elephantium
@elephantium@lemmy.world
- Comment on If you want to stay anonymous and still participate in society, learning to code is more important than ever given the rise of ID verification 2 weeks ago:
finding a few good ones shouldn’t be hard
Ha, good one.
- Comment on hot girls hate fascism❤️🔥 2 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t those combine as a monolisk though?
Hmm…sounds like something you might see in a Starcraft mod…
- Comment on The internet seems to despise both the role of "Parents" and "Children"... 2 weeks ago:
“well, technically”
I think of it as a funhouse mirror. Everything online reflects something in the physical world, but there are a lot of distortions.
- Comment on The internet seems to despise both the role of "Parents" and "Children"... 2 weeks ago:
Heh. Anything on the internet invites comment. Who comments? People who feel strongly about the topic. Yep, it fits.
- Comment on The internet seems to despise both the role of "Parents" and "Children"... 2 weeks ago:
It can change, too.
When I was just out of college, I wanted kids “someday” (but was afraid of parenting badly).
Same when I met my wife, but she felt conflicted.
Fast forward a couple of years, she definitely doesn’t want to have kids.
I’m at peace with this path. I’d rather stay with my wife and have no kids than get divorced and try to find someone else who does want kids. My wife is amazing.
- Comment on Soft 2 weeks ago:
Ahh, gotcha, yeah, I misread you there. Sorry about that.
- Comment on Soft 2 weeks ago:
besides not being physically colocated
This isn’t neglect IMO. Kids should have at least some time separate from their parents (tbf, this means different things at different stages of childhood).
The rest of your post, OTOH, is spot on.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I heard about voat back in the day and thought “Oh, cool, like reddit without some of the overbearing crap from the admins”.
Then I went to voat and read a few posts.
Well, shit. I didn’t want to be on a nazi site. So much for that.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Also, you don’t need to uncompress plain text.
Content-Encoding: gzipwould like a word. - Comment on Soft 2 weeks ago:
IDK about this. Today’s extreme focus on helicopter parenting seems to view “having room to play” as CPS-worthy neglect. Shouldn’t there be a middle ground?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Baby don’t hurt me
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Not in my field. Why, what job were applying for?
- Comment on fuck it, just paste your clipboard in the comments 3 weeks ago:
hunter2
- Comment on What are your best memories of playing Civilization III? 3 weeks ago:
I’m still playing Civ 3 as of this week. Mostly a mod, CCM, now.
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 5 weeks ago:
Alexander, is that you?
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 5 weeks ago:
But in space its the only option you have
Hmm, this has me thinking about the stealth ships in The Expanse. The engineering needed to make it work makes me want to cry, but in principle you could run a Peltier cooler with a swappable heat sink.
To be clear, I don’t think this is a viable option, but it’s interesting to think about.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
And then the content drones will start to swarm, making the content aircraft carriers obsolete!
- Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman 1 month ago:
I lean towards discounting both rumors. I think the temptation to use said kill-switches would prove too great to resist, particularly for the authoritarian types involved.
We saw this a lot with provisions of the “PATRIOT Act”. It was championed as tools needed to combat terrorists and claimed to be reserved for such cases. In actuality, it was used to go after people running fan sites for sci-fi tv shows, among other things.
If such a kill switch existed in computer hardware, I’m sure it would have been used already. I’m less sure about a kill switch in the planes. On one hand, that’s a pretty situational tool, and you wouldn’t want to play that card until you really needed it.
OTOH, we didn’t hear about threats to throw the kill switch during the bluster over Greenland. If they had one, I think it would have been part of that bluster.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I’m still annoyed that they deleted classic D2 from my battle.net account. I used to be able to download that and get several classic games installed from registering CD keys back in the day. Now it’s just a prompt to buy remastered :(
- Comment on To demonstrate that people will argue about anything, here's a picture of a ladybug. 1 month ago:
As proud clankerists, we can all agree that technological progress has gone too far! And we’ll get right on that as soon as we vanquish the real threat – the clankerites, those splitters!
- Comment on In the future, it will be considered unbelievable that repairing a product used to be more expensive than buying a new one 1 month ago:
True. Dishwasher is one thing, but IDK that I’d be able to swap out any parts on my coffee maker or immersion blender.
- Comment on Veganuary 1 month ago:
reductio ad absurdum, actually.
You claimed that this statement was not true:
There are no nutrients that are exclusively available via meat/dairy.
i.e. claimed that there are some nutrients that can only be sourced via meat or dairy.
An obligate carnivore must eat meat to live, like, say, if the only source of needed nutrients is meat?
Where did I lose you on this? Is it the “or dairy” escape hatch?
FFS, you could have just given an example of a nutrient you mistakenly think is only available via meat or dairy. Then I could have judged your post on its merits instead of this displeasure of a thread.
- Comment on In the future, it will be considered unbelievable that repairing a product used to be more expensive than buying a new one 1 month ago:
manufacturers actively making products harder to repair.
Possible counterexample: My dishwasher. The drain pump is super easy to replace – unplug it, disconnect the hoses, and pop it off the little metal piece that supports its weight. It takes longer to bail out the water in the pan and wiggle it out from under the counter than it does to replace the faulty pump.
(At the same time, it’s a pretty crap model. We’ve had to replace that drain pump 3 times since 2019)
- Comment on To demonstrate that people will argue about anything, here's a picture of a ladybug. 1 month ago:
That’s not –
Wait –
You magnificent bastard
- Comment on Veganuary 1 month ago:
that’s not true
Are you sure about that? Got any examples of nutrients that make humans obligate carnivores?
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 1 month ago:
It’s just one of reddit’s autogenerated usernames. It looks like another post in this thread talks a bit about it.
- Comment on You are allowed flavor 2 months ago:
But we do not grant you the title of Spice Master.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 2 months ago:
I played it. Beautiful game. Terrifying.
I didn’t think I had thalassophobia until Subnautica.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 2 months ago:
What did you think of Torchlight? I’m a bit surprised it didn’t make your list.
…well, then again, I haven’t played anything you listed, so I can’t compare.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 2 months ago:
Similar. I played a lot of Diablo 2 back in the day, but Blizzard got a lot worse as a game publisher during the years they were focused on WoW. I’m not super interested in starting up on Diablo 3 or 4 or even Starcraft 2.
For a different direction on this – I played Subnautica. It was terrifying. I’m not going to get the expansion or Subnautica 2 when it comes out. shudder