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Cake day: June 13th, 2023
  • alaphic@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Climate's 'Catch-22': Cutting pollution heats up the planet
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    1 year ago

    Dude, if you think this is bad, I can only hope for your sake that you don’t ever stumble into Bing’s news aggregator… Literally every. single. article. that has anything to say regarding man-made climate change that doesn’t shoot sunbeams and happy straight up your asshole somehow ends up with a good 3 or 4:1 downvote to upvote ratio within minutes of posting. It’s fucking disgusting, tbh.

    The comments on these articles are also generally all some variation of one of the following: Someone questioning how Biden is making money off of this (🙃); Accusations of malfeasance or corruption on the part of scientists and/or science itself; “Nuh uh, cuz God didn’t say so” as a rebuttal to climate data; “It’s being done on purpose by the sun/libs/terrorists/Biden/Santa Claus”; “There wasn’t any extreme weather when TRUMP was president”; “It’s all a hoax to take your guns, somehow”; or, my two personal favorites, “The planet goes through these cycles naturally and nothing humans could do is capable of altering the climate” which is almost always followed shortly by “We’ll have the technology to fix it by the time it gets really bad in 50-100 years, even though it’s not going to ever get that bad because it’s a hoax perpetuated by the libs and scientists to make money by selling… Something, probably”

  • alaphic@lemmy.worldtoNonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.works•It brings the room togetherEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I like that out of all that, this is the part that you took issue with 😂🤣

    Though, I might counter that with the fact that we’ve conducted at least rudimentary low-earth orbit reconnaissance flights since the end of WWII/the beginnings of the Cold War with the U2 and (later) SR-71s… So, while my phrasing may have been off, I still feel as if there arguments to be made in favor of there being sufficient vacuum at their operational ceiling(s) to allow for a little extreme breathplay, if you will.

  • alaphic@lemmy.worldtoNonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.works•It brings the room togetherEnglish
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    1 year ago

    “Now available from Hasbro™, the Demon Core Playset! For the first time, now you too can experience the thrill of needlessly edging the most destructive force ever devised by humankind to the brink of supercriticality using nothing more than your own hands and a flathead screwdriver! (For… reasons!) Perfect for proving exactly who has the biggest balls in the room! Right up until you fry them off and give everyone in the vicinity Super Mega Turbo Cancer, of course! (Well, the lucky ones who manage to survive, at any rate 😁)”

    Fr tho, these people were well-educated physicists with access to some of the most cutting-edge technology/equipment available at the time, who knew they were fucking around with what is probably the most powerful destructive force humanity has ever encountered/created in our known history… Less than a kilogram of the material in the bomb dropped on Hiroshima actually achieved fission, and yet that was clearly still more than powerful enough to cause death and destruction on a scale previously unimaginable - particularly for a single weapon.

    And these guys then have the bright idea to basically flip a salad bowl over on top of it and manually try to maintain an aperture (with the help of a flathead screwdriver tip - for safety reasons, obviously) that is as small as possible in order to see just how close they can get it to the point of no return, ya know, just for funsies? Because humans are notoriously good at never making any sort of mistakes, right?

    I can only assume this was their last resort after the excitement of auto-erotic asphyxiation via popping the hatch of the command module open while in orbit wore off.

  • alaphic@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•[Help] making a persistent Debian live install from Windows
    6·
    1 year ago

    Just use Rufus, dude… You can even set the amount of space your image/deployment/instance (whatever the most correct term is lol) persists in, which makes it more convenient if (like me) you find yourself frequently wanting to play around with new and exciting distros.

    Also, not to gang up on ya or anything either, but I’m gonna have to second the other commentor’s request for the info on that laptop, as I’ve never encountered one that prevented you from reformatting it… o_0 I would be returning the fuck out of that garbage… Even the non-ARM old chromebooks would let you do that.

  • alaphic@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Does anyone enjoy intimate kissing scenes in movies?
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    1 year ago

    I just don’t see how actually showing me a character’s genitals serves any more of a purpose than perhaps tastefully implying (through cutaways, for example) that the characters are having sex other than pure titillation… And there is clearly a vast sea of content designed specifically for that, so I don’t really care for media that goes out of its way to be graphic if that isn’t its express purpose.

    Additionally, to be perfectly honest, I don’t really know how anyone can view a lot of these sex scenes in a positive light post-#metoo movement either. Maybe I’m just an idiot or a prude or something, but I have a lot of difficulty believing that every single nude/sex scene that’s come out of Hollywood has been completely free of some variety of impropriety or, at the very least, coercion. And that by itself is enough to strip away whatever merit you might argue the scene could have.