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- Comment on As per my last email 1 day ago:
Mine was made for a chemical analyzer for medical and drug testing (it has a METH key, among others!), and firmware-wise the customization was sort of a hack. Keeping numlock on was necessary to make it work how they intended.
- Comment on As per my last email 1 day ago:
- You win, I think. That definitely seems to be an accepted spelling.
- Pretty sure this particular keyboard is gonna be only caps. One of my keyboards even does this with numlock. It is on by defualt, has no numlock key, and if I plug in a second or use software to turn it off, the keyboard turns it back on like a useless machine.
- Comment on As per my last email 2 days ago:
cuckoo
- Comment on You shall not drink! 5 days ago:
My dad kept a P-38 on his keys for most of his life. I believe it cut significantly more skin and pants pockets than it ever did can lids.
- Comment on Sacre blu 5 days ago:
If you’re my mom or grandma, you use the crisco tub in the fridge full of used bacon grease, cooking oil, butter, margarine, and yes, even some crisco, and you make it with that.
I didn’t know what I was fed for my entire childhood was nominally a “white” gravy until well into adulthood.
It was pretty good though, NGL.
- Comment on Sacre blu 5 days ago:
- Comment on People used to do this 6 days ago:
Do what? Write with cheap but decent fountain pens?
- Comment on tough choice. toaster strudel or Twinkie 1 week ago:
A twinkie is cream-filled sponge cake sold everywhere, but most often by boomer and Gen X kids, or as roadtrip garbage.
Toaster Strudel is another processed American special, but it’s better. A frozen flaky pocket pastry with a jam of some sort inside, suitable to be “cooked” in a toaster. Unlike “pop tarts” which are more biscuit-like and shelf-stable, you really need the toaster for a toaster strudel, but your efforts will be (modestly) rewarded.
- Comment on Y'all might not be ready for this 1 week ago:
BTTF3 would just be the mid 1920s, which we haven’t seen yet, so that’s… something… right?
- Comment on tough choice. toaster strudel or Twinkie 1 week ago:
Absolutely. Maybe the “shitpost” part of this is suggesting that it’s in any way a tough choice.
- Comment on How do I move out of the USA with little to no money? 1 week ago:
It’s not really a thing, at least legally at any statistically significant scale. Economic migration is one of the great issues of our time because it’s hard to do that anywhere.
It’s gotten more difficult in many places since the tiny percentage of Americans who say they’d move out of the country has turned into a slightly less tiny percentage, but you can do your family history to see where your most recent immigrant ancestors came from, and then see if that country’s laws permit you to get a passport or otherwise have an easier path. That doesn’t really make it cheap, but it does mean you might have somewhere to go where being broke won’t get you sent back to the US. The process itself is also usually only “cheap” compared to arranging some other means of immigration.
If you are fairly young and have a somewhat neutral North American accent, there are still programs of varying respectability across east Asia that will let you get work as an ESL teacher.
Then, they’re hardly the type of places that will make you miss the US, but the gulf states have had their guest worker economies rocked by the Iran war, and work permits for jobs worth doing might be easier to get than usual.
If things are really bad, you can try to claim asylum somewhere, but unfortunately most of the places willing to accept that someone is politically oppressed in the great and free USA to the point of permitting an asylum claim is likely to be a tough place for an American to make a new start.
Finally, I suppose there’s always just buying the cheapest international ticket you can find and overstaying your visa, bringing us full circle to undocumented economic migration. Imagine the desperation one must feel to take those risks.
- Comment on I still f up doing laundry 1 week ago:
Just to jump off of the painting, The Lady of Shallott is is a lovely poem which, I daresay, was improved by Loreena McKennitt’s arrangement into a song.
- Comment on Who cleans the toilets in Gault's Gulch? 1 week ago:
You mean the place with 45 weirdos and a bunch of money laundering and tax evasion? They just import workers from real Honduras outside the “agreement of co-existence.” Not gonna have the same option on Mars.
- Comment on Who cleans the toilets in Gault's Gulch? 1 week ago:
Also important to remember that the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is about a billion dollars.
- Comment on PTA went way too hard on the AI flyers. This was the fifth in just over a week. 2 weeks ago:
Having scrolled linked in more than usual this week, it may have primed me for this post.
- Comment on PTA went way too hard on the AI flyers. This was the fifth in just over a week. 2 weeks ago:
Yes. It’s not the end of the world (or is it?!?!?!), it’s just such an assault ion the senses that I check out. I didn’t win anything, but I wouldn’t have known until I started redacting surnames. It’s like middle aged celebrities who get too much cosmetic work done that I now assume they’re even older than they are.
