dukeofdummies

@dukeofdummies@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D-printed drill press can drill through metal — costs around $45 to create your own drill press⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s a good thing to try and explore how easy or hard it is to build this. It can all translate into building something entirely local, building things at higher quality for less money, or even building things in times of quarantine, trade embargoes, or just lower tech areas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The sad thing is there’s not a lot of good advice right now.

  The world is VASTLY different than 50 years ago. No you can’t just talk to the boss of the building and ask for a job.

  The insane numbers game that job applications have become is so opaque that any advice in it is about as useful as sacrificing a goat.

  Every company wants to remove as many humans as possible from its payroll. Covid and AI have proven this beyond a shadow of a doubt, loyalty means absolutely nothing now.

  Just surviving in this current environment is a brand new challenge and field.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are ghosts never racist?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly because when you’re writing a fictional story, you need to remove everything that isn’t necessary for the plot. Is your story about racism? Then your ghost being racist makes sense. Otherwise unless it’s a gag it slows down the plot.

  If we wanna get REALLY picky though…

  Most ghosts probably aren’t speaking modern English either. A LOT changes in 200 years, how much slang rose and fell in that time? How much did accents change?

  The concept of time was massively different too. Keep in mind before trains visiting a state could be weeks not hours. Could explain why ghosts are so patient though.

  There’s also just vast differences in priorities, imagine a life where water is a constant mental calculation like your battery life on a phone. If they’re old enough that was the norm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What you’ve described is every complaint I’ve had with centrists and neocons in the democratic party. I don’t really know where the progressive part comes in.

  Bernie did amazing with men to the point where “bernie bros” were being mocked in media, so has Mamdani in NY in polls.

  If anything, I would argue that the Democratic party should be more populist and progressive. Focusing on things that pull up everybody, because everyone is struggling right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good places/activities where a middle-aged man can new make friends?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  there are actually lots of groups that attempt to rectify this exact problem.

  Pathfinder is a tabletop RPG that has a large following and focuses on the ability to jump in and out of groups and games.

  Find your nearest game store and see what hobbies show up there. There might be a Warhammer group, DnD, starwars miniatures, magic, or maybe just random board games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with moths and lamps in lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh it’s a classic meme.

  Basically it was this one moth that uncharacteristically posed for a photo outside a window, then it kinda morphed into a “transform any meme into one about lamps” and add the moth.

  Dunno if you have moths or not where you live, but moths LOVE light. They usually smash up against your window or porch light or fly at your face in a well lit place. Terrible for anyone who hates bugs, which just adds to the humor. Adding a mostly annoying bug to your feed.

  It’s the same idea where the saying “like a moth to the flame” came from. The idea being the moth flew into the candle and gets burned. You’re going straight into something bad, but you just can’t help yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well a good chunk of it is that older games only had ONE way they were played. ONE framerate, ONE resolution. They optimized for that.

  Nowadays they plan for 60, 120, and if you have less too bad. Upgrade for better results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I easily create gif- or video-memes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

  Checks out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I properly learn deaf sign languages?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One other somewhat bizarre option is that I’ve heard there is a large deaf community in VR Chat and they actually have a modified sign language that they use.

  I don’t know exactly how “modified” it is, but for learning any language the best way is to find people to talk with. Might work as a good springboard if you have VR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to basically not snore at all?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s totally possible. It’s also possible to snore only sometimes depending on head position, food eaten, age, and alcohol taken.

  I have positions where I snore, where my wife then has to smack me in the middle of the night, I re-adjust and then I usually stop snoring.

  Apparently she also smacks me when she needs cuddles, and apparently I understand the difference in smacks while I am asleep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF is a rural town in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Americans tend to describe locations more by density and arrangement rather than population. Kinda similar to how we refer to distances in time rather than distance. In a city you have a LOT within 5 minutes of you at any time. Within a rural town you have… maybe 5 neighbors within that same span of time walking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Well, a lot of people jumped ship from other platforms because of politics. So they’re gonna be here.

  2. It’s a time where politics are fucking with all of us, so it’s topical.

  3. reddit still exists and has a larger base, so if you want to talk about stardew valley, just by the nature of numbers that’s where they’re gonna gather.

  4. There are a lot of “lurkers” here, not a lot of posters. Seriously, notice how often The Picard Maneuver, or Stamets keeps popping up.

  God I hate to be the guy who says this especially because I am ABSOLUTELY being hypocritical right now, but you gotta be the change you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would this list look like for your generation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  … I mean, a lot of these words are pretty tame aren’t they?

  Chat? Rizz? Anime words and gestures? No pumpkin?

  Seems like a desperate attempt here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Admittedly, charging ports are the first to break on any electronic unless it has a joystick. Wireless charging is a lot more robust, more water resistant, and allows you to do sleek shit without a weird hole in it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly the flaws I have the biggest complaints about is the God awful UI.

