MechanicalJester
@MechanicalJester@lemm.ee
- Comment on Cable News Weighs In On What Went Wrong 2 weeks ago:
Because the voters won’t vote for one. Especially not a non-white one, but really they just won’t.
You could give Harris all the third party votes and she still loses. Why? Because apparently the country is full of misogyny and racism.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 6 months ago:
The art of what now?
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 6 months ago:
Some things are ridiculously easy to grow in some places and we should for exactly that reason. It’s like drinking bottled water when you have an amazing spring in your backyard of great tasting clean water.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 6 months ago:
Haha no.
The fruit will not travel.
Some produce has to be enjoyed immediately or preserved immediately.
If you mean at the farm where it came from then sometimes.Youd have know when it was picked.
The best sweet corn is heated, not cooked, within minutes of picking at peak quality.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 6 months ago:
Sometimes. You cannot go to a store and buy the freshest, most mouth watering and delicious fruits because they cannot handle being shipped even locally.
A warm, juicy peach right off the tree is an amazing experience.
Also, you know 100% of what what was and what wasn’t done to your stuff.
That said, I don’t have the time or will to grow all my own veggies that I like daily.
I can, however make enough other stuff that’s saleable so I can afford fresh veg year round.
- Comment on Caution or How-to, it's your choice 6 months ago:
This is no joke.
2 kids were killed in Forest Grove, Oregon hiding in a leaf pile on the edge of the road to surprise dad when Dad came back outside but instead were run over by teens deciding to drive the the leaf piles…
Tragic AF
- Comment on But they wouldn't know the taste 6 months ago:
Right? Or prehensile tails and yodel like the Swiss do when you carefully crush their nuts in a vice?
- Comment on bio students 6 months ago:
We only send the death row frogs to classrooms. They know what they did, and they deserve it.
Frogs are wonderful! You’d say Frogs are helpful! You’d exclaim
Well you know why they’re all so fucking nice? Because the bad ones answer to US, The International Law Enforcin Frog Clobberers
You’re welcome!
- Comment on Corvids 6 months ago:
The stellar jays are dumb, but have learned to not be dixks around the other songbirds where I live.
They do a decent red tailed hawk cry imitation that’s wild.
- Comment on banaynay 6 months ago:
They need a small greenhouse for it. Leave it where it is, put weed block down 8’x8’ Get 3 45deg top fittings for fence rail pipe 10’ long 2 8’ 2x4 boards
Make tall triangle greenhouse using the pipes for the 6 legs 4 feet apart.
Use the 2x4s on the inside to hold the pipe spacing and structure
Cover in greenhouse plastic.
Go bananas
- Comment on Life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone 7 months ago:
And pain Sunshine and the rain
- Comment on ah, conservation 7 months ago:
We didn’t break it. It’s evolution. The barred owls simply out nest out, compete and out survive the northern spotted owls.
First, it was claimed that the northern spotted owls could only live in Old growth forests, but that was proven to be false. I’ve personally seen that it was false because they lived near me.
Then they said that the barred owls and the northern spotted owls did not interbreed, and I felt that that was false because I was pretty sure I came across hybrids. That was then proven to be the case too.
It is illogical to conserve one species by making another endangered. Nothing will change that makes the northern spotted owls better at breeding and surviving than The Barred owls that are similar in size, shape and even coloration.
- Comment on my eyes hurt 7 months ago:
Guys I tell you what I don’t see what the fuss was I totally looked right at the eclipse and I am fine…
Because it was very cloudy and dark. And then the eclipse happened and it was still dark.
- Comment on ah, conservation 7 months ago:
I’ve never had a lick of problem with the barred owls. The northern spotted owls look rather similar really. They also interbreed.
I hate this owl murdering nonsense. Why are we funding this?
- Comment on Jon Stewart On The False Promises of AI | The Daily Show 7 months ago:
Moore’s law predicts that compared to 1980, computers in 2040 would be a BILLION times faster.
Also that compared to 1994 computers, the ones rolling out now are a MILLION times faster.
A cheap Raspberry PI would easily be able to handle the computational workload of a room full of equipment in 1984.
What would have taken a million years to calculate in 1984 would theoretically take 131 hours today and 29 seconds in 2044…
- Comment on Rizzler 7 months ago:
People thinking of other people when they masturbate gets me off unnnnnnh
- Comment on Rizzler 7 months ago:
Brb crying
- Comment on CFCs 8 months ago:
No, also the massive SO2 that Mt Pinatubo put into the atmosphere slowly went away. And the CFCs.
Pinatubo created more sulfur emissions during its eruption than 10 years of all human coal burning.
And also on top of that we were also wrecking the Ozone.
Nature can always make our mistakes much much worse.
- Comment on mo honey mo problems 8 months ago:
Well historically…kinda. Honiused to be Spring harvested because what was left the colony didn’t need to survive winter. Now we take more and feed them sugar or corn syrup Which is awful.
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 10 months ago:
Just answer our increasingly difficult questions.
Trolley problem: One track is one person, the other is 10
Next level
Okay well now the one person is your mom, and the 10 are 1 year olds you don’t know
Next level
Okay the one person is your best friends mom and the 10 are young kids from your immediate or extended family
Next level
Okay the one person would cure cancer tomorrow, and the 10 are friends or family
…
- Comment on What is the best way to safely and completely erase all data from old laptops? 11 months ago:
Since no one mentioned it: VCR tape eraser.
Basically just an electromagnet that oscillates because it’s running directly from AC current.
With an extension cord you could erase all the hard drives in a computer lab just waving the eraser vaguely where the drives are.
Physical destruction is better though.
- Comment on While everyone is watching the world stage and some are predicting WWIII, isn't there a good chance that the USA is getting close to some kind of civil war? 11 months ago:
I played a little paintball, and the most impressive game was when I had sprinted along the perimeter to get a sniper angle on a path, wait 20 seconds, and have a Marine Recon AD barrel roll from behind a tree 30 feet from me that I never heard and put a single round in my goggles before I knew what was happening. It bounced but I wasn’t about to call that anything but legit AF.
I saw the military haircut and asked him after the round.
I’m great against paper targets…but that’s not the same as combat and I am crystal clear about it.
- Comment on Panik 1 year ago:
Fuck you and take an upvote for coming here to state what I was going to when I immediately summed 5+1 to 6 and felt clever thinking “well I do know it’s not prime and divisible by 3” Shakes fist
I’ll get you NEXT time logicbomb!
- Comment on Frontier Airlines CEO says the pandemic made workers 'lazy' and less productive: 'People are still allowing people to work from home, all this silliness, right?' 1 year ago:
All the data collected has shown productivity went sharply UP with professionals working from home.
These are desperate rich people with a stake in corporate real estate quickly becoming worthless.
- Comment on Official Safety Memo 1 year ago:
Dang that was my immediate reaction too!
Ever tried moving an alligator snapper? It’s quite the adrenaline pump…
- Comment on Almost all remote-work news is negative now but was positive in the beginning of the pandemic. Have you noticed this or am I going crazy? 1 year ago:
Re: Sprawl. The world is actually rather empty. A lot of changes are going to happen in domino fashion.