frezik
@frezik@midwest.social
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 5 hours ago:
When Reddit happens to pop up on Google search results for something, I sometimes check my old account inbox. There have been two separate accounts replying to a years old anti-pseudoscience post I’ve mine saying that if I don’t believe the moon is plasma, then I won’t be right with Jesus.
At least on Lemmy, blocking two instances cuts out most of the tankie crap.
- Comment on Websites: Then vs Now 3 days ago:
Partially. Not really. Page Rank instantly obsoleted every other search algorithm in existence. Nobody was able to get high quality results right at the top so consistently. The ad-free part was a bonus, at least for a while.
- Comment on Million dollar idea 3 days ago:
I mostly scream in agony to make it weird.
- Comment on Million dollar idea 3 days ago:
The history of censorship is littered in the most braindead contradictions like that.
- Comment on Habits of Insects 3 days ago:
While I understand the sentiment, US veterans are in many ways victims of the capitalist system themselves. At 18 years old, they’re pressured by family or school administration to go into the military. They may have grown up poor and have no viable career path once they leave high school. College is a pipe dream. Combine that with recruiters who will use every high pressure tactic in the book and outright lie to get you to sign (“sure, you can get leave later on to be the best man at your friend’s wedding”). All this is happening before they’re legally allowed to drink, and they certainly haven’t finished developing into their adult self.
They go off to the military. Most will get through with nothing more traumatic than boot camp (which can be pretty traumatic) and some shitty food, but some will die, and others will be injured or have PTSD.
Keeping those services and improving them is part of cleaning up our mess. So is dismantling the capitalist system that creates more of those veterans.
- Comment on But yes. 3 days ago:
A lot of that heat comes from decay of radioactive isotopes deep in the Earth. Still spicy rocks.
- Comment on Habits of Insects 3 days ago:
The DoD itself spent $820B in 2023. To get over $1T, you also have to include veterans benefits, like the VA hospital system.
The full bill for Vietnam started coming 20 years after the fact as all those veterans got older and started heavily using the benefits they were promised. From the start of the War on Terror, we’re about at that same point right now. So unless the plan is to rug pull those benefits from people who really need them, then there’s going to be a huge bill coming that no amount of efficiency trimming can ignore.
If Democrats did the rug pull, Republicans would cry bloody murder. If Trump did it, they will cheer him on while veterans suffer.
- Comment on USA President term limits 4 days ago:
Not always voluntary. Some tried for a third term and failed. Theo Roosevelt tried for a third term in 1912. Though his first term was taking over after McKinley was assassinated, but it was only some months in, and that would be covered as a first full term under the later amendment.
- Comment on But yes. 4 days ago:
Given that the first commercial nuclear power plants in the US were coming online in the late 1950s, that’s entirely possible. Steam trains were well on their way out by then, but there were still a few hauling freight around.
- Comment on To deter predators... 5 days ago:
Still are, but like all aphrodisiacs, it’s really hard to test. A lot of sexual arousal happens in your brain, and the placebo effect is very strong.
- Comment on To deter predators... 5 days ago:
Had an armchair hypothesis last night. Yeast makes alcohol, and we basically domesticated it on accident. Beer/wine making goes back thousands of years, and we’re in a symbiotic relationship with it.
That part is pretty well established science, but the the hypothesis goes that alcohol reduces human inhibitions, which makes us fuck more, which means more humans who want to continue making beer and wine with the secret helper, yeast.
But maybe that’s not right and verging on evo psych territory of a hypothesis that has no strong evidence beyond fitting some known facts.
- Comment on If you're in this meme, go buy a fibre supplement 6 days ago:
I have a wooden bowl kinda like this, but I also inherited it. It’s kinda nice. Has care instructions somewhat similar to cast iron. Get everything off of it and cover it in oil.
- Comment on I feel this way about cinnamon. 6 days ago:
I’ve used dark chocolate chips before, yes. I think they were Ghirardelli.
And no, not joking. Chocolate without the fat/sugar is bitter, and bitter flavors can add a lot if they’re mixed in correctly.
- Comment on I feel this way about cinnamon. 6 days ago:
It’s not supposed to be sweet chocolate. It’s coco without the milk and sugar, and it will make almost any chili taste better.
- Comment on I feel this way about cinnamon. 6 days ago:
That’s not completely off, but it should be dark chocolate, not milk chocolate or whatever M&M’s are made with now. A little dark chocolate is great in chili.
- Comment on Enshittification only hurts product itself, not users. 1 week ago:
I’ve been here since Windows 3.0. I’m not sure when this mythical not-shit Windows was. There were a few I could live with, but none that were good.
- Comment on whatcha gonna watch? 1 week ago:
1970s build?
Windows are terrible at efficiency. Yes, even modern ones with three panes and filled with argon. A building with minimal windows is generally going to have better thermal efficiency than one with lots of them, and that started to be really important during the 1970s oil crisis. The result was a bunch of schools like this that look like prisons.
If you get some local mural artists to paint the concrete in bright, whimsical images, it fixes a lot.
- Comment on Anon downloads free fps 1 week ago:
There’s plenty of companies with stock options as part of the compensation package. They’re always just a bone thrown in. They absolutely do not want employees to be able to effectively do a hostile takeover of their own company and set it up as some kind of commie worker cooperative.
- Comment on lemmy rn 1 week ago:
Mutual aid. Start building up a network of people who help each other out.
- Comment on AI Elections 1 week ago:
Every day, we get closer to Handmaid’s Tale.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
Water/wind/solar is cheaper now, and it’s not even close. It’s electrifying communities that never had any sort of electrification before since they can buy a few panels and bypass the (often corrupt) power utility in the country. The intermittency is a problem, but it’s still better than not having it at all.
That said, you know where 95% of new coal power plants are being built? China.
- Comment on Mushrooms 2 weeks ago:
40k Orcs work like that. It leaves open the question if Orc burgers are vegan or not.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This is the actual problem with these types of retirement plans, though. People are expected to know a lot about managing the investments themselves. There’s a whole industry whose job it is to give you bad advice. The real advice is “drop it in a mix of an sp500 index fund it and bonds according to your risk level” and the rest is bullshit.
- Comment on Every place gotta have the cuck booth 2 weeks ago:
Shape of the table is wrong for that. Usually these things happen as an architectural oddity. There isn’t room there for a full bench, so they made it work.
- Comment on Half as Hot 2 weeks ago:
Then what’s the point of even calling it arbitrary? If it covers everything, then there’s no reason for the word.
- Comment on Gandalf failed to consider incest, half my ancestors are related baby 2 weeks ago:
I must live my life according to the opinions of 4000+ dead people. Or assuming they had.
- Comment on Saddam Hussein is everywhere 2 weeks ago:
For every fuck that’s censored, I shall say fuck twice.
- Comment on Peak performance 3 weeks ago:
Series of boxes built around the same basic shape as a WWII vehicle, only bigger.
- Comment on Half as Hot 3 weeks ago:
Is there a way to distinguish between arbitrary and non-arbitrary? Or is literally everything ever arbitrary?
- Comment on Half as Hot 3 weeks ago:
Just to nitpick, there are negative kelvins. I don’t really understand it, myself, but I know it exists due to the specifics of how temperature is defined. Negative kelvins are actually extremely hot.