ByteJunk
@ByteJunk@lemmy.world
- Comment on Does Vanilla Flavoring Actually Come From Beaver Butts? 1 day ago:
All I’ve got is wood, and I still need to beat it to a pulp, which is why I was considering beaver butts.
- Comment on EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you 2 days ago:
This is the American approach to legislation: get in as many laws that favour you or your sponsors, and pray the courts let at least some of them through.
That’s not how this is meant to work. That’s a last measure, when everything else has failed and hell’s about to break loose.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 1 week ago:
If that’s why you think they’re wankers, I have news for you.
- Comment on God what are they even for 1 week ago:
What kind of scissors are you posh people buying, that come in boxes?
- Comment on Cause and Effect 1 week ago:
Ah so close. This comic should end with
“I did my own research”
- Comment on They're coming. 1 week ago:
I’m calling it now: the 9-banded armadillo will be adopted as Canada’s mascot in the next decade, after they become the main species in the Canadian deserts.
- Comment on bored 3 weeks ago:
A throwback to the OG troll that wouldnt let you cross the bridge.
- Comment on Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s related to patterns, it’s the methodology.
Sure, there’s some groundwork that needs to be memorized in different fields, but this is like learning your first words. These are necessary so that we can communicate with each other, and they serve as building blocks upon all rest is built upon.
Everything else we are mostly taught by learning how some old guy came up with an answer, making clever use of the tools that we also have.
After a while it sort of clicks that there’s a method to the madness, you build up and up until you get to the moon, and you get this feeling that anything can be explained logically - we might not know how yet, but surely it will be at some point.
Unless it’s quantum physics, fuck that.
It feels like there’s a lot of people who skipped these building steps, maybe they were just memorizing stuff to get by the exams without exercising their brains on the methods to reach those solutions, or were simply never taught, and now they just don’t have the tools to make sense of what’s around them, and will blindly follow a monster that assures them that they’ll be ok as long as they do this or that…
- Comment on Encouragement 4 weeks ago:
Stop selling it already.
- Wednesday, probably.
- Comment on ngl im kinda here just waitin for it 🤣 5 weeks ago:
*Lalalalalalaaaaa
Now it’s just me and silence, ‘neath this lonesome midnight blue,
Prayin’ one day my runaway truck remembers me too.*
- Comment on HHS employees demand RFK Jr. resign for ‘compromising the health of this nation’ 5 weeks ago:
Resign? No, no, no. Arrested.
- Comment on (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games. 1 month ago:
For all we know, it’s a 50/50 that the customer service guy receives back an email back from that email that supposedly is not accessible saying “WTF I have no idea what you’re talking about, was my account hacked?”
But since you’re that gullible - hey bro, that wallet in your back pocket is mine, I put it there when I washed my jeans. Hand it back now, I paid for it and I’m 100% entitled to it!!
- Comment on “Me and my friend show that my dad’s Airstream trailer goes faster with dints and that we shouldn’t be grounded for hitting it with a baseball last Saturday” 1 month ago:
Same. Like with most articles, I read the abstract and skipped ahead to the conclusion - they couldn’t get sufficient data to prove their theory but further research looks promising.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 1 month ago:
Yeah, I agree with all of your points.
I’m not American, but my understanding of the system is that the long term plan for the country isn’t meant to be set by the president, but by the legislature - passing laws and creating federal bodies that steer the country.
Instead, there’s absolutely no laws being agreed upon, only presidents that try to impose their view for a while until they’re replaced by whoever’s next who then breaks everything.
The courts are then thrown on to the spotlight and asked by the country to fill up a role who’s not actually theirs, and I don’t even want to go into the issues with appointment of judges.
