RememberTheApollo_
@RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 19 hours ago:
Why?
The internet at large is still a cesspool.
The only difference is who is in control of it.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 2 days ago:
Could it not be both?
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 2 days ago:
I deleted Threads five days ago.
It was a cesspool of (Russian? Troll Farm?) propaganda attacking Harris for not having any accomplishments for the last four years, complaining about housing, grocery, egg, and gas prices, “fixing” America, a crapton of pro-jesus stuff, pro-Elon comments and reposts, government money going to “illegals” instead of hurricane victims, and a ton of made up lies. …
All of which were as transparent as fuck why they were wrong. VP’s don’t make policy, so what accomplishments should she have? Housing has been going up for a decade+, it’s not new, egg prices were normal while the pics were of organic egg prices and expensive grocery carts had hidden high cost items or just straight up lied about the cost, gas prices are the lowest they’ve been for years. Jesus stuff praised trump, America, tons of AI generated “holy” trump pics, bashed atheists, posted Elon’s BS pseudo-wisdom, Ignored the $20Bn spent on hurricane relief in favor of a few hundred million housing the undocumented workers living in the affected area…
It was infuriating. Because they were so obviously wrong…blatantly, in-your-face, completely fucking wrong. It was a constant flood of lies. Eight out of nine posts were BS.
But as soon as the election swung in Trump’s favor…poof…it went quiet. Hardly a peep. Gone.
And I realize that Threads was captured completely by troll farm bots spewing right-wing propaganda. And it was a waste of time. So my account will be deleted.
- Comment on To deter predators... 3 days ago:
This is the correct answer.
Life is programmed to make more of itself. Successful life means more successful reproduction and numbers.
Just because we consume that life doesn’t mean that it failed in any way; quite the opposite, if we propagate that life because we find it desirable for some reason that life has become more successful than its competitors.
Everything from apple trees to cattle have become incredibly successful thanks to humans’ desire for them and being the benefactors of their propagation. They are the winners in a backhanded sort of way.
- Comment on Respect 1 week ago:
Somewhere in TX?
All the people killing the Bluebonnets, trampling them for photo ops, or even dangerously stopping in breakdown lanes on the freeway to access Bluebonnets in the median for more pics.
- Comment on Patient gamers, what are your favorite OSTs? 1 week ago:
Bit dated, but at the time Descent II’s Redbook sountrack was pretty good for ‘96.
- Comment on pump up the jamz 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 2 weeks ago:
Why come to lemmy if you’re not down for linux?
I dunno, maybe the brothel gas a restaurant with a good prime rib special.
- Comment on The grand prize 2 weeks ago:
No idea why the difference in price. I checked again and it still shows $340/ton on a UK site, another shows $335/ton, some higher for powders or carbide, some way lower for scrap.
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 2 weeks ago:
If every prostitute approached you and had to tell you how much better she is at something than your current SO/wife, and you’re not there for service.
Then it would be like Lemmy.
- Comment on The grand prize 2 weeks ago:
Good thing I’m not an accountant
- Comment on The grand prize 2 weeks ago:
Let’s say that cube is 4.5’ a side. That’s 91.125 cu ft. Tungsten weighs 1,201.738 lb/cu ft. Which means the cube weighs 109,508.38 lb.
That’s an impressively sturdy floor.
Currently, tungsten is selling at about $340 USD/ton.
The block weighs 54,754.19 tons.
So this is indeed a fantastic prize at $18,616,425 USD.
All you have to do to claim your prize is get it home.
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 2 weeks ago:
Yep. Agreed - except it is yet another avenue for monetization should it take hold. People keep acting like the fediverse is some kind of incorruptible platform.
- Comment on Be happy if you woke up today and your throat didn’t hurt. 2 weeks ago:
The feeling when you physically notice your cold improving, you can breathe through both nostrils, and you don’t feel fatigued and sore anymore is an amazing feeling.
- Comment on Has SpaceX Done Anything NASA Hasn't? 3 weeks ago:
Well, yes. That is true.
- Comment on WHAT 3 weeks ago:
Guns are fun and make everything fear you. Fear = respect. Also, wildlife is yours to kill if you like.
Teaching children valuable life lessons early on.
/s
- Comment on Has SpaceX Done Anything NASA Hasn't? 3 weeks ago:
Yes. The shuttle was both rocket and spacecraft, obviously controllable for landing The Shuttle SRBs were reusable. They were not controllable for landing, but nonetheless they did land in a state that allowed reuse.
Musk achieved powered flight for landing his rockets, but even NASA had a long history of research with VTOL powered rockets that were not used for spaceflight.
He can certainly claim to have perfected it, but he certainly didn’t invent it.
- Comment on Cognitive Biases 3 weeks ago:
I’d love to see a list of names for writing devices used by trolls/propagandists thar generate completely false information of varying types. Forced binary choices when a third way is valid or the choices aren’t even related. Most of them are just plain old lies, so I don’t think the list would be too long.
- Comment on Proud globohomo 3 weeks ago:
Iv’e spent enough time on Threads where seeing this is exactly what I would expect there. Warped my sense of what is real.
- Comment on Proud globohomo 3 weeks ago:
Twitter or Threads? Threads has got some of the stupidest people, biggest trolls, or Dollar Store AI writing stuff on the platfom. It’s literally so bad that I have a genuinely hard time anyone could be so stupid writing the posts.
- Comment on So bad it was actually entertaining 3 weeks ago:
It was often owner/managers that couldn’t stay the f out of the way of employees who knew what they were doing, didn’t have a menu that was cost- and manpower-effective, or didn’t get rid of bad employees.
The show was obviously edited for effect, but IIRC the businesses were legit. They were usually on their last financial “leg”, and owners would give up.
Virtually all the failures otherwise were because the owner or management refused to follow Ramsay’s advice.
- Comment on Probably 4 weeks ago:
Should be a sleep therapist.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
TBF, life’s objective is to reproduce and keep its genetic materials continuing on. Even if humans propagate and consume said plant because they find it desirable, that is still a success for the plant. So even if it has toxic caffeine or fiery capsaicin to deter some pests and humans find it enjoyable, the plant wins.
- Comment on Fruit Flies 4 weeks ago:
I’m sure the meme is apocryphal, and it’s not entirely correct. Fruit flies do eat yeast, yes…but they also eat the sugars in the fermenting fruit, not just the microorganisms causing fruit decay. I don’t know about the larvae at all, though.
- Comment on The Butterfly Man 4 weeks ago:
Hmm. You can see menderash’s comics. Def a little different.
- Comment on Three Mile Island owner seeks $1.6 billion federal loan to restart nuclear plant for Microsoft AI facility 1 month ago:
I’m sure the taxpayers will never be on the hook for that loan.
- Comment on Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete 1 month ago:
“Jailbroken”
- Comment on I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences 1 month ago:
Another aficionado, I see.
- Comment on I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences 1 month ago:
Free porn site. Nothing too radical.
- Comment on PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off 1 month ago:
Ads have ruined the internet. Truly.
