Skyrmir
@Skyrmir@lemmy.world
- Comment on Deepfake videos are getting shockingly good | TechCrunch 1 day ago:
I still think Ilhan should sue Musk for slander. At least 100mil in damages.
- Comment on Trump tariffed Columbia in response to not letting a plane of deported illegals in. 1 week ago:
He’s putting himself first, and America last. He’s so weak he couldn’t deal with Colombia before trying to sneak abused prisoners into their country.
He got played by Brazil putting the last plane load all over the media. Leading to Colombia stopping flights in the first place. Because his pea brain only sees making more people suffer as the next step to isolate America from the world and destroy our alliances.
- Comment on Trump Begins Selling New Meme Coin Days Ahead of Inauguration 2 weeks ago:
So bribery is now an alt coin. Got it.
- Comment on CBS News’s Margaret Brennan Compares Illegal Aliens to Einstein | Headline USA 3 weeks ago:
Heisenberg almost destroyed his chances of admission because he wanted to point out that the constitution had a path to totalitarianism built into it. Einstein told him to shut up and pass the test.
- Comment on Fossil Fuel Interests Ramp Up Their “Solar Makes Electricity More Expensive” Falsehood 4 weeks ago:
Ukraine cutting off Russian oil has helped with that a bit. I’d say it could start a trend if western oil companies had enough influence they could also shut down Russian exports to India or their ghost fleet to help support prices. But I seriously doubt Putin will let Trump do that.
- Comment on Jimmy Carter was the end of an era in presidential politics 5 weeks ago:
Tomato tomahto, he was the last normal president before our politics were hijacked by the right.
They lost their damn minds over Nixon, and didn’t have a plan in place when Carter won.
- Comment on If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP? 2 months ago:
There is never a path for the speaker of the house to become vice president. Either the President and Vice President are dead and he’s president, or he’s still just the speaker.
As others have pointed out, before or after the electoral count is completed, makes a minor difference. It would be interesting to watch it play out.
- Comment on What has Critical Theory actually achieved? 2 months ago:
It has informed legislators that laws they otherwise might support, have racially biased flaws. That’s pretty much the sum total of it’s influence on anything.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard releases today, and players are celebrating the famous ‘Bioware Turn’ 3 months ago:
I’m waiting a month to see how public reception goes. Give the public a chance to marinate their response before I try it out.
- Comment on There you go little guy 4 months ago:
I dunno if you’ve tried, but I’m here to tell ya, cobble stone streets will absolutely stop speeding really quick.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Now Reportedly Identifies As A Libertarian 4 months ago:
So now he’s an embarrassed republican.
- Comment on Opinion: Increasing the minimum wage comes at too high a price for workers | CNN 6 months ago:
Except the people that elect it’s leaders, which would be the employees.
- Comment on Opinion: Increasing the minimum wage comes at too high a price for workers | CNN 6 months ago:
A union is only beholden to the employees rather than management.
- Comment on Opinion: Increasing the minimum wage comes at too high a price for workers | CNN 6 months ago:
Minimum wage is a crappy way to improve wages. The better option are well regulated trade and labor unions, and mandatory labor representation. But since this is America, we’ve got a minimum wage, and that’s about the best we’re going to get.
- Comment on Julian Assange is free! 7 months ago:
Just in time, Trump needs a new water boy
- Comment on How long would it take to create a Pyramid today? 7 months ago:
It would be impossible to build today by any means. Not because of any technological problem. Physically it could be done rather quickly, as others have posited. The problem is that you could never combine the political and economic will to complete it.
It’s the same reason it would be easier to colonize Mars than to fix climate change. There’s a half dozen robots on Mars that will do whatever you tell them. On Earth, there’s 7 billion assholes who think they have a better idea of what to do.
- Comment on Tractor-trailers with no one aboard? The future is near for self-driving trucks on US roads 9 months ago:
I’m betting garbage trucks actually end up being first. A half dozen trucks per human monitor sitting back at the station, with two guys in a pickup to run out to any problems.
