Steve
@Steve@communick.news
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 1 day ago:
That’s a very complicated question.
Which nations are on which sides?
What’s the competing ideologies?
What was the inciting incident? - Comment on Would a fediverse alternative of Discord be possible? 1 day ago:
Is Discord social media? Social sure, but not media really. It always seemed to be more a live communication/chat app to me.
- Comment on I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work? 2 days ago:
Call them today. Don’t wait
- Comment on [Very minor Academy spoilers] Does anyone else think the marketing undersold Holly Hunter as Chancellor Ake? 3 days ago:
Sure she’s an Oscar winner. But that was a long time ago. And Oscars are never a guarantee of future work or pay rate.
For nearly a decade now she’s only done a few guest spots on series, some supporting roles in small movies, a few voice roles. This show is the biggest thing she done in quite a while.
- Comment on I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up? 4 days ago:
Jail? No, never. We do kill them occasionally.
- Comment on Why do crappy parents defend their child when they are masively publicly misbehaving and being shitheads? 4 days ago:
Being crappy is a judgement, not a cause of anything.
Using it as such is a cop-out. A lazy way of dismissing something so you don’t have to try to understand it. - Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 5 days ago:
Say who?
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 5 days ago:
If actions depend on our thoughts
They don’t
Where did I “begin” … where will I “end”
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the weather.” - Bill Hicks
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 5 days ago:
I you word
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 5 days ago:
Your actions are real.
Your thoughts are all in your head. - Comment on Is there no instution or person that Trump go after? Or we are all just screwed? 5 days ago:
I think you’re missing a word in that title.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 1 week ago:
The most downvoted and most upvoted comments say the same thing g.
People are werid. - Comment on Where are the marketing volunteers? 1 week ago:
The Fediverse should be as ubiquitous as email.
Your ISP, company, government, etc. should all host their own social media, just like they do email. - Comment on How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a chance to look through? 1 week ago:
If they were actually important, you’dve remembered and dealt with them already. Go ahead and close them. You might be suprised when the FoMo goes away after.
I have Vivaldi set to close any tabs older than 3 days.
- Comment on Is there desire for Capt. Una spin-off? 1 week ago:
A new Star Trek (2027) that just continues from SNW would be great!
Reboot’s are overly maligned. And continuity is a nievely harmful fantasy. You realise TOS got up to warp 14 or something right? It could do with a new version.
- Comment on What if we’re thinking about “Fediverse funding” the wrong way? (Non-crypto idea) 1 week ago:
Couldn’t each one could decide how much to charge and pay for their tokens? Like a swarm of countless centralized currencies, rather than a single decentralized one?
- Comment on What if we’re thinking about “Fediverse funding” the wrong way? (Non-crypto idea) 1 week ago:
Then you have a central org you need to trust with the money. It’s not really distributed or federated system anymore.
- Comment on What if we’re thinking about “Fediverse funding” the wrong way? (Non-crypto idea) 1 week ago:
Whatever the term, if the coins can be exchanged back into a real currency or goods, they have real value, and as such they’re as good cash.
Pachinko balls won from games cannot be exchanged directly for money in the parlor, nor can they be removed from the premises or exchanged with other parlors. However, they can be legally traded to the parlor for so-called “special prize” tokens (tokushu keihin (特殊景品) [ja]), which can in turn be “sold” for cash to a separate vendor off-premises.
- Comment on What if we’re thinking about “Fediverse funding” the wrong way? (Non-crypto idea) 1 week ago:
So if they have real cash value, how do you secure a distributed currency system without a blockchain? How do you stop the creation of fraudulent tokins?
- Comment on What if we’re thinking about “Fediverse funding” the wrong way? (Non-crypto idea) 1 week ago:
I’m not sure what problem this is trying to solve exactly.
Why not just a simple subscription to your home instance/server?
What would people get from trading these tokins, can they cash them out? - Comment on "Starfleet Academy" early review round-up 1 week ago:
It was pretty good in the end.
All the complaints revolved around having a different narrative structure. But there’s nothing actually bad about that. - Comment on How to vote? 1 week ago:
That’s the ideal.
But I think most people conflate those with agree and disagree. - Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
You’re right this will (or should anyway) invite a major international response. But it won’t be attacking our elections.
It’ll be in international politics and economics.
Were I in charge of another nation, I’d immediately end all diplomatic ties with us. Deporting all US embassy/consolate staff and diplomats. Possibly even visa holders. I’d also end whatever exports my nation made to the US. Buying the goods from my nation’s companies myself. If my nations banks had any money of US nationals, it would be frozen.But that’s just me. We’ll see what they decide to do.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Lots of people say oil. Even Trump himself says it’s about the oil. Since Trump says oil it’s a good bet, it’s got nothing to do with oil. Remember Trump just says what he wants people to think, he doesn’t care about the truth. And Maduro already promised Trump all the oil he wants at whatever price he wants. So it’s not oil.
I’ve heard a hypothesis suggesting that it’s being pushed by Marko Rubio and a contingent of Cuban Americans (mostly in Florida), who’ve wanted to take down the Cuban government for decades. They view Venezuela as a stepping stone, proof of concept in that direction. It’s a test. A test of both what we can do, and how the world will react. If it goes well, Cuba will be next soon.
That idea sounds actually plausible to me.
- Comment on What would happen to a werewolf in space? 2 weeks ago:
Among other things
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 3 weeks ago:
November 6th 1988
Nothing special about they day really. It’s just happened to be the day when the Legrand Poumpaugh themselves decreed as such. Praise their nostrals. - Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 3 weeks ago:
it’s a giftcard
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
You’re still judgeing the quality of the story by your morality.
It’s common for terrible acts to go unpunished. There are lots of movies and shows where the bad guy wins. Many where you can’t even tell who the bad guy is. But they’re still good stories. - Comment on What is the best way to link to a podcast episode on the Fediverse? 4 weeks ago:
Just link directly to the audio file?
This seems like too obvious an answer though. Maybe I’m not sure what you’re asking. - Comment on 4 weeks ago:
You can see how that seems sexist, right?
Especially when 7 and The Doctor are debatably tied, for most interesting character on the show.