DrownedRats
@DrownedRats@lemmy.world
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 19 hours ago:
1 or 3. I cant stand forks with curved outer tines. 2 is good but i prefer a straight handle over a curved one. My preferance leans towards 3 though as 1 looks like it would have slightly sharp stamped edges.
- Submitted 1 week ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis 3 weeks ago:
I remember hearing a theory that he deliberately orders a mostly flavourless cocktail with very basic and common ingredients because it would make it easier to detect if someone had spiked his drink with something.
Standard, off the shelf ingredients means you can’t just spike the whole bottle ahead of time as each ingredient is pretty standard.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 48 comments
- Comment on Please tell me I'm not going nuts 1 month ago:
I’m sorry dude but in the gentlest way possible, you’re relying on conspiracy theories to avoid confronting reality and justify your beliefs. It’s exactly the same as what q-anon and trump nutters do. I realise that its a coping mechanism to help you deal with the state of things but you can’t change anything for the better if you can’t engage with reality.
I know shit feels hopeless now but I promise there’s things you can do now that will genuinely improve life for yourself and the people you care about. Join communities, volunteer for causes you believe in, get involved in protests, and try and form those social bonds that help break people away from conservative and maga centric thinking. If you think about it, regardless of whether what you believe is true or not, these are still things that will improve life for people who are suffering now.
- Comment on 8BitDo Has Announced The Successor To Its Ultimate Wireless Controller | Time Extension 1 month ago:
Same here except I have the ultimate pro wireless v1 its been easily the best controller I’ve ever owned, the one downside for me is that I’m not a huge fan of non-removable batteries but considering how good the rest of the controller is, I’ll give it a concession on that. Additionally I personally prefer snappy tactile D pads over the mushy membrane one they went for but again, it’s something I don’t mind terribly, just personal preferance.
I actually recommended an 8bitdo wired controller to a colleague because they had bought 3 turtle beach Xbox controllers in the last year because each ended up with severe stick drift and customer support shafted them. So far as I know he’s used it non-stop for about a year and a half now with zero problems and he told me before how good a controller it is.
- Comment on Has America Reached Its Tipping Point with Ignorance? 2 months ago:
I asked one of my mates who’s a historian and he said, yes. Viva la revolution
- Comment on How likely do you think there will be a run on the banks? 2 months ago:
Not sure really, but probably best to go an remove all your money now just in case! I bet hundreds of people are doing the same thing! /s
- Comment on Why are there silly license requirements? 2 months ago:
As with many types of license, they usually only get checked when you’re caught misbehaving.
If you’re caught not picking up your dogs poo, you’re asked “have you got a licence for that dog”. At which point, if you say no, then you get another charge or two slapped on as well. If you lie and say yes you can get yet another charge slapped on for lying to law enforcement.
Its basically another layer of incentive to follow the law and get a license or the penalties may be higher as a result.
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 months ago:
Genuinely thought that said “anachronism” and was ready to go on a tirade about how cool cloaks are and how they should make a comeback
- Comment on wtf Cambrian 4 months ago:
Leave them be, everyone goes through an experimental phase. They’re just working themselves out. Give them time.
- Comment on At what age do we switch from measuring a human by length to by height? 5 months ago:
Gravity surely?
- Comment on YouTube ads have ruined the good, old-fashioned Rick Roll. 5 months ago:
I don’t know why I clicked that to find out what happens. I have an ad blocker lol.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 5 months ago:
People born before 2000 think older technology just evaporated the minute the millenium ticked over.
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 5 months ago:
It only took a couple billion monkeys a few million years but one did eventually write out the full works of Shakespeare
- Comment on Honey 5 months ago:
Because you mentioned killing off entire hives because they’re sick, I was wondering about what a vegans ethical stance on culling would be and what, if any, situations culls might be acceptable from a vegans perspective.
For example, the beehive which has been infected. Bees don’t understand virology or social isolation or even the concept of “passing it on”. What do you do when a hive of infected bees breaks up and starts infecting other hives? Desieses can be devastating to local domesticated and wild swarms if left unchecked. Would a cull be acceptable in this situation to prevent more death and suffering?
How about in areas where humans have already tinkered with the food chain and wiped out all other apex predators? In some places, controlled culling of heards of deer is necessary to prevent them from overfeeding and wiping out other species further down the food chain and eventually themselves?
As I understand, most vegans would prefer the natural solutions such as reintroducing apex predators but that’s not always possible. Likewise, I don’t think most vegans would advocate for a dawinist solution to infected beehives.
I’m purely asking this from a point of genuine interest and not out of any desire to be proven right or wrong so please don’t take this as any attempt at point scoring.
- Comment on Br*t*sh 6 months ago:
The welsh are lovely! At least, I think they are, just wish I understood what they were trying to tell me.