Dagwood222
@Dagwood222@lemm.ee
- Comment on How do I decrease acne after shaving my face? 1 day ago:
Besides going to a dermatologist, here are a few things.
Change your pillowcases often. Sleeping on the oil creates more oil.
Take some steam baths and saunas. Open the pores and clear the skin.
- Comment on If all the people throughout history would have said to themselves: "It is what it is", then we 'd all still be living in grass huts and caves. 1 day ago:
Eurema’s Dam by R. Lafferty
ebookslib.org/sf/12898-eurema-s-dam.html
In this comic science fiction story, the author proposes that the only people who are truly inventive are those who are too inept to do anything else. The hero, unable to do simple math, invents a calculator at age six. He goes on to create any number of useful inventions, including intelligent robots who mock him as a buffoon.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 days ago:
Here are some good time travel stories.
bookshop.org/p/books/…/7282193?ean=9780553575385&…
To Say Nothing Of The Dog. In the future, time travel is organized like the Army. The problem is that the actual travel causes a serious case of ‘jet lag.’ All the agents act like they are half-drunk and sleep deprived.
bookshop.org/p/books/…/693820?ean=9781606644874&n…
The Big Time. Two alien races are fighting a time war that spans all planets in the universe. Earth is a minor backwater, but the fighting is just as deadly as anywhere else. A few soldiers and entertainers are catching a few moments respite in a R + R center when the War crashes in on them.
Predestination. A man is offered a chance to find and kill the guy who ruined his life. All he has to do is trust the stranger who is making the offer.
- Comment on Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' funeral 2 days ago:
Actually, he said he’d be a great Pope.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 days ago:
I know thousands of songs. Also, musical instruments like the saxaphone haven’t been invented yet.
- Comment on 'The United States is the villain of our story.' Nationalism surges in Mexico amid Trump threats 4 days ago:
[off topic?]
Saint Patrick’s Battalion. The US Army recruited a lot of Irish immigrants as soon as they came off the ships. Many of the Irish were veterans of the British Army and experience was a great asset. When they got to Mexico, they realized they were being asked to fight fellow Catholics for their Protestant generals. Enough deserted and went over to the Mexican side that they were given their own unit.
- Comment on What causes individual variation in what animals you like? 4 days ago:
What causes any kind of variation in people’s preferences? Some people think Angelina Jolie is the most beautiful actress ever, and others think she just looks weird.
For all you know, you were scared by a spider at a a very young age and you just don’t remember.
- Comment on Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*? 6 days ago:
Back in the day, they told Lord Byron that there was a rule against people having dogs at his college.
There wasn’t a rule against having a bear, so he got one of those.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Buy ear plugs.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 6 days ago:
What outlets do you follow?
Because this is the first I’m hearing about it.
- Comment on Gold hits $3,500 for first time as US dollar sinks to three-year low 6 days ago:
People aren’t dependent on a particular currency.
Back in colonial America, one deer skin was the basic unit of trade. That’s why people still call a US dollar a ‘buck.’ Shells, salt, and other commodoties have been used.
- Comment on Gold hits $3,500 for first time as US dollar sinks to three-year low 1 week ago:
It’s fruitless to speculate on what the collapse would look like.
I think it was John Dillinger who said that there are a thousand things that can go wrong in a bank robbery, and if you’re a genius you can plan for fifty.
- Comment on Gold hits $3,500 for first time as US dollar sinks to three-year low 1 week ago:
It amazing how people who can’t succeed in a world with lights, abundant food, and doctors think they’d be badass warlords if civilization fell.
- Comment on Gold hits $3,500 for first time as US dollar sinks to three-year low 1 week ago:
You died the second you told them you had gold.
- Comment on Gold hits $3,500 for first time as US dollar sinks to three-year low 1 week ago:
lol!
First the thugs will kill you and then give me the gold because I’ll have lots of friends because I can provide people with things they need.
- Comment on Gold hits $3,500 for first time as US dollar sinks to three-year low 1 week ago:
Eventually,
You’re putting the cart before the horse. In America, the term for a dollar is ‘one buck.’ That comes from the early colonial days when one deer skin [aka buck skin] was the common currency. Trade is possible without a currency. In the early days, access to things like tools and drugs will be far more valuable.
- Comment on Gold hits $3,500 for first time as US dollar sinks to three-year low 1 week ago:
You have to survive the first ten years or so.
- Comment on Gold hits $3,500 for first time as US dollar sinks to three-year low 1 week ago:
Think of it this way.
Suppose you were smart and got 100 ounces of gold back when it was cheap. Say it cost you $50,000. That’s your supply.
I spent that money on a ton of quality copper tubing to make stills; a ton of hand tools; quality binoculars; lab equipment.
Which of us is going to have the longer line outside our trading post?
- Comment on Gold hits $3,500 for first time as US dollar sinks to three-year low 1 week ago:
But who is going to want it? You could buy things like hatchets that will last and are easily traded.
Copper tubing to make stills will be the most valuable currency.
- Comment on Gold hits $3,500 for first time as US dollar sinks to three-year low 1 week ago:
I never understood the idea of hording gold in case of an economic collapse.
Think about it; the government is gone, there’s no gasoline or power of any kind, no way to get food. Who is going to want gold?
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 week ago:
I remember a sign from The Simpsons.
Legitimate Italian Businessmen’s Club.
Also from that episode “It’s an Italian American Mexican stand-off!”
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 week ago:
I want that in the next satire. A business card with
Angelina Jolie
Some kind of executive
Or lawyer
on it
- Comment on The first folding e-reader is smaller than a paperback 1 week ago:
I can’t travel with a library.
I’m the kind of traveler who, after I check in, the first thing I look for is the bookcase where they put all the books that other guests have left. I have to give it to the Germans; they dominate every bookcase I’ve seen.
- Comment on The first folding e-reader is smaller than a paperback 1 week ago:
Close. But what I really want would look like a blank book. The pages would feel like paper. When I down load the material, text appears on the pages and I can flip back and forth. When I’m done I can download another book.
I know it’s niche but that’s what I want.
- Comment on Entire Pentagon defense tech unit to leave by May 1 week ago:
Get real.
Mitch is going to die comfortably and probably have some schools named after him after he’s gone.
There would have to be a lot of people killed before things changed wnought to change that, and I don’t think it’s worth the cost.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 week ago:
If you want a serious mind fuck read “stand On Zanzibar” a science fiction novel from 1969.
One of the things that the writer predicted was Mr. & Mrs. Everywhere, a gimmick where your TV would insert your family into advertisements.
The novel is full of other, equally accurate predictions…
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 week ago:
I recall some top player saying that he’d deliberately do a really ‘bad’ move at the start of a game and watch his opponents head explode because they’d never seen any top level player do that.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 week ago:
I’ve noticed that a lot of the women in rom-coms are bakers.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 week ago:
[odd topic?]
This is from an essay about writers. The author said that you see a lot of architects in movies because it’s a fast and easy way to convey that someone is ‘artistic’ and a bit of a dreamer. It doesn’t matter that real life architects are much more about engineering that artistry; it works for a character.
The same thing with chess, it’s a fast and easy way to present a ‘smart’ character.
- Comment on Entire Pentagon defense tech unit to leave by May 1 week ago:
The scenario I’ve been imagining would go like this. The Cheney/Romney/McConnell GOP would abandon the Republican name to the MAGoos and do a hostile takeover of the Libertarian Party. Right now the Libs have about 800,000 nation wide. The Cheney bloc could join and overwhelm the old guard and be on the ballot in all fifty state instantly.