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 Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 4 days ago:
Same. Should be rock bottom prices.
- Comment on Would you take a short term job(1-2 months) over a local longer term that makes nearly 8months worth of salary?? 1 week ago:
Best wishes! I hope it works out. If I was the employer and you were a good worker, I’d want to retain you rather than lose you forever and then spend the time looking for a new hire and training them.
- Comment on Would you take a short term job(1-2 months) over a local longer term that makes nearly 8months worth of salary?? 1 week ago:
This sounds like OP has a full time position somewhere and is thinking of quitting to go work as a contractor. My guess is that he’s unemployed after 2 months and would need to find a new job.
My general feeling on this is that it’s fine if they understand the difference. I don’t know of they’re in the US or elsewhere, but in the US the taxes on 1199 contractors are pretty high and there are no benefits. This can heavily change the calculus.
I would see if my current employer would allow me to take a 2 month leave of absence and then come back.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
We’re talking about “I am a prominent member of an organization designated by the US as a terrorist organization.”
Either way I misunderstood OP’s question and my post wasn’t on-topic.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
This is a very good point. I misunderstood the post.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yes. If you’re a rando, sorry you’re just not that interesting.
If you’re someone the US considers an actual threat, then yeah don’t buy anything from the US (use a 3rd party). But if you’re that big of a threat you already know that.
- Comment on Banned across multiple communities, posts deleted, for upsetting a mod 4 weeks ago:
I told them their “MEN DON’T POST HERE” posts on the frontpage are hostile, which is the reaction they got from a half dozen folks who were talking about the subject.
So what if it’s hostile to you? It’s their community. I see that community from time to time. Guess what. I don’t post there. I accept that it’s their space and their rules.
I talked about my experience as a gay man, wanting more community here on Lemmy, but that I wouldn’t start communities or threads saying “NO STRAIGHT PEOPLE POST HERE” to do it.
You don’t have to, but other people can if they want. If someone else did, I, as a straight person, wouldn’t post there. Because they asked me not to.
I get that I broke their rule, and I can be banned there for that - but they didn’t ban me for being a man, they banned me for hurting their feelings. And now I can’t use LGBTQ and Trans communities as a result. OK, fuck turtlesareneat, he shouldn’t be allowed in queer communities cause he hurt a mod’s feelings.
No, you didn’t get banned because you hurt their feelings. You got banned because you can’t follow rules. Other instances banned you because you’ve been shown that you can’t follow other instances’ rules.
This reads very heavily of “but I had to reply because they needed to hear my carefully-considered opinion.” NO. THEY. DON’T. They didn’t want to talk to you and you decided to barge in and tell them what you had to say because by god you needed to be heard.
- Comment on 9News US Correspondent Lauren Tomasi hit by rubber bullet during Los Angeles protests 4 weeks ago:
The cop did that because he knows there is no accountability for doing so. He thought it’d be cool, so he did it.
- Comment on Do people confuse your nationality? 5 weeks ago:
I would not come here either.
- Comment on Anon has an unexpected day 5 weeks ago:
Ohio has:
Versailles (ver-sails) Bellefontaine (bell-fountain) Gallipolis (gal-uh-police) Russia (Roo-she)
- Comment on Anon has an unexpected day 5 weeks ago:
Days Moin
- Comment on Why is it ok to replace -ed at the end of a word with -t in some cases? For example, why are "vexed" and "vext" both acceptable, but "thrilled" and "thrilt" aren't? 5 weeks ago:
Could be a British/American English thing. We (Americans) say “learned”, they will often say “learnt.”
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I mean… I prefer my bar soap to my wife’s body wash. But if it was down to the body wash or nothing, I’d go with the body wash. Same with her shampoo.
- Comment on Delicious 5 weeks ago:
He’s actually a decent dramatic actor. One Hour Photo was great. The guy is just not funny, probably because he was coked up half the time.
- Comment on Delicious 5 weeks ago:
Robin Williams was one of the most overrated comedians of the 80s and 90s.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 5 weeks ago:
Colloquially, it just means a small municipality. A “rural town” is a small municipality that is not near a larger metro area.
Town has a specific meaning in some states. I’m from Ohio. There is no such legal meaning here. Any municipality over 5k residents is a city. Anything other than that is a village. I am from a city with a population of about 6k. Outside of the city limits is farmland. I would say I’m from a small town/rural area.
- Comment on This ad that claims that windows 11 is 3 times faster than windows 10 1 month ago:
I’m typing this message on this computer (upgraded as far as it’ll go, running Debian Stable). No one needs any of this hardware for what most people use their computers for.
- Comment on Yes 1 month ago:
At one point in my life I had the XP VLK for my university memorized. Now all I remember is the end: BGDBB.
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 1 month ago:
None, because they don’t exist.
- Comment on Why do so many piece of Hardware come with windows only software requiring admin right for installation 1 month ago:
Linux distros have to ship all these drivers because otherwise someone would try that distro and say “nothing works, this sucks” if they had to go hunt for drivers to install. Windows computers really are the same way, but they’re almost always preconfigured.
- Comment on What are your thoughts about AI? 1 month ago:
- I find it useful for work (I am a software developer/tester).
- I think it’s about as good as it’s ever going to get.
- I believe it is not ever going to be profitable and the benefits are not worth reopening nuclear and coal power plants.
- If US courts rule that training AI with copyrighted materials is fair use, then I will probably stop paying for content and start pirating it again.
- Comment on 7 for me 1 month ago:
1, 2, 6, or 7 depending on the season.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It is not normal. It’s fine that you do it.
- Comment on How would you run a society? 2 months ago:
There’s a song about it.
And I wanna conquer the world Give all the idiots a brand new religion Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness, and toil Promote equality in all of my decisions I want to conquer the world Expose the culprits and feed 'em to the children Do away with air pollution, and then I’ll save the whales We’ll have peace on Earth and global communion
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 2 months ago:
- Long tines and a big “handle”.
- Comment on The pipeline 2 months ago:
I skipped right to boneless wings.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’ve been to the USVI and you do go through customs. It’s a separate customs zone.
- Comment on Bros being bros 2 months ago:
Do you think he’s using the single loop or double loop method?
- Comment on Caption this. 2 months ago:
Social Distortion releases early demos on vinyl.
- Comment on What would happen if the Supreme Court sent a US Marshall to arrest a member of the executive branch? 3 months ago:
My contention is that the DOJ (who oversees the marshals) would order them to ignore the bench warrant.
Courts have the power to deputize whomever they choose. If they were to deputize, for instance, a state police officer because the marshalls wouldn’t carry out their orders, my belief is that no deputized agent would arrest someone for contempt if some LEO under federal control (FBI, the marshalls, capitol police, etc.) was protecting the person held in contempt. You will not get two sets of cops shooting at each other over this.