AnarchoEngineer

@AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bro⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Dm me a picture of the note and I’ll draw the x digitally.

  But this kind of thing is why we need to break up. I can’t keep doing this. I shouldn’t have to jump through hoops like this to prove I like you, when I say it, I mean it. I feel it every time I look into your eyes. I feel it every time you walk into the room, when you smile, when you laugh, but I’m running out of ways to tell you I love you, I’m running out of ideas for how to make you believe me. I feel like we’re growing apart and there’s no way to close the gap.

  I cant keep this up. I’m sorry, I’m so sorry, but I can’t keep this up anymore. I can’t keep watching you doubt every compliment I try to give you, I can’t watch you disregard praise because you think you’re unworthy of it. You are worthy of it! You are worthy of love and happiness!

  But when I tell you that, you don’t believe me. I don’t know how to make you believe, and it’s just pure agony to be unable to make you see how amazing and beautiful and talented you are!

  I just cant take it anymore, I’m sorry but I really can’t do it. This can’t go on. We can’t go on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bro⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I volunteer to be everyone’s first boyfriend/girlfriend if needed/desired. Comment and I will respond by breaking up with you, thus ensuring proof of our relationship will be on the internet forever

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I gotcha, boss⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, have you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We already passed 1984's prediction of the future: "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think people who use this are frequently being disingenuous.

  I’ll agree with you there. I think it’s more of hyperbole than rigid truth that everything is political.

  Saying “why do we bake cookies and cook bacon” is an example of a shower-thought I’d say is truly non-political. But I feel like thoughts on deeper topics like philosophy or the actions of society/cultures are going to be political in some way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We already passed 1984's prediction of the future: "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rule 2 is that the shower thought must be contained in the title. The main shower thought is in the title. The extra text is an explanation of the thought.

  Rule 3 is no politics, but a) everything is politics and b) the rule mentions that if one is making a potentially political post, they should avoid using political terms like “capitalism” and “communism.” I didn’t use those terms

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We already passed 1984's prediction of the future: "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you know who’s been fueling and powering those right wing movements here? Yup, it’s, again, something from burgerland: facebook, twitter… and now even tiktok. Getting rid of them would only do us good.

  Actually iirc most of the right wing bots/mouthpieces exposed on twitter were not posting from the US. Now the people paying them might have been American or may desire to prop up parts of the American govt., but again, I doubt the interests behind that kind of propaganda will just disappear with the government. They’ll move to manipulating whatever country they can and keep going.

  We’re not that generation of people. We are much less interested in war, and proof is how many people in Europe today don’t want a war with Iran. It’s not “just a few”.

  Believe it or not the same can be said of “burgerland” There are unfortunately many people who supported Trump near me. Even those people do not want this war. Will they still enable it through inaction and apathy? Absolutely, but my guess is that applies to Europe just as much as it does to the US.

  Europe only wants weapons because the world is becoming more violent since burgerland elected the pedofile.

  And the collapse of the US will simply be painted as another sign or rising violence in the world.

  Look I honestly hope you’re right, and I’m sorry to fight your optimism with my rather pessimistic view of humanity, but I don’t think the collapse of the US will be the miracle cure you hope for.

  Regardless, in the event we do prevail, if revolution takes the US, remember it’ll be up to you and others in Europe to prevent the evils that escaped our grasp from taking root over there and starting the process all over again

  Inshallah comrade

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We already passed 1984's prediction of the future: "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose I didn’t think about the distance, but in the past I don’t think that’s been much of an issue. WWII seems to be a good example of war literally right outside the countries involved. The isolation of the US actually seemed to discourage involvement rather than encourage it.

  Now I’d imagine the immediate aftermath of the collapse would slow conflicts for a time. However, I think the collapse of the US would increase the already increasing desire for weapons production in Europe and with “defense companies” in the US dissolving, the manpower would head wherever there is pay for weapons. (Or it would stay in the US forming terrifying little weapons manufacturer feudalist states still making weapons for wars across the sea… I shouldn’t give the universe any ideas…)

  I also think the collapse of the US will fuel the already growing right wing movements in other countries as Nationalism and “protecting our country from the enemy” will become even stronger pathos in the wake of fear and insecurity caused by the upset in world order.

  On your note of locality, Ive just had an interesting thought: Maybe the most effective way to end war in the east would be to have multiple simultaneous armed conflicts happen nearer to every nation. If you are dealing with a war on the home front, it is unlikely you’ll be willing to spend resources far away. And people who have seen the ravages of war first hand are probably not going to want to start new ones once the fighting finally stops. Kind of like forest fires doing less damage if they burn through a forest quickly, the world explodes with war and for once actually tires itself out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We already passed 1984's prediction of the future: "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to be a downer, but if the US fell, do you really think there would no longer be oil or other interests in the Middle East? Do you think Israel would simply give up and actually keep a peace treaty just because the American government fell?

