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@givesomefucks@lemmy.world
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 2 days ago:
It’s a big cliche and doesn’t work anywhere else…
But in Hawaii you can literally do anything you want on the road, as long as you throw up a shaka after.
- Comment on Nope, not visiting that 3 days ago:
You know what they say: the best time to build a time machine is 50 years ago.
I think that’s basically the movie Primer too, they’d turn the machine on, go hide in an apartment for X amount of time, then go back to the machine and emerge 5 minutes after they turned it on and just walked away.
But gravity effects time, sticking close to a planet isn’t going to be hard.
Ironically enough the first (if we ever get them) time machines are going to be a hell of a lot like modern “UFOs” are described. You couldn’t risk landing on the planet, elevation changes are what’s really a nightmare to account for. Show up and hour early and everything is a foot higher because of how fast we’re spinning.
So you’d want a space craft, because space is big and empty. And realistically it’s going to take something bigger than a telephone booth or even the 1980s embodiment of Florida on four wheels with a hood designed to do cocaine off of to house a time machine.
- Comment on what do I need to look for when buying running and pull up gloves? 6 days ago:
I mean, pullups and running are very different…
Running you just need anything warm, nothing else matters. Pullups (outside in the winter?) you can’t sacrifice grip and should go with something like Mechanix gloves. Just enough to get a layer between you and the bar.
So really, the solution is two items.
If you really want one single solution, military surplus FROG gloves.
They won’t be as warm as mittens when running, but you’ll be able to easily get your sleeves over them to seal up and trap air. And they’re designed to deal with wet/cold as well as the fire resistance they’re named after.
But still won’t have the straight grip as Mechanix gloves, or the warmth of bulky gloves/mittens that would be useless for pullups.
- Comment on Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers 6 days ago:
Mr. Bovino, who has been the face of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, used the term “chosen people” in a mocking way, according to the people with knowledge of the call. He also asked, sarcastically, whether Mr. Rosen understood that Orthodox Jewish criminals don’t take weekends off, the people said.
Let’s just take a step and think about this bullshit is headline news…
With all the other bigoted shit he’s doing, this is what some people considered a bridge too far…
If anyone wasn’t pissed off at mini Mussolini, but are now because of this, you’re a giant piece of shit and a bigot yourself.
- Comment on What do you do when you're lacking direction in life? 1 week ago:
Everyone’s different.
The Humane Society is a great place to start, but you can also just be cognizant of your surroundings and put effort into helping people when they seem to need it. You don’t need to change anything else, just “be a helper”.
- Comment on What do you do when you're lacking direction in life? 1 week ago:
The vast majority of people are wired to get a dopamine boost from helping others.
Doesn’t matter how you do it, can be as inconsequential as noob sitting in a video game, or real world productive like volunteering at a soup kitchen.
But it’ll help.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Because he’s really just giving him the recipe for his mom’s lasagna
- Comment on Steam Owner Valve Faces $900 Million Lawsuit Over PC Monopoly Claims, Following UK Tribunal Ruling - IGN 1 week ago:
Sony charges a monthly fee to play online…
- Comment on Steam Owner Valve Faces $900 Million Lawsuit Over PC Monopoly Claims, Following UK Tribunal Ruling - IGN 1 week ago:
It’s really getting to the point Gabe needs to cash out and turn Steam into a non-profit…
I trust him while he’s alive, but some day he’ll die, and who knows what will happen to Steam.
We could wake up one morning and find out there’s a $10 monthly fee to access Steam’s “services” including every game you ever purchased.
We can’t just cost on the hopes nothing changes forever.
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 1 week ago:
Ease of use, manages updates and just keeps it all together.
My first PC games you had to exit windows and load the game thru DOS, it meant we learned how computers actually worked, but it was a hassle.
- Comment on State Terror Has Arrived 1 week ago:
Been here for generations, we could have fixed it decades ago if it wasn’t for “moderate” Democrats who refus d to believe a problem existed until people that would fit in at their family reunions started being murdered
- Comment on At what point do you consider a person an alcoholic? 2 weeks ago:
There’s two types:
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Mental addiction
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Physical addiction
For #2 it’s pretty clear cut: they get the shakes between 12-48 hrs without drinking
For #1 there’s a lot of grey area, but basically someone who becomes agitated when they can’t drink on their normal schedule or won’t do certain activities if they can’t also drink.
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- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 2 weeks ago:
Things in atmosphere can color the light, but most likely they’re thinking about incandescent lighting on TV and at night.
