cogman
@cogman@lemmy.world
- Comment on When old people tell you about "the good old days" and how great things used to be 3 weeks ago:
Truly some excellent adventures were had in those boxes.
- Comment on He's totally not a Nazi tho 5 weeks ago:
ADL? Hello? You going to talk about this? No?
- Comment on This queue for the new swasticar 1 month ago:
You kidding? This is probably the best use of cops. Instead of harassing minorities they’ve created a human shield that will scare off people from purchasing Nazi mobiles.
If tax money is going to cops, they might as well be doing the job of a protest but more effectively.
- Comment on Is it possible to design a (pen and paper) cipher that is secure against government cryptanalysis for at least 10 years? 1 month ago:
No, not possible.
The closet we’ve seen are the zodiac killer’s scribbles and they lasted as long as they did because he made a mistake (and frankly because no security researcher was really trying).
Modern cryptography works because it shuffles data around so much that it appears random. There’s simply no way to do those sorts of operations with just pen and paper.
- Comment on modern psychiatry be like 1 month ago:
No. It’s obviously the space telescopes.
- Comment on hate your job? how about you die and still have to do it 1 month ago:
it is more obvious in the book compared to the film.
The film was loosely based on the book and was explicitly written as a critique on fascism and the book. Verhoeven and Neumeier have said as much.
But also, I don’t think you know what fascism is. There’s always people in a fascist state that have a good quality of life. The question is what happens to people that don’t fit in the state mold? What happens to enemies of the state? Who gets classified as an enemy of the state? Who holds power or can hold power in the state? The fact that to be a citizen you’d have to start by joining the state party is de-facto a fascist state.
In the film, the enemies were the Arachnids. War started because of the colonization of arachnid territories and extermination was the next order of business. Even though Arachnids are depicted as being thinking and intelligent beings. That was the point of the final scene “It’s afraid!”. Rather than try to understand or communicate with the alien/foreigner/etc, the government prioritized extermination and learning to make it fear them.
- Comment on hate your job? how about you die and still have to do it 1 month ago:
Robocop is a scathing critique on capitalism. What’s nuts is O doing think everyone gets that. It’s literally the underlying theme of the movie.
Same thing happens with starship troopers. People miss the fact it’s a critique of fascism and colonialism even though the movie ends with Nazi uniforms.
- Comment on Can we all agree on THIS 2 months ago:
This is generally going to be less a doctor problem and more a hospital admin problem.
Hospitals try and employ the fewest doctors possible to save money, they schedule doctors so they have 5 minutes per patient, and they pack the schedules as dense as possible to maximize the number of cases a doctor is handling.
Any disruption here causes a delay. A patient showing up late, having questions, or the doctor needing to shit. It all adds up to the fail system.
There are simple fixes here like extending the doctors appointments beyond the average required time and hiring now doctors, but that costs money and doesn’t optimize profit for the shareholders.
- Comment on How was trying to get a job different THEN vs NOW 4 months ago:
Yeah, there was a huge gap in the experience of a white person and a PoC. Further, the 70s was right on the cusp of stagflation. Not unlike what we feel today.
- Comment on It do be like that 4 months ago:
Layers, layers everywhere
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Time, multiple checks/options to back out, and independent evaluation is the way you handle this.
- Comment on Live reaction to ICC ruling 4 months ago:
Lmao, everyone can read this thread including yourself. Try again.
- Comment on Live reaction to ICC ruling 4 months ago:
Then how can you claim the statement is a lie?
Right, because it makes Israel look bad. Anything that makes them look bad is a lie right?
- Comment on Live reaction to ICC ruling 4 months ago:
Oh? What’s the official number? Perhaps you can report how many children Israel has counted.
- Comment on Live reaction to ICC ruling 4 months ago:
“I mean, sure Israel is murdering thousands of children, expelling people from their homes, bombing a sovereign nation unprovoked, and Israel is bulldozing homes to make way for new settlements. But other nations do bad stuff too so this is obviously antisemitic”
What’s antisemitic is conflating the actions of Israel with Jewish people. Jews aren’t inherently fascist and fascist Jews aren’t all Jews.
This is also fucking disgusting as antisemitism is a real thing. Trying to conflate it with Israel critique makes people take antisemitism less seriously which is also dangerous.
- Comment on Magic the Gathering is going to have more brand tie-ins 4 months ago:
They can’t even stick to their own rhetoric. Dem commentators calling Trump Hitler and then going out golfing with him is everything wrong with the party and media.
