Bytemeister
@Bytemeister@lemmy.world
- Comment on Valid point 1 day ago:
I thought it was a “card” of birth control meds.
- Comment on Valid point 1 day ago:
Eh, my wallet is a single point of failure. My phone is/can be backed up and recovered if lost, stolen, or broken.
Not to mention, if you lose your phone, you can remotely deactivate it, and it (can) take a pin or biometric to unlock the phone and access the data. Your lost/stolen wallet means anyone who has it has access to all the info in it, and you have to go through the hassle of deactivating cards and getting new cards.
In a better world, phone-based payment and IDs would be far superior. The problem is that the current companies and governments involved in setting that up are a bunch of invasive money-grubbing fuckwads.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 1 day ago:
Bush II should have swung besides Saddam, but trump has dashed any hopes I have for holding GWB accountable for pissing away the future of the middle class to murder the shit out of people on the other side of the world.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 1 day ago:
Thomas Jefferson, Bill Clinton (probably). I can’t even name all the US Presidents, but I’m pretty sure child rapists are over-represented in that group.
- Comment on Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground? 4 days ago:
Ground loop heat pumps are already a thing.
As for maintain the unit, you just have a service panel you can remove to access it.
- Comment on Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground? 4 days ago:
Better option is to run a heat pump into that underground loop. You really don’t want underground air getting into your house, and a heat pump will let you cool or warm the air using that same underground loop.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 1 week ago:
PCs are (or at least, were) a bit more expensive, they seem more single player focused (in terms of local players) and, let’s face it, owning a gaming PC is a much bigger commitment of time and effort than a console.
Consoles really shined when you could go over to a friend’s house, plug in one box, a few controllers, and have a 4 person couch gaming experience going in less than 5 minutes.
- Comment on Taking a spin around the pond in my boat 1 week ago:
Now, I know I know – it can be dangerous. But I think people here are greatly exaggerating just how dangerous it really is.
Drowning is the number 6 leading cause of death for children in the US. It would be number 4 if it weren’t for our fondness of firearms and cars.
3 children a day drown in the US, that’s not counting the kids that almost drown, and end up with life-altering consequences from it.
Water is dangerous, hands down. An innocuous mistake around water can lead to your permanent disability or even death in just a few minutes. Treat it with respect.
- Comment on Taking a spin around the pond in my boat 1 week ago:
It doesn’t really matter.
I’m gonna guess that your comment was a little tounge-in-cheek, but for people who don’t really know, if the water is deeper than about an inch and a half, you can drown in it. How well you can swim doesn’t really matter either, because the problem isn’t swimming, the problem is how you ended up in the water in the first place.
Jumping into the water when you are in the proper attire, and ready for it, is a relatively harmless situation, and even the most mediocre swimmers would have no issue keeping their head above water. Suddenly being in the water, upside-down, wearing pants, shirt and shoes (or even more clothing), is an entirely different situation that is dangerous even to experienced swimmers. Even worse, you may not be all the way in the water, your foot or leg may have been tangled during your fall, so just the top half your body is in the water, and now you need to get almost your entire weight lifted out of the water just to grab a breath.
This is why lifejackets are essential for any kind of boating. They don’t actually add that much buoancy to you (most people naturally float) but they add bouancy to your chest, and neck to keep your head out of the water if you are incapacitated.
Having a playhouse boat on a pond, like the picture, is very risky. Unless you are treating it like a real boat, and making sure that your kid treats it like a real boat too, then you are asking for a tragedy.
- Comment on Taking a spin around the pond in my boat 1 week ago:
Kid’s playhouse + pond is asking for tragedy.
- Comment on Trailer love, trailer life 1 week ago:
Reminds me of commiting to the simulation in superhot VR. I legit had to pull of the headset and make sure it was just a game first.
- Comment on Finally an explanation 2 weeks ago:
It’s clear you’re not actually reading what I wrote. I’m not going to bother rehashing things I’ve already said, for a 3rd time, just for you. Have a nice day advocating for nazis with empty semantic out picking.
- Comment on Finally an explanation 2 weeks ago:
You’d have to talk to a fucking psychologist to figure that one out.
But some people just decide that we need an all white, all Christians ethno-state, and everyone who doesn’t fit in that category can leave, or preferentially, not be allowed to leave and kept as slave labor. I’ve already spent too much of my own life trying to convince those people that such an arrangement harms everyone involved, and recognizing different cultures, backgrounds, traditions, and life experiences makes you a happier and better person.
And yet they still join up with the proudboys and loudly proclaim that white western chauvinists built the modern world while everyone was trying to drag them down and ruin it.
Being a nazi shitfuck is a choice. It’s a choice made in glaring defiance of human experiences that we all have every day. Unless they were literally raised in a nazi cult that forbade going outside the compound, then they’ve had a choice to stop being a nazi shitfuck every day, every hour, every minute, every second… And every time, they gleefully and repeatedly make the wrong choice.
