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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The youtube algorithm is so bad, I say to my screen "why the fuck would I care about this!?" like 10 times a day.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  *The former

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  take the L and walk away.

  I’m here having reasoned conversations with thoughtful people. I left the karma farming behind on reddit, and I don’t miss it. I can’t lose.

  The word see predates the concepts of neurons, chemicals, and photons by thousands of years. We see objects, not light.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The word “see” predates any concept of rods or cones or photons by thousands of years. It has nothing to do with those things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not what the word “see” means. You’re trying to to swap it for another word like “sense.” You see objects, not light.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The light that enters your eye carries enormous amounts of information with it. Your eye and a small portion of your brain comprise a highly specific tool for extracting a small subset of that information and processing it. The information you use is only related to the last object the light interacted with, not the light itself (with the small exception being the “brightness” - that has nothing to do with the object).

  No one claims to hear the air in their ears rather than the violin that is being played nearby. That’s just not what the word “hear” means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not what the word “see” means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Look around the space you’re in and notice that you can’t “see” the light, only the things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The plural of Kleenex should be Kleenices.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Kleenpodes!

  Yes, I know its unrelated. I’m just trying to force in the whole octopi problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy has the ideal number of posts for me. Just enough to have a good time but not too many that I'm scrolling forever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t have enough subs. Slacker.

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just so grateful that so many great scientists fled nazi germany. Also that those who stayed behind (this is controversial and not known for sure) hindered and delayed Germany’s nuclear weapons program.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mail-in-a-Box - simple email server⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure enough! Thanks, that was fun to watch again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mail-in-a-Box - simple email server⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that step two?

  I feel like step one was “get a box,” but I could be misremembering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I cannot tell you a way my life has genuinely gotten better since the advent of "smart" phones.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought there was a whole movement going on among the “youngs,” where they were specifically getting old flip phones that couldn’t run any apps. I heard about that trend more than a year ago, so it’s probably long passed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dates written in a numbers only format are not about matching the spoken language. You also would not say, “let’s meet on twelve eleven twenty twentyfour.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda makes “bye bye” seem a little weird, eh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The saying is really about asking god to remove obstacles from your path and facilitate faster travel. A little like “goodbye” is a very shortened “may god be with you.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Others have explained that it depwnds on when, but I want to add this: when a VP becomes pres. through succession, the speaker does not become VP automatically. The new pres. picks whoever they want. Ford chose the governor of NY, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yep, it's me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The disorder can only increase, just like your toys on the living room floor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we get to Mars faster⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  His disdain for NASA’s caution is obvious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we get to Mars faster⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What a dumbass. If we send people in the quickest possible way (or any way at all, really) and they all die in the attempt, that will set the whole project back decades.

  The answer to the radiation problem is better shielding, not a fundamentally unsafe mission.

  btw it is not the nuclear propulsion that I’m calling unsafe. It is the idea that we could do without redundancy. That’s just a monumentally stupid idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA Reveals Prototype Telescope for Gravitational Wave Observatory⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Telescope is almost a misnomer here. It will be “looking” at other satellites, not astronomically distant objects.

  The influence of gravitational waves will be seen in changes in the relative distance to each of the six satellites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. In other words, they have nit been “allowed to infest” the fediverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have not noticed any threads content in Lemmy.