JackGreenEarth
@JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee
- Comment on Is it normal to be constantly scared about how your friend will react to anything about you? 3 hours ago:
That’s a great saying, gonna save that!
- Comment on Does anyone else hate knowing stuff and looking "smart"? 3 hours ago:
For ‘get me movies for free’, I point them to fmhy.net
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 4 hours ago:
Assuming I appear naked in a field in England in 1375, I would first try to, in no particular order (at first, then a particular order)
- find cloth to cover my face and hands so I don’t transmit or catch any diseases
- distill water so I can drink it without getting diseases
- use yams or horse urine to create HRT
- communicate with the locals and seek a local blacksmith to create a metal tube with metal balls inside it, and mix charcoal, potash, and sulfur to make a primitive gun to defend myself against the people who think I’m a witch or a demon or whatever
- talk to the women and encourage them to rise up against the system and patriarchy, teach them how to make weapons, about 4 field crop rotation if they don’t already know it, otherwise about automated steam engines, weavers, hydroelectric dams, etc
- march up to the feudal lord and demand democracy, with the fear of the gun and half the population behind me they will agree
- teach about the scientific method to get them to question things, do their own research, and learn more
- there will be scientific labs, primitive computers can be developed, we can spread our advanced culture to the rest of Afro-Eurasia, also prevent slavery
- warn people about going to America and Australia unprepared, go with them in modern ships and don’t spread disease, talk to the locals and trade with them and learn from them, don’t kill them or replace them. Teach them the tech advancements too
- Write down lots of things, invent the printing press if not already invented, document human knowledge and encourage more documentation by others
This is all if I have any measure of success at the first things and don’t die or kill myself
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 4 hours ago:
Scientifically speaking, there is no absolute reference frame. So you can be wherever you like depending on what reference you choose.
- Comment on Do British people say "brr" when they're cold? If so, how do they pronounce the R? 1 day ago:
Not usually, I wouldn’t, but if I would I would pronounce the r like short oo with vocal fry
- Comment on Absolute Units - things bigger than normally expected 3 days ago:
Not to be confused with absolute Unix
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 4 days ago:
I agree with the first part, but I absolutely do not want to give my biometric data to the government. They clearly already have a way of assigning everyone a number for the National Insurance Number, so just use that
- Comment on Vaccines are antivirus updates 6 days ago:
It’s original to me!
- Comment on If we are in a simulation, maybe yawning is an animation glitch. 6 days ago:
You actually breath less when you sleep, so you yawn when you wake up to transition to a higher breathing state
- Comment on If we are in a simulation, maybe yawning is an animation glitch. 6 days ago:
Yawning is for getting more air when you don’t have enough.
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 1 week ago:
I meant a more graphical way, but yes, that would work
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 1 week ago:
The only one I really miss is an NFC payments app, but a local LLM for Android that’s FOSS would be cool too - PocketPal is free, but not open source or on F-Droid.
Also LibreOffice for desktop is great, but on mobile there aren’t any easy to use ones in the same way Google Docs is, I’ve tried LibreOffice for Android and Collabora
- Comment on YSK that in the US, denaturalization, the process of revoking a person's citizenship, does not require proof "Beyond reasonable doubt" 1 week ago:
Your link has a paywall
- Comment on What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere? 1 week ago:
I wonder if you can
- Comment on Maybe a young Margaret Atwood witnessed the unveiling of her time capsule book in 2114 and then travelled by in time to complete the paradox loop by arranging the time capsule book in the first place. 1 week ago:
Time travel could exist, but whatever a time traveler does, they were always going to do. If they didn’t prevent a catastrophe, they couldn’t have prevented the catastrophe. Something would always have prevented them.
- Comment on The Devil (Lucifer) is an undercover cop. 1 week ago:
In the Torah, the Satan, or Adversary, was indeed understood to be an angel under God’s command and on his side.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 1 week ago:
I don’t breath in exhaust either, fully concentrated. I have as much of a problem with diffused cigarette smoke as diffused exhaust, but I fucking hate smokers that make me breath in their second hand fully potent, carcinogenic, horrible smelling smoke.
- Comment on "I was born in the wrong generation" has turned from edgy to a sad reality for some 1 week ago:
I do have access to healthcare, as long as I can wait a few years, thanks to the wonders of the NHS. Google is but one company, the privacy respecting OSS I use still works great for me, better than ever in fact, Linux phones and GNOME have come a long way. There is a disturbing right wing trend across the world, but these things come in cycles, eventually it will go back in the other direction, and I wouldn’t exchange it for the other benefits of today’s world.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s awful. It’s just I don’t see earlier times being much better.
- Comment on "I was born in the wrong generation" has turned from edgy to a sad reality for some 1 week ago:
People look at the past with nostalgia tinted glasses. Sure, things are bad now, but in the past they were even worse. Out of all the times I could have been alive, this day, with all the medical and social advances we have, is the best/least bad.
- Comment on Can iPhones receive files via Bluetooth? 2 weeks ago:
You think it was stupid? It was obviously an intentional choice to influence people to pester their friends to get Apple devices so it will ‘just work’
- Comment on what to do with ipad that isn’t working right? 3 weeks ago:
There should be a way to hard reset a device? Yes, there should, and it should be easy and simple. It’s ok if it erases the device, but it shouldn’t be a useless brick without connecting to any company’s servers. Of course, I wouldn’t expect any better from an Apple device, they’re very locked down.
- Comment on If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be? 3 weeks ago:
It’s selfish, but hair growth. Hair removal steals so much of my limited time.
- Comment on The hard to pick fruit tastes less sweet 3 weeks ago:
Sometimes we’re told that, and sometimes it’s true, but often it’s an excuse to get people to work harder, eg at a job, but the result is actually lower quality work.
- Comment on What actually came first? The chicken or the egg? 3 weeks ago:
According to Last-Thursdayism, both came at the same time - last Thursday, when the universe was created
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- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 3 weeks ago:
Sɛntɵ
- Comment on With the current state of the news, April's fools aren't fun anymore because they can't be distinguished as easily as before 3 weeks ago:
I like how Minecraft adds fun updates for 1 April. Not the pranking.
- Comment on The IOC probably hopes that countries other than Belarus, North Korea, Hungary and International Olympic Athletes will want to show up for the 2028 games. 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think the US is allies with North Korea or Belarus though…
Maybe Israel, they are, as you say, betraying all the rest of their allies…
Still not North Korea bad yet though, although certainly not a place I’d want to be
- Comment on The IOC probably hopes that countries other than Belarus, North Korea, Hungary and International Olympic Athletes will want to show up for the 2028 games. 4 weeks ago:
Am I finding wrong information? It seems the IOC is the International Olympics Committee, and the 2028 Summer Olympics will be in Los Angeles. Not maybe a perfect place, but not on the same level as North Korea and suchlike.
- Comment on How You Doin? 4 weeks ago:
At the end of the day you’re another day older…
And the clothes on your back couldn’t keep out the chill…