MalReynolds
@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Sky News Australia rebrands as News24 4 days ago:
“news”
- Comment on Anon disrespects their elders 4 days ago:
Also valid.
- Comment on Anon disrespects their elders 4 days ago:
Repeat after me, IDGAF. And I know that doesn’t fix everything, especially not the world, but for some people, some of the time, it can help. Make it a mantra for a while, until it’s served it’s purpose (you can go too far). Also, stay off 4chan (obvs).
- Comment on Anon disrespects their elders 4 days ago:
Sweet. Thanks for the perspective.
- Comment on it keeps getting momentum 5 days ago:
Boo, no engine in it… Thanks though.
- Comment on YouGov: One Nation now 2 points behind Labor on primary vote 1 week ago:
Seriously, how do you look at the US and go ‘that’s what I want’
Something rotten in Denmark.
- Comment on YouGov: One Nation now 2 points behind Labor on primary vote 1 week ago:
yah, url or picture, not both (but no warning), ask me how I know :) You might like to pop the source link in the body.
- Comment on "And you people, you're all astronauts on... some kind of star trek?" James Cromwell announced for STLV to celebrate the 30th anniversary of First Contact. 1 week ago:
Thanks, could’ve been in the post text though.
- Comment on Nope, not visiting that 2 weeks ago:
Don’t get me started on the second law of thermogoddamics (I’ll never stop :).
- Comment on Nope, not visiting that 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Starlink updates Privacy Policy to allow AI model training with personal data 3 weeks ago:
There’s options, simplest is Adguard DNS at the VPS. Likely better is Gluetun container + PiHole on your local network or VPS and wireguard your phone in to that (find another app), or you can just hook your phone up to free tier ProtonVPN.
- Comment on Starlink updates Privacy Policy to allow AI model training with personal data 3 weeks ago:
Who knows, and this is why you muddy the waters as best you can with personal data and use a privacy respecting VPN, the whole Vader ‘pray I don’t alter the deal further’ thing is getting real old. Also, opt out is predatory BS (and likely quietly disregarded anyway on the basis we won’t get caught, and if we do the fines are trivial).
- Comment on Coalition in crisis as entire Nationals frontbench quits after division over Labor’s hate speech laws 4 weeks ago:
The way One Nation has been polling lately, they might, unfortunately.
- Comment on Labor’s hate speech laws set to pass as Ley and Albanese cut deal on bill crafted in wake of Bondi terror attack 5 weeks ago:
Well, that’s a bad sign.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Weirdly, within the last thirty years, we’ve realised that the truth is not so clear cut. Epigenetic changes do occur as a result of the environment and are hereditary. While genes are still the main drivers of evolution, these epigenetic changes affect gene expression.
Nature doesn’t leave anything on the table if it is remotely possible (billions of years will do that) and learned experience transmitted to offspring is way too juicy. I would be wholly unsurprised at the existence of a mechanism for writing this to DNA, perhaps enhancing the chance of copy number increase or similar.
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 1 month ago:
Think so ? I put these games down for a while and come back later, explore the new content, muck around for a while, and put them down again… Love 'em both, but not all the time.
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 1 month ago:
Yup, very much make your own activities games, but both continue to grow. NMS especially just keeps bashing out free updates (Best Ongoing Game again at this year’s The Game Awards) and has monthly or so expeditions for the new things if you need more direction. Corvettes went over well.
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 1 month ago:
Agreed, IIRC they have a free weekend. A couple of years back I gave it a spin, realized what I wasn’t missing, and went back to Elite Dangerous and No Man’s Sky. You know, working space games…
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Casts Sulu and Bones for Series Finale 1 month ago:
Nah, Spock’s too young, vulcans age slow.
- Comment on He'll peck your eyes out, for goodness sake 2 months ago:
It’s much more metal that that, it’ll kick you to death (yes, it happens).
- Comment on Fun science fact 2 months ago:
Sigh :)
- Comment on Fun science fact 2 months ago:
You already have Diehard and Gremlins, be satisfied ;)
- Comment on This one goes out to Dennis Prager 3 months ago:
FFS, just adopt, it’s way to needed anyway.
- Comment on How far you've fallen 3 months ago:
Valid point.
- Comment on How far you've fallen 3 months ago:
Ima go with Voyager, because it was real science, versus (admittedly cool) mostly dick waving and missile development.
- Comment on Anon loves The Lord of the Rings 7 months ago:
Surprised no-one pitched Elite:Dangerous. Certainly a labour of love to begin with, incredibly talented sound design, first space sim to VR, truly devoted to the original material… Still going pretty strong (had a few weak years) with updates (only 2 DLC-ish major updates of which were paid) a decade later…
- Comment on Anon loves The Lord of the Rings 7 months ago:
Privately owned (no shareholders), small team that seems to love what they’re doing, they can likely go on forever. Strange how a lack of shareholders correlates with good games (/platforms, Valve!) isn’t it ?
- Comment on Apple TV+ is painful as fuck 9 months ago:
Yarr !, my experience has been stellar ;) (Gaben: It’s a service problem…)
- Comment on Labor’s landslide victory obscures a disturbing trend for the major parties 9 months ago:
Yeah, that’s some bullshit, but the trend away from the duopoly has been ongoing for what, this century ?. That’s just patching a leaky bucket with sand. They scared.
- Comment on What Refutes Science... 1 year ago:
Not to my mind, science requires a testable hypothesis and evidence. I would argue that merely refuting someone else’s hypothesis without providing a new one doesn’t meet the bar of doing science.