FuglyDuck
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
- Comment on Are the inside parts of toilets universal? 1 day ago:
I’m so glad I’m not the only one with an overly active imagination!
- Comment on Are the inside parts of toilets universal? 1 day ago:
Incinerator toilets?
- Comment on I have been told ever since I was a little shit that when you die you go to heaven first wait in line for St Peter to judge you at the pearly gates? Is this in the Bible? I thought god did judging 1 day ago:
So, Peter at the gates comes from a more or less literal interpretation from the passage where Jesus was making Peter the first pope. “To you I hand the keys to the kingdom of heaven….”
What Jesus was saying is that Peter got to decide who was in the Blood Ritual Cannibal Club,
Keep in mind, the books were written well after Jesus died, and the scriptures weren’t canonized until 300 years later; at the council of Nicaea- which was called specifically to “unify” the church. A lot of the choices about what was canon or not was specifically made to protect the bulk of the bishop’s authority (by drawing a straight lineage of succession from Peter.)
- Comment on A guy just got arrested in Houston US for allegedly being an ISIS member. I grew up in Reagan and 911 era are these people just saying this or are they actively buying bombs? 2 days ago:
Everybody talks about Hitlers camps, nobody talks about America doing the EXACT SAME THING, ROUGHLY AT THE SAME TIME!!!
Not that the internment camps were or are defensible, but we weren’t gasing Japanese Americans or driving them out by the truck/trainload and shooting them in the woods.
Yes, some died in the camps- roughly 1,600, but none through and intentional and concerted effort to exterminate an entire race, with the number of Jews dying in nazis germany roughly 6,000,000.
You don’t need to be hyperbolic. The internment camps were bad enough on their own; but they were not the same as the holocaust.
- Comment on What should I bring to far-north Scandinavia? 2 days ago:
If you can, ask someone already there. Depending on the exact type of work, they may have very specific recommendations, and they’ll have a better idea of what the climate is like than we will.
In general, you’ll want to be able to layer clothing. Start with the base layer, whose job is to be wicking away sweat.
Mid layers are for insulation, and it would be prudent to get one light sweater and one heavier sweater, maybe a third or whatever. The idea being you can increase your mid layers to stay warm but not too warm as necessary. Same for pants. Around here, I usually go for a tight base layer, a loser waffle-weave longjohns and shell blouses into boots.
Patagonia makes some good, hard wearing stuff as a general brand to check out, but there far from the only one.
Hats and gloves are important, too and for gloves I’d consider getting mittens at least as one option and maybe lighter fingerless gloves to wear inside. (Or lighter gloves. Especially if it’s possible you’ll need manual dexterity)
- Comment on To deter predators... 4 days ago:
And the peppers that troll the fuck out of your temperature receptors?
- Comment on pod racing 4 days ago:
Remind me again, which ones are the ones that do the exploding thing?
I’ll be betting on that one for the 100m dash.
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 4 days ago:
I have to assume some of them are fiction.
mostly because it seems a little improbable. Like turning skin transparent? … why…?
- Comment on somebody has to do it! 4 days ago:
It should be noted that, aside from petty human concerns like flooded roads and properties, beavers are much better at controlling flooding and generally protecting ecologies than humans.
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 4 days ago:
Go watch Fringe. It’s probably one of those.
- Comment on Hidden razor blades 4 days ago:
I use muhle’s open comb head with feather blades.
Can’t go back to cartridge shavers.
(And for the love of all that is holy people, dump the goop. TOBS cream, or even the expensive French soaps like Martin D’Candre are less expensive per shave and just better.)
- Comment on Come to the Deep Sea!! 5 days ago:
Somebody who actually knows what they’re talking about can correct me here, but I’m pretty sure those are the tentacles, with the grabby things on the end- and in the foreground… because it was annoyed at the sub/rov. (And may have punched it.)
(“grabby things” is a highly technical term.)
- Comment on Come to the Deep Sea!! 5 days ago:
It’s the Humbolts you gotta be worried about. These guys mostly just lurk and silently judge your music choices.
- Comment on Come to the Deep Sea!! 5 days ago:
Dennis is the cool neighbor that always shares his weed. And the squid is a master mixologist who’s just waiting to take your order.
The, glowy rope thing… kinky, but seriously not worth it.
- Comment on if you workout and run, would you recommend a merino wool base or mid layer for autumn/winter? or am I going to break it? 5 days ago:
Wool should not be a base layer, but in the mid-layers. It can be a decent shell in lightning, and felt can hold against light rains (and will stay warm even if it does get soaked.)
Merino wool can be considerably less scratchy than lower-quality wool; alternatively wool blends will also be better (“smart wool”).
As a material, it can be quite hard wearing if it’s made sturdy. That’s less about the material and more about how it’s made.
You might want to consider a shell layer that’s wind proof, but for fall, a light sweater and a shell while active should be enough unless it’s ghastly out. (Cold and rainy. That shit seeps; and nothing wholesome ever seeps.)
