actionjbone
@actionjbone@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on If a mysterious force secretly changed EVERY clock worldwide one minute forward, how long would it take until people notice, and how would people/governments react? 1 day ago:
Since we’re speaking in pure hypotheticals here:
I would just go back and fix the clocks. Every single one of them.
- Comment on is it wrong/selfish to cut contact with my trump-supporting father? 1 day ago:
Speaking as someone who did similar:
You will never be able to make him understand why you’re cutting off contact. You may not see that now. Spork knows, I didn’t for a few years. But it’s true, if you try to explain he will simply try to debate or he’ll push you off as immature.
To save your own sanity, all you can do is cut ties completely.
Other people here may offer differing advice. Some of them haven’t been through this situation, so they can’t know the torment you’re going through.
I can only speak from my experience.
Cutting them off was the best thing I did for my mental health. Cutting them off was not easy. I still think of them sometimes, of what might have been. But I’m comfortable with my decision, I’m confident I made the right one. Through plenty of evidence-based psychology, I now understand the reasons.
Getting back to your first question: sometimes, it’s good to be selfish for the right reasons. Maintaining your own health and well-being? That’s the right reason.
Your father’s desire to hurt people is far more selfish than making him discuss something. But if you make him discuss it, he will only act threatened and refuse to see your point of view.
You will only begin to heal once you cut him out of your life. I don’t say that lightly.
Again, if someone hasn’t lived through a situation like this and had to make the same hard decisions, they can’t understand. So don’t be afraid of the naysayers.
- Comment on Regarding a US Government Shutdown: What's stopping Musk from continuing to fund DOGE with his own money and continuing to tear apart the government while all the federal workers are put on leave? 5 days ago:
Sadly, they are hoping for a violent revolt from the people, because that means they can call the military in to murder civilians
- Comment on Regarding a US Government Shutdown: What's stopping Musk from continuing to fund DOGE with his own money and continuing to tear apart the government while all the federal workers are put on leave? 5 days ago:
That’s something. By which I mean it’s not nothing.
- Comment on Regarding a US Government Shutdown: What's stopping Musk from continuing to fund DOGE with his own money and continuing to tear apart the government while all the federal workers are put on leave? 5 days ago:
The problem is, there are no good options.
The coup perpetrators aren’t doing it for federal money (at the moment), and they would be happy to have more of the money not be spent.
At the same time, Democrats can’t see idly and do nothing.
- Comment on What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM? 6 days ago:
Only 5?
Or did you forget to type a zero or two?
- Comment on In the 1985 movie Teen Wolf, when Scott Howard turned into a teen wolf, would he have had a human penis or a wolf penis? 1 week ago:
🤨
- Comment on Why the Epic Games Store was hated during it's early existence? 1 week ago:
But tell us how you really feel period
- Comment on Why the Epic Games Store was hated during it's early existence? 1 week ago:
I never even bothered to make an Epic account to get the free games. I have so many games on Steam and GOG already, and I do most of my gaming with a Steam Link on my TV.
- Comment on Why the Epic Games Store was hated during it's early existence? 1 week ago:
Oh, it’s still hated.
Epic couldn’t make a superior product, so instead they bribed lots of game developers to make things Epic exclusive.
On top of that, even after being around for years, the Epic software is missing tons of features that Steam has had for years.
Epic bleeds obscene amounts of money to build a separate set of infrastructure, rather than actually trying to improve things for gamers.
- Comment on In the 1985 movie Teen Wolf, when Scott Howard turned into a teen wolf, would he have had a human penis or a wolf penis? 1 week ago:
A werewolf is a cursed hybrid creature, so most likely he had a hybrid.
- Comment on Im watching an episode of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, filmed in black and white. In this scene a guest is showing glass making. What is going on with the film to make these black areas by the flame? 1 week ago:
I just assumed it was for Mr. Rogers’ well-documented crack habit.
- Comment on Im watching an episode of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, filmed in black and white. In this scene a guest is showing glass making. What is going on with the film to make these black areas by the flame? 1 week ago:
You’re not wrong. I was simplifying, and your description is more technical.
- Comment on Im watching an episode of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, filmed in black and white. In this scene a guest is showing glass making. What is going on with the film to make these black areas by the flame? 1 week ago:
The camera is overwhelmed by the extremely bright light of the flames.
