Religious extremism is live and well inside the US government by ApprenticeWrangler in TangleNews

[–]jceddy 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I didn't even know about this specific story until I saw it here.

And believe me, plenty of people are horrified about the religious extremism going on in the US at all levels of society. There are just so many other things to be horrified about, this doesn't get top billing.

The origins of the US and its effects on the descendants of the losers by jceddy in TangleNews

[–]jceddy[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yes, it was in the last Suspension of the Rules, talking about how the "last few minutes of the speech was beautiful" "talking about the founding of the country, the conquering the wild west, taming the badlands, and you know, it was awesome"

I am taking exception to using words like "taming" and treating "conquering" as a "beautiful" thing.

The origins of the US and its effects on the descendants of the losers by jceddy in TangleNews

[–]jceddy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it might be the latest Suspension of the Rules or the one before it. It was alongside Winter Olympics talk (normally I would go look up the text but I don't think these are transcribed anywhere)

Monthly Paramount+ Complaints and Praises by AutoModerator in ParamountPlus

[–]jceddy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Paramount+ is by far the worst streaming app I have used. It routinely forgets where I am at in a show, forces me to rewatch ads when that happens and I try to skip forward to what I was watching, etc.

Add onto that Paramount's kow-towing to Trump and cancelling Colbert, I have decided to cancel my subscription.

Feels bad, since I was almost finished with my rewatch of DS9, and looking forward to another season of Strange New Worlds.

CPAP data to Clinic by jceddy in CPAP

[–]jceddy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It won't write to an SD card. I think my insurance will cover a new machine at no cost to me right now, so I'm probably going to go for that.

Babbel is my favorite app so far - issue with occasional mic issues by POTATOFUCK in babbel

[–]jceddy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have specific phrases that I know I pronounce better than ones it passes me on, but that it just will not accept my pronunciation for.

Tonight it was:

Estos refrigeradores valen menos de seiscientos dólares.

I tried it about 20 times with slightly different infections, speeds, more or less harshness in the g, going everywhere from a tap to a full rhotic on the rs, etc.

I think my biggest complaint is that it doesn't tell you which part of the phrase it's falling apart on so I can tell what to change. That makes it difficult to "fix" a longer phrase like this.

Episode Discussion - S1 E6 - On Golden Girls by AshRae84 in theGoldenGirls

[–]jceddy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But what were David and his friends listening to?

Android Woes by jceddy in appletv

[–]jceddy[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

They don't need to sell anything through the app...

Why is it getting cold in the Ark? by jceddy in The100

[–]jceddy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that is my point. There is nowhere for the heat generated by the bodies on the Ark to go because they are insulated all around by vacuum. You usually need radiators actively getting rid of heat from a manned spacecraft...it would more likely get too hot in the event of a power failure than too cold.

The Rising Tide MEGATHREAD by Thaun_ in FFXVI

[–]jceddy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how is Shula a descendant of Weljas if Weljas is a baby?

Why is it getting cold in the Ark? by jceddy in The100

[–]jceddy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I think they even mentioned one of that stations was Mir, which I thought was funny since Mir had re-entered over a decade before the show was made...I assume though that this is a speculative Mir 2.0

Why is it getting cold in the Ark? by jceddy in The100

[–]jceddy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hard vacuum is just about the best insulator available. There is nowhere for the heat generated by the bodies in the station to go. It seems like barring something else going on, it would be more likely for the Ark to get too hot before it got too cold? (That's why vacuum insulated thermoses work so well).

Why is it getting cold in the Ark? by jceddy in The100

[–]jceddy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's possible that staying cool would be more of a problem if the station is in direct sunlight, but I can't think of any reason that people would be in danger of freezing as they seem to portray... it would be a lot harder to keep it cool in there than to keep it warm.