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 why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 15 hours ago:
Basically the only thing that help my headaches is caffeine. But that’s probably a me problem.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 1 day ago:
I used a Dbrand skin for awhile.
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 1 day ago:
I’m not convinced OTC pain meds do anything, especially Tylenol.
- Comment on Calm down 1 day ago:
when my cat is being a little too impatient while I’m givong her her dinner, I tell her to calm all six of her tits. hasn’t worked once but I find it funny.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Oh I should mention: each state has its own government as well, the exact shape of that government varies state to state but many states also have a two-house legislature and the upper house is usually called the senate. For example, the North Carolina General Assembly has a senate and a house of representatives. “My father is a senator” could also mean that, though “US Senator” would imply the federal government.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Many European nations, and I believe the EU itself, has a parliament. A legislative body made up of representatives of a group of people. In the EU parliament, maybe each nation sends a representative.
For reasons that I think have to do with getting rid of royalty/nobility, the US legislative body is called the Congress. Much like the British parliament has a House of Commons and a House of Lords, which have different functions, serve different interests and serve as a check on each other, the US has a House of Representative and a Senate.
The House of Representatives is the lower house, it has more members, over 400. Each state gets a number of representatives based on population; small states like Rhode Island or states where nobody lives like Montana may have as few as one, big states with lots of people like California, Texas and New York might have 30 or 40. The idea here is equal representation of the POPULATION, though a cap on the number of members has kind of ruined that.
The Senate is the upper house. Each state sends exactly two senators. With 50 states in the union, there are 100 senators. Early on, senators were appointed by the governments of each state, but by amendment to the constitution senators are now elected directly by the people. Both senators are supposed to represent the state as a whole. Weird thing about our senate: The Vice President is nominally a member of the Executive branch, but the only job the constitution lays out for the VP is to preside over the senate and cast a tie breaking vote (because each state gets 2 senators, no matter what we do there’s an even number of senators, so ties aren’t uncommon). Otherwise the VP has no powers other than to be the hot spare for the president.
For a bill to become law, it must be deliberated and voted on in both houses. If both houses pass the bill, it goes to the President’s desk to be signed into law.
There are details like which house what kind of legislation is to come from, etc. There are some powers that ONLY the House of Representatives have, and some that ONLY the Senate has.
There are certain appointed positions, such as cabinet members, supreme court justices etc. that the President appoints, but the Senate must approve. If I understand it right, the President/executive branch makes treaties but the Senate must ratify it for the treaty to go into effect. The House of Representatives has the power to impeach federal officials (impeachment is kind of like indictment) but the trial takes place in the Senate.
Being a senator is seen as more prestigious than being a representative; senators are considered senior and there are fewer of them. It’s a position of significant political influence and massive corruption. Your friend’s father is definitely in the position to have protestors killed if a big business asks him to.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
about as much as I’ve read about scientology and Jonestown.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Feminism is anti-male. That’s all it is.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
And the entire topic of feminism was brought up to hijack a conversation about men. Moron.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
It’s a problem when it’s done to hijack a conversation about women.
You’re talking about feminism in a thread started about men’s mental health.
Dearest Kettle,
I write to you on this auspicious occasion to bring into your awareness a matter which has consumed my attention as of late. It seems you bear a certain patina of the very darkest of colors, one might even go so far as to call you “black.”
Eternally yours,
Pot
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
See, THIS is a shitpost.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 3 days ago:
Caring isn’t a thing people do.
- Comment on Ironically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu is 3 days ago:
H’okay, so.
There was this guy called Richard Stallman. Way on back in the day he was working with Bell Labs’ UNIX at the university he worked for, and he got kinda butthurt about the extremely restrictive licensing terms and exorbitant cost that Bell Labs offered the OS for. So Stallman decided he was going to make his own OS with blackjack and hookers and offer it for free to anyone who could make use of it. The Usenet post he made announcing his intention mentions he knows someone who might get them a computer. He named his new operating system GNU, for GNU’s Not Unix. It’s a recursive acronym, which was popular at the time, it’s apparently another name for a wildebeest or water buffalo or something, and it’s an unpronounceable mouthful of socket wrenches, so it’s the trend setter for free software packages even all these decades later.
They built a whole bunch of really important software; a shell, core utilities, a C compiler, and applications like emacs. But they never got a working kernel going, the actual engine of the OS. They worked on their own thing they called HURD (which of course is a recursive acronym they put more thought into than the software itself), they gave up and tried to acquire an existing one to use, then went back to working on HURD. They never really got a system off the ground for lack of a kernel.