- Comment on Men over 30, what contributes to weight gain besides slower metabolism when you get older? Is it really hard to stay in shape? 10 months ago:
The hidden issue is general aches and pain. That noise an old guy makes when he stands up, means he doesn’t get up, and doesn’t move around as much. But it’s real easy to sit down with a pint and a burger.
- Comment on Did some work recently 11 months ago:
Now I’m feeling called out. I keep having these stacks of if statements that could just be a big ass list of and and and, but then it runs into the debate of how much crap should be in one line of code? Especially knowing, at some point, it’s going to be my dumb ass stepping through trying to figure out why this one edge case is the reason we’re not hitting the inner code.
- Comment on Justice Department Conducts Court-Authorized Disruption of Botnet Controlled by the Russian Federation’s Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU) 11 months ago:
They broke into shit that had already been broken in to, and removed an intrusion. That’s literally their job.
- Comment on 10x Stronger Than Kevlar: Amorphous Silicon Carbide Could Revolutionize Material Science 1 year ago:
We might see improvement on some deposition materials after the recent discovery on dolomite crystal formation.
- Comment on 10x Stronger Than Kevlar: Amorphous Silicon Carbide Could Revolutionize Material Science 1 year ago:
So how much closer does this put us to a space elevator? Assuming mass production and fiber creation was even possible.
- Comment on WATCH: The Biden Impeachment Hearings - Day 1 1 year ago:
…yahoo.com/…/jared-kushners-post-white-house-2119…
Just asking questions. If we’re going to get worked up by a shitty kid skimming $40k off to his dad, then maybe we want to know what $2.5 billion would buy.
- Comment on White Supremacist Killer Testifies He Was Radicalized by Conspiratorial Content Like Infowars 1 year ago:
I’m really interested why Lemmy says there are -6 new messages? That many deleted comments or what?
As for the story, it turns out water is wet. Not really a surprise.
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 1 year ago:
Financial stress. Go take a closer look at the crime stats that right wing racists like to hammer the black community with. Then adjust them for poverty rates in the community. All of a sudden the racial divide in violent crime goes away. If anything, poor white men are the most violent, but not by enough to really be significant. The driving factor, by around 10 or 15 to 1, is poverty.
We’re seeing declining standards of living across the country, while technology is hides the true depths of it. The whole, you can’t be poor if you have a wide screen TV and a refrigerator, is almost true. It’s just enough to make it look like having no bargaining power, being locked into your zip code, buried in debt, and renting everything you own, somehow represents wealth.
- Comment on That Voyager is one clean burning starship though, I’ll tell you what. 1 year ago:
Because the stored patterns have the where, not the how fast. What would come out is a brain dead corpse.
- Comment on That Voyager is one clean burning starship though, I’ll tell you what. 1 year ago:
The buffer contains the stream(s) before being sent to an emitter. It’s not a hard drive, it’s a container.
- Comment on That Voyager is one clean burning starship though, I’ll tell you what. 1 year ago:
They don’t create matter, they create an energy matter stream that moves the person molecule by molecule. How it happens is scifi magic, but it’s not the same as creating new atoms, which would require every replicator to have the energy to obliterate a planet.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake 1 year ago:
They really needed to listen to their enterprise customers. Windows Phone could have easily taken over as the ‘corporate phone’, if it had any integration at all. With the side benefit that their corporate customers also employ the developers that could build out the apps they needed to create the marketplace.
Instead they tried to take on Apple and Google, in an end user space that had already been thoroughly saturated, with a product that was barely on par.
- Comment on Toyota nears mass production of solid-state batteries 1 year ago:
Liquid in the scientific sense, it’s more of a paste. Lithium hexafluorophosphate(aka LiFPO) mixed with Dimethyl carbonate or Diethyl carbonate which are just there to float the Lithium between the plates without letting it burst into flame from any humidity that might happen to reach in.