KinglyWeevil

@KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ENHANCE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most vision problems are issues with the shape of the lens of your eye either causing distortion of the light (astigmatism), or changing the optical focal length of something at a particular distance to something not ideal, causing you to be near/far sighted, or both.

  These contact lenses just insert a new series of optical lenses which cause magnification.

  The other processes would be incredibly difficult as our understanding of how images are processed by the occipital lobe of the brain are limited at best. You might have some success with the cyberpunk method of a bionic which your brain can be taught to control, or genetic modification to change the density and type of receptors on your retina, or the shape of the eye.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just a modern iteration of the book HOLES, and it takes place in a landfill instead of a dry lakebed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Size of an adult Moose. And they are not as friendly as Bullwinkle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the last true Mega fauna

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks legit, but can it actually be a real thing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My gut instinct is that this sign is fake with the end goal of driving outraged calls to the real Lt gov., but who can even tell anymore?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just want to skip from here to getting murdered by a Megan Fox sexbot maid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rainbolt never misses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because if Texas claimed territory above where the northern border currently is, they wouldn’t have been allowed to join the Union as a slave state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The human car wash method

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨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...⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A track record of beating trump?

  Something about the statistical validity of a sample size of one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨apep⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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!⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your average cities skylines map

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Give it time, forced advertising is inevitable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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