Then a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds piped up and said “Hey I built an OS kernel for the 386 IBM PC, it’s not as big or as professional as GNU, but maybe you guys’ll find it interesting.” He was persuaded to release Linux under the GNU Public License 2.0, and it wasn’t long after that that the first operating systems built on the Linux kernel and GNU coreutils entered distribution.
Linux is the name of some software, GNU is the sound you make when punched in the throat, so people quickly started just calling this emerging ecosystem simply “Linux.” Much to the chagrin of Richard Stallman who feels he isn’t getting credit for his work. This is his punishment for being the absolute worst at naming things.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 3 days ago:
I doubt that.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 3 days ago:
Nobody cares about me, why should I care about anyone else? I’m disposable, so are the rest of you.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 3 days ago:
Empathy is a really stupid idea when all you’ll ever be is what people can extract from you.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 3 days ago:
Yeah I’m more or less with the Republicans on this one. Either you’re suffering from gender dysphoria, and you should seek treatment from qualified mental health personnel, or you went on Tumblr as a tweenager and instead of being a greaser or punk or goth you’re “trans.” Either way, this is not your employer or coworker’s problem.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 3 days ago:
Things I am likely to say to my team at work:
“I emailed you an STL. Please print two of them, and be ready to print 18 more if the customer approves.”
“Put on your safety glasses.”
“The lathe’s coolant pump is not working, I think it may be the contactor. Take a look at it when you first clock in tomorrow and let me know what parts we need if any; I’m going to need it up and running by Thursday.”
“Safety glasses go on the front of your head, not the top.”
“SomeCo has our steel order ready, take the company truck and pick it up. Make sure to get a copy of the P.O.”
“Put. On. Your safety glasses.”
“How’s it coming on those base plates? Can we get started on the brackets yet or are we still waiting?”
“If you get vitreous humor on my drill press, you’re the one that’s gonna clean it up.”
If you can’t handle being spoken to in this manner, you are not going to last long on my team.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 3 days ago:
Call me whatever you want at this point, but if it comes down to “A [type of person] has shown up at my job, what topics should I avoid?” it’s time to start updating the resume.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Hahaha okay so let me bring you up to speed on the modern dating scene:
More than half of young men aren’t even trying to get laid anymore because of how fucking preposterous the dating scene is. Let that sink in.
Your prospective date heard one of her friends say “Oh! You should go out with my divorced dad!” and she’s actually entertaining this possibility. Why didn’t she find a man closer to her own age? What’s wrong with her?
What does success even look like here? For her or you?
- Comment on A great disturbance in the Fediverse 4 days ago:
If I was you, I’d start that process now, dual boot for a bit. Make the transition gradually.
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 5 days ago:
zygote.
- Comment on Into the meat grinder! 1 week ago:
I played the shit out of those games.
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 1 week ago:
I mean yeah probably, someone somewhere has a PC-AT with MS-DOS and Windows 1 dating from the 80’s somewhere, while the first release of Linux was in what? 92? Somebody like LGR or Tech Tangents very likely has some old hardware running period software for history enthusiast reasons.
But let’s play this game: What is the oldest hardware currently in service running a currently supported edition of Windows, versus the oldest hardware currently in service running a currently supported edition of Linux?
- Comment on Into the meat grinder! 1 week ago:
We do what we must because we can.
- Comment on Into the meat grinder! 1 week ago:
The Aperture Science Enrichment Center welcomes you to the Aperture Science 3 meter sieve. The only exit from this hermetically sealed chamber is through the carbon nanotube mesh covering the doorway. If you are not able to negotiate the carbon nanotube mesh on your own, an Aperture Science 90 kiloton hydraulic persuasion piston will assist you in the experiment. Testing protocols require us to inform you that in some rare cases the carbon nanotube mesh may irritate your skin, eyes, bones, and central nervous system.
- Comment on Into the meat grinder! 1 week ago:
I forget which episode it was, but on Last Week Tonight someone compared some process to “turning a fried chicken nugget back into a live chicken.” To which John replied “If you managed that, that chicken would be FUCKED UP. Imagine the poetry it would write, ‘the things that I saw, buck buck bacaw…’”
A sponge can un-puree itself but I bet there’s a kind of scream we can’t hear that it would never stop making.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 1 week ago:
Some genius won’t pay attention to the orientation of a christmas light display while he’s putting them up, he’ll go to plug them in, and they’ll be the wrong way, so he’ll want an “adapter.”
- Comment on Was probably just measuring pasta 1 week ago:
Fun prank: Do this around the 7 foot mark of the tape measure, then sell it at a thrift store.
- Comment on openDAW is a next-generation web-based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) designed to democratize music production. 1 week ago:
“Full stack”