kryptonianCodeMonkey

@kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*They drew First Blood, not me.*⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s maddening to me that world famous tough guy acrion heroes used to have big puffy feathered hair

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uninvited pool guest⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s 45k Hungarian Forints, indicated by the ft on the tag. That $132.30 US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that is accurate…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make it make sense ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone is doing 15+ under. We’re taking stop and go traffic. What are you talking about?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make it make sense ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So, I don’t know exactly how the adaptive cruise control works. But if it is slowing down and speeding up to maintain a specific distance, that does not fix things. The idea is to maintain a specific speed such that, as the people in front of you accelerate and brake, speed up and slow down, you have enough distance to not have to do that. You should essentially match their average speed with enough gap that their braking doesn’t put them close enough to your bumper that you have to slow down yourself. Normal cruise control would be better (except mine won’t set at speeds under, I think, 20mph) because your speed wont change. Adaptive cruise would make your drive safer, maybe, keeping you from being too close or failing to react to the change in traffic speeds, but I dont think it would solve the traffic issue itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mansplaining is a behavior. It is a man arrogantly talking down to a woman assuming she knows less than you by virtue of being a woman or despite evidence to the contrary. If their defense to that was, “I just thought I was smarter than you and needed to demonstrate that, but it had nothing to do with your gender.” Then… well, I feel like they still need to examine that behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make it make sense ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to give even more space then so that them doing that doesnt make you slow down. People cutting in front of you also helps because those are the assholes causing the brake waves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, my point was that a single sminstance outside of other context means that you cannot necessarily discern a pattern of behavior upon which to base your conclusion into which kind of asshole he is being. You could be innacurate in assuming he is sexist as well as assuming he isn’t. If complete accuracy is required, then you would need to not make a conclusion at all and let the comment slide without feedback until you have more data. I’m saying that it is more important to call them out than to worry about the exact accuracy, to not let the comment slide, to make sure they know that, in some way, it was inappropriate. One’s experience may lead one to make some assumptions that are incorrect in this context, but I don’t feel like that is the important part that you should critique. Either she says nothing, calls him a sexist, or calls him out but doesnt point out the sexism if there is sexism involved. I’m saying either of the latter is reasonable under the circumstances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you dont care about being accurate in calling out antisocial behaviour, how do you think the person expressing said antisocial behaviour will understand that interaction?

  If they were being sexist and you don’t point that put, wouldn’t that be inaccurate?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  She wasn’t wrong though. It does happen spontaneously in that it is happening without apparent external cause. There is an external cause, the change in pressure, but it is not apparent. And most people are aware that water boils at low pressures at room temps. He even said it was “basic thermo”, so of course a NASA astronaut would know about this basic scientific phenomenon, as would most people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. But it gives the appearance if sexism. Who gives a fuck if he is being an asshole if you mislabeled the kind of asshole he is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make it make sense ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s also why the best way to relieve traffic is to go at a slow even pace without braking. Every time the someone runs up the ass of another car and brakes hard, or swerves into the “faster” lane and make someone else brake to not hit them, they cause another brake wave. If you have a few cars intentionally just hanging back and cruising with a big enough gao between them and the cars jocking in front of them, then their brake waves do not propogate behind you and eventually traffic just picks up pace again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but being an arrogant prick that thinks they’re smarter than anyone else, regardless of gender, is already a thing that should be derided. Having only a single instance of this behavior being aimed at a woman as an example of his arrogance may mistakenly lead one to attribute that to misogyny instead of a general prickishness behavior, sure. But that’s a perfectly understandable assumption to make in that situation and the mistake of calling them the wrong kind of asshole, i feel, is less of a concern than him, indeed, being an asshole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The term “mansplaining” is not just about a man being pedantic. It is a man being pedantic or overexplaining to a woman either about something she is likely more knowledgeable on than he is or about something that is such common knowledge it should be assumed that she knows these facts as well as he does. It is a demonstration of misogyny through the assumption that you, a man, knows better than her, a woman, despite all liklihood to the contrary and yet you condescend to her anyway. It’s the arrogance and gender bias that is the problem, not the pedantry itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's what's for dinner⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Says the proctologist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's what's for dinner⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Am i the only one that thinks the too much butter one looks great?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's hear it, little lemmings.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like it will be a one sided conversation. They’re all dead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  AI hasn’t really taken much, if any tech jobs so far. If anything demand for building and using AI has taken up a good share of the job market in tech.

  The bigger issue, currently, is that experience is required even for “entry” level jobs because they simply won’t pay for people who are learning and gaining that experience. It’s also cheaper on the whole to pay someone overseas with experience to do the “grunt work”, for lack of a better word, that you would normally pay a newbie to do, and they’ll get it done faster and more reliably. You’ll have a domestic leadership team and a few senior engineers to steer projects and manage the communication and timezone issues, but very, if any, few fresh graduates.

