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 Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 11 hours ago:
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 1 day 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? 1 day 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 days ago:
They’ve already said that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment doesn’t exist.
- Comment on USA President term limits 3 days 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"? 4 days 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? 4 days 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? 4 days 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"? 4 days 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? 4 days 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 1 week ago:
Yes. He’s a complete fraud.
- Comment on Why do leftist blame the Democratic for sabotaging Bernie Sanders? 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 2 weeks 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.
- Comment on What kind of person am I if I decide to stay in a job, even if my supervisors work against me? 3 weeks ago:
You are a person who likes to eat.
- Comment on Why do some men dis other men who sit to pee? (& follow-up questions) 4 weeks ago:
I want to hear answers from men who really detest men who sit to pee. I fear that you will not many of these kinds of people on Lemmy. If you really want a good answer, you’d have to post it somewhere like Twitter or Truth Social.
- Comment on Do you actually care about your friend's new baby, vacation abroad or similar life events or are you just being nice? 4 weeks ago:
Fair enough. I find, for better or worse, there are very few people I care about to that extent.
When I visit with family this upcoming holiday season, I will do the kind thing and ask how things are going of my extended family. Not because I care, but because this is what is expected. My cousin is going to welcome his first child in the next few months. I am happy for him, and will offer my support in any way I can, but I don’t care about what he’s doing to prepare or “how he feels about being a dad.”
- Comment on Infinite Suffering 4 weeks ago:
I made it through. My degree is actually in math. 15 years ago, I used to know what an abelian group is!
- Comment on Do you actually care about your friend's new baby, vacation abroad or similar life events or are you just being nice? 4 weeks ago:
The framing of this question is interesting. “…or are you just being nice?” Seems to assume that being nice is not a legitimate or authentic way of being, maybe unless it is a means of getting something you want.
What the OP is saying is “do you really care” or are you feigning interest because it is the socially acceptable thing to do? That’s what “just being nice” means.
- Comment on Do you actually care about your friend's new baby, vacation abroad or similar life events or are you just being nice? 4 weeks ago:
No, but I’m depressed most of the time so I don’t really care about a lot.
- Comment on Infinite Suffering 4 weeks ago:
We were on quarters, so we had calc 1-4. Makes sense that Calc 2 was rough if you were on semesters.
- Comment on Infinite Suffering 4 weeks ago:
Where I’m from Calc 2 is integrals. That wasn’t so terrible. It was Calc 3 (vectors and series) that was the hard one.
- Comment on Anon tests something 4 weeks ago:
sex-women
- Comment on What happens when the US runs out of SSNs? 5 weeks ago:
It can never collapse unless Congress votes to make it collapse. Even in the future once the trust fund is spent down, benefits will be reduced to what comes in from current workers. That’s not the full amount but it will be something. I think something like 70%.
So it’s not going to collapse unless you think that anything but full benefits is a collapse.
- Comment on Why am I seeing "plan your voting day strategy" so often? 5 weeks ago:
The Ohio General Assembly has a long history of ignoring the Supreme Court. See the DeRolph decisions.
- Comment on Why am I seeing "plan your voting day strategy" so often? 5 weeks ago:
One thing that I think non-USians don’t understand is that our elections are not ran by some non-partisan agency that has a goal of running an efficient, fair election. Our elections in general (although it varies by state) are ran by partisan actors who know which areas vote for their party and which ones don’t. They intentionally try to make it easy for their supporters and hard for their detractors to vote.
I live in Ohio if you couldn’t tell, and our chief elections officer (the Secretary of State) is not afraid to tell people that he wants Donald Trump to win the election. He is not neutral. That’s just the way it is here.
- Comment on Why am I seeing "plan your voting day strategy" so often? 5 weeks ago:
It has, but there are some people who do not like the idea that everyone can vote.
Also it being a holiday doesn’t mean everyone gets off work. There is no federal law that says your business can’t be open 365 days per year, nor is there any law that mandates paid time off.
- Comment on Steam will let you sue Valve now 1 month ago:
I’m not a lawyer so I have no clue about the legal issues, but I’m more than happy to put my name to anything that costs a corporation money. I don’t even need the money. They can take it out of Valve’s pocket and burn it for all I care.