TempermentalAnomaly

@TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you create?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  an entire world setting inspired by the tarot deck

  This just makes me so happy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Absolute slander⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I could finish that cat with only two packets of sauce. But kitten has a delicate flavor and I don’t like drowning it in sauce.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks the French are posers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Britain is the land mass that includes England, Wales, and Scotland.

  William the Conquerer was the first Norman king of England and never had power over Wales and he was mostly successful in gaining homage from King Malcolm III, but never king over the lands.

  Edward I about two hundred years later almost pulls it off, but doesn’t quite get a firm grip on Scotland. James I in the early 17th century holds the crown for each of the lands. In 1707 they formalize the relationship with a treaty.

  So… No the French did not found Britain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone give me atleast 5 examples of Democrats being against the working class?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t a recent phenomena. Bernie’s statement calls out the Democrats behavior over the last 30 years which puts you right in the middle of the first term of Clinton. However, Clinton was the first Democratic executive that had a chance to really enact a strategic change in the Democratic party that was first formulated after the chaos and losses of 1968.

  Before 1968, the democrat party was tightly knit with union interest and the selection of a presidential candidate was done behind closed doors by party bosses. This is how it was done in 1968 resulting in Hubert Humphrey. Hubert Humphrey was an establishment candidate and VP to a very unpopular president who decided not to run for a second term. Robert Kennedy was very popular, but assisted before the convention. There were other candidates, but Hubert Humphrey enters the race after the 12 primaries had closed, but before the convention. There were a lot of reasons for chaos at the Democratic Convention in 1968, but this was one. Humphrey was chosen in an undemocratic fashion by party bosses despite lacking wide support by the base. I’m not saying history repeated itself, but it sure rhymes.

  So Humphrey loses. The next four years results in reflection buly the party, an internal document called the *McGovern-Frasier *report is created, the selection process becomes more democratic causing candidates to make a wider tent for an intra-party coalition resulting in the nomination of McGovern eho whose major focus was to get the US out of Vietnam. Major unions decide not to back him and, well, he gets his ass kicked.

  More reflection and the Trilateral Commission conclude that “excessive democracy” had resulted in the erosion of economic and political stability. So unions are still important in America at this point, but there’s a growing shift from an industrial society to a professional services society starting to happen. The members of the Trilateral Commission see this and start to court this group. Meanwhile, colleges increase enrollment accepting non-traditional students to matriculate.

  Jimmy Carter, a member of the Trilateral Commission, is elected and enacts several neo liberal policies such as deregulating the airlines and creating natural gas markets. He fails a bid for a second term, but the tenor of what is yet to come has been sounded. Atari-democrats, young ambitious tech savvy, step to the fore and represented by someone like Gary Hart. He fails to get the nomination mainly because he had an affair and Mondale gets the nod. Mondale was an old school dem who supported labor and Carter’s VP. He loses worse than McGovern in 1972.

  In 1988, Dukakis runs trying to bridge the old Dems and the new Dems. Like riding two horses, he fails. That’s four out five election losses. 1992, a young whipper snapper from Arkansas steps to the plate and wins with an outstanding 43% of the popular vote. Wait! How could be, you ask? You see, Nader isn’t the only spoiler candidate. One free wheeling Texas business man named Ross Perot got about 20% of the popular vote. I still remember is slide presentation on network television.

  But I digress. This administration, knowing they just barely won, does what anyone who hasn’t won in a whole and makes radical changes. Good bye old guard and welcome the new way of ruling. One notable survivor of the purge was Joe Biden. They deregulate more industries and open more trade with NAFTA, CAFTA, China and help rebuilding a newly democratized Russia. Not all of this happened in the first term, but these were all important events. W campaigned on an isolationist strategy in response to much of this. From 1993 to 2013, we lived in the Clinton era. Biden isn’t really aligned with it deeply. He’s been the middle ground man and probably is more closely aligned to Mondale or Dukakis.

  The stock market takes off during the first tech boom, but the vast majority of the spoils go to the professional class and the rich. The working class is doing better because everyone is doing better, but not keeping up. Meanwhile factories are closing and we aren’t investing in infrastrcuture. Also, if you want your kids to have a future, send them to college. Can’t afford it? No worries, here are some loans. It’s for your children. Good luck!

  It’s during this time that you see them not resisting neocon war mongering. War mongering guts the working class. You see Obama not helping out the working class after the 2008 financial crisis. But who cares? The stock market is soaring! What do mean you don’t have any extra cash to invest. Good luck!

  2016 had primaries, but everyone knew they’d regret it if they got in the way of Hillary. It was her turn and we deserved a woman president. Biden regrets sitting this out. I don’t know if he would have had a chance, but being VP, it would have been a fight of two different visions. Throw in Bernie and there’s a real decision to be made.

  Well damn… This was far too long. Hopefully it was an interesting read. Yeah, there’s five examples in here, but the damage is far more subtle over the course of several decades. The working class, when unionized, were powerful. And politics were fucked up. Then we gutted them and an industrial base and shit’s fucked up in a new way. No easy answers. Just grinding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not just ask this question in the OP?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please be patient.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Positrons are different from protons. Both have a positive charge, but a positron is an elementary particle of a similar mass as an electron. They are rather rare in nature which OP was noting. Protons are made of three elementary particles, much heavier than positrons, and are, I imagine, present in nature in about the same order of magnitude as electrons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To imagine you wrote this sentence by purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you actually care about your friend's new baby, vacation abroad or similar life events or are you just being nice?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I care about my friends. I care about the goals, concerns, trials, joys, and more. I listen and I dig deeper. If I don’t care about they did, I questions that reveal how it made them feel.

