Excrubulent
@Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
- Comment on *dies of cringe* 18 hours ago:
The full list of her titles is a short book.
Even the “full honorifics” are usually a long and boring paragraph.
People usually don’t use them because a) it’s annoying, b) it takes too long, and/or c) we don’t particularly want to honour her and the extremely long list of genocides that those titles are formed from.
- Comment on *dies of cringe* 1 day ago:
That doesn’t make her not the queen of England, though, so the other person isn’t wrong.
The thing that makes her not the queen of England is being dead as shit.
- Comment on China’s CATL claims to have overtaken BYD on 5-minute EV battery charging time 1 day ago:
And those laws were written under the assumption that “it is surely safe to assume any truck this big is a work truck, nobody would ever drive a truck this big just to go get groceries, that would be absurd”.
- Comment on lion 1 day ago:
It’s like a UNION but you don’t STOP at couple of PAY RAISE HANDOUTS you just KEEP GOING till YOU OWN IT ALL.
HELL YEAH BROTHER (INCLUSIVE)
- Comment on Stepping up from Tinkercad but to what? 2 days ago:
The 1.0 interface is a night & day improvement on the previous UI, so I’d say that was a good call.
- Comment on Stepping up from Tinkercad but to what? 2 days ago:
I was recently using entirely legitimate professional software becuase I was sick of Fusion360’s cloud crap. Admittedly I wasn’t using it at a professional level, but previously I would’ve said the same thing about FreeCAD, which was what drove me to my entirely legitimate alternatives.
But just recently I was trying FreeCAD, and struggling a bit with the interface, when I checked the latest version which was 1.0.0.
So I updated and it’s had a complete UI overhaul. It now looks and runs like pro software. It has a modern look, and the UI interactions are extremely smooth.
My favourite part of it is the spreadsheet system. It’s fully-fledged spreadsheet software, and when you’ve made all the calculations, you just have to name the cells you need, and then you can access them as variables from the design. It’s really powerful for parametric design. That part of it was already much better than autodesk’s parameter system.
Anyway, I’m not going back to Fusion or any of the pro software again. I’m doing my latest project in FreeCAD and it’s a super smooth experience.
- Comment on YouTube Music wants me to verify my age. 6 days ago:
Oh cool. I can still access spotify on the computer, so I’ll probably just check and search up the artists I like. Thanks!
- Comment on The fastest bicycle in history is the stationary bike on the ISS. 6 days ago:
Viewed from above the north pole, the planet’s rotation, orbit and the ISS’s orbit are all moving in a counterclockwise direction. The ISS’s orbit is inclined ~51° from the Earth’s rotation, and the Earth’s rotation is tilted ~23° from its orbital plane.
I think that means that Earth & the ISS never have their orbits perfectly aligned, but for our purposes that doesn’t matter. All we need is for one moment in time, for the ISS’s vector to line up with the Earth’s, and we should get very close to that at two times of the year, where the ISS’s northernmost or southernmost parts of its orbit fall on the farthest point of its orbit away from the Sun. This should be true regardless of Earth’s tilt at that moment.
At those moments, the ISS is travelling with the direction of the planet, very close to parallel, and its speed relative to the Sun should approach ~134,600 km/h, unless you did the math wrong, I didn’t check that.
In this same orbit the ISS should also reach its slowest point, as the opposite side of its orbit should be aligned against Earth’s orbit.
But also, in the premise of this idea is the admission that the bicycle is “stationary”, because its speed in relation to its immediate environment is what matters, and we all know it.
- Comment on YouTube Music wants me to verify my age. 6 days ago:
Just installed that, and it works!
I’ve not been able to get spotify to work for ages. Not through xmanager, not through revanced, none of it. Maybe it’s because I’m in australia, I don’t know, but thanks to your comment I’ve got a music player again.
- Comment on The worst part of all this political nonsense is that porn never makes it to my homepage anymore 1 week ago:
Cut to a different version of that scene where they just start humping the computer.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 1 week ago:
Untethered occupants are a serious danger to other occupants in their own car. I wouldn’t agree to drive with someone who wouldn’t put one on tbh, partly because it hints at a lack of judgement and I wouldn’t want that person in charge of my car.
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 1 week ago:
As written this guy only has one monkey.
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 1 week ago:
892 trillion years sounds like a minuscule amount of time to wait for a string that long.
- Comment on Interesting fact about humans in zero gravity 1 week ago:
I think the real answer is that the only people who actually know are the select few astronauts, and their governments are too prudish to ever be open about it, so the people don’t want to admit to such “unprofessional” behaviour. I think until space tourism becomes common enough, we’ll never know.
