psud
@psud@aussie.zone
- Comment on I love the future. 34 minutes ago:
The US has an inefficient electoral system for president. It’s not uncommon that low approval people win
Those of us who have better systems things go better.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 1 day ago:
So we have lemmy.ml. they don’t seem to learn
- Comment on we are not so different 5 days ago:
Thanks, I think I picked up that idea from that SeaWorld. I’ll stop repeating it now.
- Comment on we are not so different 5 days ago:
It’s scientific name is Eudyptula novaehollandiae
It’s common name in Australia in general was ‘fairy penguin’, but there has been effort to boost alternative names because they word fairy was a pejorative name for gay men
- Comment on Infinite Hotel Paradox 1 week ago:
Let’s leave some space for all the types of infinities and only fill every hundredth room
- Comment on Infinite Hotel Paradox 1 week ago:
The hotel should really just fill its even numbers rooms first, then if another person turned up after you already have an infinity of guests, you just house this start of a new Infinity in room 1 etc
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 1 month ago:
I just watched the megalag videos on the glasses — the first episode of three — and the claim is they cut out confusing areas of colour that abnormal chromats see.
So if it worked, it only works for people with abnormal versions of one of the three normal colour vision sensors, and only if their deficiency is in green, and then only if it’s the correct degree of deficient
But it doesn’t work anyway.
The glasses help people see the number in some sheets in the colourblindness test, but hide the number in others. Their colour blindness would appear slightly worse than reality.
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 1 month ago:
If they had worked they might have done so by some sort of contrast enhancement or edge detection, but I don’t think either are possible with just optics
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 1 month ago:
Loads of people are suspicious of coupon schemes. They look dodgy. It’s no wonder that people come along after one of these schemes turns out to actually be a scam to say “see, I knew these things were bad” with the only evidence being that they never subscribed to it
Their fault is they claim it was this one specifically
- Comment on Elon Musk uses cybertruck explosion to show Tesla can remotely unlock and monitor vehicles 1 month ago:
You can opt out of Tesla monitoring too
- Comment on Elon Musk uses cybertruck explosion to show Tesla can remotely unlock and monitor vehicles 1 month ago:
I’m impressed it was still online and able to be remote unlocked after that explosion and fire
- Comment on Elon Musk uses cybertruck explosion to show Tesla can remotely unlock and monitor vehicles 1 month ago:
They can be opened with a battery angle grinder
- Comment on Elon Musk uses cybertruck explosion to show Tesla can remotely unlock and monitor vehicles 1 month ago:
With Tesla you can opt out. Other brands that do the same generally have no way to opt out
It’s part of the current trend to not let you be the final decision maker on IT equipment you own. Your phone does all it can to prevent you getting root access. Your home computer/laptop has a second processor in it running code you can’t change to enforce DRM
- Comment on Shit Post 1 month ago:
I drank a lot over the course of last year to this year, so five times for me. Normally it’s like twice a week
- Comment on Two decades after Enron’s bankruptcy, the company is back as a crypto firm? 1 month ago:
It’s a parody conspiracy theory, in the same way as the flying spaghetti monster was a parody religion. People participated “eyes open” (aware it was parody, doing it as a joke) others adopted it “eyes closed” (believing it)
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 1 month ago:
The “may” in that is that we really don’t know which way population will go after we hit peak population.
It might stabilise, it might drop, it might drop precipitously
The prediction I recently saw was the latter, a fast population drop after a peak
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 1 month ago:
Immigration is going to stop working as developing countries develop
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 1 month ago:
They already have robots taking orders and payments, I think the last thing that will be automated in Maccas will be burger assembly
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 1 month ago:
the population problem
That’s on track. Children are too expensive now so birth rates everywhere are below replacement rates already or will be soon
We may find the real population problem is we will have fewer smart people to help us fix the climate problem
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 1 month ago:
But governments are not willing to do the one thing that would make for higher fertility - make the country a nice place to live, with enough support for parents so having a child isn’t an economic disaster
I wonder what my country will be like with half the number of people. We’re building so many houses, my town has two new suburbs opened in the last ten years as we head toward peak population, but our fertility rate is just over 1.6, replacement rate is 2.1. many countries are worse
- Comment on A love story 1 month ago:
When you imagine you’re fucking the next Che Guevara but it’s really a cop. That’s got to suck.
- Comment on Accused killer of US insurance CEO pleads not guilty to 'terrorist' murder 2 months ago:
Specifically terrorism requires that he did a murder to try to change government policy. I don’t think it’s possible to prove he did terrorism
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- Comment on ugh i wish 2 months ago:
We live in a microplastic flavoured world mate. I don’t recall talking smack about milk
- Comment on brains! 2 months ago:
But not electrical. 20W of power, but not electrical power
- Comment on ugh i wish 2 months ago:
Meat lasts longer than that. I buy vacuum packed whole prime cuts of meat for about 10 to 12 days, that tastes as good on day 12 (out of vac pack for 2 days) as it did on day 1
- Comment on ugh i wish 2 months ago:
I recall they were telling us it needed to be pretty much exactly 70% to sanitise hands during COVID
- Comment on ugh i wish 2 months ago:
It would suck the water out of your mouth :)
- Comment on Turkey Temptation 2 months ago:
I’m a homebrewer, so I have a boiler large enough to sous vide a turkey (or a lamb), but I do wonder where one would find a large enough bag, I think you’d have to weld several bags together
- Comment on 360 Degrees Owl 2 months ago:
The first guard was killed by neck snapping, the second guard was immune
