consequences be? 3 weeks ago:
Hams are much more likely to use yagi antennas and physically rotate them, it’s simpler, for one thing.
I don’t think the FCC has many employees sitting around listening to the ham bands for violations, they rely on licensed amateurs to report issues, so at least the first folks who are gonna try to find you are going to do so with the kit they’ve got.
- Comment on Feelin free 3 weeks ago:
A nation that, for most of its existence, did not successfully produce toilet paper.
- Comment on Do cats have intrusive thoughts about eating their humans? Conversely, do cats get scared of humans eating them? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know exactly what cats think, if anything. I’ve been yawning around cats for 35 years now and not a one has acted like that was a threat. They yawn too so I I think they get it.
My cat doesn’t even seem concerned about getting stepped on by the big clumsy oaf she lives with, let alone eaten. She’s seen the things I eat and they look nothing like her. I’m not a threat, I’m a self-heating cushion with built-in can opener to her.
House cats at least, felis catus, seem to genuinely enjoy the companionship of humans. Mine will follow me around the house and sit next to/on me. She sleeps next to my pillow every night.
- Comment on Punk circa 1200 AD 3 weeks ago:
At the beginning of the movie, it is established that only “A diamond in the rough” can enter the Cave of Wonders to claim Genie’s lamp. Jafar does some magic spell to learn the identity of the “diamond in the rough” and it turns out it’s the poor street kid Aladdin, who has repeated run-ins with the guards over stealing food. Jafar sends the guards out to capture and bring Aladdin to Jafar so he can be sent into the Cave of Wonders.
Meanwhile, after rejecting the latest of many pompous asshole princes, Princess Jasmine decides to run away from the palace equipped with a cloak over her usual outfit and basically nothing else, to include an understanding of money. She steals an apple to give to a couple of poor children, and the apple vendor is swinging the sword down to cut off her hand when Aladdin stops him, convinces him that she’s insane, and then brings her to his home. The guards catch up to them and finally capture him. “Unhand him, by order of the princess!” The guards are surprised to find her here. “What are you doing outside the palace? And with this street rat?” Later, when asked what charge Aladdin was arrested on, Jafar replies “Kidnapping the princess, of course.”
So while Aladdin is in the habit of tangling with Agrabah’s law enforcement, he is never arrested on the charge of assaulting an officer. Or vagrancy or petty theft. He’s arrested because Jafar wanted him arrested, and the kidnapping charge (for which he is, at this point at least, completely innocent) is trumped up after the fact.
- Comment on Punk circa 1200 AD 3 weeks ago:
he did get arrested but on a false charge of kidnapping the princess, so I guess technically no.
- Comment on Stay strong, fellas 💪🏻 3 weeks ago:
Chronic appendicitis is apparently a thing. -40/10, do not recommend.
- Comment on In some countries (such as the USA), sending encrypted communications via Amateur Radio is illegal, but how likely will the government actually enforce it, and how severe would the consequences be? 4 weeks ago:
It does depend on what band you transmit on. If you transmitted a two second burst, once, on 23cm, and never did it again? You’re almost certainly going to get off scot free. Try that on the HF bands, or even on 2 meters where a lot of people are listening, transmit for longer and do it regularly? We WILL find you.
Encryption does not hide the presence of a message. Transmitting with a radio is literally the act of shining a light into the sky. That light is redder than the reddest infrared so we can’t see it, but it’s light nonetheless. We transmit meaning using that light by blinking it on and off, or varying either its brightness or color in ways that mean something to each other. Encrypting just means the scheme you use to vary the brightness or color doesn’t mean anything to the general public, only the person you’re trying to talk to. Everyone else sees meaningless noise. But, they still see it.
You can tell which direction a radio signal is coming from, using a directional antenna like a yagi, you literally sweep the antenna around and listen for where the signal is strongest. It’ll literally point to the transmitter. Do this from at least two locations and you can draw a line on a map that crosses pretty close to where the signal is coming from. Hams do this for fun, it’s called fox hunting.
On a related note, numbers stations do exactly this. If you listen to the HF bands, you may hear voices reading strings of numbers or letters in some foreign language. At least one of these has been confirmed to be a one-way communication system for governments to talk to their spies in the field. The messages are encrypted with a one-time pad system which is not breakable unless you have the one-time pad, the message which might sound like “three, three, seven, three, nine. Three, three, seven, three, nine. Eight, four, six, three, two. Eight, four, six, three, two.” is meaningless to most, but it’s trivial to detect where it comes from.
Look up the account of the Yosemite Sam station, some hams started hearing the voice of Looney Tunes character Yosemite Sam saying “Varmint! I’ma gonna bloooow ya ta smithereenies!” from the cartoon Bunker Hill Bunny, followed by a digital data burst. This would happen on several frequencies at regular times. So they tracked it down, ended up at an R&D facility with a bunch of antenna masts out back and were quickly met by employees telling them to stop taking pictures.
Even if you aren’t bothering anyone, hams will foxhunt you because it’s a fun mystery to solve. If you are bothering anyone, hams will foxhunt you to turn you over to the FCCs punishment division.
- Comment on In some countries (such as the USA), sending encrypted communications via Amateur Radio is illegal, but how likely will the government actually enforce it, and how severe would the consequences be? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know if it’s illegal, but Meshtastic takes place outside the amateur radio bands (using LoRa IIRC) and thus isn’t bound by amateur radio licensing requirements, so the law prohibiting encryption on the ham bands doesn’t apply. Some other law might.
- Comment on Halp. 4 weeks ago:
Same way you’d take a third of a centimeter: Get out a micrometer and set it to 0.3333, that’ll be pretty close.
The main benefit to the metric system is it’s all base ten. One kilometer is 1000 meters, one kilogram is 1000 grams, you don’t have to memorize that there’s 16 cups in a gallon etc. For a lot of things that works well, the problem is with base ten itself. You run into the same problems with 1000 millimeters in a meter than you do trying to work in thousandths of an inch, it doesn’t divide by 3 particularly well and you get those weird repeating digits.
We kinda did have a base twelve system going, isn’t it weird how we have a special word for twelve in English? There’s 12 hours on a clock face and 12 inches in a foot. And from there, we work in powers of two.
Woodworkers don’t traditionally cut boards to 1 inch or 2 inches thick; they’re rough sawn to that thickness and then dried and milled to 3/4" or 1 1/2". Which are 1/16th or 1/8th of a foot, and both are divisible by 2 and 3 and expressed in a power-of-two fraction. a third of 3/4" is 1/4".
It works very well until someone who doesn’t actually understand it tries to contrive a way to make it not work in the same way their preferred system also doesn’t work.
For many other things, the metric system is easier to deal with, I would much rather do physics in metric than in Imperial (also I’m American, I actually use SAE) but woodworking in a dozenal system is a discipline that is millennia old, the bugs have been very thoroughly shaken out. I would rather build furniture in inches.
- Comment on Halp. 4 weeks ago:
My sawyer has a tape that measures in tenths of a foot as well. Kind of reminds me of how aircraft measure time aloft; both tach time and hobbs time is measured in tenths of an hour.
Something that’s gonna tilt your head: 1 1/2" is 1/8th of a foot. And 3/4" is 1/16th of a foot. Common inch woodworking sizes like that aren’t weird fractions of an inch, they’re some power of two fraction of a foot.
- Comment on Halp. 4 weeks ago:
I carry my “bilingual” tape in my away mission bag, because that way I can get away with having one tape measure. My metric tape lives on my desk and I’ve got inch tapes dripping out of the walls. I wake up in the morning and cough up a few.