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@RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
- Comment on Don't blink 34 minutes ago:
TIHI. Didn’t expect that.
- Comment on The Future is Now! 1 day ago:
Maga bots? All they’ll want to do with them is give them guns and send them to war or shoot protesters.
- Comment on Same Shafeeq, same. 2 days ago:
Spending a lot of time outdoors as a kid then seeing this pic is kinda…yeah that’s how it works. Plus back in the day Discovery and other educational channels were actually educational, so you could learn about stuff you might not get to personally see.
People stay indoors and the Discovery Channel makes crap like Ice Road Truckers.
Yeah.
- Comment on I am about to learn everything. 3 days ago:
You forgot to make them crawl into the wing wearing breathing ppe on a hot day to seal an integral fuel tank.
On a side note, I just changed the oil and filter on a Toyota yesterday. The only pain in the ass about it is that the damn mechanics completely ignored the torque requirement and overtightened the cartridge housing. I had to use an impact to remove something only supposed to be torqued to 18 ft lb. Otherwise everything is easy to access.
- Comment on fur sure 4 days ago:
I mean, teriyaki steak is awesome, it’s sweet/savory, so why not.
- Comment on average red state university 5 days ago:
This is pretty much prime territory for the same methods Kirk used for “debate”.
Gish gallop, butwhatabout, moving gailposts, exhausting the opponent with bs, etc.
They’re all the same, they’re not there for any honest conversation. There is absolutely no way to “win” with them because no matter what objective and truthful information you offer it will be rejected or you’ll be asked to “prove” something that cannot be done in any manner acceptable to the asker.
- Comment on America 6 days ago:
Maybe because of the caveat “technically” giving readers easy distinction between geographic American and the American nation? Or maybe just the bad luck of hitting the hivemind wrong.
- Comment on Is there a chance America one day will elect a Progressive? Or will we keep going the elder dipshit route? 6 days ago:
It’ll be the progressive that gets elected to preside over the decline. Once we’ve been bled dry and the other nation(s) take the world lead, like China.
- Comment on America 6 days ago:
Technically she’s still American. Just South American.
- Comment on America 6 days ago:
There are several industries that run on 24 hour time outside of the military. Ocean shipping, aviation, and medical care off the top of my head. Want to throw a real wrench in the works? Start figuring Zulu time, especially when time changes happen at different times of the year in different countries or US states that don’t change at all.
Anyway, 24 hour time is so much easier. No making mistakes forgetting to select AM/PM when setting an alarm or reminder, for instance. Even converting it to 12 hour time takes no thought at all of you use it for a while.
- Comment on If I got in a collision with a car from the 70s with a car today, would not the 70s car win out since it would primarily be metal? If so why don't people buy more 70's cars? 1 week ago:
When I was a kid our car had only lap belts, and even those were optional. In the early ‘70s they had the attitude of building street tanks and that mass = safety. Doesn’t matter that the humans inside got tossed around like a hackey sack or to get an aortic dissection when hitting the steering wheel. It wasn’t until the last year of the ‘60’s that a collapsible steering column started being more common. By the late ‘70s they were starting to engineer for actual safety of the occupant. It wasn’t great at all by today’s standards, things like airbags didn’t really show up until the ‘80s, much less all the side curtain ones that are more common today.
Anyway, a modern vehicle is way better safety-wise, the debate would have to be about the speed of collision and the mass of the old car. Even though modern cars are safer, g-forces can be severe and no telling how the old car would crumple.
- Comment on Left side park 1 week ago:
Honestly if it were on the shore there would be no end of developers clamoring to build into the park or at least along the shore edge of the park. The park would be whittled down to a few spots with a view available to thr general public. Eventually some politician would cave to campaign donations from a wealthy developer.
