Know_not_Scotty_does
@Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world
- Comment on Protein bar 3 days ago:
60mph, no hands on the wheel, no eyes on the road, but they are right about the cheese.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 4 days ago:
The containerized strikes Ukraine has done from inside russia have been particularly scary. They basically setup manufacturing cells in country, built the drones, drove to the launch sites, and launched with no one noticing. The U.S. has minimal counters to those types of attacks assuming you don’t catch them in advance. There have been reports for years about drones entering sensitive restricted airspace and just kind of flying around until the operators decide to leave.
When you start getting into ballistic missile defence and the larger one way drones, you realize that a proper coastal defence or even hvt defence on the homefront is woefully inadequate. I won’t say we need to spend more on that stuff because to do it properly would be in the high trillions. I will say we should be able to develop and field that tech in reasonable numbers given our current military spending. Buuuuuuuut, the best way to avoid needing that is to not be a country that everyone hates…
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 4 days ago:
The U.S. military really needs a wakeup call about drones but I think when that happens, its gonna be real bad news for wherever it came from or the scapegoat for it. To be clear, even in light of this, I don’t want to see people killed, on either side of this but the preparation that the U.S. military has for a drone war is woefully inadequate.
Look at the action taken against Iran, that’s a biiiiiiig deal too. Short of a nuke, there isn’t a much more exotic strike package than what was used against them.
- Comment on Ska ftw 1 week ago:
None of these are stereotypical but I think I covered part of the range.
The Science of Selling Yourself Short, Less than Jake
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 1 week ago:
I loathe newly purchased towels, they always feel like they don’t dry well for a while. I typically wash/swap every 4 or so days. We also “strip” our towells with a deep clean like every couple months.
- Comment on Do gif posts play when viewed from the main feed? 3 weeks ago:
Working on Jeroba
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I was mostly addressing the immediate reason. The historical ones are way more complex as you mentioned. Now, you have to overcome suburban sprawl and hostile urban development where everything is spread out, requiring a car to use as a direct result of our past shitty choices/lobbying efforts.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 4 weeks ago:
Switching to something new usually inherently costs money. (Capital expense) If you are scraping by, you can’t afford another $500-$1000 a month car payment for a new car.
The option to convert an older already paid for internal combustion vehicle basically requires another $10k minimum, not including any regulatory stuff and that would be parts cost alone, no labor. Add to that regulatory/local registration issues with the diy route and you basically bake continued demand for fossil fuels into the system.
You can mitigate some of that by doing public transportation but you have to have a functional system AND an public that wants to use it.
This basically means that a large portion of the population who won’t/can’t buy new EVs. Is stuck using gas vehicles until you get lower cost used EVs. The problem there is that they are expensive to repair and NOT diy friendly. Add to that battery deg and lower reliability (in general see used teslas) and people are scared to buy used EVs.
Its a pricing problem that we have not gotten around yet. The subsidies helped but weren’t enough to get more people in. Couple that with a bad economic situation where people are holding onto their older stuff for longer and you basically get only progress on the higher income side while lower income brackets have to still use their gas vehicles which means the producers keep producing and supplying to a captive market.
- Comment on Ah, to have multiple console emulators in a single portable device 4 weeks ago:
Where did you order it?
- Comment on Chimes 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Day 498 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, you aren’t really supposed to layer packages they want to use something like distrobox or similar. I know some things basically have to be (I am fighting with openjdk) but that is where 99% of my issues on bazzite came from. I started just spinning up a vm to run all my random bullshit that required layering in and its been solid ever since.
- Comment on il boohoo 1 month ago:
The top person is standing in front of a Lamborghini. Money apparently can’t buy education either.
- Comment on Annoying dark pattern where no means maybe later 1 month ago:
- Comment on Why aren't people harassing marketers? 1 month ago:
Good question, I got an ad on my fucking banana the other day…
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- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 2 months ago:
Get them from Vessel Tools, best screwdrivers I have ever used.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 2 months ago:
Torx is superior. I could accept Robertson as well.
- Comment on Would it be possible to build a where woof gun? 2 months ago:
Thanks for explaining, I didn’t get that from reading it. My original question and this reply were both absolutely serious and not sarcastic in nature at all.
- Comment on Would it be possible to build a where woof gun? 2 months ago:
Werewolf or “where woof”? Those would very different guns…
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 2 months ago:
They get really loose. While no slouch, these trucks are not world beaters.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 2 months ago:
First gen tundra controls really are excellent. They and used mechanical linkages for the diverter and for the hot/cold control. The only problem is the knobs get loose over time and can break or fall off when you accellerate.
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 2 months ago:
In the Galaxy’s Edge series this is tangentially addressed, the TLDR is that there are other implications of being on a ship for generations that outweigh the genetic problems. The Savages have a well earned title fwiw both in origin and action. It is a bleak outlook on the concept but I don’t think it is farfetched given everything we are living through right now.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 2 months ago:
I have noticed more people inferring things from a small part of a reply and rather than read and try to understand it, they insted get upset about it and reply back about what they think the op said.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Ah yes, Japan where Hitachi is from, famously not a company that made a magic wand.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 2 months ago:
What I have seen is that if you get in with local car clubs, you can get autox runs for not much money. If you don’t mind dirt, rallyx or dirtx days are also a good way to get track time on a budget.
Yes, proper track days on a real circuit are expensive but when you look at the consumables like tires, brakes, oil, etc, the entry fee is minimal compared to the actual cost. Even when I had my mini, it was like that. It also really depends on the track. In Houston we have MSR and Grandsport, msr is pricey. Grandsport used to be rented for the day for like $2k and split between 10 or 15 people, that was cheaper than a speeding ticket.
Realistically, the street racing that occurs around me is all drag style highway blasts or streetlight races. None of these douches are doing circuit drives. So the $20 number wasn’t far off (at least it was before Royal Purple was shut down)
The problem of tracks getting closed is a major one. Nimby ruins it for everyone. The “racers” are also still to blame here. Its impulse control, and personal responsibility/accountability. Realistically too, a speeding ticket here is $150 minimum, plus court fees of $150ish, plus defensive driving course of $100ish so you are basically to the $500 figure anyways.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 2 months ago:
Yes. Its risky for everyone nearby, there is literally no upside. If you want to race, take it to a track. Every track I have been to has some kind of open track night for like $20 entry and you get santioned racing with proper facilities and a safety crew on standby. Its moronic to do it anywhere else.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 months ago:
Im using emby now for my main media hosing program but I don’t really like it or plex for music. On my mobile I use GoneMad but it doesn’t sync on its own.
- Comment on THEY'RE EVOLVING 2 months ago:
It could be worse… radioactive wasps
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 months ago:
Does it pull the playlist data and still stream the music or does it actually make a duplicate copy of the music files on your phone?
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 3 months ago:
Picard works well, I played around with it but it is still a bit tedious.
