SpaceCowboy
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on CNC 1 week ago:
The safe word is “Tiberium.”
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 1 week ago:
Now if you want to flatten out everything, even the floor under the sea that is then also filled with what has been land before, then we do not even need to know how much the land is. The water will be above it, regardless the height of the land.
But wouldn’t moving the land from the high points increase the circumference of the solid part of the Earth and stretch the water around it a little bit, making the height of the water a little bit less?
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 1 week ago:
Yeah I keep an analog clock on the wall because it’s a more intuitive way to keep track of how long I’ve got to get ready to go out. I know where the angle of the minute hand will be when I have to be out the door, so it’s quicker to glance it it and know if I gotta pick up the pace or I got plenty of time or whatever.
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
Well the cereal is baked which is a form of cooking. But yeah, it’s not cooked in the milk, so a bowl of cereal is not soup.
- Comment on got this ad and uh 2 weeks ago:
Sure but the Palestinian flag appears on the usernames of people spouting a lot of antisemitism. And there’s a lot of people claiming the confederate flag isn’t about white supremicism. So there’s a high probability of an AI scanning conversations and coming to the conclusion that these flags have the same meaning.
Maybe instead of looking the other way on antisemitism in the Free Palestine movement, people that are a part of that movement should be calling it out? But as always it’s easier to look the other way and make rationalizations about how it’s ok for your allies in a movement to be racists assholes.
- Comment on got this ad and uh 2 weeks ago:
Easy to understand why an AI scanning discussions of these groups would guess they’re associated with each other. Both say pretty much the same things about Jews controlling the government, Jews controlling the media, etc.
- Comment on Only you can prevent forest fires 2 weeks ago:
Surprised Smokey hasn’t already been shot by Kirsti Noem .
- Comment on I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles 2 weeks ago:
Not too far off…
The Bibles are put into hotels by the Gideons, which was founded by travelling salesmen that wanted to make sure other salesmen would have access to a Bible while traveling.
- Comment on I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s the Gideons that put the Bibles in hotels. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gideons_International
It’s an international organization, but based in the US so they obviously focus more on the US.
- Comment on Inspirational 2 weeks ago:
The optimal launch angle would only be 45 in a vacuum. It’ll be lower if you’re on Earth where there’s air resistance.
- Comment on Was the fall of Rome this stupid? 3 weeks ago:
Incitatus was more competent than most of Trump’s cabinet.
- Comment on It's true... 3 weeks ago:
Even better: I’m going to write my PhD thesis on this one!
- Comment on A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley 3 weeks ago:
You could do this (there are websites you can find easily) but Pelosi isn’t in power anymore and wouldn’t be in the loop on Trump’s corruption which is way more significant than just knowing which company the government is going to award a big procurement contract to or whatever.
The Trump corruption seems to have gone with crypto shenanigans and you can’t track them. We just know that someone made >$100M by doing crypto shorts exactly one minute before Trump posted about more insane tarrifs on China, but there’s no way to know who did that and we can’t track them. They’ll probably make similar amounts of money on the inevitable TACO.
- Comment on A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley 3 weeks ago:
Given what Peter Thiel’s been talking about lately, that’s not all that far fetched.
- Comment on A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I remember a VC guy during the dot com boom was saying they were just about to invest in another start up (following the same plan they’d been doing for a few at that point) and they got a call form upstairs telling them to pull out. The next day the bubble burst.
These bubbles burst not based on random chance. The big guys know the business isn’t sustainable, but if they keep their money in it the shares maintain their value. Then one day they all pull out and pop! The bubble bursts. But they’ll make money on that too by shorting everything.
They make money when the stocks go up and they make money when the stocks go down. And they have enough money to make those stocks go up or down.
- Comment on ??? Profit!!! 4 weeks ago:
Instructions were unclear… now some guy from Spain (or maybe Egypt?) with a Scottish accent is hanging around telling me there can be only one.
- Comment on FlatEarthers will work around it 4 weeks ago:
Spotlight above the north pole that spins around and lights up different parts of the world at different times, obviously. Why doesn’t the Sun appear from a northern angle when it’s pointed at you in the daytime? Shut up round earth shill, nananana I can’t hear you!
- Comment on FlatEarthers will work around it 4 weeks ago:
I can find some flights from Australia to Columbia with a stopover in Hawaii, but it looks like a non-optimal route. But yeah there’s not much there between Australia and South America other than New Zealand… and Antarctica if you’re a round Earth shill ;)
Weird how there’s a direct flight between Melbourne and Santiago, Chile… two places that are in in the southern parts of their respective continents.
- Comment on Anon makes games 5 weeks ago:
If you put all of the US dollars in the world in a pile on the left and all of the gold in the world in a pile on the right, the pile on the left (the dollars) would be worth 10x more than the pile on the right.
There simply isn’t enough gold in the world for a gold standard to work without there being some kind of manipulation of either the value of the dollars or the value of the gold, or both. And if you’re manipulating the value of gold and/or the value of the dollar, what’s the point?
The gold standard stuff is just conspiracy bullshit meant to create discontent and distrust in institutions based on ignorance of what money is. You’re told money should have intrinsic value so you feel like your employer is rewarding you with something of value when you’re paid. The reality is money represents debt, you did work and the money represents what you’re owed by your employer, not a reward. A system based on borrowed money matches the reality of your employer is borrowing your time and skills with that debt being paid once you’ve spent the money. A more realistic system based on money being debt isn’t as prone to manipulation as one based on a belief that shiny bits of metal have magical properties that you’re rewarded with because you’ve a good loyal servant.
- Comment on Anon makes games 5 weeks ago:
That works until someone starts manipulating the market by redeeming their dollars for water, selling the water on the market, getting dollars again, redeeming for more water and continuously profiting from the endless cycle.
This is actually why the gold standard ended. Money and real world materials will fluctuate in value and are sold on different markets. Having money pegged to a real world material means someone can take advantage of a treasury by manipulating those markets. This was happening with the US dollar, then the Nixon shock happened and no more gold standard.
Why would people in the future use a currency system that’s similar to one that we used in the past and stopped using because it was fundamentally flawed and vulnerable to manipulation? I suppose if it’s set in a small community where there isn’t anyone that would work out how to manipulate the currency it might work. But if there were bad actors, you’d expect a water based currency system to be manipulated same as the gold based system was before the Nixon shock.
- Comment on Doug Bowser Retiring From Nintendo, Successor Announced 5 weeks ago:
If they want a CEO with some balls, they’d choose Lemmy.
- Comment on Costco Confirms It's Removed Xbox Consoles, Calling It A "Business Decision" 5 weeks ago:
I gotta make connections work with pretty much any retailer you can name. And yeah when the biggies say jump you gotta say how high.
That being said, Costco isn’t so bad. But then I don’t deal with the contract stuff. Amazon does indeed suck. Costco is a bit old school but I’d rather that than dealing with Amazon’s shitty AWS APIs.
- Comment on Jeebuz Rode A Velocirapture 1 month ago:
Dinosaurs and Unix systems coexisted, I saw it in a documentary.
- Comment on Jeebuz Rode A Velocirapture 1 month ago:
I went to Australia and went with a tour group and the bus stopped. All of the cars were stopped on the road for some reason. The tour guide said “nobody get out of the vehicle!” Then I saw a velociraptor with a couple of baby velociraptors just walking down the side of the road.
I think they call them cassowaries, but if you see how they move, those things are goddamn velociraptors.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 month ago:
Vietnam had a regular army, it wasn’t entirely a guerrilla force.
Did they not teach that North Vietnam (and therefore the NVA) existed?
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 1 month ago:
And Australia’s got you covered for the occasional barbecue.
- Comment on Barely sustainable 1 month ago:
Going along with narratives pushed by people fighting for only their own self interest simply because it ticks the right boxes (contrarian, corporation bad, media bad) isn’t going to make the world a better place. Especially if you’re going on about things that makes it clear you’re out of touch with reality.
I drink coffee hotter than that every day. Why do you think McDonald’s was serving hot coffee instead of luke-warm coffee? Did you consider why the working class people they serve coffee to during the day might want it that way? Are you so out of touch you can’t understand why the working class would want coffee hotter than the pumpkin spice mocha frapa whatever that a cute barrista writes your name on your cup of at the fancy coffee shop you go to?
- Comment on to hell I say 1 month ago:
What region northern lights may I see it?
No.
- Comment on Barely sustainable 1 month ago:
Have fun defending personal injury lawyers so you never think about having a healthcare system would mean people wouldn’t have to sue to get their medical bills paid. Could you imagine a world where people wouldn’t need lawyers to sue to get medical bills paid?
- Comment on Barely sustainable 1 month ago:
Another reply linked to an article (by a personal injury lawfirm, naturally) and the temperature cited was 185F. I drink coffee that’s hotter than that every morning. Note that I take my coffee with lots of cream and sugar. It’s above 185F after adding cream and sugar. I drink it when it’s that temperature.
When people say “coffee is supposed to be hot” you may be assuming that it’s out of ignorance of something you saw on the internet. But it’s not exactly difficult to dip the meat thermometer by my stove into a cup of coffee. It’s possible you may be the one being ignorant of the facts because you’re trusting articles from biased sources without any verification… which is very easy for anyone to do. Yup, coffee is hot.
I interact with boiling water everyday. It’s dangerous and I know to be careful. Coffee, while not as hot as boiling water, is still dangerous enough to burn me (>185F) if I dump a full cup of it on my crotch. So I try not to do that. It’s actually not that hard, I do it every morning when half asleep.
