remotelove
@remotelove@lemmy.ca
- Comment on how/where did the concord hold 42 of these tanks ? 2 days ago:
Like most planes, the wings are mostly fuel tanks. www.heritageconcorde.com/fuelgeneral
Your picture shows the scale quite well, actually. Imagine that girl sitting in the cockpit and then imagine the size of the barrel compared to that.
Fuel is typically measured by weight in aircraft so “a full tank” might be different besed on the density of the fuel.
- Comment on Scaring/Scarring The Children Since 1969 6 days ago:
Obviously a seasoned alcoholic. I remember her sounding like a long time heavy smoker too.
- Comment on One of the down sides of testosterone 1 week ago:
People get mad and say things they don’t mean. Many couples will get to the point of yelling and screaming at some point if they are together for a number of years. (Some people may never fight, and good on 'em!)
A fight isn’t the issue: It a person’s willingness to forgive and forget is what should be measured.
- Comment on HeeHee 1 week ago:
Even with your feet bolted to the floor, that would cause some serious damage to your ankles if you couldn’t pull yourself back up.
After my running, I’ll stretch my calves by doing pushups againt some railing while keeping my feet flat like that. No way I could ever use calve strength like that to pull myself back up. That shit hurts, man! (My calves are fairly strong, too.)
- Comment on Will never understand how anyone wears these. 1 week ago:
Well usually, they put them on their feet as shown in the picture.
- Comment on How did Google win the search engine war? 2 weeks ago:
They kept the front-zero-ads thing over the years, but once you click through a search, it’s a thousand times worse than the popups ever were. The first search page is a huge AI spash screen and the rest is sponsored placement mixed with random crap results to ensure you scroll all the way down looking for what you won’t ever really find.
- Comment on Just found this behind a wendys dumpster 2 weeks ago:
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Go eat a bag of cylinders.
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Your cylinder is too soft. No way I am sticking that in my mouth.
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You can pound your cylinder for as long as you want, but it’s not going to taste any different
Huh. I don’t think it’s a good replacement word for eggplant. cylinder just doesn’t roll off my tounge any easier. It kinda makes me gag a little thinking about it, actually.
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- Comment on Brain_IRL 2 weeks ago:
Age.
- Comment on Moralizing scarcity 3 weeks ago:
I get it. Many people have a hard time separating a single experience from an entire population, culture or cuisine.
While I am absolutely not a fan of the Russian government at the moment, I have to force myself to remember that many of the Russian people are no different than you or I. It’s all to easy for me demonize and generalize an entire population as much as the next person, if I am not careful. (This is exploited heavily by state propaganda to foster xenophobia, in many cases.)
Still, a culture couldn’t be defined as a “culture” of it didn’t have distinctive and common traits. The same goes for regional cuisine.
After thinking about this a bit more (and also deliberating if I myself was overreacting) what we have is a fine line of context. Me exclaiming that “that countries food is crap” wouldn’t be the same as “if you let those people in this country, our food will turn to crap”.
My reaction is exactly that same as yours when I see out-of-place comments bashing Americans. I never go out of my way to troll or spread hate against any common person and it sucks when I get pulled into a generalization for no reason. Trust me when I say I hate our government as much or more than most of Lemmy and more power-hungry slobs are not what this world needs right now.
So, after considering your position a bit more and reflecting on how I react to similar situations, it’s just as easy to portray being xenophobic as it is to be perceived as xenophobic. Both could be true or false, and the only hints we have as to the actual nature of it is context. Context, unfortunately, is something that isn’t expressed well in text on social media.
I haven’t read what you have read and probably might interpret it differently anyway. So, if think something is xenophobic there isn’t much I can say about that other that what I already have. Perception is what tips the scales in one direction or another, it seems.
- Comment on Moralizing scarcity 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t go so far as to say xenophobic. Ignorance is probably a better description in many cases. It is also ok not to like types of food, or be disgruntled if the only thing to eat was food that was not to your liking.
Xenophobia could absolutely be an issue in some cases, but applying it broadly is a bit harsh.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
So you are saying we should milk a rooster?
- Comment on Wait! I Can Explain 3 weeks ago:
I was walking out of the gym today and some random kid stood up and gave me a fist bump for no reason. It’s been a shitty week so far, and that kid made my day.
While I suspect that my own kids are probably not human, that random kid sure was.
- Comment on Got to visit the Tyrell Corporation HQ last night. Place is huge. 4 weeks ago:
What do you mean, I’m not helping? I’ve never seen a turtle. But I understand what you mean.
- Comment on Even a subtle change can have a big effect on how others perceive you 5 weeks ago:
It is. I was a Navy sailor, so there were a couple of layers to my comment. ;)
Some sailors that aren’t military may need to repair sails, but that is a highly specialized job usually.
