thebestaquaman
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- Comment on Anon has a proposal for you 1 week ago:
Find a big artery close to the skin surface, sever it.
Have you seen a headless chicken freaking out and running around before bleeding out and dying? Now imagine that, except the chicken is 12 m tall, weighs 8.8 metric tonnes, still has its head, and that head is full of teeth the size of a kitchen knife.
- Comment on Is "On your left" the best thing to say when passing someone on a trail? 1 week ago:
I’ll only ever say “on your <side>” if I’m moving significantly faster than a person (e.g. I’m biking or running), there’s little space, and I have some reason to think they may not be aware that I’m coming up behind them and could move unexpectedly to the side.
- Comment on If at a restaurant a guy is choking and I give them the Heimlich and accidentally break a rib while trying to save his life. Can I be sued? 1 week ago:
I am a firm believer that anyone that unsuccessfully sues a first aid responder should automatically be sentenced to paying the person double what they sued for. No counter-suit required: A loss just automatically means you have to pay up.
- Comment on The myth of "consensual" choking 1 week ago:
There’s a huge difference between a firm hold and chokehold.
So much this! I think it’s under-communicated that you have this whole spectrum from “placing hand lightly on neck” to “actual strangulation”, and there’s a whole lot of fun to be had without getting close to the dangerous side of that spectrum at all.
- Comment on I skipped my nightly pre-tightening ritual. 🤗 2 weeks ago:
No shit was expelled - that’s the nice thing about clenching!
- Comment on I skipped my nightly pre-tightening ritual. 🤗 2 weeks ago:
I spontaneously clenched real hard just from reading this and having the image pop up in my head again…
- Comment on I skipped my nightly pre-tightening ritual. 🤗 2 weeks ago:
That scene is absolute nightmare material, in a movie that’s in no way a horror movie of any kind. This scene, and the one with the giant centipedes is enough to give anyone the bug-creeps for life.
- Comment on Anon isn't worried about population decline 4 weeks ago:
Thanks, that was a much more nuanced take that I have a much easier time agreeing with :)
I think the population problem has some in common with food distribution: There’s enough food in the world, it’s just distributed in such a way that some places have obesity as a societal-level issue, while other places people are dying of malnourishment.
Similarly, the global population is increasing, however it’s increasing far more rapidly that sustainable in some places, while declining more rapidly than sustainable in others.
There’s only so much you can do by redistributing wealth in a better way (which I think we should, regardless). It doesn’t help to tax the rich if there isn’t any manpower you can buy with that tax income to actually do the work that needs doing. I think that’s the scary part about a rapid population decline: We’re heading towards a situation (in some places) where the ratio of capable workers to people needing care approaches 2:1, which means a far larger fraction of the population will need to spend their entire working career as direct care providers than is currently the case. You can’t really alleviate a manpower shortage with just money.
- Comment on Anon isn't worried about population decline 4 weeks ago:
It’s a dog whistle every time.
Population decline isn’t inherently a problem (unless you’re a racist worried about “your people” losing power). Too rapid population decline is a big problem. We’re already seeing the effects: When the sum of birth rates and working-age immigration fall fast enough, the ratio of working-age people to care-needing people also falls. I don’t think I need to explain why it’s a problem that every able-bodied working age adult will be responsible (directly or indirectly) for taking care of more people. It puts more pressure on everyone, and impacts societies ability to care for those in need of it.
A controlled, slow, population decline would probably just be a good thing at this point. However, that’s not what prognoses are pointing towards, and that’s why (non-racist) people are worried.
- Comment on No, you can't keep your 20 year old dictionary password 5 weeks ago:
Why would you do such things? Just let me log in using some trusted authenticator please. If you can’t do that, you may as well replace everything with a confirmation mail every time I log in, cause you bet I’m going to click “forgot my password” Every Single Time and get in via the reset-email anyway.
You forcing me to change my password all the time just adds extra overhead to the inevitability that you’ll let me in after mailing me a confirmation code.
- Comment on no one can understand AI 5 weeks ago:
Oh, just wait till you hit that sweet sweet python “Everything can have an
elseblock”if some_shit: try: for stuff in thing: if stuff is bad: raise ShitHitTheFanError # Massive block comment do = the_thing() if do is good: break else: do = the_other_thing() if not a_thing: help_me() # May raise NoHelpFoundError except ShitHitTheFanError: my_life = recover() if my_life is bad: for fuck in my_life: try: fix(fuck) except NoHelpFoundError: break else: fuck_this_shit() else: wat_is_going_on() else: theres_another_one("?")
- Comment on Anon hates C++ 5 weeks ago:
Foot
gunscannons - Comment on 0-0 1 month ago:
- Alcoholic suffering from alcoholism
- Best I can do is take away your alcohol
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Hit em’ with that exp(-x) sin(x)
- Comment on If you take a water balloon filled normally at the surface of the ocean and take it down, like 100 meters would it deflate due to the higher water pressure? What if you popped it? 2 months ago:
When the compression is large enough to be relevant to whatever you’re calculating or discussing. Part of my job is literally to develop models that, for instance, predict the compressibility of water. For pretty much all practical purposes I can attest that the isothermal compressibility of water is completely negligible.
