BlameThePeacock
@BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
- Comment on What phones are the government people using that are supposedly secure enough to discuss war plans? iPhone? Android? Some special custom-made phone specifically for the government? 2 days ago:
News flash, your assumption that they’re using secure phones is false.
- Comment on how tf do you warm up plates? 2 days ago:
If you want to use the microwave for this, pop in a plate with some water, then heat it up for 1-2 minutes, take it out with something that doesn’t absorb water (or the hot water will wick through the material to your hand and burn you) dump the water in the sink and quickly wipe with a dish towel to dry before using.
Other methods include warming it in an oven set very low, or heating it in hot water from a sink or kettle.
In a restaurant, they may just grab a plate that has just come out of the dishwasher since industrial dishwashers are really fucking hot.
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to a therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 1 week ago:
I do not recommend this Van gogh method
- Comment on How are batteries recycled? 1 week ago:
The simplified answer is, they get shredded, then various processes both physical and chemical are taken to extract the important materials and the rest is disposed of. Often certain metals will dissolve in specific acids or chemicals, then you can take that liquid with the specifically dissolved metal and precipitate it out.
- Comment on Why are autistic people so odd?? 1 week ago:
The simple answer is that their brain doesn’t work the same as a neurotypical person.
The question is like asking why driving a motorcycle is different than driving a car. They just function differently.
- Comment on Does not the constitution say something one should not be charged or something to vote? If so then why does my home state charge 50$ to get a regular id to vote? Is that no illegal? 1 week ago:
Loopholes baby!
- Comment on How much of a risk is it for naturalized US Citizens (or those with Derivative Citizenship) to protest against the US government, compared to natural-born US Citizens? 1 week ago:
www.uscis.gov/…/volume-12-part-l-chapter-2
Here’s the US rules for revocation of Naturalized Citizenship. It sounds like the OP has been naturalized for longer than 5 years, so essentially there is no way to do it anymore unless they had originally obtained it fraudulently.
The UK laws are actually a lot more lax in terms of reasons to revoke than these.
- Comment on How much of a risk is it for naturalized US Citizens (or those with Derivative Citizenship) to protest against the US government, compared to natural-born US Citizens? 1 week ago:
A green card is not citizenship, Naturalized means they have full citizenship.
- Comment on How much of a risk is it for naturalized US Citizens (or those with Derivative Citizenship) to protest against the US government, compared to natural-born US Citizens? 1 week ago:
You’re fine for now. Keep protesting, but keep your head in the game if they government starts changing their tactics.
They are going to go after “violent” situations first, so try to avoid those.
- Comment on How would we choose a "world language" in a fair way, for a hypothetical one world government? 2 weeks ago:
We could never agree.
We tried creating a new one called Esperanto, it didn’t work out either.
- Comment on Nothing against disabled people but how come I can't replace my arm with something augmented that can carry more weight? Also other parts? My disabled bro asked me this and got me thinking 2 weeks ago:
While you wait, I suggest reading the book called Machine Man by Max Barry which is a fictional story about a person doing just that.
- Comment on would getting back with an ex be a bad idea? 2 weeks ago:
He’s going to do it again, you’re being delusional if you think he will change in the next few years.
Move on.
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 3 weeks ago:
What do you think buying $200 worth of honey will save you?
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 3 weeks ago:
You’re likely better off investing the same amount of money.
Buying it all now is betting that inflation will be higher than your investment return over the next 40 years. That’s not a good bet unless the world literally collapses.
- Comment on Voice actors speak out on AI in video games 3 weeks ago:
It’s only not happening because companies aren’t going to do it on their own, the government needs to force it to happen, and the people need to force the government.
- Comment on Voice actors speak out on AI in video games 3 weeks ago:
I automate business processes across multiple industries (not using AI currently)
My retirement fund looks crap, I’m worried about all of this too but it’s still a terrible idea to try to retain a job when it’s no longer necessary. Just tax the company a little bit less than they saved, and pay people to go enjoy their lives.
- Comment on Voice actors speak out on AI in video games 3 weeks ago:
You won’t even notice when it’s done right. We’re still in early days at the moment where you can actually tell.
You have fun checking the fine print on every future game just to make sure they haven’t used it.
- Comment on Voice actors speak out on AI in video games 3 weeks ago:
While we’re at it, we should also go after all the car companies for putting so many horse stables out of business. IBM for putting computers (this was a job title for humans before it was done by machine) out of jobs.
and a million other situations where technology has replaced a particular type of worker
- Comment on Who gets all the tariff money about to be collected from US citizens buying products from Canada? 3 weeks ago:
The US government, that’s how import tariffs work.
- Comment on This Modular Phone Concept Is Xiaomi’s Plan to Kill the Camera Bump 3 weeks ago:
There’s zero chance this catches on, nobody wants to get rid of a camera bump badly enough to carry around a second device.
- Comment on What's easier to shoot, a bow or a firearm? 3 weeks ago:
Technically bows are also generally more quiet, but that’s a very small point most of the time.
- Comment on Why build for tomorrow when it's someone else's tomorrow? 3 weeks ago:
Not really how our monkey brains work generally. We’re biologically programmed to do lots of things, like want to have babies (or at least sex and not be smart about it) and to take care of them. Not everyone does a good job, but historically speaking it’s led to a population of a few hundred people turning into a few billion.
- Comment on How would a stateless society handle serious threats such as mass murder and terrorism? 4 weeks ago:
I mean, if you want a great example, Genghis Khan killed his half brother at 8 years old in order to “secure his family position” then went on to lose a bunch of battles, then win a bunch of wars and murder his way to the top of an empire.
If you don’t think that’s an example of strongest = leader, I don’t know what to tell you.
Modern cartel leaders are very similar in most cases, they’ve schemed, battled, and murdered their way to the top.
- Comment on How would a stateless society handle serious threats such as mass murder and terrorism? 4 weeks ago:
In wolves it’s fake, in humans it’s quite accurate.
It still exists today so don’t tell me it was never a case of the strongest = leader. Drug cartels are effectively states, and ruled by extreme violence (even internally)
Even if your argument were accurate, that would be considered a state. A group of people agreeing on rules together is a state.
Like I said, with few enough people and it could be considered “not a state” but there isn’t any realistic way to have a stateless society of even tens of thousands of people, let alone the millions and billions of people that exist these days.
- Comment on How would a stateless society handle serious threats such as mass murder and terrorism? 4 weeks ago:
States did exist, just because it was the strongest man in the tribe declaring the rules arbitrarily didn’t make it not a state.
- Comment on How would a stateless society handle serious threats such as mass murder and terrorism? 4 weeks ago:
It wouldn’t.
Stateless societies don’t work, that’s why despite thousands of years of recorded history, we don’t have any record of one ever succeeding.
Even just having a village elder who decides disputes is a form of state. Hell, having parents who decide the rules in a family is a form of state.
- Comment on Is there a less stinky way to cook broccoli? 4 weeks ago:
Broccoli is great raw, why cook it?
- Comment on Is there a less stinky way to cook broccoli? 4 weeks ago:
This is the single best answer if it needs to be cooked.
- Comment on I’m probably no longer center-left. If you could decide from my thinking, what political affiliation should I research to see if it fits me? 4 weeks ago:
“it’s simply not my problem”
Yes it is
- Comment on Stars Reach Kickstarter Launched (and already funded) 4 weeks ago:
Fair, but in this case, it’s Raph Koster. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raph_Koster
He was Creative Director for the original SWG, and then Chief Creative Officer under Sony once they bought it.
He also was a lead designer for Ultima Online before that, and did work on multiple other games (Including EQ2) afterwards.