Mirshe

@Mirshe@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assumptions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  People are gored by bison at Yellowstone every year. When I visited a few years ago, the rangers were actively having to tell people to avoid an elk who, with his harem, had decided to hang out in Fort Yellowstone for a couple days. People are dumb, or don’t think “wow that’s a 600+ lb animal the size of a minivan”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Holy shiiiiit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference is that Dwyer did it on live television, in a highly publicized press statement. Cameras didn’t cut away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UNIFIL—Israeli tanks fire on UN peacekeepers in South Lebanon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not without direct authorization of the Security Council, or if they’re directly fired upon. Considering these were TANKS firing on a foot patrol, I highly doubt anyone brought along a LAW or Javelin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Confederacy (or whatever)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was about to say, just from the few BD toys I can identify, that’s an easy $4-600 depending on size.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s my point. He is enough of a fan to know the connotation. He knows what the name implies, and company names are a deliberate choice that imply things about that company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Typical First-Time Homebuyer Is Now 40 Years Old, a Record High⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While this is true, job opportunities for remote markets are drying up. Those markets in rural areas went big because everyone was working remote, and you can do that from anywhere with an Internet connection. Now that everyone is being forced into RTOing, people are selling those nice little rural homes to move back into apartments in the city, or else trying to find business opportunities or something out in the country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also just the fact that “weapons grade” just means it’s useful for a fission weapon. Nothing’s stopping you from taking that cobalt-60 you found in that Therac at Daryl’s junkyard, strapping it to an IED, and using that as a dispersal device to give a lot of people radiation poisoning or whatever (the traditional “dirty bomb”).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So officially it’s just ACCESS. You’re not carting it away without an escort or a clear idea of where it’s going, and it’s still technically controlled by the DOE. However, since the levers are all ripped off by the administration cutting everything to the bone and then some, this is effectively a cash injection to OpenAI by financing some terror organizations and rogue states.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even into the later series, people had to fight to do interesting things with it. IIRC the network was skittish about Voyager because nobody would possibly be interested in a scifi show with a female lead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically it’s a cipher, BUT it’s also perfectly constructed to work as a language (by making the cipher easier - vowels only get replaced with vowels, consonants with consonants).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a real language, it’s just German spoken by a person with a head injury /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I almost forgot about the storyline for FFX because I played so much blitzball.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s xAI joins race to build ‘world models’ to power video games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  From what we’ve seen of him playing Path of Exile, basically, yeah. As expected from most rich assholes, he wants the prestige of being good at a game, but wants to shortcut the whole part in between where you’re not good YET.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Trump ‘looking at all options’ amid threats to invoke Insurrection Act, Vance says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but as Vance said: clearly crime is rising everywhere because it’s SO GREAT and these PDs are SO OVERWHELMED or derelict in their duties that they’re NOT EVEN TRACKING crime properly.

  It’s literal fascist doublethink.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They were made in a factory. A *bomb* factory. They're bombs.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They weren’t making bombs, apparently they manufactured explosive filler for 155mm artillery shells.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  More specifically, the story has to MEAN nothing. It has to curve REALLY CLOSE to interesting ideas and statements only to swerve away just before they actually make you think about a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a real post from the official DHS account on X⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Whitewashed tombs” comes to mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mr. Pope⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Catholicism IS Christianity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They might’ve had one (or several) bad experiences and this is a trauma response, but even in that case, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say “yeah sure they’ll pay their own way, I just feel safer if we have a second pair of eyes I trust in the restaurant/cafe/etc with us”. Like, you don’t gotta be at the table, but I kinda get it for the first date or two being “hey I trust this person, mind if they tag along and grab a drink at the bar to be my watchman or whatever”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Who knew kiting worked in real life?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would-be City of Heroes successor, Ship of Heroes, decides to launch the MMO with a $45 price tag and a $15 monthly subscription and it's, er, going about as well as you'd expect⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just play City of Heroes. It’s still running in private servers, and Homecoming is even doing active development on new powers and questlines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Massaging your stats to make them say what you want is basic statistics 101.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, more kids are just getting diagnosed. Back when I was in school in the 90s, I was very lucky to be in a rich school district that actually taught teachers how to spot signs so they could recommend a screening, which the district would foot the bill for because they had a psychologist on staff. Now, more and more districts have people like that, and more and more teachers are taught how to spot early signs of autism (and more parents are aware of it) that kids who previously might have just been “weird kids” are actually getting diagnosed with autism.

  I won’t deny a potential environmental link, but if there is one, it’s likely more linked to fossil fuels than anything. BUT that’s hard to get traction against, and it doesn’t have a magic bullet that’ll immediately “solve” the issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hyperbaric oxygen chamber⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it was because of shoddy wiring causing a fire inside the capsule in an area that couldn’t be accessed easily or extinguished from the outside. The egress sequence was also very time consuming (somewhere like 90 seconds). Apollo I also was just a training module, it never got launched.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn’t sound very shareholder-minded of you. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“REGARDING THE SEARCH EFFORTS FOR MY DICK: SINCE I DIRECTED FBI PERSONNEL TO TURN THE LIGHTS ON, OUR AGENTS HAVE MADE A SECOND PASS AT THE TARGET AREA WHICH YIELDED MINIMAL AND INCONCLUSIVE RESULTS...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This would be Hel, which is sort of like “you weren’t terrible but you weren’t awesome”, although you also have Náströnd, which is a place within Hel reserved for murderers, adulterers, and those who break oaths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feelin the Bern?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, we all know that he also has invented time travel solely to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand to ignite WWI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, Russia’s certainly looking like they want to try at Finland again with those troop buildups, and they’re propping up a lot of armed agitators in Moldova, as well as a lot of sabotage across Central Europe (and now a drone incursion accidentally-maybe-not into Poland). Sure looks to me like if Russia isn’t an aggressor nation towards Europe, they’re doing a damn fine job imitating one.

  Do they have the troops, morale, equipment, money, or veterancy to effectively prosecute a war against a nation that hasn’t undergone serious regime change recently? My money is personally on no success, but I’m definitely willing to say that Putin will give it a try. He has leashed his entire wagon to the horse named “expansionism”, and he NEEDS some sort of victory to keep any semblance of public support, no matter how jaded his populace might be - otherwise his dictator friends might get ideas on seizing Russian lands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good luck!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d immediately miss one of those incredibly tall, narrow steps and break my fucking neck. No thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump rebrands Department of Defense as 'Department of War'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, all the Republicans in my sphere keep talking about how he’s the No More Wars guy. Sure seems like we’re trying to find a war against Venezuela, at least.