saltesc
@saltesc@lemmy.world
- Comment on Turning Point Australia moves into SA 1 day ago:
Weaker minds are easily influenced by charisma and content.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Have done similar in high altitude. It’s great for when the gloves come off starting a fire. I’m against the one-use heat packs and don’t take electrics besides nav, light, and beacon. Then once you’ve got good parameter bearings, you can pour it out in the designated “pee spot”.
- Comment on What possible evolutionary advantage is offered by my ears suddenly sprouting tons of hair? 1 day ago:
At a certain age your ears have heard enough bullshit and it’s time to start enjoying life.
- Comment on Fucking why though? Are cows endangered? 1 week ago:
lol
is being squeezed “Hey! I’m warning you!”
gets squeezed harder “Any more of that and I’ll do something, mister!”
harder again “This is your final warning!”
harder “One more squeeze from you and you’ll be sorry!”
- Comment on Well fuck me then 1 week ago:
It’s doing OP a favour. The “Diet” means nothing and $1 for $1 Cke is worse for your body than coke.
- Comment on In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS 1 week ago:
You just gave me a good idea running off the same sort of concept, but allowing for numerical characters too. Whenever I gotta do my mandatory 90 day resets, I’ll pick a song title followed by the track length in 4 digits. Make a playlist of those songs in case I’m an idiot, and I basically have the passwords written down on a notepad.
- Comment on In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS 1 week ago:
It’s trying to remember which end number I’m up to for this password.
- Comment on advertisement 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I dunno. I just had a pipe burst under the house because it froze. I don’t think a quick psh psh up the faucet was going to help lol. If I’m honest, it was my fault for being alone that night. I shouldn’t blame the plumbing.
- Comment on advertisement 2 weeks ago:
The WD is Water Dispersant. Maybe someone’s under the impression water can “clump up” overnight.
- Comment on Steady 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but kudos to whoever the UI dev for CONTAIN.MOD.C12 is.
If I had to guess the taskbar icons; Dashboard Mode, Fullscreen Mode, Report View, Directories, System Management, Power Management, Home, Settings, Shopping, Trash.
Up top looks like all the controls you need for the chamber to open and close doors, set temps, change vitals views…
Dunno what’s up with the primary monitor not adopting the dark UI theme, but that happens with GNOME some times.
- Comment on Do drug cartels let the US and other countries "catch" their shipments? Like the US caught 1 billion of drugs over here while we ship 6 billion worth of drugs over there? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, definitely. He understood well that it was an ecosystem of its own. It was all “business” which I think is why he was very well respected by these people, the workers of the industry, and politicians. The job was to ensure goods flowed in and out so a few million people had food in their cities and towns, and he did that job very well. If he didn’t, his career would be over by whoever deemed it.
He told me once, to paraphrase, “It’s all chaos and mayhem until you realise it’s a school of fish. You just swim with them and it’s all good. Do it properly and you can steer all the fish in the right direction so everyone stays safe.”
- Comment on Do drug cartels let the US and other countries "catch" their shipments? Like the US caught 1 billion of drugs over here while we ship 6 billion worth of drugs over there? 2 weeks ago:
My father worked in something similar, heading operations of a prominent logistical hub. There was a lot of gang interferences and different gangs trying to take control. If they controlled the hub, it was easy to use it for trafficking and boost profits. He had arrangements with one crime group that were “the good guys”—as good as you can get—that in turn axted as muscle to keep other groups out.
They didn’t extort, but they did ask to essentially look the other way and in turn they will handle any hostilities of other groups.
Just before he retired, a group went for a bit push. The federal authorities were useless at handling it effectively, and the main group sorted it all out. He had his car torched out the front of his house, and the other group then had people watching and protecting him and his street 24/7. The authorities knew, but couldn’t do as good a job at keeping him safe as the power struggle happened.
I had met some of these men when I was younger. Good, kind, Italian gentlemen that spoke a lot of praise of my father and were like old friends. But he had told me that they are ruthless and that he’d have to be careful around them because they’d just “take out” my father’s problems for him even if he had never mentioned them.
It was a very interesting underbelly to see, but it just worked. He’d managed to keep it as peaceful as it could be by understanding, “Yes, this will happen” but politically handling it as “Minimise it as much as possible.”
- Comment on GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago 3 weeks ago:
Seems about right. Feels like I haven’t played GTA for a decade.
Every now and then internet reminds me it’s a thing, though.
- Comment on 🤡🤡🤡 3 weeks ago:
Moon rocks? No…Moonwalks…
- Comment on My friend got this when she tried to view a Reddit post about a dental issue that got marked as NSFW 3 weeks ago:
lol wtf!
I went to use Marketplace last year which meant signing into my old FB account for the first time since like 2013, even though I barely used it before that. Turns out it had been hacked at some point in the last decade and I had to upload a bunch of pics and ID stuff to get it back with a 48 hr review time or something…
Ooooooor… Just made a new account.
There was less important dt on that account then there was me giving Meta my latest update on where I am in life now.
- Comment on My friend got this when she tried to view a Reddit post about a dental issue that got marked as NSFW 3 weeks ago:
Upload a random selfie?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
“kill” and “fuck”
- Comment on Please let the Lions win the Superbowl... 4 weeks ago:
Well, shit. That explains why he and his dad ghosted us why back.
- Comment on Kinesi Protein 4 weeks ago:
Well you can tell by my bind to tubulin
This motor protein ain’t stopping Walkin’ the line from A to B
Replenishing the ATP - Comment on Scientific unprogress... 4 weeks ago:
The ad populum fallacy on full display.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 5 weeks ago:
I thought it was a like Jerryboree but for Barys, which I think makes way more sense.
- Comment on Good news. :) 5 weeks ago:
Oooh, the second US civil war may still be on but not in the way we first thought.
- Comment on Average plant behavior 5 weeks ago:
Bunch of the plants in Australia rely on bushfires to survive and reproduce.
- Comment on Over 450 Diablo developers at Blizzard have unionized 5 weeks ago:
I think you just discovered why they’re unionising so hard.
Microsoft: Don’t worry, Blizzard. We can quash a union attempt. There’s only like 100 of them, tops…
Blizzard: There’s 650.
Microsoft: _spits drink _. For this shit!?
- Comment on Is there a word for the happiness in finding the exact right word? 1 month ago:
Satisfaction.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
“I’ll have none of that in this house! We’re good honest Christians and that’s that.”
- Comment on 🏹🏹🏹 1 month ago:
Foreground guy just drawing across range.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 1 month ago:
Just talk absolute shit, like I do.
- Comment on After stretching the definition of 'beta' for 8 years, Escape From Tarkov is finally hitting 1.0 1 month ago:
Genuinely forgot this game existed. I was over it before COVID lockdowns.
- Comment on Every dam time 1 month ago:
Apparently my TV has normalisation, but it doesn’t seem to do much. There is a setting that boosts dialogue, but it’s jarring enough that being the fastest remote in the West still comes out in top.
Maybe I can do something with the spare Pi…
