TheDoozer

@TheDoozer@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Active duty members of the United States, How are you feeling in regards of being under the service of the Amerinazis?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So here’s my time for this story:

  When I was at a recruiting office for the Coast Guard, the recruiter asked why I specifically vhose the Coast Guard over any other branches. I said I’m the type of person that if I volunteered for the military and then got sent to a situation where some 12-year-old with a gun was going to kill me if I didn’t kill him, I would not be able to absolve myself of the responsibility of having to kill a kid, even to defend myself, because even if I didn’t choose to be in that kid’s country, I relinquished my choice to the military, so I am still responsible. There’s nothing morally ambiguous about saving somebody who is drowning.

  He said that was a dumb reason. I didn’t care.

  Well, as it turns out, he was right, but not for the reason he thought at the time.

  Make the Coast Guard Department of Transportation Again!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumerism ahhhhh moment⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I had the choice of the Yaris or another car, I would choose the other car. Because driving that car would make me at least low-level angry for the time I had it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some absurd scare tactic to not allow women to vote⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting that allowing women to vote created a situation where women felt it less absolutely necessary to get married. Because after a while, their voice had to be considered when discussing bills like prohibiting banks from refusing bank accounts, home loans, and credit cards to women.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumerism ahhhhh moment⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Yaris ads did this to me. I got so pissed off by their “It’s a car” commercials that I absolutely despised the product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeeeeeeeeeeeeee-Haaaaw!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found that amongst people I know who fly the Gadsden Flag, it makes zero sense. Like, if Ben and Jerry’s made a boot-leather flavor of ice cream, their target demographic and the those of the people who sell Gadsden Flags would be identical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My father the tween literary critic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A book that I got as part of a birthday present when I was in middle school had a passage where a man’s long-lost sister (who was part monster, but was painstakingly described as very attractive) told him that either he had to impregnate her the old-fashioned way, or she would simply get a syringe, extract sperm from his testicles, and impregnate herself that way to create, if I remember correctly, a monster that would end the world or something. It was labeled as “Young Adult” level.

  So, like, probably something like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at the end of the contract⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Only use-case I’ve had for rental was when I was at a military school for five months. My roommate and I needed a TV in our barracks room, but there wasn’t much point in buying a TV (each of us had TVs back home), so we rented one for five months. It was great. One of us also bought a Wii (dating myself here), so it was a great time.

  That’s about the only case I can think of renting furniture/appliances. If you are temporarily someplace and can’t thrift an item at a reasonable price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Price gouging⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Our pilots, with training, regularly can get to inside a circle patch of flat land 100 ft in diameter. They generally pick a very specific spot on the runway (like the numbers) and then aim to end up there. And they practice straight down, 90 degree left, 90 degree right* 180 degree, and on occasion 360 degree (for when the spot you want is directly below when your engines fail, and feels like you are corkscrewing to your doom). Obviously practice is different than an actual emergency, but I felt confident the pilots could get us down safely in the event of a dual engine failure.

  So honestly if it’s over mountainous areas, I’d rather be in the helicopter looking for a place to hard land than a fixed wing aircraft (that needs a runway or at the very least a long grassy field with no obstructions).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Price gouging⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have flown in helicopters most of my career, and we regularly did auto-rotation emergency drills, where we cut the engines output back (to simulate dual engine failure) and then “glide” to a particular spot, using the air pressure from descent to drive the blades.

  With a good pilot, you just kind of go zero-g for a second or two, and the. A somehwat faster than normal descent, followed by a big flare (tail down, nose up, like a diving bird pulling back and fanning its wings out) at around 80 feet, then quick (less comfortable) drop to the deck.

  With a good pilot, it’s mildly uncomfortable, with a mediocre pilot, it’s some back pain and some extra maintenance inspections, but you aren’t crashing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Start-up idea⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you take inflation into consideration, high quality products still exist at about the same price. Its just that there are now MUCH cheaper options now.

  I think the Sam Vimes Boots Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness plays a part as well:

  The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. … A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. … But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socio-economic unfairness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is the beginning on the left and the end on the right?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Swinging with right hand, holding with left (for right-handed people). So you can see what you’ve done so far as you go, just like writing with your right hand from left to right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck, can I have a do-over?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The best thing I have learned to do with age is embrace the awkwardness. You do something ridiculous and awkward, you laugh, call it out like it’s something funny for both of you, and then you move on.

  “Gow’s it hoeing? …wait… that’s not right. Hoooow’s… itt… gooooiiing… there we go, nailed it.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside me there are two shit takes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Both are yes but also no.

  Each person is responsible for their own actions and choices.

  Also, often systemic issues make certain behaviors far more likely, and rather than suggesting there is something inherently wrong with a person or group of people who have made those negative actions or choices, we should address the issues that contributed.

