GraniteM
@GraniteM@lemmy.world
- Comment on I liek tudles 19 hours ago:
- Comment on Truth hurts! 1 day ago:
I want to see it all fluffed up for winter.
- Comment on YSK the four rules of firearm safety 1 week ago:
Honest question: Why is open carry forbidden, but concealed carry can be okay in certain contexts? The idea of being coy about whether or not one has a gun seems more alarming than somebody unquestionably having a gun that everyone can see. Not brandishing it, but rather just being honest and open with everyone about the idea that you’re carrying a gun seems less upsetting to me than the open question of who might possibly have a hidden gun on them if they had that special kind of feeling when they woke up this morning.
- Comment on Can someone please ELI5 the legal issue with genericized trademarks? 1 week ago:
You may think you love your family, but you don’t love them nearly as much as you’re going to love Heroin™!
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 1 week ago:
Thanks to the Romans, we also have super messy units for length
But we can still blame the British for the furlong.
- Comment on These glasses solve many central-vision problems. For $5000. 2 weeks ago:
- 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? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Achievements 100% 1 month ago:
At this rate I’m going to slap King Dragon in the face one time and he’s going to go down like a ton of bricks.
- Comment on Where is heart?! 1 month ago:
- Comment on What can Trump get away with and what can he not? Hell one president shot an enemy to him. Can he do that? 1 month ago:
As ever:
- Comment on It's the only logical future, captain. 2 months ago:
I’ve heard arguments for the opposite: women who act should be called actors, not actresses, the logic being that the -ess suffix is diminutive, so all actors should just be actors. It seems like there are perfectly reasonable arguments to be made for either side.
- Comment on Mustaaaaaaaaaard 2 months ago:
Man, fuck wild parsnip.
- Comment on We have one at home 2 months ago:
The Dreamcast controller is ugly as sin but surprisingly comfortable to hold. It must have the widest delta between looks and ergonomics of any controller.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 2 months ago:
Weaponization or dangerous rays are not among the challenges facing space-based solar.
Contrary to appearances in fiction, most designs propose beam energy densities that are not harmful if human beings were to be inadvertently exposed, such as if a transmitting satellite’s beam were to wander off-course. But the necessarily vast size of the receiving antennas would still require large blocks of land near the end users. The service life of space-based collectors in the face of long-term exposure to the space environment, including degradation from radiation and micrometeoroid damage, could also become a concern for SBSP.
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 2 months ago:
- Comment on If "James Bond" is a codename, would a hypothetical female operative filling the same role receive the same codename? 2 months ago:
Michael Burnham
Jayne Cobb
Willow Ulfgood
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 2 months ago:
- Comment on YSK that risks to exposure of nuclear radition are often over exaggerated by considering a Linear No Threshold (LNT), which does not match with many studies. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Banana 2 months ago:
- Comment on TIL: Employers in the USA Have Stolen Over $50 Trillion From Workers Since 1975 3 months ago:
James 5:1-6, NRSV
Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you. Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure during the last days. Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you.
- Comment on I'm tired of teen superheroes 3 months ago:
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Those are awesome. It doesn’t quite reach those heights, but I was always fond of the opening theme from Ski or Die.
- Comment on More Ships Join Greta Thunberg's Gaza Flotilla to Break Blockade 3 months ago:
- Comment on Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table? 3 months ago:
The rare reverse-Saddam.
- Comment on xkcd #3144: Phase Changes 4 months ago:
Great, who’s going to go tell Richard Feynman?
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 4 months ago:
But then I start to feel like
this guy, with the “real” camera and the phone camera, but the phone camera is the one I’ve most consistently got on me, because I can’t lug a whole additional piece of hardware around in a camera bag, meanwhile the phone camera pictures are grainy and shitty, and I’d just as soon have a Pixel in my pocket at all times that can take fairly good pictures at all times.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 4 months ago:
Camera is probably the first obstacle. I’ve got a kid, and I really want to have good documentation of her growing up. If there were a dumbphone with a legit camera, that’d be a big deal for me.
After that, probably maps is the next most important thing that I want an actual smart phone for. I remember getting my first smart phone, and probably the main thing I was excited about was always being able to navigate directly to where I wanted to go.
Almost everything else is tertiary to my needs.
- Comment on tall tails 4 months ago:
Well, now I want to see an artist’s rendition of a T. rex doing this:
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 4 months ago:
