CarbonIceDragon

@CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Italy will be the latest country to require age verification for porn sites⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  and not to mention, the tools required to create it (maybe not the best examples, but still) are already in the possession of virtually everybody.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Las Vegas deploys world’s first Tesla Cybertruck police fleet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Donating cybertrucks almost feels like a way to sabotage the police. Almost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I like to fit a full portion of hot garbage in there too ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or in a more literal reading, nitroglycerin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I tire of this life⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet if you blasted a crab with a strong enough beam of UV you could get it to sunburn eventually. Or at least suffer some equivalent injury

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨engagement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree, I sometimes do laugh at explained jokes, if the reason is something I can understand but didn’t connect the dots on rather than an in-joke that I don’t have the context for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shouldn’t Spanish have the same problem? I’ve seen them abbreviate it to EEUU though, which I assume must help prevent confusion?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I once found a random food court bathroom that has hand dryers that work amazingly well, and I was genuinely surprised by that when I stumbled on it. I’m guessing it probably is just more expensive or uses more power or something and places cheap out on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just in time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bold of you to assume the guys crewing that spaceship aren’t just doing some job they hate to pay the bills

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨excuse me????⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ah, right, forgot about hornbills

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨excuse me????⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do any birds have horns? (Rather than just horn shaped tufts of feathers)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Memes like this just make me get anxious thinking about the past

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If there were a less severe version of Hell called Heck, what inconveniences would happen there?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every time you try to walk past someone moving the opposite direction, they happen to be on your side of the walkway, and when you go to change sides they’ll get the same idea at the same time so that you’re still on a collision course until you awkwardly shuffle past one another

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK what is your Roman name?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Falafel gyroius just sounds silly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨booming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve just realized: if the classic boomer meme is “wife bad” stuff, does that mean only the boomer men are making memes? Or is there a whole genre of “husband bad” memes made by the boomer women that are flying under the radar?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love authoritarians yum yum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It also includes idiots who survive but permanently render themselves unable to reproduce, but I don’t see that counting here either as I think you get disqualified for harming others, so stupidly getting your kid killed wouldn’t count.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨be gay, do crimes (in space)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To my understanding, she wasn’t determined to have actually committed it, just was accused

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, that is fair. I would suggest making votes not federate at all in that case, except doing that would make single person or very small instances effectively be limited to sorting by new

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  thats fair I suppose, though in practice id assume that making a whole bunch of individual instances is probably more difficult than making a much of accounts on one instance that you control, and thus vote manipulation in this manner should have a higher barrier to entry?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If one wanted to ensure that external content is still easily visible, one could always have things set up so that posts on local communities only appears in local and subscribed, and only posts from outside appear in all (though it might need to be renamed to better fit such a layout I suppose)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I’ve begun to think the upvote/downvote model is a bad fit for the fediverse in general:

  *Different instances have different rules around it, and in some cases (for example, an instance disabling downvoting) this might give a modest advantage in the sorting for content on that instance

  *Instances have to trust votes by other instances, and while an obvious manipulation could be defederated, that has to be noticed first

  *Votes are more publicly visible than on a place like reddit, potentially leading to something like a downvote being a catalyst for incivility towards the downvoter by whoever posted something

  Honestly what I would do with Lemmy voting is just make vote counts mostly not federate. Have instances send a single up, down, or neither vote depending on if the net number on their insurance passes a certain up or downvote threshold, just so people on private instances have something to sort by, and have the score of a post or comment otherwise just go off of whatever the users within an instance vote. Then, an individual instance could have whatever rules or restrictions on voting it wanted, without worry over if that gets its votes drowned out by the wider network or seen as vote manipulation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LeFTIsTS just can't handle our glorious Trump's truths!11!1!!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “1 user”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ay, chihuahua!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not really a dog person, more a fan of cats and reptiles, but I remember being very attached to an old Chihuahua my family had for awhile. Never did get the hate for them, my experience with them has been that they can be very cuddly and a good size to come sit in your lap while watching tv or something. Never noticed the one I had to be particularly mean, though she was pretty old when we got her so maybe she just didn’t have the energy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans have 400 days to save their democracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no benefit in ceding ground preemptively. I don’t suspect he’ll actually cancel the election so much as make it even less fair that usual to avoid the risk of losing, but either way, convincing everyone that this is what he will do, before he does it, just means that when it happens people won’t get as mad about it because it’ll be “old news” in their heads anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, everyone’s views are shaped by propaganda of some kind, it’s quite literally unavoidable if you exist within any society. Lots of people like to think that their ideas are just the product of their own independent thinking, but that isn’t really how people work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space colonization would create so many jobs for everyone. Not great jobs but jobs.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of the solid bodies in the solar system are literally a bunch of airless, irradiated, toxic rocks, with either no life at all or potentially some rare bacteria-like stuff hidden somewhere we haven’t been able to conclusively examine yet. They already are in a more “fucked up” state than even the most polluted wasteland we’ve created on earth. What could we possibly do to them to mess them up further?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space colonization would create so many jobs for everyone. Not great jobs but jobs.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the time frame. In the period immediately following such a venture, sure, but if you actually properly establish settlement off earth, the total resource base and thus carrying capacity of civilization as a whole increases and continues to increase until we either hit the limits of that part of the universe one can theoretically reach (which is so big as to make the entire earth less than a speck of dust by comparison), you decide to just stop space colonization (which gets more difficult the further on you go, because the number of potential polities to launch a new mission increases the more space is populated), or you find yourself boxed in by alien civilizations in all directions (since we haven’t seen any, they’re most likely far enough apart on average for this to still leave an extremely vast chunk of space). A hypothetical spacefairing civilization should be able to reach sizes so vast that it would be physically impossible to create enough jobs on just one planet to equal it, even with just this solar system even.

  Job creation by itself is not exactly the best motivation to pursue this though, since the jobs created will after the initial period be generally far away and therefore not likely to be worked by anyone except the people that end up in those colonies, who wouldn’t even exist otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it just me or does this look more appetizing than a watermelon?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda looks like a kiwi tbh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you ever picture your grandma in heaven watched over you as you’re getting spit roasted by two Grindr randoms?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As an asexual atheist with both grandmothers still alive, I can’t say I ever have, no. Were those things not the case, I’d say anything they saw would be down to them using their ghost powers to violate my privacy anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fools, the lot of ya'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What happens if Simon says to disobey Simon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨breakfast⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just not good at room temperature, it’s decent enough if it’s a fair bit warmer than that.