CancerMancer
@CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Do linux users have wives? 1 day ago:
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Wife, is in fact, GNU/Wife, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Wife.
- Comment on Anon reads the news 1 week ago:
Not just populists: many groups have less concern for the truth across the whole political spectrum. Example: feminists and their claim that women make an ever decreasing amount of money relative to men. This claim is based on a single study that compared sweeping aggregate data, and then called the whole thing an actionable issue.
The problem is that when you get into the weeds of the claim, and you should always do so, you find that there are so many confounding variables that went unaccounted for that the study cannot reasonably conclude anything. Meanwhile women have been graduating at higher rates since the 90s, younger generations of women make more money on average than men, and women have more job security than men. Women also get substantial benefits throughout their education and are considered a minority class for the purposes of hiring in many jurisdictions.
Be wary of people driven by agendas, even (or perhaps especially) the agendas you think are good.
- Comment on it's just a suggestion 4 weeks ago:
Eat the rich lol
- Comment on This world is cruel… 4 weeks ago:
Forklift certs ain’t nothing compared to amateur radio. When you get that personalized license plate too… They’re going to be climbing over their boyfriends just to hear you ask for an RST from the guy you bounced to with 10m.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 4 weeks ago:
Bake some bread brother. I never got so much attention as when I worked in a bakery (though I imagine the sheer size of my forearms probably contributed)
- Comment on This world is cruel… 4 weeks ago:
When you propose it comes with an SLA
- Comment on This world is cruel… 4 weeks ago:
Imagine when they find out you run your own media server. Bad boys out there downloading videos without licenses about to pop off on dating sites because no one can afford the “Netflix” part of netflix and chill
- Comment on This world is cruel… 4 weeks ago:
I make mods for video games. It actually pays out too, I make a few hundred a year. It’s basically computer parts money lol.
Does that count as a hobby? I’m afraid to ask, women are pretty judgy about this stuff.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 4 weeks ago:
Taking pictures specifically for a dating profile would show that they actually care about finding a person they would do other things specifically for.
This is a dead giveaway that you’ve never asked men why they don’t take and share pictures of themselves. Most men in the anglosphere consider it vain and self-destructive to obsess over their looks. You can also see it in the way they buy clothes (“I’ll take 5 pairs of the same pants, thanks”), the way they cut their hair (“just take an inch off and even it out”), and the way they present themselves, often with as few accessories and adornments as possible. Those they do have are utilitarian or deeply personal.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 4 weeks ago:
Right? Just the other day I was thinking about how many hobbies I dropped once I started seriously dating, and then later how many more when I had kids.
My guitar hasn’t been touched in years. My books have gone unread. My 3D printer is getting a workout making organizational tools and little toys for the kids though lol
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 weeks ago:
The costs used for wind/solar energy never included the cost of the required buffer storage, and even the rare few people who include that never factor in frequency stability which to this day is maintained by the giant steam turbines everyone wants to get rid of. It will not be trivial to solve the frequency stability problem; it will likely require massive investment in pumped water storage, flywheel storage, or nuclear energy, and these costs once finally included in the real cost of wind/solar will hurt its value prospect considerably.
As for nuclear waste: the overwhelming majority of nuclear waste generated over the lifetime of a reactor is stored onsite. Only the smallest amount of material is what will actually remain dangerous for a long time, and many countries have already solved this problem. It’s a seriously overstated problem repeated by renewable-purists who usually haven’t even considered how much frequency stability and grid-level storage have and will add to the cost of renewables, meaning they have not given a full accounting of the situation.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 weeks ago:
The curse of Private-Public Partnerships (P3s) means middle-men sapping all the value out of long-term government projects. We simply cannot trust these organizations with our energy infrastructure.
- Comment on Anon awakens an ancient evil 1 month ago:
If thou gaze long into an anus, the anus will also gaze into thee.
- Comment on Anon trades and barters 1 month ago:
This is the kind of job AIs are going to replace. AIs are coming for the dick trade.
- Comment on Commie trek 1 month ago:
They were conserving energy because it was hard for them to find the crystals they need. That said the lights are bound to be nothing compared to converting energy to matter or maintaining a warp field.
