chaogomu
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- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 day ago:
I’m calling all of microslop. So there’s that.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 2 days ago:
Except you really don’t. Hiroshima was a tiny bomb compared to what’s currently aimed at you.
A thermonuclear missile can start a fire storm, that’s a fire that creates it’s own weather patterns. This fire storm will be the size of a US state. From a single missile.
Each state has dozens of missiles aimed at it, just waiting for the launch order.
The same sort of devastation will hit all of Europe, Russia, China, and basically the entire northern hemisphere.
It doesn’t matter if you’re in a hardened bunker either, because you’ll just cook alive inside. That’s if your bunker survives at all, because there’s no bunker on earth that can survive a direct hit. Not under the White House, not NORAD, not even most deep mines.
And since every single nuclear power is “launch on warning”, we’re likely fucked. At any time, we are less than 30 minutes from complete extinction.
But since there’s literally nothing we can do about it, I just don’t think about it.
- Comment on YSK: The pulled *60 Minutes* CECOT segment aired in Canada and is available online 2 weeks ago:
Back when CECOT was under construction there was a puff piece about how they were “taking back the country from the violent gangs” which was why the government was arresting anyone even accused of being in a gang.
They billed this as somehow a good thing.
- Comment on Where do you all get your (indie) gaming news from? 2 weeks ago:
Kitfox games has a YouTube channel where they show off a bunch of their current and upcoming games. Often videos by the developer themselves.
I don’t have a more general type site.
- Comment on Meta tolerates rampant ad fraud from China to safeguard billions in revenue 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, Chinese culture here is also fucking terrible. That doesn’t make Facebook or western countries good, because only a child thinks like that.
No, everyone is shit. that’s the adult take away here.
- Comment on Are you sure about that? 3 weeks ago:
Yup, the real world conspiracies are all pretty much out in the open. The ones that are hidden, are not hidden well. This is mostly because being rich and powerful doesn’t make you smart.
- Comment on calcium and potassium 3 weeks ago:
Gut flora suppositories are a thing, and have been since before WW2.
Seems there was a guy in WW2 with golden guts, who survived the trenches and bad food, dysentery and such unscathed. Doctors then took samples of his gut biome and started using them to treat others who were less fortunate. Like Hitler with his life long chronic flatulence problems.
These days you can take a simple pill that’s designed to open up once it reaches the large intestine the long way, rather than the shortcut. It’s sold under the brand name Mutaflor, but it’s the same stuff, just freeze dried and encapsulated for oral consumption.
- Comment on YSK that Elon Musk now hates California. He lives in West Lake Hills, Texas. He loves to visit Austin. 4 weeks ago:
As an aside, have you been following how Ukraine uses drones for anti personal attacks? Interesting stuff.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 4 weeks ago:
I think that was part of Gamer Gate. The toxic rightwing backlash to women existing on the internet, and not in porn. It was the exact same time period.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 4 weeks ago:
Could have been. Reddit never actually told us anything. One of the other mods got a private message on another channel (discord maybe?) from the missing mod about it. But details were light, and the missing mod never even tried to return to Reddit. Said the ban was good for his mental health.
Then there was some Subreddit specific drama, and Reddit admins actually did the good thing. Then the API change, the blackout, and a couple other things that specifically fucked over mods. So I too, mostly left.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 4 weeks ago:
I do indeed. I didn’t actually have an account back then, because I was mostly browsing from work… I also mostly frequented Digg until the 4.0 fiasco.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 4 weeks ago:
Oddly, that was Spez, and when he went away for a bit, Reddit got really good. And then he came back and it went to shit.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 4 weeks ago:
Are you me? Because that’s exactly what I’ve been doing. I set my default browse experience to Top 6 hour and then scroll All.
I do miss the community aspect of Reddit. There were other users who I ran into regularly in the comments. And usually not in a hostile way.
Hell, there was one sub where I was invited to the mod team because of those interactions. I did that for a couple years and continued to be active in the sub until Reddit start pissing off mods. That and my main “friend” on the mod team had his account nuked by Reddit after he fell for a troll.
Reddit removed every comment he had ever made, including wonderful and well cited rebuttals of the right-wing bigotry of the day.
