ProfessorProteus

@ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I never implied that therapy is a shameful pursuit. And yeah, people have the right to do any legal activity in their private life, but—to take your m&ms analogy a step further—if you knew a guy was shoving a glass jar up his ass, don’t you think we should try to help him find safer ways of seeking pleasure, especially now that we’re armed with the knowledge that another guy posted his gruesome experience doing the same thing years ago?

  My point is that if I was unknowingly on a slippery slope I would hope people would feel a sense of humanly duty to intervene. Or at the very least have a conversation about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We shouldn’t judge them for getting to this point, but we also shouldn’t just leave them be. People like the one in the screenshot are clearly in need of therapy.

  We already saw the story of the guy who poisoned himself with sodium bromide at the “advice” of chatgpt. What kind of outward damage could someone who confides in a chatbot be capable of?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fair punishment for the obscene hoarding of wealth⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget inflation on top of all that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber Eats is adding AI to menus, food photos, and reviews⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Photo preview experience enhanced with ✨Uber AI✨”

  🤮

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, David Bowie stopped working for anyone years ago. RIP

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Value gained, actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There’s Good Posture, Bad Posture, and Golden Posture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I see two issues with this bad boy:

  1. The mouse is probably better off on a level surface, and
  2. I don’t have the space or money for one.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just curious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  ohhhh you touch my tra-la-la

  Mmmm, my ding ding dong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a good instance to be on at the moment?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just gonna pitch in here, but I’m no expert. I was reading people’s reactions when that TLD was introduced, and they raised concerns over the possibility that a bad actor could spoof an address that actually downloads a .zip file to your device when you click the link, even though you may assume it’s an address to a page. No idea what a hypothetical virus could do from a compressed environment, but thats what I remember reading.

  Sorry to any experts if I’m muddying the waters with a dumb take!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Coming soon: Trump™ Payday Loans! With only 470% APR!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I played the trumpet for several years and I love that instrument. It’s bad enough that the names coincide; please don’t make it worse 😭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the info! I’m aware of JDAM from following the invasion of Ukraine, but I wasn’t aware of the whole arming process.

  Now, I may be underestimating my ignorance, but that doesn’t look like JDAM to me. Seems a bit small. Also, the fact that the pilot suddenly looks toward the wing tells me that he was expecting it to shoot out in front, and only felt the mechanical release (or do they use small explosive bolts? I’m more versed in spaceflight so that’s my only other guess 😅) and saw no visual confirmation that it fired.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jokes aside, would this pose a threat other than the physical impact? I don’t know many specifics about aircraft and their ordnance, but would this missile be armed just before launch, or once it clears a safe minimum distance, as with RPGs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or a shrimp⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gigachad move

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3083: Jupiter Core⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And these are the leading theories. Now let’s see the crackpot ones!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please don't stop horny⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious, on a legit/fanservice spectrum, where would you place Kill La Kill? It shows tons of skin, but it’s a legit part of the story. Of course it’s a dumb premise, but they lean into it anyway, and it does drive the plot in several instances.

  As an aside, I enjoyed it a lot because I absolutely love Studio Trigger and their art style, but I’ve stopped recommending it to anyone because the conversation always goes in one direction. I’m not surprised, of course, but I wish people had the ability to resist fixating on that one element and appreciate the cinematography, character development, music, voice acting (including Nobuyuki Hiyama!), and all the other things that make it great…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a cancelled game you really miss?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically it was never released, but I was invited to a closed alpha (or beta?) for a game called Chroma, by Harmonix, the OG Guitar Hero people. It was a lot of fun and I’m still sad that it was canceled…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨El paso⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of Mitch Hedberg’s banana joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a cylinder⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh definitely, it’s just that when I searched the communities, the only result was on .world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a cylinder⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love to see an active expanddong community here. Looks like .world has one but it’s super dead :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Audible enclaves’ could enable private listening without headphones.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always been very curious about this technology, but I imagine that they wouldn’t be as good at transmitting high frequencies. I’m no audio engineer so it’s only a hunch of course. Do they sound comparable to a decent pair of buds in the ear?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrono Trigger Is Timeless⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t agree more with everything you said. It’s an indisputable masterpiece.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It begins: Pentagon to give AI agents a role in decision making, ops planning.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I fear that this will lead to so much Intel leaking that it will put War Thunder players to shame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hopes of US golden age fade as investors start to worry about ‘Trumpcession’ risk⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be great if the entire GOP would be forced to wear it as well, but this is honestly much better than nothing at all, which is what I would have predicted. It’s a good start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was your favorite shareware game?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes!! And you could kind of cheese the game by pressing both fire buttons in rapid succession (down arrow and ‘d’ I think). I loved making passes around an enemy’s planet and staying just ahead of their defenses, and becoming basically an A-10 Warthog in space. It was kind of difficult since your bullets inherited your velocity so you had to shoot at weird angles 😁

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was your favorite shareware game?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I spent so many hours as a kid on my dad’s Thinkpad playing Gravity Well. It came on one of those “50 Great Games” CDs or something like that. The goal is to claim all the planets in the system, which you do by simply landing on them, then building defenses against your opponents. It’s so much fun because your ship has pretty realistic inertia and the planets have actual gravity wells. The AI opponents can be quite difficult and aggressive. Challenging and fun, with great sound effects for the time!

  This screenshot is from an Internet Archive page for the game, but I’m pretty sure it’s only the shareware version. I gotta check again when I get off work!

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas Needs Equivalent of 30 Reactors to Meet Data Center Power Demand⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Please! It would be such a nice improvement!

  I want to get out of here :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cilanto 🌿⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love cilantro too, but now I have to wonder… What if we’re not the ones getting the “true” taste?

  I’ll take my blissful ignorance with some cilantro on top.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta approves bonuses of up to 200% of company executives' salaries as it trims stock awards for employees⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meta justified the executive pay increase by stating that their cash compensation was below market rates.

  “Local serial killer justified his latest triple-homicide by stating that his body count was below the national average.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve have just updated the Source 1 SDK on GitHub to the latest code based on Team Fortress 2, effectively making TF2 code source available⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That has been a dream of mine for well over a decade. When I (rarely) play TF2 it’s with bots only, since they have all the vanilla stuff.

  I miss the times when an entire team would do a Scout rush, with only the 3 vanilla weapons, just for the hell of it. It was always complete chaos. You can do it with bots, but it’s very tedious, and they only run along the ground from node to node. Give me a dozen Scouts flying off the rooftops spamming x5x5x5x5!

  Also, does anyone else wish someone would bring back his crazy legs when he does the midair jump?