Sailors should be good at knots, but most are not. There are only a few jobs that would require the skill these days, TBH.
- Comment on I Stand. 5 weeks ago:
It’s Ocala Florida, so fairly normal stuff for that part of the world.
- Comment on Even a subtle change can have a big effect on how others perceive you 5 weeks ago:
It’s his mad sewing skills that are actually drawing the attention.
- Comment on It's terminal 2 months ago:
Billionaire Island, Issue #1
- Comment on Urine Luck 3 months ago:
Well, it’s kinda cool to look around and also realize that much of what you see likely came from multiple supernovae and/or kilonovae. (Huh. I have never needed to pluralize the word ‘kilonova’ before. Meh… It looks cool with the ‘e’, so I’ll leave it.)
Eventually, our atoms are going to get blasted out across the universe again to maybe become part of some other planetary system, before it eventually gets destroyed or sucked into blackhole and is evaporated as radiation. This might not even be the first universe our bits have been a part of …
- Comment on I live for the shareholders, the politicians, and to pay for my parents retirement 3 months ago:
That’s why I started running at age 45. Unless I get injured and can’t run any more, I am kinda hoping that my heart will just explode one day on the track, and that’ll be it. (I have already surpassed my one mile running pace from my 20’s and have no plans to slow down.)
The injury bit would really suck, as spending the rest of my days not able to walk would be really bad. Even more so as I am using running as a way to delay the process of arterial stenosis that has already started at my kidneys. (I suspect my life would get really suck, really quick, if I can’t actively manage that. It’s already put my in the ICU once, just about one year ago.)
I got a small glimpse into how my body is breaking down already and decided focus on the things I could actually do to slow that down.
Still, even with the risks, I am able at least point my physical health and well-being in a much better direction that should pay off (hopefully) in my last 40 years. (Quitting booze a few years ago probably ensured that I would still have a family around that gives a shit about me, so there is that as well.)
I can’t predict the future and eventually my body will still give out regardless. Doing what I can now to ensure a smooth path out is just about the only thing I can do.
- Comment on Bar hired local artist to paint the bathroom doors. The pictures were her idea 4 months ago:
So a Lemmy shitpost is just a reddit cross-post? The actual OP didn’t give any context to the images. Even if this isn’t a bot post, it might as well be one.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Not yet.
I think there is a much higher probability of oil prices being manipulated in the short-term.
- Comment on BEST IPTV SERVICE 4 months ago:
Peak shitpost. Well played.
- Comment on Break the conditioning, maximize your horsepower. 5 months ago:
A minor one and a component of Vitamin B12.
- Comment on Break the conditioning, maximize your horsepower. 5 months ago:
Have a normal, balanced diet if you aren’t extremely active. So yeah, just eat a banana. :)
I run a lot and a sweat a lot, so my electrolyte loss is fairly high. (You can see the buildup of salts on my gear after it dries and before I wash it.) Electrolyte supplements are great for athletes that can’t practically make up the losses with regular food intake.
But… To say that Gatorade and other electrolyte drinks are overused by people who aren’t active is an understatement. Many people simply do not need the extra boost of sugar and salts and it’s just going to get pissed out anyway.
The reason I am a bit vocal about this is that 1. People should actually eat a decent diet just to get these basic salts and 2. Electrolyte supplements are awesome, extremely basic but extremely overused. They are extremely important, but not in the way marketing departments say they are.
- Comment on Break the conditioning, maximize your horsepower. 5 months ago:
Sodium chloride is not the only electrolyte the body needs. It’s fairly important to keep a healthy balance: medlineplus.gov/fluidandelectrolytebalance.html
- Comment on Break the conditioning, maximize your horsepower. 5 months ago:
Horses, generally, really like apples.
- Comment on Break the conditioning, maximize your horsepower. 5 months ago:
- Comment on How do abortions work exactly? I get you lose the kid or whatever. My ex rapist used to tell me if I ever got pregnant he would RU486 me. Wouldn't a person rather go to a doc instead of a pill? 5 months ago:
You are not a 40 year old traveling nurse? I find it hard to believe that a nurse wouldn’t know this.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Her wallet probably feels fine though.
- Comment on Someone made it a meme, it's got to be true. 5 months ago:
Most of TNG painted a picture of a perfect utopian Starfleet and how humans had grown up, like you say . (Obviously, humanity is never perfect but the messaging is fairly clear: They try.)
I can chime in more about VOY and ENT though…
VOY is my favorite and also when you start to see a little more of humanity in Starfleet. We learned a few things like: The Prime Directive/Temporal Prime Directives were always just suggestions, murder could actually be justified, you will never get promoted past ensign if you play the clarinet and chemical addiction is still a key driver in human decisions and behavior.
ENT is just the human transition out of a military focused race to a race focused on exploration. (I am not sure why Archer always seems to have serious case of constipation, but it is what it is.)
