DoubleDongle

@DoubleDongle@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows?⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  ICE has always “lost” suspicious amounts of children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twice the rejection⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a bi guy. While I’m happily married, I can assure you that if I were looking for someone, I would not do this. Hiding who I am is not fun and can lead to bigger problems later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twice the rejection⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m actually pretty sure that there are enough people of either gender who will not date a bisexual to make the bisexual dating pool smaller than the straight one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We will never know the name of a human that lived 50,000 years ago⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I just like to imagine there was a real person called Unga Bunga though. It seems statistically likely. Or some guy named, like, Andrew or something, but with absolutely no linguistic ties to any of the modern name’s roots, like it arose independently more than once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LLM's despite all the flaws it probably made it easier to switch to Linux.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fortunately, the most invasive anti-cheats seem to be popular on games I don’t care for. So far my research has told me I might need to fiddle with Vermintide 2 a little but nothing else I play has it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LLM's despite all the flaws it probably made it easier to switch to Linux.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Much better source would be asking some Linux guy on Lemmy.

  Speaking of that, I recently learned Steam can run Windows games on Linux and now I want to switch. I dual-booted Ubuntu a while back and liked it. What’s a good distro these days? If I just want it to be easy without the ever-expanding baggage of Microsoft, is there a better call than Mint? I know you guys are out there and probably stopping by to chew OP out for asking a LLM for technical advice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You are allowed flavor⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just gotta grill that shit and everyone will be drooling for it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We have food

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Information based on lived experience is far less valued than a quick Google answer.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes sense. Lots of individuals are dipshits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Reverse Solar Panel' Generates Electricity at Night⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One watt per square meter. Not very useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the optimal handle to chain length for a flail?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Far as I know, flails as depicted weren’t really used in war. They may have showed up in tournament fighting, but not war. The flails that did get used in real battlefields were pole weapons. Long shaft like five feet or so, very short chain that’s essentially just a hinge, then a sort of long head something like 18" that may have had spikes or bumps.

  Talhoffer wrote a manual for them, calling it a peasant flail. It has a lot of wonky binds that I would conjecture probably didn’t get a huge amount of use outside duels. In war, it was probably mostly overhead bonk attacks. Fighting against these things in a duel is a real bitch though. A skilled user can shower you in weird bullshit that’s hard to predict or handle and can’t really be done with anything else. There’s a ready stance where you hold it head-down and lean on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question for the Americans. If Canada, Venezuela, Mexico, or Greenland dropped a nuke on Washington DC, would you be angry at the bomb dropper, or would you think we had that coming?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  While at this point I’d feel safer if Washington vanished in a blast of nuclear hellfire than I do in its current state, the fact that it comes from another country in this scenario would create a whole new set of problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can socialism or communism have incentives (even without markets)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People like doing things. Most of them do, at least.

  I think the big thing here is that money and markets only stop properly existing in the most extreme ideas of communism. I think the most communist system that’s still viable would just be one where it looks like capitalism on the surface but unions are strong enough to openly challenge the government and there’s a soft cap on income and wealth. And markets and incentives don’t go away there, so it’s a moot point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The “no elections” thing is a psyop designed to make you fearful and hopeless. Fraud is possible, but at the rate it’s going, it will probably be super obvious if they try it, which carries risks.

  The assholes are fucking stupid, they’re bad at this, and I think the Kremlin is intentionally giving them shit advice because they want us to collapse more than they want the regime change. We will prevail if we work towards it, and I see a labor revival in our longer future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar is the new oil⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. While the expertise in their manufacture is pretty concentrated, you can build a factory almost anywhere in theory. They don’t have a lot of exotic materials and the amount they need will probably drop in the future, so there won’t be a real solar equivalent to the petro-state. Maybe some places with a handy combination of sun and mineral resources could be desirable industrial regions, but it wouldn’t encourage war in the same way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the phrase “a long-winded response”, “winded” can be pronounced as in “wind” or as in “wind”, and both make etymological sense.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wind as in the weather phenomenon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think all monopolies should be split into different companies, and then given to the workers who would collectivize them?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, some of them should just be socialized. Some markets are naturally uncompetitive and don’t serve the public well when guided strictly by profit motive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Given the way GPT operates, I bet it would be more accurate if we trained it to speak like Yoda.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It would definitely be funnier to train it to do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I CAN'T go outside without permission - is there any way I can help fight for a better world from the comfort of my bedroom?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re provably easy to brainwash. May as well leave your mark.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wise words⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you ain’t jerkin’ yer meat in the shitter you’re a coward and a bootlicker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I CAN'T go outside without permission - is there any way I can help fight for a better world from the comfort of my bedroom?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shitposting and meme-making aren’t exactly heavy lifting, but they’re not nothing. You can also run psyops posing as a conservative who’s had it. I’d hardly call it unethical since the opposition is paying people to do the same. Donations do a lot if you have the money. Convincing people to donate is almost as good. The movement can always use art. Posters, songs, whatever you can do.

  As for optimism, red team has pretty much totally lost the plot. Abolishing ICE is polling higher than the president. He’s dipping into the zone where election fraud won’t be believable. ICE agents are miserable and frequently foiled. I think the long-term consequence of this is going to be a new labor movement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a great way to make me start being negative about this Jensen guy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Losing_weight_IRL⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the opposite. Suffering from failure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a chance to look through?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just close them. All open tabs go away when I turn the computer off for the night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do your own farts smell so bad in the shower?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s nice to finally see the smart fella helping the fart smella out for once

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My apartment building gives me free water but I pay for electricity. What if I run the faucet nonstop and rig up a hydro turbine in my bathtub to generate my power from it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also consider running cold water through some sort of radiator if you want free AC

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m gonna make it my year. Fate’s consent is not necessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Technology Connections) I made my whole-home humidifier slightly less terrifying [34:38]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t heard of him. For me it’s Cult College, Ancient Americas, and a scattering of 3D printing youtubers who aren’t on Nebula.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Technology Connections) I made my whole-home humidifier slightly less terrifying [34:38]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That guy is like half the reason I still use YouTube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delicious rocks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The other first-column chloride salts are mostly edible at some level. Potassium chloride is used in some low-sodium foods, I think. I saw a couple Aussies on YouTube once going down the column and putting them all on fries. Not sure if I’d be able to find it again though, it was pretty old