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- Comment on Did Rep. Max Miller threaten to out GOP Sen. Bernie Moreno as gay on CNN? 1 week ago:
“I’m sick of this, you know I never hurt our daughter. Take this however you want, everyone is going to get to know you better than your wife does,” Miller wrote to Bernie Moreno in the text. “Enjoy the ride brother, I wouldn’t have to do this if you could keep your lying daughter under control.”
Hmm so Miller, a father, is telling another father to ‘keep’ adult daughter ‘under control’. I think this is the only piece of evidence we’d ever need to believe Miller is a shitty as reports are making him out to be.
- Comment on Is there anything I can do about the humming of an LED? 2 weeks ago:
Before you dismount it from the wall, have you tried turning it on, then applying physical pressure at various parts of the outside of the light to see if the sound changes or disappears? Make sure its not a vibration that could be solved with a tiny bit of padding between two hard surfaces.
- Comment on Is there anything I can do about the humming of an LED? 2 weeks ago:
1960s BBC TV license van teams would like to make you a job offer.
- Comment on Why can't I change the terms and conditions in a pre-signed contract with a corpo? 2 weeks ago:
You want to blame Singer Sewing Machine company for this. They’re the ones in the 1850s that came up with the idea of pre-made non-negotiable contracts. Before this, every single contract had to have lawyers adding and removing terms until both sides agreed to it. I know it sucks, but the alternative could be worse.
Imagine having to bring (and pay!) your lawyer to a car dealership to buy a car or even sign up for Netflix. Imagine how much more expensive the goods and services would cost you because of the army of lawyers needed to negotiate contracts for every single consumer.
- Comment on Anon institutes the draft 2 weeks ago:
I did own a hamster, when I was 6 years old.
I didn’t get my first hamster until I was 8. Anon apparently has one at 9.
I also didn’t know shit, because I was 6 years old,
Sure, but we’re talking about a kid 50% older than 6 years old. There’s a lot of cognitive growth between those 3 years. I don’t think you’d say you were as stupid at 9 as you were at 6 are you?
and I don’t know about the challenges of chasing a hamster (which has something to do with yeeting it out of the window, somehow?)
I don’t know why I have to walk you through this, but okay: If anon at 9 assumed that the hamster would safely parachute down to the ground 4 stories down, then the moment that hamster was unguarded, it would bolt. A 9 year old that has ever taken their hamster outside knows this. A 9 year old typically doesn’t want to lose their pet. So this was why I said that anon never had a hamster (as in this post is fake).
and even if I did I wouldn’t remember it well because I was 6 years old.
You don’t remember anything from when you were 9 years old (as Anon was)? Are you saying if you had a pet at 9 you have no memory of it today? That…wouldn’t be normal.
- Comment on Anon institutes the draft 2 weeks ago:
9 year old hamster owners know that unattended hamster outside run away in seconds.
- Comment on Anon institutes the draft 2 weeks ago:
9 year old hamster owners know that unattended hamster outside run away in seconds.
- Comment on Anon institutes the draft 2 weeks ago:
9 year old hamster owners know that unattended hamster outside run away.
- Comment on Anon institutes the draft 2 weeks ago:
You’re skipping the first part of my statement. I can tell you didn’t own an hamster either.
Lets say the hamster successfully parachuted down safely to the ground outside of a 4 story building. Hamsters can run quickly and squeeze into impossibly small places. There is a good chance the hamster, now unattended, would run away and escape. Hamster owners know this.
Here’s a perfect example from a random youtube search. Hamster running away outside. 7 second. Thats how long it took for the unattended hamster to disappear into the underbrush. In this clip the owner was right there and able to recapture the hamster. A 9 year old would not be able to traverse 4 flights of stairs in under 10 seconds.
A 9 year hamster owner knows this too.
- Comment on Anon institutes the draft 2 weeks ago:
Anon has either never owned a hamster or did own a hamster and is a psychopath that had no issues with animal abuse.
