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- Comment on Satan Was The Good Guy This Whole Time? 1 week ago:
The notion that Lucifer as mentioned in Ezekiel 28 and Isaiah 14 is somehow a satan or even the Satan is also a later interpolation that’s highly questionable.
- Comment on Time of death: 1:19 am October 18 2 weeks ago:
I have heard tell of people having their warranties on RAM spuriously denied with the explicit justification that the replacement stick is “worth” 600% or whatever of what the original was and therefore the manufacturer can’t afford it. So I would not at all be surprised if you learned retroactively that you can’t. Of course, after already surrendering your RAM stick to the manufacturer.
I returned a memory card to Sandisk the other week, and I’m fully expecting the same result.
- Comment on A driver in New York City covered his license plate with tape 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t. Which is exactly what people are going for.
- Comment on A driver in New York City covered his license plate with tape 2 weeks ago:
From my understanding it’s rather common in the boroughs because the bridge tolls are so extreme, and they’re all toll-by-plate arrangements now.
- Comment on Got my guys house stuff and a whole new wardrobe 2 weeks ago:
Maybe, but I can tell you that copper’s thermal conductivity is better than e.g. gold, and copper can absolutely burn in open air if the particle sizes are small enough. Aluminum will too, of course.
I’m not about to try it with my meager supply of gold. The stuff is damned expensive at the moment.
- Comment on Got my guys house stuff and a whole new wardrobe 2 weeks ago:
I’m certain that all metals are flammable if you try hard enough, because all it takes is oxidation. Quite a number of them can burn in a self-sustaining manner in terrestrial conditions, though, mostly provided if and only if you manage to have enough surface area of the stuff available in one place. Powdering them usually works for that. Or, if you’d like to watch some iron burn, a fun science fact is that you can light a wad of regular old steel wool like the kind you’d buy at the grocery store as if it were a cotton ball. The finer sized the better, and you should probably also do this outside.
- Comment on Buddha orders a pizza: "Make me One with Everything" 2 weeks ago:
In the Second Scroll of Wen the Eternally Surprised, a story is written concerning one day when the apprentice Clodpool, in a rebellious mood, approached Wen and spake thusly:
“Master, what is the difference between a humanistic, monastic system of belief in which wisdom in sought by means of an apparently nonsensical system of questions and answers, and a lot of mystic gibberish made up on the spur of the moment?”
Wen considered this for some time, and at last said: “A fish!”
And Clodpool went away, satisfied.
- Comment on Why do media always specify a car's model in news stories? 3 weeks ago:
Not quite so. The media also insists on doing this with guns, while cramming in as many irrelevant descriptions and scare-words as possible.
- Comment on Day 822 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Part of the problem with the Game Gear Sonics is that most of them are the same games as their Master System counterparts, but the screen is cropped. The design decisions including the fact that the boss stages have no rings are the same level of bullshit between both, but in the Game Gear versions you have even less time to react to things.
- Comment on What represents the likeliest path to get a specific crypto-scam vid removed by YouTube? 3 weeks ago:
File a DMCA takedown request on it. Youtube always shoots first and asks questions later, and will remove the video entirely while the poster has to fight your frivolous claim. It’s likely they won’t bother, but even if they do and win their video will be delisted for days/weeks.
- Comment on new Tesla Roadster prototype 3 weeks ago:
at least ten yearsClose to a hundred years. Yes, I was surprised to discover this, too.
Of course there have been who knows how many subsequent attempts ever since.
- Comment on first state btw 3 weeks ago:
Yes, with the critical exception that if you’re traveling east or west in I-70 it takes even longer to escape.
- Comment on first state btw 3 weeks ago:
And South Carolina, Northish Carolina, North Caronlina, Norther Carolina, Northest Carolina.
The Indianaplex must be an absolute hellhole, though.
- Comment on good to know what can kill you in each state 3 weeks ago:
Maybe those snake head fish things there was apparently an epidemic of a number of years back.
- Comment on good to know what can kill you in each state 3 weeks ago:
The bucks can get a little rambunctious during mating season, but getting charged by a deer isn’t quite in the same league as, say, a moose.
Me, I’m more taking exception to the copperhead zone, there. You are exceedingly unlikely to die if you’re bitten by a copperhead. These are the most weaksauce of all vipers and the least dangerous venomous snake found in North America. I think you’ll have a much more miserable time of it if you happen to get tagged by a timber rattlesnake, which encompasses all of the copperhead’s range as depicted by that map and also continues quite a bit further, as far north as New York and as far west as eastern Oklahoma and Texas.
