ExtremeDullard

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) influence over the Senate Republicans appears dead.

I don't mean to be rude, but Mitch McConnell himself appears dead.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 55 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

It's funny how people support getting others in their situation fired because they all think they are indispensable.

Hint: nobody is indispensable.

Of course, it's a bit late to warn Trump voters. But I'll leave this here for when the next autocratic populist comes along in a few years.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

You think you're in the clear and you're cool with Trump and all. But there's one thing I know: the minute he wrongs you - be it your tax return check not being mailed because the IRS is in shambles, or the water at your tap tasting like shit because the EPA is in shambles and someone started fracking in your area, or ICE invading your property because someone told them you're harboring illegal migrants... you'll become the most ardent Trump hater.

It's always the same with evangelists: all it takes is one little thing and they flip so hard they become rabid haters of what they used to believe in.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 9 hours ago (8 children)

Not yet 🙂
You're in trouble like the rest of us. You just don't know it yet.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 9 hours ago

Modi shouldn't speak too loudly though, else the British might interpret MIGA as "They want the Raj back".

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

All English. It's just more practical. Every software is first and foremost written in English, for English UIs, for English-speaking users, and then internationalized. I'll just stick to the primary design for simplicity's sake and to reduce potential issues.

Also, English tends to be more terse and less verbose than almost all other languages when abbreviated.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You jest, but it's been suggested in the past. A true space-faring human society whose members spend most of their lives in zero or reduced gravity might benefit from not dragging along bits and pieces that are only useful in a high-gravity environment. There's a good chance that evolution itself would evolve humans without those bits that are useless in space over time.

In other words, the disabled on Earth could well be the ones most advantaged in space.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 12 hours ago

Sadly, I believe you won't have to wait long to believe me. Vance is working his hillbilly ass off to create a diplomatic incident in Munich as we speak.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

You can't be this naive...

Trump and Musk have destroyed an entire state agency and damaged several more despite not having any right to do so, and yet they did so.

I guarantee you, if Trump said "No amputee onboard my ISS" or Musk said "No amputee onboard my rocket", no amputee would leave the ground in a New York minute.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (4 children)

John McFall will fly to the ISS - which is co-administered by the United States - on a SpaceX rocket. If you think Trump or Musk had no say on whether he should be allowed on the mission, you're deluded.

Also, it was a joke.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Neither stupidity nor malice are required to explain self-interest

Yeah but see that's what does not compute: in what scenario does any oligarch benefit from increasing the country's nuclear risk? There's a thousand and one ways to make a lot more money a lot more safely, quickly and quietly.

That's why I'm of the opinion that Trumsk don't friggin' know what they're doing.

 

Looks like Trump forgot to fire this DEI hire.

Good for him!

 

I just noticed that the two communities I moderate on SDF seem to have stopped being updated when I view them from lemmy.ml's page:

This doesn't seem to concern other SDF communities, e.g. funhole@lemmy.sdf.org.

Anybody knows what the problem might be?

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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org to c/atheistmemes@lemmy.world
 

Some woman I never met told me point blank at the gym that I should pray more. After staring at her in disbelief for ten solid seconds, she told me I had a disability because I had sinned. Obviously.

So I asked her why I should pray a God that disabled me: she told me God loved me and had a plan for me. Tough love I guess. But hey, if there's a plan...

Then I asked her if my limbs would grow back if I prayed enough: no she said, but it's not too late to let Jesus into my life.

Well that made total sense. I'm off to church then...

 

I've been printing quite a few registration plates to hold parts in place in production that need to sit as flat as possible on the production jigs.

I've noticed that taking the finished parts off the bed of the printer too soon causes them to warp: they come off the bed looking nicely set and straight, but as they finish cooling down unsupported, they slowly warp until they finally fully reach room temperature after 10 or 15 minutes.

So now I let them cool down slowly on the bed of the printer after the print is done. Ideally I let the bed cool down to room temperature: then the parts readily separate naturally as they shrink. If I'm in a hurry, I'll still wait until the parts release with very little force, around 35C - but no hotter than that, to avoid warping - as in this video.

 

I've been printing quite a few registration plates to hold parts in place in production that need to sit as flat as possible on the production jigs.

I've noticed that taking the finished parts off the bed of the printer too soon causes them to warp: they come off the bed looking nicely set and straight. But as they finish cooling down unsupported, they slowly warp until they finally fully reach room temperature after 10 or 15 minutes.

So now I let them cool down slowly on the bed of the printer after the print is done. Ideally I let the bed cool down to room temperature: then the parts readily separate naturally as they shrink. If I'm in a hurry, I'll still wait until the parts release with very little force, around 35C - but no hotter than that, to avoid warping - as in this video.

 

This is the map of the Gulf of Mexico as seen from outside the US on Google Maps.

Google said it would foist the Gulf of America idiocy only on its US users, but apparently the temptation to flatter His Orangeness was too much, so the rest of the world gets to enjoy it too.

I figured I'd rename it too. I mean why not after all: it seems any idiot can make up geography now.

 

Okay now that's just cute.

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The indignity... (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org to c/disability@beehaw.org
 

So it's finally happened.

I went to the sauna after my swim at the municipal swimming pool, and as always I was super careful because I don't have great balance and the floor is always slippery in there.

And... I slipped. I splattered myself all over the floor in front of 15 sweaty dudes in Adam's costume and hit my knee bad enough that I couldn't get up.

3 or 4 of them dudes got up to help and scraped me off the floor. No real harm done, but my ego is still bruised 6 hours later. I just wanted to vent a bit. Sorry...

 

I ran my old 2004 Samsung television into the ground: the EL backlight was so worn out that the picture had large dark holes in it, and the TV would take 20 minutes to warm up and display something.

And today it wouldn't start at all anymore. It's deader than a dead dodo. But hey, 20 years for a modern TV ain't bad. I'm pretty pleased with that.

So I went to the supermarket to find the cheapest set I could find. I asked the salesman if they had a cheap, but most importantly NON-SMART TV - thinking non-smart TVs are probably the cheapest of them all, if they still existed at all.

The man said "We have this dumb 43" TV here, but it's the last one, and then we won't get anymore dumb TVs for 3 months."

I looked at the price and it was - gasp - $20 MORE than the cheapest Android-encumbered smart TV of the same size.

I asked the man how come and he said "Well, dumb TVs are hard to get and they sell almost immediately. So they're worth more than the smart ones."

Wow. So people actually WANT dumb TVs and are willing to pay a premium for em. It means attitudes towards the value of privacy are changing and that's great!

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