- Comment on What’s Behind the Staggering Drop in the Murder Rate? No One Knows for Sure. | A decline in homicides across the country was a stunning reversal after crime rose during the pandemic. 2 weeks ago:
There are pretty strong arguments about leaded gas being responsible for much of beginning of the drop, the Biden’s economic recovery plan for the latter part
Some of us are old enough to remember when Biden took credit for the first unleaded drop for his “super predator” crime bill him and Hillary came up with in the 90s.
“We have predators on our streets that society has in fact, in part because of its neglect, created,” said Biden, then a fourth-term senator from Delaware so committed to the bill that he has referred to it over the years as “the Biden bill.”
“They are beyond the pale many of those people, beyond the pale,” Biden continued. “And it’s a sad commentary on society. We have no choice but to take them out of society.”
In the speech, Biden described a “cadre of young people, tens of thousands of them, born out of wedlock, without parents, without supervision, without any structure, without any conscience developing because they literally … because they literally have not been socialized, they literally have not had an opportunity.” He said, “we should focus on them now” because “if we don’t, they will, or a portion of them, will become the predators 15 years from now.”
Biden added that he didn’t care “why someone is a malefactor in society” and that criminals needed to be “away from my mother, your husband, our families.”
www.cnn.com/2019/…/biden-1993-speech-predators
That bill caused immeasurable amounts of damages and led the way for the same law enforcement abuses we’re suffering under from ICE…
And neoliberals spent decades denying the science behind lead poisoning so they could claim their destructive policy helped shit.
So dont give them credit now that their new shit helped. They’ve been lying about the effects of their policy since before they left the Republican part 50+ years ago.
Stop giving them the benefit of the doubt because they keep changing their self applied label
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 2 weeks ago:
The point the fedicerse is at right now would be refered to as the “golden age” if the fediverse ever takes off.
That doesn’t mean it will take off, and that doesn’t mean it would be better or worse if it takes off later.
Enjoy it for what it is, but if you want to recruit people to it…
Your time would be best doing that, and this is the worst place to do it.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 2 weeks ago:
is there any way if knowing if we have bots on lemmy or not? Is it just vibes based?
Man…
In a weird way, yeah, but only because the process of critical thinking is now being described as “vibes”…
Like, even when people can tell at a glance, it’s still critical thinking, it’s just been done so much that your brain autopilots it for you.
Im of course referring to undercover bots pushing agendas
That costs a non zero amount of money, and there isn’t a big enough audience here to justify it.
What I have seen, is people who will copy/paste a chatbot, but because they’re having to use actual credits, if you keep them going a couple comments the actual human will reply.
But those are very few, and doing personal agendas. Not a shadowy organization spinning a narrative. The ones doing it here, have just been banned from every where else for doing it already
- Comment on Unsubscribe from users without blocking them - Is it possible, at all? If so, how? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think you can separately block posts/comments.
But I wish we could for the opposite reasons. Lots of people post pretty good articles, but have terrible takes.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 3 weeks ago:
Clémence Guetté, Vice President of France’s National Assembly, submitted a parliamentary resolution calling for France to withdraw from NATO’s integrated command structure, citing President Trump’s threats to seize Greenland from NATO ally Denmark as evidence the US-led alliance threatens world peace.
So one politician from France submitted a resolution in the French gverbment to do it.
And you…
You honestly and legitimately think that is the same thing as:
I saw France had proposed an initiative to withdraw because of the US’ shenanigans
Like, you didn’t just go and try to find a source but didn’t read it. You just don’t understand how what that says and what you said are vastly different things?
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 3 weeks ago:
I saw France had proposed an initiative to withdraw because of the US’ shenanigans…
Where?
France is leading NATO air and ground troops this year, and I didn’t see anything about France leaving NATO when I just checked.
- Comment on X could be banned in UK amid sexualised AI images concerns 4 weeks ago:
Well, that explains the post I saw earlier about how they turned off image generation…
Every sane co.pany needs to ban it for more reasons than just this.
- Comment on I’m the Mayor of Minneapolis. Trump Is Lying to You. 4 weeks ago:
If only the mayor had a large, well paid, and highly equipped group of employees with guns and the legal authority to arrest people…
Arrest every ICE officer for disturbing the peace and throw them in jail.
It’s the only peaceful way to fix this
- Comment on Johnathan Ross right now... 4 weeks ago:
Would he lie to you?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
How could you think this would be a better way to find out than just asking her what she meant?
