Kirp123
@Kirp123@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 1 day ago:
Not anymore. They turned it into it’s own social media. They have comments and stuff and apparently a lot of them really hate reddit lol.
- Comment on I can see the confusion tbh 4 days ago:
Those are ROMAN numerals.
- Comment on Are you winning? 1 week ago:
Having actual people read your chats is so 2015. They probably have some shitty LLM doing it now, Grok probably.
- Comment on What's your thoughts on this? 1 week ago:
Fruits? Wood? Oxygen? Soil Fixation? Spices? Truffles? Shade?
Ok, but besides fruits, wood, oxygen, soil fixation, spice truffles and shade, what have the trees ever did for us?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Some traditions also hold that a vampire cannot enter a house unless invited by the owner; after the first invitation they can come and go as they please.
Depends who you ask.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Eminent Domain can’t be declared by some random police officer, it’s a complex process that takes years and it needs a specific valid public purpose. Some countries require the government to publish a declaration that specifies what public utility the project that will be built on that land will bring.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
When you have a mortgage you still are the owner of the house. You just owe the bank money and the house is just a collateral for that money. If you default on your loan then the bank can take possession of the house to cover the loan and then would become the owners, but only in that case.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It wouldn’t work. The vampire needs the permission of the owner to enter the house. The person who issued the warrant is not the owner of the house.
- Comment on Billionaire Elon Musk is threatening to sue Apple and escalating his feud with Sam Altman 2 weeks ago:
Elon’s mom said he’s sick and he can’t fight. No, seriously.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
No? He set up a date for him, he can just not go if it bothers him.
- Comment on OP cleans his fridge 3 weeks ago:
I thought it was a teratoma at first but pickle is much more likely.
- Comment on Dirt Man 3 weeks ago:
Arktos means bear in Ancient Greek and the name Arctic comes from Arktikos which could be translated as near the bear. One theory is that it was named because of the Ursa constellations (Ursa Major and Ursa Minor). Antarctica just means opposite of the Arctic.
The scientific name for Brown Bears is Ursus Arctos. Ursus means bear in Latin while Arctos means bear in Ancient Greek so their name translated is Bear Bear.
- Comment on Hand cranked and twisted 4 weeks ago:
You’re not the boss of me.
- Comment on And so it was 4 weeks ago:
Cockroach is not the scientific name for them. It’s the common name. Most roaches are part of the Blattodea order together with termites. The common name came about in the early 17th century (as cacaroch ): from Spanish cucaracha . The spelling change was due to association with cock and roach.(according to Wikipedia).
Depending on where you live there are different species of what is considered the common/house cockroach: The most common are: Blatella Germanica (German Cockroach), Periplaneta Americana (American Cockroach), Periplaneta Australasiae (Australian cockroach) and Blatta orientalis (Oriental Cockroach).
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 5 weeks ago:
It’s exactly what I was thinking. They should let the AI build a spaceship and all get into it. Would be the greatest achievement in humans history… when it blows up and kills all of them.
- Comment on I self hosted a World of Warcraft server. 1 month ago:
I did it like 10 or so years back? It was pretty easy to be completely honest and didn’t require too many resources, at least not if you’re the only one using the server. You just run the server locally and then use the client to connect to that server. That’s basically it.
And no, the game comes with all the quests and everything, you don’t need to really do anything else. The downsides is that you’ll be locked out of a bunch of content like dungeons and raids since those require groups of 5 or more players.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The North Sentinel people are not actually fully isolated. They had contact with colonial authorities in the past (the British went on the island and even kidnapped some of the locals they found, an elderly couple and 4 kids. The couple died not soon after and the kids were sent back) and there was some peaceful contact with Indian anthropologists up until 1997. The 2004 earthquake and tsunami affected the island pretty badly and disturbed their fishing grounds but aerial survey of the island confirmed they survived and adapted to their new conditions. Most contact after that has been met with aggression most theories I heard about why assume it’s because of contact people fishing illegally in the area or an epidemic on the island after one such contact.
The Indian government considers it illegal to contact them and will punish anyone who does it. That one American preacher that landed on the a while back was eventually killed by the locals and his death was ruled a murder but the Indian government didn’t push for anyone to be prosecuted. The US government also didn’t push for prosecution. So yea the Indian government wants them to be left alone.
My personal take on this is that if the North Sentinel Islanders wanted to be in contact with the rest of the world they could. They are not very far from other Andaman islands and they could build a raft or a canoe that could reach them. The fact they haven’t done so means they don’t wish to be in contact with other people. It’s their choice to be isolated and it should be respected.
- Comment on Russian Internet users are unable to access the open Internet 1 month ago:
This seems to be originating at the ISP level so it will only affect Russians. Should be fine for someone connecting from the outside.
- Comment on Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public 1 month ago:
If you say that you have no social media accounts they will probably assume you’re lying and deny you.
- Comment on Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public 1 month ago:
Yep, here’s a US government source.
- Comment on Roblox Accused Of Allowing Sexual Exploitation In Four Separate Lawsuits 1 month ago:
Yeah you can.
If the inappropriate content was reported as such and they took no action then that means they allowed it. They knew about it, due to the reports, and did nothing.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 2 months ago:
Conspiracy theorists don’t have the imagination to write fantasy literature. They can’t account for the inconsistencies in their theories and 99% of the time the reason they give for why a certain thing is the way it is amounts to: “the Jews did it”.
- Comment on Trump extends the TikTok ban deadline for a third time; there is no legal basis for the extensions and it is unclear how many times the deadline can be extended 2 months ago:
Is anyone going to stop him? No? Then he can extend it as many times as he wants.
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 2 months ago:
But it’s golden and has a convicted felon’s name on it. That should make up for the rest of the value right?
- Comment on “Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney 2 months ago:
Artists doing fan art are infringing copyright, yes. If the fan art meets the fair use criteria then they are not Infringing.
Companies usually overlook the infringement from fan artists because it’s free advertising and the public backlash is not worth going after lone artists. They usually will go after fan art of people that profit off their fan art.
- Comment on What in the... 2 months ago:
The gene was named by Robert Riddle, a postdoctoral fellow at the Tabin Lab, after his wife Betsy Wilder came home with a magazine containing an advert for the first game in the series, Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 2 months ago:
I hope this shows companies that selling their games at 80 Euro is not the way to go.
- Comment on Over a hundred thousand Dune Awakening players got swallowed by the sandworm | Massively Overpowered 3 months ago:
They didn’t get 100k players. The players they got counted multiple times. Someone got swallowed one but Bobby got swallowed 35 times because he’s a dumbass. That counts a 36 people getting swallowed.
- Comment on N the digital age, it's going to be harder for ICE agents to hide their identities than it was for Nazis trying to evade justice post WW2. 3 months ago:
They can just scrub everything before they lose power. Remind me what happened with the phones of the Secret Service when they were investigating Trump?
They are using Signal as we’ve seen with Leaky Pete. Signal deletes all the info automatically after some time. Since it’s an end to end encrypted messaging app nobody can recover those messages. Not even Signal themselves. Who’s to say they aren’t using in other instances as well.
And finally, Trump can pardon the lot of them and they will never see justice.
- Comment on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. 4 months ago:
Can’t believe that movie is looking to become a reality in my lifetime.