SARGE
@SARGE@startrek.website
Mods and admins can fuck off
- Comment on Solid voting advice 18 hours ago:
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 23 hours ago:
Well, I know what other video I’m never watching.
And people wonder why I don’t like being around any vehicle that carries things…
- Comment on Based on a true story 1 day ago:
I paid 1k for my shitty pickup in 2018, it’s in worse condition than when I got it, and about 100,000 more miles on it.
It’s supposedly worth 3500 now. It needs about $300 worth in parts alone to get it into what I would consider a condition worth buying.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 1 day ago:
If it’s what I’m thinking of, camera footage of a vehicle interior.
Driving down the highway, going under an overpass when a brick gets tossed by some kids and goes through the window.
Passenger hit, husband is driving and screams.
You know that scream they mention in The Princess Bride? That “only someone experiencing ultimate suffering” can make?
If you know, you know.
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 5 days ago:
No, that’s a jpeg representation on your screen of a photo of a rock.
- Comment on Content moderation is what a 21st century hazardous job looks like 1 week ago:
I tried being a moderator on a forum once, and after alerting admins and the FBI about csam less than a week in, I decided I was done being a moderator.
It was a forum for RC stuff, mostly diy rc planes.
Unfortunately, therapy only helps you cope, it doesn’t let you forget.
- Comment on Is it rude to reply using English under posts in a language you can’t speak? 1 week ago:
I’ve had more conversations than I can count with people I would never be able to talk to in person, all using our own native languages.
The original posts are in English, people comment in their native language, and I use a translator, then respond in my own language. Is the translator perfect? No! Neither is theirs.
With the way most translators I’ve used work, it’s easier for the non-native speaker to try translating, since the translator might try and use different words that entirely change the meaning, but likely list possible alternatives. A native e speaker will understand the alternatives while a non-native speaker probably won’t.
That’s my thought process anyway.
Never had anyone who wasn’t pearl-clutching or virtue-signaling complain about it. And I’ve had tons of conversations with people I’d never have talked to otherwise.
- Comment on How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"? 1 week ago:
Nothing says “we are a free and open community that welcomes others” like moderators banning discussion of poor moderation.
Yes, I do understand what the rule is there for. No that doesn’t make it any less hilariously shitty.
- Comment on When you realize that the ass is you 1 week ago:
A few years ago I purged my face book profile with a script that edited every post with lorem ipsum, and then deleted the content.
It was embarrassing seeing posts from 10-15 years ago. Jesus christ I was an idiot. I still am, but I was then too. (thanks mitch)
In 2022 I did the same to my reddit account.
Same reaction.
Although it was interesting to see my comments go backwards from “burn the system to the ground” to “we need to make a compromise and reach across the aisle” and then from “all religions should be allowed to die” to “Yay Jesus”
Like I said, I was a big dum
Oh god I would hate to see my YouTube comment history from my first account…
- Comment on SHUT UP ABOUT NICOLE 2 weeks ago:
You first.
But seriously, it gets annoying, but at the same time it’s the biggest scam on the fediverse right now that I know of. So I feel like a little visibility once in awhile (not 6 times a day) that lets people know about it is fine.
To anyone who knows: is there a way to filter out usernames containing that name? Like if I could block dms from my chosen instance, that’d be great. I’ve been getting 2-3 a week.
- Comment on No need to use my full name 3 weeks ago:
He knew that could be a sound of the future. But he didn’t realize how much the impact would be.
- Comment on Screwed yet again by past me 4 weeks ago:
I came here to laugh, not get personally attacked.
Last week I was totally ready to do [thing] and last week me was definitely not thinking about how the future works.
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 1 month ago:
I thought showing off my own kobo and library of books that I can let anyone I want read would convince them.
Nope.
Oh well
- Comment on chat is this real 🤔 1 month ago:
I support this wholeheartedly.
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 1 month ago:
Indeed.
I even sent them the related news articles about content I’ve had removed from my own devices, and still they don’t seem to care in the least.
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 1 month ago:
So I sent this to my parents, as they’ve spent hundreds, if not thousands on their Kindle books.
