xmunk
@xmunk@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on What's the point of the "Airport Security" (aka: TSA) in the USA? Does the "Airport Security" ever actually scare away potential terrorists? 20 hours ago:
Millimeter wave machines are just plain worse than metal detectors - pur airport security has gone down because of the TSA.
It does absolutely nothing.
- Comment on Is it worth investing if I can only contribute $50 a month? 1 day ago:
It’s worth saving - investing (I assume you mean in the stock market/index/mutual fund) probably wouldn’t yield very significant growth but it is worth saving what you can.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Gaslighting?
- Comment on Personally I like eggshell white. 1 day ago:
You you know know you you know know
- Comment on At least 1440p is good for heating my house 1 day ago:
It is jargon, but it is an assemblage of logical statements… kind of a shit joke though.
- Comment on What are some keto meals that are easy to make in bulk? Bonus points for stuff that can be frozen. 2 days ago:
In the meantime it’d be good to make sure you’re having whole proteins mixing in beans when you’re cooking your rice instead of having rice alone is significantly healthier and more filling.
I personally made a rule to avoid “naked carbs” or carb centric dishes so I’ll never eat table bread at a restaurant but I will, sparingly, have sandwiches. Additionally if you’re having pasta don’t be conservative with the meat in your sauce. For me a big part of healthy eating was to train myself not to stretch vegetables and meat with fillers. I focus a meal on the veg and meat and use carbs sparingly for their flavor.
- Comment on What are some keto meals that are easy to make in bulk? Bonus points for stuff that can be frozen. 2 days ago:
That’s cool - if you prefer impersonal articles or papers to anecdotes here’s one for you:
medicaldaily.com/atkins-diet-raises-heart-attack-…
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6074441/
To me that’s a lot less meaningful than watching a healthy coworker suffer a stroke out of the blue - but to each their own.
- Comment on What are some keto meals that are easy to make in bulk? Bonus points for stuff that can be frozen. 2 days ago:
I have no idea - counting calories is the safest diet by far and if you’re going to undertake a diet that specifically shifts your metabolism you should be aware of the potential health effects. It’d be really nice if we could snap our fingers and lose 150 lbs over a weekend but fast diets put immense stress on our system.
- Comment on What are some keto meals that are easy to make in bulk? Bonus points for stuff that can be frozen. 2 days ago:
Keto seems less dangerous than the old Atkins diet. I had a coworker who rapidly shed about 30 lbs and then had a stroke - he was 32.
- Comment on how do I become the dullest, most boring coworker so this needy man leaves me alone? 3 days ago:
Headphones. Headphones are an excellent tool for isolation in a workplace because they don’t raise objections or cause friction like saying you’re uninterested but they tend to be very effective at deflection.
Just get a nice big obvious pair of headphones and put them on when he might come by and, if he waves or something just immediately respond with “Sorry, I’m in the middle of this can you message me?”
- Comment on Why did people in the 90s/early 00s say that the internet "couldn't be taken down"? 3 days ago:
The internet couldn’t and still can’t be taken down - but countries can certainly restrict it within their locale (though it is insanely difficult).
The opinion is that the internet as a concept and set of protocols was and is too widespread to ever fully dismantle and one dude with a mission can capture and preserve an immense amount of data.
That’s still all true but doesn’t hold for social media walled gardens which have come to control a huge proportion of communication.
- Comment on Is it ethical for a parent to distribute inheritance based on the child(ren)'s mental capacity (aka refusing to give an inheritance to child(ren) with reduced mental capacity)? 3 days ago:
Sometimes it’s a legal necessity! I have a child with severe disability and if they ever posses 10k in value they’ll be disqualified from their many thousands of dollars in mental health supports.
What we’ve done is set up things to go into a trust where their advocate can use money for ongoing support (my child is also extremely irresponsible with spending and used to always immediately spend Xmas gifts on impulse spending including a lot of scratch tickets). While their government support is great it may not always be there so the trust is there if there’s a break or support or to try and support them if they become disqualified from disability (it’d be fucking awful though, we’re well-ish off and our life savings could support our child’s support for about half a year max).
- Comment on If a contestant on Jeopardy! gave the correct response "Alexandre Dumas" but pronounced the surname as "dumb ass", would the response be accepted? 4 days ago:
French speakers are almost certainly not pronouncing it the way he himself pronounced it due to dialect drift. His father also lived in Haiti for a time so the pronunciation might be even further muddled.
- Comment on how badly could a pelican fuck me up in a fight? 1 week ago:
Paprika or poultry?
