skulblaka
@skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 1 day ago:
All armed forces members are required by oath, and therefore by law, to refuse unlawful orders.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 5 days ago:
You run into a subtext problem here though.
Serving shareholders’ “best interests” is not the same thing as either maximizing profits
Making this argument to shareholders means you’re telling them “I wish to shrink your profits”, no matter what else comes after that comma that’s a non-starter for a CEO. 99% of shareholders don’t give one Kentucky fried fuck about the company, they just want free money. You get between them and their free money and you’re gone, replaced by the next failing-upward ghoul in line on LinkedIn.
The idea of having a well established, respected and non-abusive company is no longer a reality in America. The stock market is a vehicle for gambling on shareholder feelings. It’s no longer about the company at all, just about how much you can hype up the company to then pass the bag along to someone else.
Wal-Mart shareholders don’t care if Wal-Mart craters into Hell tomorrow, so long as they get paid dividends and are able to offload their shares at a profit before it dies.
- Comment on ugh I hate these notifications 6 days ago:
Shitty reward??
Excuse me, Dawnbreaker is the coolest looking useless sword in the game. That’s not shitty, that’s home decor.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Double checked to make sure I wasn’t making a fool of myself, and yeah, you’re actually completely correct.
Chief Justice presides over the hearing and the Senate votes on it. The House of Representatives is who presents articles of impeachment and if they reach a simple majority, then bam, you’re impeached right then and there. But a successful impeachment then goes to Senate to vote whether the official in question is guilty and should be removed from office.
Interestingly, according to this gov page I’m pulling the info from (which may or may not be accurate anymore these days, who knows) a total of 21 successful impeachments have been run in American history. Of those impeached, only 8 officials have been found guilty by the Senate and removed from office. All 8 of them were federal judges. 3 presidents have been impeached, but none were removed from office - Nixon isn’t on this list because he resigned and ran away once the impeachment process began but before it could finish. DJT is the only president in American history to manage to be impeached twice.
Anyway, point being, if the president has either the Senate or the Supreme Court Chief Justice in his pockets, he’s effectively immune to impeachment. With both in his pockets he’s so immune to it that it becomes a joke to him. You can impeach him as many times as you want all day long until the cows come home, but if no one in the Senate ever votes to convict then it means nothing more than a nasty footnote on his page in the history books. Or more likely these days it means you’ll be picked up off the streets by the Gestapo and the impeachment will be conveniently left out of historical records.
- Comment on Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced 1 week ago:
My Steam Deck doesn’t serve me ads. Not even the on-boot sale pop up that desktop Steam gives.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Trump has been successfully impeached twice. Impeachment just doesn’t mean “removed from office” like everything thought it did. Unfortunately the Supreme Court is who makes the decision about whether an impeached president is removed from office or not.
- Comment on ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. 1 week ago:
Sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who genuinely enjoyed Snow Crash from cover to cover and it makes me wonder if my media literacy is suffering
- Comment on You gotta rizz 'em 1 week ago:
She in awe of my 'tism
- Comment on sticker 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Clip of Chinese academic dismantling Israeli genocide propagandist goes ultra-viral 2 weeks ago:
“Your country has done terrible things without your consent, therefore you are NOT ALLOWED to criticize an international genocide”
What the fuck?
- Comment on Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a 'mods aren't real games' stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
That already happened and they already C&D’d it according to someone else in this thread
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on [Silksong] Patch Version 1.0.28497 Now Live 3 weeks ago:
Sting Shard trap also works great, I just threw one of those at every minion spawn and then they die in one Needle hit after. If you stack poison on it then you probably don’t even need the follow up hit but I don’t remember if you can have the Pollip Pouch before this fight or not.
Sting Shard is great in general though. Does 2x Needle damage in a trap you can place in midair, can be poisoned with Pollip Pouch for even more extended DPS, is AoE-capable and can hit multiple enemies, and is cheap enough to refill at 7 shell shards. It’s been my primary red tool so far all game, though I just got to Act 2 recently and I’m hoping to find something better here.
- Comment on [Silksong] Patch Version 1.0.28497 Now Live 3 weeks ago:
Go west and south when you find the rain
- Comment on [Silksong] Patch Version 1.0.28497 Now Live 3 weeks ago:
Last Judge was the only boss so far that almost completely filtered me from the game and I think the reason why was because of how very little warning you get before the big spin. I think like an extra quarter of a second on that startup animation would go a huge way toward making her way less annoying. Took me two days to complete the fight because I kept getting so tilted by getting hit with the spin.
The runback wasn’t difficult at all but it was very annoying. You can avoid all enemies on the route except for a single drill fly, but it takes a whole 30 seconds or more to make the run back to the boss fight. Don’t fuck up your platforming though, the sand worms do two damage, so missing a landing means you’re stuck spending the first 10 seconds of the fight trying to Bind with your cocoon silk if you want to survive more than one single hit (two, if you found all the act 1 mask shards).
To be honest I ended up finally defeating Judge by strapping on the Pollip Pouch and sticking her full of poison straight pins. I regret nothing and I do not consider this to be dishonorable.
- Comment on A little memorial at the local dump 4 weeks ago:
Go set up a trail cam out there before the event
- Comment on I wish there was a system to verify that a webpage was written by an actual human before showing me it 4 weeks ago:
Half of Microsoft’s documentation is just fanfiction anyway
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 4 weeks ago:
Come to my house and I’ll play you some of my CDs
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 4 weeks ago:
If you could sell this for $500 or less you have yourself a customer
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 4 weeks ago:
That’s basically unenforceable unfortunately. Search engines are basically made to be gamed by the way they function. SEO up to a certain point is what makes your website actually findable, it has just gotten out of hand.
- Comment on Thanks satan 4 weeks ago:
It’s provocative, it gets the people going
- Comment on Just a little bit more 5 weeks ago:
This is good advice.
I didn’t figure 90PSI to be all that dangerous, we use a cheetah tank at my job sometimes for seating tires and that fires at 120PSI, but it’s through a much larger orifice - so it wouldn’t be as loud as through the valve stem. Losing the valve core is also a real possibility.
I, a professional dumbass and mechanic, would probably pull the cores at any pressure up to but definitely not exceeding 100, and may very well regret my decision to do so. Any normal people who value their safety and don’t deal with tires on a daily basis, and don’t have a stash of a thousand spare valve stems 20 feet away, should exercise more caution.
Thanks for calling me out on that, I probably don’t respect lowish high pressures as much as I should. I’ll try to keep an eye on that (from behind my safety glasses).
- Comment on Just a little bit more 5 weeks ago:
Somebody doesn’t like wearing their PPE and hasn’t lost any eyes or fingers yet about it
- Comment on Just a little bit more 5 weeks ago:
If it were up to me to do so, I’d remove the valve core to let the tire vent some pressure. Might still recommend some safety glasses for it though because if you don’t have a good grip on that core it’s going to fire itself out of the valve stem like an air rifle pellet.
If you don’t have a valve core removal tool then you can also just press down on the tip of the valve core with a small screwdriver or something, but you might be risking some damage to the core doing that, and you’re going to be sitting there an awful long time listening to it psssshhhh it’s way back down to 30. Even if you do damage the core it’s nothing that isn’t fixable at a tire shop though.
- Comment on Just a little bit more 5 weeks ago:
If it blows itself off the car during travel because you hit a pothole the wrong way, it is definitely a dire risk to life and limb. It’s less about the impact of the tire itself at that point and more about the fact that you’re basically guaranteed to suddenly swerve off the road.
- Comment on Just a little bit more 5 weeks ago:
For the non car-folks in this thread :
Normal tire pressure is about 30-40 PSI and a bad rupture can kill you or break your bones even at that pressure if you’re standing next to the tire.
This person has just installed four bombs on their vehicle that will go off at the slightest inconvenience. A 90 PSI car tire is an imminent risk of death to the driver and everyone around them. Do not let your friends or family do this.
- Comment on Metal genres 5 weeks ago:
Where do Powerwolf fans land on this list? Because I am one but I have genuinely no idea if that gives me cred or if that makes me the FNG.
- Comment on Stardew Valley will be getting another update after all 5 weeks ago:
I am firmly convinced that we will continue to receive sporadic Terraria updates until Red literally dies
- Comment on irl shiny 1 month ago:
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 1 month ago:
Sure, and I’ve also had my share of cursing at poor documentation.
If that’s the case then your AI is also going to struggle to give you usable information though.