  Now that’s a lot of emotional labor, but for a select few confidants, I am more than happy to that work. It bonds us and makes each other feel seen and connected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's a polite way to reject a picture with a very thankful patient who was under your care?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like you had a wonderful patient who was grateful for you doing your craft. Do a compliment sandwich, but don’t sincerely.

  Complement Boundary Complement

  “Oh my. I’m flattered. Thank you, but I’m not comfortable with that right now. You’ve been a wonderful patient and I enjoyed working with you too.”

  This is just an example of the compliment sandwich structure and you should adjust the wording to serve you.

  As for the phone number, just tell him that you were doing your job and seeing him better is all the reward you need. Again, adjust the wording for your truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've heard it clears up again after the first wave of divorces⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Noice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How exactly does one eat 1500 calories a day?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you measure that for weight loss?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've heard it clears up again after the first wave of divorces⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The one struggling to keep it’s head above water?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I drew the Mexico states by memory⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Brazil is no longer a state in Mexico after it moved to China.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Worked For MrBeast, He's A Fraud⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. My kid isn’t into it, thankfully, but he was the topic of the week a fews ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This article has a hard paywall, so I found another source.

  According to this article it seems the impact was limited because it only effected the most recent Debian server release. So the issue was limited, discovered quickly, and easily fixed.

  The recent windows issues was extensive for all windows machines, discovered after massive outages, and difficult to fix.

  I’m not sure this is a win for Linux, but there a number of decisions that CrowdStrike made that failed to live up to the trust issue by WHQL certification.

  I think that this didn’t have the same extent for Linux is pure luck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boy meat⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When learn about and discover the missing child in the same instant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is my girlfriend gaslighting me?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re using rationality to defend your behavior instead of connecting emotionally around a fundamentally emotional issue. This doesn’t mean that her behavior was justified either, but rationality will only get you so far in solving this problem. Arguably, there’s an intimate and emotional reason you’re together. If you’re both not engaging in protecting and growing that first, then you’ll end in a you vs her situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish I was as bold as these authors.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Best movie ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. He tipped on top of the delivery charge and taxes. I it was 20% tip button that doesn’t isolate food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Listening to some Captain Beefheart, huh… I’ll grab my shiny rocks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost forgot to wish Donald a Happy Birthday.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Trump

• Almost forgot to wish Donald a Happy Birthday.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Music to my Ear⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun science fact. Crabs are always shit talking and making “yo mama” jokes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missing cold pizza⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I ran out of money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missing cold pizza⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Coffee

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  Makes you high, makes you hide
  Makes you really want to go

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally. There’s a funny story about this question going around the Princeton Advanced Studies center. Some would see the trick, but many would get stuck on trying to add up each portion of the journey.

  And then they took the question to von Neumann. It begins to consider it and our come 15 km. They’re elated and say, you must have gotten the trick. “What trick? All I did was add up the geometric sum.” And a couple of insanely smart people left dumbfounded at how smart von Neumann was.

  Of course, he could have been pulling their leg.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This one question breaks American brains.

  2 cars approach each other, with 20 km between them. The speed of each car is 10 kmph. At 20 km apart from each, a fly starts traveling from one car towards another at 15 kmph. Once it reaches the other car, it turns back and starts towards the first car. It continues to do this until the cars meet/collide. How much distance does the fly cover in total?
  

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hero⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m very much the same way. Sales people are just give me hints of what not to trust and usually fold under any sustained inquiry about their product. Skilled sales people know when to turn me over to their subject matter expert. We get to geek and I actually learn a thing or two about their product and, often times, the state of the industry.

  One of the things the above post doesn’t include are the people who championed her. Between Elliot Barnathan, the cardiologist whose lab she was initially hired into, to David Langer, the resident who was able to get her a job in neurosurgery department, she was lucky enough to have someone who could do the hype while she did her work brilliantly.

  In the publishing world, a great editor can recognize the genius of a writer, give quality feedback, and protect them from the moneyed interests.

  I don’t know if I’d call these people hype men, as they were so much more than hype, but they definitely hype the genius of the patronee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[US] I'm hesitating launching my own business because I'd lose health insurance for my family. What are my options?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it possible for your partner to get a job with health insurance while you get your business up and running? If not, the ACA website, healthcare.gov, is your best option. When filing, you won’t declare your income from when you had a job. Try to make your best guess. If needed, claim it to be $0 and then plan on paying it back when you file your taxes using the 1095-A.

  If you don’t have an accountant, get one. Talk to them before leaving your job. They know the ins and outs of these things. They should be one of your first trusted advisors. If you don’t know how to pick an accountant, read Small Business Cash Flow by Dennis O ’ Berry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love to know more.

  I recently read “The brain is a computer is a brain: neuroscience’s internal debate and the social significance of the Computational Metaphor” and found it compelling. It bristled a lot of feathers on Lemmy, but think their critique is valid.

  Do you have any review resources? I have a bit of knowledge around biology and biochemistry, but haven’t studied neuroscience.

  And no pressure. It’s a lot to ask dor some random person on the internet. Cheers!