Senior Chief Petty Officer. Starfleet is in my blood, and I’ve spent my entire adult life in service to boldly going.

Keiko and Molly are my favorite humans, but Transporter Room 3 will always be my favorite.

Just don’t ask who what’s in the pattern buffer.

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Cake day: August 27th, 2024

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  • Honestly I’ve thought cm002 was a bot before as well, but they engage in comment sections often enough to say either it’s not, or it’s a user hopping on to check bot progress.

    Either way, most likely case is it’s a user that saw a funny meme, and reposted it since not every sire is federated with others and some communities might not see it, especially if it’s to a world or ml domain.

    Possibly related, I did not see your post from this morning, this is my first time seeing it. Not sure about federation between instances but yeah.

    Also tangentially related, anyone remember the huge r*ddit drama over a poweruser constantly reposting things with top comment responses to farm karma? That was a fun glance into people who take imaginary internet points too seriously. I’m glad lemmy doesn’t keep track of total votes.




  • The food could have been given to someone hungry before it spoiled in the fridge.

    The furniture could have been given to someone else instead of tossing it for the newer model/different decor.

    My in-laws throw half-eaten food away every day. They redecorate for every season and usually only keep entire couches for 2-3 years. I’m assuming they’re an extreme outlier, but I know plenty of people who toss food like it’s fashionable to waste half your fridge every week, and get new furniture when I see nothing wrong with the old furniture.

    Too few are the type to get a new chair only when the old one has broken in half, and eat everything they made for lunch.




  • “How much do you weigh?”

    If they get defensive, that tells you all you need to know.

    If it’s simple curiosity, and actually about finding “the right one” then surely a simple question of weight wouldn’t result in anything but a polite, if terse, response.

    I mean, it is about finding “the right one” isn’t it? Surely both questions have merit and never result in hostility from either party.




  • I park next to an 80s beetle with over 350k on the odometer. My own truck is from the 90s with 280k.

    I work with a guy who daily drives his dad’s old Mercedes. While he inherited it, it wasn’t a “project car” or anything, it was a daily driver kept in good repair. Honestly, you put on a new clear coat, detail the interior? It feels no more than a few years old. 500k miles.




  • What elegance might even an extra millimeter of chassis space produced?

    People really don’t seem to understand that in the electronics world, one single millimeter can make worlds of difference.

    You absolutely can cram so much more stuff in “dumber” electronics, but phones are even more constricted in design, because they need to send and receive signals of different types, so feedback and signal noise are concerns.

    Adding in even slightly more space allows for much better design, because you have more tolerances to reduce signal noise. It allows dozens of wires for camera sensors to route better. A 20% longer battery life. Heck, just being slightly more ergonomic and less droppable is a bonus to slightly thicker phones.

    I didn’t even consider signal noise until I got into fpv drones and rc stuff, it can mame a ton of difference if you have a single wire 2mm out of place. (and crash your drone because the motor interfered with your antenna)

    Thiner≠better.



  • 100% spot on.

    It’s absolutely a scam designed to extract even more wealth from the poors.

    No joke, I’ve had a car dealership tell me they can’t sell me the car I want because my credit score was nonexistent (no credit history in 7 years). I was paying in full, in cash, literally in an envelope in my hand.

    Grand total of 8k, all in 100s, super easy to count.

    But no, I didn’t have a “good enough credit score” so I couldn’t buy that car from them, despite having the money to do so.

    Mental gymnastics on that one.