- Comment on I gotta up my toxicity 3 weeks ago:
A tesseract is a 3 dimensional representation of a 4 dimensional body. The fact that a tesseract has to be animated to show all of its 4 dimensional vertices in 3 dimension is an act of shaming 3 dimensional space for being “less than”. Frankly, I don’t stand for this type of body shaming.
- Comment on I gotta up my toxicity 3 weeks ago:
Two dimensional projections can be represented in three dimensional space. Even single dimensional entities are welcome here.
- Comment on I gotta up my toxicity 3 weeks ago:
Please read the sidebar rules before posting. Posts to this Lemmy community must be exclusively represented in 3 dimensional space.
- Comment on Travis Scott’s Hollywood Odyssey: The Rapper on Acting for Christopher Nolan, His New Paramount Deal and Never Winning a Grammy 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t this the guy that got 10 people killed at a concert where he was performing? Nolan put him in a movie?
- Comment on Golly! That sure is swell, Billy. 3 weeks ago:
Where is their other friend Johnny, and why is Johnny’s face on the back of the shirt?
- Comment on Is there hope for humanity? Or are we just destined or designed to wipe our own selves out? 1 month ago:
“Green technologies” won’t solve it when a lot of them aren’t green,
Sure, I’m not talking about greenwashing products though.
the profit motive still rules humanity.
This is perfect example supporting my argument. Solar power is cheaper than any fossil fuel. The profit motive, in this case, is for the green tech.
- Comment on Is there hope for humanity? Or are we just destined or designed to wipe our own selves out? 1 month ago:
You’re free to hold your own model, but I’d question some of yours.
I’d say we haven’t so much turned around as veered off to skirt along the edge until we’re about to hit the next one.
That’s a different edge in a different direction.
There is a real chance we’re going to end up not being able to diverge and actually go over the edge.
There’s certainly an element of inertia to large, extinction level events, but not all extinction level events share that same inertia. As an example, nuclear war and climate change don’t share the same path of humanities destruction.
If it when that will happen is impossible to predict before it’s too late though.
Humanity is pretty good and being able to predict things which will negatively effect us. We’re just not great at stopping doing those things that cause those negative things.
- Comment on Is there hope for humanity? Or are we just destined or designed to wipe our own selves out? 1 month ago:
As a child of the 70s, I was sure we were going to wipe ourselves out in global thermal nuclear war. The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty instead took the nuclear cores from thousands of American and Russian missiles and consumed it in civilian nuclear power plants for electricity. If you had told my 10 year old self my game console would be running on decommissioned Russian nukes, I wouldn’t have believed you.
The rapid technological advancement of green technologies (especially them being financially cheaper than fossil fuels) gives me hope humanity (and most of the species of Earth) will survive climate change.
So, yes, we might indeed still wipe ourselves out, but we have on many occasions, as a species, stopped at the brink and turned around to go back to safety.
- Comment on Buzz off 2 months ago:
I wasn’t prepared for those stings on my skin to still be hurting some a week later.
- Comment on Anon is given an ultimatum 2 months ago:
Please post the update from “Day 2 as a homeless person in SF”.
- Comment on Buzz off 2 months ago:
Yellow jackets on the other hand are complete assholes. We had a nest of them in the yard once and they would go way out of their way to sting people, just for the hell of it.
This was my experience too. I had thought that bees had moved into a bush in my yard. I was happy to have bees there. A week later I was mowing the grass and felt several stabs of pain on my back and wrist. I turn around and see the air is filled with them. I had swatted one in my escape and had a corpse to inspect later and found it was a Yellow jacket wasp. From a distance I could see they were entering and exiting a hole near the bottom of the bush. A quick internet search later I knew that they were nearly dormant at night, and that they need a special oil they produce on the outside of their body to breath. Dawn dish soap apparently strips that away and they die, and its not toxic to the ground or environment.
I put half a bottle of Dawn squirted into their hole at the bottom of the bush at night. I never saw another Yellowjack wasp.
- Comment on Anon plays World of Warcraft 2 months ago:
To me, there were two big issues with WoW. One was that people constantly wanted new buttons to push, so classes just kept getting more and more complicated to the point that while a MOBA might have 6 ability buttons you use regularly, WoW might have 15ish, with another 20 that are situational.
