SpaceCowboy
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Acciracy 2 hours ago:
Continents aren’t real.
Which continent is Russia in? Is Costa Rica in the same continent as Mexico or are they in different continents? Is “Central America” a continent?
It’s all made up bullshit, so why not just say Canada is it’s own continent?
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 2 hours ago:
It’s part of a general problem where old trek is basically competence porn (everyone is ridiculously competent at their jobs) while in new Trek everyone kinda acts like a teenager. Maybe it’s a desperate attempt to appeal to a younger audience (I don’t think that actually works tho), but it certainly doesn’t appeal to fans of older Trek.
It definitely breaks immersion to have characters that have serious jobs acting like teenagers.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 2 hours ago:
Guinan and Dr Who weren’t captains. I don’t think anyone would take issue if it were the bartender portraying a laid back vibe, but you kind of want the captain to give the crew confidence that they’re alert and on top of things. Of course that’s not possible at all times, but that’s why the captain has quarters and a ready room. Some other officer should be sitting the the chair keeping an ey on things if the captain wants to read a book or whatever.
It breaks immersion to have characters that are supposed to be ding serious jobs acting like teenagers.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 2 hours ago:
Isn’t that what the ready room is for? Captain chills out reads a book or whatever in a room next to the bridge, but they are ready to go out to the bridge and conduct themself formally when they get out there.
- Comment on Rage for the machine? 2 hours ago:
I’m saying “leftists” are part of the same machine they pretend to rage against. For fascism to take hold, it needs to destroy political opposition (democrats) discredit the free press and it needs enemies to hate.
Leftists are are useful idiots of the fascist machine.
- Comment on Rage for the machine? 7 hours ago:
Should’ve advertised that the band is going to rage against democrats, mainstream media, and they’d have plenty of antisemitic (just term it as “anti-zionist”) conspiracy theories in their songs and there would be a whole lot of “leftists” that would sign up.
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 3 weeks ago:
That’s why it used to be not orange, obviously.
- Comment on That's a whole lotta hydrogen! 3 weeks ago:
What’s this woke nonsense? Most of those helium atoms started life as hydrogen atoms. Therefore they shouldn’t be considered to be helium atoms!
- Comment on Mandola effect 3 weeks ago:
“Ladies and gentlemen, with great pleasure, I give you RoboCop 2.”
Oh wait, are we doing quotes that aren’t in the actual movie?
- Comment on [meme] choochoo 4 weeks ago:
“Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded” - Yogi Bera
- Comment on conditional soap 4 weeks ago:
Hate it when that happens.
- Comment on conditional soap 5 weeks ago:
I should’ve known they were up to their old tricks again! Is this coming from their frog division or their unicorn brigade? I suspect chicken man is the ring-leader!
- Comment on "The trolley made me fear for my life" 5 weeks ago:
Well he was, but then he walked around the car and then was in the path of the vehicle again (because he feared for his life?) and continued around the vehicle and was mostly out the way of the vehicle when he pulled out his gun.
So he was directly in front of the vehicle two separate times. A vehicle that was being driven by someone alleged to be a terrorist intent on using her vehicle as a weapon had two opportunities to kill him with her vehicle before he drew his weapon.
So the story is that a “terrorist” had two opportunities to kill the guy with her car but didn’t so so until after he had drawn his weapon and was no longer directly in front of the vehicle. Because I guess a “terrorist” wanted it to be a fair fight?
Sorry just pointing out the fact that he was indeed directly in the path of the vehicle (twice!) since it’s really relevant in proving that it was not at all Renee’s intent to kill him… which is a story the government is pushing. Cops are generally trained to not be in front of a vehicle, especially not a vehicle with someone dangerous behind the wheel.
The fact that he was directly in front of the vehicle proves he didn’t consider her a threat and was not fearing for his life. Killing a person that you do not consider to be a danger to yourself and others is murder.
- Comment on conditional soap 5 weeks ago:
What? Someone is going on the internet and telling jokes? How is this allowed?
What is their agenda? Which nefarious shadowy group are the promoting by doing this?
- Comment on A complete tier list for our solar system 5 weeks ago:
WTF did Pluto ever do to you? We finally get a decent photo and it’s got a big heart on it. Pluto is trying to make things work and you go on about how it’s not special.
I think you’re just racist against dwarf planets.
- Comment on (TW) Phishing mail in 2026 5 weeks ago:
Are you saying normal people wouldn’t want to opt out of having “I support ICE” on all of their emails?
This email is targeting people that are angry at ICE. The people that support ICE presumably wouldn’t click the button to opt out.
