thedirtyknapkin

thedirtyknapkin , 1 month ago to worldnews in UN votes to back Palestinian membership, prompting Israeli envoy to shred charter

honestly, as good as this may be in the short term, they’ve really just added one more highly Conservative religious state that will vote against the interest of the common good moving forward.

I strongly support Palestine gaining statehood and for Israel to stop fucking with them (that extends far beyond the war), but that doesn’t mean i like their ideals. i think there’s a strong chance that this will cause problems moving forward and that conservatives will use that as ammunition.

that said, this is the un finally really kinda doing its job for once. ending global conflict through diplomacy. can’t say that’s a bad thing.

thedirtyknapkin , 1 month ago to memes in EA gonna EA

that would be fair if these companies weren’t incredibly profitable, only increasing that profit, and only using that profit to pay the executive and shareholders.

it’s just greed. they don’t need the money.

thedirtyknapkin , 1 month ago to world in More than 200 people with diabetes injured after software issue drained insulin pump batteries | CNN

they mean that the insurance would only approve one model. i don’t think there are any open source pace makers though.

thedirtyknapkin , 1 month ago to programmerhumor in Chuckles, I'm in Danger

IDK, the people deciding that only care about money. i bet it will replace the expensive ones first. this will probably make many things even more shitty, but it’s not like anyone’s going to replace the like 8 tech companies that do anything. even if they all suck even worse

thedirtyknapkin , 1 month ago to memes in Chad VLC

what are you watching that’s uhd and high ftamerate? is is something you made? I’ve never heard of anything releasing like that because yeah, most people can’t play that lol.

thedirtyknapkin , 1 month ago to news in Police clear pro-Palestinian protesters from Columbia University while clashes break out at UCLA

you’re right, this is more like the 1968 Columbia protests. you know, the one where they put flowers in the barrels of the rifles.

America has its own long and storied history of killing protestors and strikers. we don’t need to look anywhere else for analogies.

thedirtyknapkin , 2 months ago to technology in Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them.

i mean, if you could appreciate it anywhere it would be a lot better. how the fuck do so many people actually not have ANYWHERE BETTER to take pictures of wildflowers than the side of the freeway. that really highlights a big problem with Texas. they may have had beauty, but they bought, sold, rented, and ruined most of it until there’s only a trash covered vestige at a dangerous crossing left. it’s the biggest contiguous state, and somehow has nearly the least public land.

thedirtyknapkin , 2 months ago to programmerhumor in The Millennial CAPTCHA

yeah, they should’ve picked a more common artist. i thought it was a trick about knowing the lead singer of a band at first.

thedirtyknapkin , 2 months ago to news in Tensions are so high at Columbia ahead of Passover that all classes will be virtual today

they happened to occupy the same time slot. that’s what it has to do with passover.

it’s kind of like when the trans day of rememberence was on Easter. Easter is a holiday that moves. it happened to move to the same day that the trans day of rememberence was always on. people got all mad that Biden put that on Easter, even though he didn’t.

this is a protest in response to police violence. that violence happened Friday. today is the first day that the people they are protesting are back at work and can be affected by the protest.

there you go, that’s everything this has to do with passover. now you know and can stop asking.

thedirtyknapkin , 2 months ago to programmerhumor in When a real user uses the app

i mean, this story sounds like it’s from pre-release testing, or maybe a trade show demo showing a pre-release build. it not working this way in the release version just makes sense, and doesn’t mean this is a fake story.

thedirtyknapkin , 2 months ago to asklemmy in To those with 2+ monitors on your machine: What's your use case, and how much does it actually boost your productivity?

i work in video. i have one monitor as my primary “work” space. that’s where i put my timeline, or whatever I’m working on the most in that moment. sometimes it’s color controls, sometimes it’s keyframes and effects controls.

monitor 2 is actually my best monitor. that’s the video clean feed. that’s my big color accurate monitor.

monitor 3 is bins and scopes and effects and whatever other control surfaces and monitors i might need.

thedirtyknapkin , 3 months ago to nostupidquestions in Why do we castrate animals instead of giving them vasectomies?

well, sounds like those eunuchs sure proved them wrong about the power hungry thing.

thedirtyknapkin , 3 months ago to nostupidquestions in Why do we castrate animals instead of giving them vasectomies?

WOW! That IS a fun fact!

For another helping: this is also why they were used in at least one culture I know of as servants to the Queen or the King’s consorts. Didn’t have to check paternity if you castrate every other man they ever see.

thedirtyknapkin , 3 months ago to nostupidquestions in Why do we castrate animals instead of giving them vasectomies?

There’s times in human history that it was done to humans for the same reasons. Eunuchs were just castrated human servants. Some were even done just to keep their voices from dropping so they’d sing in a “castrato”

thedirtyknapkin , 3 months ago to games in [Gamers Nexus] Dragon's Dogma 2 is a Mess: GPU & CPU Benchmarks, Bottlenecks, & Crashes

You can buy back a lot of stuff, but only from the scrap merchant in the border town. The new black cat guy. Valuable things that you sell will end up in his shop sometimes, though I don’t know when or why yet.