FuglyDuck
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
- Comment on Tech heresy 1 week ago:
Only way this is heresy is you left the lights on default.
You’re supposed to change the rainbow vomit pattern to something more nauseating. (or whatever you enjoy. It’s your printer.)
- Comment on Everyone is a gangster until the room glows blue 1 week ago:
Go look up the demon core on Wikipedia.
- Comment on Many such cases 1 week ago:
“Look. She really wants to talk more. So if you don’t… I’m gonna come over there and drag you here. Your grandma is lovely. The ginger snaps are delicious.”
Is what think when I see that meme template.
- Comment on What's your guess? 1 week ago:
They’re just saying that so you don’t go looking for the photos of them in 90’s era stovepipe jeans.
- Comment on The battle of Azincourt 1 week ago:
You’ve never heard of copyright law, have you?
It’s literally illegal to take someone else’s work and sell it or otherwise use it for personal gain.
- Comment on Grapeshot was no joke 1 week ago:
Depends. How large is the mob? How far away? Are they clumped up or can they spread out?
How pissed are the three that reach the cannon when it proves the were spread a little too far out?
- Comment on So...much...time 2 weeks ago:
Sure.
But I have access to my passwords across most devices (Firefox plugins on desktop, apps on phones.) the best part is they fill it in so you can have ridiculously long and rand passwords.
- Comment on So...much...time 2 weeks ago:
use a password manager. Onepass. BitWarden. there’s others.
- Comment on At least they dont need a umbrella 3 weeks ago:
bet he holds his hands out and makes engine noises.
- Comment on At least they dont need a umbrella 3 weeks ago:
I feel like the 1st two would channel water onto your neck. Just saying.
- Comment on Share of U.S. respondents who use/own the following selected financial products (2025/2026) 4 weeks ago:
Is it trust or or is it just what they can afford?
- Comment on What causes this surface defects 5 weeks ago:
This is also my take on it.
- Comment on Any idea what could be causing this? 5 weeks ago:
Looks like some extrusion issues, at least for the stuff along the vertical walls. my initial guess is clogged nozzle, though it might also be temperature issues
- Comment on Flat Earthers BTFO since the 3rd century BCE 1 month ago:
I think a lot of the flerfer influencers know and simply keep the charade because it’s profitable.
I think a lot of the antiscience influencers are like that, actually.
- Comment on "Hey ChatGPT, this new popular preacher in Jerusalem called Jesus is telling me I should give away all of my riches to the poor so that I can have spiritual salvation. That seems quite risky and I do… 1 month ago:
I imagine Jesus had a massively cheesy grin- the kind a disreputable car salesmen had as they’re showing you a “real beauty”- and his hand out.
I mean, seriously. He certainly loved hanging out with the rich fucks, partying with them and stuff.
- Comment on Nelson got sniped 1 month ago:
Squid on land?
The sniper even need to do something?!
- Comment on Fuck. I need a crash-course in indigenous East Coast languages 1 month ago:
I like the idea, but law of unintended consequences, all that. We really shouldn’t fuck with time.
- Comment on Even Omelanda' is disgusted 1 month ago:
oh. They fired him?
They didn’t even take the loot he stole. he was jailed for a bit during trial. and then he was let out. With no charges, keeping his share of the loot… and letting him go on a fourth voyage at all is kinda a tacit approval of his methods.
He’s like the killer cop they just fire and let go back to work in another agency. Or that asshole manager they send in to get get store/plant/whatever under budget and move on out when things are under control.
not exactly a ringing condemnation of assholery.
- Comment on Even Omelanda' is disgusted 1 month ago:
But they kinda did. After they brought him back for trial… they just let them go, and there was a fourth voyage a couple years later.
Eventually he just retired in Spain and while they didn’t give him the full amount of wealth he was owed…. That wasn’t out of moral outrage.
- Comment on Even Omelanda' is disgusted 1 month ago:
to be clear.. it’s pretty clear from his writings he had no idea how the african slaves were being, uh, sourced? I don’t know what he thought was going on down there, but he did get to a point where he saw slavery of any form as evil.
but yeah. it’s a fascinating progression and thing to settle on. “enslaving local people” is somehow more offensive than “enslaving foreign people and shipping them in.” I rather imagine he got to know a few of the locals. came to respect them, see them as humans and not something as lesser, but he never had that experience with african people, until, well, maybe he did. if that makes sense.
- Comment on Even Omelanda' is disgusted 1 month ago:
I think OP is referencing Bartoleme de las Casa, who was rather more of an anomaly than representative of mainstream Spanish society. He’s also complicated by the fact that when he first went to the Spanish colonies, he spent over a decade exploiting the ever living shit out of indigenous peoples. (IIRC, he was studying the book of Sirach and became convicted.) As he transitioned into being an abolutionist (one of the first? if not the first,) he suggested using foreign (african) slaves instead, which the spanish adopted as a law
But I’m not sure it’s really fair to say Bartoleme represents all (or even most) Spanish at the time.
There may have been others before the 18th century, but I can’t find them.
- Comment on Dry? Not really 1 month ago:
My grandpa’s grandpa was a moonshiner.
I still have the composition notebooks with all the ‘shine and gin recipes. (You might say he was a bit prolific in his experiments.)
- Comment on It was more of a "Win more" button than an actual turn of the tide 1 month ago:
All that stuff won… yesterday.
- Comment on Aquarium pump for part cooling 2 months ago:
huh.This would also lighten the head up, too.
I would suggest putting a sort of cooling vent nozzle thingy to open up the airflow a bit better so you’re not just blasting, but a simple part with a nipple connection should do it nicely.
- Comment on And sources. It would be nice if we could learn something instead of being left confused by a meme we have no clue of what it is about. 2 months ago:
It’s not a duck.
Also he is wearing some very dapper mittens.
- Comment on What's the worst that could happen? 2 months ago:
So you want to see Trump in prison, but strapped to a cam show where tips cause various electrodes to, you know, zap him?
Electrodes in very awkward places?
Tips go to helping all the people he hates most, of course.
- Comment on Would hate to see what a villain is 2 months ago:
It depends on who you talk to. Libertarians will cite standing up against corruption.
Granted, the asshole was shooting .50 cal rounds into propane tanks with the hope of creating an explosion, so he’s far from someone to worship.
And yes. He’s certainly a whack job. The zoning issues being the source of the perceived corruption (the sewer issues and access are… well he could have been made whole but was intransigent. I’m not sure he was ever actually blocked off from road access.)
- Comment on Would hate to see what a villain is 2 months ago:
Probably super-fundamentalist christians. Jack the Ripper attacked prostitutes, after all.
as a side note, an antihero is a person whose not a good person but does good things, usually for greedy or selfish motives, but also sometimes becasue, well. they’re not that bad.
Killdozer (marvin heeymeyer) is an antihero, for example.
- Comment on What's the worst that could happen? 2 months ago:
Pick me! Pick Me! I have ideas.
not very good ones, I’m afraid, but I can at least make sure Trump can’t hurt any more kids.
- Comment on New York's 3D printer law is NOT gun control; it's just.... control. 2 months ago:
Yup.
But they want to control the pipeline all the same.