shalafi
@shalafi@lemmy.world
- Comment on Just think how much deeper the ocean would be if sponges didn't live there. 9 hours ago:
Ah! Thought it was Jack Handey.
“I hope, when they die, cartoon characters have to answer for their sins.”
Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 day ago:
If you woke up tomorrow and had full rights to the name Coca Cola™, would that not be of extreme value to you? Of course it doesn’t have the intrinsic value of a gold brick, but it’s still valuable and stock fluctuations won’t change that fact.
- Comment on Dear Donald Trump Voters: His Actions Are Going To Hurt You Too - SOME MORE NEWS 1 day ago:
Havin’ a giggle, literally. I posted on NextDoor.com about the intent to disassemble NOAA and every reply was “nu uh”.
And these downvoters thinking you’re conservative. Lord.
- Comment on Is there any hope for Ukraine to survive as an independent state now that trump is desperately wishing for a peace treaty with Russia, even bypassing Ukraine? 1 day ago:
You’ll like this!
Can You Say Why America is the Greatest Country in the World?
Should be required viewing for all Americans.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 day ago:
Much stock value is artificial, but these companies still have infrastructure, brands and products.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 day ago:
Meh, party true. Say Coca Cola’s stock goes down, they still own the infrastructure, the products and the brand. In other words, they have real value that didn’t go poof just because their stocks went down.
Much of what we see is bullshit, because bullshit makes headlines. Tesla is a perfect example. This crowd hardly needs a review, but suffice to say that while Tesla has value, it’s tanking fast and the stock price will eventually pop and drop to that far, far lower value.
- Comment on no title 2 days ago:
LOL! I came across women saying, “no dead animal pics”.
- Comment on EU consumers don’t trust US goods: a look into Trump’s trade deficit claims 3 days ago:
Yeah, “impure” olive oil is not endemic to America. Adulterating olive oil is big business and Europe isn’t immune. (Though Europe has laws on the subject that the US does not.)
- Comment on EU consumers don’t trust US goods: a look into Trump’s trade deficit claims 3 days ago:
It’s not exactly that. In the US we insist on perfect, white eggs. No chicken shit or feathers, heavens forfend! Because most Americans have never touched a chicken, let alone seen one.
So we wash hell out of our eggs, which thins the shell, which makes the egg less resistant to bacteria.
Europeans understand that eggs coming from a chicken’s ass sometimes have feathers and poop. Because it do be like that. So they get thicker, tougher, more resilient egg shells.
- Comment on EU consumers don’t trust US goods: a look into Trump’s trade deficit claims 3 days ago:
The idiotic “may cause cancer” labels are to blame for that. When warnings are constant and over-the-top, they get ignored. Good ideas often backfire.
- Comment on Get ya every time 3 days ago:
Almost deleted it, but it does hit hard and explains how many of those men likely died.
- Comment on Get ya every time 3 days ago:
The hell you on about? Read every post I’ve ever written, find me one where I say anything like that. While you’re at it, you’ll find plenty of posts about my awesome wife.
This take reeks of projection. Hate to say that because we throw that accusation a little too freely around here, but damn are you pulling fiction out your ass.
- Comment on Get ya every time 3 days ago:
Look at the posts on the autism and ADHD comms. They’re all about typical human foibles.
I suspect it’s a bunch of young people who want to feel special, stand out. The way GenZ’s education went, treating them like identical little prisoners and taking their agency, probably has them screaming to stand out from the crowd. And that’s not getting into social media forcing conformity.
- Comment on Regarding a US Government Shutdown: What's stopping Musk from continuing to fund DOGE with his own money and continuing to tear apart the government while all the federal workers are put on leave? 3 days ago:
Musk’s wealth is almost all tied up in his company’s stocks. That is not money he is free to spend, like the money in your checking account. If he starts yanking it to fund super projects, investors panic, begin downward spiral.
Of course quantity is a quality all it’s own. So there’s that.
tl;dr: Even Musk isn’t rich enough to cut paychecks for federal worker’s pay.
- Comment on why do transphobes mention pedophiles/compare them to pedophiles when most trans people (as do most people) hate pedophiles? 3 days ago:
Best answer here. So much overthinking in this thread. Nope, OP nailed it, that simple, nothing need be added.
