LordGimp

@LordGimp@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you create?⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  As a welder, I create a ton of shit. Today, I created a new handle for a lathe, cut off the old one, and bolted on my part so the lathe functions (mostly).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a peaceful place⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I still miss the frito burrito. It was so good and it was like a dollar. The chips in the new “double beef” whatever $4 nonsense are always stale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes and no. The gravity of the sun will attract the rocket, but there are other things out in space besides the sun.

  The problem then is other planets will start whipping the garbage rocket around who knows where. Could even come back around and smash into earth. Same problem with the sun, actually. It’s quite hard to hit something that’s that big when we’re this far away. If you miss even a fraction of a decimal of a degree, the trash rocket will swing around and you’re back to planetary hot potato.

  It’s easier to sling the rocket past the south or north pole at a right angle to the solar plane. Up or down it’ll either keep going till it’s another suns problem or it joins the Oort cloud, which is kinda like a giant trash dump for everything that didn’t make it into our solar system when the sun formed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is only 1 choice⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck that dumb ocean centipede. Robin Williams is worth 20 ocean centipedes easy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You gotta fight the dick stuff with dick stuff. At least I know where my dick stuff has been

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half as Hot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  308.15K is not half of 343.15K

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horrors We've Unleashed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what vegans want. They want to take your virile bloodsucking proboscus and replace it with a limp dick fruit licker.

  BAN ALL VEGANS

  (Small /s)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah. From Nintendo’s position, you don’t “own” the game. They do. All you bought is a license to play the game on a Nintendo approved console. By ripping the game from the switch dump, you are violating the license you bought by copying their software without permission.

  From a practical perspective, fuckem. Your paid money to play the game and if you decide to play it on something else you own, go nuts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just had a talk about this exact topic in an interviewer today. Talked about how a growing number of companies on my resume no longer exist, and the guy interviewing me said he had the same thing. It’s a rough business world we live in. I’m not gonna hold the number of jobs a person has had against them. In fact, it speaks of experience. Not deep, but certainly wide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An out-of-warranty battery almost left this paralyzed man’s exoskeleton useless⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually, you’re right. But having the actual machine is only half the problem.

  Last place I was at we had this big beautiful ride along mill that was just magnificent. Between the attachments and tooling we had, it was capable of producing any part of itself down to the last nuts and bolts. With the right know how and materials, it was capable of self replication.

  We torched it for scrap. Not me, as a dumb dumb welder, but the business. There was nobody we could find with any combination of a) space to put it, b) ability to pay for it, and c) know how to run it. Best we ever managed was two of the three, and since there was no money in it for the business, they elected to cut it down for scrap value. Got one of the best t-tables I’ve ever had to weld on out of the deal, but it was still a travesty.

  So yes, while the machines work fine, it’s hard to find people with the skills to run them effectively, the space to actually house the machine, and the spare cash required buy and maintain it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An out-of-warranty battery almost left this paralyzed man’s exoskeleton useless⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember learning about this back when I took a smog certification class back in community College. Learned the only computer approved to run the modern smog diagnostic stuff is from 1986 and it’s made by like one company to this day.

  Add onto that all the dinosaur lathes and welding machines I’ve seen over my career and I wouldn’t be surprised seeing a commodore running the dmv database for the entire state at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Cancels Press Previews of Assassin's Creed Shadows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t argue that 40k panders to the LGBT crowd because fuckin obviously if you’ve ever even looked at a 40k title, but you also can’t really argue that 40k isn’t at least a little sexual.

  You got ratlings, pretty much everything slaanesh, aeldari waifus, and the entire Ciaphas Cain series. And while yeah, you don’t exactly get steamy love triangles in mainline 40k lore, you also have callidus assassin’s and sisters of silence popping up all the damn time. Sex isn’t the focus (mostly. Looking at you ciaphas) but it’s certainly present in the setting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a prompt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bro the last 2 “books” are so unbearably horny I barely finished them. I couldn’t finish the newest Cinder Spires book he put out for exactly the same reason. Jim was on such a good run doing awesome shit between Changes and Skin Game, but I guess losing his dog and then his marriage really pushed him into a return to horny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a prompt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hasn’t been anything “recent” for me. Check out the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. My favorite depiction of “fae” in a modern setting. Yeah, you still have dew drop fairies and gnomes and shit but you also have giant fuckass murder ogres and insane kelpies and war unicorns.

