T156
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- Comment on [US Politics] How much can Mamdani even do as Mayor? Couldn't the NYC City Coucil just block every progressive thing he tries to do? 4 days ago:
Socialism as in Norway, not Stalin.
It should be pointed out that Norway is not socialist. It’s a social democracy/capitalist country.
- Comment on Where's the couch, JD? 6 days ago:
Sort of? Someone was editing his face to be more round and babylike. This was one of them.
- Comment on Arts & STEM 1 week ago:
G - gumanities
Or as we like to call it, GNU/Gumanities.
- Comment on wtf 1 week ago:
Other animals get zoomies too.
- Comment on I'm not okay. 1 week ago:
You can get them fresh from the factory. Sure, they need 96 batteries each, but beats all that nasty wood and bugs.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💈 Saturday 21 June 2025 2 weeks ago:
I think the hot drink might be getting a bit too hot in that second photo.
- Comment on Is it weird I sleep with an old blanket I've had since I was a young girl? 2 weeks ago:
Does it matter if it is weird? Everyone is weird in some way.
There’s no weirdness warden who will whack you into gaol for being weird.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe if you gave him a wet food diet, like a cat or something.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Eventually we’ll hit it with phones, and then it’s just a matter of time till a solid “base” with swapable components come out. There’s been a couple already, but they still require a sacrifice of size or speed/power.
I’d honestly argue that we’ve more or less hit it already, since a lot of phones over the past few years haven’t really changed from the template of being a black glass rectangle with some buttons on it.
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 3 weeks ago:
That implies that Britain didn’t intend those consequences. But Britain has mastered using starvation as a weapon of genocide, in particular by masking it as an “unfortunate” result of taxes and tariffs.
We do know that the British did try and get the Irish to renounce their heritage to receive aid during the famine as well. Some families had to renounce their Irish name and Catholicism before they would be given food during the famine.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍕 Thursday 12 June 2025 3 weeks ago:
What happened?
- Comment on Would AI replacing humans in every workplace eventually make it easier for an advanced civilization from outer space to colonize us? 4 weeks ago:
No. Because any advanced civilisation capable of sending a colony ship across light-years to another planet is already so far outside of our current technological ability that it matters precious little.
We would be easy to colonise either way. Doubly so if they have some form of FTL technology to make that trip in reasonable time.
But there’s also an argument that anyone who can do so would have a much easier time not dealing with all of that and just colonising an uninhabited planet, or outright using materials for the task.
- Comment on I made this instead 4 weeks ago:
Only sometimes. Other times, you want to add extra entropy, so you can have a nice hot dinner.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Because it’s not a small thing to change. You’re basically overhauling everything if you wish to transition from a monarchy to a republic, because it’s rooted in everything.
The names of the governmental positions, and possibly their responsibilities would need to change, as would official documentation, the money, the flag, the national anthem…
You could hardly call yourself a republic if your passports are still carry the authority of the monarch, and your national anthem prominently features the King.
It only gets more complicated if you’re a former colonial power, since they may also be affected, and have to change everything as well. If the UK decides to ditch the Monarchy and become a Republic, Australia and Canada would need to follow suit, since it would be silly for them to have references to a monarch that no longer exists, or a GG who’s meant to be representative for a position that no longer exists.
Either that, or there will be a political/legal headache deciding whether they become the new inheritors of the monarchy, since the parent is gone, or would they be also need to make the same changes (see above).
- Comment on Whenever a beast is shown on screen 1 month ago:
They are getting quieter though, and there’s concern that they may evolve to lose the rattle entirely, as the loudly rattling ones get sought out and killed off.
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 2 months ago:
As an example, medical care/inheritance rights are one.
Back before the days of gay marriage, there were no end of horror stories of LGBT people whose partners were dying from HIV, and were forbidden from seeing their dying partners, or for estranged family to swoop in and kick the “friend” out, preventing them from seeing their partner, often taking everything that belonged to the deceased in the process.
A relatively famous art piece has a similar story, where the Boskovitch’s boyfriend’s family swept in and took everything after he died, effectively erasing their relationship in the process. All that was left was an electric fan.
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 2 months ago:
Usually not lungs as they exist in mammals, though.
- Comment on I want to see Vulcan fail 2 months ago:
He certainly seems to think so, though. When he was sharing his emotions with Picard, he was distraught that he wasn’t as open about his fondness for Amanda, before she died.
- Comment on We are back in sync with lemmy.world! 2 months ago:
Basically, Lemmy works by having a whole.bunch of different servers chitchat to each other. Hence how I can post a reply to you, even though you’re on Aussie.zone, and I’m on Lemmy.world.
The problem was that because Lemmy.world was big, and there were a lot of people in Aussie.zone who had feeds over there, Lemmy.world couldn’t fire stuff off quickly quickly enough.
Analogically, you’re basically getting a telegram to your house every day, saying what’s on the news. Except that there are a lot of people, so the telegraph operator can’t write and send the telegrams out quickly enough, and the message started backing up.
Lemmy.world basically enabled multi-threaded sending, which works like hiring more telegraph operators. While they could now keep up, there was still a huge amount of backlog that they had to send.
It’s only until this post that they finally caught up.
- Comment on I want to see Vulcan fail 2 months ago:
At least if Sarek is any indicstor, they are definitely very restrained. He was quite distraught over not being as affectionate with Amanda as he could have been.
- Comment on I want to see Vulcan fail 2 months ago:
Although it is also important to consider that for both Spock and Michael, they weren’t full Vulcans, but were Human, or part-Human, with all the relevant emotional needs and expression.
It is not implausible that the Vulcan method works with Vulcans, but not nearly as well with non-Vulcans.
- Comment on What are the odds of a person getting poisoned by food delivery driver? How would the odds change if the person is a public figure (such as Twitch Streamers)? 2 months ago:
Plus, like with Marilyn Monroe, their personality on stream is generally a persona of sorts. They’re going to be very different collecting food and paying for it on their own, compared to when they’re in front of an audience.
You’d be more inclined to think that someone who looked a bit like the streamer received the food.
- Comment on kawaiiiiiii 2 months ago:
Why not? They can’t go across, but they can certainly go up.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Series And Graphic Novel Nominated For Hugo Awards 2 months ago:
Considering Parallels, there’s at least a sector of Enteprise’s worth of universes, ignoring the one that exploded, that could be close enough to TNG.
Intrigued by the idea that literally every Star Trek took place in a different universe though. That sounds like something you’d find in TOS/Lower Decks episode, only for jtnto just reset by next episode and be forgotten about.
- Comment on IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE 2 months ago:
You can’t just call the cat a parasite.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 months ago:
He’s also useful. A lot of the kinds of people who might wish to be rid of him back in the day would much rather put him to use for their own ends.
- Comment on Will SNW (or any future Trek) Retcon Mojave, California? 2 months ago:
TNG also brought up raising the continental shelf to create more livable space. Picard’s brother was working on that.
- Comment on shrimp colour drama 2 months ago:
Mp3 is already compressed, as is the MP2 CDs use.
If it wasn’t conpressed, you’d be looking at CDs per track, instead of tracks per CD.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 2 months ago:
Surely that would very a lot depending on where they get their energy from? Even the most measly household solar panel can deliver 10W to a charger, in which case, the energy impact would be negligible.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 2 months ago:
It’s also safer, because you’re not connecting something that might carry data to the USB port. Wireless charging cannot transmit data. USB can, so delivering a virus or something that way isn’t out of the question, where it would be harder to do that over wireless charging.