FuglyDuck
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
- Comment on Are the inside parts of toilets universal? 1 day ago:
I’m so glad I’m not the only one with an overly active imagination!
- Comment on Are the inside parts of toilets universal? 1 day ago:
Incinerator toilets?
- Comment on A guy just got arrested in Houston US for allegedly being an ISIS member. I grew up in Reagan and 911 era are these people just saying this or are they actively buying bombs? 2 days ago:
Everybody talks about Hitlers camps, nobody talks about America doing the EXACT SAME THING, ROUGHLY AT THE SAME TIME!!!
Not that the internment camps were or are defensible, but we weren’t gasing Japanese Americans or driving them out by the truck/trainload and shooting them in the woods.
Yes, some died in the camps- roughly 1,600, but none through and intentional and concerted effort to exterminate an entire race, with the number of Jews dying in nazis germany roughly 6,000,000.
You don’t need to be hyperbolic. The internment camps were bad enough on their own; but they were not the same as the holocaust.
- Comment on What should I bring to far-north Scandinavia? 2 days ago:
If you can, ask someone already there. Depending on the exact type of work, they may have very specific recommendations, and they’ll have a better idea of what the climate is like than we will.
In general, you’ll want to be able to layer clothing. Start with the base layer, whose job is to be wicking away sweat.
Mid layers are for insulation, and it would be prudent to get one light sweater and one heavier sweater, maybe a third or whatever. The idea being you can increase your mid layers to stay warm but not too warm as necessary. Same for pants. Around here, I usually go for a tight base layer, a loser waffle-weave longjohns and shell blouses into boots.
Patagonia makes some good, hard wearing stuff as a general brand to check out, but there far from the only one.
Hats and gloves are important, too and for gloves I’d consider getting mittens at least as one option and maybe lighter fingerless gloves to wear inside. (Or lighter gloves. Especially if it’s possible you’ll need manual dexterity)
- Comment on To deter predators... 4 days ago:
And the peppers that troll the fuck out of your temperature receptors?
- Comment on pod racing 4 days ago:
Remind me again, which ones are the ones that do the exploding thing?
I’ll be betting on that one for the 100m dash.
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 4 days ago:
I have to assume some of them are fiction.
mostly because it seems a little improbable. Like turning skin transparent? … why…?
- Comment on somebody has to do it! 4 days ago:
It should be noted that, aside from petty human concerns like flooded roads and properties, beavers are much better at controlling flooding and generally protecting ecologies than humans.
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 4 days ago:
Go watch Fringe. It’s probably one of those.
- Comment on Come to the Deep Sea!! 5 days ago:
Somebody who actually knows what they’re talking about can correct me here, but I’m pretty sure those are the tentacles, with the grabby things on the end- and in the foreground… because it was annoyed at the sub/rov. (And may have punched it.)
(“grabby things” is a highly technical term.)
- Comment on Come to the Deep Sea!! 5 days ago:
It’s the Humbolts you gotta be worried about. These guys mostly just lurk and silently judge your music choices.
- Comment on Come to the Deep Sea!! 5 days ago:
Dennis is the cool neighbor that always shares his weed. And the squid is a master mixologist who’s just waiting to take your order.
The, glowy rope thing… kinky, but seriously not worth it.
- Comment on Lab Assistant Jobs 1 week ago:
If I were really satan, I’d reverse the shrink ray and make centipedes large enough to ride. I bet they’d add it to the geneva conventions as a war crime.
- Comment on Lab Assistant Jobs 1 week ago:
hmmm. I think I’d go with centipedes. For sheer creep-factor. (more than 8 legs is just excessive.)
- Comment on Calcrelatable 1 week ago:
They should have gone with Clear Line instead of Clear Entry, because CE could also be Clear Everything… which is wanna clear does.
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 2 weeks ago:
Bowling ball. Because wind resistance is a thing and the feather has higher surface area creating more drag.
- Comment on Spoopy Skeletons 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on why do our noses & anuses think different types of paper are softest? 2 weeks ago:
not to mention, the ‘lotion’ stuff isn’t going in your nose- or even remotely close to the sensitive parts of your nose.
Plenty of lotions are irritants if you use them in places they’re not meant to go.
- Comment on How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? 2 weeks ago:
I dunno. but I wonder if he owns xvideos.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
any one telling you it’s certainly going to be one or the other… is selling you something.
it’s too close to call, and that’s the only honest take at the moment.
- Comment on There is only 1 choice 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. I dunno. They look like that weird alien parasite from TNG that tried to take over star fleet while eating bugs.
- Comment on Balls 2 weeks ago:
LOL. Guess we found the Microsoft service rep.
(cuz you broke windows,)
- Comment on Clever, clever 2 weeks ago:
Yup. Unfortunately…. They don’t care. The only reason they’d consider it would be to reduce the window cleaning bill.
At least Hank gets something out of it; (yup. We’ve nicknamed the chonker Hank The Tank)
- Comment on Clever, clever 2 weeks ago:
Yes, it is.
I just wish the neighbors building wasn’t so prone to window strikes.
- Comment on Clever, clever 3 weeks ago:
We’re storing data in peanut butter? Please tell me there’s jam involved.
/j it’s amazing we’re talking about petabytes. My first computer had like 600 meg. (Pentium 486 cobbled out of spare- old- parts from my dad’s
junk”Parts” rack.) - Comment on Has Dr. Strange ever given a diagnosis mid fight? 3 weeks ago:
Dr. Normal, I presume.
- Comment on Balls 3 weeks ago:
That’s really easy to accomplish.
Just remove windows.
- Comment on Clever, clever 3 weeks ago:
Peregrine falcons FTL…
(There’s this fat fucker that hunts off our building’s rooftop. It waits for a pigeon to strike the neighboring buildings windows and scoops them up. Some how it’s reassuring to know that humans aren’t the only lazy animals. Peregrine are freaking cool though.)
- Comment on Clever, clever 3 weeks ago:
Well, it depends on the purpose of the data. If it’s meant as an offsite backup… well… you’re probably it driving them just down the street anyway.
- Comment on Clever, clever 3 weeks ago:
Ages ago, there was a time where my dad would mail back up tapes for offsite storage because their databases were large enough that it was faster to put it through snail mail.
It should also be noted his databases were huge, (they’d be bundled into 79 pound packages and shipped certified.)
