Shiggles
@Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 5 days ago:
I’m not disagreeing, but can anyone really be surprised? IP theft is Chinese policy 101.
- Comment on Garfield 1 week ago:
Garfield’s injection of +c reminds me of when I was a wee little shit and, annoyed at losing points on a test for forgetting to write “+ c”, decided to exclusively write “- c” for the rest of school. Dropped the habit in college because I stopped caring, but I am always tempted.
- Comment on Sun Haven is for Stardew Valley fans that want more and it now has controller support 2 weeks ago:
My only complaint is my thumb hurts from air dashing 24/7
- Comment on Our bffs 1 month ago:
The second most useful thing I learned from statistics courses was the statistics. The first was just how terrible most people are in their application.
- Comment on UK becomes first country to ban default bad passwords on IoT devices 1 month ago:
Y’all probably just went “damn, it is way too easy to snoop on our own infrastructure” after checking personally.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 2 months ago:
“Socialism will transition to communism” is just a communism thing. Social democracy is different. It doesn’t involve communism. Because communism is cringe.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 2 months ago:
Because exclusively that’s the communist viewpoint. There are different socialist ideologies than communism. It’s a rectangle vs square situation.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 2 months ago:
That’s neither exclusive to communism nor has it been achieved in most purportedly communist states (I hear Vietnam’s actually been having a good run of things but I can’t speak to specifics).
Socialism != communism.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 2 months ago:
They’re mask off on hexbear/lemmygrad, they try to be subversive on lemmy.ml. I have in fact instance blocked the first two, you can usually dodge them on .ml. Lemmy is far less enjoyable if you have not blocked them.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 2 months ago:
Commune-ism sounds like a lovely idea on a small scale, you gotta solve a lot of political problems to make it work on anything bigger. Social democracies like the scandinavians seem to be the best way we currently know to run a humanitarian society.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 2 months ago:
“America does bad things, so I should support china/russia instead!”
“Stalin/mao were (anything besides utterly reprehensible dictators)”
“Communism could’ve worked if-“
Honorable mention to thinking this coy “I’m going to act all hyper respectful and yet also like I know more than anyone about anything” bullshit gets you anywhere.
- Comment on This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are Born 2 months ago:
If only there were people desperate for a better life here, alive now, perhaps in a neighboring country or even entire other continent bordering the states.
- Comment on Germany: 'Groped' female statues highlight sexual harassment 2 months ago:
People like to touch silly places on statues. Maybe the intent translates better in German culture, but it’s a swing and a miss to me.
- Comment on Biden to defy Supreme Court in second attempt at sweeping student loan handout 2 months ago:
Man, you gotta just pity this guy. Is he desperate for attention? Screaming into a void? The world may never know.
- Comment on The Sims movie in the works from Barbie’s Margot Robbie and director of Loki and The Last of Us Season 2 3 months ago:
What unifying story did the barbie movie use?
I’m at least cautiously optimistic it might actually be a similar shtick to the barbie movie. Or a pure cash grab, real coin flip at this point.
- Comment on "Starfield's lead quest designer had 'absolutely no time' and had to hit the 'panic button' so the game would have a satisfying final quest" 3 months ago:
That argument makes sense for games with enjoyable mechanics. You can’t make an incredibly dull game and then use that excuse.
- Comment on Wanna start *real* game theory? 😏 4 months ago:
? Economic game theory is “how do you maximize your profits while understanding everybody else is also trying to maximize their profits and their strategies have an effect on how well yours works”. Game theory is used in everything from economics to traffic to understand individual strategies in different environments. It’s a weirdly specific cog in the orphan crushing machine to take issue with
- Comment on Counterspell this 5 months ago:
Wizard with a gun is fun and all, but praising blessed ammunition tickles a different set of fancies.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhisattva
I think it’s just a pun? I recognized the name but that’s about the depth of my knowledge.
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 6 months ago:
I give to my local shelter, spreads out the aid while being less likely to be spent on drugs(so long as your shelter is trustworthy)
- Comment on keep going lads! 6 months ago:
I dunno if a thrown spear counts as “short range” in a primitive world
- Comment on Survive the zombie apocalypse 6 months ago:
The earlier in the apocalypse, the more panicking humans running around, so you’re absolutely correct there. Unfortunately, depending on where you live and how early you realize what’s happening, the roads might be utterly jammed with no hope of getting away from population centers. The bike would be less of a tank, but you’ll almost certainly make it farther - but is that any good? Unless you’re confident in your ability to go full bear grylls, it might be best to just hunker down and make as little noise as possible for that initial pandemonium.
I’d probably stay clear of basically anywhere that you’d wanna go in an apocalypse for those 72 hours, because everybody else has the same idea. Find somewhere with a second story, block or preferably destroy the staircase, and stay as quiet as possible while scavenging what you can.
- Comment on Survive the zombie apocalypse 6 months ago:
Don’t forget the video camera to film it, then you can pick one item of your choice to be your loot drop for finding the set piece you just made in a left4dead level.
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 5 Adds New Playable Epilogue With 3,589 Lines of Extra Dialogue, Much More 6 months ago:
Just in case you’re not aware, you can hop into camp at literally any time, you only consume supplies when taking a rest.
- Comment on No excuses 6 months ago:
Or don’t and just do
~100 calories for a medium pancake
~0.36 calories per pushup(all of this is googled and blindly trusted)
=277 pushups per pancake.
Totally worth it!
- Comment on Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police 6 months ago:
Certain departments specifically have IQ tests, in order to ensure you aren’t smart enough to easily get a better job elsewhere.
- Comment on Yeah, but... 6 months ago:
It’s okay, most* games have good wikis that do an alright impression.
*Less so now that we have the plague that is fextralife and similar doing their damndest to elbow out useful wikis for any and every game.
- Comment on An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification ... 8 months ago:
Re the second part: this works differently in delaware, where over half of all fortune 500 companies were incorporated.
Willfully ignoring the minor detail about ford being sued to stop enriching the lives of their workers says enough about how productive this conversation’s going to be.
- Comment on An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification ... 8 months ago:
“The best interest of the business” is far too lenient in its wording. Some of the shareholder derivative lawsuits out there are fucking wild.
Simple things such as “paying your workers too much”, “acting with too much emphasis on morality over capital gains”, it all does have to come back to shareholder profits, ever since Dodge Vs. Ford.
- Comment on Cities Skylines 2 player feedback 8 months ago:
Game’s been playing fine performance wise on my 3080/5800, my main frustrations have been industry hub buildings not fully building unless you make sure they render when you place them by moving the cursor around randomly. Also industry specializations are ugly as sin.
Besides that, I severely underestimated the effect of wind on air pollution, we’ll see if restarting fixes that. Exporting electricity, at least geothermal, is overpowered. You can export more if you buy tiles out to the map edge, you just connect to the border and make new connections.