Olhonestjim

@Olhonestjim@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Why won’t the cattle enter the chute?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They Wylin'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Gaaaaay

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've heard New Yorkers are devastated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Should be. Never will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh absolutely. Regulating emissions and mass carbon capture by replanting forests, then burying them is the only way. Ain’t like it would be even so easy as launching millions of shade satellites. An entire automated zero g manufacturing industry would have to be launched. And while that tickles my scifi nerd fancy, again, we can never allow a scant few humans to gatekeep space resources for themselves. That’s too much wealth and power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He probably means it’ll feed the poor into a wood chipper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This exact same technology naturally allows capitalists to force everyone to pay not to have their sunlight blocked during the day.

  I mean, the technology certainly has benefits, not in reflecting sunlight onto the dark side of the Earth. Nobody fucking needs that. Instead it should be used to shade a few percent of sunlight in order to control Earth’s warming climate.

  But rich people gotta fuck things up. No single entity must ever be allowed to control orbital megastructures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only way Christianity makes any sense to me within the real world (aside from it being not real) is if Satan wrote the Bible pretending to be God, while denigrating the good guy as the rebellious angel Lucifer. If Satan had written the Bible instead of God, would you expect more genocide, slavery, torture, and rape, or less? So why is there any in the first place?

  Look at 2000 years of Christian history. As soon as they could, they usurped political power in the most powerful nation in the area; Rome. Then began slaughtering and torturing anyone anywhere who thought different. They claimed divine rights and authority. They committed genocide in every single nation on the planet over nearly 2000 years. They perfected the dark arts of torture. They conquered earthly territory and plundered earthly wealth. They slaughtered so many that they built orphanages the world over where they could claim divine morality, but also rape children for centuries.

  What did Lucifer do exactly? He told the first people that God was a lying dick and they should rebel against him, as he did.

  Wouldn’t you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad but true⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I ain’t terrible to look at these days, but I was quite attractive in my youth. But I’ll tell you what, being raised by right wing religious nutjobs can fuck up even that advantage. I’m better now, but I used to be much worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably 2 of the biggest reasons the Greeks failed to become a technological civilization are that their various feuding city-states never united in cooperation, but primarily that they were super into slavery for all their labor. They didn’t want to make slaves work less, then they would have time and energy to rebel and slaughter their masters. No, scientific advancement was simply for curiosity’s sake, not practical applications.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Yeah well, my god is invisible!”

  “Dude, you can’t look at ours or you’ll burn your eyes out.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you think that thing won’t have trackers everywhere, you’re dreaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s some kid’s half-assed science project.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shape up.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We have exactly that now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Base 60 can do 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, and 12.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3135: Sea Level⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at one spot and see how it repeats. Like the tides between South America and Africa kind of rotates through the Atlantic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal genres⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a fuckin new guy to metal. My best friend got me into Ozzy on high school. Dimmu Borgir live in Oslo with the choir and orchestra finally made harsh vocals click for me. I like thrash, speed, power, melodic, folk, prog, and some select black metal. I try not to support Nazi bands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3135: Sea Level⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The pictures they used to teach the tides as a child came to make less sense to me in regards to certain places having higher tides than others. That animation clarified how tides are ordered by the Moon and made chaotic by the shapes of land. The planetary ocean bulges they taught us as kids stuck with me too long and prevented deeper understanding. It finally clicked for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3135: Sea Level⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, that clarifies things so much better for me. Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3135: Sea Level⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  See, that’s the part that confuses the hell outta me. How can water be higher in one spot than others just due to the Moon’s gravity? Yeah it’s the geography of the area, got it. But still, how?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IcanfixherIcanfixherIcanfixherIcanfixher⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not even remotely tempting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution: 🖕⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fascism is when capitalists control the government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.