KinglyWeevil
@KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations 18 hours ago:
I would be honestly less concerned if I thought the administration would be successful in deporting people. I think you’re relying heavily on “due process” here, when the reality is they can just accuse you of a crime, deny you bail, and then hold you pretty much indefinitely. You let the ones who can get lawyers out and you’ve pretty effectively filtered the population for wealth.
The Nazi death camps started as temporary internment camps with the intent to deport Jews eventually.
Then they just ended up with a whole bunch of people in camps with nowhere to send them and were like, “well, we might as well get some work out of some and kill the rest” and it sort of escalated from there.
Which with their “camps for the mentally ill, homeless, and drug addicted” and “deportation emergency” sounds alarmingly similar.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 5 days ago:
Also the ability of mirror neurons to watch someone do a thing, then conceptualize and execute it with your body is extremely interesting.
- Comment on Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2 1 month ago:
“We need to recapture the Apple market share!”
“Got it boss, we’ll make it stupid.”
- Comment on Men: What sequence do you fellow to dry your body off after showering or bathing? 1 month ago:
The human car wash method
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
The United States went so hard on being anti-communist that we became anti community.
- Comment on Is the dream of nuclear fusion dead? Why the international experimental reactor is in ‘big trouble’ 3 months ago:
Who could have ever foreseen the problem of having enormous critical parts with sub millimeter tolerances manufactured in three different countries so that everyone could have warm fuzzy feelings about having “participated”?
Don’t get me wrong, I love ITER and everything it stands for, and I hope that it is completed and successful. Anyone could (and should) have seen this issue coming from miles away.
- Comment on Appeals court halts return of net neutrality | The Sixth Circuit’s temporary stay comes only weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference, weakening the FCC 3 months ago:
The federalist papers very much show they were aware of that threat.
- Comment on Appeals court halts return of net neutrality | The Sixth Circuit’s temporary stay comes only weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference, weakening the FCC 3 months ago:
I don’t know that I’d call them idealistic. They were landed nobles who didn’t want to pay the increased taxes levied on them. Which in turn were to pay for the war their government had fought on their behalf to protect them from the native people whose land they had stolen. By exterminating those native people.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 4 months ago:
A track record of beating trump?
Something about the statistical validity of a sample size of one.
- Comment on apep 7 months ago:
When you took an elective and it almost made you change majors
- Comment on Just think of the taxes that they can then avoid! 7 months ago:
Your average cities skylines map
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 7 months ago:
This is how you get people to start rooting their TVs
- Comment on Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling 7 months ago:
My parents live in butt fuck nowhere and are in a fiber co-op paying like $70/month for unlimited 1gbps up/down.
Meanwhile I live in the (extremely left) Capitol City of my state and pay Comcast $165/month for like 175mbps capped at 1TB, with some absurd overage fee like $10/5GB over until I hit $100 over and then it’s “unlimited” but seems throttled.
- Comment on legs to die for 7 months ago:
I had never seen one before, and was just settling in after moving into my new apartment when my turn gf just screams and comes running into the kitchen saying, “there’s a horrible monster bug in the sink, ITS HUGE”
And unprepared for the Lovecraftian little horror waiting for me, expecting some kind of beetle or something, I was pretty shook up. Legitimately was scared to go into the kitchen at night after that.
- Comment on legs to die for 7 months ago:
I developed a theory because of these fuckers, which is that the scale of a things creepiness is based on how many legs it has and how fast they are.
I used to get them in my last apartment and when I saw one I literally couldn’t sleep until I knew it was dead
- Comment on Is there a chart where particular cuneiform or hieroglyphics are actually matched with emojis? 10 months ago:
Prior to collapsing, Rome achieved a sustained population in excess of a million people.
This did not occur again anywhere else until the mid 1800s.
- Comment on US pay-TV subscriber base eroding at record pace 10 months ago:
Give it time, forced advertising is inevitable.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 10 months ago:
Slowly making progress in Dave the Diver, which is quite entertaining. Also working on Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader.
