Captain Aggravated @ captain_aggravated @sh.itjust.works

Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

---

Read more

Posts

27

Comments

5,009

Joined

2 yr. ago

I'll bend my bow to your will, sir!

Cats purr and get free shit.

Movie previews make sense to see before a movie. "Here are some other movies you might like to see later."

Pay some college students to cast the snail in epoxy.

We also have by far the best throwing game in the world. Some animals can spit with reasonable accuracy, some apes can kind of lob shit in a general direction, and there's that one lizard that can spray blood from its eye, but nothing in the animal kingdom past or present has a human's innate ability for ranged attack. The average man can throw a fist sized rock hard and accurate enough to crack a skull from 20 yards with his bare hand. And we've spent the last 10,000 years inventing newer and more impressive ways of throwing stuff.

Meanwhile there's some annoying neckbeards over here acting all superior talking about GNU/ArmedConflict or as I've recently started calling it GNU + ArmedConflict.

Alright you primitive screwheads, listen up: This, is my BOOMSTICK!

"Well where's the goddamn golden oldie comin' from?"

FAIL. That's from a TV series, not a movie.

You can't hear a cricket chirp in a vacuum.

The motor is too loud.

Engineers aren't miracle workers, granted. Which is why it is their responsibility to thoroughly test the devices they design and document their limitations. It's then on the medical industry to train doctors and nurses on those limitations.

I’m sure pulse oximeters now are more accurate than they were 20 years ago.

As I said, this continues to be a problem into the present day. COVID-19 patients with dark skin would suffer from hypoxia that pulse oximeters would fail to detect, leading the medical staff to fail to administer supplemental oxygen. That's probably happening somewhere on earth as I type this.

Do the little lights in the device need to be brighter, or have a brighter mode? Does their need to be a switch on the side? Can our cultures handle a medical device with a "white people | black people" switch on the side?

I'm sure there are none, straight white guys are just a favorite villain around here.

I can think of a tech that doesn't work as well on black people though: Pulse oximeters. A pulse oximeter works by shining two wavelengths of light through your finger to measure the amount of oxygen in your blood. It also sees your blood come and go with your pulse, so it can detect your heart rate. Well get this: melanin blocks light. A black man's finger is more opaque than a white man's finger, so optical pulse oximeters have been known to fail to detect hypoxia in dark skinned people. This problem has been known since the 70's, and continues to be a problem to the present day. Because you know what happened recently? A global pandemic of a respiratory disease. Pulse oximeters failed to detect hypoxia in more black patients than white patients, who then weren't given supplemental oxygen. So why in the last 50 years hasn't that been addressed?

A game of Bingo requires several players to have different cards. That would be on another card. Other possible entries:

• Uses recently popular buzzword tech for no reason.
• Uses an always-on internet connection and multiple server farms to perform a function that ran locally on a Palm V PDA in 1997
• Isn't legal in the EU

Do fleshlights not work on black people?

So you had an internet connection for three years prior to the election of 2024 to include the very long campaign cycle, and didn't think "You know what? This guy has already been president, so let's look up how that went."

You should not have the right to vote.

What about his first term would convince you Trump wasn't a liar?

It is rapidly becoming hard to deny that anyone less than Captain Planet villains are in charge.

Do we collect spider silk on an industrial scale?

I remember seeing something about genetically modifying goats such that they would produce the proteins in spider silk in their milk, so the milk could be processed and then silk could be mechanically spun. This is a half-remembered TV documentary from years and years ago, so.

Which were America's problem...how exactly? I will 100% grant you, Germany deserved a swift lead pipe to the mouth for how the 1940's went. The United States of America, an independent nation in a different hemisphere to which none of that happened, was trying to stay out of it because Europe is not our fault.

We had no mutual defense treaties with anyone in Europe in the 1930's. It wasn't our fight. In what way was the safety or sovereignty of Poland our problem in 1939? Precisely how many American lives did we owe Poland at the time?

All you little European nations are so big and proud until the goddamn krauts start getting uppity then it's "Why didn't you invade a foreign nation that didn't do anything to you, Uncle Sam?"

This is why we have NATO. Now we do have a mutual defense pact with much of Europe, so if anybody invades a member country, the rest of us come running.

War ME, War XP, War Vista, then we can have World War 7.