- Comment on Hurry pls it's urgent 5 weeks ago:
I’ve donated money to lemmy instances before. If someone posts nazi shit on lemmy, do you consider me to be someone that financially supports Nazis?
Also the claim is that someone associated with a project has said some far right shit, not specifically a Nazi. I got a racist uncle, does that make me a Nazi to you?
- Comment on I implore you to stop using the drake meme template 5 weeks ago:
Commenting “me no like post about me no like thing.”
–> Replying to comment about “me no like post about me no like thing.”
Reply to reply below?
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 5 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s kind of a thing where the switch benefited from the failure of the Wii U while the Switch 2 is being hurt by the success of the Switch.
BOTW was available on the Wii U, but since so few people had one of those, it made sense to get a Switch to play it.
With the Switch 2 I feel like “Meh, I already have a Switch it doesn’t seem like it’s offering much more than what I already have”. Also it’s larger and when I want to use the Swtich hand held (mostly just when I’m on a plane) seems like that might be a pain in the ass. Also with the Switch 1 they eventually came out with a better OLED model, so I’ll just keep playing the Switch 1 until they come out with something a little more compact and maybe with a better screen or whatever. Stick drift has been an issue for me so also want something with more reliable sticks.
Seems like I might be asking a lot, but for the price they’re asking if I’m not getting what I want, then I’ll stick with the Switch 1. It’s fine.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 month ago:
Kinda like how the US, UK, and the Soviet Union were not aligned before the 1940s?
Alignments can change when there’s a common enemy. Sure those alignment changes may be temporary but they can last long enough to see a country bombed flat and the leaders dead in a bunker.
You’re obsessed over ideology but that’s mostly irrelevant in geopolitics. If it’s in the best interests of a bunch of countries to work together to destroy the US economy, those countries will work together regardless of ideology or internal politics. In WWII the UK had a government of national unity with both the Labour and Conservative in a coalition. Perhaps the US is incapable of having political parties working together for the common good of the country, but not every country has the same weaknesses the US has.
And countries can always go back to being adversaries for bullshit ideological reasons after the enemy is destroyed like the US and Soviet Union did after WWII. So animosity between countries can be put aside temporarily.
If Trump thinks he can be an existential threat to a large number of countries in the world, it’s a FAFO situation.
- Comment on Aldo Leopold was right. 1 month ago:
With global warming we’re in triage mode now. Not every ecosystem is going to make it. Gotta focus efforts on the ecosystems that can survive… while there’s a bunch of maniacs in the operating room trying to set fire to everything.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 month ago:
Yup. Sadly the US has handed the 21st century to China without a fight.
I remember what some Hong Kong dude said to me once… “China is the future, and it’s a bleak future”.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 month ago:
And so long as the US is the wealthiest nation on Earth, what’s going to deter them?
I think the answer to your question is contained within the question. Americans are greedy people and a coordinated effort by China, Japan, and the UK could sink the US economy.
But I doubt that would even be necessary. Why kill someone intent on suicide? The US economy will likely collapse on it’s own if it continues on the path it’s on. I’m not talking about some recession like in 2008, I’m talking a collapse you’ve never experienced. Something similar to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Also if you were going down the military strike route, an aircraft carrier would be stupid. Trump has broadcast to the entire world what the achilles heal of the US is and it isn’t the aircraft carriers. It’s something that’s dug up from the ground and needs to be processed by refineries.
- Comment on Evidence 1 month ago:
Yeah but in the 70s basically everything was carcinogenic, even the air.
If you were stressed about that, you’d just smoke a cigarette.
- Comment on Evidence 1 month ago:
I take the bus to work because of climate change.
Does that make me fanatical?
- Comment on Anon catches a glimpse of his own mortality 1 month ago:
Nah that shit doesn’t go down until 2029.
- Comment on People like this 1 month ago:
I tend to downvote hateful content and disinformation. So is it “hatorade” to downvote hateful content and straight up lies?
Though more often I reply back to tell people to tell them to try not to be so hateful and then I get downvoted. I cry myself to sleep every night when that happens :P
While you’re judging people, someone else may be judging you. If you’re motivated by upvotes maybe consider going to reddit?
- Comment on Relevant username 2 months ago:
I didn’t click it but it’s Technology Connections, right?
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Optimus Robot shuts down after reproducing the gesture of its human operator removing their headset 2 months ago:
I always found it hilarious that the villain in Robocop 2 is actually called Robocop 2.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Optimus Robot shuts down after reproducing the gesture of its human operator removing their headset 2 months ago:
Best we can do send a live video feed from a camera on the robot and have someone in India control the robot.
It’s like having a robot, you just have to accept that someone is seeing everything you do in your home!