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- Comment on FedEx has absolutely no clue what 'economy' means. 1 week ago:
“This shit isn’t designed to come out fucky”
- 11111one11111, 2024 - Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Fired and laid off are two completely different things. Quite a few folks have been laid off and find other jobs, but it’s always easier to find a new job while you have a job.
Don’t wait to get laid off to start looking, but don’t quit without something else lined up first either. It’s better to ride the job out to the end if you don’t have something else first.
- Comment on Sleep well tonight 2 weeks ago:
There are websites that buy this stuff, this is just one example, and there are others. You can get a bit of cash without a ton of effort, just pack it up nicely and send it in.
- Comment on My brothers Chuwi laptop had major problems. Now he got a wal-mart gift card for the price he paid for the Chuwi. He is eyeing an HP laptop with 256gb ssd. Is that the same as a regular harddrive? 3 weeks ago:
A hard disk uses spinning magnetic disks to store data.
An SSD uses flash memory to store data.
Since it doesn’t have moving parts, it can access the data faster and with fewer parts.
At current prices an SSD is more expensive for the same size storage, but most people don’t need 10TB on their laptop.
- Comment on If a word can have as many meanings as we assign to it. Can was assign every meaning to one word? 3 weeks ago:
Smurfing hell… I thought I was going to be the smartass in this thread.
- Comment on Brian K. Vaughan writing Forbidden Planet remake 5 weeks ago:
The original still exists, a remake for modern times doesn’t delete the first one.
- Comment on Brian K. Vaughan writing Forbidden Planet remake 5 weeks ago:
I think if it’s done right, FP would be a perfect movie for a remake.
The original is pretty good, and has decent special effects, but it’s certainly a product of its time.
The overt sexism and racism is pretty obnoxious. As long as the remake keeps the story mostly the same, but just cleans it up a bit, ESPECIALLY if they stick with the retro-futuristic style.
- Comment on Why do so many people choose mail in ballots when there appear to be so many potential failure points with them? 1 month ago:
Because no matter how prepared I think I am, there’s always at least one item on the ballot I didn’t expect to see.
I can sit down at my computer and look up everything on my ballot and make better informed decisions in the comfort of my home. I can lean over and ask my spouses opinion on what they’re voting for and we can decide what we want to do. In the end we each make our own decision, but at least we can discuss it.
I have a QR code on my envelope that shows that I can track my ballot from end to end and ensure that it’s where it is supposed to be. If it never arrives, I can go vote in person and have a provisional ballot to ensure I didn’t vote twice.
- Comment on Interview — Nana Visitor and Open A Channel: The Women Of Star Trek (Part 2) 1 month ago:
Interesting take. I really enjoy when artists can reflect on their work decades later.
- Comment on If you need a stargate, there is one outside of Ashland, Ohio off of I-71. 1 month ago:
The mechanical iris was a later addition, before that there was a stone cover. Without either anyone can come through from the other side.
- Comment on If you need a stargate, there is one outside of Ashland, Ohio off of I-71. 1 month ago:
The mechanical iris was a later addition, before that there was a stone cover. Without either anyone can come through from the other side.
- Comment on If you need a stargate, there is one outside of Ashland, Ohio off of I-71. 1 month ago:
A little irresponsible leaving it unguarded with the iris open.
- Comment on What is stopping the vice president from ever murdering the president? 1 month ago:
it’s much harder to prove because the official acts part also includes all the evidence and testimony needed to prosecute.
So if you can’t use evidence from official communication to prove that the treason happened. That makes the prosecution of presidents very difficult. It’s going to be extremely difficult for a prosecution to tell a coherent story to a jury without including any “official” acts as part of the crime.
- Comment on NoStupidQuestions 1 month ago:
To be fair, what if the entire skeleton drastically changes once you die? You can’t prove it’s NOT the case without an MRI.
Tho… What if an MRI causes the same changes as death…
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 1 month ago:
You misread, I specifically said that Earth doesn’t have enough mass for that.
- Comment on Set comfort level to maximum with the Mechanism Gaming Pillow for handhelds 1 month ago:
Ok, that’s hilarious and very unique, but it’s definitely solving a problem that I personally don’t have.