- Comment on PTA went way too hard on the AI flyers. This was the fifth in just over a week. 2 weeks ago:
Amanda got four tickets to the local water park. She’s good.
I assume. I don’t know her life.
- Comment on PTA went way too hard on the AI flyers. This was the fifth in just over a week. 2 weeks ago:
Someday there may be skilled cohorts of prompt engineers who can make generative AI sing in a way that is, if not art, then impressive in its own way, and the ones who are in demand will likely put in thousands of hours of effort at learning and refining the systems they manipulate.
This is not that. 🤣
- Comment on PTA went way too hard on the AI flyers. This was the fifth in just over a week. 2 weeks ago:
Would you rather have just got a text based email?
Yes.
A PowerPoint screenshot?
Also Yes, though the email would have better.
I know we tend to go hard here in the Fediverse, but an exhausting chain of eye-assaulting slop from the adults who are influencing my kid’s education is is exactly where my personal line for “mildly” infuriating is.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on Whomever mapped this is wrong 2 weeks ago:
LOL, yeah. I’m just trying to remember how real medical illustrators try to show bones and muscles in the same drawing. The AI did do a good job making her look really sad about the travesty going on below her neck. 🤣
- Comment on Whomever mapped this is wrong 2 weeks ago:
All the internal organs are laid out as though we’re seeing the front view, the proportions are kind of off, and though I’m less certain about it, the “choices” made on how to depict the hip skeleton and musculature look, well, sloppy.
- Comment on Paul Wesley Admits He Still Wonders If He’s ‘Doing Enough’ to Honor William Shatner’s Captain Kirk 2 weeks ago:
I get a little sad every time Sam is on. Death by rubber dog vomit seems like a very yucky way to go.
- Comment on Buck Rogers Star Erin Gray Recalls Being ‘So Humiliated’ During Audition to Play Captain Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager 2 weeks ago:
Yes, that part is good, but the director and execs were piling on in a way that felt personal and IMHO unprofessional.
- Comment on Stare of the void ... 2 weeks ago:
I believe in the trailer she’s also saying, “Why would I deceive you?”
- Comment on Buck Rogers Star Erin Gray Recalls Being ‘So Humiliated’ During Audition to Play Captain Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager 3 weeks ago:
It is, and you can absolutely understand her motivation.
I also read the linked article on Genevieve Bujold and that was brutal. The men in charge of Voyager fuckin’ hated her.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x07 "Like Chronitons Through The Hourglass" 3 weeks ago:
Strong for this season, but the gimmick of genre homages on every episode (even the Martians were pretty pulp-serial in their production design) has really backfired, I think. When everything’s special, nothing’s special. As someone who got stuck in watching one summer of Young and the Restless with his mom one summer in the late 80s, the parody itself worked pretty well, but I found myself mercilessly slicing that nostalgia away to lkook at the story itself in a way that I wouldn’t if it had been slipped into a more “normal” season as a breather.
Overall, it was okay, the crew manipulated into dealing with some stuff that they didn’t want to, and knowing that stubborn Pike had to be the one to pull them through. I’m an absolute sap for pulling dad heartstrings, though, so that part came together nicely for me, and as the one time where we even briefly explore the fact that some ST characters end up living double or triple lifetimes due to cosmic events.
And, if we can channel 30 Rock for a moment… lemmy.world/…/853ad834-2855-48d8-bef1-0e8ff9a12bc…
- Comment on To be happy… 3 weeks ago:
While I had to learn that Microwave ovens don’t magically work on the resonant frequency of water molecules, they do work by inciting motion in dipole molecules, and water with those little H atoms hanigng off to one side is dipolar, so microwaves are rather good at heating them up. This means that you’re sort of working in the same realm of temperatures and humidity as steaming or even boiling, for good or (mostly) for ill.
Heating frozen food specifically engineered to come out okay from a microwave? Well, it’ll come out okay. Re-heating soup or re-steaming tamales (mmmmm. tamales…)? Pretty decent. Heating up anything that wasn’t meant to have “wetness” as a major part of its mouthfeel will go poorly, often disastrously if you don’t try to work around the microwave’s limitations.
- Comment on The town and HOA only have two settings for a holiday: Jesus and Troops. I guess Labor days is a "Troops" holiday. 3 weeks ago:
Not completely sure how they could just veto a sale to someone with melanin.
They can’t, but they can make sure that melanin is the only visible or auditory difference. Nowadays, most (but not all) racists are okay with brown and black people existing as long as they make a little bit less than white professional peers and exactly match the racists’ understanding of how white people should act.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 39 comments