- Comment on If only I could power them with my disappointment 2 months ago:
You can! Just go to the “place you buy earbuds” settings page and select “wired earbuds”. After I did that, the annoying warnings went away, and my earbuds gained infinite battery life!
- Comment on If only I could power them with my disappointment 2 months ago:
You will pry these wired earbuds out of my cold dead ears!
- Comment on Honk at me again you long neck fuck, see what happens. 2 months ago:
Exactly! There’s also the significant point that you could get bit in the process of kicking away said dog, and the bite could give you an infection, which all comes back to why we (like most animals) will go very far to avoid a physical altercation.
Basically, fighting shit can be dangerous, even in situations where you easily come out on top 10/10 times. That doesn’t mean the fucking chihuahua has a chance.
- Comment on Honk at me again you long neck fuck, see what happens. 2 months ago:
They’re feared by most animals because most animals (humans included) aren’t willing to risk a fight unless they need to, while geese have a solid intimidation game, and make to believe that they’re big and strong and will fight you.
A 5 kg dog can also scare off plenty of people. That doesn’t mean an average grown person can’t punt it across the yard if push comes to shove. Plenty of videos out there show what happens when one of these animals actually goes after someone’s kid… the kid usually ends up fine to put it that way.
- Comment on Honk at me again you long neck fuck, see what happens. 2 months ago:
Pure poetry <3
- Comment on Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me 2 months ago:
Well that’s great until you want more torque (with the long side of the handle) or you’re working in a space where only the short side fits in where the screw is, or you want to attach said bit to a drill. It’s pretty common for bit-sets to just have ordinary (straight) hex bits rather than the rounded ones.
- Comment on Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me 2 months ago:
Yeah but with torx I don’t need an extra bit to handle that, it’s just a built in feature of the bit. It also doesn’t answer why torx apparently sucks? “Hex can also do that if you have a special bit” doesn’t make torx any worse.
- Comment on Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me 2 months ago:
What makes torx crap? Unlike hex, you can still screw them in if your screwdriver is at an angle, which can be really convenient if you’re working at odd angles.
- Comment on business is business 2 months ago:
Wasn’t that Charles Proteus Steinmetz fixing a generator at one of Fords factories? “1 $ for the piece of chalk, 9,999 $ for knowing where to put the mark”.
- Comment on Me rocking up to Lemmy all feed 2 months ago:
This bothered me too much, I caught it here so you don’t have to.
- Comment on Shhhhhhh Don't Tell Mum, You're Fine 2 months ago:
I was thinking the same thing! Those expressions are so real and intense… I rarely see a painting that hits home like this one does.
- Comment on Team Car! 2 months ago:
If I’m on a bike, notice a car coming up behind me, and don’t think it’s safe for them to pass, I will put myself in the middle of the road to block them.
If they try some stupid and dangerous passing, I’m the one getting pulped. Putting yourself in the middle of the road is a very effective way of communicating “don’t even try to squeeze past me, there’s not enough space.” The most dangerous situations I’ve been in on a bike have been due to cars trying to squeeze past me when there isn’t enough space, it’s terrifying.
- Comment on Team Car! 2 months ago:
I definitely agree with the sentiment, my top priority is to not get run over. I still walk confidently onto the crosswalk without pausing, while keeping a close eye on the approaching car so that I can get out of the way if they don’t stop.
My experience is that if you hesitate, way too many drivers will just floor it in front of you, while if you give the impression that they’ll hit you if they don’t stop, they’ll hit the breaks.
- Comment on Team Car! 2 months ago:
The kamikaze cyclists give all of us a really bad time. I’m honestly surprised at how some people behave in traffic, knowing that they’re an unprotected meat bag moving at speeds far higher than what the human body is built for.
- Comment on Team Car! 2 months ago:
I bike or walk pretty much everywhere I go, so my take on roads and traffic is that they’re usually far too car-centric (Norway). Even when I drive, I’m so used to thinking like a cyclist that I become very aware of how poorly roads are often designed around biking.
With that said… The amount of cyclists with an apparent death wish is just staggering. Just two days ago I passed a cyclist in an 80 km/h zone. No issue there. Just around the next turn, I caught up to a second cyclist that I couldn’t immediately pass due to oncoming traffic. I’m behind this second cyclist, going downhill at maybe 50 km/h, with oncoming traffic on a relatively narrow road, when I notice that the first cyclist has caught up to us. Instead of placing himself behind me, he decided it was a brilliant idea to squeeze himself into the ≈ 1.5 m gap between me (a 6m long, 2-ton car going at 50 km/h) and the guard rail. At this point, I’m just sitting here terrified that I’ll end up accidentally squeezing him into the guard rail and killing him if I happen to move a couple centimeters too close to the edge of the road. I’m seriously afraid of breaking to let him in front of me, because I’m afraid he could hit my side-view mirror if I break unexpectedly (for him). There’s oncoming traffic, so I can’t move over to give him more space.
To be honest, even when I’m biking myself I far too often find other cyclists to be absolute assholes with no respect for traffic rules. Of course, this doesn’t apply to everyone (by a long shot), but man those people cause the rest of us a lot of stress by being a danger to themselves and others.
