BartyDeCanter
@BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Take your pick: oil, trumps feeling were hurt by the Peace Prize committee, oil, trump trying to shore up support, oil, trump seeing just how much he can get away with, trumps ego, and maybe oil.
- Comment on Hold on a second... 6 days ago:
I’m pretty certain the this image is an AI retouch of this origional (click on the source for a much higher res version). It looks like it changed his nose, the texture of his skin, his outfit and a bunch of misc small stuff. Completely unnecessary slop.
- Comment on Hold on a second... 6 days ago:
Where did you get “he must be a woman” out of that?
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 1 week ago:
Oh! Planet Money just did a really good episode on this exact topic.
It’s complicated and I recommend a full listen to the episode, but the big two reasons are:
- The cost of building out all the new infrastructure is partially paid for by the data centers, but the majority is paid by all customers.
- The demand for electricity is growing much faster than supply can be built.
Those two, combined with the deregulation in most markets, has meant that the price for everyone is going up.
- Comment on Serial killer 1 week ago:
Taking a look at the bottom circuit, the killers on the left have the supply voltage across them, as does the resistive load. The ones on the right have fuck all going on, so may be a Magic Switch.
- Comment on Anon questions some decisions 1 week ago:
- Comment on Anon questions some decisions 1 week ago:
The planet getting hotter is a distraction from the oppression of the non-billionaires.
- Comment on How solar panels generate electricity 3 weeks ago:
They’ve gotten cheap, in fact, that the panels are sometimes less expensive than the labor and mounting hardware.
- Comment on Can't stop till brimstone 3 weeks ago:
“Salting the Earth” is an idiom that references possibly apocryphal stories of ancient warfare where an invading army would literally put large amounts of salt or salt water in the enemy’s fields so that they wouldn’t be able to grow crops. This was done to make sure that the population couldn’t rebuild and become a threat in the future. Nowadays it is used to mean that someone is making really, really sure that something is destroyed and not coming back.
- Comment on Piano man 1 month ago:
What?!? Someone played with the English language in order to make lyrics rhyme and scan? How terrible!! glances at Shakespeare
- Comment on Interesting 1 month ago:
Whenever my ex was low on gas she would park in the driveway in such a fashion as to block me in so I would have to move her car and probably end up just taking it in to work and get gas on the way home.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I mean, I’m pretty upset that I won’t be able to see a living pentaceratops, seismosaurus, or T-Rex. So, no, I think it’s fine.
- Comment on Valves first title with a 3 in it 1 month ago:
I know you’re joking, and that would be enough to get me to buy one even though I don’t really have a use case for it.
- Comment on How far you've fallen 1 month ago:
Fucking steam web helper. I’ll have locked my desktop machine and switched my KVM to my work laptop when suddenly the fans spin up. I switch back over and it’s multiple steam processes each using a full core. WTF?!? I’m looking up how to have the lock screen also ‘kill all -9 steam’ to keep it from happening.
- Comment on Is that a fucking threat 2 months ago:
I think it’s Wil Wheaton.
- Comment on card game shop 2 months ago:
Or even unscented.
- Comment on plump pumkins 2 months ago:
Sure is a good thing that you don’t have any hobbies that use any resources whatsoever otherwise you’d seem awfully hypocritical complaining about someone with a checks notes gardening hobby.
- Comment on What’s wrong, babe? You barely touched your Spaghetacos 2 months ago:
It’s all good, most of the US doesn’t remember that NM is a state.
- Comment on What’s wrong, babe? You barely touched your Spaghetacos 2 months ago:
Like I’m from the US state New Mexico.
- Comment on What’s wrong, babe? You barely touched your Spaghetacos 2 months ago:
New Mexican here. Get some green chile on there and it’ll be fine.
- Comment on FUCK 2 months ago:
Relevant XKCD, because there’s always an XKCD for that.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Not at all. Until roughly 150-200 years ago infant and childhood mortality was almost 50% worldwide, which of course massively brings down the average lifespan. If someone made it to 20, they would probably make it to 60 and have a good chance of seeing 70 or more.
- Comment on Ibuprofen 3 months ago:
It’s my car ibuprofen and antacids , my work ibuprofen and antacids , and my home ibuprofen and antacids thank you very much.
- Comment on What is the difference between pansexual, bisexual, and omnisexual? How do I know which one I am? 3 months ago:
Slightly joking, slightly not: Bi means you’re over 35, Pan means you’re under 35 and Omni means you’re thought about it too much.
- Comment on We keep the entomologists in the basement. 3 months ago:
What the fuck?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Typical rule I’ve seen is don’t date anyone younger than half your age + seven, so for your friend that would be 16. So, it’s right on the borderline.
- Comment on How do phone scammers work? I get them trying to get another persons money. But how do they get all the info and now can do voice fakes. I highly doubt they just pick a random person and say fuck them 4 months ago:
It’s really depends on the scam, but some of them really do pick a random person. Or, rather the autodialer/autotexter that they are using does. I’ve gotten several scam texts in the last week fishing for info.
Further, there is a lot of into out on the web. Some is just an easy look up for name and adddres from a phone number, other data is pulled from breaches that ends up public or for sale.
- Comment on Not stealing 4 months ago:
So true. I have two and they’re complete opposites. Every single thing that one is easy about the other is hard. I thought that the second would be easier because I learned some things from the first, but every lesson was useless.
- Comment on Not stealing 4 months ago:
I’m so feeling this this morning. I asked the 4yo if he wanted cereal or yogurt for breakfast. He screams “I’m not hungry! I want mama!”, runs to his room and slams the door. Two minutes later he comes out and punches me in the dick while I’m making lunches.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 4 months ago:
Considering the names of the types of quarks, I recommend renaming them genderinos.