bss03
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I’m also on Mastodon as hachyderm.io/@BoydStephenSmithJr .
- Comment on tag yourself 5 hours ago:
Yeah, while the individual 8 tones are the same. Once you start chording, A minor still sounds different from C major. On the grasping hand, there are some chords that are effectively shared so a complex piece can “disguise” one as the other.
- Comment on tag yourself 5 hours ago:
My improvisations on a keyboard are always somewhere between A minor and C minor. I only use the 2 minor keys in between for key changes.
- Comment on Anon steams up the sauna 2 days ago:
own up to some egregious offense
Well, I’m not coping to it here, but I’d say it is worse than “hurt feelings”.
you are probably over estimating your ability to impact the world
Definitely this, too. Thinking I’m more impactful than I am is a source of some of my own suffering.
- Comment on Anon steams up the sauna 2 days ago:
Complete disagree. I’ve been accused of intentions I didn’t have and ascribed intentions to others that didn’t have them. Even in face-to-face communications, we are really just guessing at intent and it is often quite opaque.
- Comment on Anon steams up the sauna 3 days ago:
You’re leaving out some details.
Well, yes, I usually am, but I thought I included sufficient, relevant detail. If not, please educate me or let me know where I can educate myself; I would like to do better in the future.
Mr mountain top
My inference here is that you are implying I find myself morally, ethically, or spiritually superior. I do not. I’ve made bad decisions that have hurt people in the past. I don’t have any particular insight. And, I have been very lucky, so my experience being marginalized or exploited is limited.
- Comment on Anon steams up the sauna 3 days ago:
Men* shouldn’t act like hungry bears. Society at large shouldn’t have to assume there’s a significant risk that an an unrestrained man will act like a hungry bear. That includes in mixed saunas.
The fear of being a trapped seal is, currently, fairly well-justified. It would be nice to change that.
*: No persons should, but the problems are mostly cis men, like myself.
- Comment on Anon steams up the sauna 3 days ago:
I’m sure there are also circles where less-clothed social events do happen where not everyone at the event is already mutually acquainted. While I’ve never been to those event myself and haven’t be told the social protocols explicitly, I would assume that if you aren’t crashing the event, you are allowed to speak to less-clothed persons you’ve not met before, to introduce yourself at least.
(I’m not a pretty person, so I think I’d be even more uncomfortable that such events than I am at other social events.)
- Comment on Anon steams up the sauna 3 days ago:
Here’s the “rule”: The first time you speak to someone they should be fully clothed, unless there is a clothing malfunction you are attempting to resolve and that requires spoken communication.
It’s fine to make friends at the gym, tho that’s not what I’m ever there for. It’s fine to talk in the sauna, to people you are already on speaking terms with. It’s not okay to see someone in the sauna, appreciate their body, and use that as motivation to talk to them for the first time.
- Comment on Lil fella 4 days ago:
I know! He needs the World’s Smallest Violin.
- Comment on Love 6 days ago:
I feel like that’s a relevant Eleanor Shellstrop (character from “The Good Place”) quote here, but I couldn’t find it in my Internet searching.
- Comment on Love 6 days ago:
West is left
Only when you are facing north. If you are facing south, it is to your right.
I’m assuming your post was missing a “/s”, intentionally or not. But, replying as if your post was not sarcastic.
- Comment on Why is the approach to nudity and sex in films and tv so vastly different between the US and Europe? 1 week ago:
The colonizers that founded America (the puritans) were the people from Europe that hated sex and nudity.
The love of violence came later, but was the American will ever since manifest destiny and the Monroe Doctrine.
As an American born in 1980, we’ve always been the crazy ones.
- Comment on Capitalism is an unrealistic death cult. 2 weeks ago:
My passion is full-stack but high-level programming.
In the apocalypse, I’ll be okay at lifting and carrying things.
- Comment on Honk at me again you long neck fuck, see what happens. 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s Zac from Earth two, where his “Knight’s Concerning Oath” in started with rooster instead of goose.
- Comment on Walmart math: Wrong price per ounce 2 weeks ago:
Having worked on POS software, I can guarantee you we do not have “metadata for products on lock”.
