Hacksaw
@Hacksaw@lemmy.ca
- Comment on They were made in a factory. A *bomb* factory. They're bombs. 1 week ago:
Oh yeah I’ll drop it… With my NO ARMS … you insensitive piece of poop
- Comment on They were made in a factory. A *bomb* factory. They're bombs. 1 week ago:
I know I’m a terrible human, all I could think of was this skit
- Comment on Insuranace is a joke 1 week ago:
The minimum insurance isn’t a scam. If you hit someone and cripple them you’ll be glad for insurance to pay their medical etc…
Comprehensive is absolutely a scam. Just take the money and save it, maybe buy some bonds. Then when it’s time to buy a new car (or when you get your car totaled) you’re already half way to a new car.
- Comment on Best stay away from that guy 2 weeks ago:
But don’t stay TOO far away, otherwise you can still be a victim of arrows. There is in ideal distance to THAT GUY to minimize your arrow related risks.
- Comment on AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study 2 weeks ago:
Looks like Stanford disagrees, 13% of entry level work has been replaced by AI.
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 2 weeks ago:
While there are essential fats and proteins, there are no essential sugars. Your body can work perfectly fine indefinitely without any sugars of any kind.
- Comment on A little bit of Monica in my life, a little bit of Erica by my side 3 weeks ago:
Genuinely: magic mushrooms. That’s what it feels like after a trip. All the bullshit is cleaned out, the depressive recurring thoughts, unhelpful beliefs… Just a clean brain ready to get demolished again by our cruel capitalist neoliberal world.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 4 weeks ago:
He’s not even hiding the fact he’s a fucking Nazi with the “SS” tag as if that subtle…
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 4 weeks ago:
Let’s not paradox of tolerance this place into a Nazi bar
- Comment on Ever wonder why you never get hand or wrist pain holding a Hot Dog? 5 weeks ago:
Classic!
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
The energy math doesn’t make sense for grid scale applications with solid objects.
However if you can get water between two places it can work quite well. You need to live close to a big change in altitude and do a bit of geoengineering to create the upper and lower reservoirs, which can be destructive to local ecology, but not as much as a dam.
…wikipedia.org/…/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity
You can also use pumped air underwater with higher energy losses than pumped storage hydro because of compatibility of air.
- Comment on Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased... 5 weeks ago:
At home both of those are invalid. You close the lid before you flush so you don’t spread particles everywhere (among many other benefits)
Everyone opens the lid/seat to the desired level. Everyone does their business. Everyone closes the lid. Everyone flushes and washes their hands.
True gender equality!
- Comment on In Paris it’s normal to raise a family in a three-bedroom apartment. Why aren’t we building more in Australia? 1 month ago:
That isn’t what they’re saying.
Families are being forced into expensive low density urban housing or into the suburbs. This is being done by condo developers who make more money per square foot selling smaller apartments to single professionals and who don’t want to build family apartments.
Regulations on minimum family apartments and minimum affordable units is how you solve that.
- Comment on Give a lil, get a lil 1 month ago:
I do not feel bad for his family. They’re better off. Here is what he said about his (future) 10 year old daughter getting raped www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/charlie-kirks-hardline-abortion-views-resurface-after-his-killing-in-utah-viral-video-101757562999575.html
This guy is an irredeemable ghoul. I’d rather have no dad than a dad that forces me to carry to term and raise a rape baby at 10 years old.
- Comment on Looks like she's making it official...! 1 month ago:
Yes, but we live in a patriarchy. When a grifter grifts millions of us, both as workers and consumers, to become rich they’re “a visionary, amazing, self made man”. But when a woman grifts a single one of these assholes and gets some of their money she’s a “gold digger”.
- Comment on Watching the American president shake hands with the second person wanted by the ICC as the world keeps becoming more unstable because of an increasing economic inequality 2 months ago:
Human spiral sees one country invading another country, stealing their children, stealing their land, stealing their resources:
“The invaders are the good guys, the victim is actually the bad one. I can’t explain because it’s really complicated. If you see the victim as a victim then you’re just being childish”
Good grief!
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 2 months ago:
As long as we all raise our kids this way, they won’t be out of touch with their peers!
- Comment on UK government suggests deleting files to save water 2 months ago:
summitsystems.co.uk/adiabatic-coolers-vs-cooling-towers/
There are many solutions to this problem. Evaporative cooling is just the cheapest. But it’s only cheap because we don’t charge these water users market rates for water. If they’re threatening drinking water or agricultural water we should just charge them for water usage the same as you pay for drinking water at home. That’s fundamentally what they’re taking when they drain the rivers dry. That way they compete directly on the water market instead of bypassing it.