We disagree on this point. I liked 20 situational ones. It made for finding edge cases where a spell or ability was critical and a game changer. While I normally played on an RP server, I would frequenly run around with my PvP flag on allowing myself to be attacked by other players. On a Warlock class, one of the “most useless” summoned pets was the Felhound. However, because almost no one used a Felhound, no one knew how they fought. It was extremely satisfying to be out in world doing a PvE question only be jumped by a casting player that suddenly lost them abilty to cast when the Felhound activated, or when the theif is walking up to you in stealth only to be outted by the felhoud that could see through it.
Not having the many obscure options was what prevented me from really getting into Guild Wars that only had 2 actions at a time when I played it.
The other one is just that the story keeps collapsing under its own weight. Increasingly it’s a personal story – it’s not that you’re an adventurer and participated in an event that saved the planet. You’re the individual person who saved the planet (and so is everybody else in the game). And then, because this expansion is over, you, the individual who saved the planet, has to go kill 20 boars on this newly discovered island where apparently boars are as tough as gods. Nobody on this island recognizes you as the hero who saved the planet, so you need to build your reputation up again, and eventually you get to fight the newest god who is destroying the planet.
This didn’t bother me either. With the 20 and 40 person raids, you were one of many that accomplished the goal. For the individual quests, it made sense to me that new lands wouldn’t know you or your exploits. Its not like there is regular newspapers or internet in game the NPCs read.
It sounds like we had different things we wanted from the game. I’m glad that the things that annoyed me were things that others found value in.
- Comment on OSHA Approved Kittypillar 2 months ago:
OSHA inspector: “No PPE. I’m filing this as a violation.”
- Comment on Anon plays World of Warcraft 2 months ago:
Because you had so much fun in the game or because college was (or would in the future) serving you so poorly?
- Comment on Anon plays World of Warcraft 2 months ago:
I went looking for the book and couldn’t find it. I only found his novels. I’m on the fence about trying to find/read the book. I carry some personal shame from the time when I wasted so much time in WoW.
- Comment on Anon plays World of Warcraft 2 months ago:
In 2004 (the launch year) the original WoW was an amazing time I lost and entire year of professional growth and productivity to. When the first expansion (Burning Crusade) came out, I was equally excited as as the original launch, but after seeing Green gear fall of simple mobs that was better than the epic Purple gear I spent weeks getting in 40 person raids, I could instantly forecast how the entire rest of the game would be forever: and endless grind with your hard won efforts simply trivialized in the first month of the next expansion. I stopped playing WoW about a month after, went back to school instead, and finished the college degree I had started 8 years earlier. Quitting WoW lead to my actions which launched my career to new heights.
I credit WoW with teaching me an incredible life lesson in my 20s to never get drawn into something like that again.
- Comment on Anon plays World of Warcraft 2 months ago:
Is Barons chat still and endless spam of people asking for the location of Mankrik’s wife?
- Comment on How come Mark Wahlberg got a pass for being the crap out of a Vietnamese guy. But Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby, Weinstein, do not get a pass? Beside the sexual aspect what is the difference? 2 months ago:
When Wahlberg assaulted people when he as 15 and 16 years old. That doesn’t excuse the behavior, but 15/16 year olds aren’t adults. Wahlberg also went to the police and claimed responsibility for the attack. He then plead guilty in court and served time. It still bothers me how racially motivated it was and for that I would personally always have disdain for Wahlberg.
Cosby was 28 years old for his first time of rape allegations. There would be more than a dozen other women that came forward with reports. The most recent was Feb of 2000 when Cosby was then 63 years old.
Spacy and Weinstein also did their horrible acts as fully formed adults and had a repeated pattern of doing them again and again to people they had power over.
- Comment on heater 2 months ago:
You’re going to be even more angry to learn that your apartment neighbor is using the shared building power to run an industrial aluminum smelter on his balcony as his side hustle.
- Comment on Where it stops, nobody knows 2 months ago:
Careful, you mind end up like this:
