davidgro
@davidgro@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon's sad story 16 hours ago:
I have a similar story of woe.
Before they got rid of them, I bought a churro and was walking to the parking lot when I tilted that stupid sleeve (it’s not a bag) the wrong way and the churro slipped out and landed on that nasty pavement. A few months later my mom died.
- Comment on Board track race from the 1920's (5:12) no sound or crashes but some silly prerace girls 4 days ago:
Racy!
But seriously, seeing the older people made me realize that those guys wouldn’t have even had cars all over when they were growing up.
From Wikipedia:
“The modern car—a practical, marketable automobile for everyday use—was invented in 1886, when the German inventor Carl Benz patented his Benz Patent-Motorwagen. Commercial cars became widely available during the 20th century. The 1901 Oldsmobile Curved Dash and the 1908 Ford Model T, both American cars, are widely considered the first mass-produced and mass-affordable cars, respectively.”
(First gasoline car at all was 1808 though)
So this was at most around 21 years after the Model T. For anyone much older than that, cars would have been rare at best when they were young.
- Comment on frilly **joy** 1 week ago:
You found moss that counts as an animal on land?
- Comment on Itch.io back online 1 week ago:
From what I read, the policy of removing domains when the county stops existing was directly based on what happened with .su so that never happens again.
- Comment on Itch.io back online 1 week ago:
Yeah, I didn’t get a good wording there. I just mean is it still up in the air?
- Comment on Itch.io back online 1 week ago:
That reminds me… Is the entire .io domain still planning to end or did that get resolved?
- Comment on Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich? 1 week ago:
Those don’t eliminate the spoiler effect, but it does end up looking different. (Maybe has a different name in this form?)
My blue state has a blanket primary, and this last election I saw that demonstrated:
One race had two Republicans and like half a dozen Democrats and another half a dozen in other parties. The Republican vote of course was split between the two candidates. The Democrat vote was split like a hydra and we very nearly had (few hundred votes away) the two Republicans go to the general!
Fortunately, the top Dem barely squeaked into second place, and then easily won the general, but it was mighty close.
- Comment on Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich? 1 week ago:
Then do STAR, or approval. Those are simple. And I think even more likely to allow 3rd parties.
Pretty much anything is better than FPTP.
- Comment on explosions 3 weeks ago:
Generally explosions do in fact involve an object suddenly increasing in volume (with corresponding decrease in density)
Said objects typically become partially gaseous, but if the rest of it is porous then it’s not unusual at all for that to increase in volume also.
Easy example: popcorn.
- Comment on lewd noodles 3 weeks ago:
Send danger noods
- Comment on You must be thinking of someone else... 3 weeks ago:
Best not start anything. These guys are tough.
- Comment on punchable babies 3 weeks ago:
It’s just the American spelling.
- Comment on Anon doesn't want to join the flesh nexus 4 weeks ago:
That’s basically the plot of EoE anyway.
- Comment on Is non-sexual masochism a thing? 4 weeks ago:
Spicy food.
- Comment on AAAAAAAAAAA 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on But yes. 5 weeks ago:
Wind turbines also.
But some solar does focus it on a tower to make steam to drive a turbine.
- Comment on why is mexico not treated the same way as canada?? 5 weeks ago:
Because if they did consider themself Latino, it might sound more like a personal complaint instead of just a general question.
- Comment on Anon tries programming in Java 5 weeks ago:
Looks fine in the Eternity app.
Unless OP fixed it already. - Comment on why is mexico not treated the same way as canada?? 5 weeks ago:
Absolutely.
Genetically I’m around 50% a culture that I simply wasn’t raised in, which is associated with a religion I never practiced (as opposed to the different religion I left)
Based on looks I could easily identify as that culture and strangers wouldn’t question it. They also don’t question my lack of doing so.
- Comment on Can you draw a perfect circle? 5 weeks ago:
My immediate reaction before opening the link: “No.”
Yet I somehow got 96.6% twice.
Visually, I certainly wouldn’t call them 3.4% away from perfect. I’m guessing there’s some allowance for imperfection even at 100%.
- Comment on How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?! 1 month ago:
Another thing that’s barely on the chart: Foreign Policy, some fraction of which would be the genocide.
It just wasn’t the influential issue that much of Lemmy wished it were, and clearly not the reason Harris lost.
- Comment on What it's like scrolling YouTube these days 1 month ago:
Every time I use NewPipe or PipePipe, etc. and see the actual default videos, I lose a little more faith in humanity. Sometimes an actual good science channel like Kurzgesagt will be there and restore some, but generally it really is this bad.
- Comment on THANK YOU 1 month ago:
What is this, a magnification for ants?
- Comment on Give them space!! 1 month ago:
I’m surprised it’s not by Eiffel.
- Comment on Kill it with fire! 1 month ago:
Yup. Kids are jumpy alright. I expect to see a lot more of them this evening.
- Comment on Y=-x² 1 month ago:
Hey Jude
- Comment on Geology 1 month ago:
- Bakasteriod
- Bakmeteor
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 2 months ago:
In opposing corners no less
- Comment on Why does it seem the majority of protests in the US are to oppose something while so many protests in other countries are looking to influence improving something? 2 months ago:
Just to add to your point, as far as I can find, the entire European Union is only about 4.3 million sq. km.
If Spain were added as a 51st US State it would be the 3rd largest, between Texas and California. Same with France (largest in the EU), but it’s much closer to overtaking 2nd place. I had no idea those countries were so large.
Still, we have 50 of those country sized areas.
- Comment on Sea Krits 2 months ago:
Rate or dmg?