If I’m going to be doing longer gaming sessions, I’ll hook it up to my TV and use an xbox controller.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 1 month ago:
First - The major problem with trash isn’t the getting rid of it part, it’s the gathering it up part. If we could do that, it wouldn’t be a problem.
Second - Launching things on a rocket is kinda dangerous still, there’s a risk the rocket will blow up on launch, scattering the material across a large area. This is a big reason why things like nuclear waste is a problem to transport in general, much less flying it somewhere.
Third - Launching something into the SUN is really hard, it would be easier to send something out of the solar system than back into the sun.
van.physics.illinois.edu/ask/listing/43694Fourth - Someday we’ll figure out a use for everything, wall-e style. If we dump everything into a centralized landfill, we’ll eventually be able to collect/sort/recycle it into something useful. Throwing it into the sun (or off-planet) would make that stuff unavailable forever.
Finally - Throwing stuff into the sun would actually get rid of it forever, yes. It would be completely decomposed into the atoms it was made from. If we threw ENOUGH heavy metals into the sun, we could actually poison the sun making it not able to fuse hydrogen anymore, but even if we threw the entire earth into the sun, it wouldn’t be enough.
- Comment on Half as Hot 1 month ago:
That’s one of the ways proposed for terraforming Venus. Put in a sun shield to freeze the planet, let the CO2 snow down, then process the CO2 into something that can sequester it away so it doesn’t just go back into the atmosphere after removing the sun shield.
Of course none of that is technically possible right now, but it’s a lot easier on a planet that has no (known) life to destroy while working through the process.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 1 month ago:
Nope, it’s real time travel with no FTL. The reason it’s “finished” is that it takes hundreds of real life years to get anywhere, so they have plenty of time to populate the world’s before the first players arrive.
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 2 months ago:
Depends on which season. Are you extrapolating current JD? Or can we pick season 1 JD, where he has a lot of knowledge, but very little experience, and wasn’t a very good doctor yet?
- Comment on I'm a reasonably well educated human living on Earth. What's to stop me from replicating starship parts until I can make my own Starfleet? 2 months ago:
Depends on the writer, but they handwave a lot of those problems by the fact that replicators need a lot of energy to work (voyager explicitly said they didn’t have the spare power and used hydroponics and trade to supplement), and a lot of critical components couldn’t be replicated (dilithium, and antimatter containment parts. Also the isolinear computer chips were non-replicatible). I think you’d also struggle with any weapons systems, which might include shields.
Essentially you could build the hull and most of the mechanical parts, but not the critical systems.
- Comment on Temperatures 2 months ago:
Only if it’s windy and cloudy. A calm sunny day at 21f is fine for walking around in shirtsleeves.
- Comment on why does every single flashlight have multiple settings that you have to scroll through? 2 months ago:
I have a few of these. Honestly don’t understand why more companies don’t make flashlights like this.
- Comment on why does every single flashlight have multiple settings that you have to scroll through? 2 months ago:
4D batteries just doesn’t make sense in 2024. That was for incandescent lights, modern LEDs are brighter and use a small fraction of that power. You could still have the form factor if you really wanted a giant flashlight for self defense or something, but a pair of AA’s if you really don’t want rechargeables would be more than enough for a long life flashlight.
But any LiIon battery is going to far outperform alkaline batteries.
- Comment on Subway 2 months ago:
He better go wash his hands again after handling his phone.
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 2 months ago:
NASA, nor anyone else, has done this before. I’m not sure what you’re referring to when you say NASA did this already.
- Comment on Tomorrow's Problems 2 months ago:
- Comment on Billie Eilish declares she's 'never' talking about her sexuality or dating life 'ever again' after backlash 2 months ago:
#1 - she doesn’t owe anyone any info about her life
#2 - it’s unfortunate that candidly talking about a healthy view of sexuality and self care is punished
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition’ Screening, Show Memorabilia Auction Set To Cap Off Infinity Festival 2 months ago:
I know it’s not a popular take, but I really liked The Motion Picture. It was way more Star Trek than most of the other action based movies.
1 and 2 are probably the best Star Trek movies out there. 4 is pretty good too, but I’m not a big fan of time travel in Star Trek (some exceptions, but for the most part time travel stories are pretty weak)
- Comment on Science fact 2 months ago:
Oh fuck… It’s so stupid it’s smart.