Bytemeister
@Bytemeister@lemmy.world
- Comment on Praise Helix 3 days ago:
I think there is a other layer to this. The image in question (I think) is showing how a birdoid body in flight avoids adverse yaw when banking for turns. That is done by managing the tip vortices in such a way to create a proverse yaw force. Quite literally, by befriending the spirals.
- Comment on intruder alert 5 days ago:
Fuck that noise.
You want a fight? You better be blasting Duel of the Fates, otherwise I don’t want any.
- Comment on What character is the king of plot armor? 1 week ago:
Spartan 117 from Halo. It’s pretty explicitly said that he has luck on his side. Hypothetically, he’s quantum immortal (we might all be actually) and the checkpoint system in the games is based around this immortality.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 1 week ago:
That’s… One way to look at it. On the other hand, if I were an employer, should I be required to keep people on payroll if they were going around saying “I work for Bytemeister, and I think Hitler was right and we should have exterminated the Jews”? That’s going to affect my business badly, it’s going to cost me my quality of life, if not my entire business.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps both of them harm (or help) different parties by different amounts. So maybe a system where “My freedom ends where it starts infringing on other peoples rights.” looks like a common sense framework, but when scrutinized reveals that it doesn’t really stand for anything at all.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
Ah, so it would have been harmful to vote against it.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
Or choose not to do business with them, or choose not to help them on the side of the road, or choose not to invite them to your parties, or choose not to let them on your property, or choose to sign them up for all the useless email and mail spam you can find…
Don’t tunnel on one thing. A freedom for everyone means a freedom for the capitalists, and the communists too.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
Charlie Kirk would still be a piece of shit today if he wasn’t out and loud about being a piece of shit.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
I voted to raise my taxes to fund my local school. Now my neighbors have to pay more in taxes as well… Did I just harm them?
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
Or choose not to hire them, or ostracize them.
Hate speech is free speech. So is recording that hate speech and making sure that everyone the bigot knows is aware of their bigotry is free speech too.
- Comment on I guessed 2 weeks ago:
Congrats on posting the most wrong thing I have read today.
Also, are you a writer for Landman?
- Comment on I guessed 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but all the inattentive parents can now successfully pass on their genes and social values… Which is why we’re seeing a huge age verification push online right now. If those people or their children got mauled or eaten at higher rates then we wouldn’t have this problem.
- Comment on Apple Airpod Subwoofer 2 weeks ago:
It has a cleaning mode, just like the watcha and phone use to eject water from the speakers.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t actually like the result of the 2016 primary… But I can also tell when one number is bigger than the other, and I know that rule number one is keep trump out of office and rule number two is vote for your best candidate in the primary, and the least worse candidate in the general.
I notice how you ignored the rest of my comment which establishes this as part of a larger pattern of behavior.
Gotta love you saying this, and then immediately taking part of my comment out of context to create a “gotcha” moment I’d expect to see on Fox News.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
Democrats successfully argued in court that they do not have to run honest primaries.
Actually, what they argued is that the court and outside groups have no rights to file a lawsuit regarding how the Democrats select their candidates.
Why go through the lengthy trouble of proving a primary was fair, when you can just point out that there is no law that says they have to be. That’s the result of hiring a good lawyer.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
Our last primary was just 2 days ago. Hope you didn’t miss that one just like all the others.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 3 weeks ago:
You can haul or tow pretty well with a van. Unless you need a hookup for a goose neck… But those are rare, even for truck bros.
- Comment on Fancy pants 3 weeks ago:
And a hot pocket is just a savory double-stuff poptart.
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think the Democrats can be reformed until the Republicans party is eliminated, or ranked choice voting is enacted nation-wide.
We can’t take risks on more progressive candidates when a loss results in a literal child-raping Nazi getting elected instead.
This isn’t a “no, you’re wrong” rebuke, but a “yes, but first…” agreement.
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been thinking about it. It’s not good enough to say “Sorry, last guy was a dipshit.” Especially since the majority of people in the US think he is a dipshit right now.
I think we would need to remove said dipshit from power, and prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law. Then remove anyone who knew he was a dipshit and had responsibility to say/do something about it, and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law where appropriate. Then find anyone that supported the dipshit in exchange for favors from the dipshit, and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.
After all that, then we need to get laws in place that prevent this kind of dipshittery from happening again. Specifically, we need heavy penalties for election campaign finance and ethics violations. Ranked choice voting seems like a pretty good way to prevent us from having to a choose between the two least likeable assholes in the country to lead us. Big money needs to be out of politics, remove Cirizens United, remove the ability of corporations to make campaign contributions, and maybe even make campaign finances be paid out of a government fund where each a candidate gets an equal amount.
Once we’ve removed the dipshits, and prevented the possibility of a dipshit getting elected again, the last ingredient for this redemption recipe is time. People aren’t just going to forget what has happened. We need to demonstrate consistent stability and sanity in both our foreign and domestic politics for at least a decade or two.
I don’t think all of this will happen TBH. A more realistic redemption is a complete restructure of the United States, and probably a separation into a few different countries, varying in sanity from a solarpunk future state to the religious-zealot-lead redneckistan.
- Comment on Future 5 weeks ago:
Period tracking apps are selling the data of minors to states where abortion is illegal in order to to see if they become pregnant (or un-pregnant).
Need I go on?
- Comment on Future 5 weeks ago:
…sells it’s to an even more unscrupulous asshole.
- Comment on Get in the AI cube 5 weeks ago:
I think you just start pitching people in, and the compression happens naturally as the people pile up.
Good news though. Without using any math or science, my AI determined that the people at the bottom will be under enough heat and pressure to become oil, or diamonds or both. Just put a spigot at the bottom so we don’t lose that economic value in the bodies of the people we’ve systematically crushed to fund our lavish extravagant lifestyle.
- Comment on Future 5 weeks ago:
You say that, until your hammer data is used to detect improper use, which your employer’s insurance can use to deny a claim.
Or it can be used to void a warranty. Or it could detect G-forces of your commute to work and raise your car insurance rates for hard accelerations. Or a biometric sensor in the handle can tell your boss if you can work another 30 minutes before there is a financially significant risk of heatstroke.
You get the idea, that data is useless, until some hairbrained jackass packages it and sells it’s to an even more unscrupulous asshole.
- Comment on Future 5 weeks ago:
Because “data is the new oil.”
Doesn’t matter what that data is, collect it first, and figure out how to sell it later.
- Comment on Rip lol 5 weeks ago:
The Challenger disaster and the Ford Pinto both involved vehicles bursting into flames.
- Comment on Rip lol 5 weeks ago:
Actually very different.
- Comment on Doing the Lord's work. 5 weeks ago:
Shut the fuck up. Don’t give them any ideas!!!
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 1 month ago:
Should be “Bee”.
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 1 month ago:
Al-fa
Gulf
Niner
Null
Gotta love the fun pronunciations in the NATO phonetic.