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- Comment on Protest as Chick-fil-A opens first London restaurant 1 day ago:
I will say, Chick-fil-A is incredibly well run as a business. Compared to other fast food, they have steadfastly maintained quality while keeping prices reasonable, service fast, and their restaurants are always clean and well staffed. This should be a bare minimum, but unfortunately this is not true of pretty much any other fast food place, where quality is dropping rapidly, service is extremely slow, and restaurants are routinely staffed by like two teenagers with no adult supervision and social skills that suggest they have never been outside before. That said, I really don’t understand why there is always a giant line at them and why some people are just completely obsessed with them unless the whole point is the homophobia and the fact that they’re the one fast food place that isn’t “woke.”
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 3 days ago:
Yeah I think this is pretty reasonable. If parents set their kids up on adult accounts that’s on them.
- Comment on Charter gets FCC permission to buy Cox and become largest ISP in the US 3 days ago:
Charter can suck my Cox
- Comment on A product of his environment 4 days ago:
If the neighbor is concerned enough to call a priest after exhausting all natural means of dealing with the problem, he’s surely going to point the camera right at the trash cans.
- Comment on Giant string of organic molecules on Mars 5 days ago:
I am skeptical of the premise that long chain hydrocarbons can only be explained by life. Mostly because that logic fails whe examining how life arose on Earth in the first place. If complex organic molecules can only form life, then how did life arise on Earth to begin with? Life itself is complex organic chemistry and large organic molecules. If complex molecules like polypeptides and RNA can’t form without life, then life can’t come into being in the first place. Particularly with these long chain hydrocarbons it’s not that hard to imagine exotic conditions where they might be able to form. It is certainly easier to imagine these conditions than imagining the self replicating RNA or polypeptide strands that most likely became life as we know it. If they had found chains of nucleic acids or amino acids I would be a lot more willing to buy that it’s a sign of life. But hydrocarbons? It’s definitely interesting and a very good thing to look into (particularly in terms of the origins of life) but it’s far from a smoking gun.
That said, I am very interested in this finding because, at the end of the day, I do think it is relevant to biochemistry. Mostly that there are two possible explanations and both are important. If it’s not proof of life on Mars (I don’t think it is), then it is proof that complex organic molecules have formed elsewhere in relatively normal chemical conditions in the universe without existing organisms, which is a major unsolved problem in trying to determine the origin of life.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 6 days ago:
I mean he literally murdered someone in the middle of midtown Manhattan (I know Lemmy is really into the “Luigi is Innocent” conspiracy theories but I legit think he did it). Even if you think what he did was justified, that doesn’t mean it’s legal. We can’t have a functioning society where you can just extra-judiciously kill people and get away with it even if they’re doing something bad. He knew what he was getting into when he did this, and knew that he’d probably get arrested and convicted. If he gets convicted it will be justified, even though I completely understand why he did it and don’t feel bad for the victim.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 1 week ago:
Even within the perspective of religious philosophy, the existence of ghosts in the sense of a spirit that stays on Earth and causes noticeable effects is difficult. Mainly- ghosts would not be made of matter, but could interact with matter. Within the realm of religious philosophy there are all sorts of explanations for the “mundane” version of this question of how a spirit attaches itself to the matter of the body in the first place, but all of those explanations kind of go out the window when the spirit sticks around and starts interacting with other matter. If ghosts only appear in sensory visions and do not truly interact with matter (I believe this was the view of Aquinas), then you have a major problem in proof and then ghosts effectively do not exist for practical purposes. The Catholic Church believes that the dead can appear to the living in visions but takes no stance on physical manifestations.
Within science, of course, there has never been a scientific observation of any supernatural being such as a ghost or effects it might have. But that doesn’t disprove the idea of purely spiritual apparitions. Then again, it also doesn’t disprove that Zorlon the Gorilla God appeared to me in a dream either. I think we can pretty conclusively say that you can live your life under the assumption that ghosts don’t exist and be completely 100% fine.
- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 1 week ago:
I am an engineer and it’s just legitimately hard to build any kind of sensor that lasts and stays accurate longer than like 10 years especially without maintenance. They do intentionally design them so that they don’t last longer, but that’s because a design that would last longer would costs like 10x as much and require a lot of maintenance and calibration that your average homeowner is simply not going to do. It’s honestly surprising you can make an accurate smoke detector that even lasts 10 years as cheap as they are.
- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 1 week ago:
This is why I just go ahead and buy the new ones that come with batteries that last 10 years. You’ll have to replace the whole unit when they die anyway.
- Comment on Connected cars can be hacked, research finds 1 week ago:
Water is wet, research finds.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Cybercucks buy these shitty vehicles for the same reason they do anything - to own the libs. That’s the only point of it.
- Comment on Just getting into a little bit of Troubles 1 week ago:
- Comment on WMD 1 week ago:
The problem with railguns is that chemical propellants are just really, really good. The main thing that came out of the railgun project (pictured in this meme) was the projectile that can survive extreme acceleration and maintain incredible accuracy. It is just better to shoot said projectile out of traditional gun instead of the railgun because the equipment required to run the railgun is huge and the projectile will fit in an existing terrestrial howitzer. That said, the equipment size and energy requirements really aren’t a huge problem for naval applications, but then again you can do the math and find that an equivalent size of traditional gun can sling way more mass per hour than the railgun can and you can make a hundred of them for the cost of one railgun.
