absentbird
@absentbird@lemm.ee
- Comment on Stuck 4 days ago:
Not having a penis: the perfect counter to the fidgit spinner trap
- Comment on TSLA gonna rebound. Proof: 5 weeks ago:
If it crashes the line would decapitate him
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 5 weeks ago:
That would mean all taxes are theft, all forfeitures, all repossessions, and all seizures. It’s a simplistic understanding of the concept that reduces ownership to whoever currently possess property.
You’re welcome to have that perspective, but it doesn’t map well onto any modern legal framework for ownership.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 5 weeks ago:
It’s not meaningless, it’s about who controls a thing. What makes you think ownership must not have conditions?
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think taxes negate ownership.
If you rent you need permission for every modification, every pet, even for something like planting a garden.
Ownership can be conditional; you can own a domain, but if you don’t pay the renewal fee it can be taken away; you can own a car, but if you drive it without paying your registration it can be impounded; you can own a business, but if you don’t pay your license renewal it can be revoked.
Owning something doesn’t mean it can never be taken away or that you don’t need to do anything to keep it.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 1 month ago:
There’s more protests on Monday, and we’re only getting more angry.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 month ago:
Well, if someone changes their name you’d add a new record with the same SSN to hold their new name, that way it keeps the records consistent with the paperwork; old papers say their old name and reference the retired record, new papers use their new name and reference the new record.
You can use the SSN as the key to find all records associated with a person, it doesn’t have to be a single row per SSN, in fact that would make the data harder to manage and less accurate.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 1 month ago:
Same cable, same port, I don’t really care what it’s called if the capabilities are the same.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 2 months ago:
Maybe, but I could see thunderbolt replacing HDMI and display port over time. It can carry video, audio, data, and power simultaneously, and has more bandwidth for additional information like HDR or 3D.
- Comment on Eat that ramen 2 months ago:
Actually a lot of it is made in the US. Shin Ramen, for example, is from Korea, but all the packages I’ve seen are made in a factory in California.
- Comment on Gimme some evidence that anyone at all in the government is pushing back on Trump with any effectiveness at all. Someone throw me a bone here. 😬 2 months ago:
What habits?
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 3 months ago:
Could LNG tankers be retrofit to move Hydrogen? I could see some potential there.
- Comment on That's a good one 3 months ago:
Eating clocks is very time consuming.
- Comment on Bumper sticker 4 months ago:
But ‘existing’ is exactly what transphobes take issue with?
The sticker isn’t saying they’re bad because they’re a crybaby bitch, it’s saying that getting upset at other people just for being who they are is crybaby bitch shit.
Though honestly I think that’s a bit unfair to crybaby bitches, who often are just upset over something silly. They’re being hateful bigoted scumbags.
- Comment on I'm surprised it hasn't been taken down yet ...well maybe not that surprised 5 months ago:
Personally I’m antiwar, but to each their own. The way I see it, a civil war becomes more likely through the tolerance of fascism, but I suppose if you have a just war mindset it could make more sense to let it boil over to the point that generals match in with a list of rules to make the carnage appear civilized.
- Comment on I'm surprised it hasn't been taken down yet ...well maybe not that surprised 5 months ago:
Ah, so you aren’t opposed to killing fascists, you just want it to be done on the orders of a military.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 5 months ago:
This is a great explanation, well done.
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 5 months ago:
I think you’re the one who is moving the goalposts. There’s no requirement for the monkeys to submit their output, the test is whether the text of Hamlet is among their key presses. As long as there is a nonzero chance, then there is a 100% chance it would appear in an infinite system. Any non-zero probability times infinity has a 100% chance of occuring eventually.
The monkeys mostly produce gibberish, that’s the vast majority of the potential outputs, but among that massive number is also the full text of Hamlet.
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 5 months ago:
There aren’t an infinite arrangements of keystrokes that are the length of Hamlet and aren’t Hamlet. Hamlet is 191,726 characters long, it’s like guessing a password.
44 keys on a typewriter, 191726 characters, makes 44^191726 or about 4.054 × 10^315094 combinations.
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 5 months ago:
If the monkeys were truly infinite would time even matter? For any set of monkeys that could write Hamlet within a year there’s an infinite number of duplicate sets, so they could do as much writing in one day as the original set would do over the age of the universe.
- Comment on hard to argue with 5 months ago:
Noone has to do anything.
The original tweet essentially said that all women have a mission from God to use their bodies to make babies. At the very least it’s a value judgment on how women live their lives.
There seems to be a sustained campaign against having kids.
I have never encountered this. There is absolutely a sustained campaign for bodily autonomy, and for the acceptance of people who choose not to reproduce; but I haven’t encountered anyone talking like the original tweet, saying women have a mission from God to not have kids or something.
This is just fighting against the natural way of life.
Here we go again with imposing judgements on people who don’t reproduce. I feel like that’s the bigger ‘sustained campaign’ in this conversation. The natural way of life changes over time, it used to be natural to die young from a bacterial infection, or to have your village sacked by marauders. We don’t need to have the same pressures to keep reproduction high as in the past. Populations are still increasing, but people are out here blaming women for not doing it faster? Just take a breath, it’s going to be okay.
- Comment on hard to argue with 5 months ago:
I think they’re advocating that women can choose for themselves what kind of person to be, and that fact their bodies are capable of gestating children doesn’t obligate them to do so.
It’s sort of ike how the fact a man’s body may be capable of entertaining others by dressing their penis up in a tiny coat and hat doesn’t mean we should bully an entire gender into making that the purpose of their existence, nor does it mean we’re advocating for a world without sharp dressed dicks, it’s just a thing people are free to do or not do.
- Comment on Anon is straight 6 months ago:
‘we let’ women have rights? Women fought tooth and nail for decades for those right, and assholes are still trying to claw them away; fuck, there’s places in the US right now where women are dying because their access to healthcare has been sabotaged by a supreme court that reinterpreted the constitution to remove their rights.
- Comment on 💸💸💸 6 months ago:
Spending on missile defense is one of the only parts of the military budget I’m alright with. Heck, why not expand it, intercept every missile targeting civilians regardless of who fired it.
- Comment on 💸💸💸 6 months ago:
Isn’t that the Qatar money the above comment was talking about?
- Comment on Anon wants more pizza 6 months ago:
I was making a joke about directions; under, over transverse; entirely unserious.
- Comment on Anon wants more pizza 6 months ago:
Maybe you’re under reacting.
I’m transverse reacting by mirroring your reaction.
- Comment on Lingering damage 6 months ago:
It really depends on what it was used for. I almost always turn bacon grease into gravy or mayo, for oil/butter from cooking meat dishes I make pan sauces, but for frying oil I recycle.
- Comment on Lingering damage 6 months ago:
Why waste the oil? Turn it into gravy, or mayonnaise, or store it to sell to a recycling center that will turn it into biofuel.
- Comment on Anon plays DnD 6 months ago:
Eh, back in 2e Polymorph worked a lot like True Polymorph does in 5e, in 3e it was called Polymorph Any Object. I think a lot of players just call it Polymorph, even though there’s a level four spell with the same name, especially if the context of the situation makes it clear which spell is being used. At least that’s how it goes at my table, but every group is different.