- Comment on how badly could a pelican fuck me up in a fight? 1 week ago:
My knowledge of cartoon physics tells me that birds are essentially immune to any damage. If you punch them in the beak it will just spin around until they, using their opposable thumbs, adjust it back into place. If you punch them in the neck you’ll just leave a temporary fist shaped aberration in their spinal cord which will quickly snap back into place. Aiming for their feet or body is futile since they’ll just instantly dodge your attack by flexing their mass dramatically out of the way and instantly counter with significant emotional damage.
It is a fight you can’t win good Sir or Madame.
- Comment on how do I avoid leggings creasing below the knees? 1 week ago:
Spray-on spray-on leggings.
- Comment on how do I avoid leggings creasing below the knees? 1 week ago:
That’s a separate issue that’s usually solved by having bones.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 1 week ago:
Because all the other programmers suck.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 1 week ago:
Ahem - there is a debate… it’s over
/vs.-. As is proper - all true debates should be over minor formatting decisions (soft tabs over my fucking dead body). - Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 1 week ago:
You must not know many programmers that have had to deal with American date formatting then.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 1 week ago:
As a programmer I agree. I have fucked around with trying to parse unrestricted user inputs of dates and I have found out.
Year first is the only way I can actually know which value is day vs. month.
- Comment on If we're living in a simulation, why would the simulation creators allow the sims to ponder and speculate whether or not they live in a simulation? 1 week ago:
It’s probably a bug.
Fuck, if we’re in a simulation I’d be most amazed that nobody has managed to trigger a null pointer exception to crash the whole thing yet.
Oh, also, infinite recursion… and we got so close with youtu.be/xz6OGVCdov8
- Comment on Why can't someone create a public alternative to health insurance in the USA? 1 week ago:
Because it’s not a fair market. Health insurance is a cartel market.
Let’s say you break your ankle - maybe a reasonable cost for resetting the bone would be 240$ - the hospital will set a list price somewhere like 1300$ for the operation and then Anthem/UHC/whatever will send a rep out to be like “Hey, what if, when it’s one of our people, you only charged 300$” suddenly the rep gets a bonus for getting a “good deal” the insured patient is happy to pay well below “market” price and the hospital might get a small kick back for being so generous.
In this scenario most people only ever feel the 300$ price - but uninsured people or people out of network get absolutely fucked.
Since the current system entrenches all the existing players none of the participants (except the patients who usually don’t even get to choose their insurer) want to change anything.
- Comment on Why dont hackers just do white-cap hacking and figure out loopholes in valuable companies' stuff and use their fiduciary duty as a legal basis to compel patronage of their services? 1 week ago:
You’d be amazed the kinds of excuses companies can come up with to avoid doing something they don’t want to do.
- Comment on No one. 1 week ago:
The ethical billionaire is such an oxymoronic impossibility.
At some point, I’d say around ten million in the current housing market, you have more than enough money forever. If you’re a business owner and don’t start taking a token salary and ensuring everyone around you gets a comfortable life at that point then you’re just a fucking asshole.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s the ideal outcome. If they’re caught they shouldn’t be let off scot free (because, like, murder is bad) but it’d be such a fucking circus of excessive punishment.
If they’re never caught then we can keep it in a moral grey zone.
Of course, they will be caught because I’ve already dutifully contacted my local FBI branch and confirmed that the woman in the photograph is the CEO of Elevance Health.
- Comment on Am I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent? 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s a fair statement and if you find that line a reasonable one to draw I support you drawing it. Objectively, though, I think the harm we cause through consuming goods manufactured through forced labor is much more impactful.
- Comment on Where do people dance? 2 weeks ago:
I dance where I work. I have a standing desk and dance to music to focus on brainy tasks.
We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind. Because your friends don’t dance and if they don’t dance, well, they’re no friends of mine.
- Comment on Am I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent? 2 weeks ago:
The stock market is so detached from reality that the impact you’re having is nearly nil. You’re much more directly supporting forced labor and incarceration when you buy a t-shirt, Chinese garlic, register your car, eat pretty much any fast food, enjoy chocolate, or do literally anything connected to Walmart.
My point in the comment above is that Divestment (outside of retail investment) has almost no impact. If you live in America you’re already evil as fuck and profiting from the misery of millions. The stocks you own are some of the least evil shit you’re doing.
- Comment on Am I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think so - the stock market is extremely detached from fundraising in the modern world and if that company decided to fundraise it’ll mostly do so on the back of mutual funds and uni endowments.
I personally find divestment is a pretty ineffective personal action in terms of individuals.