captain_aggravated
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast Took a temporary honorary demotion of one grade to honor Captain Kori.
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 10 hours ago:
I knew they’d come out of the woodwork to make my point for me.
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 14 hours ago:
See what I mean? And I bet Herr Wernher von Bianchi would have way more interesting stories to tell than most genuine Germans.
Reminds me of Japanese drivers licenses, which don’t have a field for eye or hair color the way Western ones do. Not pertinent information in Japan where virtually everyone has black hair and brown eyes, it’s like having a field for tongue color. The answer for everyone is “What? Reddish pink I guess? Why?”
Now imagine you’re making a form for people to fill out about their background and personal history. Europeans apparently cannot imagine needing more than one line to answer the question “Where are you from?” because of how short and boring their own answers always are.
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 1 day ago:
That well meaning curiosity is the America I know.
I was born in North Carolina, I speak with a textbook Piedmont white guy drawl. I’m as American as high fructose corn syrup, no question. Here’s some hell I’ve caught: Europeans struggle to cope when I describe myself as “German and a little Scottish.” To me, that’s my ethnic background, to a lot of Europeans I’ve argued with, it’s stolen valor. “You’re not personally from Germany, you aren’t German.” Then explain my genome. Or my surname.
I think us who live in the New World have a whole different understanding of diaspora.
- Comment on What's your favourite era for video games? 1 day ago:
for me there was a peak in the late 90s. Ocarina of Time and Half Life in 1998 alone.
- Comment on this picture is 27kb 1 day ago:
hahaha a three hour round trip is an overnight stay hahaha ha that is goddamn adorable.
- Comment on rollin' coal 2 days ago:
What do you think a “meltdown” is?
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 2 days ago:
Canned french onion soup? meh.
Homemade french onion soup? Yeah!
- Comment on rollin' coal 2 days ago:
It is my understanding that the Three Mile Island incident was a meltdown, that the fuel rods got hot enough to melt themselves and pool in the bottom of the reactor vessel but did not escape containment, unlike Chernobyl whose reactor core is currently a big lump in a sub-basement.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 2 days ago:
I think this meme is talking about how tough life is for any given organism in kind of a TierZoo sort of way.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 2 days ago:
Just a yellow filter.
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 2 days ago:
Depends on the soup I find.
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 2 days ago:
They worked pretty well when I was in high school marching band. I didn’t drive yet so I didn’t need road vision, they darkened while out at practice and were clear elsewhen. Got an actual pair of prescription sunglasses in flight school though.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 3 days ago:
I’m hoping to have bought my last engine. maybe there will be another ICE car or motorcycle in my future, I don’t think I’ll ever own another airplane and I’m 100% done with gas powered lawn tools. I’ve got a set of electric lawn tools that do a fantastic job and they don’t pack their sinuses with their own shit all winter so they work when it’s time.
And my father has fought me tooth and nail the entire way. “You sure you don’t want the gas one? It’s slightly bigger! Let’s get the gas one.” Dad, why are we here for the second year in a row buying a string trimmer? “We can’t get the old one to start.” Wrong. We’re buying a new one because we can’t get the almost brand new one we bought last year to start. Now what chemical did you consume in the 60’s that makes you think a nearly identical one we buy this year will be any different? “Ohh come on.” This one works almost exactly like a power drill. When’s the last time you put a battery in the power drill and spent an hour failing to get it to start drilling? “Sigh I guess.”
It’s lighter, quieter, runs on a battery system we’re already very invested in, starts every time, requires less maintenance and fueling is a lot more convenient. Every electric lawn tool we’ve bought bar none works great.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 3 days ago:
Having built a number of Repraps, “nearly everything” is highly exaggerated. I have seen 3D printers with an almost entirely printed frame, but using off the shelf T slot rails is a lot more time and cost effective.