Not that the system in China is any better, they just happen to have a guy who’s ruthless enough to hold onto power with no opposition, and seems to actually care about his country - but he isn’t gonna last for ever, and there’s zero guarantee that the power struggles after he’s gone won’t tear the country to shreds, or that the next up isn’t a fucked up moron like the orange…
- Comment on Fancy European metal work 1 month ago:
Ah so that’s why you expatriated.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 1 month ago:
The worrying part is that they kinda seem to be implementing good policies for (at least some of) their people.
There’s a lot of disturbing stuff, and probably a whole lot more that we don’t even know about, but social security, education, healthcare - my impression is that they’re going the right way, while the US looks eager to go back to the Dark ages.
Just with STEM degrees, they’re producing almost 5x more graduates than the US, and they’ve surpassed the number of doctorates a long time ago too.
The current world balance won’t hold one more generation.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 1 month ago:
Well played sir, well played.
- Comment on Where is Immich going to be in 1 year? What's your prediction? 1 month ago:
Are they all your phones, or different house members? Can you “pool” your photos together?
We’ve been doing this with all our phones for a long time using nextcloud. I’d like to use a more photo-oriented app, but the last I tried it, it just wasn’t there yet.
- Comment on An alien invasion 1 month ago:
Yeah I know right? It’s like, bros you already did so much! You didn’t have to do all that - but we sure as fuck appreciate it.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 1 month ago:
Bro has dementia. You could call it the most memorable, epic name ever, and he’d still forget all about it in 10 minutes. It’s a fucked up disease.
But as to your gripe with the name, Frontotemporal dementia is a pretty decent name.
Even if you know nothing about medicine, you’ll understand it’s some type of dementia, and immediately get a very good image of how it affects a patient.
If you’re more familiar with medicine and the brain, it will also tell you what regions these specific types of dementia affect, giving you clues as to what brain functions could be most impaired.
Thank god medicine has moved away from eponyms, because Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or Binswanger disease, or Fahr disease, are much much worse. If you’re not familiar, you’d have no clue if they’re a type of dementia or a problem on your anus.
- Comment on Where is Immich going to be in 1 year? What's your prediction? 1 month ago:
Can’t rotate or do basic edits in web app, dead to me.
Also can’t really sync and share with rest of household. Auto sync to phones is also a must.
I was seriously unimpressed with its features, and I’m not bothering with it again anytime soon.
- Comment on Open source evolution sim Thrive adds planet customization 1 month ago:
Is this what Spore promised to be but never was?
- Comment on Damn 1 month ago:
An active redditor??
🔔 Shame 🔔
🔔 Shame 🔔
🔔 Shame 🔔
- Comment on How do I beat the roaches in this house? 1 month ago:
Releasing the genophage on the korgan, are we?
- Comment on How do I beat the roaches in this house? 1 month ago:
I couldn’t find the brand I use on Amazon in the US, maybe they don’t sell it there. I’d go with something that explicitly claims to target the nests, like this maybe.
- Comment on How do I beat the roaches in this house? 1 month ago:
Aye, this is my case. Come the warm weather and it’s cockroaches everywhere. I’ve written above I’ve had some luck with poison, seems to be killing the closer nests and Ive had a lot fewer since.
- Comment on How do I beat the roaches in this house? 1 month ago:
I’ve had some success with poison, the kind that comes inside plastic pods and supposedly they chew on it and bring it back to their nest, wiping it out.
Last year I had dozens running around everywhere (house surrounded with garden/fields) last year, this year I’ve only seen 1 so far.
- Comment on Germany's Ecosia, a nonprofit search engine, said on Thursday it has submitted a proposal to assume a 10-year stewardship of Google Chrome 1 month ago:
Are you sure? I thought Denethor was one of the first Scottish High Stewards.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
So instead you compete with a host of polyamorous people, or he’s keeping to FWBs…?
The post still sounds like you’re boning him though.
- Comment on The Document Foundation is proud to release LibreOffice 25.8. 1 month ago:
Does it still look like it’s from 1998?
It works very well for my light personal needs, but I find the UI to be an eyesore…