Cyrus Draegur

Poly-Panro-Ace It/They
friendly neighborhood wholesome degenerate abomination from beyond the stars (mostly harmless™).
Atomic energy enthusiast. Architecture enjoyer. Mecha appreciator. Sci-Fi reader.
Winged caniform cybernetic biped techno-lich in its dreams.

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  • … If there were a word like ‘delicate’ that did not imply fragility. And smooth. I admire the care you’ve taken of yourself to land such a balance. If this image of you were a drink, it’s clear and clean and refreshing. As a song, a clear melody, sweet and soothing, without distraction. I wish rising from bed on a day off felt more like the way you look.


  • I don’t think anyone in their right mind hates North Korean citizens. I just wish there weren’t anyone who would threaten or harm you just for talking to us.

    But yeah man, the world doesn’t hate you.

    The world feels sad because the world is convinced you’re experiencing hardship, and the world would like if you had more food, and more comfort, and less pain.






  • EVs have no gears

    GOOD THING THESE AREN’T GEARS THEN, FUCKO
    THEY’RE MODE SELECTIONS

    EVs do, in fact, Park.
    EVs can, in fact, Reverse.
    EVs must, in fact, need to be capable of rolling free (Neutral) and it would be BETTER if you could do that by disconnecting the drive train to eliminate the risk of the “regenerative braking” system overloading its electrical system and making the battery explode.
    EVs furthermore OBVIOUSLY Drive.

    “Low” in the traditional sense is clearly not necessary, obviously, but it could be nice to have a mode selection for what people have sometimes described as “single pedal driving” where regeneration is configured so aggressively that letting up on the accelerator pedal will cause the car to decelerate rapidly without the need to touch the brake pedal.





  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eetoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 months ago

    they’ll make smaller shittier batteries that die more quickly so that they can charge more to replace them and put proprietary control chips inside them so either third party manufacturers of better batteries will have to “violate copyright” in order to make them work or YOU’LL be required to “violate copyright” to make them work, thus locking most people without the technical skills to circumvent the ‘security’ into only buying the shitty ‘official’ batteries until MORE regulation comes along to make them cut that shit out. In the mean time they’ll be blaming the regulations for the shittiness they adopted.





  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eetoFediverse@lemmy.worldHow to get people to use Mastodon?
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    5 months ago

    also rebrand it from Mastodon to Trunky.

    1. Trochaic meter is more addictive: 2 syllables with accent on the first. just like YOU-tube, FACE-book, GOO-gle, TWIT-ter, TIK-tok, SNAP-chat, RED-dit, WHATS-app, etc; there are a FEW exceptions like Insta, Messenger, Telegram… but they are the clear minority and were propelled in spite of their names. it’s part of why TEEN-age MU-tant NIN-ja TUR-tles and MIGH-ty MOR-phin POW-er RAN-gers was popular.
    2. Trunky is full of bright bouncy sounds that pop, the T and the K both hit nice, the R is exciting and powerful, the y ends it on a high timbre, it’s cute.
    3. A mastodon is an extinct lumbering beast from the ice age which is the antithesis of anything trying to break out as a hot new service. But this would allow the service to keep its pachyderm branding.
    4. While at it, change “favorite” to “trumpet” (as in trumpeting praise), again it’s trochaic (TRUM-pet) and carries less cognitive LOAD than “favoriting” which feels heavy and committed. Just because you LIKE something doesn’t mean it’s your FAVORITE thing you know? this would decrease the friction of interaction (which is GOOD).
    5. Also while at it, keep tooting as the analogue for tweeting, rename boosting to re-tooting for brand consistency, and add a bookmarking function called “Remembering” (because ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET, right? :D)


  • Do you perhaps fathom how unhelpful and standoffish single word replies are? Conversation is an exchange. If you are not at the very least matching their verbosity and sharing information that is also related to what they’re saying, you’re giving them very little to work with.

    But I usually have the opposite problem: my prose is purple as hell. I’m ridiculously verbose and I over share to an absurd degree.



  • Fatigue.

    We’re too distracted by struggling to survive our small local daily struggles to even SEE the big picture.

    If there’s a time bomb in the room ticking down before your eyes, yeah that’s a big deal. If, in that same room, you’re also being attacked by a pack of rabid dogs though, chances are you’ve stuck a pin in the whole “what about the bomb” thing.

    And if there’s a sniper outside the room preparing to shoot you without even a moment’s notice that you KNOW is there and that you can’t even see AS WELL, all you can hope for us that all the moving around you’re doing to avoid being dragged down and torn apart by the rabid dogs will throw off their shots.

    They have BLINDED US WITH TRAUMA.

    Normal people are fighting for their lives on a daily basis JUST contending with their landlords, their bosses, their financial institutions, their utility expenses, their groceries. They don’t see the ways in which these challenges are driven by the federal government’s policies on a national scale.