neanderthal
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- Comment on American house 1 week ago:
Sort of. Another way of thinking about it. Clips feed magazines, magazines feed guns.
- Comment on American house 1 week ago:
clips.
Magazines. Magazines include a feeding mechanism, usually a spring. Clips just hold bullets together.
- Comment on American house 1 week ago:
They all have mags in them. Hopefully they aren’t chambered.
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 1 week ago:
The AI was trained on a combination of cat videos and sponge bob
- Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly 10 months ago:
Unless you REALLY need color, just buy a Brother BW laser printer. Toner doesn’t dry up. It is all but guaranteed to be the cheapest option. I bought the scanner BW laser printer combo like 8 years ago for $130.
- Comment on YSK that chiropractors are not medical doctors and "Systematic reviews... have found no evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective" 11 months ago:
Which is completely irrelevant to the legitimacy of chiropractic.
- Comment on YSK that chiropractors are not medical doctors and "Systematic reviews... have found no evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective" 11 months ago:
When is the last time you went to a hospital and saw a chiropractic department? When was the last time you went to a hospital and saw an orthopedics department? I have never had an MD recommend I see a chiropractor, but I have been sent to an orthopedist who sent me to PT. It worked.
- Comment on Rivian says "fat finger" caused software update to brick infotainment systems, physical servicing may be required 11 months ago:
I would think they would keep at least 1 of each model/trim of vehicle for testing these things. This leads me to believe one of the following:
- Too tight of deadlines
- Cheap management won’t pay for testing time or units
- Culture of pencil whipping
- A bad apple didn’t do their job, which should be caught by procedures
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Maybe if you provide a few examples, it would help provide some insight?
- Comment on We all know this happens everyday. 1 year ago:
You are my people.
- Comment on We all know this happens everyday. 1 year ago:
Parking lots that are only close to full on Black Friday and Christmas Eve.
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- Comment on Sisko was kind of crazy... 1 year ago:
You may be right in that using nukes was the wrong call. IMO, it seems like it was the best of bad options.
Saying there is no excuse and you disagree with something are two different things. The phrase “no excuse” is saying you think it is objectively wrong in a way that sounds like it isn’t just your opinion. I don’t think you mean it that way, I’m just explaining why I really don’t like that phrase.
As bad as the nukes were, the conventional bombing of Tokyo was probably worse. Over 100k civilians were killed with 1,000,000+ left homeless.
- Comment on Sisko was kind of crazy... 1 year ago:
I don’t like the phrase “no excuse”. I’m a particularist. E.g. There is no excuse for shooting someone. Shooting a person actively shooting up an elementary school is fine in my book.
- Comment on Sisko was kind of crazy... 1 year ago:
Sisko is my favorite. I don’t think it was going off the deep end as much as using the same strategy the US used by nuking Japan. Japan had no chance at that point and continuing conventional war would have been more costly in terms of lives lost and property damage. Using nukes crushed any hope they had of continuing the war and have their prideful government an out that preserves their ego.
In DS9, it sent the message that the federation is can and will annihilate the dominion to defend themselves and the god complex of the changelings was pure delusion.
- Comment on Linux file system developer: we're severely under-resourced 1 year ago:
What kind of non-coding work do you need done?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
That would is a good episode idea. Their warp engine dies, so they have to send a shuttle to go get parts to fix it. In the mean time, they jury rig the remaining shuttles life support into the main ship and put as many crew members in medically induced comas as possible to reduce the load on it.
- Comment on Climate change complacency is biggest risk to our economy and security - report 1 year ago:
You are why individual action matters. Replacing your power source will take years. I can eat 5 less cheeseburgers a year right now and start slowing demand for beef production almost immediately. If the whole world does this, we start slowing things down a bit and buy time for things like your grid situation to be fixed.
- Comment on Climate change complacency is biggest risk to our economy and security - report 1 year ago:
Without commenting any of your other points, saying that “our stuff is made by corporations so it’s the individuals fault for buying it”
I didn’t mean it in a way to pass blame, but to empower.
Yes they’re nice, good on you for doing it, but does it really fix any of the pressing issues?
If a billion people make an effort, then it certainly helps. It will require individual action AND systemic changes.
We really need an all hands on deck effort here. We are racing down a mountain towards a cliff with a buried speedometer. Individual action is removing our foot from the accelerator. Systemic action is applying the brakes. We might have to crash into the side of the mountain to avoid going over the edge, so let’s try and slow down as much as we can first.
- Comment on Climate change complacency is biggest risk to our economy and security - report 1 year ago:
I think some of this is defeatism and blaming the corporations. Corporations are about half the problem IMO. The stuff we all buy is made by these corporations. Buy less stuff. Buy quality. Repair stuff. Buy used stuff. Drive less. Don’t buy a canyonero or monster truck to drive in a suburb. Rent a truck if you need one, you’ll save $$$$ and emissions. Beef is a huge culprit. Eat less beef. Other meats tend to be cheaper anyway. Replace meat in a meal with rice and beans or lentils. You will also save money.
Vote for ending car dependency in cities and suburbs.
Talk to people. Mention saving money to retire early. Most people think work sucks.
- Comment on No More Windows! Indian Defence Services are Switching to Linux: Indian Govt offices to use Linux distribution, replacing Microsoft Windows 1 year ago:
Good question…me too. Most office apps are browser based now. Sometimes you have to build things from source to get bleeding edge versions of things, but a good Linux admin will have no trouble rolling their own repo with their own packages for the bleeding edge stuff. Most of the time the repo versions are fine though. The only thing I maintain from source on my personal machine is GnuCash.