some_kind_of_guy
@some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
- Comment on ..? 1 hour ago:
Assuming you’re not a tankie, I would guess it’s your instance, which is the main one where all the tankies hang out lol
- Comment on He'll arrest you with his nippies ❤️🔥 20 hours ago:
Nah, this ain’t it.
“Cool” is nebulous and ephemeral, and defined by being difficult to pull off, IMO. The majority of cool things and people tend to burn bright and quick. It’s also very relative in a social sense. (What’s considered cool in rural Nebraska is definitely not cool in LA, at least not at the same time.)
Being the right person (or social group) in the right place at the right time, being of another time (including future) or just having a particularly unique sensibility can all be factors. Once something cool becomes widely popular it tends toward commodification and watering down, and that is the opposite of cool.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 1 week ago:
Yeah I’d imagine you’d have trouble finding a good deal there. I’ve had way more luck getting drives from eBay, thrift shops, yard sales and the local dump.
Also, by convincing everyone I know to just give me their old stuff that they think is no longer useful. They don’t want it taking up space anyway, and I get to harvest the useful bits and add them to my frankensteined home lab, then responsibly dispose of the rest. There have also been several machines I’ve acquired this way that I’ve repaired/made whole again, then provided to those who need them.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 1 week ago:
Buy used
- Comment on Roblox Hit With Multimillion-Dollar Suit By Los Angeles, for Creating Largely Unsupervised Online World That Enables Predatory Pedophiles and Give Them Powerful Tools to Prey on Kids 1 week ago:
Depends on who you are. It would take me a minute or less to unwind a coat hanger and/or a paperclip, scrap wire etc and rig it up.
- Comment on Roblox Hit With Multimillion-Dollar Suit By Los Angeles, for Creating Largely Unsupervised Online World That Enables Predatory Pedophiles and Give Them Powerful Tools to Prey on Kids 1 week ago:
I didn’t mean to imply that this kind of conflict between tech, parents and peer pressure would come up for every kid. It sounds like you’ve cultivated a healthy distance from tech for yours, and that this is something you shouldn’t have to worry about.
I was into gaming with my friend group, but back then it was split-screen and LAN parties. I still got plenty of outside time and physical activity. Our games didn’t focus solely on dark patterns and addictive elements - much less the possibility of encountering random adult weirdos.
There is a subset of kids whose parents do have to navigate this minefield, and Roblox is just one example. That’s not to let the parents off the hook entirely, but it’s entirely plausible to me that the corporations behind their kids’ favorite games may have been misleading about safety and even complicit in enabling this kind of abuse.
- Comment on Roblox Hit With Multimillion-Dollar Suit By Los Angeles, for Creating Largely Unsupervised Online World That Enables Predatory Pedophiles and Give Them Powerful Tools to Prey on Kids 1 week ago:
I crafted wifi and tv antennae out of scraps of metal when my parents confiscated mine, but I don’t think that applies here. (And yes, this was a brief golden era when terrestrial analog tv signals and wifi coexisted)
- Comment on Roblox Hit With Multimillion-Dollar Suit By Los Angeles, for Creating Largely Unsupervised Online World That Enables Predatory Pedophiles and Give Them Powerful Tools to Prey on Kids 1 week ago:
You’re setting up a false dichotomy, don’t you think?
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Never let your kids play age-appropriate online games, which Roblox ostensibly falls under – risk forming lifelong resentment as kids forfeit social capital upon exclusion from peers
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Let the kids play, but insert yourself into every facet of that experience for the entire time – first of all, who has time for that? This course also risks heavy resentment and embarrassment
Am I missing another option? As far as I know, the parents vetted the game and thought they were all being reasonable about exposure, but the kids were still harmed.
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- Comment on For when joints give you a sore throat and edibles give you a tummy ache 1 week ago:
Some people have trouble absorbing them. I have the opposite problem. Half of a standard 5mg gummy is more than enough!
- Comment on Programming socks? 1 week ago:
Nevermind that, what’s in the glass? Water? Vodka?
- Comment on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State 1 week ago:
Give me brave new world all day - it would be vastly preferable to whatever this shit is.
- Comment on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State 1 week ago:
Yeah, we’re the people who’ve been sounding the alarm for 20+ years. I’m tired boss
- Comment on Nice horsie! 🐎 1 week ago:
+1 for carcinization reference
- Comment on ESL homework 1 week ago:
I can carry a basic conversation - certainly enough to get by and be understood. last time I went to Quebec though, most locals were like “hell naw” and assumed I couldn’t. This is without even speaking a word, though. They had an uncanny ability to guess my primary language by appearance alone.
This is in Montreal, btw. I did spend some time around the Mont Mégantic valley area (super rural, basically farm country vibes) where I encountered people whose English was worse than my French. I was able to get some practice in with them, but I could tell they didn’t necessarily like it haha!
- Comment on How does a person get on the No Gun List without commiting a crime? My brother was diagnosed with BIpolar and others he doesn't even want the option ten year down the road. 1 week ago:
Cannabis is the only caveat there because the nics check is federal, and medical cannabis programs are all at the state level. Cannabis is still illegal at the federal level, so the feds don’t distinguish who is a “legal” cannabis user and who is not. They do not even distinguish who is an “addict” and who is not, when it comes to cannabis.
In fact, if you do leave that box unchecked and you are a medical patient, or fail a drug test administered during some other federal legal issue, that could be considered “proof” of lying on the form, and you could be charged.
- Comment on If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting? 2 weeks ago:
A 21st century bum with a bindle full of salvaged ram?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
eyyy
- Comment on halal paintball 3 weeks ago:
A touch of nutritional yeast does wonders
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 3 weeks ago:
Beans on toast is prime 🤌 Toast with butter and marmite. Glug of Worcestershire. Grate some parmesan. Cracked pepper.
It especially hits on a cold snowy day
- Comment on Taste the flavor 3 weeks ago:
If our assholes had taste buds, you better believe there would be a whole category of dietary supplements aimed at making our shit taste good. Then there would be a backlash movement consisting of people who are proud to shit naturally and taste it.
- Comment on They wonder why nobody wants kids anymore. 3 weeks ago:
My company just transitioned to a system where we get 30 days of paid leave annually. Sounds good for an American company, right? But that 30 days includes every category of leave (except parental, which is at least something.)
So in addition to maybe you want to take a vacation, this “bank” of leave also includes sick days, anything related to your kids after they’re born, jury duty (you’re required by federal law to attend if selected) and everything else. This is completely legal where I live btw.
- Comment on Hamburglar, meet Hat Man 3 weeks ago:
It really hits with the addition of a couple small rocks
- Comment on New Objective: Convince an astronaut to use the Fediverse from space 3 weeks ago:
Nice! I misread you not txing to mean you weren’t licensed yet, my bad!
- Comment on Name of this private road in Colorado cracks me up 3 weeks ago:
I’d go straight for the head: FUCK YOU CAROL, HOA PRESIDENT RD
- Comment on Get that silicussy 3 weeks ago:
Would you prefer clankussy? robussy?
- Comment on New Objective: Convince an astronaut to use the Fediverse from space 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, just go take the test. I found hamradioprep.com useful as it has actual test material from past tests to practice with, and a nice mobile interface.
If I were to do it again I’d study for at least up to General. Most clubs will let you test for General for free immediately after passing Technician. I ended up passing Technician, but not General. It’s been a few years so I’ll have to re-study and go back.
General unlocks a lot of the fun HF privileges.
- Comment on New Objective: Convince an astronaut to use the Fediverse from space 3 weeks ago:
Everything they mentioned checks out, but keep in mind that every ham within line of sight to the station will be trying to get into the repeater as the ISS passes overhead. The number of people trying to talk could realistically be in the thousands when it passes over a large populated country. A full pass at a good angle takes ~5 mins.
People take turns, but it’s usually just a rapid-fire of IDing and maybe some very short pleasantries, then you get out. Anything more is could be considered bad etiquette, and calling the ISS is kind of a big deal! It’s not possible to have a full conversation unless you’re extremely lucky with timing and/or geography, or there’s an astronaut working the radio who wants to chat. I have heard astronauts operating. Sometimes directing and acknowledging contacts sometimes they will have longer form chats, but they’re not at the radio all the time.
It is really fucking cool, though, to be in say, New England and hear someone in Texas or Puerto Rico or Canadian Maritimes coming through on your dinky Chinese handheld! That is a big part of the appeal.
- Comment on New Objective: Convince an astronaut to use the Fediverse from space 3 weeks ago:
Hi
- Comment on YSK that men who smoke cigarettes are 30% to 50% more likely to suffer from erection problems that men who don't 3 weeks ago:
Why don’t you try it and report back?
- Comment on A lot of the laid-off staff from the Washington Post should start a news cooperative. Seriously! 3 weeks ago:
Cooperative, decentralized, atomized journalism that starts small, stays small, spreads liability and is not for profit.
Alternatively, money. Lots and lots of money.