Olhonestjim
@Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
- Comment on Sad but true 6 days 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 2 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. 5 weeks 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? 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Maybe it’s some kid’s half-assed science project.
- Comment on Shape up. 1 month ago:
We have exactly that now.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 month ago:
Base 60 can do 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, and 12.
- Comment on xkcd #3135: Sea Level 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Ok, that clarifies things so much better for me. Thank you.
- Comment on xkcd #3135: Sea Level 1 month 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 1 month 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.
- 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 months 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 months ago:
How are they gonna pay for all these child sex slaves?!
- Comment on Be nice 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Fuck rent. Home ownership. And 2 homes max.
- Comment on Be nice 2 months ago:
Housing.