SolOrion
@SolOrion@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 11 hours ago:
I’ve never seen ‘drag race’ used in this context, and I was wondering how you were about to compare drag racing (like with cars) with wrestling.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 11 hours ago:
Nah, at least this once it’s definitely not a US defaultism thing.
As an American, this is the first time I’ve thought about pro wrestling in a very very long time.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 11 hours ago:
Why not? What definition of ‘athlete’ are you even using? Did you just decide this?
- Comment on I feel that lines are drawn, and I'm no longer on your side. 3 days ago:
Okay, bye.
Also, I’m utterly shocked that an ai generated header is even a minor issue in comparison to the rest if your fallback instance of choice is Hexbear.
- Comment on How can I create a Lemmy instance without coding or the use of Ethernet/router wiring? 5 days ago:
You don’t need to be wired in order to self host things? It’s better, ofc, but far from required. You can just do it via wifi.
My experience with self hosting begins and ends with video game servers and jellyfin, though, so maybe I’m wrong here.
- Comment on Given how paintball guns work, could you swap paintballs for a waterballs? 1 week ago:
yes. It’s a thing. mcsus.com/products/68-water-balls-tube-of-10 No clue if they’re good or not, but they exist.
There’s also paintballs with clear paint, or reballs which are basically just rubber balls meant to be fired out of a paintball gun.
- Comment on Found money. What do? 2 weeks ago:
I assumed. I know it’s similar where I live, but for all I know Montana has some strangely restrictive finders keepers law where if you drop your wallet and someone else finds it you can only legally reclaim it via a duel to the death.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Bad news dominate headlines, do you think journalists will write about people behaving normally?
This is a funny mental image.
“Breaking news: Man gets normal sized plate a buffet. More at 11.”
Front of a newspaper in giant bold font:
“MAN TAKES NORMAL ROUTE HOME FROM WORK”
- Comment on Found money. What do? 2 weeks ago:
Where do you live? That matters, unless you’re just asking from an ethics perspective. I’m not asking you to dox yourself, country/state is plenty.
Assuming you’re Canadian(based off your instance being lemmy.ca) technically speaking you should report in to the police, and they’ll hold it for 6 months. After that if someone hasn’t claimed it you’re free to claim it yourself. At least in Vancouver. Maybe the laws are different in other parts of Canada.
Realistically, it’s not even $200. Probably keep it for a week or two and then tell the kid the cops couldn’t find the original owner.
- Comment on Current 50% sale on Valheim on Steam 4 weeks ago:
I’d highly recommend modding that OUT for sanity/time sink reasons.
No mods needed anymore! That’s just a slider now in ‘world modifiers’. It’s quite nice.
- Comment on What's so important about keeping military operations secret? 4 weeks ago:
Because surprise is important, and if the enemy has precise intelligence on what’s going to happen they can act to make it not happen. Which means that any assumptions your plans make might be outdated or even actively countered.
To quote Sun Tzu, “All warfare is based on deception.” The lengths militaries have historically gone to in order to keep operational security or obfuscate the details of an attack is utterly absurd.
A real world example: In WW2, ahead of the allied invasion of Sicily the British launched Operation Mincemeat. They took the body of a homeless person that had recently died, gave him an entirely fictitious service record/life, and some fake letters heavily implying that the allied invasion of Sicily was a feint and the true invasion was going to be in Greece and Sardinia. Then they took the corpse onto a submarine and let it go where the tide would take it to Spain. The Spanish shared the letters with the Germans, and the Germans then reinforced… all the wrong places. Which made the Allied Invasion of Sicily easier than it potentially could have been.
- Comment on How the fuck do I find out where and when all these protests and rallies are happening? 4 weeks ago:
Always been like that in my experience.
I remember being frustrated asf as a teenager by people not understanding words or knowing how to spell things. My brother in christ, you have a phone and an internet connection in your pocket with access to basically the entirety of human knowledge. Fucking Google it.
- Comment on Why are Maries Sues hated while Gary Stus are loved? 5 weeks ago:
I used to be into HP fanfiction and my god I got so tired of hearing about HPMOR. I didn’t hate it, I didn’t feel nearly that strongly. I got a handful of chapters in and put it down, but that’s reasonably normal for me. But my god you could not escape that fic. It’s fans were rabid and it’s detractors were even worse than that. If it could vaguely fit a req, they’d bring it up. And then get three replies about how it doesn’t fit the req and it’s the worst thing since My Immortal within fifteen minutes.
