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 Tired of hearing about “The offshore team” 8 hours 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] 2 days 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 2 days 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! 2 days ago:
Don’t forget to multiply that value!
- Comment on Selfish or not 2 days 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)? 3 days 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 week 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? 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks ago:
Better place to ask: lemmy.world/c/mentalhealth.
- Comment on What's wrong with Bluesky App? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
They’ve already said that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment doesn’t exist.
- Comment on USA President term limits 5 weeks 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"? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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"? 5 weeks 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”.
- Comment on why are fax machines still used by medical systems? 5 weeks ago:
I work with healthcare software so I can echo most of what you’re saying.
The thing is the lowest common denominator is a fax (usually a fax server that creates a PDF or TIFF of what comes over the wire), so that’s what people go with. It’s the interoperability between different systems that’s the problem. There’s no one standard…except for faxes.
- Comment on Philip Zimbardo, 91, Whose Stanford Prison Experiment Studied Evil, Dies 5 weeks ago:
Yes. He’s a complete fraud.
- Comment on Why do leftist blame the Democratic for sabotaging Bernie Sanders? 1 month ago:
Yes, ethically it’s a very bad look. But I’m not a registered Democrat (or anything else) so I don’t have a say in how they run their organization.
- Comment on Why do leftist blame the Democratic for sabotaging Bernie Sanders? 1 month ago:
I’m beginning to think you might be trolling based on your responses. In case I’m wrong…
The simple answer to your question was that people who voted in the Democratic Party primary didn’t want him to be their nominee. Of course you’re asking why.
In 2020, Sanders had the lead and the party leaders decided “guys, we can’t run a Socialist Jew against Donald Trump, so we need to pick a candidate and go with him.” A ton of people vying for the nomination dropped out and endorsed Biden. Their supporters voted according to the endorsements and we ended up getting Joe Biden.
- Comment on Is it okay to continue to work for a (non-defense) federal government agency under an administration hostile to my own moral and ethical beliefs? 1 month ago:
No one can answer that question but you.
- Comment on Could Joe Biden use his remaining time as president of the US to do away with presidential pardons? 1 month ago:
The President can pardon anyone he wants for any federal crime as long as it’s backward looking. He can’t pardon someone for something that will happen in the future.
The President does not have the power to abolish pardons.
- Comment on I just need to keep it steady 1 month ago:
I had a disc-based MP3 player. The looks on my friends faces when I had 150 songs on my discman and they had 12.
