kerrigan778
@kerrigan778@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is there a way to watch DS9 whole skipping the prophet & pah wraith plotline 1 day ago:
I mean, yeah it’s possible to watch a show and only watch the “MOTW” style episodes that don’t deal with the central overarching plot. I wouldn’t recommend it in DS9 though.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, I didn’t mean it can’t be done, I did it plenty in the 90s/00s, I meant that the resulting image tends to be noticeably less sharp. But perhaps analog->digital converters got better?
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 2 weeks ago:
My dude, VGA is ANALOG it absolutely cannot run a LCD and make it look right, it is for CRTs
- Comment on New thermoelectric generator converts vehicle exhaust heat into electricity, boosting fuel efficiency 2 weeks ago:
We already do this at every steam based power plant in the world (basically everything but hydro, PV, and wind) and it’s done much more efficiently. Doing this stuff with tiny gadgets on micro generators like ICE vehicles is a pretty inefficient implementation, especially as it adds weight to already heavy vehicles, decreasing efficiency and safety, and increasing tire and brake wear. The only place I can imagine this being useful is very heavy vehicles that for some reason still have to be using diesel like long haul trucks/busses, diesel freight trains etc and the like. And EVEN then you’re looking at major issues with economy. If you increase the weight of a truck by 2 percent to give it a 2% increase in fuel efficiency, you are hurting not helping. 2% comes off of your GCVWR margins and suddenly you need 51 trucks instead of 50 trucks to transport a given load, not only increasing your fuel use by 2% but also increasing vehicle maintenance and tire and brake pollution by 2%
- Comment on Did UCLA Just Cure Baldness? 2 weeks ago:
Is Betteridges Law dead?
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 3 weeks ago:
Elon gonna start using the EU for not buying his cars
- Comment on Car diagram 3 weeks ago:
I have no mouth and I must rev.
- Comment on imagine 3 weeks ago:
Source that research was banned since the 90s? All I’m aware of is that they aren’t available commercially and sale and field testing of terminator seeds has been banned since the 00s.
- Comment on Brazil condemns US after deportees arrive handcuffed 4 weeks ago:
I uh, think they were talking about Brazil… Also it’s not exactly novel that governments care more about how other countries treat their citizens than they do about how they treat their citizens.
- Comment on Brazil condemns US after deportees arrive handcuffed 4 weeks ago:
That link seems to suggest they then immediately caved and are now doing the opposite. Also, why would it be right to not let your own citizens back into the country after they get sent home? What, they’re supposed to say we don’t want them just put them into ghettos I guess?
- Comment on don't be a coward 2 months ago:
A fairly small number of known species evolved to the vaguely humanoid form, but 100% of known species with a human level of higher intelligence have had roughly this body plan, it’s really not unreasonable to extrapolate that this could be a common body plan for intelligent aliens.
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 2 months ago:
I see what you did there you sonnuvabitch
- Comment on BIOMES 3 months ago:
Sierra is not an uncommon name, River as well. Probably more.
- Comment on Say it again, Dexter 3 months ago:
No it’s Barbi Benton
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 3 months ago:
That’s extraordinarily on brand of them
- Comment on Say it again, Dexter 3 months ago:
- Comment on They used to be all metal too. Its time for a revolution 3 months ago:
This seems accurate to what modern car underbodies look like, a smooth underbody is very important for aerodynamics and therefore fuel efficiency. For race cars it is often even more important not only for fuel efficiency but for downforce.
- Comment on FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect 4 months ago:
TWO slaps on the wrist.
- Comment on 2 in 3 People Often Encounter Hate Speech Online. 4 months ago:
33% seems high for “people who are apparently barely ever online”
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour 4 months ago:
A country which doesn’t invest in its infrastructure while it’s wealthy will eventually find itself no longer wealthy and unable to afford to fix it.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour 4 months ago:
I. Paid. For. The. Whole. Gigabit.
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 4 months ago:
They absolutely serve purpose in nature, they are a significant food source for bats and many other insects and males are pollinators.
- Comment on "Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely 4 months ago:
Holy shit Intuit and GM better shape the fuck up or the workers should just hurry up and fucking do it.
- Comment on Is there a specific example of Target getting a shoplifter convicted for a small individual theft that puts them over the felony limit? 4 months ago:
What the fuck are you talking about? Stealing from a corporation and stealing from people is absolutely not the same. Corporations are not people I can’t believe we still have to argue this point.
Also of course the law takes the merit of the victim into account. Half of all homicide victims are black but in 75% of executions for homicide the victim was white. And how many of those do you think were homeless or sex workers? Don’t be ridiculous, the law is not applied equally for victims or for defendants. Assaulting a cop, on duty or not is not treated the same as assaulting a BIPOC sex worker. Every goddamn time there’s a mass shooting or another cop kills another black person why is the first thing they do to try to find some evidence of dirt on the victims regardless of the relevance to the actual case. You are living in a dream world.
- Comment on Is there a specific example of Target getting a shoplifter convicted for a small individual theft that puts them over the felony limit? 4 months ago:
Lol, American has more legal slaves than it did before the civil war and has higher incarceration rate than anywhere and you want to lock someone up for a decade for non-violent property crime where the only victim is a multibillion dollar corporation that she stole less than 100k from.
violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/target Here’s records of target having stolen 185 million dollars mostly from the American public, how long do you think anyone was in prison for that? Do you think any penalty there even meaningfully affected any executive or major shareholders life?
- Comment on Cancer Memes 5 months ago:
Cancer is by definition not stable, if it’s stable it’s just tissue.
- Comment on Dozens from UK take up Putin’s offer to ditch ‘woke’ West and move to Russia 5 months ago:
Increasing the average IQ of both countries
- Comment on Stardew Valley 1.6 is Coming November 4th. 5 months ago:
Huh, fair enough
- Comment on Stardew Valley 1.6 is Coming November 4th. 5 months ago:
I don’t think ConcernedApe does the console and mobile versions, I would assume he got back to Haunted Chocolatier after 1.6 dropped on PC. Pretty sure he licenses the porting process.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 needs 64GB of RAM for ideal performance — oddly, the game install size is only 30GB 5 months ago:
They’ve also talked about massively leveraging cloud computing and streaming, it’s likely a lot of actual scenery isn’t part of the offline file size unless you cache the areas for offline play (if that’s even an option)
