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  • But the tip looks like some form of weird security screw (which means “uncommon or proprietary” in this case, not actual security, more obscurity, but that’s what they call em). I believe they were pontificating that the “safety” might be due to a mistranslation of “security” as they’re normally called, as opposed to being an actual “safety screwdriver” as nothing about being X-rayed is dangerous for steel/plastic thus negating the need for a safety screwdriver like one would need on say an MRI, which would be made out of a nonferrous metal (I guess…Idk why they’d need it running while they work on it but I’m no MRI tech so maybe they do).

    Searching up the model number, they don’t seem to be sold to the public in this configuration, they seem to sell us normal flatheads. This does seem to suggest maybe a partnership with the X-Ray OEM, or the hospital, and thus proprietary security bits. The “Safety” tag doesn’t seem to be on the civilian model, and they specifically denote springsteel which is ferrous, but of course if they are manufacturing 3rd party screwdrivers to the X-Ray OEM’s specs they might not be. In short who knows, but I think they mean the security bits.










  • So, I haven’t watched this series yet and now I have a question. Did they name the ghoul “Ghoul?” Because in the games any person who is exposed to radiation that has a certain mutation becomes a ghoul instead of just dead, it’s more like a mutation than it is a specific person, and on top of that only some retain a shred of their humanity, most becoming feral. Like, famous ghouls include Gob (my favorite), Hancock, Festus, Harold (other favorite), Calamity, etc. Did the show change that?




  • (Psst, slavery is inherently authoritarian, even the libertarian right still has to be libertarian to be the libertarian right, otherwise they’re authoritarian right. They may want to pay people unfairly “so long as they agree,” but literal actual slavery is anathema to the bottom half of the compass by default. I’m not one, I just think it’s important to at least sound like I know what I’m talking about and can understand the arguments of others.)



  • It’s linux, so basically anything it does that you don’t like you can learn to fix yourself. I’d shy away from Gnome (because they like you to have less control, or, less easily anyway), maybe try FrdoraKDE or Mint, popular distros with lots of help online.

    If you have “an infinite supply of windows laptops” I’d pick a thinkpad that isn’t your main and try it out on that, what do you have to lose? You’ll still have your main untouched (until you see the glory of linux and install different distros on all of those laptops, but that’ll come later…)





  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldYou are not Racist
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    Tbh I still think that I shouldn’t have to censor myself if I want to sing any song by any black person since about 1985, (nor just avoid singing any song from the most popular black music of the past 40yr because “it was made by black people so I can’t sing it,”) “black music is only for ‘the blacks’ you can’t enjoy other cultures!” sounds almost more racist to me than me singing the real words instead of:

    Bitch you thirsty please grab a sprite, my crips lurking don’t die tonight, I just wanna dance with you baby, man down down the ave it gets shady, take a neighbor’s mind off that we can dip fuck in the whip slide right back in the function one wrong word start bustin’ put that on my yankee’s hat, I’m a gangsta crip, fuck gangsta rap, where the ladies at where da hoes where da bitches? Every real neighbor know tha difference, bandana brown like the dope daddy shootin’ in the kitchen, real norf side neighbor never went to wilson or cabrillo, cocaine color of a creole, T-scrap moving for the d-lo and he know…

    I mean, I do it, so don’t jump down my throat or anything because I’m already complying with the demand at large, but I disagree that it’s a racist practice to sing the words as written by the author who wrote them simply because I’m of another race. (Unless it’s like a David Allen Coe song, c’mon ykwim, rap music and stuff.)

    Other than that I’ll agree it’s an entirely useless word, even if nobody cared I’d only say it then, when singing a song by a black artist I like. It’s kinda hard sometimes to switch the word too, you try and sing LaLa by Tity Boi ft Busta replacing all the words and tell me you didn’t fuck up when Busta said “smoking til a neighbor look a little shitty boy.” Lol.