FuglyDuck
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 1 day ago:
A rude idiot!
- Comment on What is the sartorial function of that flap your zipper keeps getting caught in? 4 days ago:
Shrinkage is no joke!
- Comment on Why don't urban/suburban streets and roads use a center storm channel? 1 week ago:
First, if the road floods, that would push drain clogging debris into the road, not away from it, and while many roads can operate a slight clog at the side, it becomes more problematic at the center.
Secondly, if it does clog, regardless if it was from a flood or just litter flowing into it with normal rain, some one has to go unclog it.
That someone would then either have to shut down both directions or be at risk of being hit from both directions.
Third, with the way roads are constructed, it would be a lot more expensive to design the sewers to either tolerate the loads (imagine a big heavy truck,) or burry it deep enough that the load is distributed around it anyways.
Fourth, maintenance. If something happens where you need to dig up your sewer, putting it to the side means you’re not also digging up the road. The reverse is also true.
Fifth, in freezing conditions, you don’t really want the water pooling in the center… you want it to the side, at least before it freeze back into ice.
- Comment on Why can’t we swap our minds today? 1 week ago:
the human brain has roughly 100 billion neurons.
These neurons have roughly 10-1000 trillion synaptic connections between them. Connections that are always shifting and changing.
the human brain isn’t a computer; you can’t just read them like you can a hard drive or memory stick… what we can do is read changes that represent certain kinds of thoughts like moving certain muscle groups or learning to move a mouse pointer; and that’s pretty much it. we have no way of ‘reading’ memories stored in those connections, not even on an individual basis; never mind at the scale and fault-tolerance that would be necessary to ensure that it was roughly the same person coming out the other end.
And then there’s the ethical implications.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 week ago:
Okay. Lots of reasons.
Another is it’s funny and fun and memorable.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 week ago:
It helps in this situation, where the instructions are unclear and thinking through the process in a logical manner.
- Comment on Don't tempt me with a good time. 1 week ago:
Enough to make it sudsy? Probably about like for blowing bubbles?
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 week ago:
Fortunately, kids aren’t quite clever in that way.
- Comment on Don't tempt me with a good time. 1 week ago:
You can make reusable ice packs with some liquid dish soap, water, and a hand towel/big towel and some type of ziplock bag; though the vacuum seal food bags are much more reliable.
The dish soap allows it to remain pliable so it can be molded into you. And the custom sizes and shapes allow you to place it usefully- big flat ones on the spine is ooo-la-la. If you need to cool off in a hurry? Long ones under the arm pits, shins, fore arms and around thighs, too.
Easy change is a longer, some what wide shape that you can fold around your neck, kinda like a scarf.
- Comment on What can be done to prevent more dangerous heatwaves in Europe? 1 week ago:
Sorry. But this comment made me think of this:
Anyway? We’re fucked and the game now is to mitigate and adapt.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 week ago:
There’s a reason school teachers are now doing that exercise where they have kids list instructions on how to make a pb&j, and then following them exactly.
- Comment on Has anyone ever actually had their vehicle tabs stolen? 1 week ago:
Yup. The only reason places still use them is to give yet another pretext for stopping people.
Same, for example, the little dinky plate lamp being out, or failing to signal for the proper distance (a few hundred feet, usually.)
- Comment on Has anyone ever actually had their vehicle tabs stolen? 1 week ago:
You were almost certainly getting towed regardless of your registration status. It takes maybe five minutes to slap a parking ticket on a car. Typical response time for towing is typically north of 30 minutes unless there’s some type of “it’s dangerous” involved.
That truck was there when they started their round. Probably because they were having problems with people overstaying. (Or they’re dicks.)
- Comment on Has anyone ever actually had their vehicle tabs stolen? 1 week ago:
Real talk: the cops only look at the stickers if they want an excuse to pull you over.
For every thing else they run your plates- and usually before they even do that much. If your registration is current, then, they may just be letting you know they got ripped off, or checking if your drunk or just incredibly bored.
That said… if someone goes to the trouble of peeling off a sticker, it’s not going to do all that much good, and probably catch them more charges than just being unregistered.
