kersploosh
@kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Beachfront property 6 days ago:
Careful, that’s how that one evil boyfriend in Scott Pilgrim died.
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 1 week ago:
it’s the first I’ve heard of maybe a US citizen being deported.
It’s been happening for years. From the Washington Post:
The U.S. government does not release data on how often ICE wrongfully detains or deports U.S. citizens. But investigations by media outlets, research institutes and oversight agencies have revealed that ICE has arrested, detained, deported and issued detainers — requests to local jails to hold a person in custody — for thousands of citizens since the agency was created in 2003. One 2011 study estimated that roughly 1 to 1.5 percent of deportees are U.S. citizens.
- Comment on 2 Instances are being used for coordinated vote manipulation, and should be defederated. chinese.lol lemmy.doesnotexist.club 1 week ago:
After some investigation, we have defederated from both instances. I created a post in the Agora community in case people want to discuss it further: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35952149
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Rebel Without a Cause
Requiem for a Dream
Revenge of the Nerds
- Comment on How would I describe myself? 2 weeks ago:
It can be a very interesting conversation starter. I love hearing about the places people grew up, and how they ended up in the place they currently live. It’s a much better topic than the small talk about work or TV shows or whatever else people discuss the first time they meet.
- Comment on i have been living in middle east for almost 20 years and would like to be an american/canadian citizen, how can i become 1? how much will it cost? ar there other western nations which have easyproces 2 weeks ago:
In America, you first become a legal permanent resident (we would say you have a “green card”). Once you have lived here for five years then you can apply for citizenship. The whole process is slow and can be somewhat arbitrary.
Another option is to enlist in the US military. After serving for several years you can get preferred status for citizenship.
As others said, this is a difficult time to be an immigrant in America. The current government is arresting and deporting legal residents based on flimsy accusations. You should consider waiting for Trump to be gone, or look at other countries.
- Comment on Why did I get banned and then unbanned from literally all of this instances communities? 3 weeks ago:
This one: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33055710
Though I cannot give details regarding why a particular post triggers the bot. That’s a secret recipe.
- Comment on Why did I get banned and then unbanned from literally all of this instances communities? 3 weeks ago:
One of your posts triggered our automod, and it gave you an instance ban from sh.itjust.works. When a user is instance banned they also get banned from every community they have interacted with on that instance. Or at least that’s how Lemmy worked at that time; we have since upgraded and I don’t know if the behavior had changed.
Upon review, the ban was clearly a false positive. You were unbanned, which unbanned you from all of those communities.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Wrong community?
- Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz? 4 weeks ago:
Not like commercial AM/FM radio stations playing music, but radio in the more general sense. 5G cell phones and satellite-to-earth communication systems use that frequency range, for example.
- Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz? 4 weeks ago:
2.4 GHz and 5 GHz are both “ISM bands.” These are frequencies that regulators have set aside for unlicensed use.
Fun fact: 2.4 GHz is free to use because of microwave ovens. Microwaves are really noisy around 2.45 GHz. Rather than try to regulate their radio emissions, or make people license their kitchen appliances as radio transmitters, the FCC allocated that patch of spectrum for free use. Any device that can tolerate the noise can use that bit of the radio spectrum.
- Comment on Trump floats sending Tesla attackers to El Salvador prisons 4 weeks ago:
Tangentially related and definitely dystopic: El Salvador’s infamously high incarceration rate is only slightly higher than Louisiana’s.
- Comment on Do people really believe politicians are salesmen? 1 month ago:
In general, yes. Especially at the national level, politicians are not reading and writing bills. They delegate that work to their staff, and/or take prepared drafts from various interest groups. The politician’s job is to be the face of the operation and garner support for the bill or cause at hand. They also spend a ton of their time raising money for their next election campaign, or the campaigns of their friends and party members.
In a similar vein, political parties are essentially marketing organizations. The party’s job is to get its members elected. Parties will change their platforms over time if they think it will give them an electoral advantage.
- Comment on In a hypothetical revolution who would secure the resistances comms? 1 month ago:
GPS devices only receives GPS signals; they do not broadcast any data. So carrying a basic handheld GPS device won’t give away your position to anyone else. However, a smarter device like a phone or InReach emergency locating device can relay your location to others.
For communications, lots of people would suddenly get really interested in VPNs and encryption (for using the existing Internet), private wireless mesh networks (for city- and region-level communication), and even amateur radio. Owners of mesh nodes or radios would need to limit their broadcasting time and/or do a lot of moving around to avoid being located.
- Comment on What would happen if USA invades Canada? 2 months ago:
Agreed.
- Comment on What would happen if USA invades Canada? 2 months ago:
I would expect an invasion order to be a breaking point that causes US political collapse and possibly a civil war.
The military brass might very well break the chain of command and refuse to follow an order to invade Canada. While I think that would be the right move, it would be a major constitutional crisis and there is no resolution that would not send one political faction or another completely off the rails.
- Comment on Good resources on making a lemmy bot? 2 months ago:
Plemmy is a Python library that might be helpful for building a bot: https://github.com/Fedihosting-Foundation/plemmy
Also this Lemmy API reference: https://lemmy.readme.io/reference/post_community-ban-user
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 2 months ago:
-cartilage in joints can regenerate
-body can synthesize its own vitamin c
Other species already do these things smh.
- Comment on How extreme car dependency is driving Americans to unhappiness 3 months ago:
An article about Americans.
The picture shows a driver in the right seat.
🤦♂️
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
A couple of months ago I wrote a single comment
The modlog shows you were having quite a spat with some mods 5 months ago.
Nothing else
Again, the modlog shows otherwise.
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&userId=111123
Why bring this up now, five months later?
- Comment on Ding, fries ain't done 5 months ago:
It’s a cropped frame from this video, right around the 1:31 timestamp. Here’s a screenshot I took on mobile. Not the best quality, but if you have urgent memes to make it’ll do.
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 5 months ago:
something as simple as a variety of colors took hundreds of years of technological advancement
If anyone is looking for a rabbit hole to go down, the history of pigments is a great one.
- Comment on Weather in New York City - December to January 5 months ago:
Winter weather on the northeast US coast is a battle between cold, dry air blowing in from the northwest, and (relatively) warm, humid air from the Gulf Stream coming up from the Caribbean. The weather is determined by which of those two forces is “winning” at a given moment, and it can swing abruptly when the balance shifts.
Expect cold, windy, rainy weather. But don’t be surprised to get snow and ice if those Canadians send a strong cold front.
The comment comparing New York to Scotland is a good one. Dress like you are going to Aberdeen and you should be just fine in New York.
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 5 months ago:
That’s my understanding. Though I have only visited the Kartoffel regions myself.
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 5 months ago:
Some German speakers say “Erdapfel” which is literally “earth apple.”
- Comment on Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used? 5 months ago:
In some places that is a strategy to satisfy zoning requirements. The builder has to provide a minimum amount of outdoor area per dwelling unit. They could create a large ground-level courtyard, or they can create a bunch of tiny balconies that sum up to the same total area. The ladder strategy allows a larger building to exist on the same lot.
- Submitted 6 months ago to main@sh.itjust.works | 2 comments
- Submitted 6 months ago to main@sh.itjust.works | 13 comments
- Comment on Is 24/7 a common idiom throughout the world? 6 months ago:
Your first point is technically correct, but 24-hour days and 7-day weeks are a de facto global standard at this point in history. There are outliers, like the Javanese 5-day week or the experimental 5-day Soviet calendar, but they are few and far between.