Also collaboratively playing The Sims 4 with my wife, and I’d forgotten how fun that could be.
- Comment on Iowa Demolishes Its First 3D Printed House 11 months ago:
It definitely sucks. The difference in quality between the pine boards my dad purchased at the hardware store for projects when I was a child, vs the pine boards available now when I get some for a project is NUTS. The number of rings visible on the end has dropped from a dozen or more to a mere handful, they’re way less dense than they used to be.
I fucking HATE buying lumber because it’s an all day ordeal to sort through the stack of boards to find a dozen that aren’t warped, crooked, knotted, rough edged, or missing a corner because it came from the very edge of the log. I almost wish they’d leave an open space next to the stack so I could stick all the trash boards there as I go through them, because only one out of every ten to fifteen is actually usable for anything where precision or appearance matters.
Or you can choose to pay a premium over the already absurd (but appropriate, considering the factors you mentioned) for “Select” grade boards. It’s legitimately difficult to build any kind of furniture type project under what it would cost to buy from a company producing the same thing using an economy-at-scale advantage.
- Comment on "I feel like I'm on a hamster wheel" — US cost of living has skyrocketed since 2020 11 months ago:
When every industry and consumer goods producer is a monopoly, market competition no longer exists so prices don’t really effect demand. Especially for inelastic goods like gas or food.
- Comment on Big blob of hot water in Pacific may be making El Niño act weirdly 11 months ago:
Drought? Flood? Both?!? Stay tuned to Climate Roulette, the hottest show this winter to follow along!
- Comment on Bill Gates says a 3-day work week where 'machines can make all the food and stuff' isn't a bad idea 11 months ago:
When I was a child I envisioned fully automated luxury communism driven by robots and AI.
Realizing that wouldn’t happen for the dumbest possible reasons as a teen/young adult was immeasurably disappointing
- Comment on Tax time 11 months ago:
Make sure you save all those letters, lest you resolve the error and get a letter several years later saying you owe $x + interest due to an error that you’ve already resolved. Because they don’t have those records digitally, apparently, and if you don’t have paper copies of every document involved you might just get to pay that penalty whether it was ever due in the first place, or even if you’ve already paid the penalty. Or get a lawyer.
Which is what happened to me the year before last.
- Comment on Why is the DEA and ATF separate? Seems like they cover similar things from similar circles. 1 year ago:
When kept separate from a receiver, it’s perfectly legal, they’re just gun parts. So just make sure you travel with it in pieces and only shoot with friends out in nature
- Comment on ‘Nothing is changing’ — Reddit is denying a report from The Washington Post that it might force users to log in to see content if it can’t reach deals with AI companies 1 year ago:
I get why some limits are necessary, a company doesn’t want a Microsoft Tae repeat…but after Chat GPT was made available to the public, the rapid addition of a whole range of guardrails made it nearly immediately unusable.
You ask it about anything which is controversial in the slightest regard and it shuts down, which for me at least, removes any interest in using it.
- Comment on Delta is fourth major U.S. airline to find fake jet aircraft engine parts with forged airworthiness documents from U.K. company 1 year ago:
It would basically be the story told through the eyes of Madrigal corporate executives.
- Comment on Delta is fourth major U.S. airline to find fake jet aircraft engine parts with forged airworthiness documents from U.K. company 1 year ago:
Sometimes the thought occurs to me that the only thing standing between me and being absurdly rich by way of saying reprehensible shit on a YouTube channel, is my inconvenient conscience
- Comment on Senior Pentagon official ran vicious dogfighting ring — and executed losers with jumper cables: feds 1 year ago:
I’m pretty sure low morale is because of the pay and the hours, and low recruitment is because a new young generation that grew up during forever war is wise to the shit deal the military is trying to sell them, along with shit like rampant rape and sexual assault.