TangledHyphae @ TangledHyphae @lemmy.world

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All of my UK/EU coworkers that fly here for business meetings always ask me to take them to the ranges here, they LOVE it because they don't get to do it over there nearly as easily apparently. Everyone has a great time.

One guy from Poland wanted to take a spent casing back as a souvenir, but he said they have dogs that detect any gunpowder residue and didn't want to risk going back with it.

Reminds me of: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1292:_Pi_vs._Tau

And: https://www.tauday.com/tau-manifesto

Confuses me that anybody would downvote you for this. I've made makeshift capacitors out of rolled aluminum foil. It's dumb, but it worked for what I wanted (triggering a trackpad via stepper motors for testing microcontroller code.) Plus I just wanted to see if it even worked. Life = science experiments.

Lol this one was great, thanks for sharing. My partner teaches physics and I do EE on the side, I like rubbing these in her face sometimes.

You got me really curious so I prompted ChatGPT to give me a redditor style comment that's anti-Trump followed by another far-left redditor's reply to it and this is what it gave me:

Original Comment (Left-Leaning Anti-Trump Perspective):

"It's honestly mind-blowing how Trump still has a cult following after everything. The man was impeached twice, incited an insurrection, and openly grifts his supporters with fake fundraising schemes. And yet, somehow, people still think he's their 'savior.' The cognitive dissonance is off the charts."

Far-Left Redditor Response:

"Because the system is fundamentally broken. Liberals act like voting blue is enough when the entire establishment—from corporate Dems to the GOP—is complicit in maintaining capitalism's stranglehold. Trump is just a symptom of the rot. The real solution isn’t 'vote harder'; it’s dismantling the system that enabled him in the first place."

^ -- this seems to be disturbingly accurate, I can only imagine this being produced at automated scale at this point.

Yep, someone in another sub once said "I hope your plant dies" and their whole account was permbanned for "inciting violence". Against a plant. Hysterical. That site is cooked.

You an elder millennial by chance?

Same, seems like these are all from the 70s/80s/90s era basically.

The irony is that had the previous administration followed what Obama and Clinton and every other previous administration did on the border topic, they would have won in a landslide. But now the corruption of the last few years is being revealed and it'll be interesting to see the fallout over the next few years.

From what I've seen on the reddit right-leaning subs most of them are very against the entire war and sending money/troops at all.

I didn't even know that term existed, it's the one that told me about it, I only copied and pasted it.

It only summarized the behaviors of the mods/admins, not the reddit userbase at large. There's probably Venn diagram between the two but not exactly 100% the same. And things like shadowbanning (listed in the response) are not actions of the users, or political ideologies of the users either, only something a mod can do.

I gave it a list of actions and behaviors by admins/mods on reddit, and asked it what the political ideologies would be considered. That's what ChatGPT spat out. I was curious how its inference would work given a list of behaviors. Hilarious being downvoted for pasting from ChatGPT's inferences though, I'm just the messenger.

Rule 1 ToS violation -- permban.

Sad part is I find a lot of helpful random material (information about cellphone providers, accounts, all sorts of random edge cases in different domains) and still want to look at the threads, and find a lot of help that way. So I just switch to a VM that's on a VPN just to check those. Sucks but some information doesn't exist anywhere else.

You know a site is good when its mascot makes you feel intense uncontrollable rage deep in your soul.

The sad part is I still have a lot of random subs I enjoy, fringe stuff like r/OnionLovers and r/slowcooking, r/frugal.. and subs like r/frugal immediately delete any comment that brings up politics in any way, so there are a few decent subs left with non-batshit insane mods but they are becoming exceedingly rare.

I am surprised I didn't even notice that, I used to use it for when sites changed or were down. I guess there's always internet archive sites if I were so inclined, but still sad.

Observing reddit from a distance (anon accounts, anon email address, anon VPN) it's very clear that it's like watching the Titanic sink or the fall of Rome at this point. It's become a complete cesspool over the last ~5 years but progressively worse at an increasing rate each year.

They sent me a warning of being flagged and monitored because I upvoted a comment about Luigi. That's how cooked reddit is now. Seriously, only upvoting "rule violating comments", not even commenting myself. Just a button click is all it takes, and they won't tell you which comment or post you upvoted that flagged it so it's like walking through a mine field.