It is currently not possible to print the control board, wiring, sensors, hot end, motors, heaters, bearings, slides and rails necessary for a 3D printer. Some of the mechanical parts and a lot of the bracketry that holds the frame together can be 3D printed.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 3 days ago:
There is a business in my town. There’s probably one like it in your town. They rent power equipment. Anything from pressure washers to bobcats to bouncy castles. And as a man who has needed to drill precisely 8 holes into a concrete slab in 37 years, there is a genuine value proposition in renting a hammer drill for an afternoon compared to buying one.
- Comment on Does color change how hot a laser can get something? 5 days ago:
explains all the CO2 infrared lasers out there.
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 1 week ago:
I ran a poll a few years ago on Reddit asking people what event made them switch to Linux from some other platform. Interestingly enough it was not the EOL of a preferred version of Windows or MacOS, but the introduction of a dreaded new one. In other words, according to my poll, more people quit using Windows not because Win 7 support ended, but because Win 8 was released. Which was counterintuitive to me.
- Comment on Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move | CNN Business 1 week ago:
Adapting and overcoming the death of society itself is not something I’m interested in doing.
- Comment on Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move | CNN Business 1 week ago:
anything with mutual friends
I don’t have any of those, they all knocked each other up in their 20’s, their personalities died and now they’re all underpaid zombies with diaper bags and minivans who never text, and in car-centric America there is no mechanism for meeting more.
co-ed sports
Illegal in the South for the same reasons that you can’t buy beer on Sunday morning.
Community events such as at a local library or whatever
My town hosts regular community events and distributes a list of upcoming ones every month as part of a newsletter included with our water bills. 100% of them are for ages 6-12 or 65+; About the only event I’m aware of that might allow normal no adjective adults to attend is the occasional First Friday event, which plays music you could hear from geostationary orbit. I mean seriously the music will rattle my windows about as hard as a freight train and the stage gets set up 4 blocks further away than the tracks. Should I call OSHA or something?
Meetups for interests
All of my interests are some combination of near total sausage fests, have no support/community in my area, or any support for them died during the pandemic.
often hosted at some local business
Buy shit! Buy shit buy shit buy shit!
- Comment on Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move | CNN Business 1 week ago:
The story I heard was 9/10ths of the women on the platform had “I don’t message first, you message me first” in their bio, so it was functionally a display case for morons.
- Comment on Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move | CNN Business 1 week ago:
People especially women hate meeting people in public. It’s either “inappropriate,” or there’s music louder than a war playing. There is no in between.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 week ago:
Aren’t there already? With vendor splash screens and all the graphics in the BIOS settings menus? Why don’t I get paid every time Asrock gets to display their logo on my monitor at boot?
- Comment on Remember when the body washes contained literal micro plastics and were advertised as such? 1 week ago:
Somebody somewhere figured out that you can sell grit to women if you refer to it as “exfoliant.” Because that terrycloth towel you’re going to dry yourself with isn’t nearly rough enough to remove dead skin cells, right girls?
Meanwhile washing a man is mostly a matter of degreasing which is why a man’s shower has one bottle of mostly sodium laurel sulfate in it labeled “everything wash.”
- Comment on Remember when the body washes contained literal micro plastics and were advertised as such? 1 week ago:
Most toothpaste contains abrasives. Look in the ingredients list on your toothpaste, it’s likely silica.
The point of using plastic is because the petrochemical industry makes money if they use plastics.
- Comment on neptune 1 week ago:
Does it though?
- Comment on neptune 1 week ago:
There is something to be said for diamonds as everyday jewelry; being the hardest material out there makes them hella durable.
But, jewelry is 100% a complete scam.
- Comment on neptune 1 week ago:
And it was able to take such good photographs because of a fairly rare planetary alignment that allowed for three gravitational slingshots.
The last time this happened, Thomas Jefferson was president, and he blew it.
- Comment on Yep 1 week ago:
orh yeah raight dere Hon you just keep on going.
actually I’d dig it.
- Comment on I mean have they seen our stipends 1 week ago:
Stuart Ashen has a Ph.D.
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 1 week ago:
T9 text worked wonderfully, and it’s only gotten worse from there.