- Comment on Get ya every time 3 days ago:
Well, what did you expect? McNamara sent in the marching morons.
Instead of upping the draft, calling on more young men to go to Vietnam, he lowered the standards for induction to the Armed Services, recalling many young men who had previously been excused from the service for physical and mental disabilities.
The majority of these men were illiterate or even had below average IQs. Many would have been likely classified as “mentally disabled” in a future generation.
Remember Bubba from Forest Gump? He wasn’t some random stupid guy, he was one of “McNamara’s morons”.
I work with a guy like that, probably autistic and not “lemmy autistic”. “LOL, I’m so quirky and have totally typical human traits! Don’t call me the R word! I have legit mental problems!”
Nah. This guy couldn’t hang working at a hardware store, moving mulch and rocks from point A to B, so they made him the “cart boy”. All he has to do is bring the shopping carts and sleds in from the parking lot. First day, he took the carts from inside and put them back in the parking lot.
Imagine going into combat with this guy, the most unforgiving quarter in human experience, and you must cooperate or die. I’d frag him to save myself and my buddies.
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 4 days ago:
How about security through obscurity, to some extent? An IPv6 address isn’t a needle in a haystack, it’s a needle floating somewhere in the solar system. I think I have a quadrillion addresses assigned to me?
340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 unique IP addresses is a staggering amount to scan, no matter what horsepower you have to deploy.
- Comment on Researchers are training AI to interpret animal emotions 4 days ago:
I have a pet pig. Please come demonstrate.
You’re thinking of dogs, and to a lesser extent, cats. They evolved with us to be more communicative. For example, dogs have far more facial muscles and muscle types.
- Comment on It's impossible to defend any amount of alcohol consumption without sounding like an alcoholic. 5 days ago:
cracks knuckles
I’m fine with my 12-pack a day of Keystones.
- Comment on Portable drone jammer uses a Raspberry Pi tactical Software Defined Radio 5 days ago:
Take it out and practice, test. Just move around while you do so.
- Comment on Portable drone jammer uses a Raspberry Pi tactical Software Defined Radio 5 days ago:
If you’re in a situation where you have to you a jammer, you’re already in a lot of trouble. This is not a device for kids to fart around with at home.
- Comment on Those damn woke corners. 5 days ago:
NASCAR’s more woke than many conservatives are comfortable with. They banned the Confederate flag several years back, actively chased down racists leaving nooses lying around the black guy’s area, more I can’t remember (which is frustrating because they’ve done plenty of other sensible things).
LOL, found this searching “NASCAR woke”:
www.msn.com/en-us/sports/…/ar-AA1yM19H
You gotta admit, an EV NASCAR would suck. The whole thing in going to see a race is the pure thunder of the thing. I’ve never been, never been a fan. My ex used to go with her dad. Sounds like a blast setting up camp, like tailgating but much more.
Anyway, they’re reaching out to a broader audience, not just us redneck honkys (sp?). I don’t think the decline is due to said rednecks boycotting, I think people are simply losing interest.
- Comment on please punish me 5 days ago:
It’s a joke and they’re both behaving badly. And yes, people do be like this.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Could we get, perhaps, one example? Maybe two? This article is abysmal journalism. Why in the hell did you find this worth posting?
- Comment on We are becoming the first digital grandparents 5 days ago:
Thank you! GenX is a unique generation. I often wonder what it was like at the dawn of the Industrial Age.
- Comment on Is this a sign of mental illness or just asshole behavior? 5 days ago:
Instantly knew what OP meant.
Gods. I feel older every single day.
- Comment on How technologists and chemists respond to fascism: C7H5N3O6 5 days ago:
Styrofoam and unleaded make fair napalm. Doesn’t explode, but it won’t stop burning. Ya know, unlike a traditional Molotov cocktail.
- Comment on Is it possible to get/train a carrier pigeon today? 5 days ago:
To this day, nothing beats a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
- Comment on They haven't made too many family-friendly cartoons about an abusive husband in a toxic relationship since they stopped making The Flintstones. 6 days ago:
And the joke is that it’s an utterly empty threat.
- Comment on USA | White House bans AP journalists from Oval Office amid continued Gulf dispute 6 days ago:
banned Fox News from the white house press conferences
The Obama admin tried, but it was much more subtle. It was a controversy at the time.