FuglyDuck
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
- Comment on Medieval people had bathhouses & did not all die before 35... 1 week ago:
Details are sometimes important.
- Comment on Sleeve to protect your Flock camera from the elements by covering the lens 1 week ago:
Clean the lenses cover with acetone. You’re doing a public service keeping that lenses clean and crisp.
- Comment on You get a Pope! And you get a Pope! 1 week ago:
Gallagher?
- Comment on You get a Pope! And you get a Pope! 1 week ago:
One is clearly the Antipope.
- Comment on What is a man? 1 week ago:
“The same thing you do. Your wife.”
- Comment on Tech heresy 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Go look up the demon core on Wikipedia.
- Comment on Many such cases 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
use a password manager. Onepass. BitWarden. there’s others.
- Comment on At least they dont need a umbrella 1 month ago:
bet he holds his hands out and makes engine noises.
- Comment on At least they dont need a umbrella 1 month 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) 1 month ago:
Is it trust or or is it just what they can afford?
- Comment on What causes this surface defects 1 month ago:
This is also my take on it.
- Comment on Any idea what could be causing this? 1 month 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 2 months 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… 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Squid on land?
The sniper even need to do something?!
- Comment on Fuck. I need a crash-course in indigenous East Coast languages 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
All that stuff won… yesterday.
- 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.
- Comment on New York's 3D printer law is NOT gun control; it's just.... control. 2 months ago:
Don’t need a printer to do any of that. it’s also faster just to drive to a state that allows gunshow loopholes and buy an otherwise untraceable firearm. takes less skill, too.