TheRealKuni
@TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
- Comment on Dik Piks 2 days ago:
I feel like it’s easier to tell English speakers to make an “eee” sound with their lips and then pronounce the vowel in question (ä, ö, ü) with the rest of their mouth (at least that’s how we do it in choral German).
- Comment on Star Wars is an ode to the stupidest use of battle lasers 4 days ago:
Didn’t TIE bombers bomb asteroids in TESB when Solo and crew were hiding in a giant worm? Sure looked similar, IIRC.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 6 days ago:
I don’t know if this will work on brambles, but for pesky root systems I’ve had luck with Bovide’s Stump and Vine killer. You cut near the base of one of them, then paint the exposed stem with this stuff. It absorbs into the root system and kills all of it. Works great on pokeweed.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 6 days ago:
Other than the “not” part, yeah. “Mala” is bad, wrong, evil, wicked, ill, naughty, etc.
(Checked this to confirm before I posted, since it’s been several years since I’ve known Spanish well enough to speak it.)
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 6 days ago:
From Dungeon Crawler Carl:
I grumbled a bit about that three in intelligence. Yeah, I never did too great in math, but I never considered myself a slobbering idiot, either. I could fix most anything electrical after studying it for a bit. My friend Billy Maloney, now that guy was an idiot. Just last week we’d come out of a bar, and he’d peed right on a cop’s bicycle while the cop was giving someone else a ticket for drunk and disorderly. That guy deserved an intelligence of three, maybe two.
. . .
After I complained about my intelligence score to Mordecai, using the Billy example, he said, “Intelligence told you that bike belonged to a police officer. Wisdom told you not to urinate upon it.
- Comment on The End Of The Hackintosh Is Upon Us 1 week ago:
Uh… didn’t this happen like 7 years ago when they stopped using intel chips?
I think they were still releasing updates for the non-Apple Silicon Macs, which meant Hackintosh was still possible.
Also why not just buy a pc to do this diy-adjacent bullshit? Not like you can’t get Mac equivalent (or better) hardware for literally the same price these days. It’s not 2004.
That’s what a Hackintosh is though. It’s running Mac on non-Apple hardware.
- Comment on Just.....why? 1 week ago:
I cannot imagine the value to the company from whatever usage data they get from their toothbrushing app is anything close to the value they get from selling brush heads. So it would be immensely foolish to lock down the toothbrush.
The app is a selling point, and they do it because others do. They’d lose the portion of the market that wants to track which parts of their mouth they’ve brushed properly. But that isn’t their main market, and they’d be idiots to kill their product chasing that niche.
- Comment on Just.....why? 1 week ago:
If it’s anything like mine, it works just fine without the app. The app just does brush tracking and shit. I don’t need any of that, so I never set it up. But I suspect even if I had, it would still let me use it without being logged into the app.
I suspect the same is true here. That the function of the toothbrush is available regardless of whether it’s logging data to your phone.
- Comment on Breaking: Netflix has made another minor change for their subscribers. 1 week ago:
fidely
I don’t want to be that guy but I suspect you mean “fiddly,” whose spelling derives from “fiddle.”
I only mention it because it took me a bit to figure out what you were saying.
- Comment on Samsung phones can survive twice as many charges as Pixel and iPhone, according to EU data 1 week ago:
Oh yeah, I’m big on the wireless chargers. Especially with the magnetic alignment in qi2 charging.
- Comment on Samsung phones can survive twice as many charges as Pixel and iPhone, according to EU data 1 week ago:
Try cleaning out the USB-C port. Lint gets compacted in there and it can prevent the plug from seating correctly. Most charging problems I’ve had were resolved by scraping the lint out of the port, with a plastic floss pick thing or an unbent staple. Careful not to damage the contacts though.
- Comment on They are so clueless they don't realize that this just pisses everyone off. Shove your banana 1 week ago:
I tried ordering a portion of a guy’s crop before it grew. Sadly the crop failed and I was refunded. I really want to try a gros michel.
- Comment on 413524 Gang, rise up! 2 weeks ago:
Bruh, you’re on lemmyshitpost, not lemmybetakenseriously.