  I doubt it. If the US were to collapse, the rich who survive would move to other countries, as would the majority of people involved in the military industrial complex. And Israel and others would simply end up buying the same tech from new countries.

  Those who profit off the war would simply pay for weapons and propaganda from new nations; the demand would not fall and the supply would rise to meet it. The players might have different names, but I think the wars would go on just the same.

• We already passed 1984's prediction of the future: "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever"
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the most extreme and consistent bipolar weather I’ve seen was in Nevada where during the night it’d get down to 30°F (-1°C) and then almost as soon as the sun came up the frost would evaporate as daytime temperatures rose to 113°F (45°C)

  In terms of chaos, I’d say Utah takes the cake. Not just because it can go from snowing to 90°F weather and back repeatedly in a week, but because during those chaotic weeks you can drive less than an hour in any direction and find completely different weather.

  If violence in the chaos is desired, the southern Midwest probably wins. Tornadoes and golf ball sized hail will fuck up your day and then everything is unbearably sunny again. The east is a close second since it gets wrecked by hurricanes occasionally, but less frequently than tornadoes hit the midwest

  I doubt Californians think their state is bipolar. Same with other temperate states.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should Scientists and Engineers Run Society?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk about “should” but I can tell you it might be hard to find willing ones

  I’ve heard that there’s always a shortage of managers for mechanical engineering because companies want managers with engineering degrees but people with engineering degrees would rather not be managers.

  Most engineers and scientists I know would love nothing more than to be able to forget about paperwork/managerial-work/human-interaction and focus solely on their projects/research.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It should be a strict rule⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just abolish golf entirely, multiple problems would be solved at once

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smoooooth⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is life deep within the earth that will likely survive no matter what happens to the planet. The sun could fade, we could nuke the surface, have an asteroid completely resurface half the planet, and microbes will survive and eventually recolonize the entire world.

  Not that we’d want a mass extinction of so many unique and beautiful things, but it is a comforting thought to realize we can’t really do anything that would render earth entirely devoid of life. And even if everything we know was lost, life would rise again to reclaim the rubble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, even this edit makes voting for democrats the correct choice. If you can delay the trolley’s destruction, you have more time to attempt to destroy the tracks or kill the driver etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is she saying that eating ass is bourgeois decadence?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Consuming” pussy sounds more like sexual-fetish driven cannibalism, which might still be a considered unethical lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every comment on this video is responding to the title and description despite them being on the wrong video⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a Lemmy community for posts like this showcasing the “dead-internet” ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get that silicussy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly that’s due to how much restructuring would need done to fix it. Not really because we’re wired in the optimal way.

  The left recurrent laryngeal nerve loops down around your aorta and then right back up parallel to itself because as the heart moved away from the head in evolution, the nerve was pulled down with it.

  Could you reroute this nerve and still function? Yep, it would even reduce latency and just the amount of nerve tissue needed.

  So why doesn’t evolution do this? Because it can’t…probably…

  In order to reroute this nerve, you’d likely have to change how your nerves and heart develop in the first place. That would take significant changes to the genome and said changes would have cascading effects on the development of other systems. You’d need to deal with those effects to keep the rest of the organism organized like it was. (Just realized is kind of reminiscent of the transfer learning problem in machine learning, huh)

  Point is, your body is wired the way it is because the “tech debt” that lead to bad routing is too much for evolution to fix easily. Much easier to just deal with it duct-tape style than refactor the whole body.

  There are probably many more things like this, like our retinas being “reversed” where it likely would be better the other way, but evolution can’t fix such a primary structure so easily (our retinas develop from our brains), so instead it tries its best to make do, and we get specialized glial cells to be as transparent as possible and a neocortex capable of pattern filling in blind spots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We could build a solar lazer with a ton of mirrors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And if you directed most of that beam away from the sun and a smaller portion toward the sun (to keep your beam splitter in place) you could move the whole solar system

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3200: Chemical Formula⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a physicist, but even if Astatine is being produced in minute quantities by decay, a half life of 8hrs should probably put it lower on the numbers than Americium.

  Americium is produced anywhere you have lots of free neutrons. This may be rare on earth outside of nuclear power plants and bomb test sites, but not necessarily rare in the universe. Especially since it has a half life of 432years, so unlike astatine it can actually accumulate a bit and not just decay immediately.

  Astatine basically doesn’t exist. The total amount in the entirety of earth’s crust at any given time is estimated to be less than a gram.

  So I feel like the amounts should be flipped or at the very least closer in orders of magnitude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pls no⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew a kid who would do datura. Surprisingly normal dude for someone who would occasionally decide to microdose hell itself lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The singular they is actually such a natural part of the English language, the people complaining about it almost certainly use it without noticing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My English teacher back in highschool was very picky about using “they” like most people do. I can hear him say “you have to use FORMAL LANGUAGE” in my head still lol

  If it’s an unknown person we were told to use “he or she” instead of “they” and “his or her” instead of “their” despite the fact that no one fucking talks that way when referring to an unknown individual.

