KinglyWeevil
@KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 2 days ago:
A track record of beating trump?
Something about the statistical validity of a sample size of one.
- Comment on apep 2 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! 2 months ago:
Your average cities skylines map
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 2 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 2 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 3 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 3 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? 5 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 5 months ago:
Give it time, forced advertising is inevitable.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 5 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 7 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 7 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. 7 months 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 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months 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.