WoodScientist
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- Comment on US | Supreme Court takes case that could strip FCC of authority to issue fines 1 day ago:
Honestly, I would support total broadcast anarchy over our current state of affairs.
Without the FCC, whoever has the loudest transmitter wins. But actually look at the state of over-the-air broadcasts today. The radio stations have all been bought up and monopolized by a handful of companies like iHeartMedia. The broadcast TV stations are also similarly consolidated. Look at all the countless Sinclair stations pumping out endless right wing propaganda.
Frankly, I would prefer complete anarchy over this. Fines are how the FCC enforces its rules. Without any enforcement, broadcast regulation effectively ceases to exist. At that point, anyone can broadcast whatever they want, and the loudest transmitter wins. Now, maybe you don’t have the budget to build a transmitter that can completely overpower a major commercial radio station. But if that station is several miles away, you could set up a pirate radio station that would drown out a larger commercial station in your local area.
This is a case where deregulation absolutely would help the people. The broadcast network we have is so hopelessly corrupt that burning the whole thing down would be a massive improvement. I’ll take total anarchy over media monopolies owned by right-wing billionaires.
- Comment on Zootopia 4 days ago:
If you’re looking to get into the scrap metal business, I could sell you the Eiffel Tower.
- Comment on once you start to realize that incels are right as a non-white, you see why Elliot rodger did it. 4 days ago:
Look at this dumb fuck, taking decade-old data from okcupid and making sweeping conclusions about the entire human race from a fucking dating website’s blog post.
Pathetic.
- Comment on once you start to realize that incels are right as a non-white, you see why Elliot rodger did it. 4 days ago:
You need to like…find Jesus or something. IDK. But religious or not, hate leads only to the pit.
- Comment on Wats the legal test for consumation? 4 days ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
A bunch of retroreflectors. Something like this. Hang them from strings in your windows. Retroreflectors reflect back light to their source. Don’t shine your own bright lights, just return some of the photos to the people that made them. And if by some miracle the cops do complain, say that they’re just decorative and meant to prevent birds from hitting your windows.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 1 week ago:
That’s simply not true.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 1 week ago:
We actually got a full set of wedding china, and we got married in 2018. We’re elder Millennials. While I tell people that they should probably skip the hina, I actually enjoy it. Growing up my parents had a set of china that only came out for company and holidays, and it had a certain charm to it. And I’ve found our set serves a similar role. I actually keep it in the very same cabinet my mom had when I was a kid (she’s long since used a fancier cabinet that matches their dining set.)
But even in 2025, it can be nice to have a set of China. There’s just something special about having people over, either for social occasions or holidays, and being able to offer them a really nice place setting that isn’t part of your normal repertoire. I do got out of my way to use it though. You could just be stopping by my house for a chat, and if I offer you coffee, I’ll probably give it to you in fine china.
- Comment on Meta smart glasses pose a threat to women, campaigners say 1 week ago:
“Why are people talking about their issues, why aren’t they talking about ME?!!”
- Comment on Meta smart glasses pose a threat to women, campaigners say 1 week ago:
No. But you’re literally doing “all lives matter” here. A women’s group pushes for change, and inevitably on any story about it, there will be a hoard of men not proposing how they can protect men, but whining about why the women’s group doesn’t worry about the men. You want to make progress on this issue for men? Start your own men’s welfare group and be the change you want in the world. Don’t just whine when a group advocates for themselves and their issues, and they just don’t happen to include you in their target audience.
- Comment on Media zombies would be largely harmless if they lacked teeth and claws. 1 week ago:
Depends on the zombie. But most zombies as portrayed in popular media are not capable of punching you, hitting you, or even using objects in any meaningful way. A zombie trapped in a locked car will stay there indefinitely, unless they just happen to hit the unlock button through their random flailing.
Zombies themselves are never capable. It’s their durability, relentlessness, and numbers that make them a terrifying threat.
- Comment on Meta smart glasses pose a threat to women, campaigners say 1 week ago:
What’s the ratio of male perverts covertly recording women to female perverts covertly recording men? Realistically, it’s probably a hundred to one.
- Comment on Meta smart glasses pose a threat to women, campaigners say 1 week ago:
There’s nothing in particular about smartglasses that would enable such a use and they’re considerably worse than a regular phone for that in every regard except for the covert picture taking.
“Except for the one thing everyone is concerned about, they’re harmless.”
- Comment on YSK about Israel’s “Samson Option”: The Nuclear Target List that includes American and European cities… 1 week ago:
You’re just a Nazi that wants to force all Jews to move to Israel.
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I figured it out. They broke their FAQ/wiki for old reddit.
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 2 weeks ago:
Is there any actual content on that wiki? I’m not seeing any actual content there.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 2 weeks ago:
“In my perfect ideal world, that we have no path to achieving, we could sustain our large population indefinitely.”
- Comment on Of course there is. 3 weeks ago:
I mean, how else are you going to try and march across the damn Soviet Union?
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 4 weeks ago:
I killed someone. It’s a called a dead name for a reason.
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 4 weeks ago:
We have one. A small one that came with this little countertop ceramic honey pot we found at a pottery shop. We actually tried using it, but the ants got to the literal honey pot very quickly.
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- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 5 weeks ago:
I really wonder about what people thought of that then. Did people really think it was a medical thing, or was this just a socialy respectable way for a man who couldn’t get his wife off to pass the task on to someone who could perform the task with an air of medical respectability?
- Comment on Happy DB Cooper Day to those who celebrate! 1 month ago:
No no no. You want WoodsScientist. I’m WoodScientist.
- Comment on Happy DB Cooper Day to those who celebrate! 1 month ago:
Some of those areas are really remote. He could have easily died, and his body was then torn apart and scattered by scavengers before anyone could find it.
People frequently get lost in remote areas, die, and never have their bodies found. All that has to happen is that the animals get to the body before search parties do.
Or he could have simply landed in a stream or river, and his body was devoured by fish as it tumbled its way into the sea.
There are plenty of ways for nature to destroy a corpse.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 1 month ago:
IDK. I’ve been unironically referring to LLMs as “the Devil’s machine” or simply “The Devil” lately. :D
I mean, if you use them, they do steal your soul, so it checks out.
- Comment on Why are love potions always romantic in nature? Why hasn't anyone made a non-romantic variant? 1 month ago:
That would be a great item for a DND session. Could be sold by an incompetent or novice potion maker, or at some magic potion equivalent of a scratch and dent store. Or the dollar store version of a love potion.
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 1 month ago:
Are you asking leading questions?
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 1 month ago:
Anyone who writes a headline like this should be chained to a bale of ewaste and thrown into the ocean.
- Comment on Would you date someone that uses a hammer? 1 month ago:
If hammers were only useful for hurting people, yes, yes I would.
- Comment on YSK: The Invention Secrecy Act is a US federal law authorizing the government to suppress disclosure of certain inventions for reasons of national security. 6,543 inventions are currently suppressed. 1 month ago:
All technologies have military and civilian use. Just because you can’t think of a civilian application for precision gyroscope doesn’t mean others can’t. Precision surveying immediately comes to mind as a potential application, plus civilian inertial navigation devices.
And no, there is not some magical level of precision that only the military has use for. If something has military applications, it also has civilian ones. Hell, there are potential peaceful applications of nuclear bombs. If those can be a dual-use technology, anything can be.