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- Comment on 🦆 - 🚗The fuck is bigger than the car. 12 hours ago:
🪐🌍🌗⛰️🏢🚙☕️🦠⚛️ Turns out, emoji can cover quite the range of different sizes.
- Comment on Canada's tariffs to remain despite Trump postponing tariffs on many imports from Canada for a month 2 days ago:
That’s a good point. Uncertainty hurts businesses and investors harder than you would think. People will go to extreme lengths to mitigate uncertainty, which usually has a negative impact on the economy. Now Canada is creating certainty about one thing.
- Comment on Can trump make it so I can sell my citizenship for 5 million dollars? 3 days ago:
If you run the citizenship cycle every 13 years, and you get paid 5 million every time, that’s still about 32 k$ per month, which is not bad. It takes a very long time, but it should be worth it.
- Comment on Can trump make it so I can sell my citizenship for 5 million dollars? 3 days ago:
How long does it take to become a US citizen? That determines how often you can sell your citizenship and restart the process. Imagine getting 5 million every year or two.
- Comment on Suppose you were a dissident facing political persecution, how would you preserve your personal files so that you can retrieve it many years later, in case of imprisonment? 4 days ago:
- Encrypt your data.
- Make a disk image.
- Make a torrent of that image.
- Start a cult where the torrenting your data determines the ranking within the order.
- Come up with a cool name and logo for the cult. Maybe something like “The Archivists of Eternity” for example.
- ???
- Profit
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 4 days ago:
LOL, you got me! The chocolate thing is pretty much satire. Totally forgot about the fake cheese though. That would have been even better. I don’t know if anyone actually eats chocolate or cheese to cure homesickness. I suppose some of the other products might be more appropriate. People can have memories attached to all sorts of weird things, so I guess technically any food could be applicable.
However, the thing about prices is entirely factual, at least in my area. Everything in there is so expensive, that you would have to be really curious or desperate to try them out.
- Comment on If society goes completely cashless, bank robberies would no longer be a thing, which means there would no longer be "bank robbery" plots in future Movies/TV shows. 4 days ago:
Maybe a cyberheist will become the next big thing if realspace has nothing worth klepping.
Imagine a story, where a crew of netrunners enters a datafort, and some of them get zeroed by the ice, but some of them narrowly escape with the loot. Yeah, that sound like a GPT prompt I could try.
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 4 days ago:
When you get homesick and want to eat some American chocolate or whatever, you won’t find it just anywhere. You’ll have to go a special American store for that. You know, like one of those Asian markets, but for American stuff. Everything in there is also really expensive, so don’t expect to visit every day.
- Comment on Is cops being evil/lazy/incompetent a USA specific thing, or is it the same everywhere in the world? 5 days ago:
Speaking of corruption, there are places where you don’t call the cops under any circumstances. If you somehow end up talking to cops for any reason, you can expect to loose a lot of money.
The police officer could request a bribe or threaten with fake fines. There could also be harassment, abuse of power and even violence. The police forces can actually form a sort of government-owned mafia, where lower-ranking officers are expected to collect bribes and pass them up the chain of command.
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 6 days ago:
Thanks. Mystery solved.
- Comment on conflicted about my coworkers' overpunctuality 1 week ago:
About that family thing. If anyone ever tells you that “we are family” it means you can call them for help when you’re moving. If you have trouble configuring your router, call your new family for help. If you need to drill a hole in a concrete wall, but you do don’t have the right drill bits, call your new family.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The way I see it, there are generally speaking two routes:
- Draw the pictures yourself,
- Write a computer program that can generate some sort of art.
Drawing requires lots of practice, as others have already pointed out. Writing a program takes skill, patience, knowledge and time, so it’s not that different really. Main difference is what happens next. If you’ve made a picture, you have a single picture. If you’ve made a picture generating application, you can have unlimited pictures. The latter option comes with some pretty harsh limitations, because the range of possible pictures can be very limited.
Here’s an example of option 2: pattern collider
- Comment on "Reality" is often thought as a paragon of neutrality, being neither good nor bad. So why is a "reality check" ALWAYS felt negatively? 2 weeks ago:
Cognitive dissonance is s real phenomenon.
I like to think I’m right, and really don’t want to be proven wrong. Changing my mind about anything hurts my ego, so that’s why I don’t want to hear about anything that violates my thoughts, beliefs and biases.
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 2 weeks ago:
I can. Also, the headache is 100% real.
