qyron
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- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 4 days ago:
Because real dogs refuse the job.
- Comment on EU slaps Meta with a nearly 800 million euro fine for engaging in 'abusive' Marketplace practices 6 days ago:
That had Monthy Python vibes.
- Comment on same as it ever was 6 days ago:
I didn’t. I don’t care about the votes system; you engaged me in conversation, I replied, let’s keep going. Does not care if we disagree on our views, we’re discussing ideas and that matters by itself.
You’re right. The value of anything, especially art, resides on the eye of the person looking at it, so, at this point, I will admit defeat on my previous argument.
- Comment on same as it ever was 6 days ago:
Tagging is a form of urban cancer on its own. Full stop. But depending on what is writen, the border between reactionism and vandalism blurs.
I grew up in a very urban setting, after a political revolution, and the graffiti on the walls were words of anger, of calling out those who had cooperated with the old regime, slurs, etc.
Every word, line, trace, was disfiguring the buildings, statues and whatever surface it landed on but carried meaning, a message.
The Pompeii graffiti were gratuitous in nature but it was a city and part of a civilization know for being prone to excess. Today, those graffiti are living testaments of our colective history, although not much diferent from common and crude public bathroom scribbles.
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 6 days ago:
Memes come and go too fast for that.
- Comment on same as it ever was 6 days ago:
This isn’t garbage, this is good banter.
A bored guy engraving runes at an height of 3.8 meters just to mess with the next guy reading it, an artist or worker sculpting his name into a work, ordered by the class in power (church) just to give the finger to the clergy, Mozart creating a piece to get revenge on the rich class that held him prisoner to work on what was asked to him instead of having liberty to create as he pleased…
Good, old fashioned, rebellion.
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 6 days ago:
This is what I call a master class on starting a soft revolution: you take over a symbol of the opposite ideology, in the most outrageous and ridiculous way, make it known to all, and completely subvert it and deconstruct it, piece by piece, until it stops making any sense to its former self.
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 1 week ago:
Security risk, by their own admissal.
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 1 week ago:
Please don’t.
I am aware what Discord is for and respect it but it’s ectic to be in a Discord room. Signal does not need it.
- Comment on How do you even call that? 5 months ago:
You can hammer it, quench it and sharpen it after that.
- Comment on Park rules 5 months ago:
Still awsome.
- Comment on Park rules 5 months ago:
Where is this?
- Comment on I thought umm.. 5 months ago:
That’s cute. And complies with the universal rule of “if it fits”.
- Comment on Parfait au pork 5 months ago:
Burn it by fire.
- Comment on Cable TV providers ruined cable—now they’re coming for streaming 5 months ago:
In my country, cable providers offer streaming subscriptions bundled with their standard service since pre-CoViD.
I knew Netflix was a thing because my provider started announcing I could add it to my service for an extra €3.
Didn’t get it regardless.
- Comment on Parfait au pork 5 months ago:
Burn this abomination.
- Comment on Xbox president: Studio closures will ensure 'business is healthy for the long term' 6 months ago:
- Comment on Xbox president: Studio closures will ensure 'business is healthy for the long term' 6 months ago:
I can’t agree with you.
The major share holder of a game studio, with a major success on its portfolio, already working on other projects, decided he wanted to move away from it as the day to day work had become too demanding and made his part of the studio available for purchase, in fact cashing out on a very large sum of money.
I really can’t see where that is “apples to oranges”, concerning the current debate on studios being bought out and shut down on the turn of a dime.
Are game studios some separate entity that exist exempt of the at work business logic or human nature? Studios are companies created to generate profit for its founders, that will most likely take the opportunity to cash out when presented.
By contrast, independent authors/creators are becoming a growing force to be respected - which is very good - but will such authors be immune to selling their work for a high offer their work if such opportunity presents itself? Hopefully, they will, but I won’t bet on it, neither for nor against.
- Comment on Xbox president: Studio closures will ensure 'business is healthy for the long term' 6 months ago:
Don’t know if I would. Never had such an offer, never will.
I’m not very invested in the game/game studio culture but boiled down it gets to either a private owner or a board of directors deciding if it is the right moment to cash out.
- Comment on Xbox president: Studio closures will ensure 'business is healthy for the long term' 6 months ago:
I won’t bet on that, neither for nor against.
Look at the guy that created Minecraft. He was passionate about his work, had a company that was doing great and with prospect of future growth.
One thousand millions later and the guy checks out a boat load of money and sell off the company: he already had his.
- Comment on PSA: Don't eat cicadas if you're allergic to shellfish... or at all 6 months ago:
Chtulhu was taking notes, I risk.
- Comment on Renewable energy passes 30% of world’s electricity supply 6 months ago:
I really wish that is true but I seriously doubt it. Although my country made a hard shift into renewables (hydro, wind and solar, more recently) to the point we have had entire days when those sources alone can provide the necessary energy to run the country, while fully deactivating coal centrals and only maintaining on or two gas powered, storage hasn’t been a great concern, unless we count green hydrogen as such, with a plant to be built somewhere in the near future (or not).
- Comment on PSA: Don't eat cicadas if you're allergic to shellfish... or at all 6 months ago:
What have I just read in this thread?
- Comment on PSA: Don't eat cicadas if you're allergic to shellfish... or at all 6 months ago:
Can we see, if only a page, of those books? Please?
That is the kind of unusual things from other times every person should get in touch with.
- Comment on Renewable energy passes 30% of world’s electricity supply 6 months ago:
But meanwhile, when price of energy enters negative figures, it’s the solar farms that get ordered to shut down operation.
- Comment on Adding insulation to an old house. 10 months ago:
Taking some available space away is a given.
Many places have a long experience in dealing with cold, which my country lacks, hence I’m asking here for advice. The default solution was either endure it or burn more wood.
I may be able to shave off one or two centimeters of the total volume required as the walls are currently covered with a very thick layer of cement that was set with no concern to prior levelling the stone (in places where the mortars started to fail I chipped away to clear the loose material and there are spots where 2 to 3cm of cement could be saved just by grinding away an edge of a stone) but going by the solutions my market has available, I risk needing to layer up to 10cm of material on my walls.
I do intend to insulate floor and ceillings as they will be, for all practical purposes, rebuilt, as the current wood floors are thin.
The house is squeezed between a pedestrian street, where I can’t encroach, as there is little room already, and another house. I do have one wall I intend to insulate from the outside as it faces an empty plot.
Mineral wool I have been looking into it but I was warned it wicks moisture. Is this true?
- Comment on What's wrong babe, you barely touched your hot dog bologna cake 10 months ago:
Cooking it is not the objective.
- Comment on What's wrong babe, you barely touched your hot dog bologna cake 10 months ago:
Burn this. Burn it now. Burn it with fire.
- Comment on Adding insulation to an old house. 10 months ago:
Go for the medieval look.
- Comment on Adding insulation to an old house. 10 months ago:
That was the kind of thought I was looking for.