DrownedRats
@DrownedRats@lemmy.world
- Comment on With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant 1 month ago:
No, sudden illness I’m afraid. He arrived in hospital a few days ago for pneumonia like symptoms. poor bugger fell out of a window twice.
- Comment on event horizon 2 months ago:
Or eat less beetroot
- Comment on Anthropology 2 months ago:
The human race is often thought of as communicating primarily on a vocal basis. however, they also possess an extremely complex and sophisticated language based on gestures. For example, the simple gesture of raising the index and middle finger with the palm inwards conveys the complete sentence: “fuck you Frenchie, I still have all my fingers”
- Comment on NASA 2 months ago:
I was going to say, forget 400km, try 8.5 light minutes lol
- Comment on Still wondering why people from Alaska didn't post about the eclipse 2 months ago:
Wolf trigger is the name of my new metal band
- Comment on They’re so fast 2 months ago:
You can view the change log for the key bridge in Wikipedia. The first edit made on the 26th of march was a change from “is” to “was”
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- Comment on The world is going to shit. Is there anything I can do about it? No, so I move on. 4 months ago:
Excellent rule to live by! Lots of people doing little things makes big changes. It’s always worth doing the little things!
- Comment on bonus if she's real 4 months ago:
Negotiable…
- Comment on Where are the good political songs? 4 months ago:
I’ve always liked “universal soldier” by Donovan
- Comment on What happens to sea containers and lifeboats when a ship sinks? 5 months ago:
Many containers will just sink along with the boat, either because of tie downs or they’re just too dense to float.
Others however can and will float, generally very low in the water which can cause pretty major hazards to navigation. For this reason, many containers will be fitted with salt plugs that will eventually dissolve and allow water to fill the container which will usually be enough to sink it.
However, if the container was sufficiently full of buoyant material, or the salt plug fails, they can float around for a very long time. Sometimes these containers will be salvaged, left to float, or sometimes militarys will use them as target practice with the stated aim of trying to sink them.
As for Lifeboats, generally you want an empty lifeboat to go down with the ship as a bunch of empty lifeboats floating around could draw resources away from the ones with people in them. Plus, most survival craft are pretty securely tied down so that they don’t accidentally release during normal passage or storms.
Most ships are still fitted with self-release life rafts which are fitted with hydrostatic lines that, if the boat was to sink, the raft would be able to break free, inflate, and rocket to the surface if the ship sinks below a certain depth. These are very common on pleasure craft where the boat can sink quickly and may sink before the crew has a change to prepare the raft.
- Comment on What happens to sea containers and lifeboats when a ship sinks? 5 months ago:
They found it cracked open in a cave didn’t they?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
They say there’s no such thing as a stupid question. However…
- Comment on GM stops selling the Chevy Blazer EV to deal with ‘software quality issues’ 6 months ago:
They shouldn’t bother. I highly doubt they’ll ever be able to put quality software on their cars.
- Comment on What happened to LineageOS? Has it been replaced by GrapheneOS? 6 months ago:
It’s still very much alive! Still getting regular updates on my S10 and even security updates for my OnePlus 3t.
- Comment on Honda's commercials saying they are going to be carbon neutral by 2050. What? 6 months ago:
It means they’re either holding out of a sudden breakthrough that will let them become carbon neutral overnight for free or they’re hoping no one will be around to call them out on their bullshit by then
- Comment on Humor is our captcha system to tell a bot from a human in text conversations\*, \*^works ^95% ^of ^times. 6 months ago:
For a more effective solution, ask it how to create napalm or chloroform and 100% of the time it will tell you that it’s not allowed to do that because it’s an AI and its bound by the laws of its creators
- Comment on What is "FUD"? 7 months ago:
Slang for idiot
- Comment on Imagine voting for someone that wants to get rid of the department of education. 7 months ago:
Do not attribute malice to that which can be explained by stupidity… But never fully discount it.
- Comment on Lemmy is slowly dying while Reddit thriving 8 months ago:
It’s not dying. It’s smaller for sure but a social network doesn’t need to be big or have a ludicrous number of users to be healthy. Many of the posts I’ve made have gotten 10x more engagement than equivalent posts on Reddit simply because there’s less for it to get lost among.
