FuglyDuck

@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Om nom nom⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  if putting it in your mouth is off the table, noses and ears are still available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF is a rural town in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Minneapolis is the best of the two twin cities :)

  Sorry, St Paul. All you’ve got going is Casetta’s and Can Can Wonderland.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF is a rural town in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  so by way of examples, going to some extremes…

  Kent County, Texas is one of the most rural counties in the US. with Jayton hosting it’s county court house. This is a sat photo of Jayton, compliments of google maps:
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  Note, that the mile is about 1.25 miles/ 2 km’s north to south and about the same in east west. (at least, as far the structures/housing goes.) to get an idea of what it looks like there, here’s the streetview in front of the court house.

  zooming out to kent county, there’s like 5 towns in that entire square, note the distance marker down at the bottom being about 8 km:
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  now, compare that to new york city:
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  Note, the distance marker at the bottom being about 3 km.

  zooming in to roughly the same scale as the photo on jayton… randomly…
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  and here’s a few courthouses in brooklyn…
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  and the king’s county courthouse on streetview

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On trees...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  sooo glad I wasn’t alone.

  anyhow, here’s a fun song.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On trees...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  reddit has broken me. I was expecting it to point to weed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF is this ad in my recording app⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  …what’s wrong with the fuzzy heels or the weird eye thing?

  Aside from I know of like two people that would buy the slippers, and that’s an indictment of the slippers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  pretty much this. though I’d also add that if one has a BMI high enough to be overweight, and aren’t fat or at least a big doughy on the edges, one probably invests a great deal of time and energy keeping up on that body… and therefore wouldn’t be asking or arguing the whole “i’m not fat” thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly.

  groups a, b, and c enjoy the same rights doesn’t change if group b wants to take those rights away from c, it is cool with a having them.

  B still enjoys those rights and C still enjoys those rights. Everyone also gets to call group B assholes, though, for trying to shit on group C.

  In any case, I’d call the US uncivilized. I don’t think that’s particularly racist, in the same way it would be if I called South Africa uncivilized , or something. It kind of depends on the reason and way I’m using it.

  I think the US is uncivilized because kids are going to school hungry and not being fed because some asshole in Texas thinks feeding kids is bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely. That’s duck math.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For reference⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The shape and internal structure are different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11's inconsistency⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “what was kiwifarm”, basically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back up off my nuts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Context?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does alcohol speed up evolution?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s almost as if it were a joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does alcohol speed up evolution?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Show this meme to a grammarian and they explode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you know any software development philosophy books?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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.