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- Comment on Honda Acty Valve Adjustment Guide: When, Why & How to Do It 2 days ago:
I had to check which community I was in just now.
Is this some kind of free range dadaist avant-garde shitposting I’m not hip enough to get, or did you post this in entirely the wrong place?
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 2 days ago:
Firefox also now has “copy clean link” when you right click the url bar which also works great.
I am an avid and exclusive user of Firefox and I never discovered this because it never would have occurred to me in a million years to right click the URL bar for any reason. So I’ll be damned; there it is. (I always just lasso the relevant part myself and hit ctrl + c.)
- Comment on Why do some companies like a utility put out ads? 3 days ago:
For PR. They’re trying to shape public perception of themselves in order look less like the bad guys, either for recruiting purposes or in order to hopefully receive less public or regulatory backlash over whatever the next shady stunt they’re planning on pulling is.
- Comment on Oxygen 3 days ago:
Ah, see. That’s the neat part…
- Comment on Relax, Guy [South Park Studios] 4 days ago:
- Comment on Is there a way to remove a mod from my community? 4 days ago:
I notice that Tesseract is also one of those clients which allows you to preemptively ban someone from a community even if they’re never made an appearance there, if that’s one of those features you’re looking for. I imagine this explains the how, albeit not the why, I’m apparently banned by default from a handful of communities I’m certain I’ve never visited on an instance I’d never even heard of until I noticed in my own modlog that I was banned from them.
Evidently including, and this is the only reason I bring it up, !tesseract@dubvee.org.
…I think I’ll stick with Alexandrite for now.
- Comment on Relax, Guy [South Park Studios] 4 days ago:
Using the same musical cues as the movie is both genius and hilarious.
- Comment on minecraft modding community 5 days ago:
And, you know, beds.
I suspect their legendary refusal to add chairs is simply because nobody wants to give the player models knees.
- Comment on I just shitpost🙃 5 days ago:
Antisocial media. (I.e. perpetual bickering.)
- Comment on minecraft modding community 5 days ago:
You can already auto sort in vanilla with a sufficiently byzantine arrangement of hoppers. It’s not very space efficient, but you can indeed do it.
If I still played Minecraft I would probably be more interested in a Terraria style “throw all loot automatically at nearby chests” button than a dedicated sorting block, but given that Microsoft has displayed a dogged insistence on not giving a rat’s ass about what the player base actually wants I would not hold your breath for that one.
- Comment on What would happen to the US if it denaturalised and deported all non-whites? 5 days ago:
That sounds easy on paper but I know plenty of white dudes who work outdoors who are darker on a consistent basis than many Mexicans. Defining somebody’s “whiteness” just based on shade would exclude a lot of people these fuckers don’t want to, and vise-versa.
The list of exceptions would wind up being longer than the rules. Of course we all know that in reality if such a thing were to actually happen, it would ultimately just devolve to fascists playing favorites on an individual basis with inconsistent, ever fluid, and capricious so-called criteria that are just a flimsy excuse to justify disposing of their personal enemies.
- Comment on energy 5 days ago:
I should point out at this juncture that you can get an airsoft Claymore now, which is slightly less likely to also blow the front wall off of your house the next time those pesky Jehovah’s Witnesses ring your doorbell but likely to be at least still 80%, maybe 85% as hilarious.
- Comment on What would happen to the US if it denaturalised and deported all non-whites? 1 week ago:
First there would have to be a raging and highly politicized debate over exactly who qualifies as “white.” It turns out there isn’t a clear cut distinction there which was a problem for 18th and 19th century bigoted fucks as well.
- Comment on Get in the pod, inhale the fumes. 1 week ago:
Yeah, and you’re still paying your food subscription, electricity subscription, roof subscription, etc. That’s not the zinger everyone thinks it is.
- Comment on Are autistic people known to post a lot in social media or websites to "fill" their imaginations? 1 week ago:
I’m definitely not doing it every day. For fuck’s sake, I can’t be bothered. That and I’d go broke.
- Comment on Get in the pod, inhale the fumes. 1 week ago:
It’s (near) the top of Spruce Knob in West Virginia, looking West over the Appalachians, into the Allegheny Plateau.
- Comment on Get in the pod, inhale the fumes. 1 week ago:
Can’t speak for others, but I don’t participate in the stereotypical mad rush from the suburbs to the city and vise-versa every day. My commute is about 7 minutes, provided I don’t feel like deliberately taking a detour to meander through the countryside on my motorcycle after work.
Due to the nature of my work I do have to be in the office, though, to interact with… ugh… clients.
- Comment on Get in the pod, inhale the fumes. 1 week ago:
Only if you ride this.
- Comment on Get in the pod, inhale the fumes. 1 week ago:
Wrong.