A mobile phone is for emergency calculations only. If your life, job or honor depends on it, you can make it work, but it’s going to suck sooo hard.
A tablet can do much more as long as you have a keyboard. Also, Apple Numbers and Google Sheets are just barely acceptable for light calculations, nothing more.
When you start doing anything even a little bit more demeaning, you really need to use a laptop. Even the browser version of Excel isn’t good enough. You really need to run the actual application.
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 2 weeks ago:
My thoughts exactly. The number of Linux users and programmers here may distort the picture OP gets from these comments.
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 2 weeks ago:
I know someone who just started studying game development. No prior programming experience required. I guess that’s not a problem as long as you do your homework properly.
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 2 weeks ago:
Phones are great when mobility is a high priority. Tablet are great for on the go entertainment. Laptops and desktops are great for everything else.
For example, searching information online is so much nicer if you can ctrl click and you have 15 tabs open in no time. Then you can jump between the tabs quickly to compare sources efficiently.
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 2 weeks ago:
That’s the first explanation I was able to find, and I still don’t know what everyone here is talking about. Why do Americans love to use so many acronyms for anything and everything?
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 weeks ago:
All these years, preppers may have been right. Having a well supplied fortress of your own can turn out to be very handy.
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 2 weeks ago:
What did I just watch? Like… educational content, explained by… 🤷 not at all who you would have expected. What a unique mix.
- Comment on If God's in charge, He's in the process of shutting down the operation 3 weeks ago:
See also: Eschatology
According to some religions, the whole world will come to an end sooner or later. Actually, even physics/cosmology says so.
- Comment on What happened to Pez? 3 weeks ago:
Congrats! I didn’t even think that this message could get more NSFW.
- Comment on What happened to Pez? 3 weeks ago:
Are you supposed to stick this gun in your mouth and pull the trigger?
Sending some pretty interesting messages to kids…
- Comment on Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts? 3 weeks ago:
How do you define intrusive in this case?
If your subconscious mind suddenly reminds of that one time you said something stupid and embarrassing… Yeah, that happens to pretty much everyone. Just tell that thought that nobody remembers that day or cares about what anyone said, so carry on as usual. That’s just the human mind doing its thing, making sure we pay attention to social interactions. Humans are social animals after all.
If troublesome thoughts bombard your mind all the time and you’re having trouble living your normal life, consider talking to a mental health professional.
- Comment on Speaking honestly, what has to happen for you personally to take to the street in protest of the current administration. 3 weeks ago:
Many years ago, I formed the opinion that protests rarely accomplish anything useful. If the government has decided to pass a particular bill, build a dam, cut costs or whatever, people often respond by protesting. Usually, the bill is passed, the dam is built and costs are cut regardless. The way I see it, protesting gives people a chance to feel like they’ve done their part, while the government does what they wants anyway. From the perspective of the government, it’s useful to allow people to have a channel where they can safely vent their anger. If you make protests illegal, people will form a resistance and start a guerrilla war, and that never ends well.
There are notable exceptions too, so not all protests end up being useless. It’s just that the probabilities aren’t in our favor. You proposed other forms of political activism, and I totally agree.
To me, all of this is rather theoretical, because I’ve never actually participated in any of this. Instead, I’ve just observed these events from the outside, while you’ve seen it from the inside. I’m really curious to know if agree or disagree with these thoughts.
- Comment on Can you eat soap for acid reflux? 3 weeks ago:
That seems to be a common theme in medicine. You have a super common symptom that is usually caused by something completely harmless, but there’s also a non-zero chance that you’re absolutely screwed.
- Comment on Can you eat soap for acid reflux? 3 weeks ago:
Wow. That’s amazing. And terrifying. I hope you’re doing better now.
- Comment on Can you eat soap for acid reflux? 3 weeks ago:
Wait, it’s possible to have a heart attack for 5 days? I thought a heart attack means your heart stops and you pass out?
Reading these comments is exposing how little I really know how cardiology. This is what it feels like to be on the first peak of the Dunning-Kruger curve.
- Comment on Can you eat soap for acid reflux? 3 weeks ago:
But isn’t heartburn all about stomach acids? How is that related to the heart? After all, these are two completely separate organs.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Maybe you could make a game where you fight some stupid stick figure, but make the mod support of the game so smooth and effortless that all players actually replace Mr. Stick with whoever you want. Basically, when you click play, the game immediately asks which mods you want to load. Anyway, the game devs could also use an anonymous modder account and release an “unofficial mod” that adds Trump and Elon in the game. Is that plausible enough?