  Incorrect tool tips, no drag and drop, no ui for city connectivity, no renaming cities, disappearing entities.

  It’s genuinely painful at times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the ages thing grew on me. It was way too common in other civs to just snowball early and dominate the rest. Any modern civilization was just bad, because by the time they got online it was over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “well, Trump said he’d fix the economy and I don’t like woke.”

  I mean, I feel like you’re being a bit derivative. I would put it more towards desperation than stupidity. Why does someone stay with an abusive partner? Biden was of the stance that “things are getting better” and… they’re not.

  I always considered trump’s victory as sign that the democrats were just… that flaccid and unpalatable. It’s like you have a partner who sucks. They pay their share of rent, they expect you to do all the cooking and cleaning, they don’t even bother to understand you and get pissy that a random bouquet of whatever flowers on sale doesn’t magically fix an argument and make your loins quiver.

  You fall instead to this gorgeous individual who knows how to flirt and makes you feel like the world can be easily fixed and now you’re locked in their basement about to lose an arm.

  It’s desperation that makes people take risks, listen to people they shouldn’t listen to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to branch out from PLA. Should I try ABS or TPU?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the hardness of the tpu. You don’t have to dive into full flexibility

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it a pattern for right-wing people to attack films, series and animations with protagonists from minority groups? Or is this an exaggeration?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In their defense, there are no stupid questions in this community.

  …Although yeah that is hella repetitive. If I’m looking at their history right they haven’t talked about a single other thing for the last 3 months. Not even comments or a random

  You uh, you doing a study or something Hickak? There an answer you’re looking for specifically?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why should someone join the Fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s constantly evolving. New communities are getting constantly added, and new servers spun up for different reasons and ethos’ are being spun up every day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I for one cheer and root for my flip phone friends.

  I’d never do it, but we have one at work and he’s singlehandedly causing so much grief at work. Because none of the engineers wanna use a security app for login. They want a fob.

  IT refuses to pay for fobs and wants us to use an app, but they also don’t want to pay for a phone for anyone in engineering just to use the security app because it opens a floodgate of people with company phones.

  It’s just wonderful to watch this fight from the sidelines sipping tea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a last-minute decision, White House decides not to terminate NASA employees⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In practice, you’re probably right.

  But in terms of “I wanna cut waste, and make the government lean! So I am gonna delete the space part of the government and replace it with my own!”

  Just sounds bad, like really bad. Even worse than the armored Teslas. I can’t imagine NASA is the top of people’s lists of “utter wastes of time” It’s not a regulator, it’s not in the “known enemies” list unless you’re a flat earther. I dunno how you spin it to be palatable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a last-minute decision, White House decides not to terminate NASA employees⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … I mean that would’ve been the clearest conflict of interest you could’ve possibly summoned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there even a point to which one you pick? I just picked .kbin because I liked the UI, and when that fell apart I moved to .world mostly at random.

  Is there really a large difference between them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if USA invades Canada?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really struggle to see a unilateral mobilization and that the US military truly goes through with it.

  Especially when foreign assets are getting absolutely left stranded by Trump, programs are getting gutted (he hasn’t touched the VA, yet) and everyone who helped after 9/11 were getting shafted by their government in terms of Healthcare.

  If you take away the rather potent motivators of “national security and safety or preventing terrorism” I think you’re gonna get a lot more of a strike from soldiers. Unless you can somehow believably apply that to canada.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft would really like you to stop using Windows 10 this year⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man am I the only ubuntu user? It’s the only variant I never hear about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with male loneliness?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even think it’s an exclusively male thing. It’s just getting harder and harder to meet people and mingle. Men are just feeling it harder and sooner.

  It’s harder to meet people now. I think part of it is:

  1. That people used to be bored. You would make entertainment where you could find it, and two bored people can rapidly get entertained. Now you have a phone that makes you not bored, and de-incentivizes face to face interaction.

  2. There used to be more places where people interacted. Masons, elk lodge, unions, they would often serve alcohol at events, for dirt cheap. They were known as third places, somewhere other than work and home. One thing I hear from a lot of smokers is that the smoking areas are where people hang out to talk, and they do. It’s where conversations happen at a club. It gives you something to do when you’re not talking, a reason to stand somewhere close to people, and a perfect excuse to jump into a conversation. It’s kinda infuriating that it also shaves two minutes off your life -_-.

  3. People have less time. Younger generations are working multiple jobs, gigs with unpredictable hours, often times having commutes of an hour which turns a 9 to 5 into an 8 to 6, and spending all their vacation hours on the shit that has to be done on a weekday like the DMV or the like. How are you supposed to make a friend when schedules differ so much that a spreadsheet is required to make it work?