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- Comment on Why do media always specify a car's model in news stories? 21 hours 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 days 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? 4 days 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 5 days 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 5 days 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 5 days 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 5 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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] 6 days 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 1 week ago:
You amateurs haven’t graduated to swords yet?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on sorted bins 2 weeks ago:
Found the DuPont employee.
- Comment on Are airsoft H&K SL8 replicas still a dream? 2 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? 2 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 2 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 2 weeks ago:
Meta.
- Comment on Nintendo Wins $4.5 Million Judgment Against r/SwitchPirates Mod 'Archbox' * TorrentFreak 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on You shall not drink! 3 weeks ago:
The extra grit in your drink puts hairs on your chest.
- Comment on You shall not drink! 3 weeks ago:
Just take your P-38 and/or P-51 can opener and cut the top off. Easy.
- Comment on fedi is freedom 3 weeks ago:
Luckily there is no algorithm here, at least in the commonly expected sense with modern social media. You can sort and filter posts by various schemes, but it’s clearly deterministic and the post rate around here is slow enough that you can get it to consistently return the exact same result set in the exact same order multiple times.
Your instance is not tracking what you view, hover, and click on in order to profile you to serve you more of anything else.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, well. I’ll 3D print you some GTA themed swag and put it in a box that also doesn’t include the game, except I’ll do it for $375. How about that?
- Comment on he did that 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Toyota orders workers to train humanoid robots but says humans won't be replaced 4 weeks ago:
I’m going to invent a new printer. It’s state of the art. It’s a clockwork man that sits down at your desk and types on your typewriter for you, all with fingers and everything.
What? You’re saying that idea is self-evidently moronic? What a coincidence, so is this.
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 4 weeks ago:
Except in a few exceptional circumstances this is surprisingly not the case. People drive at a speed they perceive as appropriate for the design of the road. Wider roads, wider lanes, straighter roads, open sightlines, and bigger shoulders will make people naturally settle on driving faster. This is why just blithely reducing speed limits with poxy signs on problem roads famously doesn’t accomplish anything. It’s also why people go bombing down the stroad in your local commercial district at 55+ MPH in complete contravention of all the signs everywhere that probably say something around 35. The damn thing looks like a highway to peoples’ monkey brains, so they treat it as such.
People certainly talk about how “my strategy for speeding is to take the speed limit and then you can go around 5/10/15/whatever over and the cops probably won’t care,” and if you sit there in the passenger seat and actively press them on it they may actually drive that way for as many as several consecutive minutes. But most of them just fall back to their perceptual “intuitive” speed for whatever road along with everyone else. Especially if they see everyone else passing them.
