rbos
@rbos@lemmy.ca
Canadian, sysadmin, trans rights are human rights, puncha-the-nazis, cats are pretty great, GNU Terry Pratchett.
- Comment on the plan 1 day ago:
About 50 million kg, 50k tonnes, 500 starship launches. Their most generous estimates of a couple million dollars a launch, call it around a billion dollars…
- Comment on Just wait until they see what I do to the server room 1 week ago:
- Comment on Frog and Toad go to Mars 1 week ago:
I’ve found they make me nauseous and give me a headache.
- Comment on How true is this on the first trip visiting Japan? 1 week ago:
Yeah, the translation is better than trying to deal with a shopkeeper who doesn’t want to yukkuri the fuck hanashite kudasai or whatever. I have a vocabulary of maybe 800 words but whatever you’re speaking is way outside it.
- Comment on Anon has a proposal for you 1 week ago:
If at the end of the time, I was able to walk free without consequence, I would take the challenge, and spend time observing the behaviour of the beast. How fast does it move? How deeply does it sleep? Does it go torpid? Does it overheat?
I feel like there may be a way to do it. If not, well, i had a month of vacation.
- Comment on You all know someone 3 weeks ago:
Dollar stores in Japan are a whole WORLD away. Literally. And metaphorically. Daiso takes Dollar General out back and beats it with a willow switch until it cries.
A Lawsons or or a 711 in Japan has a staggering selection of ready made food, shipped in a few times daily. They have cheap booze and they provide both ramen and free hot water.
- Comment on Let's math it out, quick 3 weeks ago:
Bold of them to use a Canada Eagle in that pic, after wiping out almost all of their own.
- Comment on Banana for scale 4 weeks ago:
Sure. It’s an option though, works fine.
I just don’t think it’s a valid criticism to point out that infinite numbers exist.
- Comment on Banana for scale 4 weeks ago:
Nothing stopping you from just saying 1/3rd metre. Fractions still work!
- Comment on Goteem 4 weeks ago:
They stopped that a couple years ago iirc
- Comment on Banana for scale 4 weeks ago:
Only if you’re used to it.
- Comment on Banana for scale 4 weeks ago:
Hah, no doubt. But it can make sense in some contexts. I wouldn’t mind using it for daily use personally, it’s about 15 minutes.
The 24 hour clock is fine but it’s much easier to do integer math with seconds.
- Comment on Banana for scale 4 weeks ago:
Seconds are SI, I believe, and it makes perfect sense to talk milliseconds, kiloseconds, etc.
- Comment on first state btw 4 weeks ago:
Yakko collapses in exhaustion
- Comment on Absolute peak 1 month ago:
[PTSD twitch]
… no
- Comment on Ohhhhh, the year was 1778... 1 month ago:
(marque)
- Comment on el tigre 1 month ago:
Only in Kenya.
- Comment on Who cleans the toilets in Gault's Gulch? 1 month ago:
It’s really easy to think of examples of that, wow. I don’t fully buy it but i can see how it could be a factor in some civs.
- Comment on Is "American posing as a Canadian" a real thing? 1 month ago:
Canadians don’t wear Canadian flags, it’s almost always an American.
Used to be you could spot us by MEC or Roots gear, but they’re both enshittified now.
- Comment on Why Should I... 2 months ago:
There’s some fantastic dutch food!
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 2 months ago:
While that is awful… I’d eliminate the internet line and tether my phone. Data plans are ridiculous these days.
- Comment on German joke 2 months ago:
I can see that. My feet take a few days of careful husbanding before they develop the callouses for a new pair of sandals, and there’s gonna be some sore spots. It helps to stick a bandaid over the sore spots to give them a chance to toughen up.
I can well imagine that some people might take longer or develop blisters more easily, preventing the skin from getting to that point. Dry skin is a good hypothesis.
Socks are a totally decent option. If it’s not going to happen, don’t try to force it. /nod
- Comment on German joke 2 months ago:
Ive tried that, i find the socks make them too likely to slip when I walk. Don’t understand it.
- Comment on Left Wing Rage # Right Wing Rage 2 months ago:
Claimed to be a former Teamster, doubt many Greeks in that union.
- Comment on Know the difference 2 months ago:
- Comment on One of the lowercase m is actually an r + n, and the other isn't. 2 months ago:
Very irnportant when using one hand!
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 2 months ago:
Well… use certbot’s new dns persistence mode. That may be a few years before it gets in. May be in backports.
- Comment on Play games with your neighbor to sink even lower! Canada rules! 2 months ago:
No, it would be a tax on revenues that amazon, facebook, adobe, xitter, etc extract from Canadians. Digital Services. Subscriptions, software, that kind of thing.
- Comment on Play games with your neighbor to sink even lower! Canada rules! 2 months ago:
Digital. Services. Tax.
- Comment on onions 2 months ago:
It also absorbs oil like crazy, so you have to be careful and when and how you introduce fats.
