SpikesOtherDog
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- Comment on Trump is marching toward war with Iran. He hasn’t bothered to make clear why | Mohamad Bazzi 7 hours ago:
I think you are missing the point. The crusades were a political vehicle to gain favor with the Catholic Church at the time, plunder, and express power against a faceless people.
The only difference now is that team Trump thinks that it will give him some leverage against Americans or his political opponents.
- Comment on Trump is marching toward war with Iran. He hasn’t bothered to make clear why | Mohamad Bazzi 1 day ago:
Americans in the Middle East are this era’s version of the crusades.
- Comment on Moltbook was peak AI theater 2 days ago:
Just because I don’t like it doesn’t mean I have to complain about your topic. As long as you keep it there we are fine.
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 6 days ago:
Whoa, those two definitions of jibe don’t jive!
So, I pulled my definition from here; however, I did not read down far enough to see the alternate definition!
What I found looking deeper is this. The article links here, saying jibe (to fit in/be in harmony) is the older term (used since at least 1813) and jive is only used that way in the past 80 years.
So, while the definitions now jibe together, it is still some jive. So, no gibe given, I was clearly mistaken!
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 6 days ago:
Oh, I think you are saying that you dislike non-sequitur pop culture references, but you would appreciate a witty remark or reference if it jived with the flow of the topic.
As far as jibes go, I was unaware that it is considered an alternate spelling of gibe. I guess you could be insulted by the comments, but they would have to be intentionally insulting.
- Comment on If someone tells you that communism has led to famines in the USSR and China, that it doesn't have any incentives and that anyone who supports it use products of capitalism, how do you counter this? 1 week ago:
I’m not sure where to go from here. We’d have to build a system where the individuals have more power than the state overall, but the state has enough power to do thinks like protect itself from other countries, care for the vulnerable, provide infrastructure, etc, etc, etc. From what we were taught, this is how the USA was originally built, but the system has been exploited by the wealthy.
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 1 week ago:
I think player reviews should not include allegations of lying about being raped, transphobia, or political comments.
- Comment on If someone tells you that communism has led to famines in the USSR and China, that it doesn't have any incentives and that anyone who supports it use products of capitalism, how do you counter this? 1 week ago:
Let’s clarify.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930–1933
Are you saying that the famine didn’t happen, that the same famine would have happened regardless of the economic system, or something else?
I’m not against communism, and capitalists can make similar damaging calls.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression
I think both systems tend to produce oligarchs through different methods. The point isn’t to pick a team and rally them on, rather let’s look at things honestly and consider information hostile to our viewpoints. I think it might be possible to build something better than both.
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 1 week ago:
Oh, there is no defense for sending out slop for a image. I would have rather seen them take a picture and put text on the cards. My concern was that you were against people interjecting Marvel quips.
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 1 week ago:
Jurassic Park.
Not sure about the other one, but I don’t shun people for having their fun. Technical articles can be quite dry.
- Comment on Star Trek Removed From Amazon Prime [TNG & Voyager Refunded] 1 week ago:
Thanks so much!
- Comment on Star Trek Removed From Amazon Prime [TNG & Voyager Refunded] 1 week ago:
Someone else said it was a blocked domain on pihole.
- Comment on Star Trek Removed From Amazon Prime [TNG & Voyager Refunded] 1 week ago:
Yes, I am! Any clue on the domain?
- Comment on Star Trek Removed From Amazon Prime [TNG & Voyager Refunded] 1 week ago:
It’s mostly, if not all, up on Paramount Plus, which sucks because the TV app is super slow and they can’t keep track of my watch history.
- Comment on Extreme wealth inequality is baked in to the system 1 week ago:
Theft is also an equalizer.
- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 1 week ago:
I think that in-game romance is either something that is durable and unaffected by your actions or it is a list of actions that affect a relationship quotient. It would be interesting to actually be able to overdo it and drive a wedge between yourself and the character.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 2 weeks ago:
Buy a SAS adapter and put them in an external storage rack.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 2 weeks ago:
This hardware is for those who are storing EB of data.
- Comment on “MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph Circe” New Visual 3 weeks ago:
X-wide pauldrons. Looks like it could transform into something very large.
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts' 3 weeks ago:
So it is!
- Comment on “To Your Eternity” Season 3 | Key Visual 3 weeks ago:
The wedding visuals have always seemed a bit ominous to me. That nokker has always wanted to fuse with Fushi. Maybe it will create something new.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 3 weeks ago:
Alton showed me a few things and taught me that if I was patient I could figure it out the rest of the way. That was almost 20 years ago. Now I happily share cooking duty with my wife.
I named a dog after him. It didn’t stick, and my daughter named the dog after a kid in class’s little brother, but the through was there.
- Comment on [News] "The Ghost in the Shell" (2026) New Key Visual, PV 4 weeks ago:
I realize it’s unorthodox, and to be fair it was only a brief consideration after having watched SAC.
I honestly think the supporting characters are a bit flat in the movie. It adds some depth and personality to some of the scenes as well as explains the social political environment a bit better.
Neither are canon to each other, nor the manga (which I am about to investigate to confirm), but the manga was quite popular so fans already had an understanding of so much when they watched the movie.
Now, outside of the fact that the new anime appears to be continuing with the Tachikomas of Stand Alone Complex, the rest of the franchise appears to be watchable in about any order.
- Comment on xkcd #3201: Proof Without Content 4 weeks ago:
The proof cannot exist without the conjecture.
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts' 4 weeks ago:
Trump has a special Bible that cuts and pastes the bits and pieces of the Bible that says what he wants.
- Comment on [News] "The Ghost in the Shell" (2026) New Key Visual, PV 4 weeks ago:
Anyone on the fence about GITS, I strongly recommend it. I know the movie came out well before the series, but I suggest watching season 1 of SAC, then the 1995 movie, season 2, then GITS movie 2.
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts' 4 weeks ago:
May 2001
It’s based off New King James, which is the official Catholic text. This is the Orange Catholic Bible.
Don’t forget the official White House image of Pope Trump. x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1918502592335724809?lang=…
- Comment on Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps 4 weeks ago:
I do it in sprints. I’ll set up a service, test it, get it working, then share it with the family.
I hear you on the instructions. A lot of these are pet projects that just happen to work well enough to share, so a bit of work is needed to implement them. If you document for others, you find that you can’t ever put every step in there because you can’t control all the variables.
- Comment on My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, but in this case it’s less a sword and more a lump of plastic.
- Comment on It's a Furby! 4 weeks ago:
I feel like the fae is built out of fairy tales, promises, and the uncanny valley.
