shalafi
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- Comment on Outsourcing 12 hours ago:
I play a pretty good straight-man, but he nails it. Take me more than one take to spit that with a straight face.
- Comment on Outsourcing 12 hours ago:
Media literacy not only fails the conservatives.
- Comment on Space colonization would create so many jobs for everyone. Not great jobs but jobs. 12 hours ago:
No way we colonize space or smaller rocks until we invent artificial gravity, which I don’t think is possible. Even spin “gravity” comes with a nauseous Coriolis force unless the station is huge and you’re on the outer edges.
Luna is a death trap, no magnetosphere, radiation soaked, and the fine dust would make asbestos look like lung candy.
Much the same for Mars. No radiation protection, fine dust clogging everything.
- Comment on Ever seen a drunk pig? 13 hours ago:
Russian farmer walks into the kitchen with a pig under his arm.
“Look at this pig I must fuck!”
Babushka: “Filthy peasant! Fucking animals!”
“Was talking to pig.”
- Comment on Feel so good 13 hours ago:
Roommate crept on me, “Seriously, just let me do this.”
Closest I’ve been to orgasm without sex.
- Comment on China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool 14 hours ago:
Sounds like a great idea. OTOH, impossible to calculate the damage to local ecosystems vs. traditional methods.
Totally uneducated guess: Probably better? Cooling is a major power suck, as well as consuming water.
Roughly 40 percent of the electricity consumed by an ordinary data center is for this purpose.
We’re draining aquifers that take thousands of years to build up. Don’t read up on that, it’s horrifying. So if we have to have data centers, I’m gambling that underwater is the lesser of two evils.
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- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 15 hours ago:
Fucking hate shit like this.
BURN!
Well, uh, could I see the reply.
NO!
- Comment on The entire teenage population is different every five years. 16 hours ago:
Actually, that comes at 30.
- Comment on Feel so good 17 hours ago:
You got your answer, but if you get a chance to try one, well, I can’t prepare you. Neuron activation incoming.
- Comment on Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong. 18 hours ago:
Funny enough, it was an agricultural class where the utility of the quadratic equation hit me. Professor didn’t even call it that, but we used it to calculate maximum efficiency in fertilizer spread.
- Comment on Directions 1 day ago:
I was one of the guys deploying the fix in '98. You’re all welcome.
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 1 day ago:
Seems you’re correct. So how are poppy seeds so common if they’re Papaver somniferum? Weird.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 1 day ago:
ALL true, but the GOP has given up the “fiscal responsibility” angle. I knew Republicans who were fucking enraged by Bush’s spending and wars. They GOP no longer pretends to be saving our treasury. Sure, they say their policies will eventually enrich us, but they’ve utterly given up saying they’re trying to save money. Maybe I’m splitting hairs, but I clearly remember their scream of “fiscal responsibility!”, and now they are silent.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 1 day ago:
Love it!
Funny thing I was thinking on the drive to camp:
We had 3 TV stations, 3 sources of the nightly news. (Nightly news for national and world news, local paper for local news.)
The talking heads always said the same things. Sounds like state propaganda, doesn’t it? But the reality was that none of them wanted to show even a whiff of bias. The #1 metric of who one watched for their news was trust. Like Cronkite or Rather? Who do you trust? Bias was verboten, propaganda. LOL, after Watergate, journalists hunted politicians for sport.
Al Jazeera America started with the promise to report “just the facts ma’am”. Now I don’t know shit about their worldwide operations, I only saw the American version, and I was horrified. I realized I was so brainwashed on news-as-entertainment that reading their version was like watching grass grow. Hadn’t seen news reported as straight facts in so long I was bored shitless.
I have some experience. Edited my high school paper, not like that’s a big deal, but I had some solid journalistic training. Same in college. I can point to bias in any given article you care to show me. Not Al Jazeera, nada, no bias.
Predictably, they gave up within a year.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 1 day ago:
Thank you for your take! American gun nuts tend to think Europeans can’t own a weapon, at all. Funny enough, what you’ve described is most of my gun collection. A dozen shotguns, mostly single shots and vintage/antiques. Loads of .22s, but my wife’s Walther .22 is a total POS! How funny is that? And yes, American hunting rifles are typically bolt-action. I think there are a couple of states where it’s illegal to hunt with an AR platform? The rounds are too wimpy for clean kills. (That’s a joke meme.)
