Transporter_Room_3
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- Comment on Ok, $23. Final offer. 2 days ago:
If possible, I would return with $44. And a message of “I can be petty too”
- Comment on Are we the baddies? 2 days ago:
My favorite is when people start baking at these things and write you off as a conspiracy nut.
Like my brother in Slaanesh, these are the things they admit they’ve done.
- Comment on sweet dreams 5 days ago:
That’s actually what I was going for but I didn’t want to use the “earth was flat” that K uses.
- Comment on Counterfeit Cisco gear ended up in US military bases, used in combat operations 5 days ago:
It’s insane to me all the different ways the government procures things.
Just get it straight from the manufacturer. Then if anything ever goes wrong there isn’t the “who is REALLY to blame on this long chain of people” it’s “hey this shit is broken, YOU are responsible for it”
Of course sometimes they do it as a form of opsec, if you distribute parts across many small time sellers it’s easier to hide something than one big order from the primary source.
- Comment on we love those power laws 5 days ago:
Demon core memes are my favorite thing from NCD and literally nobody else in my life even knows what it is, let alone think they’re funny.
It’s the same with Ea-Nasir memes.
- Comment on sweet dreams 5 days ago:
Well at one time people “knew” that space was filled with Aether, and people knew that the universe was no more than 2 million years old.
But once you understand things more, some of the things you know turn out to be wrong.
In this case it’s more like “we called this thing a planet before we knew just how tiny it really is but it’s still cool so we now have categories for things just like it”
Which I think is neat.
You can be sad it’s not a planet, we can also be happy that it pulled one over on all of humanity for such a long time.
- Comment on sweet dreams 5 days ago:
From my understanding of primordial black holes, if one were so close as to be in our solar system, it is very small.
Since it’s so small, it would have fizzled out through hawking radiation output a long time ago.
So yes, planet 9 is NOT a black hole that can hurt you.
Now, a pocket of warped spacetime that will one day spawn a Chaos Demon? Maybe.
- Comment on we love those power laws 5 days ago:
Damn, every time I think I’m original or clever today, someone beats me to it.
I was just thinking of “demon core on a warhammer/shield/trebuchet (not a catapult because that’s for plebs)”
Small point of pedantry, that is a flail, not a mace. A mace is mounted directly onto a handle, flails have the flexible material between the weight and the handle.
- Comment on It definitely *was* a good idea though 1 week ago:
Ha, jokes on YOU, I already have a heart condition!
Wait…
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 1 week ago:
I need about a moon-sized glob of cement for…
Science stuff.
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 1 week ago:
Ineffective, definitely.
Safe for the target, also maybe. Just depends on whether the exploding action and barrel throw shrapnel down range, or if you had a shitty weld. Guy holding it won’t have a good day, but could survive. Something something Kentucky ballistics.
Idk man, this plan is sounding pretty credible.
Wait, wrong community…
- Comment on Razer made a million dollars selling a mask with RGB, and the FTC is not pleased 1 week ago:
WOAH there, you can just use words like “bribery”
You have to disguise it.
With a nice neutral word like “lobbying”.
- Comment on Two UK water companies lack complete maps of sewage networks 2 weeks ago:
Mold started growing in the crawl space that had to be taken care of but for the most part I think so.
Everything has been heavily documented because with the flooring being what it is, it doesn’t like moisture from the underside and if things got humid enough that would drastically reduce the lifespan of the floor.
- Comment on Two UK water companies lack complete maps of sewage networks 2 weeks ago:
I’m in the US and a few years back we had to replace our septic system… Did all the usual stuff to contact utility companies to come mark the lines off.
The cable company we had has been bought out twice in my memory, who knows how many times before that. They marked a straight line from certain points around the front of the house.
Well guess who sliced through the cable with the very first excavator chunk out BACK.
