stinerman
@stinerman@midwest.social
I am Stine. Comfort the afflicted. Afflict the comfortable. High School Wrestler™. Can usually correctly use the past tense in French. Suffers from clinical depression.
- Comment on May not be the right place but here it goes. One of my brothers passes or get extremely tired if he sees porn. Even a sex scene in a movie he has to go lay down. Is there something wrong with him? 2 days ago:
I take it he would like to watch porn but can’t? Then yes, that’s a problem and he should see his primary care doc first. It’s a quality of life issue.
- Comment on What advice would you give to your younger self? 1 week ago:
This comes up a lot. The fact is that almost everyone who mined a few dozen BTC back then would have sold it when it reached $100. No one ever thought back in 2009 that it’d be worth what it is now.
- Comment on What advice would you give to your younger self? 1 week ago:
You know how you think George W. Bush is the worst president we’ve ever had or ever will have? Well in 2017 you’re going to wish he was in office. Also, go to school in a foreign country so you can be a permanent resident there.
- Comment on If me and a bunch of my lemmy friends got on a yacht. Went into international waters what could we get away with legally and what would still be illegal? 2 weeks ago:
Rebroadcast Major League Baseball with implied oral consent.
- Comment on How does interoperability work between different fediverse services? 2 weeks ago:
So I replied to this comment as well as the original post via Mastodon. Apparently this doesn’t work anymore (or I was wrong and never did or it’s very slow).
- Comment on How does interoperability work between different fediverse services? 2 weeks ago:
Possibly! I have replied to this post from my Mastodon account. People on Mastodon can see these posts and interact with them, but it’s kinda clunky. The posts and comments are implemented as boosts. So you post here and I see this on Mastodon: Image
Every reply will also show as a boost from nostupidquestions@lemmy.world.
I don’t think it works the other way around. I don’t believe you can follow specific AP accounts from here (like you can’t follow my Mastodon account from your Lemmy account). I think they have to be groups/communities. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong.
- Comment on I have to go back to work in 32 hours, what's the point? 3 weeks ago:
In 40, but I feel “I have to go back to work in 32 hours, what’s the point?” in my bones.
- Comment on Tired of hearing about “The offshore team” 4 weeks ago:
I work with plenty of people from India. They’re pretty good at their jobs. They should be paid the same as us in the USA.
I don’t mind that they work on the other side of the world. I don’t mind them at all. I mind that the main reason why they’re hired is that they can pay them peanuts. They deserve better.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
This is a private school so they don’t get much in the way of direct government funding. State-funded schools are considerably cheaper. I went to Wright State University in Ohio. Right now it’s about $13k/yr in tuition. This is still rather expensive on a global scale.
Why do private schools charge that much? Because people (like you) will pay that much. What about the University of Chicago makes it so that you are willing pay for it? What do you or your son hope to get out of it that a school in your home country (I’m assuming Canada) can’t give him? To compare to Wright State, even for out-of-country students the tuition is less than half of Chicago’s tuition. Is the benefit of going to Chicago worth that much more? If it is, then that is exactly what you’re paying for.
- Comment on Lemmy on Mastadon 4 weeks ago:
My understanding is that if I follow @dadjokes@lemmy.world from Mastodon what happens is:
- I will see all posts on that community
- I will also see all replies to that post
- The replies are listed in Mastodon as boosts from @dadjokes@lemmy.world
For example:
That’s what I see if I go to @dadjokes@lemmy.world from Mastodon.
Is that what you are talking about regarding boosts?
- Comment on Woohoo! Just in time for the holidays! 4 weeks ago:
Don’t forget to multiply that value!
- Comment on Selfish or not 4 weeks ago:
The people who are taking up extra space are trying to tell you that they’d rather sit alone than talk to a stranger on the bus/train/etc.
They will move their stuff so that you can sit down if you ask. There is no trouble in asking and you don’t need to “pick the biggest guy.” Just ask someone “may I sit here, please?” That works 99% of the time.
- 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)? 4 weeks ago:
I can’t speak to whether or not it is “ok” unless I have a lot of knowledge of the situation.