They don’t really care. Zero interest in DRM-free backups that I can make them. They don’t think it’s an issue. They trust Amazon to not mess with their books, and that they’ll always have access to wifi and kindles.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 month ago:
If you’re giving your printers arms and fingers, that’s on you.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 month ago:
Do you keep a gun next to your printer in case it makes a noise you don’t recognize?
That’s the mark of a true cs student/programmer/software engineer
The hardware guys have it easy.
- Comment on Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 1 month ago:
Yeah, my dogs will be gone by then so I would absolutely set up a tent close enough to catch it. I’d even bring a baseball glove for shits and giggles.
- Comment on Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 1 month ago:
Project Sundial can still make a comeback.
- Comment on Asteroid’s chances of hitting Earth in 2032 just got higher – but don’t panic 1 month ago:
by the time it gets here
Can we move the timetable up?
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 1 month ago:
NTA hit the sister delete the kids and wedding up
Spot on, my wife likes listening to those stories read by that annoying Ai voice.
- Comment on Survey finds UK households overwhelmingly satisfied with newly installed heat pumps 2 months ago:
But… But… I’ve been assured by many old people that heat pumps are super inefficient, waste tons of electricity, and only work about 10 degrees from outside temps!
Surely these people wouldn’t have lied or misrepresented the facts in order to support their own warped worldviews where renewable energy and efficiency measures are evil and Jesus wants them to shoot up power substations near solar projects…
… I really need to move out of the Bible belt…
- Comment on USA | CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal 2 months ago:
You know, it would be real cool if everyone just decided to ignore him and keep cooperating with the world.
- Comment on Displaced Gazans mass at Israeli barrier waiting to reach north 2 months ago:
How long before Israel declares it a hamas outpost and bombs the shit out of it?
- Comment on Will solar panels overrun farmland? The two are more likely to coexist. 2 months ago:
I have lived near two solar projects in Ohio in the last decade.
In both instances the fields had been completely unused for years. With one being completely unmaintained and growing wild, to the delight of all manner of critters I’m sure.
Both had been sold by the property owners, and not to industrial owners. One was even helping power my house and a local hospital when they got it turned on.
Both had people in pickup trucks plow through during construction that damaged a ton of stuff.
Both had sudden extremely vocal opposition out of nowhere, with signs popping up all over yards and intersections about how we should be using farmland “for food, not wokeness”
Both have had drive-by shootings in the middle of the night after completion that ultimately only damaged a couple things (probably because rednecks aren’t exactly accurate when shooting from a moving vehicle, nor do they usually know the important tech bits to target for maximum damage)
I just think it’s interesting that people who have never set foot on a farm suddenly got concerned about a plot of land already not being used for farming that would continue going unfarmed. Especially since some of them I knew personally and up to a point had been praising the solar projects for “freeing people from profit hungry power companies”
Almost like they didn’t know much about it until someone told them what to think…
- Comment on Tajikistan launches crackdown on 'witchcraft' and fortune-telling 2 months ago:
Historically they aren’t even okay with you talking to your imaginary friend who’s gonna do you a solid after you die if it’s not the exact same flavor of imaginary friend.
And I mean exact
- Comment on Petition: Prohibit publishers irrevocably disabling video games they have already sold 2 months ago:
No worries, I wasn’t specific enough in the first reply.
- Comment on Starfield's abandoned gore and dismemberment system sure would have made it less grey 2 months ago:
I had put so many hours into trying to sort my bases for NG that I didn’t even want to try and start over for NG+.
If I ever DO decide to pick it up again, assuming the save is still compatible I made a separate save file before finishing the game just to be sure.
Who knows, maybe someone will make mods to make it the game we all wanted it to be and I’ll give it another go.
- Comment on Petition: Prohibit publishers irrevocably disabling video games they have already sold 2 months ago:
I’m assimung someone who goes around to tell people “stop signing petitions” feels smugly superior? That should be pretty self evident.
Or are you thinking I meant “people who sign petitions are the ones who feel smugly superior” because that’s the exact opposite.