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 1 week ago:
Because their real answer of “Because you dumb fucks will buy it anyway” wasn’t nice enough for the press lol. Seriously as long as you dumb asses keep buying old ass games from Nintendo for way too much money they will keep letting you do it.
- Comment on lelz 2 weeks ago:
Eh. The biggest trump fans I know are well paid blue collar workers who definitely have something to lose if shit gets worse for them. They’re just legitimately stupid people who refuse to see any evidence that Trump isn’t their Messiah.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps a privileged take but I’d be completely willing to pay way more for games with no micro transactions or other “live service” BS. Like if economics make it so that it doesn’t make sense to sell most high budget games for $70 without micro transactions then sell me one at $100. Video games were way more expensive when I was a kid and prices haven’t risen with inflation at all. Consider that Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time retailed for $59.99 in 1998 while Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom cost $69.99 in 2023. That is a 16.7% increase over 25 years, or an average increase of 0.619% each year. Meanwhile, average CPI inflation is usually ~2% per year.
- Comment on Let's discuss the real issues. 3 weeks ago:
Zoom out those graphs lol. Precious metals are very clearly a bubble right now, and international stocks are mostly finally catching up to US pandemic recovery. The stock market situation is a little more complicated because major US stock indices are extremely top-heavy with AI stocks right now and being influenced by the AI bubble, but this narrative is not particularly accurate. Neither are Bondi’s absurd ramblings.
- Comment on Dogs welcome 3 weeks ago:
My local grocery store now has big ass signs on the door saying no dogs unless they’re actually real service animals like seeing eye dogs and that emotional support animals don’t count. I think they must be actually enforcing it too because it’s one of the few places I don’t see people’s fucking dogs running around. I love dogs, probably more than the average person, but they don’t belong in most stores especially because the overlap between people bringing their dogs into stores and the people who actually train their dogs is pretty small.
- Comment on This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE. 3 weeks ago:
If nothing else I feel like more people would be killed with Shinzo Abe guns and similar hardware store contraptions
- Comment on How does this thing work? (wrong answers only) 3 weeks ago:
Oh God it’s a Seebeck effect fan isn’t it? That’s almost nothing anyway lol
- Comment on How does this thing work? (wrong answers only) 3 weeks ago:
I’m 90% sure this thing effectively does nothing and just spins when hot air flows over it due to natural convection to make it look like it’s doing something.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 3 weeks ago:
Welp that sucks time to find a new platform
- Comment on Praise Be 3 weeks ago:
Homie it was literally 2000 years ago and social norms have changed dramatically.
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 3 weeks ago:
Yo why does the “Chad” in this meme look like Jeffrey Epstein?
- Comment on I might actually be a respectable member of society 4 weeks ago:
Why does every comment section on Lemmy seem to have at least one person who seems to have never gone outside
- Comment on I am looking for a Linux OS 4 weeks ago:
I recommend Mint if it’s your first time. It’s really easy to set up and use and there are thousands of guides online for fixing any issues you encounter with it. I do not recommend Bazzite like others are recommending because you literally can’t change anything with it. That is fine if everything works out of the box and you’re basically just using it for gaming, but if literally anything is wrong with your install or you have a device where the drivers that come with Bazzite don’t work, you literally can’t fix it. Not as in “it’s really difficult” I mean it literally won’t let you do it. Updating drivers on Linux is notoriously frustrating, but it’s very often required especially if you have older USB peripherals you want to use.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 4 weeks ago:
Right but it literally doesn’t work on my system and I literally can’t make it work by design. It’s not a matter of liking “tweaking my system” it literally doesn’t work at all.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 4 weeks ago:
Nah it was pretty easy to update the drivers. I had to look up a guide but compared to updating windows it was nothing.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 4 weeks ago:
I can’t recommend Bazzite. You can’t install new drivers if something doesn’t work right out of the box and that is just a complete no go for many people.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 4 weeks ago:
I am done with Windows at home. I spent a whole weekend convincing my computer that it was allowed to install windows 11, going into my BIOS and changing settings, having to make a live USB drive with some windows setup tool, navigating numerous outright wrong guides on Windows’ on website, and at the end of it, I was greeted with the worst OS I have ever used in my life. I had thought complaints about Win11 were exaggerated like complaints about Vista back in the day- Vista was bad, but usable. Windows 11 is legitimately awful. Everything runs like shit on it. That day I resolved to switch to Linux for everything I could and started dual booting. Was the Linux install process difficult and complicated? Yes, but compared to what I had to do to get my computer to run Win11 it was a piece of cake.
What’s worse? Thanks to advancements in Wine and Proton, Windows software runs better on Linux now than it did on Windows 11. I have games that ran fine on Windows 10 that run like shit on Win11, and run fine on Linux. Sure, I am a technical person and I am very comfortable with the command line, but legitimately nothing I’ve had to do with Linux has been as frustrating as what I have to do to try to get Windows 11 to do anything right. I thought I’d be dual booting into Windows at least some to run some programs but I legitimately haven’t found anything that doesn’t run fine on Linux. Plus Linux doesn’t spy on my and sell my data, and Linux isn’t owned by a pedophile who hung out with the Epstein gang.