deranger

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[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There’s 5-MeO-DMT in them there toads, as well.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The scenario is not imaginary. His analogy sucks. The rest of the article isn’t anything remarkable either. Wow, the current digital media landscape is addictive, and addictive things are bad. Can you believe an industry would monetize addictive things? What an incredible observation, never heard that one before.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (4 children)

No, I’m not trolling. Why would I believe this person to know what they’re talking about in a subject I don’t understand well, when I know they’re wrong about a subject I do understand well?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 days ago

I’ve heard the name before but I’m not super tuned into this area. The analogy just really struck out for me in the first two paragraphs, monumentally so. If he writes with this amount of conviction about something he clearly has no idea about, I’m not likely to trust anything else that he writes in the same article. It’s important to know your limitations.

 
[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 40 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (28 children)

I read the first paragraph of this article and I already think it sucks. If heroin was fully legalized, zero restrictions, we’d be much better off than the current situation we have right now with the war on drugs, fentanyl analogs, and xylazine. Full stop.

Second paragraph:

Heroin distribution and sales would quickly become a huge, multibillion-dollar industry. They would become a significant part of GDP, even though heroin harms and often kills those who consume it. Given the increasingly naked corruption of U.S. politics, the heroin industry would be able to purchase massive political influence, enough to block any attempts to limit the harm it does — the harm it knows it does, because heroin industry executives would surely be aware of the damage their products inflict.

This is already happening. Who is this author and why is he so ignorant of the past few decades of opiate problems in the US? There is not a significant fundamental difference between heroin and any other opiate/opioid. I say this as someone who has experimented with many types of them.

Based on this I’m not gonna read the rest of the article because he’s already demonstrated a head-up-ass perspective.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

All seasons are best called rain and cold tires. They are absolutely not “no seasons” and are appropriate in 3 or 4 seasons depending on where you live.

I’ve lived in upstate NY and driven FWD cars with all seasons plenty of times, even in deep accumulation. This was my first time with this car, which happens to have wider tire compared to my old cars, and those plus an off camber turn was the recipe for understeering into a ditch. I was driving at a significantly reduced speed and my car was completely fine after being pulled out.

“You get what you deserve” well, fuck you, too.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

You won’t, because you fundamentally misunderstand what’s happening.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Heh, I put my car in the ditch because I’m used to driving in the south and was attempting to get home for Thanksgiving weekend on all seasons. The tow truck guy sounded pretty busy and it took a few hours for him to come pull me out, so I was far from the only one.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (10 children)

We got 7 to 14 inches in upstate New York recently. Gotta love that lake effect. It’s also been quite chilly.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Well, that statement is completely incorrect. The magnetic field doesn’t attract particles, which I stated in my earlier comment. It only guides the particles towards the poles, particles which were already headed towards the planet after being emitted. It does not attract particles (pull, in your words) towards the planet that would otherwise miss it had the magnetic field not existed.

In fact, a stronger magnetic field would be a better shield to deflect particles away from a majority of the planet.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The more factors, the less secure. Each one you add is another potential exploitable authentication method. It’s only as secure as the least secure MFA method you add.

 

Snapped this while flying across the US recently.

 
 
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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by deranger@sh.itjust.works to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world
 

Whenever I try to Select Text, it only pops up a few millimeters at the bottom of the screen. I can pull it up a few more and copy the whole text and work with that, but this isn’t how it used to function. I can no longer see the text and select snippets from there to copy.

Voyager 2.29.1, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iOS 18.4

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Morning Fungi [OC] (sh.itjust.works)
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