Remember the critical thing is to dress in layers so you can adapt.
- Comment on In the event you believe a contract killer is in breach of contract, who adjudicates? 5 days ago:
Considering that Craigslist is all a bunch of feebs moonlighting, contract disputes can get uncomfortable.
- Comment on In the event you believe a contract killer is in breach of contract, who adjudicates? 5 days ago:
This is why you go with the assassins guild. They ensure it gets done, because their reputation is on the line.
Just saying.
- Comment on my idiot friend printed parts of my 3d printed gun experiment with pla instead of abs 5 days ago:
Not really. Most CF filaments are PLA with a chopped strand fibers added in, and the strength gains are marginal.
You can get CF-impregnated ABS/ASA but it’s really hard to work with and liable to be weaker unless you get everything perfect.
Ultimately the best approach is to go the same route as the Defcad people, printing the lower receiver of an AR and paying cash for the rest (or maybe also stock and frame. The important bits line the breach block, barrel and other things that get hot would still be metal.)
The thing with that is that the LR is technically “the firearm” as far as the ATF is concerned.
- Comment on What positive things do you expect from Trumps upcoming four years? 1 week ago:
I don’t really see him living for another 4 years. I expect his diet, lack of exercise and excess of bike to kill him off; assuming some whackadoodle doesn’t get to him first.
It that I’d really mind; he did spend the last eight spewing violent rhetoric.
- Comment on Which language was spoken in ancient empire armies ? 1 week ago:
oh, it’s definitely standardized, no doubt. But people are people, and some of them are going to call out as it’s familiar to them, and in some sort of urgent response… you’re not going to get too confused at the German guy reading off grid coordinates as ‘24-Richard Wilhelm Theodor…’ to get to a particular random stretch of the Atlantic. (using the MGRS coordinates. 24RWT)
but most of my point was that’s not an actual language; you’re still going to have to designate some language as the common language- and get enough understanding to at least be functional in that. it seems logical to just pick one… but, uh… well. humans aren’t very logical.
- Comment on Lab Assistant Jobs 1 week ago:
If I were really satan, I’d reverse the shrink ray and make centipedes large enough to ride. I bet they’d add it to the geneva conventions as a war crime.
- Comment on Lab Assistant Jobs 1 week ago:
hmmm. I think I’d go with centipedes. For sheer creep-factor. (more than 8 legs is just excessive.)
- Comment on Which language was spoken in ancient empire armies ? 1 week ago:
Though, it’d be fun to have some French guy be like “how Vulgar!” And not be calling me rude.
- Comment on Which language was spoken in ancient empire armies ? 1 week ago:
Good god no. Conjugation is bad enough in English. You don’t want know what my latin grammar is like.
- Comment on Which language was spoken in ancient empire armies ? 1 week ago:
Latin was the market language of Rome, and commanders/generals would have issued orders and received reports written in Latin.
Most soldiers would have spoken it, including the local auxiliaries that were conscripted. (Or at least a pidgin version of it.)
Even if the conscripts would speak whatever amongst themselves, they’d have understood Latin. (It’s also very likely that foreigners brought into the province would pickup at least a pidgin version of the local language.)
- Comment on US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true? 1 week ago:
look at how Biden talked about the economy.
After stabilizing from COVID, it took him 2 or 3 years to figure out and even acknowledge that inflation is killing people’s financial outlook.
The first mention of that at all was at the NATO thing right before he dropped out.
Sure, he was handed an absolute shit show by Trump; but the messaging was incredibly tone deaf about it.
Same tone deaf manner as the “we’re going to be okay” comment earlier. We don’t all have millions and 246k pension, free health care and 24/7 protection. We’re not okay now, and it’s not going to be fine.
- Comment on Trump's eligibility 1 week ago:
he hasn’t been charged/convicted of any of the relevant felonies that would preclude service, and nobody is going to make an issue of it; simply because all three branches of government are now under christofascist control. any lawsuits will go to SCROTUS, where they’ll just rubber stamp a decision and cite some bullshit.
also the 14th gives enforcement to congress, which won’t do anything either.
- Comment on I have a very strange question about washers, dryers and the Middle East. 1 week ago:
I suspect it has more to do with handedness- which is also partly why English and most western languages are written left-to-right in part because western writing systems were developed after ink or paint became the dominate means of writing over, for example, cuneiform clay or wax tablets. The reason for the switch was that ink would smudge in left-to-right.
In that regard, it might be “easier” to move things from left to right for most people (sorry lefties,) also most manufactures set it up to be moved in that direction and arrange the hinges to be set on that; and while it probably doesn’t really matter, it’s the order they went with. (for the record, you usually can have the doors swapped if you need to.)
- Comment on Calculatable 1 week ago:
They should have gone with Clear Line instead of Clear Entry, because CE could also be Clear Everything… which is wanna clear does.
- Comment on what is an "over-under" during sex? 1 week ago:
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