FuglyDuck
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
OP, if you’re not in a country with 9 digit phone numbers, then it’s almost certainly a spoofed typo.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Definitely. That’s duck math.
- Comment on For reference 3 days ago:
The shape and internal structure are different.
- Comment on Windows 11's inconsistency 3 days ago:
Wait…. You can get edge on Linux?!
TIL.
- Comment on if pure water is not conductive why would condensation be an issue for electronics? 4 days ago:
Not to mention, condensate is rarely pure water. At least, not by the time it’s chilling on the circuits. It’ll pick up any dust, and other stuff fairly quickly; making it not-pure. And conductive.
- Comment on It's My Nature 4 days ago:
It’s also used in Elite: Dangerous as a radio sign off, “Oh-Seven, Commander.” When you’re leaving the station and a few other scenarios.
Just tossing that out there because that was the first time I came across it.
- Comment on Windows 11's inconsistency 4 days ago:
<chuckles on linux> “he doesn’t know how to use the middle mouse button!”
(for people who may be unaware… in most linux distributions- all of them that I’ve used, and I’ve used a fair number; clicking middle mouse with cuts and pastes the text.)
- Comment on It's My Nature 4 days ago:
There’s an old fable about the frog and the scorpion.
Paraphrasing, the scorpion asked the frog to be carried over the river, because otherwise he’d drown. The frog was reluctant, saying “but you’ll sting me”.
To which, the scorpion says, “but then I’d drown! so I won’t do that”.
Persuaded, the frog agrees. As they were crossing the scorpion stings the frog, and the frog asks, “Why would you do that? now we both die!”
and the scorpion replied, “because it’s in my nature”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
“what was kiwifarm”, basically.
- Comment on Back up off my nuts 1 week ago:
Context?
- Comment on Does alcohol speed up evolution? 1 week ago:
It’s almost as if it were a joke.
- Comment on Does alcohol speed up evolution? 1 week ago:
I guess I was understating the slowness, lol.
I do wonder if it might not actually slow down evolutionary change by removing otherwise beneficial traits?
Probably not on the scheme of things. It’s not like alcoholic mums haven’t always been around.
- Comment on Does alcohol speed up evolution? 1 week ago:
The only “dinosaurs” that were around at the same time anything vaguely human was, was chickens and such other theropod descendants.
We, uh, ate them.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s a forums for the worst sort of troll, they target trans, people with disabilities and people who are neurodivergent, and also posted the manifesto of the asshole that shot up the mosque in Christchurch NZ.
- Comment on Does alcohol speed up evolution? 1 week ago:
None of the birth defects caused by boozing it up whilst pregnant affect the genetics of the child. it disrupts the development, and does not generally effect the genetic make up.
in short, fetal alcohol syndrome is not a heritable trait.
- Comment on SABER CROC 1 week ago:
Wanna bet this thing was basically just a really cuddly puppy?
(yeah. me neither. but I know a few we can let find out for the rest of us.)
- Comment on Polar bears 1 week ago:
Cocaine Bear 2: Land of the Fresh Powder.
- Comment on Why do we tolerate it that Luigi Mangione is being held in prison. We know its absolutely the least safe place he can be? 1 week ago:
Part of me wonders what discovery would come up with if they got access to united health’s database. If they want to go with the argument that it was justified; they probably could get at least some limited access.
Generally theyre not allowed to go on fishing expeditions, but they are allowed to seek documents and data directly pertaining to their defense (like a pattern of criminal malpractice.)
- Comment on Why do we tolerate it that Luigi Mangione is being held in prison. We know its absolutely the least safe place he can be? 1 week ago:
I mean he’s accused of premeditated murder, has the resources to flee, and I’m pretty sure “they” want a spectacle to make an example.
they wont let him get shanked by accident, and they wont Epstein him until they have their spectacle
- Comment on ETERNAL TORMENT 2 weeks ago:
Show this meme to a grammarian and they explode.
- Comment on Do you know any software development philosophy books? 2 weeks ago:
I dunno. What I’d suggest doing is going to the library and asking the librarians there.
I have never been steered wrong when it comes to book recommendations from librarians. Even when the books aren’t something I’d have picked on my own.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 2 weeks ago:
that’s jut it, though.
They’re not saying the 4 years is a loss. the producers outside of the US… they’re just going to ship to new markets, and when things get less insane, then they come back. that’s all they need to do. Spinning up production in the US is expensive, costly, and it’ll take more time to complete than the whole reason for it will last- presumably.
and if it lasts longer than four years, that’s probably going to be even worse, because then, well, yeah. the best case scenario is you get to write off all those losses. Worst case? it can get whole hell of a lot uglier as you lose IP and find yourself competing against your own designs.’
So trump’s tariffs is driving imports away and killing local development of production at the same time.
to put it in the simplest terms, it’s fucking stupid.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 2 weeks ago:
and you think that’s an argument to spin up new factories? not really.
If the US collapses into complete fascism, everyone inside is either going to be cut off from the global market. for a foreign company, spinning up factories in the US, when, in four years, they might literally get those investments yeeted from them is stupid. and that’s really the best case.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 2 weeks ago:
I submit we should go to a d20, and say roll a nat 21.
with this die: Image
(sorry, if I don’t laugh, I’m going to cry.)
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 2 weeks ago:
why? it costs millions of dollars to construct new factories. Maybe billions, depending on the industry. It takes 7+ years to bring a new factory online. more to get all the kinks worked out and at full production.
Trump is supposed to be in office for only 4 years, at best, after which his tariffs will go away. it would be easier to simply just not ship to the US. which is how trade partners responded to the Hawley-Smoot Act in 1930, and which made the Great Depression that much harder to get out of.
- Comment on What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country? 2 weeks ago:
the recruiter should have vetted them better. Part of the reason to go through a recruiter is to avoid these things.
- Comment on How to get a package to the right owner? 2 weeks ago:
was it shipped by USPS? Then mark it “wrong address” and let them pick it up. if you want to go the extra mile, bring it to a post office.
If it was shipped by someone else, call them, they’ll probably come out. alternatively, they’re probably in your neighborhood. check for a shipping label with an address or something and walk it over.
- Comment on How do I decrease acne after shaving my face? 2 weeks ago:
Then consider investing in a brush and something like a Merkur 34C.
i had a really bad experience with the 34c. Basically the posts for the blade to ‘register’ to, allowed a relatively significant amount of play I’ve never seen in any other razor. This made seating it and using it at the ‘proper’ angle impossible- it also tended to make one side vastly more aggressive than the other, since a significant amount of blade was exposed on one side and not-enough on the other. (or worse, it was twisted so that on half the edge was too exposed and the other half was not, on both sides the blade.)
maybe they fixed it, but, I sort of doubt it.
- Comment on How do I decrease acne after shaving my face? 2 weeks ago:
the alchohol is there to kill to the bacteria- which is the immediate cause of acne. most aftershave splashes will also include some glycerin to re-moisturize the skin.
if you don’t want a scented product, you can do IPA and then some aftershave balm instead.
- Comment on How do I decrease acne after shaving my face? 2 weeks ago:
depending on how hot one’s water comes, soaking in faucet-hot water is enough here. just squeze out most the water first. if one does microwave… gotta be careful as the heating may be uneven. another option is an electric kettle (as for tea,) in the bathroom.