I think the fairest way to split an inheritance is by need, although that’s not always known at the time of drawing up a will.
- Comment on Should Democrats also gerrymander blue states to counterbalance any advantage that republicans have due to the gerrymandering in red states? 1 month ago:
Yep. You play by the rules on the ground. Gerrymandering shouldn’t be a thing, but as long as it is, the Democrats should use it to their advantage.
- Comment on Why are Republicans struggling in Swing State Elections? 1 month ago:
Why is this? Do these people literally go to the ballot box just to vote trump and leave?
This was found to actually be a somewhat common voting pattern.
- Comment on Welcome to Big-D 1 month ago:
I’ve heard that Debbie is the best thing to do in Dallas.
- Comment on Since the government can theoretically access the location of everyone's phone, wouldn't it be unsafe for an undocumented immigrant to have a phone? 1 month ago:
Of course. But they need to ask. The FBI or local police doesn’t get a daily report of our whereabouts every day.
- Comment on Since the government can theoretically access the location of everyone's phone, wouldn't it be unsafe for an undocumented immigrant to have a phone? 1 month ago:
I assume they roll the dice because it’s rather hard to get by without a phone.
Also, it’s not like the government is actively tracking everyone’s location. I’m sure if they wanted to track me they could, but it’s not like my position is being actively logged right now.
- Comment on I do not want to do anything. Is this addiction? 1 month ago:
Better place to ask: lemmy.world/c/mentalhealth.
- Comment on What's wrong with Bluesky App? 1 month ago:
Yes. Mastodon is a product of Mastodon gGmbH. He is the BDFL (Benevolent Dictator for Life) of the software. Anyone can fork the software if they so choose and make their own.
What I think @Foni@lemm.ee is trying to get at is that Mastodon is a non-profit and doesn’t have investors looking to make a return like Bluesky does. Mastodon is driven entirely by donations.
- Comment on Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name? 1 month ago:
I have a coworker whose maiden name is Dykes. She was very happy to change.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 2 months ago:
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 2 months ago:
In terms of what he got done, he’s easily the most left wing President since LBJ. Perhaps FDR. Whether or not that is defined as left-wing/leftist/liberal is a matter of opinion.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 2 months ago:
Linux copyrights are owned by many different people, so it would be prohibitively difficult to ask every person to agree to a GPLv3 change. Even if you could, Linus Torvalds is not a fan of the v3 license.
- Comment on USA President term limits 2 months ago:
They’ve already said that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment doesn’t exist.
- Comment on USA President term limits 2 months ago:
Legally he’s only got 2 terms. However as my government teacher explained, the constitution says what the Supreme Court says it says. So who knows what they’ll say about it.
- Comment on At what point do you stop calling the years "two thousand and X" and start calling them "twenty X"? 2 months ago:
You can do “2009” as “twenty oh 9”, but that feels kinda awkward. “Two thousand nine” has the same number of syllables (4). “Twenty ten” is 3. “Two thousand ten” is 4.
Even “1900” is “nineteen hundred” (4) vs “one thousand nine hundred” (6).
- Comment on why are fax machines still used by medical systems? 2 months ago:
Plenty of people still use landlines. That tech is much older than faxes. Internal combustion engines have been around for about as long. There have been improvements, of course, but the basic idea of spark plugs igniting fuel, which pushes down a piston is quite old.
Like many things the 1960s tech is “good enough” and the government hasn’t mandated a specific standard.
- Comment on why are fax machines still used by medical systems? 2 months ago:
I work in a particularly niche area (home infusion/home medical equipment) and while HL7 and FHIR are indeed things, practically no software that was built for those lines of business had any sort of module for that. We have a FHIR interface now and…no one uses it. They prefer faxes.
- Comment on At what point do you stop calling the years "two thousand and X" and start calling them "twenty X"? 2 months ago:
For me it was
2000: Two thousand 2001: Two thousand one (or less formally “oh one”) 2009: Two thousand nine (“oh nine”) 2010: Twenty ten
And from there on.
I think this is because of the amount of syllables. That’s why we switch to “twenty” instead of “two thousand”.