  The second Hellboy movie also did a great job bringing that sort of grimdark feel to the fae lore imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a prompt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Goblins ain’t got shit on Nuckelavee. Or redcap for that matter. Little bastards murder lone travelers and dye their eponymous hats in the blood of their victims.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a prompt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I always like the analogy of man’s relationship with an ant is how it would be with a fae or elder species and man.

  Like if an ant managed to attract the attention of a human and requested it kill a specific ant, the human would respond by simply killing the entire colony as they can’t distinguish one individual ant from another.

  That’s what the fae do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So toasting a sammich is cooking, but making the sammich isn’t?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft for AI energy demands.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lolol really? Taking into account the whole life cycle? Did they factor in how long it’s going to take to decontaminate, say, Chernobyl? That’s unfair, because that was an accident. How about Lake Karachay?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft for AI energy demands.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s worse than stumbling into a mine. Look up RTGs. They’re nuclear batteries that have half lives of ~90 years that the USSR loved to sprinkle all over the woods when they couldn’t be assed to maintain their own infrastructure for more than a few years. They were largely abandoned during the collapse, but hunters and scavengers still find these things and even drag them back to the village from time to time. Kills a few dumb villagers pretty bad every time it happens. There are more than 1000 of these things still out there, mostly unaccounted, and very few if any even have warning signs, let alone high security like a fence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft for AI energy demands.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re glazing over a LOT of R&D accidents, not to mention the infrastructure that supports and facilitates nuclear power generation.

  Yeah, the actual power generation plant is relatively small compared to a wind farm or solar plant, but you’re skipping the nuclear material refinement centers, the environmental challenges and risks posed by transportation and storage of nuclear material, and completely ignoring the storage of spent radioactive materials. Yucca mountain nuclear waste facility was constructed for a reason.

  I’m all for nuclear power, but you need to get into the gritty if you’re going to make a good faith attempt at comparing it to other methods of power production. The entire process of producing fissionable materials is extremely expensive, power intensive, and uses incredibly toxic chemistry to get it done.

  Fusion looks great on paper, but we’re still having a hell of a time figuring out how to capture energy from reactions that last millionths of a second.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft for AI energy demands.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I see you’ve watched a single special on Netflix and consider yourself an expert on the matter. Good for you.

  As a welder who has actually fabricated parts for nuclear reactors, you don’t know shit about ass. The core always touches water, that’s how a PWR works. Any void whatsoever in the core would displace the water that acts as a moderator and instantly shut down any reaction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft for AI energy demands.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Seeing as a PWR isn’t really capable of exploding in the way you’re describing, horseshit. At worst, it can flash boil a bunch of water and melt. Besides that, the containment building alone is miles better than anything the USSR ever commissioned. All you need to do to have a safe reactor is to take the goddamn people out of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most terrifying second of the night.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit I got a maggoty cum fart reply. I feel like I’ve met a celebrity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most terrifying second of the night.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy was a liquid coke man. With some jack Daniel’s in there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the GOP Stick Together so tightly to hide the fact that a large majority of them are involved in Pedophilia?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your math isn’t mathing. He isn’t talking rank and file Republicans. He’s just talking about their leadership and policymakers. That’s totally different. Mr Trump can be friends with Epstein all day long and that couldn’t possibly reflect poorly on the rest of the republican party. He’s only their elected nominee for president.

  Get your “not all men” horseshit out of here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a difference in meaning between the words *people* and *persons*?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Persons is a set of individuals while people generally implies a group. “Those people” as a phrase carries negative connotations because of its use by racists pretending to be not quite as racist.

  You can use them interchangeably as long as you’re trying to imply the person’s you are referring to are linked or similar in some way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Launches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re telling me shooting a space gun at the sun will miss?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have police finally overstepped enough that reform could happen?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Abolish police entirely and mobilize the NG into law enforcement. The rules of engagement alone is miles better than the policy shit police forces have now, and cops are all already carrying or being supplied with military gear anyways. If we already have a militarized police force, why not cut out the middle man and turn our actual military into the police force?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American tourists visiting the EU, what do you think of it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Satire =/= trolling

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have police finally overstepped enough that reform could happen?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a Californian, do not look to our state for police reform. IMO the best example is Colorado removing qualified immunity. Discipline doesn’t work and the system refuses to jail their own, so you gotta hit them financially. Bankruptcy shitty little town police forces either forces reform or kicks authority up to the state, which is more regimented in its regulation. Either way it’s putting bad cops out of a job.