  It’s short term thinking that’s going to fuck the industry in a generation when all the old school guys die or retire, the senior engineers, tech leads, and engineering managers move up to fill their roles and you don’t have enough Jr engineers to become the seniors, leads and managers. They’ll be trying to manage entire teams from overseas, trying to replace people with AI, which will never be a true replacement, and they’ll suddenly see the value in hiring new graduates, but there won’t be enough by then because they made the major useless. The few that exist will probably make bank straight out of school, though, as companies become desperate for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome VPN Extension With 100k Installs Screenshots All Sites Users Visit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are things on the internet that are free and fine to use. VPNs are not one of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parallel Empires⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I misread for a second and thought you said it has 1 usb-a and 3 hdmi(!!!). For when you need a 4 monitor set up, and a mouse and NOTHING ELSE! Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parallel Empires⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I swear the people who decide what ports go onto laptops have never used a laptop in their life. I know now manufacturers would love to just sell you a dongle add-on or two that plugs into your USB-C port and has all of the other useful ports on it you actually need, but even before then… who needed only 1 USB-A and two lightning cable ports? When was Mini-DVI relevant?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Replace PBS with indoctrination⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When you’re far right, even the center is far to your left

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The regrets of life⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I think she’s about 20

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The regrets of life⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an older picture. Her name is Elizabeth Riley. She doesn’t post much anymore, but she’s still got some good stuff on her Onlyfans page (https://onlyfans.com/lizrileyxo)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn't Batman's questioning Superman because he is an unknown entity basically the same reason Lex Luthor has against Superman?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Batman questions anyone and anything and has a plan for any eventuality, PARTICULARY those that pose a global scale threat. It’s nothing personal, it’s just reasonable precaution. That’s basically his true superpower. He also does trust Superman as a person, as a colleague and friend. I don’t think he ever considers there to be a true risk that Superman turns on humanity of his own will. However, Superman is susceptible to mind control, to magic, to unpredictable forms of kryptonite. And he is not the only living Kryptonian in existence either. It would be stupid not to plan for such threats.

  Lex depending on the version, may or may not think that Superman actually poses a willful threat to humanity. But even if he also trusts that Superman is what he appears to be, a selfless hero that only wants to help people, he probably hates that idea even more. He usually doesn’t distrust Superman’s intent. He hates what it says about and does to human-kind, and by extension, himself. He things depending on an alien demigod will make humanity weak and complacent. He thinks that Superman holds the Earth back from reaching their potential. That it permanently neuters them from become Supermen themselves. So he makes it his mission to ruin Superman however he can. If he can kill him, good. Not a problem anymore. If he can publically discredit him, sow distrust across the globe, that’s good too, maybe better. People who distrust him won’t depend on him and may, in fact, fear him. As a result they are more likely to better themselves, their technology, their science, to rival and fight back against Superman.

  TL:DR: Batman takes precautions. Lex hates and attempts to kill or sabotage. They’re not the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MD = oMega Dumbass⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Antibodies are LITERALLY the point. It’s the mechanism by which our immune system identifies pathogens and triggers an immune response to them. If they diminish, your immune system is slower to respond and less effective at doing so. If they’re gone, it’s a of your immune system has never seen the pathogen before and has to adapt from zero again. Vaccines are a way to arm you with those antibodies without as much risk either from genuine infection or your immune system killing you in the attempt to figure out how to kill the new pathogen.

  TL;DR: Vaccine=Antibodies=Good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F*ck off Arnie, you're out of your element!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No it wasn’t. Gerrymandering that demonstrably targeted racial or other protected demographics or otherwise broke the voting rights act was illegal. But gerrymandering as a concept has never been illegal in the US. State and federal courts, including SCOTUS, have ruled several times that there is no constitutional law against it, nor a mechanism to objectively identify it, nor a means to remedy it. If it violates those other laws in the process, it gets rejected and kicked back to be fixed. But if not, there is nothing illegal about it under current law, despite it being blatant vote manipulation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F*ck off Arnie, you're out of your element!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s regulated per state. What Texas is doing, while highly unethical and, frankly, fraudulent, is entirely legal and up to the Texas state legislature to decide. Only the federal government may supersede it and only with a change to the constitution which prescribes this power to the states. So, for the Texas legislature, yes it’s easier to modify the law. To change it without them, it is absolutely not easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stuff removed, stuff added, everything pulled tight. It’s like taxidermy but for still alive vanity-obsessed women, and it often looks like it too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I did mean in the ideal sense, there is a functional purpose for raising the prices of foreign goods IF there is a domestic alternative you wish to boost or expand. But the mechanism for the benefit, IF(big if) there is one, is the increase in price. Tariff = ideally targetted price increases. Saying tariffs might raise prices is like saying stabbing you might wound you. I might have a good reason for wounding you, I might not, but the wounding will happen as a direct consequences of my stabbing you, regardless.