Olhonestjim
@Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 3 days ago:
Is belt mounted the only attachment option? Asking for a friend.
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 1 week ago:
There are still new albums occasionally released on 8 tracks too, and even a couple on Edison cylinders. Anachronism is collectable.
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 1 week ago:
Good. Make them run. Nip at their heels. Give them no rest or any place to hide until we corner them and take back from them everything.
The rich are worthless. They bring nothing at all to the table. Their net value to humanity is negative. They only hoard.
- Comment on Eye Bleach 1 week ago:
I have hummingbird feeders. One day I was peeing in my garden and one flew thru my stream.
Does that make me a Disney princess?
Unrelated, I actually have had a songbird alight upon my finger early one morning while watching the sunrise. I screamed and hurled it back into the sky.
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 1 week ago:
Or if every Universe begins with a white hole, you now have a set of keys to the Multiverse.
- Comment on Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents 1 week ago:
Improving safety is the never-ending cry of a nanny state. The world is already spectacularly safe. Most of the things that used to eat us are so long dead that we have forgotten to be cautious in the wilderness.
And yeah, after seeing idiot losers trashing places like Yellowstone, I am absolutely fine when they get themselves killed in the middle of nowhere. I’m happier if they get rescued and learn from the experience, but we don’t need to toy with Kessler Syndrome to incrementally improve their odds.
- Comment on Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents 1 week ago:
It’s about needless overreach. None of those reasons you listed justify constellations of 10k+ satellites in LEO just for internet access. That is an unmitigated global disaster in the making. Solutions to all of that exist. Radios work for comms in disasters right now and have for decades. Governments should simply run fiber to every small town and village. If someone has an off-grid house, they know what they’re getting into. Remote research installations are a niche case and simply do not justify a global satellite network on their own, not when all the other cases listed fail to justify it as well.
If somebody wants to travel to or live in a remote area, that also doesn’t justify such a network. They’re doing that to get away, not to stay connected. They are taking the risks that come with it.
- Comment on Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents 1 week ago:
People should learn to navigate if they’re going into the wilderness, and face the consequences if they don’t.
- Comment on Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents 1 week ago:
Fascism is when capitalists control the government.
- Comment on Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents 1 week ago:
Life is not safe. Adventure even less so. The loss of the night sky and the risk of Kessler syndrome is not outweighed by a slight convenience allowing influencers to stream video and hit social media while pretending to get away from it all.
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 2 weeks ago:
His name really is Tim Apple now.
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 2 weeks ago:
How are they gonna pay for all these child sex slaves?!
- Comment on Be nice 3 weeks ago:
Legal limit of 2 per household. Illegal for corporations to own housing of any kind. Immediate sell-off mandatory.
- Comment on Have most people never seen a full starry night sky 3 weeks ago:
It was enough for me to move to a dark sky site. Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy cities and city people. But this was affordable and breathtaking, and I’m a natural hermit anyway.
- Comment on Be nice 3 weeks ago:
A concession to vacation homes. So long as there are enough homes for everyone, I see little problem with it. Restoring the wilderness and everyone learning to camp would be better.
- Comment on Be nice 3 weeks ago:
Fuck rent. Home ownership. And 2 homes max.
- Comment on Be nice 3 weeks ago:
Housing.
- Comment on Human civilization won't last forever; someday there will be a last movie ever made 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 3 weeks ago:
You shouldn’t go to restaurants at all if you’re averse to tipping. Only by starving the industry can the policy be scrapped. Don’t take it out on the workers. Hold the owners to account.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 3 weeks ago:
See this? That’s Unobtainium.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like someone has never been with a woman enough to understand she needs time with just the girls. If they’re in the house chatting, you can either leave, or shut up and bring snacks. Either way, give them space.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I really appreciate reading those posts, but I have mistakenly replied and had to preemptively delete my post several times now. I wouldn’t mind a ban that would allow me to read without making that mistake again.
- Comment on YSK: This recent war on adult content was mostly started by a single law in 2018, pushed by a few evangelical groups pretending to fight sexual exploitation 4 weeks ago:
Always has been their goal.
- Comment on xkcd #3121: Kite Incident 4 weeks ago:
Not hold onto enough kites to circle the Earth kind of strong.
- Comment on xkcd #3121: Kite Incident 4 weeks ago:
The line should snap long before that.
- Comment on As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution 4 weeks ago:
I have always wondered about distributed hosting, like BitTorrent, but for websites. You go to a webpage, and it gets seeded from however many people host the file. It should be harder to take down. Is that a thing? Why not?
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 4 weeks ago:
My grandparents had one very much like this. It was so much fancier than ours. It even had a remote!
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 4 weeks ago:
But the ones who remain get worse and worse.
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 4 weeks ago:
Oh they’re still going after books.
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 4 weeks ago:
Well, Fallout 1 definitely allows it, and I don’t believe necessitates unethical behavior in order to achieve. It’s just a challenging and rewarding questline that I wish more games would emulate.