- Comment on The one good thing about all this 1 week ago:
I don’t think tankies are keen on recognising Taiwan. They think it should still be part of China.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 1 week ago:
“this crazy lesbian feminist said all sex is rape!”
Not all sex, just all the sex in their world. So by saying it was “all sex” they were kind of telling on themselves by agreeing.
I should probably read that book, thanks for that.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 1 week ago:
This definitely plays into something I’ve been thinking about lately - in a conservative worldview, all sex is rape, of a woman by a man. Whether it’s acceptable to them is all about ownership. Does that man have the right kind of ownership over that that woman? If so, they’re fine with it. If not, it’s bad.
This is also related to the idea that no woman ever actually wants sex, and no man ever doesn’t want it. It’s all about when it’s allowable for him to overpower her.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 1 week ago:
Yes, agreed, but “thousand year prohibition” is so specific. Like that must refer to something, and I’m really curious about what.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 1 week ago:
I assume they have a reference yeah, which is why it’s so wild that they just throw it out as if it’s common knowledge.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 1 week ago:
Can anyone explain the phrase “hence thousand year prohibition against it”?
Like, I see the Musk-y tweet style, where apparently particles like “a” and “the” aren’t worth your big boy genius brained time, but what is the prohibition? Dude just drops that like everybody knows what he’s talking about, but what the actual fuck is he talking about?
God, it’s such an arrogant, lazy way of talking, I fucking hate these incel shitheels.
- Comment on Genius 2 weeks ago:
They should call it by its proper English name: “corn chip sandwich.”
- Comment on Automatically Crack Safes With This Autodialer 3 weeks ago:
I think the special thong about this one is that it’s open source and you can build it from common components, which makes sense. You literally just need a stepper or servo motor with the correct algorithm and a few bits & pieces to apply that motor to the dial.
It should be easy enough to build this for no more than a hundred bucks, maybe less if you can get cheap parts or you’re building more than one. It’s actually less complex than a basic 3d printer.
The expensive part comes from the low volume production and the professional customers. Plus the software is probably proprietary. It takes expertise and to make a business out of that means high individual prices.
So it’s really a perfect candidate for open sourcing.
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 3 weeks ago:
So your argument rests not on truth but on populism.
Even if you’re right in your wholly unsubstantiated claim, the way to get more people on your side is by persuading them, not by capitulating to their ill-informed beliefs. Giving in to their bullshit is how you join their side.
I would love to know what your media diet is.
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 3 weeks ago:
That’s an extremely narrow point that isn’t worth bothering with, because nobody is confused about what you mean when you call them “nazis”.
Also it’s not one guy doing a zeig heil, it’s become a trend amongst them now. They have invited the comparison openly, and anybody getting all pissy about “you just call everything you don’t like nazi” is just a crybully who’s deliberately wasting your time. At this point anybody turned off of your cause by your use of the word “nazi” isn’t your ally in the first place.
Like sure they’re not exactly the same as the NSDAP, but the category still applies, and it’s not worth anybody’s time arguing over the exact nature of the type of fascism they have, because “nazi” does the job and again, nobody is confused by it, because the original nazis are all resting in piss.
Do you have any argument as to why this matters, in any way, at all?
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 3 weeks ago:
They are literally zeig-heiling.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 3 weeks ago:
You’re noticing that Gell-Mann Amnesia.
I looked it up yesterday because I kept seeing it in an Angela Collier video title and I realised that despite watching the video and re-checking the info several times, I could never remember what Gell-Mann amnesia was, and that was too ironic to be allowed to continue. So this time instead of looking it up and going “ooohh, that’s right, okay, nevermind”, I went, "okay, now repeat it to yourself until you’re sure you won’t have to look it up again".
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 3 weeks ago:
Ah okay, so what I’m reading there is that it may be piratable, but a lot of software vendors don’t support it, so there’s a decent risk that software would just randomly stop working, which is the same problem you get with windows 10 long term. Oh well.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 3 weeks ago:
That site’s ai protection won’t let me through. But if the issue is needing a legitimate license them I’m sure that can be overcome in other ways.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 3 weeks ago:
Well I mainly want it to keep my VR headset running which nobody can get working in linux.
One of these days I’ll replace it and make sure the new one can run on linux, and then I won’t have much keeping me on windows anymore.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 3 weeks ago:
I discovered recently that they make the regular ISOs hard to access too. It didn’t want to let me download it from a linux machine.
But there’s always a way to access this stuff.
What are the legal issues?