Warl0k3
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- Comment on It's always Brassica 21 hours ago:
I was thinking of the RCC tiles, probably should have considered that the white ones would just be health problems city. But the RCC carbon fibers are bound pretty completely in the graphite, so from all the reading I just did (please help me I desperately need a job all this free time is going to kill me) it should be safe to eat those so long as they’re not reduced to, say, a fine dust. Ground down to the consistency of cornmeal though, I can’t find anything that indicates it would be a particular risk?
- Comment on It's always Brassica 23 hours ago:
I think we can work with that, I’ve got a couple O-rings (not those ones) you could absolutely consume without issue. It’s probably not good to eat sharp parts like screws, but chunks of the heat tiles could be put in a pepper mill and used as a topping that way, or as a filler in a dense baked good like a scone. You could also eat any of the shielding foils, the gold foil used to protect against radiation especially would be totally safe and quite decorative.
- Comment on It's always Brassica 23 hours ago:
like a truck
Who doesn’t love to tuck into a big bowl of Mac & Cheese on their deathbed?
- Comment on It's always Brassica 23 hours ago:
It’s like a less offputting cauliflower, I really recommend it. It’s both beautiful, and quite tasty.
- Comment on It's always Brassica 23 hours ago:
“Orange romanesco”
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 1 day ago:
Okay.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 1 day ago:
I think I’ve already answered that in the previous comment. I’m not really interested in debating the ethics of downvoting or moderation in general in the middle of a discussion about a case of specific, contextual behavior.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 1 day ago:
Sure but that’s not what’s happening. The criticism isn’t for banning sock puppets or banning accounts for brigading, it’s for banning accounts that downvote “on-topic posts”, evidently even a single time. What you’re describing and what the mod in question is doing are distinct behaviors, as is what you’re describing and the concepts laid down in Jet’s “guidelines”.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 1 day ago:
That is some total whackjob reasoning.
A community means EXCLUDING people who don’t share a interest.
The actual fuck? This is the dumbest take I’ve seen in a while (including all the coverage of the Charlie Kirk shooting), and they try to justify it as being a rephrasing of “A community is for people who share an interest”?
This is just an unhinged way of justifying isolationism and silencing critics. It reads like it was written by the mods of r/conservative. Go touch some fuckin’ grass, dude.
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 1 day ago:
He was going for "look at how this incredibly complex textured surface looks like it’s just an outline now isn’t it wild???" but failed to realize that a big pile of bullshit painted black just looks like… a big pile of bullshit painted black. It’s almost impressive how boring his ideas were. “Look the corner is triangular wooOOoooOOOooo”. He didn’t even go with something meta, like a scale model of his super reflective Bean sculpture coated in the stuff.
Just such a fuckin’ waste that vapid asshole was the artist that got to play with the stuff.
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 1 day ago:
I award you the official title of “More Creative Than Kapoor”! It’s not a unique title, but it’s still one to bear with pride.
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 2 days ago:
“That sounds like actual investment into the art. Howabout instead I vantablack a heap in the middle of a room, leave it uncovered an let people walk around it? Same effect but soooo much less work for me, Anish Kapoor’s straw-filled bodydouble”
Seriously though, it was *so lame.* Even in photos, the effect was disappointing.
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 2 days ago:
This is drama from a decade ago so don’t take it as gospel: Iirc, the contract Kapoor signed with Surrey gave him the right to enforce the patent when used in art or aesthetic design applications. I can’t remember if he sues as an involved party on behalf of Surrey or if he somehow has the right to sue directly, but the effect is the same. Basically Surrey didn’t want to deal with enforicng it, and signed over that as part of the exclusivity deal.
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 2 days ago:
The effect is also completely ruined if you handle it, and the broken off nanotubes from handling it are a serious health hazard. It’s expensive, dangerous, extremely fragile and almost impossible to clean.
But like mostly, having seen “Anish Kapoor” (which is the real name of the installation where that dickhead debuted his vantablack art), it… sucks. It’s impressive in photographs, incredibly lame in person. And, it can’t be cleaned without ruining the coating! so the dust from all those people builds up and just ew.
(also, and just on a personal note, he had nine years and did absolutely nothing conceptually interesting with it. Seriously it was the early-2000s 3D movie of art. Just one gimmick, repeated over and over with no change to the formula. “Look, it’s black”. It felt more like an ad for the lab that developed the coating than an art exhibition). It would have been cool if he’d developed the process, but we all know he didn’t, so it just fell so comically flat.
