milicent_bystandr
@milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
- Comment on Embrace this Truth and enjoy life 2 days ago:
And it literally wouldn’t have Earth any more.
- Comment on Scientists collect unique sea creatures during voyage to East Antarctica 2 days ago:
How far East did they go? Could they go further East and find stranger things? What happens when you reach the Easternmost point?
- Comment on China plans world’s first fusion-fission power plant 2 days ago:
fusion-fission power plant
Sounds like you’re just undoing your work. Put the pieces together, take them apart again. Energy!
Wake up babe new perpetual motion dropped!
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 3 days ago:
Automated ad clicks probably are breaking the rules, TBF.
- Comment on Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye. 5 days ago:
Appropriate
- Comment on Thanks reddit, very helpful. 6 days ago:
But… How many USB ports?
- Comment on Thanks reddit, very helpful. 6 days ago:
😂😂😂🤣🤣😂
I read the whole thing through and didn’t even realise.
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 6 days ago:
But this one’s not rollin’
… Otherwise we’d be hatin’
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 6 days ago:
Must be a .world thing
- Comment on Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings 1 week ago:
Is this for real? Or a continuation of the meme?
- Comment on Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings 1 week ago:
Alas, battery EV passenger jets are a long way off.
- Comment on Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings 1 week ago:
Bumble bees.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 1 week ago:
They’re probably okay, but I’ve avoided Lenovo since that one time they injected their own certificate authority to break all your internet security and middle-man in their own ads (and spy on you? Who knows?).
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 1 week ago:
Thank you! I’ve bookmarked this for next time I have a Windows reinstall! Hoping it still works then…
- Comment on Blobfish 1 week ago:
Are you reading this, ConcernedApe??
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 weeks ago:
I presume most Republican voters didn’t anticipate Trump wrecking the system of accountability and checks in government, or don’t understand what’s happening. I’m sure many think he really is destroying the bad that’s allegedly entrenched in the system, and a good one will settle in its place.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 weeks ago:
If you want to understand them more, I think the problem is you’re seeing different aspects to what they do.
‘Large’ government with lots of power might sound more like totalitarianism, overseeing many aspects of life that - in the opinion of many - ought to be left to people’s freedom.
Running the government like a business, on the other hand, implies having pressures on it to do only what achieves its aims, and do that efficiently. And a CEO-president means the power to fix the government without being restricted by bureaucracy.
… Of course to me, by that point, it sounds like a king, exactly as you said. And running a government as a business sounds about as stupid as you can get. But these things aren’t exact, and understanding how a different perspective can make something look good helps us to understand the people with that perspective. It also helps us see things to improve that our perspective might be missing.
- Comment on I'm sure dolphins will fuck it up in their own special way. 2 weeks ago:
Don’t malign the whole species from some evildoers. ADAB - All Dolphins Aren’t Bad
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Is that how land ownership works? You can move your parcel of land as far as you like but only diagonally and without jumping over any other bit of land? TIL.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
But ditch the casinos. They ruin lives.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Sit on it.
It’s been three hours… Bored now, can I get up?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
“I used to be a tourist like you, till I took an arrow to the knee.”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Imagine you get like 200 of those bought at random across the land, and no more, then you try to do something with the remaining land!
- Comment on Brother Says It Was Falsely Accused Of Bricking Printers That Use Cheaper Third-Party Ink Cartridges 2 weeks ago:
I notice it talks about not blocking 3rd party inks, but not (that I saw) about deliberately degrading quality. I hope they’re not doing that either!- but that was the recent accusation.
I read a bit on that though, and what I think happened, is someone got lower quality while using 3rd party ink, after an OTA firmware update, and called customer service. The customer service rep couldn’t answer how to fix it, except using genuine Brother ink, and the user asked a careful question about whether that was the only way. Rep answers yes, which is probably not true but seems like the ‘right’ answer to give; user interprets it as the Rep knowing that there’s a secret and deliberate degradation of quality with 3rd party ink.
- Comment on Alibaba doubles down on RISC-V architecture with a new secretive 'server-grade' chip that will put AMD and Intel on alert 3 weeks ago:
Depending on how well/thoroughly it handles it, that could also remove a lot of the worry of companies adding ccp-accessible backdoors.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 4 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, yeah that must be awful.
It’s even worse when half the population actually endorses the behaviour.
Are there a lot of Canadians who support it then?
- Comment on Fucking leeches 4 weeks ago:
It’s handy sometimes, isn’t it ;-)
- Comment on Fucking leeches 4 weeks ago:
Ah, so the government is your landlord now?
It’s good, because Americans have so much trust in their government right now.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 4 weeks ago:
A few comments around saying, “not all landlords are bad; I’m a landlord and I’m pretty okay.” Where are the tenants saying, I’m happy to pay rent to my landlord?
I’ll be one.
I’ve never owned property. I’d like to, and I think there’s a huge evil in the scale and manner of property/land rental that goes on, and I’d much prefer an overwhelming change toward most people being able to own their home.
But not all of us are in a position to own. Nor does everyone want the responsibility and the overhead (ownership can be expensive too!). I’m glad there have been landlords from whom I can rent a place in each of the places I’ve been.
- Comment on Suppose you were a dissident facing political persecution, how would you preserve your personal files so that you can retrieve it many years later, in case of imprisonment? 4 weeks ago:
If 4. is too hard (like, if you’re not cool enough), make two versions and send them out to different groups. “Secret files of Trump and Epstein; help us break the encryption!” And, “Free America Foundational Sovereign Data (Crucial For Rebuilding Society Once Trump Finishes Overturning The Corrupt Bureaucracy)”