It’s a limitation of the recording systems they had.
- Comment on Does Aphantasia exist for senses other than vision? 1 week ago:
Technically: no, because aphantasia specifically relates to visualization.
But there are other, similar issues with other names.
- Comment on what if another country staged a coup in the US and deposed trump? 2 weeks ago:
Based on recent events, I’d say South Africa. Because the afrikaners are still bitter about our role in ending their apartheid state, and a significant portion of the United States is racist enough to encourage it to happen.
- Comment on Why is it called Lemmy 🤔? 2 weeks ago:
The point is, why is anything named anything?
- Comment on Why are dwarf planets not considered planets but dwarf stars are considered stars? 2 weeks ago:
It is due to the inconsistency of language, rather than properties of the objects.
- Comment on Why is it called Lemmy 🤔? 2 weeks ago:
Why are you called Aurora?
- Comment on Why do I laugh in my dream? 2 weeks ago:
Clowns, obviously.
- Comment on What is something that keeps you up at night? 3 weeks ago:
My cat. He has no qualms about interrupting my sleep if he wants to play or cuddle.
- Comment on Every time my wife pees, she flips the lid up. Every time I pee, I flip it down. Never been discussed. Dare I say anything and break the spell? 3 weeks ago:
Keep the toilet, ditch the wife.
- Comment on Do tarrifs affect cross border employment? 4 weeks ago:
That actually depends on whether it is, technically, the same company. Often, an American company will have a subsidiary, a partner company, or joint venture co-owned by a local company. Especially in the insurance industry, there’s a lot of financial regulation that requires how a company operates.
- Comment on Do tarrifs affect cross border employment? 4 weeks ago:
Yup. That’s the short answer. I hope the context made it easier to understand why.
- Comment on Do tarrifs affect cross border employment? 4 weeks ago:
There’s a lot of gray area in software development. Depending on a lot of variables, you MAY be “providing a service” to do custom work, or you MAY be “exporting intangible goods” (software).
So it’s a huge maybe. A lot of it depends on how the tariff rules are written and put into effect.
The rules can get VERY complex. The U.S. has a variety of offices related to different aspects of international trade. For example, the Office of the U.S Trade Representative reports directly to the president and is responsible for advising on trade. The International Trade Administration is (a bureau within the U.S. Department of Commerce) works to ensure American businesses have access the global markets without unfair foreign government business practices. And that doesn’t even get into the U.S. Department of State’s international interests, or private lobbyists such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
There will be no easy answers. Even when rules come out, the various agencies will take weeks or months to figure out how to interpret and enact the rules. Sometimes, clear sounding things end up having a ton of nuance. If anyone offers you an easy answer, don’t listen to them.
(Source: I spent years working at the Department of Commerce.)
- Comment on Will generative AI images' popularity create a bigger demand for human-made art? 4 weeks ago:
No, we are still years off from it being mundane.
In order for it to be mundane, people need to stop caring about it. But it’s still a hotbed issue, complex and full of nuance. Nobody agrees whether it’s good or bad. The reality is probably somewhere in between.
Mundane doesn’t just mean commonplace, it needs to be non-controversial. Like how rock and roll music was controversial even through the 1960s and 1970s, but (as a whole) isn’t now.
- Comment on Will generative AI images' popularity create a bigger demand for human-made art? 4 weeks ago:
It’s certainly feasible that, as with other technology, it starts out controversial but then becomes mundane and overdone. It’s not exactly the same as how people have started collecting records again, but records might be a decent metaphor for it.
But, no guarantees. Not every piece of disruptive technology ultimately catches on. (Smellovision, for example.)
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Soylent, Huel, and other meal replacement drinks.
Modern meal replacements aren’t like slimfast or ensure. They are designed using more modern nutrition science.
It’s available and ready to drink bottles, or in powders you mix.
Baked beans might also work. If you cook them long enough they get super tender. But that might not be good if you’re not allowed to put any pressure at all on your gums.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Why are you so offended? They’re saying that most men like all breasts.
- Comment on What are the odds of getting salmonella when eating raw poultry products? 4 weeks ago:
In many parts of the developed world, chickens are vaccinated against salmonella.
The U.S. is not one of those parts.