Manufacturers will sometimes reuse the same UPC even though the packaging is fairly different. The UPC doesn’t contain the price, size, or any size – it is just a convenient look up for whatever POS the retailer uses, and for systems targeting independent retailers, that might be maintained mostly manually, though some warehousing associations might provide and importable list.
In large retailers sometimes the smart tags are controlled using a system that doesn’t even deal with UPCs, just images / webpages, shelf locations, and schedules.
Buyer beware, indeed.
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 3 weeks ago:
It’s not clear that photo has anything to do with the headline. Several others in the thread have found that photo attached to other, similar events.
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 3 weeks ago:
What’s the cut-off for “nature”? I mean, it’s not like DNA tests grow wild on the PCR plains, and it seems to me that the DNA test was the “tattle tale”.
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 3 weeks ago:
Ask for Jenny.
- Comment on Gottem 3 weeks ago:
No.
That is a separate and still valid point. Even if you are visiting a food bank, you still have all your same allergies, sensitivities, and preferences. The food bank itself will have a better idea of what they need to hand out.
I’m saying that even if the food bank needs 20 cans of cranberry sauce, instead of you buying for $$$ and donating them, it is better for you to donate $$$. The food bank can then buy the cranberry sauce for $$, and also buy some green beans for the leftover $. Your dollars buy more of everything when you give them to the book bank instead of buying the products yourself.
- Comment on Gottem 3 weeks ago:
Came here to say this. Everyone I’ve ever talked to that worked at a food pantry has guaranteed me that they can get more food from $$$ than you can donate for the same $$$.
I’m sure that the economics could change, so if you can engage with you local food pantry and confirm their preference, that would be best. But, if you just want to drive-by donate $$$ > food >>> nothing.
- Comment on A real, 100% unedited promotional picture from Kohler toilets 4 weeks ago:
Firefox.
I think the instance (infosec.pub) re-wrote the URL, but either did it wrong, or didn’t also successfully mirror the image.
- Comment on A real, 100% unedited promotional picture from Kohler toilets 4 weeks ago:
I guess it’s just my instance, but your post doesn’t show an inline image to me.
- Comment on How to move a sofa 5 weeks ago:
If the guys that frequently move furniture describe you are “strong for your size”, that is a powerful compliment.
- Comment on The perfect date 5 weeks ago:
If you work at a company where all of its offices are in the same time zone
coworkers ignore my 11 a.m. CDT, and invite me in their timezone
PLEASE read the comment you are replying to before submitting your reply.
Even in a single-timezone organization, I think it is still useful to use UTC+offset because it avoids DST confusion and lets the company expand to a second timezone without the team members there feeling second-class. But, GMT+offset does have costs with dealing with people that don’t really think about timezones when scheduling, and those costs might overwhelm any advantages.
- Comment on The perfect date 5 weeks ago:
“While Galactus has omniscient knowledge of all current user data providers, it doesn’t have future sight”
Just use EKS to deliver the feature this quarter, and block the OmegaStar migration on “the team gets their shit together” and supports ISO timestamps.
- Comment on The perfect date 5 weeks ago:
Was looking for this. Yes. Whenever possible, dates should be specified in a format that is BOTH RFC 3339 and ISO 8601. I’d say both have their quirks, but the intersection of the grammars is machine-parseable and human-readable without (much) legacy baggage or (much) experimental / reserved-for-future-use noise.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 1 month ago:
In addition www.youtube.com/watch?v=DydIhwLrbMk which tries to make portals act “real” by treating them as spacetime with an unusual (but not mathematically disallowed) geometry.
Yes, they are fictional, so they behave however Valve (and fan works) want them to behave, but trying to bridge the gap between fictions and current physics models and be a fun and enlightening experience.
- Comment on EA VP Urges Companies To Think About In-Game Ads During Development: ‘That’s A Huge Opportunity’ 1 month ago:
Public statements like this is why EA continually wins “Worst Company” over real assholes like Blackrock.
- Comment on It's rigged 1 month ago:
We need to bring back the 92% (marginal) tax bracket.
- Comment on It's rigged 1 month ago:
There’s a cap on how much you (and your employer) pay per SSN / year. So, for particularly high wages or salaries, the percentage goes down, for every dollar made above the cap.
Also, things like stock( option)s often made up a significant portion of compensation for high earners and those aren’t subject to SSI tax at all, IIRC.