CommissarVulpin
@CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world
- Comment on Dinner bell is going off 1 week ago:
If my body doesn’t like having so much sugar in it then why does it fucking crave it all the time
- Comment on I would do this for just 1.99 1 week ago:
Some laptops come with that built in, or you could use some scotch tape and a little square of paper for free
- Comment on Sounds like a problem for them, not me. 1 week ago:
If you want to start a business there, it’s actually pretty easy thanks to the Dutch American Friendship Treaty
- Comment on We're in the endgame now 1 week ago:
I came to a bit of a realization. Every time you think of some possible new government function, or legislation, or resolution to an issue, you cynically think of every way it could be abused, right? You’re confident that greedy, self-aggrandizing politicians or businessmen will use it to further their own power and wealth. The concept that someone will act in good faith is absent. It’s infantile, it’s naive. The world is cruel.
I think this represents a fundamental breakdown of the trust in our government. The US has been coasting on good faith for almost 300 years, and the wheels are falling off. It’s a vicious cycle, where if you don’t trust that other people will do the right thing, you’re less likely to do the right thing yourself. I don’t know if this cycle can be ended, or even if it has an end.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 week ago:
There’s a program called Forscan you can get that allows you to tweak that kind of thing in Ford vehicles. I don’t know if other makes have equivalent software.
- Comment on The opposite of hot girl summer 2 weeks ago:
Moscow ID is a college town though, and is quite left-leaning because of that and the proximity with Pullman WA, another college town.
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 3 weeks ago:
At my workplace, the response time for text-based messages (eg via Teams) varies wildly. Sometimes I get a response promptly. Sometimes it’s same day, sometimes it’s later that week, and sometimes I don’t get a response at all. So unfortunately the best way to get an answer I need is to just call them. Do I need that information that instant? Not necessarily, but I can’t risk the message being put off/ignored/forgotten for a week or more.
- Comment on This one is going to be controversial 4 weeks ago:
Oh my god feta is amazing, why have I never thought about adding it to pizza
- Comment on Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi? 4 weeks ago:
How do you build a system that doesn’t depend on voters not being morons? Everything I can think of, up to and including full-on authoritarianism, has human shittiness as a glaring weak point. The founding fathers assumed that people would, for the most part, act in good faith, and it kept us going for a couple hundred years, but all that is starting to fall apart.
- Comment on Maybe we should have this conversation in person so it can be a fist fight. 4 weeks ago:
That’s fair, and if you work in an environment where people are responsive to emails, that’s great. Unfortunately I work with a bunch of dinosaurs who would almost prefer a Western Express telegram over an email. I’ve had to physically go to their office and knock on their door to get shit done sometimes.
- Comment on Maybe we should have this conversation in person so it can be a fist fight. 4 weeks ago:
I’m someone who does this, and let me explain why.
It’s so you don’t have any excuse to ignore me. When I need an answer for something, if I send you an email, you’re going to either lose it in that jungle you call an inbox, or put it aside as “something to get to later” and inevitably forget about it. So I’ll just cut through all that and give you a call directly. If you don’t answer your desk phone, I’ll call your cell phone. I’ll get my answer one way or another, then it’s done. I don’t have to continually pester you with emails or delay things. One and done.
- Comment on Chloroform 🌸 😋 💕 💕 5 weeks ago:
Fresh motor oil smells amazing imo. Kinda earthy
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 5 weeks ago:
& Knuckles
- Comment on Potash 5 weeks ago:
🜿
- Comment on Stop making up states 2 months ago:
The original thirteen colonies worked exactly like that. From then on, it went something like “Hey, federal government, we want to be a state. Well follow all your rules, pinky promise.” “Aight.”
- Comment on Stop making up states 2 months ago:
Originally the US expanded quite slowly, due to difficulties in travel and surveying. But in the 1800s, after the Louisiana Purchase, we began to very aggressively expand westward. The construction of the Intercontinental Railroad helped immensely, and towns were being built almost faster than we could name them. The government began giving away land for cheap or sometimes free for anyone who could develop it. State borders became straight lines encompassing vast areas. Native Americans were forced off their land and onto reservations.
- Comment on Sovereign citizen. 2 months ago:
Actually, he’s busy playing Call of Duty 2 zombies while driving
- Comment on BACK IT UP 2 months ago:
“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway”
- Comment on Yep, it's me 3 months ago:
BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL
- Comment on Badgers 4 months ago:
Is there a Redwall community? I’m tempted to make one but I have no idea how
- Comment on Hmm... 4 months ago:
Are you saying that it I picked up a copy of that differential equations book I might actually learn wtf is going on? Because I only passed that class with the help of wolfram alpha and never looked back
- Comment on Choosing violence 5 months ago:
I flip off the breaker, just to be safe.
- Comment on Polar Bear Dens 5 months ago:
This one got me good because Saddam Hussein was the last thing I noticed
- Comment on Stained Glass 5 months ago:
You’ve enlightened me. I love dragonflies too now.
- Comment on Bill! BILL! Bill! BILL! 5 months ago:
Some kids at my high school tried that on their phones, but it never worked because all the other kids in the room would cuss them out for basically inflicting the entire room with mosquito-in-ear noises.
- Comment on Animal Attacks 6 months ago:
We put some raw chicken in a wasp trap once and my god, I’ve never seen so many wasps in one place. The thing was almost a quarter full by the end of the day.
- Comment on Ah sweet! 6 months ago:
That sounds like some Dark Souls/Evangelion shit. “Harvest the blood of the fetus after pulling it from its dead mother”
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 6 months ago:
It’s worse than that. Inches are base 12, ounces and cups are base 16, machinists use thousandths of an inch, and surveyors use tenths of a foot!
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 6 months ago:
One mile is 5280 feet, one foot is 12 inches. One square foot is 144 square inches, one cubic foot is 1728 cubic inches.
1 gallon of water is 8.34 pounds, and 1 cubic foot is 7.48 gallons, so a cubic foot of water weighs 62.38 pounds. If sand is 2.3 times heavier than water, a cubic foot of sand weighs 143.5 pounds.
I am 5 feet 10 inches tall, or 5.83 feet, or 70 inches. I weigh about 220 pounds, or 3520 ounces. If I’m 65% water, I carry about 143 pounds of water, or a little over 16 gallons.
Guh
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2024 6 months ago:
a e s t h e t i c