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 “I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
So it’s Stadia, again?
- Comment on Mermaid 2 weeks ago:
…that’s why she uses clam shells.
- Comment on Nothing is funnier than The Onion taking over Infowars and making rainbow merchandise. 2 weeks ago:
The most perfectly cast part in all of cinema.
- Comment on And toxic in large amounts! 2 weeks ago:
If you witnessed a toothed cutting implement in action, you saw a saw saw.
- Comment on You have nothing to lose but your brains 2 weeks ago:
To paraphrase Tim Curry, communism and capitalism are both red herrings.
Oh that big punch up between the Soviet Union and the United States, decadent capitalism vs brutalist communism. Who won? According to the scoreboard as of 2026: Israel.
The catch phrase I’ve always heard about communism is “the people own the means of production.” Has that ever been true in practice? Did Soviet citizens own any piece of the means of production? Did anything resembling “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” ever once happen under the hammer and sickle? Or was that the false narrative the idiot asshole in charge used to cow the unwashed masses?
Similar questions could be asked of my fellow capitalist Americans. Capitalism is allegedly about the free market, supply and demand, if there is a demand someone will provide a supply, probably multiple someones, competitors will compete, those who do it faster, cheaper or better will succeed until someone else does it even fasterer, cheaperer and betterer repeat until someone else comes along with a completely different idea, welcome to the infinite cycle of meritocracy where the cream rises to the top. How’s that working out? Some substance has risen to the top, not sure it’s cream.
A common problem I see between the Soviet Union and the United States: Weak systems for preventing psychotic despots from ruining it all.
- Comment on Theories on Theories 2 weeks ago:
For being trained to think within tolerances?
- Comment on You have nothing to lose but your brains 2 weeks ago:
I can list at least one.
Can’t think of a communist democracy, though.
- Comment on Theories on Theories 2 weeks ago:
Former chemistry student here. In chemistry, every single thing you ever do gets multiplied by a ridiculously big number. A few drops of water has 6.02*10^23 molecules in it. So even the tiniest chemical reactions are massive exercises in parallel processing, and measuring in human-scale units means you might miss by a few hexillion in either direction.
Isn’t it amazing internal combustion engines…ever work?
- Comment on Theories on Theories 2 weeks ago:
I think chemists would use the word “averages” but basically yeah.
- Comment on You have nothing to lose but your brains 2 weeks ago:
I’m all ears for ideas.
- Comment on Electricity explained 2 weeks ago:
Was that the plot of Black Snake Moan?
- Comment on Electricity explained 2 weeks ago:
Cause Amps can be a serious bitch when she really gets going, you’ve got to keep her in check.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
No, the Decepticons are not misunderstood as the good guys. You are giving the Transformers series WAY too much credit.
First of all, let’s address this lie about decades and decades of woke comic books. That’s mostly marketing for the MCU that the movie industry has told you. Some comic books from some publishers some of the time have had social justice allegories. Stan Lee did it a lot. That was far from the standard; elsewhere in the industry you’d find nationalist propaganda like Captain America or just…DC spent a lot of time just doing salacious shit for the sake of salaciousness. Batman has been anything from goofy shit for children to a grimdark showcase of mental illness. Wonder Woman was an excuse for one author to write about his bondage fetish.
That’s not where Transformers came from. Transformers was a toy line first; Hasboro imported a line of Japanese toys and then created comics and cartoons around them as a marketing exercise. In the Ronald Reagan 1980’s. There’s a lot of people who have correct memories of Transformers being about a team of virtuous, American-made automobiles lead by a Red, White and Blue Peterbilt^®^ in their glorious fight against the fundamentally Evil, dark-colored foreigners. And those eye rolling The More You Know segments the Gubmint makes em do.
- Comment on She only wanted the ring bros 3 weeks ago:
I’m fine. What’s wrong with the rest of you? When’s the last time you saw actual people do anything other than devolve into a who hates whom the most contest? Because I’m drawing a complete blank.
- Comment on She only wanted the ring bros 3 weeks ago:
Is affection a thing that even exists?
- Comment on I am about to learn everything. 3 weeks ago:
So, explain why you think this is anything other than a waste of time for engineering students?
- Comment on I am about to learn everything. 3 weeks ago:
Ben Rich, aeronautical engineer and second head of Lockeed’s Skunkworks after Kelly Johnson mentions Harvard Business School in his autobiography. He was apparently sent to a program they taught there for professionals already working in industry to become more business savvy. Kelly Johnson sent Ben Rich to this program, and when Rich got back, Johnson asked him what he learned. He said “Okay let me show you.” and he turned to the blackboard and wrote “2/3 HBS = BS” on the blackboard.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
And with a hypothesis.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Who figured out this is a thing that works?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Would it have been a meme 20 years ago?
