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 Honor student truth 20 hours ago:
I manage to get my conspiracy theory fix out of History For Granite. I’d rate him maybe a 2.1 on the conspirometer, he’s not an “Ancient aliens built the pyramids as landing platforms for their spacecraft” guy, he’s more of a “Everybody says the bent pyramid was a failure, yet it has a completed temple complex, while the Red pyramid does not. Hmm. Why do they keep pushing this narrative?” kind of guy.
A few examples:
- One of his videos contains back to back shots of Zahi Hawas describing Scan Pyramids’ finding of the entrance corridor void “Not a discovery” or “The most important discovery of the 21st century” depending on if he was involved in announcing it.
- Possibly in the same video, he accuses the Egyptian ministry of antiquities of maintaining the monuments more as tourist traps; the oogie boogie weirdos bring in more tourism revenue than scientists so guess who gets prioritized?
- He’s got a whole video about how there are these outfits that will advertise advanced metrology of the pyramids, LIDAR scans or whatever, and then never publish the data.
- “Internal Ramp Theory.” Look at how they treated that guy.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 20 hours ago:
Actually yes, you got any oreos?
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 1 day ago:
I mean, I don’t. Believe it or not it isn’t mandatory.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 2 days ago:
The one that instantly sprung to mind was Denise Richards as nuclear physicist Dr. Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough.
- Comment on HYDRAULIC PRESS TIME 2 days ago:
Today ve haff zis little horsey. Zis little horsey looks prutty dangerous, so ve must deal wif it.
dddrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
- Comment on At the end of Portal 2... 3 days ago:
spoiler
SPAAAAAACE!
- Comment on HELP HIM. 4 days ago:
I am going to hypothesize here: depends on how long rat’s in the tube.
I’m imagining a scenario where a vet has to X-ray a pet rat. Rat goes in the tube for 5 minutes while images are taken and then Rat can come back out of the tube. Rat’s probably going to be okay. A treat may be in order.
If he had to stay in there for a month, I don’t think he’ll ever be a normal rat again.
- Comment on HELP HIM. 4 days ago:
It ain’t easy being tapered.
- Comment on Florida ounces 1 week ago:
Teaspoons and tablespoons do the same thing. A US customary teaspoon (found very often in cooking recipes, a set of measuring spoons is extremely basic kit in an American kitchen) is something like 4.98mL, a tablespoon is 3 teaspoons. So you’ll find a lot of products especially medicines and such diluted for dosing at 5 and 15mL, to be extremely close to a tea- or tablespoon. Because if you need to give your child a dose of dimetapp at 3 in the morning and don’t have the little measuring cup that those come with, you’ve got your kitchen measuring spoons.
A fluid ounce is two tablespoons.
- Comment on Florida ounces 1 week ago:
I read it as ullbs. leading shwa sound, like “bulbs” without the b.
- Comment on Southern USA core. 1 week ago:
You’re the first one to mention flags.
- Comment on Southern USA core. 1 week ago:
West Virginia. Mountin’ Mama.
- Comment on One Angry Man 1 week ago:
Diamond Is Forever
- Comment on One Angry Man 1 week ago:
The Whole One Yard. And its sequel, The Whole One Yard.
- Comment on One Angry Man 1 week ago:
No, it’s got to be The Good, The Bad xor the Ugly.
- Comment on it's called speedrunning, my dudes 1 week ago:
when you’re going through frog, keep going.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 1 week ago:
Yeah I pretty much know that, and consider the lack of a karma score a feature not a bug of Lemmy. It’s just the obvious joke to crack on the subject of a social credit score on the fediverse.
- Comment on One Angry Man 1 week ago:
Ocean’s One.
- Comment on it's called speedrunning, my dudes 1 week ago:
frog%
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 1 week ago:
Are they going to implement Reddit-style karma?
- Comment on Thinheritance 1 week ago:
I’m probably going to publish a book on this topic at some point. Furniture as a craft stopped in 1940.
After 1940, anything new that came out came from industry, not from craft. You can still find actual craftsmen making furniture, hell the Stickley factory is still open. You can buy mission style furniture made of quarter sawn white oak to this day. And it’s exactly like what you could buy 100 years ago, for about 100 times the price.
Meanwhile, there never has been a craftsmanship around modern furniture needs. Computer furniture has entirely been the realm of flat packed particle board, double wide mobile homes the nation over are having their built-in entertainment centers ripped out because a 75 inch flat panel doesn’t fit anywhere in it. You can buy a dining room cabinet, or a bedroom armoire, but I haven’t seen craft furniture made for home theater or video game enthusiasts.
Not that anyone young enough to like video games will ever be given the chance to have enough money to buy real furniture.
We really do need to start those lynch riots.
- Comment on Thinheritance 1 week ago:
At some point I’m going to tackle designing and building a computer desk. I don’t think humanity has done it right yet.
I came up in the 90’s and 00’s when everyone had a Windows ME era Compaq set up on one of those Bush brand tube-and-panel desks that was supposedly purpose built to be a computer desk, but they STILL ended up way overcrowded because they STILL hadn’t thought about all the stuff you would have with a computer. So a subwoofer, the computer itself, both, or some other piece of equipment would end up in the foot well, cable management is a nightmare, no one in the furniture industry has ever acknowledged the existence of the UPS…
Then everyone got laptops, then everyone got phones and tablets, and then oh yeah desktop PCs are a thing, what are desktop PC gamers using for desks these days? A rectangular slab on L-shaped legs. Is the current state of the art in computer desk design. A table. Weirdly thick and heavy, and completely featureless.
It’s a challenge I want to tackle.
- Comment on Thinheritance 1 week ago:
I thank you, I post most of my projects at c/woodworking@lemmy.ca.
- Comment on A great find 1 week ago:
“She’s a pilot now.”
- Comment on Thinheritance 1 week ago:
Can do.
Here’s a little plant stand I built, that one is white oak and finished with spar varnish, it’s currently living under a massive peace lily.
Built a pair of these end tables to go on either side of my couch. Tops are oak, the structures are yellow pine. I put a secret compartment in one of the drawers. I’ve always wanted to do that.
A dining room cupboard I more recently built. Walnut, with poplar internals. I’m particularly proud of the grain matched drawer fronts, the entire face frame is made from one solid board.
The hutch that goes with that cupboard currently looks like this:
And since the tonguing is done, I’ll take my leave and go.
- Comment on Thinheritance 1 week ago:
this is why I’m into shaker style furniture. simple, elegant and practical.
- Comment on Hate to see all the suffering 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure it’s a nose ring.
- Comment on Your Lemmy Weather Forecast 2 weeks ago:
Man I spent the last couple weeks out in my workshop building a cabinet. I’m surprised the walnut didn’t melt.
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 2 weeks ago:
Someone write a scene where Rosanne sexually harasses M’s secretary.
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 2 weeks ago:
Rosanne Barr
