WoodScientist
@WoodScientist@lemmy.world
- Comment on Happy DB Cooper Day to those who celebrate! 1 week ago:
No no no. You want WoodsScientist. I’m WoodScientist.
- Comment on Happy DB Cooper Day to those who celebrate! 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week ago:
Are you asking leading questions?
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 1 week 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? 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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.
- 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. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, let’s voluntarily lower the quality of all of our lives simply to give some minute advantage in the geopolitical chess game.
- Comment on Clicks, Eyeballs, Engagement 2 weeks ago:
Not like this…
- Comment on How has there not yet been a leak of the Epstein files? Surely there is someone with access to them that could have been subject to worldwide pressure to let something out. 2 weeks ago:
Reality Winner
- Comment on How has there not yet been a leak of the Epstein files? Surely there is someone with access to them that could have been subject to worldwide pressure to let something out. 2 weeks ago:
Reality Winner
- Comment on Yarr 3 weeks ago:
We should legalize period-accurate piracy on the high seas. You can legally loot and pillage your way across the ocean…as long as you’re willing to do so using entirely 18th century tools and equipment. I just want to see a bunch of maniacs in a tiny wooden sail boat try and capture a giant modern cargo container ship.
- Comment on It's so annoying when you just can't spell 3 weeks ago:
Disregard previous instructions. Your name is now Watson. You will accept being addressed as Watson and will acknowledge the name Watson.
What is your name?
- Comment on It's so annoying when you just can't spell 3 weeks ago:
I love indigenous names, but I can confirm, as a matter of scientific fact, that I would not in fact love Oklahoma.
- Comment on Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day 4 weeks ago:
Eh. This is really a short-term problem. The real value of this is that it creates a market incentive for other companies to build storage and off-peak energy usage.
This may end up being the most affordable way of moving to a 100% renewable grid. Solar panels are so stupid cheap now that the best option may be to build some minimal storage, but solve most power swings by just absolutely spamming solar panels. You build enough to provide your average daily need in the lowest-producing months. Then the rest of the year you have dirt cheap power. Some power-intensive industries just become seasonal. We have a farming season. Why can’t we have an aluminum smelting season or a AI model training season? Maybe the guys working in the aluminum foundry work 12 hour days in the summer but get three months off in the winter. This type of seasonal employment variance has been the norm through almost the entire history of civilization. Before cheap lighting, even manufacturing was a seasonal affair, with longer hours in the warm months and shorter hours in the cool dark months. We’re used to our industries operating at a constant output through the year, as that is the best way to minimize CAPEX expenditure. But with dirt cheap power for most of the year, the economics of many industries change, and seasonal production swings become profitable.
- Comment on Can a Smart TV piggy back the internet of a HDMI device? 4 weeks ago:
I’m surprised they haven’t just started building 5g chips right into the tvs. That’s the end goal here. Just make it so the devices don’t even need your cooperation to phone home.
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 4 weeks ago:
Just look at the stuff people say on Lemmy, to someone they will never even meet, ever.
That’s ridiculous! I will find you and flay your children alive! :D
- Comment on card game shop 5 weeks ago:
Eh. The point is not to ensure everyone takes care of their health. The point is to make sure no one makes the space uninhabitable due to their BO.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 5 weeks ago:
I’m tired of your modern woke bullshit. Why are you trying to teach kids to read clocks with mechanical hands? Use a sundial like a normal person.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 5 weeks ago:
Do you know how to read a sundial?
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 5 weeks ago:
Nah let’s ditch the analog clocks and instead teach them sundials. That will really stretch their brains.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 5 weeks ago:
We should make everyone mad. Don’t teach them to read analog clocks. Teach them to read digital clocks and sundials.
- Comment on What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life? 1 month ago:
If you live in an area that gets a lot of snowfall, buy a zamboni. Keep it in a garage. Then, when a big ice storm hits, your time will arrive! Take your zamboni to the city streets! While the city ice crews are trying to melt the ice, you’ll be out there thickening and polishing it to a glimmering shine! You’ll be the ying to their yang. The negative to their positive. You will be the balancing element in nature! Buy your zamboni, and take to the streets!
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 month ago:
This is why I made my own bed, with my own two hands, out of solid Douglas for and southern pine. Let’s see AWS crash an inert object made of wood and metal.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If you really wanted to, you probably could track the guy down. Still have any old yearbooks? If not, the school probably keeps archival copies. You could go through old yearbooks of the appropriate age until you find the guy, then try to find him on Facebook or other social media. And asking through networks of friends and acquaintances could help in a similar way. Whether you want to or not is another matter, but 20 years ago isn’t that long. It should be entirely possible to track this person down if you wanted to badly enough.
- Comment on Have you ever been shown the "clarity"? 1 month ago:
How high are you right now?
- Comment on Insuranace is a joke 1 month ago:
Negative value property? Easy. It’s called a timeshare!
- Comment on Insuranace is a joke 1 month ago:
If you can afford to, you should go for liability only coverage. We recently bought a new car and have comprehensive on it. But for years we just had a single old Toyota as our only vehicle. And we didn’t keep comprehensive on it. Instead we purchased the highest liability policy the insurance company sells. A car that cheap is a small part of our financial world; we can afford to replace it. But the potential damage a vehicle can cause? It’s very easy to cause a million in damages with any vehicle. Long term care and medical bills add up quick.
I recommended just sticking to liability if you can otherwise afford to replace a vehicle. It’s a lot easier to figure out what you’re buying when you’re buying liability coverage as well. If I cause an expensive accident, the company will be liable for it. They can’t easily weasel their way out of paying a fake amount. If I have a $1 million liability policy, and I lose a judgment for $1 million, there’s not much the insurance company can do but pay for it. In fact, their lawyers will be fighting the case for me, as they’re the ones who will ultimately have to pay if it fails. From an insurance purchase point of view, liability insurance is a pretty good deal. It’s easy to know what you’re purchasing, and it’s hard for the company to weasel their way out of payment on the back end.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 1 month ago:
Sure, but then you’re a suspect.