The placement made no sense until you consider a tree that had been cut down and stump removed, on the close front side of the house vs the completely clear, easily dug up but farther to go back side. Looks to me like someone didn’t want to deal with roots and too the easy way, but didn’t change the reported line. I don’t know how cable guys usually mark their lines but I thought it was weird he only had a clipboard and some measuring tape instead of like… A metal detector. Idk if the lines can even be picked up with one though.
Another time I noticed water visibly flowing underneath the house from front to back through the foundation bricks. NOT good. At all. Very bad, in fact, to have flowing water under your house.
Thanks to the grass growing extra tall, and the excessive amount of groundwater I was able to track down a leak to a little spurt of water maybe 3 inches high coming from the ground. Called the water company about a busted pipe.
Apparently they had two lines next to each other, one was a replacement and the other was supposed to be bypassed but apparently never got cut off. So when the old line eventually completely broke, it just started pouring water into the hillside which ran down to our house. Three crews working until about 5am. Water spraying a good 15 feet into the air.
So they new where the pipe was, but they didn’t really know where the pipe was since their papers said the actual leaky pipe no longer existed.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 3 weeks ago:
Any time I fast forward and have to wait for a commercial that interrupted my fast forwarding, it’s an immediate cancelation of the service and I’m on the phone with customer support to try and get my couple of bucks for that month back.
Fuck your shitty service, I’m grabbing my hat and sword.
- Comment on Return to monkey then? 3 weeks ago:
Even if you somehow had your own sovereign nation with everything needed to self-sustain your whole family, never needing to leave…
You’re still paying.
With your time and effort.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
It’s almost like it was never about being accurate, and it’s based purely in hatred, racism, and contrarianism… almost
I’m sure they’ll be here any minute…
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Oh my god I would have loved him as Scotty.
I love hearing him speak normally because when he gets excited or worked up about something the accent gets more pronounced.
He really amped it up in Stargate as Dr Beckett but he certainly still does have an accent.
- Comment on magic beneath the forests 3 weeks ago:
Some will make you high, then kill you.
- Comment on Why is "Dear X" considered more formal than "To X" in e-mail/writing? 3 weeks ago:
My emails start off with “Greetings” if I don’t know the person. I hate when I get an “important” email and I have to go searching for the point because it’s buried under 3 layers of “I hope this finds you well” and 6 layers of unnecessary filler about why something needs done. Point first, explanation later.
I don’t work in an office, so take my anecdotes at face value knowing that.
I’ve never started an email about specific things with greetings, no small talk.
If I’ve spoken to the person I’m emailing before, it’s straight to the point. I see no reason to add fluff. And I’m certainly not going to put that shit in there to fluff their ego.
My last email about a visit to a warehouse went along the lines of “I sent this email to (regional manager) already but since apparently he hasn’t checked his email in 27 hours, I’ll make sure to cc you in all future ones. Here’s what’s up. I’m leaving for the day.”
Honestly you could argue it’s “unprofessional” but I’ve never recieved a complaint, in fact the only thing I’ve ever heard is “god I wish everyone would just stop beating around the bush” which is as close to an endorsement as I can imagine without explicitly saying “more like this please”
I rambled a small amount but yeah. I don’t get why emails to people have to be so formal unless it’s literally the first time you’re sending one.
After the first one, just get to the point.
- Comment on duck duck 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Trash from the International Space Station may have hit a house in Florida 5 weeks ago:
Honestly if it is them, I’m a little impressed they survived reentry in any meaningful way
- Comment on South Korea to suspend licenses of 2 senior doctors in first punishments over walkout 1 month ago:
The beatings will continue ol until morale improves.
- Comment on Nerding out in group is fun tho 1 month ago:
I view the show as an alternate universe kind of thing. “there but for the grace of good storytelling go we” because holy shit how do you get so many fundamentals wrong.
To me, it was clearly a generic scifi show that got rejected by studios until someone slapped the Halo logo on the front page.
It could have been watchable on its own, but as a Halo show, I’ll pass. No hate to anyone who enjoys it, it’s just not for me.