They’ll install adiabatic coolers in no time.
- Comment on UK government suggests deleting files to save water 2 months ago:
“If we try to make the world a better place, the conservatives will use that as a pretext to do what they’re already doing”
There was an onion article about almost exactly that lol. theonion.com/protesters-urged-not-to-give-trump-a…
They’re already saying our plan to tackle climate change is going to hurt the economy. But we know that doing nothing will hurt the economy worse. Being scared of them saying what they’re already saying is weak and cowardly. Toughen up and do the right thing.
- Comment on California May Ban Lyft And Uber From AI Price Gouging Users With Low Phone Batteries 2 months ago:
I’ll pay you 1 billion dollars to integrate that AI into my novel cloud connected toilet paper dispenser!
- Comment on ice treat 2 months ago:
Amazing, thanks for the clarification!
- Comment on ice treat 2 months ago:
I did not know about that formula, very cool. It seems linear (unless the molality is a non-linear term), whereas the empirical data gets pretty whacky at higher concentrations. Maybe its validity is for low concentrations? I’m getting closer to -27C from this plot
Plot of freezing point of water vs alcohol concentration
Source www.researchgate.net/figure/Melting-freezing-points-of-alcohol-aqueous-solutions-vs-solvent-concentration-Weast_fig6_273304489
Either way that’s getting close to “don’t lick it” temperatures lol!
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 3 months ago:
The engineers only make the listed limit speed. Government officials make the listed limit. It used to be EXTREMELY popular for government official to knock 20-25% off the design limit of the road, ironically so they can tell everyone how safe they were.
- Comment on shrooms 3 months ago:
From the first:
This is the first documented case of Klingsor syndrome related to psilocybin, in which a psychologically disturbed person self-inflicts harm on their genitals. Plus the dude was already messed up and an alcoholic.
The second guy was on ADHD meds and hypertension meds:
Although some might be tempted to draw broad conclusions from this single case, it is important to understand the nature and role of case reports in medicine. Case reports are detailed descriptions of unusual or novel clinical events involving one patient. They do not establish cause and effect or generalize to larger populations.
It’s pretty common advice not to mix drugs unless you know what you’re doing, which is something that happened in both cases.
But the point is your “warning” is the same as telling someone about to drive or fly about the worst accident on their mode of transportation. It’s just a paranoid thought (and a dick move), not a reflection of reality.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Yeah. Young adults are going to have sex.
They can have sex in the safe home where they live. Or they can have sex in less safe places like parties, frat houses, in cars where they can collect a public indecency charge, etc…
That’s the choice you get to make as a parent.
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 3 months ago:
Recognising the “AI voice” isn’t just the voice. It’s also the clearly “written by AI” circuitous script that keeps talking without saying anything and non-stop clickbait “but wait until you find out what the answer is” crap.
The other type of AI voice is people just stealing Reddit stories and putting them to AI. Also lame. I want my stories narrated with human emotion. The point of stories isn’t to transfer knowledge, it’s an art form, I don’t need shitty robot emotions thank you very much.
So no, the use case for AI voice is very narrow. Some of my favorite YouTubers use text narration. Maybe they don’t like their voice, or speak a different language, I don’t know, I’ve literally never heard them. It doesn’t stop them in the least from showing me amazing things. They don’t need to resort to polluting their video with the lowest garbage idea humans have created so far.
I’d like to see a video that is improved by the use of any AI.
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 3 months ago:
If nobody bothered to make it why should anybody bother to watch it?
- Comment on (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 4 months ago:
They just interface with the shape of the mouth so well. Truly the best strawberry!
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 5 months ago:
The idea of letting young engineers at a university design production equipment is WILD to me. Universities make PROTOTYPES. The gap between prototype and reliable production equipment is so big you could drive a bus through it.
A good production engineer is worth their weight in gold but when you have shitty ones you’re better off letting the workers run the ship. At least they know what’s happening and where the hangups are. You’ll know a good engineer because they’re down talking to the lead hands on the shop floor because they want to understand what’s actually happening and run ideas through the shop before they fuck with things.
- Comment on Microsoft faces growing unrest over role in Israel’s war on Gaza: ‘Close to a tipping point’ 5 months ago:
If anyone is wondering what happened here (since half the comment section got nuked): it was mostly a political discussion not related to technology that was rightfully removed by mod imo.
