GreyEyedGhost

joined 2 years ago
[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

It's surprising how well the Steam Deck plays new games and how much support has been added to older games for something with a form factor similar to the Switch and a price point that is lower than most computers or consoles with similar capabilities. It's a big change to the cost/benefit calculation.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago

Correct. His had the most floors, but there was another that was still taller.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Which he actually didn't after the towers fell.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Just to give you some perspective. One hundred million dollars in 100 dollar bills would be a pallet stacked about 4 feet high. A semi trailer could hold about 56 of those pallets, or $5.6B. As of today, Forbes says Elon is worth $384B, which would be about 68.5 semi trailers full of $100 bills.

But I'm sure more would materially improve his life.

Sources:

Visualizing f a billion dollars

Forbes real-time billionaire list

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago

I disagree with calling individualized pronouns pronouns, mostly because the whole idea of pronouns, like you said, is to replace a noun with a generic reference. As you also said, words shape our thoughts, but they also have meaning. All that said, I can't think of a better way to reject the idea of pronouns without implicitly rejecting the person doing so, which I also don't believe is acceptable. I'd be happier if a better way was found, but making me happy isn't the goal of communication in general.

I've been watching this drama for a while and keeping my opinions to myself since I'm largely unaffected by this discussion, but your comments helped crystallize my opinions on this and come to a reasonable state. I still don't like the idea of individualized pronouns, but I can't see an option that both ignores them and still respects their users right to how they identify themselves (and I can't see a way to write that sentence without at least ignoring the whole subject). So thank you for that insight.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

"Hey, little guy, is an asteroid gonna kill us all?"

Cluck cluck!

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago

Well, there were a lot of fundamental steps that had to be completed first, not least of which was a high pressure vessel. This all took a lot of materials science, advancement in seemingly unrelated fields, etc., etc. Not unlike fusion technology... The difference is we have 2000 years more advancement than they had when they invented the steam engine.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It was about 1800 years between the first steam engine and a practical steam engine. I'm sorry that one or two generations is too long for you.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That should really be pinned in account setup somewhere. This was a warning I saw when I first joined, so it was fresh in my mind when I started here, and it looks like it's still causing difficulties, although it had slipped by the time I came across this.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

That's exactly what I said.

 

Basically what the title says. Sometimes something is removed, rightly or wrongly, but its removal diminishes the comments below it. The capability is already in Lemmy and it would be nice to see if one chooses to, but I can accept that the feature could promote toxic behavior.

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