whotookkarl

whotookkarl, 23 days ago

Where I’m from we call that Laissez-faire IT

whotookkarl, 23 days ago

Most suburbs have noise ordinances for max decibels, if you can record it a few times and include the db at the time.

whotookkarl, 23 days ago

There are apps to let your phone do both or more reasonable would be to set up a security camera to record your backyard or something innocuous, use it to file a report and if nothing happens from the police report take it to the city council to show they aren’t enforcing city ordinances. I’ve seen a few people take noise complaints to council to get it enforced.

whotookkarl, 24 days ago

Duck Soup, a comedy from about 100 years ago about a selfish clown who fails upward to political leader and ruins the country.

whotookkarl, 24 days ago

That place stands out in my memory too as really ominous. That and the plains in the northeast where I first defeated a golden saint, the astroid prison frozen above Vivek City, and the libraries and book stores.

whotookkarl, 24 days ago

Meanwhile at Apple:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e907b3e6-22f4-4359-88b7-5ffa858cfa46.png

whotookkarl, 24 days ago

Hopefully, if someone commits a crime they should be charged, and novel trials may improve justice by setting precedent through transparent jury trial instead of closed doors scotus. If you charge someone without sufficient evidence you should be open to a countersuit. Based on oral arguments it sounds like they are defining where ‘in the line of duty’ ends and ‘actions of some guy who also has a job as president’ begins. Asking for 11,780 votes pretty obviously falls outside of the bounds of the job and it shouldn’t take months to rule on that.

whotookkarl, 25 days ago

Muad’Dingus

whotookkarl, 25 days ago

I have to suspect a lunar orbiter would be more practical for lunar base building and fueling further missions than a lunar space elevator, wouldn’t you need angular momentum from rotation to keep it rigid?

whotookkarl, 24 days ago

If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

Don’t play rigged games

Try to do the right thing, but actually take some time to try to figure out if it’s right or just feels right.

Being right and being wrong feels the exact same until challenged with facts.

whotookkarl, 25 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4c13b6e9-6612-4584-95f9-6a32a6c0ab7f.jpeg

No crowns required

whotookkarl, 26 days ago

Not this turkey, unless your goose is cooked

whotookkarl, 26 days ago

Who are you and how did you get in here?

I’m a wizard, and I’m a wizard.

whotookkarl, 25 days ago

You’re describing something more like civil service than ubi I think. But if I was financially independent without a full time job I would focus on hobbies like music and find some advocacy cause to help support, probably separation of church and state or ai for everyone with easier to build and use models on consumer hardware, there’s a few open source projects out there I’d like to understand better and contribute to if I had more time.

whotookkarl, 26 days ago

Qualified immunity

web.archive.org/…/us-usa-police-immunity-scotus-s…

whotookkarl, 25 days ago

The only natural predator of Grimaces and Noids

whotookkarl, 26 days ago

www.snopes.com/…/snipers-college-protests-gaza/

Nothing conclusive I can see yet from AP etc, but it is a bit suspicious the universities and police are not responding/stonewalling requests for information from journalists, if they had no snipers how hard would it be to say there were no snipers?

Also a healthy skepticism isn’t afraid of questioning sources I wouldn’t apologize for it either, but it can also be a rhetorical tactic that sometimes is difficult to tell if it’s genuine or not. Not an excuse just an observation.

whotookkarl, 26 days ago

If student unions can organize with worker unions for protests/strikes that seems like a possible way we’ll get enough momentum going to think about a general strike for some long overdue reforms

whotookkarl, 26 days ago

Even as few as they were was enough to be a major factor in the creation of neo-conservativism in retaliation.

whotookkarl, 26 days ago

Pfft luddites, flat universe is the new hotness

whotookkarl, 25 days ago

XBX, Kinda bummed there’re a few QoL mods I find it much less enjoyable to play without (weightless junk, smoother leveling curve, bug fixes, etc) I prefer over the upgrade changes. Hoping the mods get updates soon, probably going to give it a month or two then come back. Tried playing new Vegas on XBX but it doesn’t have mods on console, same with 3. I’m more interested in getting back to 4 anyway though since I already beat 3 and NV on PC back in the day but never the 4 main quest yet.

whotookkarl, 25 days ago

Micro fiber cloth for glasses and screens

whotookkarl, 27 days ago

Governments banning social media based on who can use it to spy on who, instead of creating privacy regulations and enforcing them to create and regulate markets, which is kinda what they should do, to make it so it doesn’t matter who owns which app. Taking an opportunity and shitting all over it for some childish standoff should be beneath us.

whotookkarl, 27 days ago

Selection bias, Self selection bias, reward bias, bias in the questions and how they are presented, etc. You have to really know some stuff to not have a fucked survey result and even then some of those biases will still be present. If they don’t even bother with error % boundaries it’s probably going to have some other problems too.