shalafi
@shalafi@lemmy.world
- Comment on If aliens do come it may be only cause they want us on thier side of some bigger war. 16 hours ago:
Footfall nails this. Aliens show up and drop rocks on us from orbit. The reason we prevail is the only plot I’ve read that makes sense.
How To Beat Aliens
They didn’t invent the ships or tech they’re riding in and aren’t much, if at all, any more advanced than us. Plus, we figure out their rigid social hierarchy and turn it on them. Also, we nuked Kansas.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 2 days ago:
Look here dude, we still doing “no nut November” or what?! Why must you tempt me?!
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 2 days ago:
Uh, no:
“The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed.”
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 4 days ago:
I have one, but the issue is being able to find it in an emergency and remembering that it’s there. It’s like girls I’ve known with a 9mm, uh, somewhere, uh, just in case. You actually have to practice some.
For example; Every time my wife starts burning something in the kitchen I get out of my chair and go the fire extinguisher. Muscle memory is a thing.
- Comment on You can't take me seriously 5 days ago:
{So disrespectful](www.reddit.com/r/me_irl/comments/175teon/me_irl/#…).
- Comment on My Calathea Bloomed 1 week ago:
That’s a happy plant. Never had one flower.
- Comment on Scientists Want to Teleport a Whole Human. A Quantum Breakthrough Could Make It Reality. 1 week ago:
Ha! Came here to tell OP it’s probably a longer trip than he thinks.
- Comment on Feral Science 1 week ago:
I was very prepared. Just too dumb to turn around when I should have, bulled ahead.
- Comment on Feral Science 1 week ago:
Gf and I passed a young guy kayaking the river one day. Dude’s wearing summer street-wear, standing at bank up to his knees with a net. He was researching turtle populations. Funky thing is, we have no idea how he got where he was.
- Comment on Feral Science 1 week ago:
LOL, that was me last week. Got myself trapped in a swamp at the hiking trail, limped back covered in slime from the waist down.
- Comment on Capsaicin 2 weeks ago:
We mammals, and only we mammals, have nerve receptors capsaicin triggers. Birds don’t have such receptors. They happily chow peppers and poop the whole seeds all over.
Meanwhile, we mammals, who are supposed to hate the heat because we grind the seeds to death, have happily bred hotter and hotter peppers and spread them all over the planet.
I know of no such evolutionary win-win as peppers have pulled off. Genius.
- Comment on Boston Dynamic show off their brand new Atlas 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on American house 2 weeks ago:
Damn. I really want one, but I already have a Colt .45 and the weight is the same.
Speaking of hogs, I’m outside all the time in NW Florida and have never seen one or evidence of them. OK, two came to my house, apparently lost, but I’ve never seen them in the wild. Horror of mine as a sounder would level my camp in the boonies.
- Comment on American house 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on That chicken's name? Joe Rogan 2 weeks ago:
Thought about this today! I was sitting by a rainy creek and a couple of turkeys landed nearby. “That’s a turkey! They’re tiny!”
(Don’t think we have the big honkers the Yankees have. They’re small and drab down here, at least I’ve never seen a big, colorful one.)
- Comment on American house 2 weeks ago:
I have a .45 Hi-Point carbine. Flawless operation, had never malfunctioned, weighs 10-pounds, impossible to clean. Along with other… odd design choices.
Hi-Points are what you get by giving a group a very smart engineers a list of things the product needs to do. A group of engineers that has never seen an actual gun.
- Comment on Why is the term "bloodline" often used instead of "family tree"? 2 weeks ago:
It’s like “female”. Nothing wrong with it per se, especially in a biological conversation, but it’s more used with animals.
- Comment on Mellencamp was right: "Life goes on...long after the thrill of livin' is gone." 2 weeks ago:
My hikes and kayak trips are usually uneventful, but I got stuck in a swamp the other day. That was thrilling.
The clear water is only 3" deep, but you’ll sink to your waist if you get both legs in, and then you’re truly stuck, no getting out, nothing to push against. Took me 20-minutes to navigate to the high ground only 30’ away.
- Comment on Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement. 2 weeks ago:
My Filipino wife is a big believer in brand names and having them plastered everywhere. Drives me fucking nuts. She equates looks with quality.
She got me hooked on watching videos about the Philippines. All the girls are sporting clothes with giant logos.
- Comment on Boston Dynamic show off their brand new Atlas 2 weeks ago:
Normal, if stiff, human range of motion. Until it rotates completely around the waist!
- Comment on American Politics 2 weeks ago:
Clinton lost because Jamey Comey (Director FBI) publicly reopened her email investigation 3-weeks before election day. It was a huge deal that everyone seems to have forgotten. The polls were right up until then.
- Comment on The dead end of chips: Manufacturing semiconductors consumes as much energy as entire countries 2 weeks ago:
entire countries
Not going to even read this horseshit. Which countries? Brazil or Vatican City?
Fuck these headlines. If they have valid points to make, I’ll never see them. Grow the fuck up and be journalists or I don’t have time.
- Comment on We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital. 2 weeks ago:
The dog was only 6-yo, not like they were whipping along some old man.
Ever been around dogs? They love doing what they’re trained for. Had be been forcibly retired, he would have been devastated.
The caps are almost certainly way cheaper than purchasing a new dog. Last I heard, trained Germans Shepherds were going for $10,000, and that was 30-years ago.
- Comment on Are 'micro-apartments' converted from offices the answer to the housing crisis? 3 weeks ago:
Probably because you can’t convert offices into affordable housing. The cost is staggering.
- Comment on Everything on credit 3 weeks ago:
We can’t make laws to block all human stupidity.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to Netscape? 3 weeks ago:
In the Windows 3.1 days I made my own icons. Yes, a single pixel out of place or wrongly colored would throw it all off.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
And Facebook, but I’m just repeating what you said, aren’t I?
- Comment on YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index 3 weeks ago:
We’re the same height and weight and I got 22%. No. Way.
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 3 weeks ago:
They’re not merely replacing floppies, swapping in some emulators to take over. They’re attempting to redesign and future-proof the entire system. That kind of a big deal. Oh, and it all has to run flawlessly during the transition period.
This ain’t your homelab boys.
- Comment on FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect 3 weeks ago:
There’s far more to motivation and more pay can actually be detrimental. Sounds stupidly counter-intuitive doesn’t it? Take a look, this really opened my eyes:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
That video really hit home for me. I looked back over all the varied jobs I had and the places I was most happy gave me what the video talks about. My last job was double the pay and benefits of the one before and I haven’t been less motivated.
Seriously, give it 10-minutes. At one point I was thinking, “Damn! He’s talking about Linux!”