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 4 days ago:
The joke is that OP is trying to discourage other people from reporting the shooter by implying that any promised financial reward is simply a ruse.
A noble enough goal so I don’t see much need to debunk it.
- Comment on The bullet engravings as per WSJ 4 days ago:
I think it’s just regular old photoshop.
- Comment on The bullet engravings as per WSJ 4 days ago:
Oh god, I can’t wait to see this reposted as actual evidence by that one uncld ffs…
- Comment on WEEEEEEEEEE!!!! 4 days ago:
Usually you see it for toolchests and generators, but it’s not uncommon to see things like portapottys hoisted up to prevent people tampering with them while nobody is at the site. You don’t want people coming in and dumping whatever garbage in there, like for example Charlie Kirk’s exsanguinated corpse.
- Comment on If fossil fuels aren't vegan that would mean almost nobody is actually vegan. 6 days ago:
Well that’s… needlessly hostile?
Vegans are aware of the damage the supply chain does, hence “buy local” being such a common phrase and the push to support small local farms. I’m not sure what you’re accomplishing besides hilighting that capitalism is an awful economic structure that incentives profit over environment, which sure good message, but most people choosing to adopt such a culturally despised practice are going to be aware of the blindingly obvious externalities already.
- Comment on Poll: Majority of Mexicans think bilateral relationship with US is deteriorating 1 week ago:
My point wasn’t that the US isn’t bad, I largely agree, just that most countries on that list are no better.
- Comment on Poll: Majority of Mexicans think bilateral relationship with US is deteriorating 1 week ago:
Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates
Look I’m not saying it’s not stunning to me mexico still has any diplomatic ties to the US given how fucking insane the trump admin has been, but if you’re looking to avoid countries that are in the midst of falling to the far right, maybe BRICS isn’t a great group to team up with.
- Comment on YSK that you can force Windows 10 to open your default browser instead of MS Edge with MSEdgeRedirect 1 week ago:
I know it’s a meme retort, but what about that was weird? The perception of elitism is one of the biggest reasons people don’t adopt linux; criticizing windows for it’s many spectacular flaws is a good thing to do, but “hacking” the OS to get it working is something we in the linux sphere do all the time (and most of us enjoy it, even). Besides that, using Group Policy or a registry flag to disable the edge takeover is arguably less hacky than the ritual bloodletting ceremonies I had to go through to get ARC drivers working in debian. Windows sucks, let’s just tell people the real reasons for it instead of setting them up for disappointment when they do eventually try linux.
- Comment on YSK that you can force Windows 10 to open your default browser instead of MS Edge with MSEdgeRedirect 1 week ago:
I know it’s not for the same reasons, but hacking your OS is a totally normal thing to have to do. It just mskes us look like the stereotype when we act smug about it (and not the flattering stereotype where we all get katanas and tickets to redmond)
- Comment on I just ate a little bag of popcorn without getting any bits stuck in my teeth/throat. ask me anything 2 weeks ago:
What’s it like, knowing that you’ve just peaked?
- Comment on I saw what you did there 2 weeks ago:
“This number has been disconnected. Please hang up now to try again…”
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 2 weeks ago:
A hole lot worse.
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 2 weeks ago:
Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” just got a whole lot worse.
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 2 weeks ago:
Quick, someone teach it the soundtrack to Doom
- Comment on The Mysterious Noise, The Empty Bottle, The Asshole Labmate 2 weeks ago:
Some bastard walked off with The Good Allen Wrenches again, and his corpse was found in a pile of unassembled IKEA.
Everything is reading 50 microvolts higher on the left side of the room and nobody knows why.
All my equipment was made in the 50s and its full of sand.
Which shipping dock is our crate sitting on? No, not that one either! (Better hurry, it’s starting to rain.)
They Turned The Overhead Lights On And All The Grad Students Shriveled Up And Died.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 2 weeks ago:
Why not just use a gender-neutral word
Because it’s not a gender-neutral problem. In a non-gendered language, an explicitly gendered term is generally used for strong emphasis. I’m sorry, I just don’t know why insights about semantics in a gendered language are relevant in a discussion of a non-gendered language. It’s not that it’s not interesting I just don’t know how to address this. Does german have the word “mansplaining” too…?
