Scirocco
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- Comment on Interview: Tawny Newsome On “Gargantuan Task” To Give DS9 “Resolution” On ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ 15 hours ago:
What are you talking about? What video?
This thread is focused on the interview as WRITTEN in the article posted.
Are you calling out OP for not watching a video? Did you read the article interview yourself?
Get a grip, man…
- Comment on If the 2028 United States presidential election was held today, who would you vote for? 1 week ago:
Honestly I am quite happy with better air travel security and safety, and not particularly interested in going back to a time when any random Greek anarchist assholes or PLA or whatever are stabbing flight attendants or sticking bombs on Pan Am flights
You sound too young to remember, so read up a little.
Here’s something that popped up on the first page of results
- Comment on If the 2028 United States presidential election was held today, who would you vote for? 1 week ago:
Obviously I am US-centric. This is a thread about voting in US elections (??)
I do happen to fly to UK, and generally to LBA or MAN, which are easily two of the worst / most annoying airports in Europe.
Both of them have made great improvements over the past ~18 months though.
CDG is also particularly annoying imo.
- Comment on If the 2028 United States presidential election was held today, who would you vote for? 1 week ago:
I’d do more than that
Disband DHS. This agency was never required and was created merely as a knee-jerk to the information sharing problems that contributed to how 9/11 turned out.
Ironically, the majority of those problems were actually between the FBI and CIA and DHS has no authority over either — that role was handled to the also-newly-created Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
Sooooo we never needed the orwellian DHS in the first place
Abolish ICE, HSI and CBP*. The the other constituent agencies carry on as they did before 9/11 and leave the LE/intelligence coordination to the DNI
*Some folks would love to see ATF go, others want the end of TSA
- Comment on If the 2028 United States presidential election was held today, who would you vote for? 1 week ago:
To be fair, it is. I also kept a Clear membership for a few years, but it wasn’t worth it.
But, non-pre lines are just as short as pre-check these days, and my (non-science) impression is that the only reason it’s slower is that more of the folks in it are unfamiliar with the process.
But messaging/signage for what’s required is quite good in most places, and it’s still much less confusing than 80s and 90s airports.
- Comment on If the 2028 United States presidential election was held today, who would you vote for? 1 week ago:
How so?
I fly enough to hit “gold” status on major airlines, and have seen the transition from the shit-show that was TSA initially into a universally smooth and fast process.
I think a lot of people don’t truly know the chaos that was pre-TSA screening. Do you recall being stuck in an aircraft at the gate, because the airline had to unload luggage for a passenger that hadn’t boarded?
For a long time after 9/11 the only airport operating smoothly was DCA (Congress uses DCA)
But for the last dozen or more years, things have only gotten smoother, everywhere.
I passed through JFK screening in less than 22 minutes a few weeks ago.
- Comment on Glory to you and your ... hole? 2 weeks ago:
yes
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 4 weeks ago:
“the likes of which”
- Comment on We used to have TV repairmen who would come if dad couldn't fix it with the tube from the grocery store kiosk. Weird. 4 weeks ago:
Old televisions used vacuum tubes in their circuitry in a similar role to transistors in (more) modern electronics.
These were literally little glass bulbs with bits inside that heated up, glowed and did magical things with electrons. They had some number of pins on the bottom and plugged into the television board similar to CPU sockets (but with only 5ish pins in a circle)
These tubes were not particularly long-lived and were fragile physical devices. When they were “on the fritz” it was literally often possible to smack them back into place/alignment/operation. Hence the trope of a TV with a bad picture, slapping it around and voila it works again. This was a literal thing that really happened and works, at least until the internals of whatever tube were too far out of alignment.
At this point, rather than call an expensive repairman (always a man in those days), you could take your suspected bad tube to the grocery store, where there might be a machine that resembles a 1980s arcade cabinet, which has a bunch of various common vacuum-tube sockets on it. Dad will plug the ‘bad’ tube into the (in)correct socket and the machine will pronounce that tube to be GOOD or BAD with some version of accuracy.
With that information, dad can select a new identical or similar tube from the rack that’s under the testing board, inside the cabinet.
Maybe it will work, maybe not.
Lots of specific tubes were replaceable with more generic versions that “will work” and there was a lot of effort to consolidate the vast number of tube variants, so another important tool was the equivalency chart-- look up your old tube in a book of tiny print/tables and see what generic part number might work to ‘fix’ the TV
Without having to call the repairman to your house, which was also very much a real thing.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 2 months ago:
Hey benign and honorable govt!
Please tell the website “kill-your-govt .net” that I am old enough to join the revolution!!!
Kthxbai
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 2 months ago:
Many men would LOVE a reliable, non-condom, male-controlled birth control method
Currently for men there are two options — condoms, which are problematic and difficult in several ways, or vasectomy, which is essentially permanent or at least difficult and uncertain to be reversed.
The third method is to take WAY too many TOO HOT baths, but that also has uncertainty and is a real hassle.
As it stands, really for men they either need to use a condom, or trust that your female partner is reliable.
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 3 months ago:
Thank you for linking this.
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 3 months ago:
Hahah you mean like Lemmy itself?
- replace ‘fascist’ with ‘tankie’
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 3 months ago:
Yea it’s pretty clear.
Capitalism and religion, with maybe a little bit of ‘public health’ thrown in
There’s strong bias against contraception in general from some religious groups, and it is strongest against the “easier” forms. For example, among Catholics technically ALL contraception is forbidden, but condoms are more acceptable than an IUD, both of which are considered by some sects to be ‘abortifacient’ — on the theory that it merely prevents a fertilized egg from implanting on the uterine wall.
So condoms are ‘better’ because it is a barrier method.
The only Catholic-approved BC is abstinence of course.
Public Health also has a strong bias towards condoms, because of their protection against STIs. Of course, actual proper condom use is… inconsistent at best for most people.
Anyhow, the easiest and least intrusive methods of BC are usually viewed with the most suspicion and disapproval from all sides, and Vasagel/RISUG is like… the most extreme example of that.
It is:
- relatively inexpensive
- extremely effective
- one-time clinic visit
- fully reversible, with no recovery period
- impossible to forget or accidentally nullify
Unfortunately none of these factors endear it to the capitalists, the puritans, or the public-health hand-wringers*
*To be clear, i support public health goals, but the AIDS crisis has put a strong and lasting tint on the overall emphasis/insurance condoms are the only way
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 3 months ago:
Well, I’ve not had it since it isn’t available yet.
But I get what you mean about the needles in the dong.
But most likely, the needle is through the side of the scrote, which might not be much better. Probably best to just not watch. It is less invasive than a vasectomy, since it’s a needle and not a scalpel, but ofc it’s not as simple as a pill
On the other hand, it’s one-and-done and nevermore worried about unwanted paternity claims.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 3 months ago:
The best option all around that I’ve seen is Vasagel, which is the western development based on RISUG which was a successful Indian trial
The major complication for it has been that no pharma wants to invest in it, likely because if doesn’t have good profit potential.
It is a one-time ‘shot’ of a physical gel that blocks the vas deferens (sperm channel) and is fully reversible simply by being flushed out again.
However, since it is not an ongoing monthly profit ahem, prescription, there is not a lot of money to be made.
No hormones, no pills, fully reversible, simply blocks the sperm exactly like a vasectomy, just very easily reversed. It can all be done in clinic with a syringe (perhaps tho the syringe will be a blocker for some men)
- Comment on xkcd #3158: Shielding Chart 3 months ago:
It depends on the wavelength of the radio waves.
This is visible in microwaves, where the wavelength is about 12cm, but the tiny holes of 1mm are small enough that zero (or super tiny?) radiation/radio/EM in that wavelength can pass through, but light (visible light that you can see) has a much, much smaller wavelength and passes just fine.
So, you could also say that a larger mesh (chain link fence?) of conductive material is also a faraday cage, but only affects things with a really large wavelength.
thus, faraday cages have a variable effect, depending on their configuration.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Interesting. Apparently the Geddit app has been abandoned/unmaintained since 2 years … Huh
- Comment on Citizen Protest Halts Chat Control; Breyer Celebrates Major Victory for Digital Privacy 3 months ago:
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Until reddit shut off the RSS feeds, Geddit (Android app RSS reader for reddit) was very useful to me.
Allowed following of niche/particular subs without drama
Unfortunately, many of those closely focused, well moderated and useful communities continue to exist only on reddit
- Comment on 3 months ago:
But just* as extremist…
- Approximately. How is this sort of thing measured objectively?
- Comment on Fall Sale Days are here 4 months ago:
Fox Run Mall location was closest to my house.
Was a bit of a haul, but reachable by bicycle for 70s kid