AmidFuror
@AmidFuror@fedia.io
- Comment on How would you quickly describe Lemmy to a non-fediverse person? 40 minutes ago:
It's a popular but inferior alternative to Mbin.
- Comment on If a girl asks you if you're big, are you supposed to lie or not? 16 hours ago:
What if you have had countless complaints and a few restraining orders, are you supposed to lie or not?
- Comment on [USA] Is "there are ICE agents roaming the streets" a good reason/excuse to avoid going outside? Or is it just a part of reality that you have to learn to accept? 1 day ago:
What the heck is this? A person who thinks their small business will survive the economic climate ahead is a moron?
- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 1 week ago:
You're taking too long in the shower. Think about water conservation.
- Comment on I landed in another toxic workplace after quitting a previous one. What would you do in this scenario? (Open to all suggestions) 1 week ago:
Did anyone else read the title and then get surprised that the author is not who they thought it would be?
You have my sympathies, OP.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 weeks ago:
Under capitalism, companies do what their owners want them to do. The owners can choose to try to grow, to shrink, to sell, or to close.
Publicly owned companies have shareholders, and the shareholders usually want the company to grow so their investment grows. Shareholders can have other values, but anyone can become a shareholder.
Under non-capitalist systems, the government might own some or all companies. Then the companies do whatever the party in power wants. The party in power probably doesn't have time to run all the companies, so they give some level of independence. They can reign that back whenever they like.
The most common motivation in non-capitalist systems is probably greed and growing personal wealth of party leaders via corruption under that system. Luckily, the people can vote in a different party and/or protest against party corruption except in all real-world cases, where that is banned or suppressed.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 2 weeks ago:
In America, it is a harsh term for the vagina. As a gendered term, it would be considered a slur. For some reason, "pussy" is more acceptable but carries the same connotations. The latter is used to describe a coward, while the former would be more akin to "bitch."
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 2 weeks ago:
Hag
- Comment on In Cairn, the Mountain is Both “A Person and an Adversary” 3 weeks ago:
I didn't know Game of Thrones was still big in Australia.
- Comment on [META] Community discussion regarding AI & clickbait 4 weeks ago:
I clicked your link purportedly to a picture of q woman with large boobs, and it just turned out to be Cameron Diaz. Since Diaz is approximately a B cup (US sizing), that was definitely clickbait.
- Comment on what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace? 4 weeks ago:
This is a just a correction, but it seems fitting on a post about language and learning languages.
"Half" is the noun you are looking for. "Halve" sounds slightly different and means "to split in half."
- Comment on How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ? 4 weeks ago:
What a bizarre sub-thread.
OC says generations (plural) before had the same access as Gen Z. Presuming that to mean as kids, that's clearly not true.
Someone steps in to write that people on the border of Gen Z and the generation (singular) before it had similar access. Useful to learn, but not groundbreaking.
Commenter points out that that's not very different and gets insulted.
- Comment on How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ? 4 weeks ago:
When young? No. Unless you count the Sears catalog.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 4 weeks ago:
Trophies all around!
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 4 weeks ago:
I don't know about who is the champion. The virus eventually fails to multiply in the host, but it meanwhile spreads to others.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 4 weeks ago:
It's for the first half. There's no objective evidence this approach works. The OP may also recover from colds quickly without the vitamin / protein intervention, may judge
symptoms differently, or may not accurately track results (e.g. dismiss cases where the opposite was true). - Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 4 weeks ago:
Good find. Key paragraph:
When measured objectively over the 42-day evaluation period, limb function improved in 12.1% and worsened in 8.6%, but did not change in most dogs. By contrast, caregivers (both owners and vets) reported improvements in lameness from the start, with the reported improvements increasing with time. The caregiver placebo effect appeared to be around 57% for owners and 40–45% for vets and was statistically significant at all assessment time points.
Objective measurements are one way to detect this effect. Another would be a true double-blind trial where neither owner nor vet knows which medicine was given.
- Comment on Cecil Williams, Civil Rights Activist at NYFash Week 4 weeks ago:
We need to stop glorifying these fashists and their different cities "fash week" celebrations.
- Comment on Watching DEAD LIKE ME and in Season 2 Ep 4 they line Donald Trump up in a perp walk with KNOWN DICTATORS! Unreal! 4 weeks ago:
Spoiler in post title
- Comment on What are some franchises with characters that personify countries? 5 weeks ago:
Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room with Pierre and Suzette.
- Comment on Have there been any technological advances in boucey ball technology in the last decade or two? 1 month ago:
Thanks. Fixed it.
- Comment on Have there been any technological advances in boucey ball technology in the last decade or two? 1 month ago:
Please stop putting in comments about bouncy balls. OP made clear by typing it twice he wants to know about boucy balls.
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 1 month ago:
You can make them affordable by screening for high income.
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 1 month ago:
What if you think affordable housing should be government subsidized? Or as is the case in many places, below market priced units that the builder is required to include, with limits on how they are used (income qualifications and owner occupation).
Neither of those requires you not to rent to other people. It would be like saying I'm for mental health services being paid for by the government but running a psychiatric business.
- Comment on XC Running: Does anyone else's parents do this? 1 month ago:
That's like 400 times around the track!
- Comment on XC Running: Does anyone else's parents do this? 1 month ago:
I find for cross-country and track you really just end up back where you started. If you want to get somewhere, you have to run a 5k. If you really want to go far, marathons are where it's at.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you have memory problems and need to write down events, is there a system which you can verify that its not tampered with? (Like a digital checksum, but for a journal) 1 month ago:
He murdered your wife.
- Comment on Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company? 1 month ago:
The sign could be about missiles - rocks on the road kicked up by the trucks tires - rather than the truck spilling its load.
- Comment on Stephen Miller: Secretary Kennedy one of the world's foremost experts on public health. He is working hard to restore the credibility of the CDC as a scientific organization 1 month ago:
This is a tangent, but I'm curious how many people who uncritically supported Kennedy's environmental efforts are rethinking the accuracy of his claims based on what they know is wrong about his public health claims.
What's the difference between evil pharma pushing deadly vaccines and evil chemical companies polluting our environment? There are historically proven incidents of both (if we expand vaccine to medical treatments in general), but how many of the specific cases he made against companies were contrived bullshit pushed by cranks? Take fluoridation for a less controversial example among educated people.
- Comment on What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts 1 month ago:
This is a 2D image of a cup of hazelnuts. The number is just the ones you can see. The ones you can't see aren't part of the image.