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 1 day ago:
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
First day teaching my little kids I took an empty beer can and holed it with a .22. Tiny hole on one side, tiny hole on the other, no surprise.
Then I pointed out that humans are mostly bags of water. Filled the same sized can full of water, shot it with the same gun, same round. They shit kittens.
- Comment on Michigan GOP Lawmakers Propose Total Ban on Porn 1 day ago:
100% with ya. Going shooting at my camp shortly.
- Comment on Michigan GOP Lawmakers Propose Total Ban on Porn 1 day ago:
I’m in Florida and so many sites block or want to verify me that I automatically hit my VPN server.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 1 day ago:
What you’re describing is clearly foreign propaganda.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 1 day ago:
I wouldn’t say the Groyper is totally baseless, but “Robinson’s romantic relationship with his transgender roommate” is pretty telling.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 1 day ago:
They haven’t talked “fiscal responsibility” since they let Bush Jr. blew Clinton’s surplus. Just dropped it.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 1 day ago:
People keep saying this but I’m seeing a different thing. The Kirk murder doesn’t seem to have the seriousness required to compare. Instead, the event has turned into an us-vs.-them litmus test. The fascists can’t use this to declare autocracy, but they’re using it to target enemies.
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 2 days ago:
Only the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. The rest are just fine.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 2 days ago:
No, I don’t expect parents who are ignorant about guns to teach their kids safety. We shouldn’t have to, but that’s where we’re at.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 2 days ago:
Sounds like an elective class. My ex-wife’s niece was in an after-school shotgun club. I gather it was more target practice than hunting.
I’m of the opinion that familiarity with actually shooting is more of a deterrent to the school shooter mentality than fetishizing guns. I’m basing that mostly on the idea that these school shooters can’t seem to handle a weapon, given that kills are the goal.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 2 days ago:
Taught my kids the basics at 9 and 11. They need to understand the lethality of guns, what is safe and not safe, and maybe most importantly, how to recognize someone who is not being safe and get the hell away from them.
Plus, took the mystery out of the whole thing. Now they just don’t care much.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 2 days ago:
As someone on reddit once pointed at, the AR-15 platform is designed such that the dumbest 18-yo recruit can use it.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 2 days ago:
I’m actually for this. No, it shouldn’t be necessary, but it is and that’s that.
Taught my kids guns at 9 and 11. Took them out to our camp and shot a bunch of different .22s. Now instead of guns being these mysterious things “you should never touch”, well, they’ve touched and just aren’t really interested. LOL, that was 100% against my custody agreement, but I was terrified the kids would find someone’s gun one day and have Hollywood perceptions. Their mom didn’t say a word, which was really strange, so I believe she agrees.
One interesting thing I showed then was shooting an empty can with a .22. “See how that made a little hole of both sides? That’s what many people think guns do. But people are juicy, so it looks more like this.” They shit kittens when I shot a can full of water and it absolutely shredded. I think that was impactful. :)
I taught them never to pick up someone’s gun for the same reason even professionals won’t do so. “It’s not because I think you’re dumb kids, but you don’t know anything about that particular gun. What if there’s something wrong with it? How can you tell if it’s loaded? When you’re older, never accept a gun from a person who does not first clear it and show you the empty chamber. Even professionals do this. If they don’t practice this simple etiquette, they are not to be trusted and you need to get away, and stay away from that person.” Later overheard my son telling his big sis, in great detail and with great authority this rule.
Gonna suck when they’re teens. If they’re emotional wrecks like I was, they won’t see a gun in this house.
- Comment on Study finds that fast walking can reduce lung cancer risk by 50%: A simple health indicator for cancer prevention 2 days ago:
I could see a mechanism for this. Wife and I just had COVID, and I seem to have scored the long-form version. My lungs are so fucked up that walking to the bathroom and back gets my heart racing.
She scored a banging deal and a metal shed we need, went to take it apart yesterday. Pretty hard work disassembling the thing for an hour and a half in the heat.
Today my lungs are better than they’re been in weeks and I suspect that came from pumping air in and out.
