Zron

joined 1 year ago
[–] Zron@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

My phone only has one hole and it’s way too small for me to use that way.

Your mileage may vary though, I don’t judge.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Some mad lad bolted one of these to the hand guard of an L85 and called it a weapon light.

This was, of course, really to add mass to the rifle for when it was used as a bludgeon, because it is so British that it spontaneously ejected its own magazines as a form of silent protest against violence.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You like a little baggy of dongles and adapters?

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Op creates profile that makes him look rich and stupid.

Gets targeted by bots using ai generated images of mildly attractive women.

Thinks he’s actually attracting human beings.

Anon still has never willingly gotten the attention of a human woman besides his mother

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Something tells me one has to do with the other.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I was wondering how the scientists went from proposing a planet that was 1.5 to 2 times the size of earth, to proposing it being 5-10 times the size of earth.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You Should Really Considering Explaining Acronyms Before Posting, obviously.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

A remote command from some random phone to reboot does sound like the a wonderful vector for malware, though

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] Zron@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I remember doing the bear grills one, and one of the choices was to jump over a ravine, or walk over it using a fallen tree as a bridge.

Being the hiker I am, the obvious choice of walk around it being missing kind of annoyed me, but I chose the tree option.

Bear died.

So I got to go back and pick the jump over option, which was apparently the right one.

Who the fuck does running jumps over a 15 foot deep ravine.

I never bothered with the choose your own adventure things again. When the correct choice is just not available and the next logical choice just means an instant loss, you don’t have a very fun game

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

If you’re a government, you can pretty much put anything in a rocket fairing and call it a reconnaissance satellite.

The only warning that actually has to be given is that a rocket is being launched, so you don’t accidentally trigger WW3 by setting off launch detection satellites without warning. After it’s in space, no one can really tell what was in the fairing. Could be a spy satellite, could be navigation. Could just be a box with a bunch of little rockets in it, designed to slam into whatever you want at ridiculous speed.

But it’s way more likely that this was just Boeing having a tiny leak in a propellant tank, or a bad thruster and as soon as the concentration of propellant and oxidizer got high enough, it triggered a detonation. They certainly have a history of not leak testing their shit: airplanes falling apart, space capsules with leaky thrusters, and now a blown up satellite point more towards incompetence than malice.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

There was a big idea a couple decades ago that corporations were going to copyright natural genes and sell them for massive profits to other biotech companies that could use them to make cure for diseases and other things.

Michael Crichton wrote a few books about it, pretty good reads.

They did do the gene copyright thing in the real world, but it turns out that doing anything with a random gene is pretty hard and the genome isn’t just something you can copy paste a gene into and have it cure aids or cancer, so no one wanted to buy genetic sequences that they would then need to do a whole bunch of work on anyway to make it useful.

Pretty much all 23andMe did was increase the size of the Law Enforcement dna database by letting cops send in samples of suspects and get back their family members info. Of course the company said that was very naughty, but no one got into real trouble for it. And now 23andMe owns a lot of other people’s genetic code, and it’s not worth the hard drives it’s stored on.

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