OutlierBlue
@OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Your next phone could have a 10km Bluetooth connection 6 days ago:
Why the fuck would I want that? That sounds like a huge security liability.
- Comment on Will the tariffs lead to a recession? 1 week ago:
Throw it on the pile.
- Comment on Jesus was too late for this guy 2 weeks ago:
Jesus said he’d return in the gospel’s lifetime. He’s very fucking late.
- Comment on Solid voting advice 2 weeks ago:
Change that to a Tesla.
- Comment on No matter how you write it, today's date is messing with my dyslexia 2 weeks ago:
“April 3, 2025”?
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 2 weeks ago:
1 point. I’ve never sent/received a fax.
- Comment on They said the packaging would be discreet! 2 weeks ago:
So a standard Trump supporter?
- Comment on Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5 3 weeks ago:
I think a lot of people are waiting for the first Civ7 expansion pack to be released
I’m waiting for the last Civ7 expansion pack to be released.
- Comment on Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5 3 weeks ago:
They do make changes throughout the series, but every new game is a complete reset to a basic game so they can sell you all the DLC and expansions to make it into a full game.
- Comment on Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5 3 weeks ago:
I’ll pick up Civ 7 in a few years when I can get the full pack for a reasonable price. It’s the way Civ works.
- Comment on Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5 3 weeks ago:
Me too. It’s still the best and the most moddable.
- Comment on woolly little chafer 3 weeks ago:
Mosquitos are also pollinators.
- Comment on World travelers 3 weeks ago:
They took the Panama Canal, obviously.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 4 weeks ago:
Civ4 is the best Civ.
- Comment on You better say "Thank You"! 4 weeks ago:
Yeah but have you seen the price of squid ink these days?!
- Comment on Is there anything the internet can't do? 5 weeks ago:
The internet did not invent the human anus.
No, but it showed it to me in full goatse glory.
- Comment on Who gets all the tariff money about to be collected from US citizens buying products from Canada? 1 month ago:
Having a crypto reserve makes sense if you plan on tanking the economy and US dollar for profit.
- Comment on Ultra Gullible 1 month ago:
I looked up the service tag (7YRPNS1) on Dell’s site.
- Comment on People complain that it's poor design that humans eat and breath through the same pipe(throat). Are there any animals which don't though? 1 month ago:
I’d have put the vocal chords in the nasal passage, allowing humans to still talk while eliminating the choking problem.
Exactly. A very simple correction to the design would allow for both.
The laryngeal nerve is a great example of how flawed our bodies are. A few more are:
- Our back is terrible for walking upright. It evolved as a horizontal support and doesn’t work well when compressed.
- Our hips are too narrow for the size skull we give birth to. Many women die from this without healthcare.
- Our eyes suck. A lot of people need corrective lenses from a young age. This gets even worse as we age.
- Speaking of eyes, our retinas are backwards. The nerves that send the signals back to our brains run in front the receptors that pick up the light. We have a blind spot because those nerves need to pass through to reach the brain.
- Comment on People complain that it's poor design that humans eat and breath through the same pipe(throat). Are there any animals which don't though? 1 month ago:
Yes, most animals can. Insects don’t breathe the way we do at all. They have separate openings for their respiration.
Amphibians start out with gills and only in adulthood do they develop lungs (althourh the axolotl keeps its gills for life) and can respirate through their skin.
Mollusks either respirate through their skin, gills, or through an air sack.
In none of those cases do the respiratory and digestive tracts cross. And those groups of animals outnumber us by far.
- Comment on Maybe I should live next to a blueberry farm or something. 1 month ago:
Driscoll’s are a US company. There’s a full shelf of those in our grocery store no one will touch. Go fuck yourself Trump.
Signed,
Canada - Comment on I am from a different millenia 1 month ago:
CDs? They used to do it on tapes too.
- Comment on I love the future. 1 month ago:
No it’s not. It’s not too late to start resisting, but every day that ticks by makes it harder.
- Comment on let's goooooo 1 month ago:
Nature has rules, boundaries, and predetermined roles.
But that’s just not true. There’s no such thing as a predetermined role. That’s the whole process of evolution. Nothing is predetermined. Things move and change, often in ways that seem nonsensical at first. For example, many species have switched back and forth between carnivory and herbivory throughout their ancient history. And even today many animals which we call herbivores will take advantage of a quick snack of meat. Both deer and horses have been observed doing this.
If you start with a false statement, of course you’ll get a wacky conclusion.
- Comment on Im thinking we still have a deeper bottom 1 month ago:
Especially when the first things they do are start taking apart consumer and environmental protections, disband social safety nets, increase taxes (tariffs) on imported goods, attack FEMA, and stop farm subsidies, all of which hurt the working class.
Not only do people still believe the ridiculous lie, they believe it despite the mountain of evidence they don’t give a fuck about you.
- Comment on People never understand the sacrifices I make for them. 1 month ago:
One of our help desk reps spent 45 minutes on the phone helping someone set up their authenticator app for MFA. It’s a simple install of an app and linking it to your account. If the user listens and does as instructed, it takes about 2 and a half minutes. If they don’t? 45 minutes.
The rep took their break and worked on something else for a while to recover.
- Comment on Freedumb 1 month ago:
I can proudly say I never wear my stupid seat belt and for 20 years never had an accident! I’m just a better drive!
… see how stupid that sounds?
- Comment on Freedumb 1 month ago:
That’s exactly the problem. Vaccines have worked so well that people have forgotten the horrors of the diseases they prevent.
I read an article a while back about a mother who’s little girl caught whooping cough. She hadn’t vaccinated her, but said that watching her daughter struggling to breathe was the worst thing she’d experienced and wished she had listened and given her the vaccine.
People realize very quickly why vaccines are important, but it’s usually by experiencing it firsthand, and unfortunately it’s too late by then.
- Comment on Facepalm on multiple levels 1 month ago:
When a fascist “jokes” about taking and keeping more power, they’re not joking. They’re absolutely serious.
He wouldn’t have to be elected again. He lost the vote last time and still tried to launch an insurrection to overthrow the legitimate government and maintain power. He’s learned a lot since that failed attempt. He’s dismantling the government and the checks and balances by the day. There won’t be anything left to stop him in 4 years. He will not leave willingly.
