Machinist
@Machinist@lemmy.world
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 4 weeks ago:
What denomination, primarily, were you? Did you manage to get anyone out with you? (I was unable.)
- Comment on Happy Birthday Emma! 5 weeks ago:
How would you compare it to venison?
- Comment on You guys have to end it 1 month ago:
Automatic transmissions have been around since the 60’s or 50’s, IIRC.
- Comment on Do tell!!! 1 month ago:
It will be fun if we lose modern high yield rapeseed and canola. Lovely.
Unrelated but horrible farm story you reminded me of. Worked on a tater farm when I was a kid. One of my favorite things when riding the planter was when they would spray fungicide on the planting from previous days. It smelled just like Grapico cola (grape flavored soft drink). We all loved the smell of it and basically huffed the wind. Probably get dick cancer or something from it one day.
- Comment on Do tell!!! 1 month ago:
Doing some quick searching, I didn’t find anything that covers your scenario. Not that I don’t believe you, but do you have a source on Fusarium quickly evolving fungicide resistance in a big way?
- Comment on Notepad++ and Don Ho: A story of software, activism, and defiance 1 month ago:
I dug into ‘Creation Science’ for a while as a result of the cognitive dissonance. Trying to square reason and science with religion and belief in an inerrant Bible. Ultimately, I lost my religion and had an existential crisis that lasted about a year.
It was terrible. Panic attacks and circular thinking. An existential crisis is depression’s cousin. Painful, frightening, and eventually exciting. I’m free now. I got rid of the slavery that was pushed into me as a child. Still have to fight the guilt and bad thought patterns.
I was not successful in bringing any friends or family with me from before. I tried. I have regrets, but would do it again.
- Comment on Notepad++ and Don Ho: A story of software, activism, and defiance 1 month ago:
Just a note on the efficacy of activist messages in FOSS.
In the Aughts, I was learning to play with microcontrollers. PIC microcontrollers were free as well as the JAL language. I ordered a hardware programmer from the Dutch guy who created JAL: Wouter van Ooijen. Probably my first purchase online. There was a statement in the license, to the effect of, the language could not be used to develop arms.
Looking back, that was a turning point for me. I was machining arms for a living and continued to do so for years. It got me to thinking about what it was that I was producing with my hands. Weapons for killing people.
I thought about it a lot. All these things I was making with blood and sweat being used to kill people. Running machines on night shift gives you time to think.
His statement was, at minimum, at least partially responsible for me changing my mind. I grew past the bad religion and far right ideology that I was taught.
I’m going to send him a thank you note.
- Comment on Notepad++ and Don Ho: A story of software, activism, and defiance 1 month ago:
Did you read the article? If you have a problem with the political messages he is adding to the releases, you’ve probably been brainwashed by a government or a political party. He’s not saying anything controversial, mostly just “Hey y’all, genocide bad.”
- Comment on They seem to turn a blind eye to many things as long as you have a (R) next to your name and promise to hurt the right people. Must have missed that bible verse 1 month ago:
Oh good grief, of course they fell for it. Not that I don’t blame them for it. However, they absolutely fell for a con. To say otherwise is immature or unrealistic black and white thinking.
I’m angry with them, will likely never trust or respect them again. They’re humans just like we are, they aren’t acting, they aren’t completely indecent, and so on.
Just because the fascist side dehumanizes its enemies doesn’t mean we should. It’s also not very effective when you’re trying to predict what they’ll do and how they’ll react. You have to be able to understand the minds of your antagonists to effectively counter them.
- Comment on They seem to turn a blind eye to many things as long as you have a (R) next to your name and promise to hurt the right people. Must have missed that bible verse 1 month ago:
They’re not all stupid. Again, that’s a comforting lie we tell ourselves. I’ve personally known engineers, a Colonel, a cabinet maker, and C-suite execs that have all gone down the rabbit hole. They have willfully drank down the propaganda and are willfully ignorant but not all of these people are stupid.
- Comment on They seem to turn a blind eye to many things as long as you have a (R) next to your name and promise to hurt the right people. Must have missed that bible verse 1 month ago:
Many of these aren’t stupid people. That’s a cop out we tell ourselves to feel superior. Willful ignorance is closer to the truth.
- Comment on They seem to turn a blind eye to many things as long as you have a (R) next to your name and promise to hurt the right people. Must have missed that bible verse 1 month ago:
I’m not going to rehash the horror of watching family and friends go down the rabbit hole. It’s a big ball of grief that comes in waves.
As to your supposition that psychological weaknesses were weaponized: I completely agree. I think historians will focus on it as evidence is available and time goes by, it will be considered obvious.