  Like even saying “everyone should bring their laptop to class” would be marked wrong because “everyone” is singular so the “correct” version is “everyone should bring his or her laptop to class” which imo is way more confusing

  However, he was also fine with us using masculine singular pronouns when the gender of a person wasn’t known, which I guess is kind of the case in like Spanish and some other Latin languages but still, just really weird rules

• Haste/Impatience should have been one of the deadly sins.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does smelling your food while you cook it make it taste bland?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never would’ve thought this was a thing. To be fair, I don’t get the “smell is a major factor in food taste” at all. I can taste things just as well with my nose plugged as I can without. (Possibly because allergies meant childhood me could rarely ever smell much at all)

  Anyway this is fascinating, and I wonder if animals with even stronger senses of smell are fine with bland food because they get nose blind faster so basically all food is bland. Or, do they rely primarily on smell to the point that taste from the tongue just doesn’t really influence full taste as much as smell?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not but you can make it one lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey now chupacabras are much farther south and they’re actually aliens don’t you know /s

  Anyway you telling me there’re no creepy stories from some cryptid or other where you live? What a shame. What stories do you tell on camping trips?

  Also if you’re Canadian like your instance suggests, the First Nations people have their own it-goes-on-four-legs, and I’m wiling to bet the stories of wendigo are just as creepy as those for skinwalkers.

  I don’t really believe the stories and you don’t have to either, but don’t go saying it’s “Americans” as if you don’t belong to that same continent with similar myths and legends. The native people of “turtle island” didn’t have the same borders we do today and neither did their stories and mythos

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t tell if you’re referring to the weed or the peyote, but I suppose both would likely do the trick lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gila Monsters definitely give some Australia vibes. They are kinda cute chonky reptiles even if they are venomous

  Rattlesnakes are another fun venomous reptile, though they’re much more common and more likely to bite you than Gila Monsters. It’s always a bit of a scare when you’re hiking and suddenly hear a rattlesnake start warning you but you can’t even tell where it is. Like pick a lane buddy, either camouflage/hide yourself or try to tell me where you are so I can avoid accidentally stepping on you, don’t try to do both at the same time lol

  Of course in the reptile cases, the animals rarely bite unless you’re actively antagonizing them, but still a bit scary to have

  We’ve also got scorpions everywhere out west. If you ever come out to the Rocky Mountains or the deserts around them, bring a black light flash light out at night. You’ll be able to find a ton of the fluorescent green critters crawling around in the sagebrush. They only get about 3cm long, but they are “the most venomous scorpion in North America” haha I’ve never been stung and Ive caught several before, but the venom can cause full limb paralysis, can feel like “lightning” even a while after the initial sting, and there are a reported deaths from it

  And we’ve actually got a ton of different stinging/biting wasps and bees and creepy vibrant colored things like mud daubers. Oh and those Velvet Ants which are nicknamed “cowkillers” because they’re bite is painful enough to kill a cow (it isn’t really of course)

  Definitely not as much diversity as Australia, and most things here will leave you alone if you leave them alone, but there are plenty of things that will, at the very least, ruin your day if you’re not careful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a joke post mate; I don’t believe in magic or skinwalkers. It’s just fun to hear the stories

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The area I’m talking about is one that supposedly has a high concentration of skinwalkers. There are lots of creepy stories about skinwalkers across all of the nearby states, but that area near four corners is where the Navajo nation and Hopi and Ute reservations are.

  Maybe it’s just mass psychosis or a pop phenomenon, but people who regularly spend time in that area from the natives to forest service to the national guardsmen running trainings out there, will warn you about traveling at night and not stopping for anything on the road especially if its an animal that looks off in some way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You purposefully omitted the last sentence specifying a gun gives you the option of a quicker death.

  And I guess I’m overselling the walkers/witches/spirits a little bit. Most rangers and soldiers think guns are useful at least as deterrents if not fatal weapons. In fact usually the stories end with something along the lines of “and that’s why I keep a loaded shotgun within arms reach when I’m driving there” or something similar lol

  But technically, yes, you’re right, guns are not necessarily vital.

  The Navajo and Hopi and Utes and others have supposedly been defending themselves against these for much longer than guns have been in the Americas and possibly since before guns were even invented. However, afaik most strong good magic in their traditions is drawn from community. So if you’re a lone traveler who has neither a tribe that can help protect you (physically or magically) nor personal cultural knowledge of these evils, I’d argue a gun is probably the best substitute you’ve gonna get.

  (Of course, just not traveling in skinwalker country at night alone in the first place would likely be the most effective method of survival lol)