“Poor opsec” implies the 32k bet wasn’t random, it was insider information.

It’s funny but it’s also ignorant of Christianity. Jesus WILLINGLY CHOSE to be crucified. He knew it was going to happen before anyone else.

Depression is the worst sort of trap because the disease prevents you from seeking the cure. Men have fewer friends, fewer relationships, weaker social support networks, and a greater social stigma against seeking help.

Very recently I’ve read at least 2 posts on Lemmy by men who opened up about a nerdy interest and about mental illness. Both faced rather severe rejection from their peers.

A lot of this rejection of course comes from other men. But it’s not on an individual man to convince their friends not to reject them for opening up.

So if we take your declaration in that light, what it amounts to saying is that men all need to simultaneously start acting differently than we’ve always acted. But you can say that about a lot of problems in society.

Yeah. Electric cars are much heavier so they cause dramatically more road and tire wear (Fourth power law). This leads to more costly road repairs being needed and more dust and microplastics in the air, soil, and water.

Electric cars also have steep upfront mineral costs due to the need for more electronics, wiring, and those gigantic batteries. Recycling won’t save us for this because we’re already producing more and more of these minerals than we ever have before.

Then you get all the secondary effects of electric cars: the increased stresses on the grid and need for more grid maintenance and upgrades, the need for more generating capacity because of the increased demand, and the distributed nature of the grid stresses which is much more problematic than an increase of centralized demand (like you get with electric public transit systems). It’s the fact that you have neighbourhoods with electrical service that was designed for the number of buildings in that area and now you’re increasing the demand per building by a significant fraction.

It’s really hard to make arguments like this against EVs though, because there are a huge number of these issues and not much of way to summarize everything into one bottom line conclusion.

My microwave boils a cup of water in less than 2 minutes.

Wow thanks for this! It’s so helpful to learn about and have a language for describing why these new movies feel so wrong to me. I’m going to watch this after work and share it with my film club!

I have the opposite issue. I tend to only enjoy older films. Recent films tend to have this digital colour-graded look and a style of editing (millions of 1 second cuts) that make them pretty much unwatchable for me.

I really love films that take their time, both in plot and character development, as well as in how shots develop to establish the scenes. I also have a passion for photography and for me that’s a really big part of films. I want to see beautiful photographs that took a lot of time and experience to set up (and wait for the right moment, in the case of outdoor scenes). I love practical effects that were built and painted by hand, explosions rigged with real explosives, much more than CGI.

I think there is an issue with attention spans though. The modern films that I mentioned above seem to be ideal for people with short attention spans, whereas older films tend to be boring for these folks. This makes it hard for films to appeal to both audiences!

Nowadays I use a trackpad for almost everything. I do use a mouse at work but then I mostly use keyboard shortcuts for everything I can (Excel really flies when you know some keyboard shortcuts).

Ahhh. I use command-click to open in new tabs.

I haven’t played a game that uses the mouse in several years. I mostly play Roguelikes such as NetHack, DCSS, or Caves of Qud using keyboard controls only, or console games with a controller.

I have never used a CAD program though sometimes I’ve thought about it.

I can’t remember the last time I’ve ever wanted to click the middle mouse button. The experience of having done so once or twice was bad enough to get me to rebind the action to something else.

Middle mouse paste was great on true 3 button mice. It became a liability with the invention of the mouse wheel, which made it a total crapshoot to try to click that damn button without rolling the wheel at the same time. It’s a classic case of overloaded functionality.

Like imagine if cars put the accelerator into the steering wheel, so you had to press the steering wheel down to accelerate. Everyone would hate it and it would be a safety nightmare. We put up with things on computers that we never would in other areas of life.

No, that’s the thumb of the guy on the left. He has his hand over the other guy’s mouth to shut him up.

It’s from the movie Predator. Watch it. Fantastic movie!

Rust users are informally called Rustaceans and there’s even a book for them:

AI is so great, so wonderful even, that they have to torture us into using it.

Wow yes. So many older and retired workers from the skilled trades could benefit from this.

It would also be a huge boon for recruitment as I imagine young people considering the career may be discouraged by the physical demands of the job and their potential lasting effects.

EV design right now is just about the worst thing if you want to survive an apocalypse. Those things are practically impossible to repair. Disposable cars that depreciate rapidly.

A post apocalyptic EV is gonna be some scrapped together dune buggy powered by lead acid batteries and a simple DC motor. It will be lucky to get 40 miles of range, rather than 400, but that’s okay because there won’t be any roads left.

Why lead acid batteries? Because you can rebuild them with minimal tools.

For being a science meme group, I’m seeing a distinct lack of understanding of how psychology, especially cognitive bias, works.

We boil vegetables alive all the time!

At this point I’m surprised when Putin is telling the truth. He lies so much it’s just easier to assume he’s lying and wait to see if there’s actually any evidence for what he’s saying.

I predicted that this story about an attack on his residence was a lie. Putin does not want peace. Every time they get closer to an agreement he pulls back. He knows that the peace will lead to him getting Gaddafi’d.

There have been times when I’ve thought that but I think the test has to be based on how much it affects or doesn’t affect the rest of your life. If you’re spending huge amounts of time and money on it while the rest of your life and relationships suffer, it’s probably an issue. If it’s mostly a hobby that occupies a reasonable portion of your life, it’s fine.

It does bother me though that some collecting hobbies seem to be mostly about spending money and trying to achieve a complete set rather than a mixture of stuff of collecting, repairing, researching, and visiting people, and going to shows etc. I’m all about variety in life though, so that may be a personal bias of mine.