[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 8 points 6 months ago

Unfortunately it is such a repository of information that it's nearly unavoidable anymore. It's a reference tool. Need to fix your car? YouTube knows how. Need to write a piece of code with a tool you're unfamiliar with? A random Indian man has posted a YouTube video explaining how. Need to find a hidden item in a video game? YouTube. There are many and varied reasons I'd pull up a YouTube video outside of the intended purpose of "watching YouTube" for entertainment. Many of these things can, technically, be conveyed through different media but often poorly and with a much lower rate of understanding. The sheer volume of knowledge and culture lost if Google ever takes down YouTube's servers will be akin to the burning of the Library of Alexandria and that is not a joke. I don't want to "watch YouTube" anymore for the most part but it is inescapable to me for several purposes as a reference material.

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Still technically puntable but you're going to have a hell of a sore ankle afterward.

Pidgeotto is 3 feet tall and 66 pounds, it could steal your kids if it wanted to.

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 8 points 7 months ago

Some of those I understand complaining about but honestly Sets & Logic is a great class for a programmer. I wish that was in the standard math path so that everyone got a little of it in high school, the closest I got was doing proofs in geometry which while that is a sort of logic training it doesn't really teach you how to make use of anything.

Also, depending what you're building exactly, advanced Calc and Numerical Analysis may be very useful and/or required to perform. Especially if you're trying to accurately model something that happens in meatspace.

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 8 points 8 months ago

You are being blackmailed. This is no different than having the boys show up at your front door demanding protection money. Pay us and nobody (read: us) will break your legs. Pay us and nobody will steal your data.

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 8 points 8 months ago

Please don't give Florida your tourism money

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 8 points 8 months ago

People like to laugh at that quote but it's about as good of a fumble recovery as anyone could have done in that situation. Dubya was no fool, despite his "bumbling everyman" persona.

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 8 points 8 months ago

Withdrawal from most drugs sucks a lot but not a lot of them are lethal

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 8 points 9 months ago

You're not allowed to keep Jackie hopped on stims in the Delamain until you reach Vic but two hours earlier you had a cutscene moment where you stim a hostage to wake her back up from basically death.

It's fucking bullshit

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 8 points 9 months ago

Wolverines are a very puntable size but if you put your foot that close to one that's picking a fight, you're not getting that foot back. I would also consider snakes to be "puntable" strictly speaking but wouldn't recommend trying. You might get it over the back fence but the chances you come back unscathed are slim at best.

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 8 points 10 months ago

Is the implication here that Trump isn't losing his mind due to old age? Motherfucker have you heard him speak??

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 8 points 11 months ago

Immobilisers have been mandatory in all new cars sold in Germany since 1 January 1998, in the United Kingdom since 1 October 1998, in Finland since 1998, in Australia since 2001 and in Canada since 2007.

Unfortunately in the good old US of A that is somehow not the case, but it remains a fact that it is a bare minimum requirement for vehicle security. You will not purchase a vehicle in America that is not a Kia that does not have an immobilizer.

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 8 points 11 months ago

Though the drug itself has been around for hundreds of years

Longer than that. There is credible evidence that humans have been using cannabis for at least about as long as we've been brewing alcohol. Ancient religious relics recovered from archeological digs have been tested and shown cannabis residue.

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