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 Puppy-genics 41 minutes ago:
Have thumbs, can confirm.
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 1 hour ago:
Don’t know if humans work that way but cats do.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 hours ago:
Elect me your president, and I’ll spin off the US Army Corps of Engineers as a separate branch, it’s own uniformed service.
Service in the CoE, regular military, or perhaps employment in certain other civil services should be a prerequisite to vote, hold office, lobby, or be an officer, board member or stockholder of a corporation. We’ll find something for you to do, eradicating tumbleweeds, paving roads, laying railroad track, building schools.
You want a say in government, you spend your early 20s repairing dams.
- Comment on Grow your own 2 days ago:
I dry and chip them. Three plants can keep me in red pepper flake for a year.
- Comment on Grow your own 3 days ago:
I grow cayenne peppers to save money. One plant yields so many peppers that it’s legitimately profitable.
I do save money growing mint over buying it at the store, because mint is eternal. I’ve been making juleps and jelly out of the same mint plant for about 6 years now. But mostly I keep mint around because I like it.
Tomatoes? It’s not really about the money, it’s that grocery store tomatoes are designed for durability rather than flavor.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 1 week ago:
Money doesn’t buy happiness but financial instability eradicates it.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
And then we graduated into the worst financial/employment crisis of the last 100 years.
Yeah, graduating high school in 2005 and thus finishing college in 2008 was…great. I’m not shotgun emoji about it at all.
Thing is, when we were in college, it looked like jobs and futures still existed, they waited until our last semester to destroy society. It never got better. Kids these days were born in the bullshit, we were merely adopted by it.
Also, you apparently don’t know the first fucking thing about the trades.
- Comment on law enforcement partners 1 week ago:
I’ve gotten into the habit at my grocery store of taking a cart from the corral into the store rather than walking in and then taking one from inside the building. It’s functionally no effort for me and its one less time a store employee has to walk that cart back into the building. The people who work at that grocery store are my neighbors and townsfolk, every cart I bring back in on my way is an opportunity for them to stand around on the company dime.
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 1 week ago:
Correct, if they had access to that regular beer, they’d just drink the regular beer and not bother diluting it.
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 1 week ago:
Eliminating reasonableness is the first step in creating an abusive legal system.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 1 week ago:
I mean…I regularly see a primary care physician, a dentist, an optometrist, and a dermatologist. and I’m NOT in the top 8%.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Those engineers probably had a job market with serious salaries to work for, and a course load relevant to that market. Kids these days live in a dying society with no hope. Why the fuck should they try? “Get a degree” is the quest. The assignment isn’t to learn something, it’s to get that fancy page. One of the required items is take some token bullshit art class. So we’ll do the one where we sit through movies.
The “go to college to become successful” thing is mostly bullshit; see there’s that community of people who were already going to be successful because their parents are, and what they get out of college is unsupervised time together with their peers. It’s not about Calculus 2 homework and Sociology lectures, It’s about not saying anything to your roommate’s girlfriend about the girl your roommate was fucking last night, the resulting bro-hood that earned, and your roommate becoming the district attorney in 12 years time. That’s what the people who are in congress got out of college. The thing is, you have to be one of them when you get there already.
Hell, I think the entire reason this ritual is academic-scented is because scholarship and science were a big fad with the elite about 300 years ago.
Actually walking the walk, going to school to learn the material the professors are teaching and getting a job in research or the professions will land you a job that pays marginally better than McDonald’s and a lifetime’s worth of debt. Doctors don’t get rich anymore. “Scientist” is the occupation of applying for grants. There’s no money to be had in actual academia…unless you’re owner of the school and teenage drinking buddy with the man who is now the governor.
College itself has very little to offer those who are planning to go get a job that doesn’t have some regulatory “it is a felony to do this job without a degree” requirement like lawyer, engineer or physician, but it has become a de facto societal requirement. Which has turned college into less of an educational experience and more of a trial to endure. And these kids are enduring it.
- Comment on Typical 1 week ago:
The difference is, you could chew on Don’t Dead Open Inside and figure out what they were trying to say.
- Comment on Bonjour 1 week ago:
Paris cat: le meiouquoix
- Comment on Friends. 1 week ago:
Funnily enough, it was filmed in front of a live audience, and it is canned laughter. In the edit, they often replaced the audience’s genuine reactions with stock laughter for various reasons. For example, when Monica popped out from under the sheets with Chandler, the audience shouted for minutes on end, they trimmed that for broadcast.
