scoobford

@scoobford@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good boy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope! Medical knowledge was very anti-masturbation for a long time. Devices like this, genital mutilation, and corn flakes (no, really) were all popularized in the US by Dr. Kellogg to prevent masturbation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good boy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably? While it’s weird and gross enough to current sensibilities to be sarcasm, these devices were absolutely used to prevent masturbation for several decades in the US so…who the fuck knows…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More like a bacterial infection imo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I see your argument, but the Irish will absolutely throw hands if you call them Brits. They thing the term should only apply to people on the isle of Britain, not the British isles as a whole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microbiota⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because of all the DOGE cuts and/or fascist skullduggery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peak male form⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re saying that our current ideas of male beauty have been warped heavily by drugs and plastic surgery such that we consider naturally attractive men to look unremarkable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valid point⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My group is the only one in our building not allowed to work from home half the week. We are moving office soon, and as a part of that the other groups will have their regular WFH days eliminated, and we will all receive a number of WFH days at the beginning of the year like PTO.

  I’d be mad about it, but every week like clockwork it takes 6+ hours for everyone at home to respond to simple emails or questions. I should be mad at the company for their stupid policy, instead I’m mad at the massive number of my coworkers who fucked it up for us before we even got it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets high⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s still illegal, you just aren’t super likely to get caught without the assistance of your state government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a pic of two besties⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  absolutely

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philosophy moment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Students can keep a phone in their bag if they really need it. The fact that we ever allowed kids to scroll instead of paying attention in class is absurd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Official Trailer (Available Today!)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue that Skyrim represents a significant downgrade from earlier titles. The simplified mechanics and increased advertising budget made it more accessible, but the writing quality has been in free fall since morrowind.

  That being said, this is probably their prettiest title now. I haven’t gotten to try it yet, but supposedly it is a ground up remake, and if it’s on a better engine it may be their least janky game too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My family have something similar going on, they’re 18 and 46.

  We’re all politely ignoring it because their parents think trying to forbid it will make it more attractive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a sin in Christianity to consume media based on ancient mythology and folklore?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, although this is a fringe belief among some fringe sects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some countries you’ve visited that shocked you with unexpected friendliness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  England. I got blind drunk and was stumbling back to a hotel in a western suburb. A group of young men with knives approached me for cash but when I told them to fuck off (not smart, I know) they were so excited to hear my accent they walked me a couple of blocks to the bus station and sent me on my way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Survey that will determine your age. You are really old if you score a perfect 11 out of 11⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Methinks this is BS, I got 7/11 and I’m in my twenties.

  It would have been 9, but even in the bad old days I’ve never known a anywhere it was acceptable to just throw little on the floor in a business, regardless of whether it was a cigarette butt or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based on a true story⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cars are expensive and necessary in areas without good public transit (read: basically everywhere except a couple of areas in specific cities). Most of us don’t have a year’s salary just sitting in the bank, especially when you’re young.

  If you need a car to get to work, you’ll pay what you have to because the alternative is no job which means no home, no healthcare, and no food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Federation means that instead of one central server like Facebook or google, the service relies on several interoperable servers and you can pick which one you want to sign up with and use.

  Email and lemmy are federated. If you want to use email, you can sign up for an account on one of many different servers run by other people or you can even host your own email server. No matter which you choose, you can always email another user regardless of where their account it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How else would you pretend to be federated besides saying you’re federated when you aren’t?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apologies, I guess my terminology is incorrect.

  What I meant is that I’ve seen people written up for vaping ~2 feet too close to the back door or showing up <5 minutes late or any number of other frivolous things in hopes of avoiding unemployment payments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have to pay unemployment if they’re fired with cause? Because I’ve definitely seen (and experienced) constructive dismissal over some very petty things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Respectfully, I disagree. I struggle to think of candidates more milquetoast than Biden and Harris of all people.

  I think the problem is that we have no progressives. The right moves things right, the center does nothing, and there is no left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your core supposition is wrong, basically everyone is mad about the state of our country. We just have several different ideas on how to fix it and two parties who are dedicated to making it worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In comparison to most of Europe, America is very unsafe, gun ownership is much higher, and mental healthcare is a joke.

  This means that you do not engage in a dispute with a stranger because they might be unhinged and just kill you over a parking space or who gets to merge first in traffic or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches The Terminator⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can have it so long as it is semiautomatic. There’s just a lot of paperwork involved because the bolter itself and each individual round are probably considered destructive devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Medical Industrial Complex⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know how common they actually are, but they should be fairly accessible. Most insurance plans provide them free or at a heavy discount.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else suddenly itching to blast Nazis in Wolfenstein for no reason at all?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1000006271

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do Americans win their country back?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So the way it looks now, Trump has won the presidency, and his allies will have the senate and house of representatives, and they already had the supreme court. The three branches of government will not be working as checks on each other’s power, unless we get very lucky and the various factions that make up the GOP split. This is obviously very, very bad, but there are still some checks on presidential power.

  1. Trump’s last term was a clusterfuck. Things may just be so disorganized that he struggles to actually get what he wants done.

  2. The states have limited power to defy the feds. While case law does state that federal law supercedes state law, that doesn’t mean all States will immediately cooperate wholeheartedly. Obviously a court battle will eventually get to the supreme court, but that takes time and requires a single panel of judges to beat multiple states into line on each new policy.

  3. Governments do have a small amount of caution when it comes to their people. One thing the crazy conservatives had right this whole time was that fundamentally, nobody was ever going to come for their guns because nobody wants to force a confrontation with a bunch of armed lunatics. In the same way, they’ll probably try to avoid massive riots and general strikes simply because it isn’t worth the fight to whoever is responsible.

  4. Citizens can resist. Go to protests, donate to political advocacy organizations (the ACLU will have its work cut out for it), and for Christ’s sake, go vote! Show up every year, just not every 4 years. Without the cooperation of congress, his power would be significantly curtailed.

  5. If nothing else, terms are limited. In 2 years we can swing congress. He isn’t going to be able to pass a constitutional amendment to do what he likes before that. If we swing congress in two years, it will slow him down significantly, and then we can replace him in 2028. Hopefully people will actually keep showing up long enough after that to reverse all the damage he’s likely to do in the next 4 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eli5: your PC has different access levels a program can run at. This prevents a malicious or badly coded program from completely fucking your computer. Kernel level anti cheat runs at the lowest level access that exists under windows. It can do basically whatever it wants to your PC, and if a backdoor is coded in (happens way more than you’d think), it gives malware basically total access to your PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had one boss comment on it, but that job was weird. They also only hired white people at that office and a secretary on another floor tried to get me fired because she thought I was gay.

  Generally…keep it away from customers and don’t be aggressive. Other than that it probably isn’t a good habit, but I doubt anyone would normally care enough to say something about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you actually care about your friend's new baby, vacation abroad or similar life events or are you just being nice?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m another maybe-autist. I don’t care at all about babies or whatever, but a vacation might be interesting. Not if their vacation was just to a resort though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You know who⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can someone eli5? Are people out there running over their own feet on razor scooters? Its difficult for me to imagine how that might be a common issue.