GraniteM
@GraniteM@lemmy.world
- Comment on Supreme Court weakens federal regulators with Chevron overturning, threatening net neutrality, right to repair, big tech regulation, and more 2 days ago:
Never listened to OA, but Strict Scrutiny is one I listen to for Supreme Court news and analysis.
- Comment on conservation 2 months ago:
It’s easier to make friends with hermit crab watchers than it is to make your friends into hermit crab watchers.
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- Comment on clearly aliens 2 months ago:
My crackpot theory is that aliens showed up, told the Egyptians at lasergun-point to build them pyramids, but then didn’t give them any help at all. The Egyptians had to work out all the trigonometry and engineering entirely for themselves, while those lazy fucking aliens hung back and contributed absolutely nothing. Fuck those goddamn lazy aliens.
- Comment on The United States of America, but for Trans People 2 months ago:
I appreciate the response, but can you give specifics? I would have figured NH would have committed to the whole “leave me alone” vibe, but it sounds like not. Have they been passing anti-trans legislation or something similar?
- Comment on The United States of America, but for Trans People 2 months ago:
What did NH do?
- Comment on Which way, Western man? 3 months ago:
Do you want Cenobites? Because that’s how you get Cenobites.
- Comment on Affordable Android Excellence: Best Smartphones Under $200 in 2024 4 months ago:
Unihertz!
- Comment on Are there any games like Diablo but not Diablo because Diablo? 4 months ago:
How is the couch co-op for Titan Quest? My SO and I spent a ton of time on Diablo 3 together and I might consider trying that again.
- Comment on I lost my job after AI recruitment tool assessed my body language, says make-up artist 4 months ago:
What’s twisted is that, if you go way out at the edge of the curve, you’ll find people who either actually do enjoy any horrible job you can think of, or else are willing to do an earnest imitation of enjoying it. Large enough employers can search though a large enough pool, using sophisticated enough tools, to find these weirdos and try to employ only the kinds of lunatics who would say “I love this job, and I think a pizza party is an acceptable alternative to a raise!”
- Comment on Chinese hackers ready to ‘wreak havoc’ on critical US infrastructure with 50-to-1 cyber personnel advantage, FBI director warns 4 months ago:
Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but on the whole of good intentions which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made not usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies pursued by good men usually passionately convinced that they are right.
—Norman Angell, author of The Great Illusion
- Comment on ChatGPT's new AI store is struggling to keep a lid on all the AI girlfriends 5 months ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
You never actually need to use as much toothpaste as is commonly depicted. A fraction of that will more than get the job done.
Spherical cartoon bombs… kinda existed, but went out of style in the 19th century.
I suppose there might be rare instances at livestock shows where you might see fluffy white cloud sheep, but most sheep I’ve ever seen in person are about as filthy as any other outdoor dwelling livestock, which is to say, fairly.
- Comment on Sorry Ezri 5 months ago:
New person, same stomach worm.
- Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads 5 months ago:
If you believe that laws forbidding gambling, sale of liquor, sale of contraceptives, requiring definite closing hours, enforcing the Sabbath, or any such, are necessary to the welfare of your community, that is your right and I do not ask you to surrender your beliefs or give up your efforts to put over such laws. But remember that such laws are, at most, a preliminary step in doing away with the evils they indict. Moral evils can never be solved by anything as easy as passing laws alone. If you aid in passing such laws without bothering to follow through by digging in to the involved questions of sociology, economics, and psychology which underlie the causes of the evils you are gunning for, you will not only fail to correct the evils you sought to prohibit but will create a dozen new evils as well.
–Robert A. Heinlein, Take Back Your Government
- Comment on Playing Quake for the Story (A Franchise Retrospective) 6 months ago:
games like Blood
Hot damn, but I loved Blood. Duke Nukem for H. P. Lovecraft dorks!
- Comment on xkcd #2869: Puzzles 6 months ago:
It helped me understand what the hell was going on with Batman Forever when I realized that the whole thing was riddled with tributes to the Adam West Batman.
Once Jim Carrey gets up a head of steam, he is doing a full on impersonation of Frank Gorshin as the Riddler. Look at Gorshin in this scene. Carrey is doing an incredible Gorshin act.
Now I don’t want that and I don’t appreciate it, but once I understood where all of the camp in Forever came from it make me quite so angry.
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 6 months ago:
See also: The Despecialized Edition of the Star Wars Original Trilogy
- Comment on Mirror Kira liked to make an entrance. 6 months ago:
I like to imagine that a mirror universe / mind swap / space madness episode is always fun for the actors. After playing the same character for years they get to try out something different. Must be a nice change of pace.
- Comment on — Mrs. McMurray 7 months ago:
I’ve been out of the loop on most of the recent series, but there still isn’t really cursing like this in Star Trek, is there? I remember thinking it felt really natural to have the BSG reboot characters yelling “Frak!” all the time. Even though it was technically a PG cuss, the way they made every use of it come out so Anglo Saxon-sounding. It just makes sense that every once in a while someone’s got to get some swears out, even in space.
- Comment on How did money work on deep space 9? 7 months ago:
My SO and I say that all the chips they’re exchanging during the Enterprise-D poker games are exchangeable for sexual favors.
- Comment on How did money work on deep space 9? 7 months ago:
Looks nice. Non-reactive. Quark talks about gold-pressed latinum having a distinctive clink, so the gold would be a part of that.
- Comment on How did money work on deep space 9? 7 months ago:
Bajor isn’t part of the Federation, so they don’t have immediate access to all Federation tech. Also, even when they join, I’m not convinced that the Federation just hands new members everything. The Prime Directive is all about not interfering in a society’s natural growth, and although achieving warp travel is the major barrier to initiating First Contact, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were additional steps along the way once a planet has joined the Federation.
- Comment on How did money work on deep space 9? 7 months ago:
Having seen Avery Brooks give panels at cons, I can confidently say that all the times when Sisko got space madness or was holosuite transformed into a Bond villain or was otherwise acting like a madman… all of those performances are the real Avery Brooks, and the stolid, restrained, level-headed Sisko is the character that Avery Brooks uses his formidable acting skills to pretend to be.
- Comment on Starfleet may have a security problem 7 months ago:
Boy you Starfleet officers sure are a contentious lot!
- Comment on Thoughts on fixing production mistakes in remasters? 7 months ago:
Leave them all in. Remasters are for restoring a work to as close as possible to the way it was meant to look when it was released, and nothing more. You wouldn’t look at a painting by da Vinci or Vermeer and say “Hey the perspective is off there,” or “That kind of bird doesn’t belong in that time and place,” and then “fix” the painting in the process of restoring it.
The creator(s) made a series of decisions during the original process of creation. Maybe some of them were mistakes, but they were their mistakes to make, and not anyone else’s to try and second guess after the fact. Once you start down that path, there’s nothing preventing George Lucas style special edition madness.
- Comment on Garak is my spirit animal (new and improved) 7 months ago:
Remake of Three’s Company with Garak, Julian, and Dax sharing an apartment, and Quark as the landlord.
- Comment on bro pls 7 months ago:
- Comment on TIL that Jordie directed some episodes 7 months ago:
Any time I see “Directed by LeVar Burton” I know I’m in for a good time. He was fantastic at directing episodes with heavy interpersonal stories.
- Comment on Just some fun size comparisons 8 months ago:
Tough little ship!