TranquilTurbulence
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- Comment on 22 hours ago:
Fair enough. This was an unnecessary side tangent.
- Comment on How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief? 1 day ago:
About point 2: I would argue that you could convince any judge that these characters are sufficiently distinct in the legal sense. IRL, people might still confuse them, but that’s not the point here. Just look at some of the competing car designs to get a feel for what is legally distinct enough these days. You can come up with a cartoon character, car or a sci-fi warrior that copies over 90% from something else, and you can still get away with it.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
That’s the point most westerners seem to miss. There are so many ways to use fingers to count, while the one common in Europe the simplest one possible. It’s like demo version, while some other countries get the full pro ultra max edition.
- Comment on Why does it seem like everyone is so good looking and beautiful nowadays? 1 day ago:
There should be a name for this kind of bias. Influencer bias, celebrity bias? Something else?
- Comment on The Pentagon is the best shape for a large buildings as long as all surrounding buildings are also Pentagons 1 day ago:
Yeah, that should work. If you stick with the definition provided by OP, “small buildings” would be technically allowed as well.
Another thing about the initial conditions. OP defined that there would be only three way intersections, but that’s clearly not the case here.
- Comment on The Pentagon is the best shape for a large buildings as long as all surrounding buildings are also Pentagons 1 day ago:
What do you intend to do with the gaps then?
- Comment on 1 day ago:
The whole concept of even having a middle finger is a bit arbitrary. When you put your hands on a table, all 10 fingers spread out, the gap between the hands is the exact middle. If you include all 10 fingers, there is no middle finger, but there is a middle gap.
Andy why do we even count the fleshy fingers, when we could be counting the gaps between them? It’s the number of gaps that really matters when you’re holding on to a bunch of things like papers, magazines, forks, sticks, stones, strings, cables or whatever.
- Comment on Why does it seem like everyone is so good looking and beautiful nowadays? 2 days ago:
Most likely, you’ve just started noticing what the world has already been like for decades, if not centuries.
Taking care of yourself is of course important, but I think many people over do it in an unhealthy manner. It’s good to be clean and look nice, but you don’t have to make that the central theme of your life.
IMO, comfort and practicality are also important, but you don’t have to look like you’re still chilling at home watching a movie and munching popcorn. There are good compromises out three.
- Comment on Social media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content. 3 days ago:
So, you mean like childish control?
- Comment on I really thought I'd learn more about towers from a book that's about two of them. 4 days ago:
I’ve always found it really jarring when a book, tv series or a movie jumps around between several storylines. Pulling that off seems to be really hard.
- Comment on I really thought I'd learn more about towers from a book that's about two of them. 4 days ago:
The movie has slow pacing and odd structure, but it explores some interesting ideas. Definitely not everyone’s cup of tea, but I think it’s was ok. Still not a classic you would watch several times.
- Comment on I really thought I'd learn more about towers from a book that's about two of them. 5 days ago:
Wait until you hear about 12 monkeys. That’s a lot of monkeys, right?
- Comment on Are there extensions that turn every comment on your posts into hate comments? 6 days ago:
Just switch the wallpaper to this and watch your roommate have a total meltdown.
- Comment on Months ago, I archived the Facebook app, muscle memory is strong, so I always open Lemmy. Ngl, having an ad-free community filled with the same things I wanted out of *that* place is nice. 6 days ago:
One friend keeps sending me some weird AI generated videos from time to time. I guess he gets those from Facebook, Instagram or some other trash pile like that. I have no idea how horrible it would be to see that sort of AI vomit all the time.
- Comment on Glue used to be rare and magical. 6 days ago:
Over the past 200 years, chemistry has taken massive leaps forward. A lot of guesswork and mystery is now gone, but that doesn’t mean there are no perplexing problems to solve. Most of the simple cases are pretty clear, and you can predict the result with a few simple formulas. When you start talking about more complex cases, there’s still much to be done.
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 6 days ago:
Maybe humans are an experiment to see what happens if you combine infinite greed and selfishness in the same species. Sounds like a recipe for a total disaster, but it could be interesting to watch how the whole thing implodes at some point.
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 1 week ago:
Sounds like I should look into that.
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 1 week ago:
Starting the anti-vaccine conspiracy would have been too cruel. I think any young punk would be grounded for a century for pulling that off.
Instead, I’m pretty sure humans are the only species capable of such self destructive behavior and aliens can only gasp in horror as we throw ourselves into the fire.
Also, climate change denial … oh, that’s just next level stupidity. No need to bring the doomlaser here. This species will be done sooner or even sooner. Maybe try planting a smarter species here next time around?
