chiliedogg

@chiliedogg@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pens in Space⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Sharpen the pencil and create a bunch of tiny shavings then put them in a pure O² environment. They’ll light up real fast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space Quarry⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  JJ Abrams aimed the camera.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make gravity your bitch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There goes all our bragging about humanity’s physical superpower being endurance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well at least there’s not a fuckton of methane hydrates on the ocean floor that are now releasing a greenhouse gas 30 times more potent than CO2 refrom the ocean floor as the water gets warmer. And that isn’t a self-feeding loop that means it’s probably too late to save ourselves now.

  Because that would be bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Creative Curse⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They could crack down more on pirated Photoshop, but they don’t want to.

  The money is in the commercials licensing, and people who can’t afford Creative Cloud pirating it and learning it is good for them when they need software for work later.

  I’m a massive fan of FOSS. For my GIS work, I use QGIS over ESRI. For 3D modeling, I use Blender. For streaming video, I use OBS. Many FOSS solutions are extremely polished, and even for those that are clunky, they can be made to do what you need with a little work.

  But when it comes to photo editing, the reality is Adobe’s overpriced market leaders also happen to be far and away the best products. It’s not even close. Photoshop and Lightroom are untouched by the competition, paid or free. They’re simply excellent products that provide functionality that isn’t replicated elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is unfair!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Sir, that is all you can eat for $15.99”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peak Trump Performance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer this to when he went to France and called servicemen killed at Normandy losers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon orders food⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was told blue looks good on me by a girl.

  10 years later, most of my shirts are blue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon takes an exam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a professor in my government and private organizations interactions class who was clear that he’d never given a “true” 100% on a paper before and was confident they never would. They’d just adjust it so that the best paper would get bumped to 100, and everyone else would get the same bump. So if the best was what he’d consider an 85, everyone would get a 15 point bump.

  He was essentially making the point that the subject was too complex. I took it to mean that he was a harsh grader and expected way too much out of students.

  Later that semester, I had a paper and presentation in which I decided, stupidly, to try and map out the history of the intersection between corporate personhood and campaign finance. I basically wanted to bitch about Citizens United (this was in like 2013).

  So I started with Citizens United and worked my way back through Supreme Court cases tracking precedent. I got a little obsessed because I actually found it fascinating, and I ended up having like 25 SCOTUS cases summarized across over 200 years and before I knew it, I had a 60-page paper.

  At that point, I knew it was way too long (there had been a 10-page minimum), but I was out of time, so instead of editing it down I just had to turn it in at 11:59pm. My presentation was like 20 minutes in which I was rushed, and I felt pretty bad about it.

  The next week the professor came in and opened with 2 announcements. 1 was that there was now a 15-page limit on any papers, and that for the first time in 35 years he’d given a “true” 100. Because of the presentation I’d done, everyone knew it was me that blew the curve, so I didn’t know whether to be proud, embarrassed, or scared about it.

  The laptop I wrote the paper on was stolen a few months later and I didn’t have a backup of the paper, which is a shame because I’d love to read it today and see if it really was good, or if I just wore him out with citations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roommates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My parents have been married for nearly 50 years. My Dad likes to introduce her as “my first wife.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rocky rock rocking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everybody arguing rock, stone, or pebble.

  It’s a jpeg.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horror⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to see how that cane works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flushing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please tell me they flushed the signs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's just eccentric⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Autism has always been here. But instead of labeling someone as autistic and trying to improve understanding and communication, people were like, “That’s a weird dude.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It also feels like something Kavenaugh would have been into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in CA for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. The woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor with 16,000 citations.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Citation” is one of those words that’s always important but has very different meanings.

  I work in a government position where I both make code citations in public notices and plan review, and also issue citations summoning people to court for violation of city ordinances.And in my academic past I was published for research on stormwater discharge, so I also have my share of citations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bernard⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The end part about Americans traveling the world being respected again in 2010 is really depressing in 2025.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World travelers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So the coconuts migrated, but the majority population of many of the islands were taken there as cargo?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I grew up around guns. I was shooting 22s early like you, had a compact shotgun by the age of 10, etc.

  We didn’t live in the country, so while we had guns in the house, we did NOT have ammunition in the house until I was 15 or so, just in case me or my sister ever decided to play with a gun. We bought ammo on the way to the range or the hunt, and anything we didn’t shoot was given to a family member.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 50 TV Shows Of All Time Ranked by the most known sources of ratings like IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic etc. Agree?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of this is fairly recent, and I think it’s all available to stream pretty easily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Type C⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Techically true. The “Adaptive Fast Charging” was a 2014 15-25W standard from Samsung that could be delivered over Type A.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So the cost of like one class in the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I work for a city where the stupid-rich live. Their houses are NUTS. I recently approved construction of a 5,000sft guest house with a rooftop tennis court. We have over a dozen houses in active construction that cost over 15 million dollars, and no new structures being built under 4 million.

  We actually have standards in our development code regarding servant’s quarters. And the most important thing to know about those standards is that they’re required to be smaller than the minimum allowable size for guest quarters. Can’t have the Servant’s getting all uppity.

  But the thing is, they pay very little in taxes as a portion of their wealth. They have enough political power that they founded a 4mi^2 enclave as its own city entirely surrounded by a major city. They also managed to get their own school district. As a result, they have some of the lowest taxes in the state. Someone with a 7 million dollar house here will pay the same amount of money in property taxes as someone with a half-million dollar condo 2 miles away, because the rates for the school district and city for the wealthy are so low.

  For utility districys, they get out of paying property tax by having the city provide it directly without a WCID by contracting to the major city next door that gives them the utilities at a loss to keep the rich assholes happy and supplying campaign donations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The most plausible way is a short-term boycott for like 2 weeks at the end of their fiscal reporting period. You want the rebound not to be reflected in the quarterly report so it fucks with the share prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The house was about 180 when they bought it, then climbed in value over time to the point they had to move due to taxes. The combination of city, county, 2 separate MUDs, school, ESD, health district, and other taxes didn’t help either.

  The school taxes alone were nearly 2% of the value of their home. When your home quaruples in valueshoppingthe area around you gets ritzy, that adds up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For the city. Then double the city rate for the school district, then add some more for the MUDs and the County and the Health district and the Emergency services district. Shit adds up fast, and when you buy a house new for 180 grand and a few years later it’s valued at 700 grand, you have to move because you can no longer afford to pay the taxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really not that crazy in some areas.

  They had municipal taxes, county taxes, school district taxes (when massive school bonds pass every single year without fail that one can really add up), emergency service district taxes, Water District taxes, Healthcare District taxes.

  That shit adds up when the value of your property doubles every 3 years like it has been doing in Texas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the thing about increasing home prices nobody talks about. It increases the “value” of your home, so you’re taked more.

  When my parents retired, they didn’t move out to the country to get away from the city life. They did it because it saved them 40 grand a year in property taxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As I’ve grown older and busier, I now prefer shorter games. Even when I intentionally try to play games, I may get 2-3 hours a week most weeks. A 100-hour campaign takes me a year to play through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys have to end it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love my automatic transmission and cruise control, but I do think that I may have been a better driver when I drove stick. By necessity, I had to pay closer attention to the road than I have to today.