Furthermore, I think the chances of being eaten by a Great White in Delaware or Maryland are pretty overblown. The Maryland number one should probably also be the timber rattler or possibly black bears, especially in the western portion, and Washington DC drivers in the east. Similar with Delaware, where the most aggressive wildlife are probably the Juggalos.
- Comment on Mechanics don't want you to know about this simple trick that will save you hundreds on oil changes 3 weeks ago:
That and the fact that most of the readily available organic ones break down under the types of heat involved rather quickly.
The oil film on the cylinders at least lasts a surprisingly long time provided the pistons in motion and you don’t try to restart the engine. You can famously drain the oil out of an already running engine and it’ll continue to run happily for quite some minutes afterwards — until you shut it off. This was a popular demonstration trick for engine additive snakeoil (literally) salesmen back in the '70s and so on. “See! Our miracle oil additive is so effective your engine can run without oil at all after treatment!” Never mind the fact that it would do so anyway, and don’t expect it to work twice.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
There’s also the aspect that, especially in earlier works, the girls being perved on are able to seek cathartic and unstoppable retribution by producing a giant hammer from nowhere and bashing their assailant bodily into the pavement, or perhaps golf-driving him into orbit. No matter how powerful or skilled a man may be, there is evidently no force in anime stronger than a woman slighted. Even Bulma was able to march right up to Lord Beerus, the universe’s literal god of destruction, and deliver him a ringing slap to the face because he pissed her off.
- Comment on Technological quantum leap 3 weeks ago:
You amateurs haven’t graduated to swords yet?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Uh. Isn’t Rei Ayanami (2nd from the top, blue hair) visually 14 but canonically like four years old during the events of the original Evangelion series? Somehow that’s not even the most fucked up part about what happens to basically everybody throughout the story, either.
- Comment on They all look like this 4 weeks ago:
…I painted my car grey. Although to be fair I did it with Monstaliner, in their “quartz grey.” That was because the thing used to be silver, and I was too lazy to pick a color materially different from original for all the twiddly little bits in the doorjambs, etc.
I do, however, laugh at rock chips. Laugh, I tell you.
- Comment on Lawful evil 4 weeks ago:
I worked for a place that did this, i.e. added a delivery surcharge which the house kept. I discovered that this is, in fact, illegal in my state unless it is disclosed in writing. Which it wasn’t.
When we had a new point of sale system installed, as our restaurant’s resident tech person I naturally adjusted the settings so that the delivery charges got put into the employees’ tip total rather than into the owner’s pocket.
The owner never noticed.
- Comment on They all look like this 4 weeks ago:
I have served in the industry. This is exactly the rationale. I heard this one all the time: “But this isn’t our forever home. We’re only going to be in this house 20, maybe 25 more years. What if the new buyers don’t like it??? We have to make the safe choice.”
No statement. Only grey. Never mind that all four of those craptastic Frigidaire appliances in the picture will be scrap within six years anyway, if not less.
- Comment on Just coincidence 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on sorted bins 4 weeks ago:
Found the DuPont employee.
- Comment on Are airsoft H&K SL8 replicas still a dream? 5 weeks ago:
This was my thought as well. It seems you could use the G36 of your choice as the base and bodge on the upper rail, stock, and so forth.
I will say this, though, if OP is worried about the finish quality of the external parts: Getting a factory looking finish on those big plastic pieces is going to be very difficult with 3D printed parts and require a ton of postprocessing.
- Comment on Are airsoft H&K SL8 replicas still a dream? 5 weeks ago:
There is one, but it’s not very active.
!airsoft@lemmy.world
I posted my Luger to it a while ago. I should probably post more, but there are always other projects. Alas.
- Comment on Das Fluten Duten 5 weeks ago:
I rather suspect that if you use on it the wall will drop down briefly and allow yourself to elevator up to the upper surface where the trees and all are.
- Comment on Nothing like a good lather 5 weeks ago:
Meta.
- Comment on Nintendo Wins $4.5 Million Judgment Against r/SwitchPirates Mod 'Archbox' * TorrentFreak 1 month ago:
Location, location, location. Be somewhere that has lax or absent laws enabling foreign entities to prosecute you for this sort of thing and has no extradition treaty with Japan and/or the US. And remain anonymous and avoid identification. This guy was a reddit mod and lived in friggin’ Arizona, both of which were bad moves on his part. So I imagine Nintendo or the courts subpoenaed reddit for everything they had on the guy and they eagerly complied.
If you lived in, say, Cambodia and only distributed your stuff through decentralized or anonymized channels and did not seek fame or fortune for yourself it’s pretty likely nobody would actually be able to bring the hammer down on you for it.
- Comment on Uhhhhhhmmmmmmmmm 1 month ago:
