Bytemeister
@Bytemeister@lemmy.world
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 6 days 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 6 days 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? 2 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? 2 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 2 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 2 weeks ago:
…sells it’s to an even more unscrupulous asshole.
- Comment on Get in the AI cube 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 weeks ago:
The Challenger disaster and the Ford Pinto both involved vehicles bursting into flames.
- Comment on Rip lol 2 weeks ago:
Actually very different.
- Comment on Doing the Lord's work. 2 weeks ago:
Shut the fuck up. Don’t give them any ideas!!!
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 3 weeks ago:
Should be “Bee”.
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 3 weeks ago:
Al-fa
Gulf
Niner
Null
Gotta love the fun pronunciations in the NATO phonetic.
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 3 weeks ago:
Nine is evil because it’s a valid character. When you are using a phonetic alphabet, you don’t say “N as in Nine”. The whole point is to speed up communication over crappy connections. Adding “as in” afterwards defeats the purpose of having a standard.
As for L, I would go with “Letter”.
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 3 weeks ago:
Got one behind me. Thank you for your service.
I use the semaphore code to shit-talk my boss to the fellow cubeslaves across the street from me.
- Comment on School of hard knocks 3 weeks ago:
My partner has a master’s in a STEM field and has been working full time since they graduated.
After 10+ years of payment on the IDR plan, they owe just slightly more than what they initially took out!
College for the vast majority of people (Millenials at least) was a scam built on lies, exploitative lending, and fear of social stigma. We aren’t just due loan forgiveness, we’re due compensation for long term damages in the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars.
- Comment on holy moley 4 weeks ago:
Ah, you’re young enough that language was developed “back in your day.”
I had to shit in my hand and throw it at someone if I wanted to show displasure at someone. Fancy words and carving hadn’t been invented yet. You want to go insult thaag, hope you had plenty of fiber the night before…
- Comment on holy moley 4 weeks ago:
I believe the classical interpretation is to nail your 99 complaints to the door with a dagger.
- Comment on Wrong answers only - what is this? 5 weeks ago:
It’s definitely a wrong answer.
- Comment on Wrong answers only - what is this? 5 weeks ago:
Asked my partner to look at this without any knowledge of what it is.
They say it’s a voice box panel for a robot.
- Comment on omg hes just like me 1 month ago:
Organs are a distinct structure made of multiple tissues. So if this thing is just a few layers of tissue, then you can make the argument that the whole creature is essentially a single-organ organism.
Truth be told, I suspect there is a certain amount of hyperbole in the infographic.
- Comment on idiot chess 1 month ago:
Props for having the chessboard setup correctly. Something most movies can’t manage with hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on consulting.
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 1 month ago:
Long story short, logistics benefits from scale. The cost to ship a pallet of poptarts to a store is roughly the same as shipping half a pallet. Smaller stores can’t really undercut larger corporations because they don’t have the scale.
Also when your mom and pop store doesn’t make a profit for 3 months, they go under. When a Walmart doesn’t make a profit for 3 months, they stay open because they have those loses spread across hundreds of other Walmarts.
- Comment on its actually worse bc ports are counted twice for 2.0 & 3.0 1 month ago:
More realistic option is 15 other Logitech wireless device receivers, and you don’t know which one goes to your current mouse and keyboard, so you just leave them all plugged in.
At least, that is my experience working in IT. Personal record was 6.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 month ago:
Container garden. I even had one on my North facing balcony in Baltimore.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 month ago:
I dunno, we grow huge amounts of corn for ethanol to replace 15% of the fuel for cars… And it would be multiple time more efficient (in terms of land use) to cover that area with solar panels and phase out ICEs for EVs.
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 1 month ago:
looks a solar panels
Yep, magic right there.
Sees nuclear power plants
What sorcery is this?!
Observes EVs, heat pumps, biofuels…
Mysteries beyond the comprehension of man!
- Comment on Anon owns nothing and is unhappy 1 month ago:
Xbox is going to be a subscription game console service, like stadia was.
Microsoft is going to use the “free” compute cycles when their AI slopcenters aren’t at full utilization to run Xbox games.
- Comment on Anon owns nothing and is unhappy 1 month ago:
The future of PC gaming is the community support of vintage games that you loved.
The future of consoles is amatuer AI taxidermy remakes of your childhood memories. A distorted uncanny-valley resemblence of a game you once held dear, stuffed to the brim with synthetic fluff and hung on a generic skeleton twisted and bent to roughly resemble a once vibrant and living thing.