[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

I think I read somewhere, but I'd have to go track it down, that the ISS was catching up on a whole lot of back-logged experiments with their unexpected addition to the team.

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 hours ago

People are (rightfully) raking Starliner and Boeing for the shitshow that has been this project so far. But the positive to take from this flight, even landing without the crew, is the fact that the capsule itself performed fine. It was the service module that was being screwy. The actual "capsule" part in "capsule" seems to have had it's issues ironed out. Just fix the shitty service module.

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 hours ago

I thought it was a Canadian company that then contracted out right-wing American personalities.

I remember thinking when I heard it that it's probably the smartest thing Russia could have done; sneak in the back door by using the Canadians as a go-between.

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

In my experience owning old pieces of crap, you start a manual transmission by pushing it until it's rolling down an incline, and then jump in and quickly pop the clutch.

Seriously though, if you're just learning how to drive a stick, do NOT take it to test for your license.

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago

This could also be in a thread titled "Tell me you're Canadian without telling me you're Canadian".

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

I doubt they'll be public about it, but I doubt Bush is voting for Trump. I can't for the life of me remember how many other living republican ex presidents there are, but if any are still kicking, I doubt any of them (being old school conservatives) would vote trump.

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

It looks like Trump is almost certainly going to lose the election

Hilary was actually leading by roughly the same amount in 2016 by this point in the election campaign...

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

These idiots are too stupid and brainwashed to even bother checking to see if there is an easily found rebuke to their bullshit.

Complain about a tweet, it's trivial to find three similar tweets made by Trump. Complain about using a straw, immediately find a photo of trump doing the exact same thing.

There isn't a single brain-cell reserved for wondering whether or not the bullshit they say will or will not immediately be found out to be pure hypocrisy.

It's almost impressive.

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Why would you assume the Engineers are "made".

Seems to me they'd just be another humanoid species that evolved from a puddle of amino acids on some homeworld somewhere, just like we did.

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Remake Don't Breathe but with an adult Kevin, essentially.

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 days ago

You can't make "The Princess Bride" nowadays because optimism and feel good emotions aren't things that we're allowed to have anymore.

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago

I kind of like how they've realised that against Narcissists and Freaks like Trump and Vance, only taking the high road won't get you anywhere. You've got to throw in roughly 30% piss them off with sass.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Adderbox76@lemmy.ca to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

I can't even imagine writing long form on a touch keyboard. But with a lot of people eschewing laptops/desktops for their mobile devices, it's really just a matter of time.

edited: Missed a "T" in the title.

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submitted 1 month ago by Adderbox76@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

Just immediately reminded me of this gem from a while ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3BtmeUhOHU

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...but its robot designs were well ahead of the curve for the time.

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Open Creative (lemmy.ca)

Just popping in to post about a community to discuss FOSS creative software like GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Kdenlive, Blender, etc...

https://lemmy.ca/c/open_creative

I've used them all at one time or another. Since moving to FOSS as much as possible ten years ago, I've learned a LOT about most of the programs, and consider myself a near expert in some (Kdenlive, GIMP) and fairly competent in others (Blender, Scribus).

I feel like having a place where anyone who uses FOSS creative software can both ask questions, share advice, and celebrate each others works, would be a nice addition to the Fediverse.

So feel free to join and post your work, your questions, your news or your tips and tricks.

I'm a one man band as far as modding and maintaining for now, so thanks in advance for your patience while I learn how it all works on the back end.

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The tl;dr bot that pops up on every link to an article on Lemmy is depriving those websites of clicks, which deprives them of ad revenue.

The only thing that will accomplish is forcing those websites to do the very thing that we rail about; replacing their writers with crappy A.I because they can't afford to pay for actual content.

We rail against the enshitification of the internet, but when there's a legitimate way to fight back by giving these websites a page view/read/click etc... so that they can attract advertisers, we would rather have a bot summarize it for us, giving them nothing.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Adderbox76@lemmy.ca to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml

Does Jerboa's search function only work for communities or am I don't something wrong?

On the web, as well as other apps, a search brings up the choice between communities, users, comments and posts.

Haven't been able to make that work on Jerboa.

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submitted 1 year ago by Adderbox76@lemmy.ca to c/liftoff@lemmy.world

As the title says...

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