- Comment on They seem to turn a blind eye to many things as long as you have a (R) next to your name and promise to hurt the right people. Must have missed that bible verse 1 month ago:
Cults wish they had this kind of power and reach. I agree that it has cult like characteristics, but it tolerates divergent ideology as long the orange fucker is venerated. I can’t decide if it’s something new or is regular old fascism, I lack the historical background to know.
- Comment on They seem to turn a blind eye to many things as long as you have a (R) next to your name and promise to hurt the right people. Must have missed that bible verse 1 month ago:
I mean, at a high level, I guess so. At human level where these are real people with relationships and thoughts and feelings, it is mind blowing.
Some of them now approve of everything they stood against. Whatever the propaganda that got them there, it’s wild. These are people that I respected and thought had wisdom and they have fallen for such a shallow con.
- Comment on They seem to turn a blind eye to many things as long as you have a (R) next to your name and promise to hurt the right people. Must have missed that bible verse 1 month ago:
I remember my father being so angry about Clinton that the veins in his neck and face were bulging. He thought Clinton should be hanged, at the time, for adultery and betraying the country.
Now this fat orange fuck is worshiped. I will never understand how they fell for this. The moral compromise needed to support a clown show.
- Comment on The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry? 1 month ago:
So, say I have a POE outdoor router that is TP-link. It is wired to my main router and is the network for outdoor cameras. How bad an idea is this?
- Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books 1 month ago:
Been using 10th gen kindle, 5.17.1 firmware, as my daily driver. It’s not jailbroken, use calibre server to download my alternately sourced ebooks, convert to .mobi as needed.
I looked at Winterbreak. Decided not to fool with it as I can still sail with stock.
Any advantage to a jailbreak other than future proofing against side loading being disabled?
- Comment on I don't need no app 2 months ago:
Nifty. Just deleted mine.
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 3 months ago:
See Cultural aspects on Wikipedia.
Your general feeling comes from what you know, and what you know is limited to your personal worldview.
See, that’s kind of condescending. I know that solstices and equinoxes are important and were recognized by prehistoric humans all over the world. This isn’t western vs eastern hegemony bullshit. Note that even the Chinese calendar is divisible by 4 and delineated by the solstices. I’ve also read about the solar observatories found in Mexico that predate European involvement as well as the wooden ‘henge’ of the mound builders.
Trying to act like recognition of solstices and equinoxes is some sort of Western cultural imposition is silly.
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 3 months ago:
Wouldn’t solar observation pretty much universally divide the year into something divisible by four? Unless you’re directly on the equator, there are four points in a year and four points of direction (other than ‘right here’).
I haven’t read deeply about world calendars, but do know that the solstices are pretty much universally recognized.
Not a history or anthropology buff, but I have a general feeling that four pointed symbols are often tied to the solar year. You can build a solar calendar with a stick and rocks.
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 3 months ago:
I have not. Looks like it’s YA, which I tend to steer away from. Is it full of tropes and oversimplification like Divergent or Mockingjay stuff, or is it better than that?
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 3 months ago:
I’m cool with anencephalic humans/clones, with or without genetic engineering to reduce rejection, being used for spare parts.
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 3 months ago:
I’ve always kind of figured this was the actual origin of the swastika and why it was created independently by various cultures. The arms from the center are the solstices and equinoxes and the trailing arms from the elbows are the seasons that follow.
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 3 months ago:
Those tanks were based on amphibian genetic engineering. You’re just repeating Missionaria Protectiva superstition.
- Comment on italy flag emoji 4 months ago:
I mean, I still totally probably would.
Back in my drinking days, I definitely would have taken her home at last call.
- Comment on Give us your best infodump. 4 months ago:
I’ve read about this before. That super sucks for you, but is a fascinating phenomenon. Good luck trying to chase that rabbit down.
- Comment on circuits 4 months ago:
Pick up an electron and show it to me. That shits imaginary. Also, EEs make the worst mechanical engineers because they have no concept of manufacturability.
MEs? They don’t know shit either. Just cause you can draw it doesn’t mean it’s possible. Also, GD&T, learn what a reasonable tolerance is or it’s going to cost 10x what it should.
Engineers need to get off my lawn.
Sound engineers seem to be okay. They seem to smoke a lot of weed.
- Comment on Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations 5 months ago:
Damn. I feel you. I wrote mine a cease and desist and moved 700mi.
- Comment on I put on my robe and my wizard hat 5 months ago:
I can’t stand the Florentine, I think it looks silly.
Also, kilts. I mean, I get the comfort and utility; but, I’m not a fan. Each to their own, have had great conversations with kilt wearers. I like my jeans and leather pants. Occasionally wear my ass-less chaps.
- Comment on The grand prize 5 months ago:
I’d watch the fuck out of that.