  If a person beats their kids, saying they came from an abusive household does not absolve them, but if there has been a culture of ignoring (or encouraging) child abuse, addressing that would go a long way toward reducing child abuse in the next generation, for example. But the person who abused their kid still deserves the punishment they get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clothes too dirty for the closest but too clean for the laundry⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use command hooks on the wall. It feels more orderly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't waste your time debating them just keep away from them⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Back when I was at university, I was in the band, and there was one guy in my section that was super annoying, and who couldn’t talk with a person without squaring up to them (and then talking at them).

  One time my best friend (also in the section), in the middle of the guy’s sentence with a bored expression on her face just… turns and walks away as if he had stopped speaking.

  The rest of us were thinking “wait… we can do that? I didn’t realize that was an option.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Follow this advice for a happier 2026⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Zeus: Wow. Just… rude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this even a question?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, you weren’t kidding. I was expecting a cop car, not six.

  To anyone looking, you have to get the corner/mid-intersection shot to get the mess of police. If you’re just going up Pine, it looks pretty benign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨genius⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Got that Alaskan Airframe and Powerplant license, I see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give me some good ones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.”

  -Malcom Reynolds, CAPT.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Check mate, atheists. ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Short, memorable stories that show people getting punished for misdeeds and others rewarded for positive deeds is much easier to impart onto peasants than the nuances of collectivism.

  I would agree if the stories consistently portrayed that. In the Bible and Torah, Job is the most righteous and good and gets fucked because of that. David has a faithful soldier that goes so far as to refuse to go home to his wife while his comrades were still fighting, and David has him killed in a fucked up way (told his general to send him where the fighting was worst and then have everybody pull back from him), all to try to cover up fucking the soldier’s wife. David’s “punishment” was he married the hot widow and the child conceived in the affair was miscarried. And as soon as she miscarried, David shrugged it off and moved on with his life.

  Also, the entire Christian religion is based on absolution for whatever evil you do, you just have to be part of the club. If Hitler had “come to Jesus” right before he died, he would be in heaven while an atheist who spent their whole life doing good would be in hell. Deeds are irrelevant for punishment.

  And let’s not even get into Greek Mythology, where how good or bad of a human you were was completely irrelevant to what happened to you at the whims of the gods. Same for Norse.

  I don’t know how it is for any other religions, as I haven’t studied them, but I don’t think religion was required to establish a moral code and accountability. The Code of Hammurabi didn’t require religion to have a legal code (while recognizing the relief at the top showing the god of justice handing it to Hammurabi, it seems pretty clear that was artistic expression), and it pre-dated the Ten Commandments.

  Someone could point to the horrible acts done in the name of religion, but just imagine if those people didn’t have the fear of god in them.

  I just… what kind of argument is this? Do you think the people running the Spanish Inquisition would have tortured harder if they didn’t have the “fear of god” in them? That the Crusades would have been bloodier? What reason do you have to think that the horrible acts done in the name of religion would have been worse if it wasn’t for religion?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neither do I, Mr. Raccoon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that it is unfortunate that he got shanked, as he was convicted and appropriately sentenced for the murder he committed. That is as it should be.

  Shank the ones that get away with it, not the ones in jail for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"autism didn't exist back in my day"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s hilarious, I worked with the guy in the video who bro-ed out with a wrench in his pocket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"autism didn't exist back in my day"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in helicopter maintenance, so reading this I was thinking, “yeah, and?”

  It makes any task so much faster when you know exactly where the thing you need is.

  The metallurgy is important, too, because different things corrode at different rates, and in contact with different metals.

  Incidentally, that part in Big Hero 6 when Wasabi has his tools lined out, with every part and tool accounted for, I thought his shop area was well maintained and appropriate, especially working with such dangerous technology. Then they tried to portray him as mildly OCD or something, and I just thought everyone else was wrong. And Go-Go just grabbing a tool without checking it out was completely inappropriate and poor tool control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there's actual 🌽 in cornucopia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the horn of a goat that Zeus broke off when he was a… child? God-child? Whatever. It was magical and provided an endless supply of food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over the past 5 years, police in the U.S. have killed over 9,000 people⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, they could have at least had a picture of Vegeta.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got a little drunk last week gave money to a cult. Again.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  American Civil Liberties Union, and I’m not sure what they’re on about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even if you develop the worst type of dementia imaginable, please find a way to always remember the events of 11/13/25.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Much better way to organize. It’s how a lot of my files start:

  YYYYMMDD-Name-Document-signed

  So much easier to keep track.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Truth is way more fucked up than fiction⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the man who has openly declared since the 2000s that democracy is a mistake and that he wants to destroy the United States and European countries to establish city-states, each governed by a different corporation (fiefdoms), on our ruins

  Wait. Did dude read Snowcrash and think “yeah, that future, that’s my utopia!”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we still talking about cars or back to bodies?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like the mechanic handing you a $15 code reader and saying “just erase it whenever it pops up.”