GraniteM
@GraniteM@lemmy.world
- Comment on It's the only logical future, captain. 2 days 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 6 days ago:
Man, fuck wild parsnip.
- Comment on We have one at home 1 week 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on If "James Bond" is a codename, would a hypothetical female operative filling the same role receive the same codename? 3 weeks ago:
Michael Burnham
Jayne Cobb
Willow Ulfgood
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Banana 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on TIL: Employers in the USA Have Stolen Over $50 Trillion From Workers Since 1975 1 month 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 1 month ago:
- Comment on 1 month 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 1 month ago:
- Comment on Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table? 2 months ago:
The rare reverse-Saddam.
- Comment on xkcd #3144: Phase Changes 2 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? 2 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? 2 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 2 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 2 months ago:
- Comment on OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film 2 months ago:
The one on the right looks like it has an engorged tick for a nose.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 2 months ago:
Well, now I want to know if there’s a regular schedule to the Jupiter-Sun barycenter being in or outside of the Sun, and how we can schedule holidays around it.
- Comment on xkcd #3137: Cursed Number 2 months ago:
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 months ago:
I have two devices, one is my phone, and one only plays music. I only ever use my phone as my phone, and my music device as my music device in my car, and both run over Bluetooth.
It is a crapshoot as to which role my car will assign to which device. Sometimes I have to put my phone in airplane mode so that the car won’t try to assign it the media player role in Bluetooth settings. I’m not impressed.
- Comment on IcanfixherIcanfixherIcanfixherIcanfixher 2 months ago:
Looks like Marian from River City Girls has taken a turn for the worse.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 months ago:
I had an Asus Eee PC and I fuckin’ loved it. Is there anyone still making a functional laptop in that form factor anymore?
- Comment on AI can find cancer pathologists miss 2 months ago:
I thought the article was telling an unmarried woman that AI can find the cancer pathologists she’s been looking for. Not sure why they would be hiding.
- Comment on human geography 2 months ago:
“Foxes getting married”
- Comment on do what you love 3 months ago:
I talked to a guy who had a master’s degree in philosophy. He told me he worked for an investment firm.
Me: What do you do there, convince investment bankers not to kill themselves?
Him: Yeah, pretty much.
Me: 😳
- Comment on [Video] Cops not sure whether to arrest man with "Plasticine Action" shirt for supporting terrorism 3 months ago:
I’m mainly thinking of Tony Blair making the same case for invading Iraq that George W. Bush was, just with the accent.
- Comment on [Video] Cops not sure whether to arrest man with "Plasticine Action" shirt for supporting terrorism 3 months ago:
I’ve got a friend trying to move from the United States to England to escape our current shit show, and I’ve been telling him that England tends to do what America does, just with a posh accent to give it an air of legitimacy.
