shalafi
@shalafi@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trump federally renames Alaska's Mt. Denali to mount mckinley, despite the objections from everyone who actually lives there 5 hours ago:
I can’t imagine the feds have much say over the state and local government. Am I wrong?
- Comment on Trump federally renames Alaska's Mt. Denali to mount mckinley, despite the objections from everyone who actually lives there 5 hours ago:
American here. Am old, didn’t realize it had changed.
- Comment on US president Trump pardons approximately 1,500 Capitol attack defendants 7 hours ago:
Me too buddy. I think I see their usefulness now. He doesn’t care about the numbers of them, 1,500 is nothing. They’re useful as leaders for what they represent.
Of course they’ll all ignore the fact that he could have pardoned them before he left office, but then they wouldn’t make very good martyrs would they?
- Comment on Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’ 3 days ago:
I got a ticket, in my canoe, for not having my registration paper. The registration number and expiration tag are on the side of the fucking boat. I think the cop was annoyed that I had my license for having a trolling motor on hand, had to nail me somehow.
Think on that, we have to keep two pieces of paper available on a canoe. Had to print them on waterproof paper.
I would have known it was required if the water pig had asked for it when she pulled me over last year.
America’s uptight about “papers please, comrade”.
- Comment on Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’ 3 days ago:
I don’t even need an ID at my credit union’s drive thru. They look at their camera, they look at their computer, it’s me, done.
- Comment on First sodium battery urban e-bike offers 45-mile range and operates in cold weather without capacity loss 6 days ago:
its speed is limited to the 25 km/h
Pass.
Also, tried their website to find a dealer and it was straight cancerous.
Loving the battery tech though. Hoping something affordable like this makes it to my area.
- Comment on TIL: Deer are popping off down here 1 week ago:
Why would we involve the government when there are plenty of people who will do it for free? Sounds like a solid win-win to me. Here in America, we’re trying to figure out how to do this with wild pigs. (Apparently not very tasty unless certain conditions are met.)
I can see the safety angle, but I promise you, hunters are far wiser about safe meat than your local grocer.
- Comment on Floods gave way to heatwaves as 2024 now the hottest year on record 1 week ago:
I’m most concerned with water flow, because that’s what I can easily note around here. FFS, NW Florida should never go 2-months without rain. Here are examples of the sort of impacts no one thinks on:
2 of 3 swampy ponds at my camp dried out, turned to mud the last 2 summers. Dragonflies lay their eggs there, takes 2 years for the nymphs to mature and fly about. Any dragonfly mama unfortunate enough to have laid eggs in those ponds lost it all. This year I had fewer dragonflies, and guess what, more mosquitoes.
I had to damn off the flow from the top pond to preserve it, which will kill the lower pond next summer. First time I’ve done something like this, we shall see.
If you march south a few hundred meters (damned hard!), you’ll come across streams feeding the main creek. Really beautiful. But you will see where the water is supposed to be by observing the ground. The water ain’t there. There are ancient cypress trees growing too far inland, they’ll die. And BTW, I’ve never seen a single fish, frog or turtle in that wild creek. Ain’t that some shit?
- Comment on TIL: Deer are popping off down here 1 week ago:
So, they’re a “pest”, your word, and overpopulated, which leads to disease and other hell for these animals. And you object to hunting them and donating the meat? Or was this just a “fuck America” comment?
- Comment on VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos 1 week ago:
Hold up. Can you crank the volume as in native VLC? I would like to know more.
- Comment on Trump Says He Wants No Wind Turbines Built During Administration 2 weeks ago:
This simple:
Trump’s battle against “windmills” began back in 2006 after he had purchased seaside land for a golf course and subsequently learned that a wind farm was being planned offshore. This annoyed him because it would disturb the view and possibly eat into profits. His attempts to prevent the construction of the wind farm turned into a feud with the Scottish government, and in Trump’s mind, converted the wind turbines into giants that needed to be attacked.
“You know, I know windmills very much. I’ve studied it better than anybody.”
That’s it. Old man hates windmills. Nothing else to it.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 2 weeks ago:
One note I never hear sung is AI’s ability to jump-start creative works.
For example, I wrote a horror short that was stuck in my head. What if I had used AI to write it for me? I certainly would not have used the output verbatim, not even close, but it might have presented me some twists, vocabulary, structure, etc., that I had not thought of.
Same goes for code. I had an idea to automate Google Calendar entries with certain events at work. Couldn’t quite get it right, had ChatGPT write it. Did it work? Of course not, but I found the pieces I needed to put it together.
I’m extremely creative, but not in the typical artistic ways. What I’m good at is taking junk and upcycling it into useful end products. I could input garbage items I found, see what an image generator or chat does with it. Well, let me put my money where my mouth is.
I hauled a large, sealed, plastic container out of the river last month. (Fuck me, about sank the canoe getting it out of the dead fall!) ChatGPT: "what can I make with a large, plastic gas tank?"
- Water Storage Tank
Repurpose the gas tank to store water, especially for outdoor activities like camping, gardening, or as an emergency backup. You can install a spigot at the bottom to make it easy to dispense water.
LOL, that was the idea! Going to hang it in a tree at camp, pump creek water into with tiny chlorine tabs, make another shower. Or maybe use it for the bathroom I need to make? Hmmm…
- Compost Bin
With some modifications like drilling holes for ventilation, a plastic gas tank can be transformed into a compost bin. The tank’s large size provides ample room for organic waste.
Great idea, but I’ve got all the space for compost I need. Although…
- Outdoor Planter
If the gas tank has a sturdy base, it can be converted into a large planter. Cut the tank to create drainage holes, fill it with soil, and plant flowers, vegetables, or herbs.
Holy shit! I’ve been plotting on making floating, yoga-pad mats so I can grow in the creek without animals screwing it up. I have circular saw blades, can fit pots I a;ready have or can scrounge for free. I can make my own soil for the rich organic much and local sand. Let’s see, screw around with the buoyancy. Hot damn do I have ideas now!
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 2 weeks ago:
Neither is true.
- Comment on More Details Emerge Of Plan To Kill Supreme Court Justice 2 weeks ago:
If you want to be taken seriously, use capitalization and punctuation.
And yeah, I’ve read this guy before. I won’t bother with his articles.
- Comment on Hunting 2 weeks ago:
Well I’m not going to fuck it. I don’t think.
- Comment on Hunting 2 weeks ago:
Chop the bottom off so it doesn’t poke you in the ass, sew it shut with leather shoelaces. Hell, get fancy and tap a few circular rivets in there. Good to go.
BRB, looking through my wife’s boot collection…
Funny part is, y’all think I’m joking.
- Comment on Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund 2 weeks ago:
Perfectly normal, but not like this.
- Comment on Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot 2 weeks ago:
PURITY TEST ALERT! YOUTUBE LINK DETECTED!
Jesus y’all are a bunch of lock-stepping little fascists.
- Comment on Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Just fixing his cushion. 2 weeks ago:
2020 will forever go down as the craziest year of my life, both personally and worldwide. FFS, it started with Australia burning down, and no one even remembers! I’d extend the year to 01/06, the day I got gloves off, radicalized.
- Comment on AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives 2 weeks ago:
CEO at my last company refused any security access he didn’t strictly require. He’d just laugh, “Yeah, no, don’t even want that.”
In my IT experience, it’s the department heads, or people an outsider thinks is important, that get spear phished. Job before last, the HR woman got overrun with attacks. LOL, she was the most useless, clueless person in the company but she sounded important on paper. Director of Human Resources. She had two people under her in a 35 employee outfit.
- Comment on AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives 2 weeks ago:
You don’t always want the most meritorious at the top. Ever heard of the Peter Principle? Being competent with the task at hand doesn’t always translate into leadership ability.
- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 2 weeks ago:
So, we moving Devil’s Night up?
- Comment on is feeling disrespected reason good enough to change jobs? 2 weeks ago:
Hopped my last two jobs because I had a little shit fit, no real reason to leave. Damned near tripled my salary and benefits.
- Comment on is feeling disrespected reason good enough to change jobs? 2 weeks ago:
Wish more young people understood this.
“bUT CaPitaListIsm!”
It’s a two-way street my friends. That “evil” employer paid you to gain experience and stack your resume. Wake the fuck up. Your labor is worth more than your take home pay. Take the money and run.
When my buddies and I moved to Florida, my guy went from a managerial position at a cable contractor to changing oil at Jiffy Lube. Every 6-months or so he’d hop up. In a few years he was making 6-digits.
- Comment on Milan says no to all outdoor smoking in Italy's toughest ban 2 weeks ago:
How much smoking is going on that it actually makes a dent in air pollution?! A car putting a block down the street is worse than any 100 smokers.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 2 weeks ago:
Spot on! Especially the “shameless” bit. Yeah, the rich were rich, but Jesus, it was distasteful and immoral to flaunt it.
- Comment on This is in a small convenience store where you can buy food things and heat them up while in the store 2 weeks ago:
Jesus Christ, one could just lay off the weed for a bit.
- Comment on Beautiful stories like this just make you smile 2 weeks ago:
Get two young horny people together. Send one away from months at a time.
- Comment on Beautiful stories like this just make you smile 2 weeks ago:
The infamous dependapotamus !