Skyrmir
@Skyrmir@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Standard idiom of comedy, always punch up, never punch down.
In other words, always speak truth to power, never kick someone that’s down.
- Comment on If someone evil want to murder a lot of people, couldn't they just add prions to meat and slowly infect everyone with Prion Diseases? 1 week ago:
Anyone making a bio weapon would go after a virus or fungus. Easier to cultivate, dispurse, and work with. Something that’s contagious and self replicating makes it much easier to hide the initial infection point.
- Comment on The Outer Worlds 2 | Review Thread 2 weeks ago:
Sequels this year have been really bad though. Between Trump, Dragon age, and Vampire Masquerade, I’m not excited about any more.
- Comment on Why don't police use rubber bullets instead of live rounds? I get if someone is holding a loaded weapon. But wouldn't a rubber bullet have the same effect with out putting holes in another person? 2 weeks ago:
Heavy clothing can essentially stop rubber bullets. Not really what you want when trying to stop someone.
A better option than any weapon is more officers. I don’t care what a cop is armed with, full military kit and they can still be taken down one on one. More guys always wins, and is so obvious in the moment that people don’t even get violent in most cases.
- Comment on Searching for signs of life on exoplanets is tough. 3 weeks ago:
Except o2 is only produced in volume by a nova. Which isn’t happening on a planet.
- Comment on Lasagnaius 4 weeks ago:
All hail Goldfishius!
- Comment on Searching for signs of life on exoplanets is tough. 4 weeks ago:
Get Back to me when you find it on a planet other than Earth.
- Comment on Searching for signs of life on exoplanets is tough. 4 weeks ago:
o2 isn’t as stable as most molecules containing oxygen. Free o2 oxidizes damn near everything, so it doesn’t last in an atmosphere without a new source. Take a look at the solar system. Every planet has oxygen, none of it is o2 outside of earth.
- Comment on Searching for signs of life on exoplanets is tough. 4 weeks ago:
Just about every element comes out of a super nova. By the time it’s around a planet, Oxygen has made friends, usually Hydrogen, so it’s no longer free molecules.
- Comment on Searching for signs of life on exoplanets is tough. 4 weeks ago:
Look for free Oxygen, the only reason it sits around is because of life. Sure, there are lots of forms of life that won’t show up that way, but if you do see it, you know you found life.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 4 weeks ago:
They’re supposed to disclose all the ingredients, the contents of my Olive Oil and Peanut Butter would argue they very much do NOT.
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 5 weeks ago:
Supposedly it’s because there are a lot of them in the Bible, and since they use it as a training source, the AI just leans into them.
- Comment on There are no laws! We made the whole thing up! 1 month ago:
Might makes right is the whole of the law.
- Comment on New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂ - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
I can see a super productive version of algae being released into the oceans to solve our co2 problem.
And I wonder how long until the vast majority of the biosphere would collapse because of it.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 1 month ago:
That’s basically all it is. Rhinoviruses don’t hang with zinc. The vitamin C is probably just to keep you from gagging on the taste.
It’s the quickest way to tell if it’s a cold or some other flu. If Zycam works, it’s some variant of a rhinovirus, and it’ll be dead in a couple days. If it doesn’t work, you’ve made some other viral friend. The other cold like strains don’t seem to give a shit about zinc, so if it’s not immediately obvious it’s working within about 30 minutes, move on to other remedies. If it is working, don’t over do it, you can fuck up your sinuses with too much zinc.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 1 month ago:
People still get a cold? I haven’t seen one since zicam became a thing. Lots of flu variations fucking people up though.
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 1 month ago:
When I was doing sales, every 2 weeks. Now that I don’t ever see a client, I buzz cut once a year. Might go 2 years this time so I can be a proper Gandalf for Halloween.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 1 month ago:
There will be an activity called an election. It won’t be free, or fair, or allow everyone to vote. The simplest method would be restricting voting locations to those deemed ‘safe from insurrection’ aka counties that voted for Trump.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 1 month ago:
Insurrection is grounds to declare martial law, remove those in power, and halt elections. He has to push hard enough to force people to fight back.
- Comment on Postal traffic to U.S. fell 80% after Trump administration stopped exemption on low-value parcels 1 month ago:
Xmas is going to be brutal for business this year.
- Comment on YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census. 2 months ago:
I suspect they are going to fail at that illusion. And the results of that failure will be very violent.
- Comment on YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census. 2 months ago:
This is assuming we still have a congress in 2030. And if we do, that electoral votes will matter, or happen.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
My mother in law gets by just fine without hers. But then again, she’s in Arkansas, so I’m not sure if that counts as a modern, or developed country.
- Comment on They don't make 'em like they used to 2 months ago:
That’s not like new, it’s dull as shit. And really hard to sharpen.
- Comment on The nursery rhyme "monkeys jumping on the bed" gives children the impression that you can just call your family doctor who will pick up immediately. 3 months ago:
My family doctor made a house call in 1978, that’s the last time I heard of it happening. Though he probably continued until he retired in the early 80s.
- Comment on Chippie owner given ‘devastating’ £40,000 fine by Home office for allegedly illegal hire 3 months ago:
It’s not usually the voters complaining about the fines, it’s the business owners that pay for opposition to them.
- Comment on So that's how they filmed it 3 months ago:
It is real, they did the same for inception and poltergeist. It’s a practical way to let actors walk on walls and such.
- Comment on I'm not sure if I'm the stupidest smart person I know, or the smartest stupid person. 3 months ago:
All I know is that I’m seriously disappointed to be the smartest person in a room on a regular basis.
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 3 months ago:
I mean sure, if you want to make up your own meaning for right wing, then go for it.
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 3 months ago:
Liberal has nothing to do with peace loving, or pacifism, that’s a right wing delusion they use to pump their courage before committing more atrocities on them. No different than ‘God forgive me for what I’m about to do’.
Right wing revolutions end with the left in political prisons and slavery. Left wing revolutions end with the aristocrats/oligarchs, and their families, in the ground. It’s really just a question of what flavor of violence is about to happen.