- Comment on I am about to learn everything. 3 weeks ago:
White collar engineers? Paying attention to blue collar techs? That’s the plot of the next Andy Weir novel, isn’t it? A hilariously naive notion of people working together to solve problems? Sounds like his work.
- Comment on I am about to learn everything. 3 weeks ago:
I couldn’t solve all the world’s problems if I was given this power, but it would make people who are damaged in the same way I am laugh for a couple months out of the year.
- Comment on I am about to learn everything. 3 weeks ago:
There needs to be a required summer semester of engineering school called “being a mechanic.”
Okay college boy, put on a shirt with your name embroidered on it and come out here into the shop. Yeah it’s 110 degrees in the shade, you’ve got your buddy Tom Midgly Jr. to thank for that. Now take this wrench and take that bolt out. Oh it doesn’t come out because the oil pan is in the way? I wonder whose fault that is. No, we’re not gonna let it cool before dropping the oil pan, the customer is in the lobby. Yeah. It is 240 degrees. No, it doesn’t all drain out through the plug, there’s a half quart that doesn’t come out. Yes, you’re getting that on you. Don’t get any of it on the interior of the car when you back it out. Now take off the oil filter. Yes, you’re gonna burn the back of your hand on the exhaust manifold. You’re taking every Toyota oil filter off this summer. You’re gonna hold the burn mark on the back of your hand up like Tyler Durden.
Oh you’re going to be an aeronautical engineer. c’mere boy, we’re gonna take the wings off a 152 Aerobat, you get to pick the spar bolts out of the catalog, we’ll safety wire the control cable turnbuckles through those little inspection ports you types are so stingy with, and then we’ll take the bird you just reassembled up for a couple two or three hours of spin training to see if ya done it right. You ever do a snap roll? I’ll teach you more about the aerodynamics of maneuvering flight in 1.5 seconds than your physics professor did in a semester. Eat bananas for breakfast, they taste the same coming up as they do going down. And buddy they’re coming back up. Because of the special jug bolt wrench I had to buy, I’m gonna pull at least one breakfast back out of your face using nothing but stick and rudder.
- Comment on fur sure 3 weeks ago:
In English:
Braising: A method of cooking meat moist but not immersed in a fluid, often broth or wine, in a tightly sealed vessel over low heat for a long time, often used to soften tougher cuts of meat by rendering connective tissue into gelatin. “Roasts” are often braised. Compare with stewing, in which meat is cooked immersed in a fluid; contrast with barbecuing in which meat is cooked at low heat for a long time in a vented chamber flooded with smoke from a wood fire.
Brazing: A method of joining two pieces of metal by hard soldering using bronze as a filler material. The base objects are heated to cherry red, flux is applied to eliminate any oxides and bronze filler is applied to wet the surfaces and when cooled strongly bond them. Contrast with welding where the edges of the base materials are heated to melting and the puddles allowed to flow together such that when cooled they form one object. Brazing is often done when joining dissimilar base metals which cannot be successfully welded.
- Comment on The 22 Richest Men in the World Have More Wealth than All the Women in Africa 3 weeks ago:
Football fields actually make sense as a unit of measurement though. Unlike a lot of sports fields or arenas, American football fields have a very specific length and width: including end zones 360 feet long by 160 feet wide, approx 1.3 acres.
Furthermore, practically every American has hands-on experience with a football field. Almost every high school in America has one or has the use of a nearby one, some schools in inner cities might share. My high school had three, the stadium, the practice field, and the marching band practice grid painted on the student parking lot. Every student to attend the school spent at least some time on that field, for one that was the only venue on campus big enough to host the graduation ceremony. Several phys ed classes along with after school sports took place out there, as a band geek I spent entire weeks of my life on a football field.
So when you say to an American a field is 5 acres, unless they own significant parcels of land they can’t really picture that, but tell them it’s the size of 4 football fields they can pretty accurately picture that.
- Comment on The 22 Richest Men in the World Have More Wealth than All the Women in Africa 3 weeks ago:
Manufactured sexism. Because there’s not enough of that to be found among the Western elite, amirite?
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 3 weeks ago:
I like how they left “Lima” alone.
- Comment on Trivia question 3 weeks ago:
Long Live Buffalax!
- Comment on Me too, bro, me too... 4 weeks ago:
That would be amazing, an automotive scarlet letter. Require them to sew a D for Drunkard on their shirts, both bumpers and both doors.
- Comment on America 4 weeks ago:
Pilot here, over been in the habit of using 12 hour for local time and 24 hour for zulu time. “12:45pm, 1745z”