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 5 weeks ago:
By nature, the fediverse is hard to tie back to individuals… But if they’re looking for you individually, they can find you
Yeah. Bonus points if your instance isn’t hosted in the US. I’m pretty sure mine is hosted in Canada, and with the way it’s going currently in a year or two Canada wouldn’t be willing to piss on the US government if it was on fire much less hand over a server full of IP addresses.
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 5 weeks ago:
Further, pretty sure the entire contents of the internet have been sucked down into that NSA Utah Datacenter since it opened in May 2014.
There is a truly prodigious amount of weird porn on a government server somewhere if true.
- Comment on Do zinc tablets and toothpaste counteract each other in the mouth? 5 weeks ago:
I have no clue about your stupid question but it’s inspired one of my own.
Why are you taking zinc? I was under the impression that intaking zinc is a terrible idea and should be avoided at all cost.
Maybe it’s specifically inhaling it that’s the issue? I’ve always heard this in a metallurgy context: that you should be careful heating up brass/welding galvanized steel etc because the zinc will turn into a fairly toxic gas.
- Comment on Suppose you were a dissident facing political persecution, how would you preserve your personal files so that you can retrieve it many years later, in case of imprisonment? 1 month ago:
Even if they’re obsolete there will almost certainly be some way to retrieve your data unless you’re expecting to go away for a LONG time- if you went away in the 90s and did this I’m pretty sure it’d be as simple as buying a sata-IDE adapter.
- Comment on low iq in love with high iq person, is that bad?? 1 month ago:
It’s literally their fifth most recent post, from three days ago. I found it by just looking at the community and searching IQ. It was on page 2 for me.
Also, what do you even mean doxxing them? Nobody said anything about posting their real name and address.
- Comment on Why does most religion talk about their GOD being male? Especially Christains and Muslims. Is there a prominent female god that as big as the other two that I am missing? 1 month ago:
It’s a little more complicated than that.
I’ve been interested in mythologies for a long time and in my experience this phrase literally always applies.
But I didn’t actually know most of that, really interesting! Thank you.
- Comment on What are the democrats actually doing to help? 1 month ago:
Pete Buttigege
Jesus christ. And when he bombs they’ll go, “everyone wanted a younger candidate!”
- Comment on Why does most religion talk about their GOD being male? Especially Christains and Muslims. Is there a prominent female god that as big as the other two that I am missing? 1 month ago:
Shinto’s Izanagi wasn’t really the “head god” I thought? From my understanding that was Amaterasu. Wikipedia agrees, for whatever that’s worth.
Often considered the chief deity (kami) of the Shinto pantheon, she is also portrayed in Japan’s earliest literary texts, the Kojiki
- Comment on What is a season pass in computer games? 2 months ago:
It’s just a preorder for DLC, basically, or if they’re all released it’s just a DLC bundle pack.
- Comment on Why was Hitler so mean and hateful toward one group or another? I find it hard to believe he woke up one day and said you and you suck but these people over here are good. Taking it so far as killing? 2 months ago:
I don’t know. I have played very little CK3.
- Comment on what are “female jocks” called? 2 months ago:
Honestly I’ve never really considered Jock a properly gendered term. I think personally I’d probably just use Jock as a gender neutral term.
- Comment on what are “female jocks” called? 2 months ago:
idk about that. Tomboy means more than ‘girl that does sports’. If anything, I’d say the sports aspects are the additional connotations it’s gained more recently.
- Comment on Why was Hitler so mean and hateful toward one group or another? I find it hard to believe he woke up one day and said you and you suck but these people over here are good. Taking it so far as killing? 2 months ago:
“Expelling the Jews” is a mechanic in Crusader Kings 2. And it gets abused like it did historically, too- borrow a shitload of money and then expel the Jews. Suddenly you found free money.
- Comment on The 2025 SJW Update: Donations, costs and other points 2 months ago:
lmao yeah I had to get used to it myself.
- Comment on How does patientgamers feel about free games on Epic? 3 months ago:
…really? Are you sure you didn’t just get the first episode for free? Some of those kinds of story games were released like that. That seems above and beyond Epic’s usual shit.
- Comment on Why do airplanes have big front "headlights"? 3 months ago:
They’re supposed to keep their lights on under 10000ft. They’re less for the pilots, at least aside from takeoff/landing, and more for other planes.
Idk why that specific configuration was chosen- to pull double duty, I guess? They’re functionally landing lights, but also warning lights if they’re low/in crowded airspace.
I just googled the question, and looked around a bit so it’s possible this is wrong.
- Comment on why does everyone i know treat me like a child or if i was a very childlike person?? 3 months ago:
I deadass have been ID’d a single time since growing a beard- when I decided to try shaving it. It’s real lol.