BarneyPiccolo
@BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
- Comment on Fast as he can. 1 hour ago:
- Comment on Causes of death, or track list for latest black metal album? 3 hours ago:
“He just…croaked!”
- Comment on Causes of death, or track list for latest black metal album? 3 hours ago:
Lunatique - Amazing band name, I call dibs.
- Comment on What's your favorite band? (Of frequency that is) 4 hours ago:
I’m generally listening for the bass. Most headphones do the mids and treble well enough, it’s the bass that makes the difference.
I’m using two sets of ear buds now. One pair is pretty good for sound, but are excellent for phone calls. The other is mediocre for phone calls, but is great for music, with excellent low end response. They’re some of the best earbuds I’ve ever owned, at any price.
I wish I could find a single pair that does both in my price range, but I haven’t been able to.
- Comment on Are you pissed? 18 hours ago:
Double your money back? I smell a money making opportunity.
- Comment on The Myth That Wind Farms Are a Guillotine for Birds Is Being Debunked by Hard Data 1 day ago:
Got it, edited.
- Comment on The Myth That Wind Farms Are a Guillotine for Birds Is Being Debunked by Hard Data 1 day ago:
A while back, I found myself driving across South Dakota, where there are plenty of fields of wind turbines.
There was one about 20 years from the road, with a paved driveway leading to it. Curious about all of Trump’s allegations, I decided to check it out, SO I pulled up next to the turbine.
First of all, his claim that they make lots of noise is a LIE. They make almost no noise at all. There was a quiet, regular mechanical thump, every few seconds or so, but it wasn’t loud, and it couldn’t be heard from the road.
Secondly, there wasn’t one dead bird in the vicinity, despite there being MANY turbines operating in close proximity. If turbines were so deadly to birds, there should be a lot of them around this are, or at least a few, or at least ONE. But there were none.
It almost like Trump either had no idea was he was saying, or he was just lying. Or both. Based on past experience, I’m going with BOTH.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 2 days ago:
2 Things:
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They left a mirror at at least some of the landing sites, and we can bounce a laser off that mirror back to Earth. Proof that we were there.
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They have sent probes up to circle the moon, and those probes photographed the sites. You can see lunar landers, abandoned gear, footprints, and the tracks from lunar rovers.
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- Comment on Teen boys are using ChatGPT as their wingman. What could go wrong? AI is teaching teenagers about love now. 2 days ago:
Somehow, my son grew up without being interested in videogames or social media. He’s now a world class expert in film, but he has a hard time relating to others his age, who think quality is Anime or Marvel movies. He’s gone back to college for another degree, so he’s a few years older than the rest, and he’s astonished at how unprepared they all are for college, life, or anything else.
Covid really blew a hole in the education of our country, and it hasn’t come back.
- Comment on Microslop 🤮 2 days ago:
It won’t work, but the C-Suite will have their primary objectives met - it’s got AI and Subscription, what more could anyone want?
“Bonuses all around! Who’s got cigars?”
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 3 days ago:
Well, if they won’t become American, we have to kill them all. -MAGA
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 3 days ago:
They’re too young to have been married, where their wife will disabuse them of this concept very quickly.
- Comment on the world 3 days ago:
Good one. Yeah, there’s some misunderstanding, and she yells at him and stomps out, and he never bothers to say “I wasn’t even there, I was at work.” But then you wouldn’t have 90 minutes of hijinx as he goes on some half-baked but romantic plan to win her back, involving a hot air balloon and dynamite.
Instead of just telling her what really happened.
- Comment on the world 3 days ago:
I don’t remember that movie. I first thought you meant that movie with Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence where they go to jail for Life. Hilarious movie.
I like Jake Gyllenhall, so I think I’ll watch your Life, even with your bad review.
- Comment on the world 3 days ago:
Ah, valid, Horror is my least favorite genre. Probably a lot Idiot Plots there.
- Comment on the world 3 days ago:
I’m wondering about examples of this sort of movie. Are they talking about obvious ones like Dumb and Dumber, Blazing Saddles, Airplane!, etc.?
Or do they mean movies that were supposed to be serious, but are accidentally bad because of bad writing?
- Comment on the world 3 days ago:
I earned my Reddit permaban because I said that in most countries throughout history, on the evening of a failed coup like Jan 6, the entire staff of the White House would have been dragged out onto the lawn of the White House and publicly executed.
- Comment on the world 3 days ago:
I always wondered why they brought all those clothes on a “three hour tour.”
Honestly, I think the skipper was a proto-Epstein, and had cooked up a scheme with that Sociopathic Oligarch Thurston Howell III to kidnap the hot Ginger, and the adorable MaryAnn, to be their sex slaves on his private island.
- Comment on Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it? 3 days ago:
Losing weight is just math: Calories In vs Calories Out. Which one is bigger determines whether you gain or lose weight.
For that last part, I was teaching myself to associate a mild hunger with losing weight and to stop seeing it as such a problem
This is huge, and one of the first things that you have to overcome. Heavy people have been conditioned to not just eat when they feel the slightest hunger, but to stuff themselves. Making that psychological shift that a little hunger is not only acceptable, but it’s a signal that you are losing weight, is a sign that your diet is working. After a while, instead of motivating you to go to the refrigerator for something to eat, that hunger reminds you of your weight mission, and motivates you to stay the course.
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 4 days ago:
Yeah, next time.
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 4 days ago:
Man, they really want to find out who they need to murder, don’t they?
Because that’s the bottom line. Everybody understands that, right?
AI is all about replacing as many human jobs with automation as possible, and the Age/ID laws are about tracking down anyone who complains about it.
This is what we’ve known was coming for decades. It’s finally here.
- Comment on They seemed nice and normal until.... 4 days ago:
You’re better off. Millions of hours a day are wasted on the TV soporific. Imagine how much more productive we could be if there were no Television to distract us.
- Comment on Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it? 4 days ago:
These drugs were originally diabetes drugs, that had the side effects of weight loss, but that wasn’t their original use that they got FDA approval for.
So they are going back and getting them approved for different uses, and maybe one of those will get by the insurance company. I saw one being advertised for Sleep Apnia, which is common in obese people. It works because when you lose weight, your Apnia usually improves, so while they aren’t selling it specifically for weight loss, that’s the mechanism that improves the Apnia. Maybe your doctor can get it approved for that reason, or another one.
I was 350, and I’ve lost 100 pounds, without the drugs. I quit all sugary beverages, and only drink ice water or unsweet tea. I only eat when I’m hungry, and only until I’m not hungry. It allows me to eat whatever I want, but in strict moderation. It doesn’t feel like a diet, though, because when I’m hungry I eat, but only until I’m not. I never eat more than a half sandwich. I will eat cookies, but only two, not half a package. When I have craving for chocolate, I’ll eat 4 or 5 chocolate chips, one at a time, and let them melt on my tongue, so my chocolate craving gets fulfilled, without an entire candy bar.
And importantly, I developed a distraction. My Dad quit smoking years ago, by doing a Rubik’s Cube whenever he got a craving. I took up the guitar. I keep an acoustic guitar next to my chair, and if I get a craving, instead of heading to the fridge, I pick up my guitar.
I didn’t even increase my exercise, although I have a pretty physically active job. I’ve plateaued now, so I think it’s time to increase my exercise for the last 50 I’d like to lose.
- Comment on Looks fine to me 4 days ago:
I ALWAYS choose the Director’s Cut. That’s the Director’s real vision, before the studio fucks with it for profit reasons.
- Comment on Looks fine to me 4 days ago:
Too cheap to hire the expert.
- Comment on nothing really matters 4 days ago:
Every microwave I’ve ever had has lots of buttons for all sorts of things, but I have no idea what they do. All I’ve ever done is put stuff in and run it at full blast.
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 4 days ago:
I don’t even need a whole band. I have a bunch of recording gear, so I’m always laying out a drum track, doing a rhythm guitar track offer that, then the bass line, then I usually go back and for a different rhythm track with the new bass line, then start soloing over that.
So if I can find a buddy, we can lay down the drum, bass, and rhythm guitar track all at once, then start trading solos over that. Or maybe just acoustic duets. We’ll figure it out.
- Comment on How we are brought into this world 4 days ago:
MAGA Sex Ed.
- Comment on How we are brought into this world 4 days ago:
If you’re a man, shut up, this might be how it works, you don’t know anything.
- Comment on oh fuck 😨 5 days ago:
Being underage is a welcome advantage in those circles. They aren’t trying to keep the kids out, they’re trying to invite them in.