- Comment on Anon reviews a game on steam 1 month ago:
I had a dev respond to me 5+ years after a review saying they had fixed the problems I mentioned. Now I have to download the game and play it again or I have no balls. God damn devs holding us accountable.
- Comment on Life imitates art? 2 months ago:
Baudrillard strikes again.
- Comment on Just So 2 months ago:
Like many things, people hate it because of its associations with other things. They will happily throw it out even if it has good uses. Here have some spicy examples:
Some people experience gender dysphoria and may benefit from medical intervention? Nah it got abused by ideological idiots so it must always be bad. Karl Marx says workers must arm themselves? Nah guns are bad, I know this because rightoids like them.
- Comment on MSc Mansplaining 3 months ago:
mansplaining is a made-up idea lol
- Comment on MSc Mansplaining 3 months ago:
Us men are taught that our opinion is always valuable.
As a man I’ve been told no one wants my opinion since the 2000s so I’m not sure where you’re getting this from.
- Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. 3 months ago:
Quick Celsius breakdown from a Canadian:
40+ - most Canadians stop eating food and hope for a quick death 35 - you might just be able to live with this if you do nothing at all 28 - right about the place where comfort gives way to a general sense of warmth, something that makes any Canadian uncomfortable 23 - room temperature, and why “room temperature IQ” is an insult only Americans could have come up with because their scale was made by a madman 15 - If it’s Autumn you are wearing a light jacket, if it’s Spring you are sweating 5 - sweater time 0 to -10 - that stereotypical TV winter experience, where everyone is skating and sipping hot chocolate? Yeah that’s like half the year here. You better like hot chocolate. -15 - We enjoy the fresh air, others will probably find it painful to breathe directly; put on a scarf! Do not brush your teeth immediately before going outside unless you want to experience mint-flavoured pain. -20 - Canadians put their boots on by now. Exposed skin on a windy day can get frostbite in as little as 10 minutes. -30 - We will debate putting a coat on to put the garbage out at this temperature, usually erring on the side of caution in case your kids lock you outside again. Seriously invest in good winter gear for this, this temperature can kill surprisingly fast and it only gets increasingly unpleasant from here. -40 - turns out you can’t form snowballs in hell because the snow is too crispy
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 3 months ago:
Here in Canada I’ve seen much the same behaviour for both Liberal and Conservative voters. “I vote Liberal because I’ve always voted Liberal” is a surprisingly common statement especially among the older generations, and to a small extent even the Green party has a few loyalists in BC.
Always voting the same way no matter what happens is just giving your vote away for free.
- Comment on Anon's gastric emergency 4 months ago:
Sounds like bro needs more fibre. Liquid shit means you’re eating like a dumbass.
- Comment on Flowchart for STEM 4 months ago:
I’m no fan of Hexies but economics - at least as understood by neoliberals - is not real.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 5 months ago:
The worst part about the politics here in Canada is that the Liberals always spend years setting up the layup that the Conservatives use to dunk on Canadians. This round is going to feature a whole host of anti-competitive business, bad trade deals, media favouritism, privatization, waves of attacks on worker’s rights… all this and more thanks to the moves set up by the Liberals doing things like refusing to stop the Rogers/Shaw purchase, the failure to make deals with other countries, setting up media and “CanCon” subsidies that favour big media companies, and the intentional attacks on the efficiency and effectiveness of public services.
We are so fucked.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 5 months ago:
Yeah and you’re getting renovicted so they can split all the bedrooms up and double the occupancy (and rent)
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 5 months ago:
What the polling likely isn’t capturing is how many people will ultimately choose not to vote out of despair, and that was the real threat the whole time.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 5 months ago:
Trump’s still in control of his (meager) faculties and that’s the issue. They’re going to have to put someone else in against Trump or admit that the past few years have been Weekend at Biden’s
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 5 months ago:
I’m just wondering if I need to call the police or the ambulance
Both? One of these guys is a convicted felon turned robber baron and the other is a retirement home escapee who has lost the light in their eyes.
- Comment on Anon envies the AVGN's power 7 months ago:
Sounds like you have an interesting market there. The thrift and used market where I live are dead.