phoenixz
@phoenixz@lemmy.ca
- Comment on US being left behind in EV charging speeds as China goes sub-5 min to 70% 2 days ago:
US being left behind in almost every possible metric
One wonders how that happened. Maybe the leeching of money and resources by the rich class? Maybe the incompetent fascist regimes that have been in control for the past 5 decades, with each next one worse than the previous?
- Comment on Anon reflects on a mistake 2 days ago:
Or with your family…
- Comment on The government is keeping a list of people who question their policies 3 days ago:
Haven’t all governments always?
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 3 days ago:
They’re planning everything from mining to the rapture
They’re also idiots that don’t understand basic physics
Its the same mental deficiency of people going on about asteroid mining. Yeah, sure, lots of minerals in those asteroids but until you find a safe, cheap, and reliable way to shift those asteroids into earth’s orbit it’s literally the same as those guys jerking off over AI porn: vapid and empty.
I’m not saying that its impossible, I know that one day we’ll get there. I also know that “one day” is at the very least 20 years in the future, still, just to get a simple base. Getting a production base that pulls out minerals, with a reliable way to move said minerals to earth is more likely some 50 years away
I know, musk says we can do all that today, bit musk hasn’t been able to speak a single truth in 2-3 decades at least. He’s full of shit and constantly makes stupid lying claims about mars bases. His starship rockets have spent billions of US tax payer money and still haven’t been able to clear the first easy 1% of the work; getting in yo a stable earth orbit. They managed to roast a banana over the Indian ocean, and to obliterate a launch pad. I suppose those are impressive feats perhaps, but not on the way to the moon, or worse, mars.
Seriously, humanity is at best 1% on the way to a mars base. There are so many known issues that we don’t have solutions for, and there are even more unknown issues that also still need solutions. Yet the moon and mars bro’s can stop talking about how next year bro, next year will be the year bro, musk promised it bro, that is as good as any truth bro…
- Comment on DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why. 5 days ago:
Uuugghhhh
I’ll bite
What small thing did he do that got you all riled up?
- Comment on Reform given record-breaking £72m by two crypto billionaires 2 weeks ago:
How the fuck is that even remotely legal?
- Comment on AI Job interview warns against using AI yourself 2 weeks ago:
In other words, it doesn’t matter because if they think you used AI then younised AI because they won’t let you defend yourself against false accusations, so fuck ypu
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 2 weeks ago:
One difference is that you’d be lying avputbthe former whereas the latter would be a political thing you’d kinda have to do
- Comment on Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS? 2 weeks ago:
Because SMS sucks, always has, for many reasons
Give me a federated XMPP based messenger with all the same features as WhatsApp and then… Well, I’ll install it but I still wouldn’t use it because nobody is using it
That is the core of the matter: everybody uses WhatsApp because everybody uses WhatsApp
- Comment on [Video] Woman assaulted after heckling Nigel Farage at his conference 2 weeks ago:
He said that after laughing about her getting assaulted
Farrage needs to meet tar and feathers and that would get him off super lightly
- Comment on Why do we assume paper towels are sterile, or at least clean? 3 weeks ago:
You seem nice
- Comment on Fuckin CEO's and billionaires gotta go 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure the timing is very coincidental and has nothing to do with the recent AFD win
People like this will happily burn the world so that they can rule over the ashes
- Comment on This camouflaged speed bump 3 weeks ago:
It’s a wide straight road which invites people to drive faster
If you want them to slow down automatically, make the road smaller. People will slow down. Swerve the road slightly, people will slow down. Needs it to be a slow road? Put obstacles left and right requiring the cars to swerve slowly
There are great many ways to build roads, the USA doesn’t have many
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 4 weeks ago:
I read lead slab and agreed with that assessment
- Comment on seedcore.net 4 weeks ago:
That URL goes to a 404 page…
Can I join without prior private tracker experience? I have non screenshots to show yet
- Comment on This camouflaged speed bump 4 weeks ago:
That badly designed road that invites speeding in the first place. Design it well, you won’t need speed bumps
- Comment on Grim signs the globe is about to run short of food 5 weeks ago:
Yeah good luck with that. You really believe that will ever happen?