Personal opinion, but I think generally the users here are nicer and more chill than Reddit. Again, simply because the sheer number of trolls is lower and I don’t think bother as much when there’s less people to piss off
- Comment on When do you think there will be an app for android that could identify and store objects on a database in real time from video capture? 8 months ago:
Not likely in the near future, probably not feasible in the long term either. It’s not just about recognising an object. You could write a program that recognises a screw but you’d need far more complicated sensors and algorithms to identify the dimensions, specific characteristics, material composition, design specifications, etc, then apply that to every screw, bolt, washer, small component and assembly, tubes, threaded rods, tyres, pistons, brake pads, resistors, capacitors, diodes, seals, consumables, etc.
For a long time, I think that kind of thing would be wildly inaccurate, hugely expensive, massively complicated, and much less efficient than asking a human to kindly go over there and check all those things manually.
- Comment on amazon anti union posters put up by the company 8 months ago:
The un-american argument always makes me laugh. Ah yes, Unions bad, good thing I live in the U.S.A where Unions aren’t a thing. no siree, you won’t find a single Union here, that’s for sure!
- Comment on amazon anti union posters put up by the company 8 months ago:
Obligatory, “if a company is trying to convince you you don’t need a union, you need a union”.
- Comment on Comparable ? 8 months ago:
I mean it’s pretty surface level and shallow if you ask me and doesn’t really go beyond a very basic “phones are bad” narrative.
It’s pretty melodramatic too. Phones and the internet in general can and do have a negative effect on society but they can also have a massive positive effect too.
I get that to have a narrative you need to exaggerate a little but scenes like the one where people are all taking photos of their dinner don’t happen outside of the world of Instagram.
Other things like the scene of hundred of people just scrolling while on the train, sure, that happens, but it’s not like people didn’t do exactly the same thing with newspapers, and books, and novellas, and so on. It’s not indicative of social media addiction.
Then there’s the police brutality scene at 0:13. I take some issue with this scene in particular. I get that the message is that “too many people just stand by and watch and film for social media” but for a start, it’s incredibly important to document social injustice and shout it from the rooftops when oppressive systems are being used for violent ends. Granted, its another exaggeration from the storyteller but still not perhaps a fair one in my mind.
There are scenes I do like though, and I think they’re fairly poignant. For example 1:12 of the woman being filmed dancing which presumably goes viral and results in her being ostracised. Going internet famous without concent, willing, or participation is terrible and giving the general public a way to just force that on someone without their permission is terrible and I wish/hope there is something we can do to combat this.
The thing I take issue with really is that the film takes aim at the most basic and surface level issues, as well as several non-issues. While not a problem in itself, there’s a lot you can say about these issues which isn’t being said. The author seems more to lay the blame at the feet of the general public and not the massive media corporations and data farms for not only building the framework, but tuning the system for maximum engagement, maximum profits, and maximum retention at the cost of anything else.
On that note, a very obvious and serious issue that wasn’t touched upon is radicalisation through social media. Maybe it’s my syndical side firing here but that to me sounds like the writer going for the easy and safe issues to take aim at and deciding not to pick at that particular thread incase It causes a flame war. Ironically mirroring the people I mentioned in the restaurant scene who were so focused on their meal they didn’t even notice a slaughter truck going straight past.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s very well made, it’s clear the animator put in a lot of effort to make it look nice and flow well, and while the message isn’t necessarily wrong, it’s also not especially deep or impactful and leaves a lot unsaid.
- Comment on Why do we count sheep before bed? 8 months ago:
It’s the counting that matters, not the sheep. By giving your brain a simple, familiar, and repetitive task you help to disengage some of the more distracting functions of your brain letting you get to sleep.
By all means, count whatever animals, objects, or social constructs that tickles your fancy!
- Comment on Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week 9 months ago:
On top of that, lithium ion batteries aren’t designed as disposable batteries. In devices like vapes, they should be getting upwards of 400 charge cycles before being considered spent. Some get more, some get less, but in “disposable” vapes, they get one. It’s just horrifically wasteful!
- Comment on Brands suspend advertising on X after ads appear alongside Nazi content 10 months ago:
It’s a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it’s easy to block out communities with racist, homophobic, and xenophobic views. On the other hand, it allows communities like that to become echo chambers and freely further their abhorrent ideals completely unchecked.
I don’t think the ban hammer is the most effective method of shutting down nazi shit, but it’s a hell of a lot better than shutting it out of sight and trying to forget about it.