(More likely they’d steal the entire plates. Particularly one from a similar car to yours- color, make, model, year, etc.)
- Comment on There is a heat wave going hard, please stay hydrated 1 week ago:
I don’t really track it closely but I typically do 3-4 liters a day in addition to whatever caffeine carrier fits the day (coffee, soda, e-drink)
- Comment on Is this a fox or coyote? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Is this a fox or coyote? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Can the defendant still be summoned even if they reside overseas beyond the jurisdiction of the crime? 2 weeks ago:
Indictment is not a conviction, or trial.
it’s the process of formally charging someone with a crime- for example, a grand jury trial is not a “trial” in the sense that guilt is determined- evidence is provided by a prosecutor to a jury panel and they determine if there’s probable cause to go forward with the criminal trial. And your lawyer or representation isn’t even present for that.
- Comment on Can the defendant still be summoned even if they reside overseas beyond the jurisdiction of the crime? 2 weeks ago:
most reasonable jurisdictions mandate that you’re able to face and challenge your accusers, which kinda requires your presence at trial. but it’s still physically possible for trials in absentia to happen. It’s just usually only done by assholes.
that said, warrants for arrest can be posted with people anywhere. Summons can also happen, but aren’t necessarily enforceable. At least, they wouldn’t be enforceable until you showed up in that jurisdiction. Many places have extradition treaties, and those treaties would also (probably) detail how subpoenas (for documents/information/etc) happen.
- Comment on After updating CachyOS, I am unable to play games as easily as before. How do I fix it? 2 weeks ago:
Use :
pacman -Q —infoto see what was recently updated.Then roll back the updated packages using -U. You should still have the old version downloaded- usually in /var/cache/pacman and you can point to the version you want. But you’ll have to figure out which package did it or roll them all back.
- Comment on What's a word for "I actively endorse it for others even though I dislike it”? 2 weeks ago:
“It’s gnome” expresses this just fine.
Everyone hates it. The people that use it just hate themselves more.
(Excuse me while I hide from the angry people with pitchforks. lol.)
- Comment on This is gonna go just fine 💯 2 weeks ago:
fair.
but also it leads to my headcanon that Anakin was actually using the force to dominate her mind. (maybe subconsciously, but maybe not.)
- Comment on How far back into the human/mammal family tree does one think we would have to go to find a genetic relative that doesn't give a whit about how good their hair looks ? 4 weeks ago:
Chimps have been observed using bits of straw as jewelry, so I imagine at least our last common ancestor.
- Comment on Buzz off 4 weeks ago:
Please tell me you’re not in the PNW. I thought we had eradicated the fuckers on this side of the big pond.
(sorry about the tree though. that sucks.)
- Comment on Can energy be associated with/related to spacetime ? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, that sort of depends on the level of physics you’re talking about. regardless, it’s still a property of stuff even if that stuff is not always matter. if you want to go off on the weeds on that, go for it.
even so, energy is not something that exists, but a quantified attribute of things that do exist.
- Comment on Buzz off 4 weeks ago:
Asian giant hornet, yeah.
Aka the MuRdEr hornet
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
most people are too ignorant to understand the problems with AI or that the bill that will be coming due. they just like that the chatbot glazes them. It’s addictive.
they don’t know that AI consumes shitloads of water and other energy, is driving the cost of computing (ram, GPUs, etc.) up, and is too stupid, that if you just keep pressing it will totally tell you that killing yourself is an insightful and brilliant solution to whatever problem you’re trying to solve.
And then there’s the people that are making these things- scumbuckets. all of them are scumbuckets and most are fucking nazis.
And then there’s the concerns about social manipulation and propaganda.
- Comment on Buzz off 4 weeks ago:
I think we can all agree this fucker deserves some hate, though: Image
- Comment on On an open source platform, I'm supposed to be able to change my username/display name, right ? 4 weeks ago:
“Open source” means that the code they used to build software is freely and publicly available. (And more broadly, if any given IP is released to the public.)
It says nothing about how user accounts are managed on a given platform, even if that platform is open source.
- Comment on Can energy be associated with/related to spacetime ? 4 weeks ago:
