draco_aeneus
@draco_aeneus@mander.xyz
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 1 week ago:
What if you build it on an asteroid or moon or planet. Uranus is ~-225⁰C, right?
- Comment on oh no 1 week ago:
The joke is that deaf people have been farting freely, thinking nobody could know they tooted. It’s the fact other people know that’s important here.
- Comment on Interesting question. For me it would be a dead grandfather 1 week ago:
- The prompt says explicitly that you have to sit on it. You can only do that once (and realistically, zero times).
- The bench implies but doesn’t guarantee to summon the people. Given it works on future/past people also, you’re probably chatting with their spirit or something.
- Comment on We got more games and better games when there was less money being made in the industry. 1 week ago:
I think you forgot how many absolutely trash games were being made.
- Comment on Political leaning 1 week ago:
There’s no way that the first victim that comes to mind to someone who is serious about this would be ‘landlords’. This is a truly sad tyre.
- Comment on I'm craving the taste of a rather porky man...... 2 weeks ago:
Wow, I’m surprised you were able to make meat eating even more evil than it already was.
- Comment on Womp womp womp. 2 weeks ago:
ICE had a signup bonus (dunno how much, $4000, I think?), and nobody received it yet.
The guy who is ‘famous for not paying’ is Trump, who has a history of being in debt/not paying his debts off.
- Comment on Nevermind the drink I'm holding 2 weeks ago:
Honse.
- Comment on World’s Most Harvested Crops (2024) 2 weeks ago:
This is by metric ton, so watermelon scores particularly high because they grow pretty big, and they’re quite heavy (since they’re mostly water). You need a lot less volume of apple to get the same nutrition and/or flavour effect.
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 2 weeks ago:
When person who wrote that post was a child, they liked talking about “chambered nautiluses” (which are basically, ocean snails). Also, their mom used to get scam calls. Their mom made their child (which is the person who wrote the post) talk to the scammers about these nautiluses so that their time was wasted.
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 2 weeks ago:
Surely, if they’re selling your numbers to other scammers, other scammers are losing that same amount of money?
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 2 weeks ago:
Ah, I misunderstood. I conflated “Americans” (lawmakers) and “Americans” (everyone else).
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 2 weeks ago:
The laws specified by the EU allow for future technological developments and the advancement of the standard without having to re-write the laws. The law itself includes a mandatory technical review, and allows for new standards to be integrated, and outdated standards to be dropped.
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 2 weeks ago:
The EU commision did not decide on USB-C in a vacuum. It looked on already existing stanards and talked to many large electronics manufacturers in order to come to a proposal for USB-C as a universal standard. You are right to point out the role that both Intel and Apple played (Along HP, Microsoft and the USB-IF) in the development of the standard, but you’re missing the forest for the trees, since it was the EU making it a *universal * standard within it’s boarders that means we all use the same standard.
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 2 weeks ago:
The reason we should thank the EU is because of this rule. While I cannot guarantee this rule is responsible, the fact that it’s mandated means it’s significantly more economically viable to use the same connector across all regions (including America), and so this rule is the primary factor in the standardization of charging cables.
- Comment on It should be a strict rule 2 weeks ago:
Depends on which was first, right?
- Comment on Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black? 2 weeks ago:
I think this is not helpful, since both are “mixing colour”. I think a more apt analogy would be “shining multiple lights” vs “stacking colour filters”.
- Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 2 weeks ago:
To be clear, the accusation is that the mod team is Zionist, and that they consistently moderate all anti-Zionist content.
It’s a Zionist bar not just because there’s a few Zionists, but because the bar owner keeps kicking out the people who cause a ruckus with the Zionists.
- Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 2 weeks ago:
- They had a vote, and the people said strongly that they did not want to see this.
- Platforming Facism is the best way to spread Facism, and deplatforming Facism is the best way to fight it. Supporting their freedom to speak is in effect the same as supporting the ideology.
- Comment on Really tall people see others differently. For example, they see more of others' heads and less of others' bodies. They also see more of the background. 2 weeks ago:
Have your tried? Asking someone when there’s nothing visually wrong with you is a pretty good way to cause conflict.
- Comment on Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better 2 weeks ago:
It’s not really even errors. It is well-suited for what it was designed. It produced pretty good text. It’s just that we’re using it for stuff it’s not suited for. Like digging a hole with a spoon, then complaining your hands hurt.
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 3 weeks ago:
Your first post read as doomerism to me, but it sounds like quite the opposite actually. We need to organize hard and build something off the back of this horrible state of affairs, right? Maybe something like a general strike until those identified in the documents are behind bars?
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 3 weeks ago:
The pitchforks are a metaphor, obviously.
I’m not sure what point you’re getting at. We shouldn’t try to do anything, because the guilty are too powerful?
- Comment on "I am going to punch you" WHAT A BOSS! 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure he just needs some more practice. After a few more Nazis are punched, he’ll be an expert, I’m sure.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 4 weeks ago:
Non-human, uncaring machines who amass and hoard wealth beyond human comprehension honestly doesn’t sound any different than what we have now.
- Comment on Starting to think affluenza might be a real thing. 4 weeks ago:
Ah ok. That’s not how I understood your comment initially, but that’s reasonable.
- Comment on Starting to think affluenza might be a real thing. 4 weeks ago:
Even if we can’t, should we not try? It’s only, as you say, a few thousand. We can spare the resources to keep them locked up/under house arrest/whatever for the rest of their natural lives if we must.
If we must execute people to heal the wounds inflicted by their sheer callousness, then so be it. But I don’t really accept the argument that anyone is “irredeemable” without even trying.
- Comment on 32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital 4 weeks ago:
It’s not really “know as 過労死” in Japanese. That’s just the words for “excess”, “work”, and “death”. That’s kinda like saying “it’s known as ‘overworking to death’ in Britain”.
- Comment on De-Escalating Social Media 5 weeks ago:
Quite often, I find that leaving a post up has value. It nukes context for the posts below it, which is bad. It’s also not great if only part of a larger post is bad, since you lose all of it. Lastly, with a deleted post, it’s unclear if the creator learned from it, or if they removed it to avoid the backlash.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 5 weeks ago:
You’re missing the point.
China might use your data and hurt you in some far future, whereas the USA will use your data right now in a direct and violent way.
I can explain how the US government having access to the database of all of TikTok’s data might directly result in a visit from ICE. The path to damage caused by China may exist too, but is much more nebulous, and much more difficult for China to execute on.
Yes, if you are in a government position, or in the army, you probably shouldn’t use TikTok under China’s management. But Joe Schmoe from California has little to materially fear from them. But he does have reason to fear the USA government who might well come over and arrest him.
