spankmonkey
@spankmonkey@lemmy.world
- Comment on I have never in my 43 years heard of anyone else with the first name Sigourney. 10 hours ago:
The singular Sigourney.
- Comment on My experience as the original mod of this community. 19 hours ago:
Is it better?
It isn’t full of shit conservative takes, so that is an improvement.
- Comment on My experience as the original mod of this community. 1 day ago:
I’m not sure what happened, why I’m not a mod nor is wintermute, and why my community appears to be yet another left wing community, but it doesn’t matter.
That is because you abandoned the community and someone came along to make it better.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 1 day ago:
On some railroad crossings you might only need to go off the crossing to get stuck in the tracks and unable to back out. Trying to get out is another 30-40 feet.
Being caught off guard when the car isn’t supposed to do that is how to get stuck in the first place. Yeah, terrible driver trusting shit technology.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 1 day ago:
Imagine if they used other sensors than just cameras like the competent companies!
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 1 day ago:
Maybe you should read the article.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 1 day ago:
On a related note, getting unstuck from something like train tracks is a pretty significant hurdles. The only real way is to back up IF turning onto the tracks wasn’t a drop down of the same depth as the rails. Someone who is caught off guard isn’t going to be able to turn a passenger car off the tracks because the rails are tall and getting an angle with the wheels to get over them isn’t really available.
So while in a perfect world the driver would have slammed on the brakes immediately before it got onto the tracks, getting even the front wheels onto the tracks because they weren’t fast enough may have been impossible to recover from and going forward might have been their best bet. Depends on how the track crossing is built.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 1 day ago:
Tesla has constantly lied about their FSD for a decade. We don’t trust them because they are untrustworthy, not because we don’t like them.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 1 day ago:
Paraphrasing:
“We only have the driver’s word they were in self driving mode…”
“This isn’t the first time a Tesla has driven onto train tracks…”
Since it isn’t the first time I’m gonna go ahead and believe the driver, thanks.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 1 day ago:
I’ll bet Donakd Trump is very upset!
- Comment on Seriously, it was all the rage back when I joined my first instance. 2 days ago:
Yes, lost of excellent wordplay and context based punchlines. Absolute comedy gold.
Big tiddy moth girl is Shakespeare level humor.
- Comment on Seriously, it was all the rage back when I joined my first instance. 2 days ago:
Nope, the poop thing was only entertaining as long as the one poster who started it kept it alive. The beans and jeans thing were both funny for a couple of weeks.
This moth thing is better than all of those combined. So many clever moth based memes expanding beyond the starting moth loves lamps starting point.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Everything in the linked post is just chores and being a member of a household, didn’t see anything from the person who posted saying their parents put their hands on them.
Now putting hands on someone would be abuse, but that wouldn’t make helping out around the house abuse.
- Comment on After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any? 3 days ago:
Nuclear weapons require extremely specific events to successfully detonate, blowing them up with explosives will destroy the mechanisms that make it possible. It will most likely spread the nuclear fuel out though by breaking the shielding and structure that was keeping the radioactive material on the inside.
- Comment on How often do thieves (and identity thieves) actually get caught and served justice? Are there actual examples of law enforcement actually doing anything? (Because I think most cops are just lazy) 3 days ago:
Most cops don’t do detective work because that isn’t their job. Most cops do grunt work like tickets, traffic, taking down statements and reports, etc. Detectives do the detective work.
Even if they did do good work, the prosecutor has to follow through with filing charges. The cop can get all the details but if the prosecutor doesn’t think they can win or get a plea then it doesn’t even matter what the cop does.
Which then circles back to why there are so many lazy and corrupt cops. They are only incentivized to do either the easy stuff like writing tickets or the high profile (rich people as victims) stuff because that is what the prosecutor follows up on. The prosecutor doesn’t want to hold cops responsible, because that is where the stuff they need for prosecuting people comes from.
Which is why we have lazy and corrupt cops. The system incentivizes both.
- Comment on Putin declares ‘all of Ukraine is ours’ in latest blow to peace talks - and hints at nuclear threat 3 days ago:
Putin continues to say the same things he has said since before Russia invaded Ukraine, news at 11.
- Comment on The Batpoon's First Appearance: was World's Finest Comics #9 (March, 1943). This is from World's Finest Comics #163 (December, 1966) 3 days ago:
Bat Harpoon.
- Comment on To thy own self be true 4 days ago:
I fucking love imitation crab, so fun to peel apart and eat like string cheese.
- Comment on If stererypical nerds have profile pics of cute anime girls, have cute anime girls therefore profile pics of steretypical nerds? 4 days ago:
No, they have profile pics of tentacle monsters.
- Comment on How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time? 5 days ago:
For the most part, yes. That is why they tended to congregate around water sources. Even early settlements and towns and cities were near waters sources even after we had portable water containers because water is heavy and large numbers of people need a large water source.
But before we changed the environment significantly, there were a lot more potable water sources. More streams, more water pooled up after rains, etc. that could be ingested because of a lack of human pollution. If humans were within a days walking distance of a water source, they could do their hunting and gathering nearby and drink up afterwards.
- Comment on What the fuck 5 days ago:
DAMMIT
- Comment on Trump’s EPA to “reconsider” ban on cancer-causing asbestos 6 days ago:
Every sign points to them actively trying to kill people.
- Comment on If a sandwich is defined as any food item between two pieces of bread, then a layer cake is a type of sandwich. 6 days ago:
Cube rule is a tongue in cheek comedy bit that exaggerates the topic to a hilarious point by focusing in the inconsistency of food names. It quickly descends into madness, and the images helps.
Salad theory tries too hard to take the subject seriously and drags it out for far too long, undermining the potential humor.
Cube rule is Spaceballs. Salad theory is Meet the Spartans.
- Comment on If a sandwich is defined as any food item between two pieces of bread, then a layer cake is a type of sandwich. 6 days ago:
Discount cube rule.
- Comment on We live in a society or smth 6 days ago:
I mean if it is covered in poop and you won’t clean it then you should…
- Comment on The real question is, which color? 6 days ago:
Yes, I love regular M&Ms more than peanut M&Ms and the peanut ones are pretty awesome.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s A.I. Company Faces Lawsuit Over Gas-Burning Turbines |The company, xAI, has installed several dozen turbines in Memphis without proper permits, the group said, polluting a nearby community 6 days ago:
Move fast and break things!
Rules were made to be broken!
Musk’s entire business model is getting government welfare to support his flagrant violations of safety regulations.
- Comment on Amid AI Plagiarism, More Professors Turn to Handwritten Work 6 days ago:
“I’ll take your noisiest model my good sir!”
- Comment on Are drink coasters for people who frequently spill their drink or have trouble drinking without dribbling down the cup? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Are drink coasters for people who frequently spill their drink or have trouble drinking without dribbling down the cup? 1 week ago:
In addition to the condensation, I have also used coasters for under hot drinks like coffee as they can discolor or even deform some surfaces.
If all you drink is room temp liquids you don’t need coasters.