I fear 2028 is going to be Dems deciding that they were just too “woke” and running Liz Cheney for president.
- Comment on Please stop 6 months ago:
If twitter were a video game, it’d be Homie Rollerz.
- Comment on Meanwhile, in Springfield Ohio 6 months ago:
Agreed, very well done.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 7 months ago:
Corporate media likes elections to be close and exciting because that draws ratings. Hence the reason they put on kid gloves for the idiot fascist.
- Comment on Real 9 months ago:
There are premium brands that do well, but there are also non premium brands that do pretty well. GE, for example, tends to make fairly reliable product (even today) for roughly the same price point of samsung/lg.
- Comment on Real 9 months ago:
An insulated box with a decent compressor does not cost 10k. Making a compressor that fails after 2 years is actually hard to do, something both LG and Samsung spent time and money to achieve.
Consider, for example, that nearly every car manufactured with an AC. Which is exactly the same tech as a fridge. Yet you rarely end up needing to replace the compressor on your car. You might need to recharge it or clean it, but not replace the compressor. 10k of your car price isn’t the HVAC.
- Comment on Real 9 months ago:
There’s some appliance breakdown vids (idk if Rossman is one of them) but the gist is Samsung and LG like to put cheap plastic parts in high wear locations which inevitably fail.
Fridges are dead simple appliances. A compressor and evaporator coils with a temperature sensor. There’s absolutely no reason they shouldn’t outlast you and everyone you love.
It’s insane these “premium” brands are built to fall like they do.
- Comment on Not happening, dude 11 months ago:
I think we are on the same page. I completely agree that EVs aren’t enough or even the best solution.
- Comment on Not happening, dude 11 months ago:
Where does your power come from?
Right now? Primarily hydro with a strong solar and wind showing. Roughly 10% of my power is from Fossil fuels.
You are just shifting the shit elsewhere
Even with a pure fossil fuel grid, EVs still end up producing less CO2 than ICE vehicles. However, grids aren’t pure fossil fuels which means EVs are far cleaner than Fossil fuel vehicles. Especially in my current circumstance.
Less than 8% of energy consumption in the US comes from renewable energy. Another 8% come from nuclear.
13% while being one of the fastest growing energy production sectors.
www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/
That’s petrol / natural gas / coal powering your home, factories, shops, and restaurant
Not mine because I live in the Pacific North West which is the greenest grid in the US.
- Comment on suck it, math nerds 1 year ago:
Yup, similar to the square root of two and Euler’s number.
These are numbers defined by their properties and not their exact values. In fact, we have imaginary numbers that don’t have values and yet are still extremely useful because of their defined properties.
- Comment on What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ? 1 year ago:
It’s mostly a religious belief. There are a couple of Bible verses that say things like “the earth will be rolled up like a scroll” and “spread to the four corners of the earth”.
Biblical literalists cannot handle the Bible being incorrect about anything, so it’s everyone else that’s wrong.
- Comment on incredible 1 year ago:
Copper is the easy part. Get it hot enough and you’ll end up with high quality copper… Sourcing the copper is much more difficult.
Finding magnets is somewhat simple, you just need some iron… That’s a lot more difficult. Iron smelting is way harder than copper smelting (especially without electricity).
Making bearings is also difficult. It requires not only iron smelting but also high precision machining.
- Comment on Tale as old as time 1 year ago:
Iron man was a hail mary by Marvel. Their IP was failing. RDJ was a lucky casting. Given where he was at at the time he was a pretty risky pick. Marvel didn’t really have the budget to be too picky at the time.
There’s a reason Spiderman is owned by sony and the hulk by universal.
- Comment on Why do most religious conservatives support capitalist ideology? 1 year ago:
Behind the bastards did a 2 part podcast on this
[Behind the Bastards] Part One: How The Rich Ate Christianity 🅴 #behindTheBastards podcastaddict.com/…/137287957 via @PodcastAddict
- Comment on People who back into parking spots: Why? 1 year ago:
Visibility is way better and traffic rules play to your favor.
When you back in, you already have right of way. Traffic has to wait for you to park and you aren’t reversing into cross traffic.
If you park forward, when you go to leave you have to worry about cross traffic and your head/eyes are far removed from where you need to be looking. You don’t have right of way which means a lot of awkward mashing the brakes when a car or pedestrian pops out of your blind spot.
In short, you can park faster and more accurately and you can leave faster and safer.
The only reason to park forward is there’s a line of cars behind you that won’t let you reverse into a spot. Otherwise, it’s always the right choice.