whaleross

@whaleross@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with launching nuclear waste with a rocket is that you’re shooting an enormous dirty bomb and hoping it will make it out of the atmosphere. One single incident and we’ve got an environmental disaster of unprecedented scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One aspect of punishment is retribution for the victims when there is nothing else and another is to keep people that are harmful away in order to keep other people safe.

  Here in Sweden we have a current massive problem with organized crime that are now systematically abusing our criminal justice system that is built on humanitarian ideals for rehab and protecting suspects and criminals rights to the absurd. So yes, in those cases I think punishment will do. Cynically abusing protection measures of society deserves punishment. It may not change those individuals for the life they have chosen for themselves but it will keep them out of making even more damage to society and violent crime against individuals and I honestly see no problem in harsh consequences for their own decisions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These notifications are bundled together for some reason. So if I want to be notified when my subscriptions renew themselves, I have to also be notified of random games going on sale, too.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Do no harm to the stockholders” would be the contemporary take.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it difficult to build a web app for Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t looked at the Lemmy API, but generally speaking hard or not is subjective. Try it, get your hands dirty. Take a stab at testing how it works. Set some very basic targets. Split it up into tasks. If one task proves more complicated than expected, split it up into smaller tasks. If you get stuck, move to another task. You can always get back to those later. Things fall in place with experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the “people are free to believe what they want to believe” is a mistake. This is the very statement that relativitises opinions and belief systems with facts and creates the illusion that they are all equal.

  Look at the “facts don’t care about feelings” crowd that believe wholeheartedly that statements pandering to their feelings are facts and disregard any actual facts as fake news. I don’t think it’s because they decided one day to pick and choose what is a fact and what is not, but they actually can’t tell that there is a difference in opinions, beliefs and facts in the first place.

  People need to accept that sometimes the truth is painful, that it contradicts what you want it to be, and worst of all - that you may have been wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What side do you open a banana from?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What side do you open a banana from?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The right side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a parody or joke type sub. Where you take real stories and run with it. Ex: Minnesota is in the middle of a snow storm right now. But in that sub maybe it gets changed to Minnesota is⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds fun. I don’t think it exist so you could create it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could you stay in the roundabout indefinitely?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could you stay in the roundabout indefinitely?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In Sweden, we have a classic joke that Norwegian roundabouts have the sign “Maximum 3 rounds”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do Huawei phones have a secret backdoor that the Chinese government can access?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sean, these questions are out of line

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What fun things can I do with an M.2 SSD and 2x4GB ram?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like others have suggested, get a cheap barebone or a second hand NUC without a drive, a Zigbee USB stick and some ZB lightbulbs and power plugs. Install home-assistant. Automate your home. Warning, it’s very fun and rewarding, but also addictive and totally a rabbit hole that you can keep tweaking and improving indefinitely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can chromeos be hacked??⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or bot nets that do nothing until somebody pays the owner to deploy an untraceable proxy or brute force or ddos attack. There are so many reasons for bad actors to hit up as many machines as possible, regardless who is behind the keyboard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current state of Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s only there to make the other ones look cheap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The current state of Instagram⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know how social media copy each other?

  Meta has dived in head first to beat X.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people want games that are just stories without any gameplay, these days? Why not just watch a movie for that?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And what wild action it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people want games that are just stories without any gameplay, these days? Why not just watch a movie for that?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, it’s my mistake. I assumed it would have some gameplay elements as suggested by the “action” in the title, something along what interactive stories used to be in my mind.

  As I said, I personally don’t understand the appeal of it. I’d rather read the story as a book or even a graphic novel because for me tapping the spacebar and dragging icons does not add anything for me. It’s plain annoying both as game and distracts for a novel. Oh, and obviously I didn’t expect it to be about horny tech furries. It was simply not for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people want games that are just stories without any gameplay, these days? Why not just watch a movie for that?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wanted something retro cyberpunk RPG recently and installed VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action, only to discover that there is no action and barely no game. It’s just endless nexting through a narrative that smells of teenage bedsheets.

  Apparently it’s massively popular.

  I don’t get it at all. For me it’s like reading wet fanfic while double tapping the space bar and perform the most tedious implementation of what can barely be considered a puzzle or memory game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why host your own files when someone else can do it for you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess is that at some point some poor web dev or web admin screwed up big time and with a heart rate nearing the colibri fluttered in panic above their laptop in attempts to restore the site, finding great relief that there was a snapshot in the archives and did not have enough presence to fix all the links to get it back online asap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel stupid asking this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the beauty of this line of social media is that it is so anonymous in the sense that it doesn’t matter who is behind the username. It can be the most basic bitch in Ohio, a shut-in from Italy, a porn star from Hungary or a chart breaking pop star from London. As long they have something interesting to contribute, it does not matter at all who they are. No need to prove anything. Everybody can just be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[What if scenario] What if all commercial institutions suddenly decided they no longer intend to acknowledge religious events such as Christmas?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, butts. I replied to the wrong post. The one I intended to respond asked if there were celebrities on the feediverse.

  I must admit, it gave me great confusion to read your response in my inbox. And now amusement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[What if scenario] What if all commercial institutions suddenly decided they no longer intend to acknowledge religious events such as Christmas?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the beauty of this line of social media is that it is so anonymous in the sense that it doesn’t matter who is on the other end. It can be the most basic bitch in Ohio, a shut-in from Italy, a porn star from Hungary or a chart breaking pop star from London. As long they have something interesting to contribute, it does not matter at all who they are. No need to prove anything. Everybody can just be.