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 1 week ago:
My guess is that the Earth is a petting zoo for some aliens. The adult aliens could come here to see how weird and stupid we are, while thieir children would give us some bitcoins to see if we do anything funny. What if some conspiracy theories, like the flat earth nonsense was prank pulled by one of the visiting aliens?
- Comment on Vaccines are antivirus updates 1 week ago:
Doing one of those home tests is a quick scan. Going to a clinic for throat swab is like a long scan.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Once you’ve unlocked smuggling, you can start researching the next nodes in the tech tree: drug trafficking, human trafficking, international weapons trade etc. I’m pretty sure OP is heading for the Lord of War achievement.
- Comment on "he" stands for "high efficiency" for detergent and washers, and in the future there could be "she" for "super high efficiency" 1 week ago:
How about a Thermal High Efficiency Motor?
- Comment on Here’s an idea 1 week ago:
Generally, I like that idea, but I can also see some ways it would fail.
People vote based on what they know, and there’s a limit to what people can know. In a small company, you can easily know everyone, but in a massive corporation, you simply run into some human limitations in this regard.
Some people have a highly visible job, like someone in IT tech support. If you have problems with your computer, and tech support is able to help you out, you’ll happily vote for that guy to get a raise.
However, the IT boss made the arrangements for a server upgrade, so your storage space didn’t come close to running out. Do you even know what goes on in the background? No. Would you vote for the IT boss to get a raise, since you have no idea how they’ve contributed to your wellbeing? Probably not.
Also, some people will find ways to make their minuscule efforts look much grander than they deserve to be seen as. If that works out, they’ll get lots of votes and pay rises even though their contributions are hardly worth mentioning, which actually sounds a lot like the situation we’re currently in.
The thing is, when everything is running smoothly, you don’t even know who fixed what. If things break, you may have some idea whose fault it is, but that’s not guaranteed either. We can’t just wait for things to break so that the guy who fixes it could become famous and popular. Ideally, people would fix stuff before anything breaks, and that would a be a far more efficient way to run a company. This sort of voting system could result in horrible inefficiency and pressure to be seen and loved.
People could also cooperate. What if a manager promises a coffee machine that gives free coffee if he gets a raise? Maybe the workers could vote for that, but should they really? What if the workers pool their votes to give one of their own a raise? They could rotate who gets the raise, so that each of them gets a raise when it’s their turn. Oh, and that sort of cooperative voting system could be used as a bullying instrument. You could discriminate one of the workers just because they have the wrong skin color, wrong accent, wrong family name or whatever. I’m sure people would come up with all sorts of messed up ways to abuse this system.
But the big questions is: Would this be better than the current system? Maybe, but we would need to set up some rules first. Doing it wild-wild-west style would be a complete disaster. Then again, the current system has some serious problems too, so…
- Comment on World’s largest gold deposit worth over £63 billion found in China 1 week ago:
“Test drills near the site’s “peripheral areas” found more gold, suggesting that the deposit could be even larger.”
They usually are much larger than what the initial results make you think. If you’re reading about an old mine that has already been drilling for 50 and they’ve tried literally every place they can think of, those numbers are pretty much final. Other mines can only report numbers that have a tendency to grow as they drill more.
- Comment on No matter how crooked a mirror is, it always shows you a straight image. 1 week ago:
No. It’s going to be all queer.
- Comment on No matter how crooked a mirror is, it always shows you a straight image. 1 week ago:
As long as you keep a straight face while looking in the mirror.
- Comment on A US citizen was held for pickup by ICE even after proving he was born in the country 1 week ago:
Legal Eagle has recently made a few videos where he explains how due process and laws were thrown out the window. Previously, it was just a ridiculous PR dumpster fire, but now it’s also a legal dumpster fire.
Looks like USA is spiraling towards some sort of dictatorship/anarchy/chaos/idunno. Some queer people are also giving the advice to go back to the closet before it’s too late, which is something I was not expecting to hear.
I wonder if some Americans could seek political asylum in Germany. You know, historical symmetry and all that?
- Comment on AI is like an evil villain's henchman: "Yes sir, you're absolutely right, sir." "Great idea master!" "My apologies master, I should have known what you meant from the start. Forgive me master.” 1 week ago:
Now I know how those villains feel when their plans fall apart due to grossly incompetent henchmen screwing everything up.
“I specifically told you not to store the disarm codes right next to the warhead! HOW HARD CAN IT BE!!!”
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
Depends on your criteria. For slightly more demanding calculations, Calc just can’t handle it like Excel does. Then again, using spreadsheets for demanding calculations is just asking for trouble.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 week ago:
The person who taught me chess was constantly perplexed by my bizarre tactics. He found it refreshing and interesting. Obviously, I had no idea what I was doing, and I got nuked to oblivion on a regular basis. Maybe he was expecting to see some popular moves, but was only faced with whatever sketchy tactics I could come up with.