Also, weird as fuck to be throwing yourself in drama like that, but as least your friend will find out your super messy if they haven’t. If they already knew, this is what they signed up for anyways
- Comment on Trump Administration Live Updates: President Expects Impeachment if G.O.P. Falters in Midterm Elections 4 weeks ago:
“They’ll find a reason to impeach me,”
Chuck “Magoo” Schumer even could…
And after midterms we re-elect congress leaders and the neoliberals can’t threaten to cut off funding to states who don’t vote for their pick anymore.
I really want AOC to run for president, but there’s a good chance we can see AOC/Bernie as party leaders in Congress next session. Even if we don’t, we’ll get someone willing to impeach.
Martin won’t have the DNC push for them, but he won’t push for anyone.
- Comment on as a young person, what must one look for when it comes to finding a new country to live in? 4 weeks ago:
I mean, there’s a shit ton of variables…
You need to look specifically for people going from your current country, and the destination will change a lot of things.
Sometimes it’s very easy, other impossibly difficult.
- Comment on Can other countries impose sanctions on the US? 4 weeks ago:
I’ll admit that I don’t really know how that works, or how it’s enforced, or whatever
They almost always mean “economic sanctions”.
Cutting them off from “western banking”…
Essentially not letting them buy/sell any stocks in the western market.
Which unfortunately is headquartered in NYC, explaining why it’s the NY Stock Exchange.
There are others, Europe has 5 worth over a trillion each and some others, Asia has the NICA index.
But trump personally would be very hard to sanction in other markets, because he’s so shady banking institutions usually won’t deal with him. It’s why he pivoted to crypto.
He does have some money in NYSE, but that’s overseen by the SEC, and trump won’t sanction himself
- Comment on Denmark Tells Trump to ‘Stop the Threats’ About Greenland 4 weeks ago:
www.globalfirepower.com/coalitions.php
That’s a pretty good way to eyeball it.
But realistically it’ll be some kind of WW3 scenario pretty quickly, Denmark is a founding NATO member, and has a shit ton of alliances We’d have Russia, China, and US somewhat supporting each other, but trying to gobble up as much land as they can individually during the chaos. Then a NATO/EU coalition trying to stop them. And a lot of civil unrest everywhere else as each group tries to install dictators as allies.
And even if Russia/China/US win, they’ll just eventually turn on each other in giant meat grinder land wars over terrorist for the sake of terrority.
It’s not going to be good for anyone.
There’s also the whole thing where kind of the biggest point about NATO is “if any of gets invaded, we’ll nuke the invader back the Flintstones”
The role of NATO’s nuclear forces The fundamental purpose of NATO’s nuclear forces is for deterrence. Nuclear weapons are unique and the circumstances under which NATO might have to use nuclear weapons are extremely remote. Furthermore, any employment of nuclear weapons against NATO would fundamentally alter the nature of a conflict.
Should the fundamental security of any NATO Ally be threatened, NATO has the capabilities and the resolve to impose costs on the adversary that would be unacceptable and far outweigh the benefits that any adversary could hope to achieve.
nato.int/…/natos-nuclear-deterrence-policy-and-fo…
Putin is pushing trump to take Greenland, because the US is the least likely country for NATO to nuke.
Once they don’t nuke America, that’s his greenlight on NATO countries.
But NATO leaders know the consequences of not following thru.
Like, people been saying “trump will start ww3” for over a decade, but we’re at like 11:59:59, it’s very plausible it happens now, and we won’t know until missiles are headed to either DC or Florida, probably both. Because NATO leaders will know before the American public or likely even Congress.
- Comment on Gadgets For People Who Don't Trust The Government 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t watch it, but if anyone else is curious I copied this from the description
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro 2:58 - Meshtastic Solar Light 10:44 - Flock Safety Detector 13:55 - Anarchism (Taborites) 15:30 - Weather Satellite Ripper 21:58 - Anarchism (Zapatistas) 27:03 - Stingray Detector 31:40 - Failed Spotify Alternative 35:17 - Anarchism (Goonan v Dempsey)
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 4 weeks ago:
His leadership position was voted on before the DNC chair.
So his threats to cut off funding to the state of any Dems that wouldn’t back him still had some teeth.
It doesn’t now, mainly because the DNC immediately jumped into the largest twin esture into state parties, ever.
He’s been a lame duck all but maybe a month of this senate leadership term, and will almost certainly lose it next year.
If he doesn’t, it’s a bad sign.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 4 weeks ago:
What are you talking about?
There’s no American troops there now.
If you’re arguing there’s going to be a response or separate action in the future, yes…
That’s how time works, there’s always something happen, obviously something will happen next