- Comment on Finally an explanation 2 weeks ago:
Because you can spend your whole life
tellingsinging kumbaya, hugging, kissing, talking about your feelings and experices, traveling and learning about new cultures with nazis to instill a greater sense of humanity to get nazis to act like decent compassionate people, and you won’t change the mind of a single one. Don’t waste your life, waste them instead.There is an extra special version of my comment just for you.
- Comment on Finally an explanation 2 weeks ago:
The semantics part is arguing that “telling” doesn’t mean human interaction…
Extreme example: Human interaction? That could mean a fist-fight, the only difference between a nazi and a carebear is brotherly love!
That’s the gist of your argument; that I didn’t use the right words to describe in detail how try to instill some empathy in nazis.
- Comment on Finally an explanation 2 weeks ago:
Telling isn’t a human interaction? Are you really going to use a semantics argument to support being nice to nazi shitfucks?
- Comment on Finally an explanation 2 weeks ago:
Because you can spend your whole life telling nazis to act like decent compassionate people, and you won’t change the mind of a single one. Don’t waste your life, waste them instead.
- Comment on Finally an explanation 2 weeks ago:
So much for the tolerant left…
Motherfuckers, you labeled me as tolerant because I don’t hate people for immutable characteristics they were born with. That doesn’t mean I’m tolerant of nazis maga traitors.
- Comment on Upgrade 2 weeks ago:
Bcuz their red blooded patriots who let Jesus into there hearts after they done did all that that inappropriate behavior with a 14 yr old who lied about her age to trick them into havin sex with her so her parents could sue them. Yesterday. And the day before that, and that one, maybe 5 times last week…
- Comment on Upgrade 2 weeks ago:
Foley was sexting 12yr old boys. Interesting that trump would use him as an example instead of the wide pool of Republicans who have been molesting underage girls.
Also, I wouldn’t read that statement as “I would go as low as 13” but as “I don’t want to be seen as a pedophile like Mark Foley, who was going after 12yr olds.”
But, given the subject’s history on raping underage girls… Yeah, I’m probably wrong about what he meant in this specific situation.
- Comment on Sound of silence 2 weeks ago:
Oh fuck thay makes me mad. If I was running that operation, I’d have those people removed from the beach immediately. And probably fined, depending on the situation.
Or better yet, ban people from bringing cameras with flashes.
- Comment on Sound of silence 2 weeks ago:
Phone cameras are a godsend when I need to remember.
They are a curse when I want to remember.
- Comment on Sound of silence 2 weeks ago:
It’s like people have none sense of why they go places.
A few years back, I did a lantern-lit tour of Mammoth Cave. I’ve done them in the past, and the ambiance, sound, smell, and flicker of firelight gives a very close yet mysterious feeling to the tour. This time though, as soon as we got into the cave, half the dipshits on the tour had their harsh white cellphone flashlights going everywhere, completely ruining the experience that they (and other people) had just fucking paid for. They really need to have a “movie theater” cellphone policy for those kinds of tours.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Gonna guess you mean USB drive, and not HDD.
In 2004, 256 and 512 GB HDDs were pretty standard, and if you had some extra budget to throw at a PC, you could get a 1TB.
My budget laptop in 2004 had a 256GB HDD, 256MB RAM (quickly upgraded to 768MB) and like a 1ghz dual core processor.
I remember having a 512MB usb stick and thinking that I would never have to delete anything off it, because I would never have enough word docs or projects at school to fill it up all the way.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is being blackmailed? 2 weeks ago:
What are you going to blackmail him with? Being a foreign asset? Grifting and embezzling the fuck out of the country? Raping and trafficking children?
He already publicly does/did all those things. He isn’t being blackmailed, he’s just a run-of-the-mill rich dumbass.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 2 weeks ago:
Yea, I woke up late for a meeting one morning, and figured I’d try ordering a doughnut and coffee from door dash (my wife door-dashed/grubhub’d all the time, so I figured it wouldn’t be too crazy expensive), it was going to cost me 19 dollars to get a 6 dollar doughnut and coffee from a few blocks down the street. And then it suggested a 5 dollar tip for the driver.
Fuck that shit, I just went hungry that morning.
- Comment on I'm just a big toasty cinnamon bun that isn't fatally trapped in a crevice. 2 weeks ago:
Spoiler : it’s the cave diving.
I would love to do cave diving. Except every time you hear about an accident, it’s usually some experienced diver who fucked up just a little bit and that meant death… And then like another 1 or 2 people die trying to recover the body.
- Comment on my current daddy fling born in the 1970s 3 weeks ago:
Can’t argue with that.
- Comment on my current daddy fling born in the 1970s 3 weeks ago:
I am neither a furry, nor into VR pole dancing, but you should drop us a link for shits and giggles. I’d rather support people doing their weird hobbies for fun instead of meaningless wage slave jobs for misery.
Don’t feel compelled to, if you don’t want to associate your Lemmy profile with your VR furry pole dancing profile, but if you are having fun with it, you should consider sharing it regardless of how good you are, if only to show other people that this thing exists, and they may have fun with it too
- Comment on Data centers get tax breaks. Not you though. 4 weeks ago:
Eh. In the same line. Close enough.