- Comment on How do I identify someone who has deleted their post? 5 weeks ago:
You are actively taking time out of your day to block a person who didn’t stick around long enough to hear you out
You need to go outside and touch grass. Get a girlfriend or boyfriend, those are fun too
- Comment on Christmas is upon us 5 weeks ago:
Its not so much about what they sell and what they sell, its more about that stores do this to squeeze every last penny out of an event that supposedly for once should would not be about money, cheapening the entire thing to just another money tit for the rich
That’s what pisses people off
- Comment on There's No Reason to Buy a New Phone Anymore 5 weeks ago:
About a year ago I bought a ulefone armour 29, the first phone I’ve been excited about since 10 years at least.
Its has all the standard features like a 50 mpixel camera, etc but it also has a 20.000+ mAh battery that lasts a week, it has a real FLIR infra red camera which works quite well, a night vision camera, a huge LED light bank that can light up a complete garden or burn out youtbeye balls if you stare into it. It has a small display on the back that can show a clock or compass or camera display even, without using the main screen. It also has emergency red blue flash lights that can make someone think you’re police if you put it on your dashboard.
Its also huge and heavy, 700+ grams. Its built like a tank and I’ve only been able to find one protection case for it as it kinda sorta doesn’t really need one. Hell, this thing can be used as a self defense weapon of someone attacks you. At night, with a single button I activate that light and my attacker will not break able to see anything for minutes and a single smack in the face with this thing will make you reconsider life choices.
Yeah, most of these features are semi useful at best but boy is it fun for a nerd to use it.
Its also a great conversation piece. Anytime I pull this monster out, people look, and the questions start.
My next phone will need to have at least all these features and more. Add a UV camera, add a Geiger counter, add whatever feature you can think of. That will make me buy a nre phone again, nothing else will.
- Comment on Why we're so sure our phones are listening 5 weeks ago:
Make that 20+ years here. Hell, 30+ years. I can’t remeber ever buying something because I saw a commercial for it. The one thing, maybe, was a CD that I bought after hearing a commercial for it on TV, yeah, about 30+ years ago
- Comment on What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings? 5 weeks ago:
You mean the “we will rock you” part in mideval times while the song hadn’t been written for another thousand years?
Yeah, but then again, they kinda made a point to just be funny and go with it :)
- Comment on The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday 1 month ago:
Maybe, but didn’t he actually plagiarize a lot of his work?
- Comment on google's getting pissy about using their shit while logged out 1 month ago:
Which is why I’m building my own self hosted map application
Fuck Google with an umbrella
- Comment on Supporters of famous influencer Andrew Tate rally in Miami 1 month ago:
Oh my god I’ve never seen such a big flock of losers bunched up in a twist like this. The push ups are just cringe level sadness. I would just want to give them a hug and tell them it will be okay, if it wasn’t that they are all such raging assholes
- Comment on Karoline Leavitt. She says she wear a cross because she is a good christian. 1 month ago:
Poetry
- Comment on Climate goals 1 month ago:
And the USA flag would go where exactly?
- Comment on Is Anon the asshole? 1 month ago:
Tell me you’re missing the point without telling me you’re missing the point
- Comment on No Spoiler 👁️⃤ 1 month ago:
It was well over 3000 IIRC, and I did. It was a tragedy for the individuals but as a country it was more than well deserved
- Comment on No Spoiler 👁️⃤ 1 month ago:
Americans … protesting
You’re kidding, right? If Americans are incapable of doing anything, its protesting. And don’t tell me about the sad “no kings” protests, that was nothing.
I know that many Americans, maybe even most, don’t agree with US policies, but that is the problem: you’ve allowed a tiny rich minority to abuse your and other countries for well over a century and you haven’t done shit to stop that. Its gone on for so long that most left wing people in the USA are still having right wing ideas because you dont even know better