So yeah, I logged out of that reddit account and have never logged back in, instead I use a burner account and try not comment on anything.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It was a machine, it was not an engine. At no scale could it be used to power anything. And it would actually be dangerous to scale things too much. We know because people tried.
The aeolipile was a toy. And yes, toys can showcase interesting physics. I owned several of them as a child, and own a few today as, arguably, an adult.
Still, the thing about invention is that it isn’t a flash of inspiration and a new thing appears, it’s more of a slog of learning new things and applying old things in new ways.
Most often in history the most striking inventions were new ways of getting the raw resources, or improving the quality of those resources.
You can’t have a steam engine without a way to consistently produce steel.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
The aeolipile wasn’t really a stream engine. I’ve played with modern versions, and you can stop the spin with your hand. Not a bare hand mind, because it’s rather hot. But a cloth or a glove is fine.
These toys have zero power to do any useful work.
This is why an actual steam engine uses a reciprocating piston. Because doing it that way builds pressure and thus power.
- Comment on The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable 1 month ago:
The point is that design patents are fucking stupid and should not exist in the first place.
Apple has sued other phone manufacturers over them making a rectangle with rounded corners.
And it’s fucked.
- Comment on Energy drinks 1 month ago:
We had one called manslaughter, it was basically just vodka, Red Bull, and Kool aid.
But the kicker was the pineapple. Sliced pineapple that had soaked in everclear for an hour before mixing everything else.
- Comment on Energy drinks 1 month ago:
I loved TF2 back in the day. I should see what the game is like these days.
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 1 month ago:
Either Clinton or Maxwell’s horse.
- Comment on Um, actually, Neville Chamberlain didn't "cave" to Hitler, he actually got a lot out of the deal. 1 month ago:
Do.you know what the Night of Long Knives was?
Because you seem to know very little of actual history.
- Comment on Um, actually, Neville Chamberlain didn't "cave" to Hitler, he actually got a lot out of the deal. 1 month ago:
Is that why they literally fought him in the streets?
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 months ago:
I will say, the game is remarkably stable compared to what it was a few years ago. Especially pistons and rotors.
But yes, it still crashes randomly. About once or twice an hour.
And I got SE2 running. No crashes there, but I don’t like creative mode, so play SE2 much less.
I am excited for the upcoming SE2 survival mode
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 months ago:
I know. Tried a few things from that site, but no luck on SE, and SE2 is under active development so I’m waiting on it for a bit.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 months ago:
For SE2, it’s likely a version issue. But that game is under active development, so I’m waiting on it.
For SE1, well that one is a bit of a mystery… It probably isn’t. I have a few mods.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 months ago:
I play a lot of Space Engineers, and it randomly crashes… No idea what’s causing it.
And Space Engineers 2 just doesn’t launch for me.
There’s likely a config option that could fix things, but I don’t know it.
Every other game I play is fine.
- Comment on What are you ladies doing tonight 2 months ago:
I was a bit of an amateur mixologist as a child, and the top machine was my pallet.
But what was more, the corner store gas station that was down the street from my childhood home had multiple machines, each with 4 or 5 different drink options.
Years later, a friend of mine worked there as a summer job and told the friend group to avoid the fountain drinks so we did, and probably all still do.
- Comment on Ding ding ditch is punishable by death apparently 3 months ago:
Ding dong ditching used to surge whenever that one episode of the Simpsons played.
Because kids will be kids.
The injuries and deaths seem more linked to adults losing their God damn minds watching Fox News
- Comment on Make America Great! 3 months ago:
Sadly there were Nazis in the US government before and during WW2.
The Dullas brothers are the prime examples. They spearheaded operation paperclip, which rescued Nazi scientists and moved them to the US.
The Dullas brothers are the reason why the US loved arming South American dictators from the 50s onward.
They also pulled a Japanese war criminal out of prison and put him in power in post war Japan.
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 4 months ago:
Want higher birthrates? Just convince people that tomorrow will be better than today.
That’s how you see a spike in birth rates.
To maintain a steady birthrate, just convince potential parents that the world will not be any worse for their children than it is today.
See, easy.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 4 months ago:
See my first sentence.