- Comment on Every time 1 week ago:
The one video game movie that springs to my mind that is like the video game is Mortal Kombat. Right around then in the early 90’s, the movie industry didn’t even try to understand the games they were movieing, but they did. Compare that to, say, Super Mario Bros.
- Comment on How to move a sofa 1 week ago:
So we’ve re-derived living in a community from first principles?
- Comment on One Standard Yglesias 2 weeks ago:
Four years, tens of thousands of dollars, and charades about studying math, literature and history, to get a certified as “able to show up to work sober.”
If that’s your idea of education, you’re part of the problem.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
Well there is a point to be made how many systems are keyed alike and the game isn’t “who has the right key” but more “who has bothered to buy a key” Using standard keys like the CH751 is very close to locking your cabinets with a security torx screw.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
Master Lock makes a series of warded locks that are often used outdoors, because they’ll function when left in a forest to get rained on and nested in. You’ll probably find warded keys like this one on a park ranger’s keyring:
Take that key, grind the bumps off everywhere but the tip, and it’ll open every lock with that keyway.
As for tubular locks, the pick looks like this:
It’s not difficult to use, you jam it in the lock and jick it around until the lock opens. What’s happening is you’re setting sliding elements on the tool to the pin heights in the lock. Once the lock opens, the business end of the tool now closely resembles the key. The tool can be read to make/buy a proper key for that lock, or you can tighten the collar to lock it down and now the tool functions as a key.
Or you buy the right key, which is what OP did. It’s not like the cases in Wal-Mart are all keyed different; the corporation probably orders keys and locks in lots of tens of thousands so I bet there is one tubular key that’ll get you into most if not all Wal-Mart cabinets; maybe the guns and ammunition are stored behind a different key, MAYBE. Actually glance into that kind of thing and you’ll find out just how useless locks are. There’s a key known as the CH751. Almost every RV or camper’s exterior baggage doors are locked with a CH751. So are arcade cabinets, gumball machines, voting booths…just about anywhere someone is going to put a bullshit little mass produced lock cylinder it’ll probably be a CH751, if they don’t replace it with an equally bullshit tubular lock.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
It looks kind of like a screwdriver. Ask The Lockpicking Lawyer.
- Comment on No Spoiler 👁️⃤ 2 weeks ago:
Well and going back to my original point, US history class at least for me ended at 1946, when the UN UN-nazi’d the world forever after having defeated Charlie Chaplain. And I think it’s because much after that and the generations that were (and still fucking are god dammit) in control of curricula personally remember those events and thus refuse to label them as “history.” Because my 70 year lifespan is basically now, so if kids these days don’t remember the Tet Offensive that’s they’re own fault, god fuck 'em.
- Comment on No Spoiler 👁️⃤ 2 weeks ago:
It’s kinda clear how the curriculum was designed, after all according to this class Japan was only discovered in 1939. Russia pops in an out of existence, Korea and Vietnam are fictional and Africa is where Egypt is.
- Comment on No Spoiler 👁️⃤ 2 weeks ago:
If you were to ask my teachers, American history goes revolutionary war, then nothing happens for awhile, then the civil war, then nothing happens for awhile, then WW1 had to happen so that we could have ourselves a WORLD WAR TWO! The four years that make up 9/10ths of American history. And then the Japanese signed the surrender on the deck of the USS Missouri and then stuff I-the boomer history teacher-personally remember so it legally can’t be history.
- Comment on Amazon thought it would be a good idea to not include subtitles in a film made entirely with sign language. 2 weeks ago:
That’s either “sign language doesn’t work with our speech-to-text algorithm and we’ll be throat fucked if we hire an actual person to do a job” or some massively pretentious statement about accessibility in media.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Eating disorders are so last decade. She’s abusing Ozempic.
- Comment on Boys will be boys 2 weeks ago:
Easily. From 14-17 I lived on a 5,000 calorie diet and struggled to gain weight, between marching band, PE, shop class, an avid skating hobby, a girlfriend, and growing in height. I could have easily eaten an entire chicken at the time.
- Comment on Boys will be boys 2 weeks ago:
Being a teenage boy is hungry work.
- Comment on Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. 2 weeks ago:
I can’t think of any.
The closest I can think of are games distributed on cassette for 80’s microcomputers like the C64 but I can’t think of anything you’d call a “console” that accepted those.
- Comment on Plug-In Solar Panels Are Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards |Ten U.S. states have legalized systems that can be plugged into standard wall outlets. The technology typically does not require permits 2 weeks ago:
Yes basically, my understanding is the inverter circuit can’t generate its own sine wave, only match an existing one.