- Comment on Math and Physics Majors 1 month ago:
Oh for sure. Especially since she’s a conservative Christian.
It’s weird hearing uneducated bullshit coming from an educated person’s mouth, like seeing a deer walking on its hind legs. You know something is wrong and you should probably leave before it notices you.
- Comment on Nerding out in group is fun tho 1 month ago:
Unless you live in Ohio or Kentucky, lolno
- Comment on Math and Physics Majors 1 month ago:
Hey look, it’s my mom!(tried to be a math teacher, could never secure anything but substitute, refused to move outside the city for employment on another city, refused to “work beneath” her, my family was mostly single-income from my dad growing up)
Rant ahead: feel free to SKIP
She finally got a job when she had 0 calls in a year for a substitute position. Working for a hospital (hypocritically because of someone she knew getting her the job when she had been raging against that very thing in teaching positions for years) in their government insurance area. Or “beneath her” as she would have once said.
It gave me no small sense of Schadenfreude to see her “stoop” to my level after years of “I told you, you should have gone to college” the sheer unmitigated gall of which I clearly still hold a grudge over. I wanted to go to a tech school for welding. I could still have attended my AP science electives before going to welding class. And since nobody ever set a cent aside for college, it would have given me a way to pay for it if I decided to go. And most importantly I would probably have had my own house by now. Welders in this area get paid quite well. Especially if you can get in one of the factories nearby, they’ve got the best medical plan I’ve ever seen but apparently they’re owned by some European company so it makes sense.
- Comment on Nerding out in group is fun tho 1 month ago:
I hate my own voice but I love explaining things to interested people.
No way I’d be able to make lore videos, especially when people like Installation00, Luetin09, Geetsly’s, MetaNerdzLore, Eckhartsladder, and Nerd of the Rings exist.
Nothing new for me to add, really.
I could probably talk for hours about Stargate SG1 and it’s spinoffs, there are a few channels dedicated to Stargate stuff but… Content is lacking, in my opinion. One does a podcast though, and uploads hilights of the podcast which I don’t watch/listen to so they probably do a lot more explaining of things there that don’t make it into clips.
While I’ve gone through all of Luetin09’s videos while awake, I like to throw a playlist on shuffle sometimes to sleep. Something about a British guy talking in a smooth low voice about tyranids attempting to overrun a location only for the whole planet to essentially split in half (CADIA STANDS/THE PLANET BROKE BEFORE THE GUARD) is just relaxing. Also FUCK Erebus.
- Comment on Nerding out in group is fun tho 1 month ago:
If I remember correctly, the question was “why don’t the covenant want the halos in this one (Reach)” or “why aren’t they in this one” or something like that when we had just started playing.
So I went back and explained the history of the rings from 120,000iah years ago during the height of the Forerunners power, as well as where the flood came from, why the planet has only just been discovered by the covenant, and how the game (Reach) differs from the books and spoken lore established in games 1-3.
Funny thing is, I’m slightly wrong. He did technically ask me one other question, but it was an open question to the group “why do the Spartans look different except Jorge?” and I immediately went “are you SURE you want a full explanation?” to which others jumped jn and said “NO!” which was a little disappointing but not everyone enjoys lore dumps.
For a full explanation, read the forerunner series of books, the novelizarion of combat evolved, the fall of reach, the in-between book that tells us how anyone escaped to halo 2, and the Ghosts of Onyx. That last one isn’t super necessary, but it gives you a neat look at one of the Shield Worlds from the forerunner books.
I think lemmy has a character limit so I can’t get into a 3 hour typefest lmao
- Comment on Nerding out in group is fun tho 1 month ago:
Several people have learned if I warn them an explanation will be long, I don’t mean “oh I like long walks on the beach but after 2 minutes I want to turn around” long. I mean “heat death of the universe” long.
Example: someone asked me to explain something while playing halo. I told him to make sense of it I need to explain some history, do you want the long version or short version. Long version is long. They said long version. 3 hours later, they fully understood their answer and never asked me to explain anything again.