- Comment on Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI 1 week ago:
There was nothing hostile in what I said. Maybe you don’t like being proven wrog? I didn’t expect anything of you much less a hyperbolic research paper, but nonetheless you chose hyperbole and shuffled the goalposts instead of actually continuing the discussion. I never said when I bought the games, but convenient of you to arbitrarily decide how old a game is before it’s not worth it for you. Nonetheless they’re on sale by your own admission, so that blows your “rarely” out of the water while you ignore BF6 being repeatedly on sale. But I suppose you’ll make excuses about that too?
- Comment on Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI 1 week ago:
Literally BF6 is on sale right now for 40% off. It was 50% off on some locations on Black Friday. It was 30% off 4 months ago. It was released early October. That’s 4 sales in 7 months for a AAA game.
I’ve bought Stray, Cyberpunk 2077, GTA, Elite: Dangeorus, Borderlands series, and many others all on sale and even a couple games for free.
I can’t help it if your particular games don’t get discounted, but telling me AAA games rarely do is completely wrong.
- Comment on Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI 1 week ago:
You can buy new AAA games. Be /patientgamers. Just wait a few weeks or months after release and they almost always go on sale when companies want to boost server numbers to make quarterly reports look good. I haven’t paid release price for any AAA game in years. And it should go without saying: Do not preorder!
- Comment on Back in the day the world had The Great Dictator speech speaking the truth. Then came Network with the I am mad as hell. In this era what speech are we going to look back from the future? 1 week ago:
Love the hypocrisy of Disney dropping this openly anti-authoritarian series while paying their millions in homage to trump.
- Comment on Never doubt the commitment of horse-girl fans: Umamusume cosplayers are having actual races at tracks around the world 1 week ago:
Well, at least they’re outside.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
“Really good?”
These aren’t Pixar tearjerkers.
Are they fun and entertaining? Sure. I enjoyed the jokes and humor.
- Comment on An intelligence of pure malevolence. 1 week ago:
Ouch. Yeah, we don’t abuse it at all.
- Comment on An intelligence of pure malevolence. 1 week ago:
Have a small-office level printer. Zero trouble for a decade. Previously had a succession of inkjets and had to deal with bloated software, greedy refills and restrictions on them, and flawed scanner feeds.
Never buying those things again.
- Comment on What's wrong with Ellen DeGeneres? 1 week ago:
Your Co-op Food sells sex toys?
- Comment on When you're the type of person who commits. (xpost, because the Factorio joke inspired me) 2 weeks ago:
Hah. I get that.
I’m reading a book series that’s more like a serialized tv show than a novel set. They’re not good, but they’re certainly good enough to grow on me. I think I’m on book 32 or something and actually waiting for the next one.
- Comment on The way this egg peels in infuriating 2 weeks ago:
I’ve tried all those tricks to peel the eggs via ice water baths and all that.
None of it worked consistently.
What did work best was cheap, white eggs. The kind you get at Aldi for like $2.
Not the free range, brown, cage free stuff. Those always have issues with sticking shells.
- Comment on UpUrH2OIntake 2 weeks ago:
Diabetes will do that to ya.
- Comment on How do you feel about a 25 year old dating a 46 year old? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not about the age gap. They’re adults. The same rules apply to any relationship. If nobody’s being manipulated, abused, taken advantage of or harmed, then people need to mind their own business.
- Comment on Triangle 2 weeks ago:
Because advertisers don’t want their ads associated with negative words. You can say whatever as long as it isn’t against ToS, but if it’s negative it will be buried.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Well, yeah…I mean it’s a non-zero group of people that specifically avoided consoles because of the walled gardens and monopolistic behavior by the companies that make them and the stores you get locked into.
So when one of the main vendors for your PC gaming platform starts behaving similarly of course you’re going to notice it.
- Comment on Pioneers 2 weeks ago:
Except mushrooms. That will be tasty and kill you slowly a week later.
- Comment on The original Lemmy shitpost 2 weeks ago:
Make sure it’s the “citrate” variety. That’s the one that mostly helps move things along. There are other types also available as supplements that have different effects that probably won’t benefit someone looking for digestive help.
- Comment on Car faints after seeing gas prices 2 weeks ago:
Ouch