ShellMonkey
@ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com
Someone with too much time and server space who decided to host a couple things because reasons.
- Comment on English Ivy 3 hours ago:
Some of those are absurdly strong. I have wild grapes in my yard that go ahold of an old clothesline with 6 lines across it. Now I didn’t use said line so figured just let it be to feed the birds and such. Turns out it got thick enough that one winter when a particularly heavy snow came through the weight of the snow on the vine mat was enough to bend in the poles that are a good 3 inches thick.
- Comment on anon finds a plothole 2 weeks ago:
You get a full podium sweep, gotta do some acrobatics to be on all the spots for the pics though.
- Comment on U.S. Announces New Rules Banning Fake Reviews and Testimonials, Allowing Authorities to Seek Civil Penalties Against Violators, Deter AI-Generated Fake Reviews 4 weeks ago:
Oh come on, you think some would do that? Go in the internet and tell lies?
I mean it is or at least should be a policy on most sites already, it’ll be nice to have some teeth beyond banning their accounts though.
- Comment on Gars 1 month ago:
Dammit, I was stuck thinking of the stuff in a petri dish.
- Comment on Anon drinks milk 1 month ago:
They didn’t say how big a carton. I’d say anything up to a quart is fair game without some eyeballs on you.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac 1 month ago:
If they’re already giving exclusive access to Google for search and AI training, my bet is it’s all in a bid for ‘please buy us daddy Google’, and let them handle it from there.
- Comment on Anon's wife is giving birth 2 months ago:
Are we sure these aren’t someone playing with some ai prompts? These seem daft even for 4chan.
- Comment on Meta's CrowdTangle, which has been used to track misinformation, is set to disappear in August as elections take place worldwide. Its replacement isn’t as transparent or accessible. 2 months ago:
After all, they wouldn’t want anyone to call them out on continuing chicanery during such a trivial event as their home country’s presidential election cycle…
- Comment on Global security alliance warns of Russian disinformation campaign using Meliorator AI software allowing for the creation of authentic appearing fictitious personas to post content on X 2 months ago:
Who is surprised here, raise your object manipulation attachment, er, hand…
Yet I see those same posts screen-shot and posted here as though they was reliable news sources.
- Comment on All farts ar funny. Its just a mqtter.of degree 2 months ago:
Someone pulled that formula straight out their ass
- Comment on Has Elon Musk made any sexist remarks? 3 months ago:
Are you looking to complete a bingo card for billionaire dumbassery?
- Comment on Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws 3 months ago:
I’m fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there’d only be one website left, and it’d be called “Bring Back the Porn!”
- Comment on Games like punch out? 3 months ago:
gamingonlinux.com/…/energetic-boss-rush-big-boy-b…
Just saw on another post
- Comment on Games like punch out? 3 months ago:
I guess do you mean with the cartoonish demeanor or just boxing ones as a whole? Have seen a few on playstation systems like knockout kings but they try and be all serious with it.
- Comment on Just little guys 3 months ago:
Why am I hearing thing in the hydraulic press channel guy’s voice?
It is very dangerous and may attack at any time…
- Comment on Implications 3 months ago:
So by the thought of infinite parallel universes though, shouldn’t there then be at least some in which someone did attend?
- Comment on Wild times 4 months ago:
I watched that recently about the digestive path and all, was wondering how they where gonna get through without having them end up in the toilet.
- Comment on Anon wants to ride a zeppelin 4 months ago:
Thus the 'aside from launch failure’s part. No rocket scientist here, but way I figure if we can send probes to do flyby photos of the outer planets how hard can it be to hit the biggest thing in our system?
Lift costs might be stupidly high too, but more a would it be possible thought.
- Comment on Anon wants to ride a zeppelin 4 months ago:
Not impractical really, according to Wikipedia even the old Hindenburg: “held 200,000 cubic metres (7,062,000 cu ft) of gas in 16 bags or cells with a useful lift of approximately 232 t (511,000 lb). This provided a margin above the 215 t (474,000 lb) average gross weight of the ship with fuel, equipment, 10,000 kg (22,000 lb) of mail and cargo, about 90 passengers and crew and their luggage.”
So if it has a capacity of 40,000+ lb beyond all the needed crew, passengers, fuel, and whatever cargo with a 100 year old design using diesel engines I imagine you throw a small nuclear reactor for power in a modern design you could probably float around for a while with some pretty comfy accomodations.
- Comment on Anon wants to ride a zeppelin 4 months ago:
Could work more along the lines of a cruise ship though. Not as an efficient way to get somewhere but just to go float around doing vacation stuff.
- Comment on Anon wants to ride a zeppelin 4 months ago:
I wonder what the costs would be to just literally launch it into the sun. Let it all get recompiled in the big fusion furnace and out of our hands. Of course if the rocket failed during launch you have a real big problem, but that part aside.
- Comment on Anon helps with his gf's vaping addiction 4 months ago:
Way back when there where flavored analog cigs, I think those got banned nationally for the same reason they claim now for vapes that it entices kids. Dumb thing about that argument though is you have a million different juice/soda/energy drinks out there, generally with much better flavors since they’re not worried about masking alcohol or nic, and yet the kids still go for the alcohol and nic. Maybe, it’s not just the flavors that kids are after…
- Comment on Anon helps with his gf's vaping addiction 4 months ago:
How big a bottle and how efficient the vape? When I did regularly if I recall a 30 ml bottle would last about a week. That switching from a pack/day smoking for comparison of volume.
- Comment on Am I the only person that feels that retro games are better? 4 months ago:
I guess it depends on what you’re looking for and what you consider flashy. I tend to do most of mine from GOG these days just out of a preference for avoiding DRM on principal. Found a few interesting ones just of the ‘cheap enough that it doesn’t matter if it’s not great’ types.
A major marker of quality for me tends to be if something just feels polished, like the menus make sense rather than looking like someone just stuck things where they could without though, but it could still run on a potato without making things melt.
- Comment on Am I the only person that feels that retro games are better? 4 months ago:
Hardly the only, but not always the case either. I’d put some of it down to rose-colored nostalgia, some to the given fact that so much today is buying a base framework game and then selling 276 ‘addons’ to make it complete, and part to that back when systems didn’t have the power they do now developers couldn’t rely so much on all the flashy imagery and effects so they put more effort into the story and unique gameplay. A lot of smaller studio games pull that latter part off today still, but they’re sometimes harder to find.
- Comment on the struggle 4 months ago:
As one who both tested as and very much sees the description of the INTJ in themselves, can confirm as being an obnoxiously over-analytical fool.
In some ways if you take them in a certain light the M/B, astrology, and even tarot cards play a similar role. They provide a thought prompt to explore from.
- Comment on neptune 4 months ago:
Bunch of diamonds tossed around in 1000 mph winds, what could be the worst that happens…
- Comment on I was handed this lovely flyer while grocery shopping 5 months ago:
For all the scarcity of TP that marked the beginning of the pandemic, why do they waste paper on this?
- Comment on I was handed this lovely flyer while grocery shopping 5 months ago:
We really do need to just upgrade the version number, all these variants of 19 are sounding like bad sequels.
- Comment on I was handed this lovely flyer while grocery shopping 5 months ago:
Looks like a copy machine with all the artifacts, go to a library and it’s probably $0.01 a page