- Comment on 413524 Gang, rise up! 2 weeks ago:
For someone on lemy.lol you sure take things too seriously. 😉
- Comment on 413524 Gang, rise up! 2 weeks ago:
Any of them are straight lines and decide the size of the star. Some of us are more refined and can handle diagonal sizing.
- Comment on Just keep typing, wage slaves 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I kinda agree. They got lucky. Thousands would have died regardless of the evacuation plan if the right conditions came up.
- Comment on When you work for a company owned by a A..hole 2 weeks ago:
A proper company would instead be talking about compliance and how gifts of really any meaningful value have to be rejected outright.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yup! Cause it looks like you’re smuggling some small birds in there!
- Comment on Never easier to kidnap people in the USA 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Poop In A Box 2 weeks ago:
That makes so much more sense.
- Comment on Poop In A Box 2 weeks ago:
Nah. Was it good?
- Comment on Poop In A Box 2 weeks ago:
That movie made me so mad.
The book I, Robot is a series of short stories presenting situations where it seems like robots didn’t follow the three laws of robotics and then explaining how they were caught up in loopholes, essentially. It’s great.
In the movie, the loophole is: “We put a second brain in the robots that doesn’t follow the three laws of robotics.”
(I might be wrong, it’s been a very long time since I’ve read the book or seen the movie. This is just what I remember.)
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 3 weeks ago:
It’s “lemmyshitpost” not “lemmybetakenseriously.”
- Comment on America last night 3 weeks ago:
I heard a couple of comedians make jokes about the 787 Air India crash like two days after it happened.
They didn’t get any laughs, and even got a few mutters from the audience.
They said something like, “the plane crashed while taking off from Ahmedabad. Maybe it should be ‘Ah-plane-is-bad.’” Or maybe, “Ah-made-a-bad-plane.” I can’t remember. Crickets.
(Inside I wanted to tell them that the Boeing 787 has one of the best safety records of any commercial airliner. It’s not a bad plane. But obviously that isn’t funny either. And heckling is shitty.)
Then they said, “Miraculously one man survived. He walked off the plane, over to an ambulance, pointed back at the wreckage and said, ‘Do NOT go in there!’”
This got a few chuckles, but it was clearly uncomfortable.
I’m not sure how we know as a group what is okay and what isn’t okay to laugh about. But usually I argue humor is a good coping mechanism.
- Comment on We live in a society 3 weeks ago:
Right? I always laugh at this meme format because of that. Is she seriously shaming other people because she’s a poser?
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 3 weeks ago:
And it’s on the IAEA to declare that they are indeed working on a weapons program, not speculation and assumption like yours.
Okay. Don’t use your reason if you’d prefer not to. It does make me wonder though:
Do you think the killing of the civilian scientists was wrong because they were civilian scientists, or because they were ostensibly working on an energy program?
Because as I said, I’m not claiming the murders were justified, just that we ought to be honest about the why.
There are plenty making the argument that Iran needs a nuclear weapons program to prevent exactly these types of attacks. That is intellectually honest. I’m not sure where I fall on that argument, I’d rather no one have nuclear weapons (but obviously that’s not going to happen).
The difference between 5% and 60% enrichment is pretty huge. And the research and effort required to get there is neither cheap nor easy. If what they’re after is nuclear energy, there is absolutely no reason to continue risking the ire of the international community and the repeated attacks by Israel. They’ve had energy-level uranium for a very long time already.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 3 weeks ago:
Thank you. The depths of that man’s evil never cease to amaze me.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 3 weeks ago:
According to the IAEA, the Natanz site was producing uranium enriched to 60% u-235.
For electricity, you need 3-5% u-235.
That’s not an energy program, that’s a weapons program.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 3 weeks ago:
It’s civilian scientists working on nuclear energy we are talking about.
Is it though? What level of enrichment do they need for a nuclear energy program, and what level of enrichment were they at? I think it’s naive to say they weren’t working on a weapon.
I’m not saying it justifies killing civilian scientists, but we ought to be honest about the why.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 3 weeks ago:
I don’t believe that has been confirmed, but I could be wrong.