- Comment on Do movie actors or actress keep the skills they learned? Like no one would screw with Keanu after seeing all the John Wick films? And if they did would they just be fucked from the start? 1 week ago:
There are three effective methods of avoiding gunfire, in increasing order of efficacy:
- Be so close to the enemy that you’re on the same end of the muzzle that he is. Now would also be a good time to stick your knife and/or pistol up his nose. (Keanu’s goofy close-in pistol holding stance in the movies is supposed to be a nod to avoiding exactly this sort of thing, given the ridiculous amount of CQB that seems to be inevitable in the setting.)
- See to it that there is something that is proof against small arms fire between you and the shooter. Furthermore see to it that it stays there, or failing that encourage him to stay where he is until he runs out of bullets.
- Plug the other guy before he sees you. If you’re a rotten shot, preferably with some manner of artillery or an airstrike.
Note that there is generally a rather wide span of distance between 3 and 2, and also 2 and 1 where you probably don’t want to be standing.
- Comment on Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says criminal “geoengineering and weather modification activities" could have played a role in recent Texas floods 1 week ago:
I’m sure they know damn well, they’re just doing a limp wristed job of trying to shift the blame towards the latter.
- Comment on Is the cure to male loneliness shitposting? 1 week ago:
Nobody really argues with me in my niche online community. I almost kind of feel ripped off.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yes, that’s how it goes. But ammonium nitrate/ANFO (the fuel oil/diesel is mixed with it in order to sensitize it marginally, or rather to give a medium for the initiating shockwave to propagate through) has the extra special distinction of not being brisant enough to be self-propagating. Unlike dynamite, TNT, RDX/C4, etc., you need to have an initiator big enough to encapsulate your entire ammonium nitrate payload in a shockwave that’s powerful enough to set it off. That’s pretty tough for a home gamer to do.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Ammonium nitrate does a pretty credible job of preventing itself from being used as an explosive to begin with. It’s damn difficult to initiate, and anyone with the capability to do so would be able to trivially defeat pelletizing by, e.g., just grinding the stuff up first.
It’s not a matter of just sticking a fuse in it like Wile E. Coyote. You already have to have your hands on some pretty serious blasting caps or have the capability to manufacture your own, and at that rate you’re already pretty well versed in making things go boom.
McVeigh had to resort to using dynamite as a booster to initiate his truck full of ANFO and even then IIRC not all of it went off. But if you already have dynamite… you already have dynamite.
What pisses me off is that whole debacle made potassium nitrate hard to get your hands on in bulk because too many idiots in suits flunked high school chemistry. KNO~3~ is significantly more useful for purposes other than stripping the facades off of government buildings.
Oh, and after the affair some dimwit from the ATF came to my hardware store and tried to grill me about chemical fertilizers in a circumspect and very strange way that was attempting to simultaneously serve as a threat while also not letting slip the knowledge of what ammonium nitrate could possibly be used for, in case the mere act of asking gave anyone any ideas. I lost count of how many ways I had to phrase “we only sell consumer grade blended products” at him until he finally went away. Demonstrating that I knew more about it than he did probably would not have been a great idea regardless of how satisfying it might be.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 1 week ago:
Concur. I’m still banned from PayPal and I have been since the early 2000’s because I used it to buy a “high capacity magazine,” which PayPal declared was “illegal activity” with no appeal.
…An airsoft magazine. Not a single state in the union where that’s illegal (or at least certainly not at the time).
Payment processors attempting to police the nature of online transactions should expose them to liability, not the other way around.
- Comment on what 2 weeks ago:
I have bids turned off on eBay for this reason. The only thing you ever get is low ball offers.
Now that I have bids turned off that makes the low ballers message me instead, usually with an insulting poorly spelled paragraph attached, or some sob story. Or both. But since they messaged you, that means you can block them.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 3 weeks ago:
In an LEP light? A regular LED, sure. But those lack the novelty of being able to lance somebody in the face with a laser beam.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 3 weeks ago:
My attorney has advised me to make no statements whatsoever regarding the applicability of the Lumintop Thor Mini I just bought the other week, which outputs a mere 250 lumens but does so in a narrow cone that’s got, to my reckoning, a divergence of only about four or five degrees.
I’ll have to do some measuring later, but at rear-windshield-to-asshole distance it’ll only throw a spot that’s probably about a foot wide, delivering maximum fuck you with a minimum of collateral damage.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 3 weeks ago:
Easy. I did it the just other day because I forgot that my new CRF250L is a Honda, and the position of the turn signal switch and the horn are reversed from every other bike I own, and probably not coincidentally every also other motorcycle brand on the planet. Some guy in the lane next to me got super butthurt because he thought I honked “at” him as I was completing my turn, which was quite hilarious to watch. (He was in the far left lane, I was doing a right on red from the right lane. There is no conceivable reality in which anything I was doing would be related to him, if not for the fact that he had Main Character Disorder.)
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 3 weeks ago:
some folks just want to feel some kind of power because they feel powerless and they just need a wake-up call.
This is, like, the perfect summation of the human condition. Probably an awful lot of it, anyway.
