bss03
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- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 1 day 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 2 days 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 2 days ago:
Ask for Jenny.
- Comment on Gottem 2 days 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 $$, and also buy some green beans for the leftover $. Your dollars buy more of everything when you give them to the book bank instead of buying the products yourself.
- Comment on Gottem 2 days ago:
Came here to say this. Everyone I’ve ever talked to that worked at a food pantry has guaranteed me that they can get more food from $$$ 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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? 3 weeks 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’ 5 weeks ago:
Public statements like this is why EA continually wins “Worst Company” over real assholes like Blackrock.
- Comment on It's rigged 5 weeks ago:
We need to bring back the 92% (marginal) tax bracket.
- Comment on It's rigged 5 weeks 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.
- Comment on "Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?" 1 month ago:
Usually it’s because we have a mutual desire to communicate, collaborate, or exchange data.
When it doesn’t affect me, I generally don’t think about it, and I certainly don’t “hate on” them.
- Comment on "Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?" 1 month ago:
I do sometimes feel bad for MS Windows users. I rarely “hate on” them, but that largely depends on their reaction my inability / unwillingness to use the communication/collaboration tools and data formats they are used to.
- Comment on 📡📡📡 1 month ago:
I think the problem is objectification. It’s fiction and fantasy, but in the case of a live-action movie, there’s a real person under the fictions, and we need to remember that.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m trying to deal with reality, but my hardware was issued in the 20th century.
- Comment on brand new sentence 2 months ago:
I was agreeing with and “yes, and”-ing your post.
The image is denigrating him based on something entirely outside his choices and control; that’s unfair because “after such heavy sedation, we all look pretty goofy”.
- Comment on brand new sentence 2 months ago:
You know how some of the genes associated with red hair are also associated with resistance to pain killers? Would it be appropriate to tease someone because they carried those genes? Or, would it be hate speech?
This is like the opposite: he could have an innate sensitivity to the medication and what’s why he went “goofy balls” to require a wheelchair.
I got “lucky” with my wisdom teeth; I was conscious during the whole removal procedure and was even able to drive myself home. But, I didn’t have any choice in how deep / what orientation my wisdom teeth ended up in while my bones were fusing as a small child. It could have been a much more difficult procedure and made me “goofy balls” through no choice / with no control of my own.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 2 months ago:
I communicated with my manager and came in late or left early. I’d usually do dental and medical appointments in the morning, and governmental stuff in the afternoon, but whatever I could schedule.
It helped that I was salaried, so the missing hours didn’t affect my take-home pay. But also, I could make up the hours by staying late, if needed.
I know this won’t work for everyone, and it would be good to change the system to work for more people.
- Comment on World Map 2 months ago:
We need a new Poe’s Law: Satire or AI?
- Comment on Welcome to industrialization, bitchass 2 months ago:
The same states spent another 100 years successfully fighting against equal treatment. The war wasn’t about modes of production; it was about the definition of personhood.
(I’m from Arkansas. We’ve got some crazy Christian Identitarian sects that still openly racist, and don’t believe Jesus saved non-whites.)
- Comment on That's a no 2 months ago:
Yep. Science says OP is wrong: acg.aaa.com/…/zipper-merge-keeps-traffic-moving
ISTR there being some indication that as speeds increase, merging further away from the “final merge point” can help, but that’s for designing roads with permanent lane reductions, not for temporary lane closures due to construction, accident, etc. But, I also couldn’t find that science when I looked for it.
- Comment on Nope 2 months ago:
Yeah, I figure once (signs of) life showed up in the atmosphere, galactic civilization probably started isolation/quarantine procedures until we can show we are actually social, civil, and communal instead of violent, competitive, and individualistic.
- Comment on What is the deal with IPv6? 2 months ago:
I’m just too used to setting up DHCP and including the single gateway address in that.
Setting up a routing advertisement daemon and just letting devices use their (MAC-derived) automatic IPv6 address is significantly different, so I haven’t learned it yet.
It also doesn’t help that I’ve never been under an ISP that provided IPv6 connectivity, so I’d only be able to connect to IPv4 external endpoints anyway, unless I separate got a 6-in-4 tunnel service of smth.
- Comment on wat 2 months ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future breaks this down.
- Comment on Drink up 3 months ago:
Repost. But, because of that, I get to share the name for this I learned last time: “Billy Irish”
I doubt I’ll get to try one, I’ll have to get off the bupropion first.
- Comment on Borders 3 months ago:
If you look closely, it’s hard to find a “border” in the picture that isn’t crossed.