voltaa

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[–] voltaa@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It only takes about a tenth grade level of understanding physics and chemistry to make a decent device from scratch. With the access Americans have to over the counter explosives (tannerite) and arduinos you only need enough of an education to know how to copy and paste code. Relying on people being uneducated isn't a good strategy because these things are extremely easy to make. I work with some people that I question whether or not they can read who build effective devices with little to no effort.

[–] voltaa@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And how do you think unions come about? Historically it's by setting things on fire.

[–] voltaa@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So why bring it up? It has nothing to do with the comment and nothing to do with the topic of the original post.

[–] voltaa@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Looked up the site and it seems like they also don't have Between the Buried and Me or Protest the Hero so it seems like it's one of those "exclusionary to be pretentious and no other reason" kind of sites

[–] voltaa@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The chest and stomach windows

Are too similar

for me to not see it

The outfit alone was enough for my wife and I to both instantly go "oh that's some Barbarella looking shit". The context of it being at a scifi premiere cemented in my mind that it was an aware homage but I could be wrong.

[–] voltaa@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I feel like everyone is missing the clear Barbarella reference with this outfit, which is fitting for a scifi premier.

[–] voltaa@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

Absolutely, there were many reasons for the decline in writing and I am by no means going to defend D&D or their team as writers, but I don't envy the situation they were handed.

[–] voltaa@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Everything after season 4 of game of thrones was trash, it just got progressively worse each season as D&D had no ~~accountability~~ material to work with.

I know it's fashionable to shit on D&D for their lack of writing skills, but they weren't hired to write, they were hired to adapt and they were decently good at it. George told them he'd have his material completed by the time they'd have to adapt it and he did not, yet I see very little of the blame attributed to the guy who just kind of gave up on finishing his story.

[–] voltaa@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Really? Trump mentioning that most nato members do not meet the required defense spending undermines nato.

As a member of a NATO military that doesn't meet the targets for spending, I agree this doesn't undermine NATO, it's just the truth that we need to start pulling more weight monetarily.

BUT that's not the point and you missed key details about what he said that absolutely DOES undermine NATO, such as:

"I said: 'You didn't pay? You're delinquent?'... 'No I would not protect you, in fact I would encourage them to do whatever they want. You gotta pay.'"

So you're showing that you either didn't read the article, didn't understand the article or are being willfully ignorant of the article.

[–] voltaa@lemmy.ca 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

That's nice of you to say. What do you suggest he does about it? I'm so sick of these spineless, yellow-bellied Internet commenters saying that something should be done about it and suggesting precisely fuck all. OFFER A SOLUTION, ALREADY, YOU COWARDS!

Edit: Mocking tone aside, I'm serious, what can Jens realistically do? Kick the USA out of NATO? That's Trump's goal anyways. The issues with Trump are an internal American issue that can't be fixed by Norwegian politicians unfortunately.

[–] voltaa@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's one way to look at it, if you're looking to downplay the human impact. The way I look at is these companies had a short sighted hiring spree and now thousands of people are without income and can't just get a new job as the industry is laying off everywhere. That seems like a reasonable source of panic for the people with no income and not a lot of prospects.

[–] voltaa@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Unicomp is the company you are thinking of I believe and I am pretty sure they will.

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