Arghblarg

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[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 1 points 38 seconds ago

For those wondering about this comment, it has a reasonable basis, see this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbJ4ilDvGyc&pp=ygUZVHJ1bXAncyBiYWxscm9vbSBpcyBhIGxpZQ%3D%3D

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We don't need/want a huge TV, so we just use a monitor with an external speaker and dedicated media box.

Smart TVs these days are just too invasive to even consider in my home.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 64 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Mandatory overtime? The games industry is slavery, unionize NOW for fuck's sake.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Good historical context, thank you. I'm not American so I wasn't aware of these nuances :)

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

To be fair, yes, it was originally the Dept. of War. It actually is more honest. Even a broken clock is right twice a day, yadda yadda.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 55 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Someday the US will hopefully do an ancient-Egypt style cleansing project, where his disgraced name will be chiselled off of every edifice and building, save one, where a plaque sits below, spelling out the sheer disaster of his legacy; where people may read of his misdeeds, but never again need to otherwise hear or see his name again.

I hope in his last days he is told of how the world is already working to utterly erase his stain on history, to be forgotten save for its use as a cautionary tale.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

She says that the original architect and contractors who do ballroom-type projects were quietly replaced after the initial announcement by ones who have a long history of designing military datacenters, far underground, for governments such as the US and Israel. Also no contractors for things like chandeliers, gold-trim etc. are on the project, which seems strange if the main point is the ballroom. The budget quoted is almost, dollar-for-dollar, the same amount as for a recent underground datacenter project recently completed elsewehere in the US.

As well, the East Wing was blocking access to add onto a pre-existing underground bunker complex beneath the West Wing, so demolishing it would allow for additions to that...

Oh, and some emergency orders for huge modifications to the DC water supply in order to increase availability to the WH property. Data centers need lots and lots of water.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)
[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Can't be.. No one has ever seen a Grue. Grues hide in the darkest places, waiting to eat foolhardy adventurers who have no light source in their inventory.

Edit: Explanation

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

Well, they could be tears of joy, "My moth friends! You're back!"

Or the moths just tell really good jokes to him first 😃

 

No comment other than the phrase in title is prominent on the hats intentionally shown behind the young man being interviewed here. I'll let everyone reading this decide for themselves whether this is a problem or not.


EDIT: For the record, perhaps my original commentary on this post was attempting to be too 'clever'. I was most definitely * not * trying to promote these chuckleheads. It was posted in order to ensure people know the enemy -- there are some scary forces working in Canada to instill the horrors we are seeing down south, right here, right now.

 

As most have predicted and feared, the US Administration appears to now be testing if they can push one step further towards enforcing an authoritarian ethno-state: threatening a full-on US citizen by-birth with detainment and deportation (to where, exactly, if they are a born US citizen?). Someone who, "coincidentally", is an immigration lawyer, someone who might defend other targets of their deportation agenda.

First they came for ...


EDIT: a thread indicating this has been a mass email to others https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lmljpkrdj22h

 

In response to suggestions by a lunatic in the US Oval Office, Green Party Canada's leader Elizabeth May suggested Canada should invite western states Washington, Oregon and California join B.C and split from Canada to form the 'Cascadia' eco-state.

(Note this article is from Jan 8, 2025 and Elizabeth May has since become co-leader of the party alongside Jonathan Pedneault).

 

I was searching online for quite a while this evening, chasing a half-remembered bit of trivia, that trilobites were supposedly unique in their use of calcite for their lenses, composing the ommatidia of their compound eyes.

It must be so obvious to scientists in the field of studying insects that they never mention it in their papers...

So, what compound(s) do modern arthropods use in their compound eyes. If it isn't calcite, what do modern 'bugs' use?

 

If you haven't heard of it, this island has a population that the world has collectively decided to leave alone, mostly because they have proven, on multiple occasions, that they absolutely do not want visitors. Like, arrow-to-death anyone attempting to land or even visit near their shores.

This probably cannot go on forever... but maybe, it could. Essentially, we are already implementing a 'Prime Directive' of sorts here. Would the 23rd, 24th, ... centuries in Star Trek canon still have this little island on Earth, isolated from not just from Earth's own unified Federation society, but from the greater Federation races? What steps would the Federation and Earth take to maintain their isolation and the ecosystem on which they depend?

Would make for an interesting episode, or at least a cool side-note reference in one :)

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