zephorah
@zephorah@lemm.ee
- Comment on What are some good places/activities where a middle-aged man can new make friends? 4 hours ago:
I came here to say Dungeons & Dragons. People of all ages and walks of life play.
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 5 days ago:
That’s no longer a universal thing.
- Comment on Law Would Make Most National Weather Service Workers Hard to Fire | A bill introduced Friday would classify forecasters and other staff as critical public safety roles. 6 days ago:
Common sense. And it will fail because it is common sense.
- Comment on Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t Theil explain this was the goal in an often repeated vid, I forget from where, he’s speaking at a podium though.
- Comment on Weapons trafficking 2 weeks ago:
This belongs on T shirts and beer cozies.
- Comment on Weapons trafficking 2 weeks ago:
People insisting trickle down economics worked, when, in fact, it tricked up into the pockets of Bezos and the Waltons.
- Comment on Weapons trafficking 2 weeks ago:
The surgeon who performs illegal organ transplants.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 2 weeks ago:
Google does similar, stating it’s for safety.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 2 weeks ago:
“Make me an offer” is the worst.
- Comment on Why does (human) organ trafficking exist? 2 weeks ago:
Medically, 51 isn’t old.
- Comment on Why does (human) organ trafficking exist? 2 weeks ago:
Not me. That’s is above my pay grade.
The main point is someone has to decide.
- Comment on Why does (human) organ trafficking exist? 2 weeks ago:
Organ transplant.
There’s a board who decides which patients qualify for the top of the list. If you are someone who sat in a chair gaming, from teens to 30s, pickling your liver with alcohol for the duration, thus killing it, you won’t make that waiting list. Two reasons. You can’t be trusted to care for the new liver. You’re not a useful member of society.
Organ transplants happen when someone young and healthy dies, is in a position that those organs can be preserved, and the family, in the midst of their horror, shock, and grief, both allows the conversation and then agrees to the donation.
As such, if that sit in a chair gaming and pickling themself individual has a billionaire dad, maybe they go black market? Otherwise it’s hospice care.
- Comment on I cheat on as many people as I want to 3 weeks ago:
I don’t understand open relationships, but in that scenario, there’s trust and agreement.
The men who throw out this biological, primate imperative argument without that relationship contract are just jerks. Breakers of people and trust.
- Comment on I cheat on as many people as I want to 3 weeks ago:
There are people who agree not to be monogamous, but as it’s within the relationship contract, so to speak, it remains a relationship. I don’t personally understand it, but I don’t have to. We have two couples who are friends, via history, married right out of high school, who’ve lived like this for decades. It works for them because they’re honest and open about it, and it’s mutually agreed upon.
Any deviation from the honest, open, discussed, and mutually agreed upon, and you’re little more than a destructive asshole.
One is cheating and the other is not.
- Comment on The road they drove to dump this trash literally takes to the landfill 4 weeks ago:
As the squeeze continues, the trash dumps will increase. It costs money to dump trash appropriately. Out of all the utilities, trash pickup will likely be sacrificed first. This isn’t an endorsement.
- Comment on What period was the "golden age" of TV in terms of content? 4 weeks ago:
As part of the “Star Wars” generation, it feels like now. Star Trek used to be the only scifi on TV. Then Babylon 5 for a bit. XFiles. Sci fi wasn’t common. Now, scifi is everywhere. Something new pops up fairly regularly and I appreciate that quite a lot.
- Comment on There Is No ‘Energy Emergency,’ a New Lawsuit Claims | In suit, 15 Dem states called Trump’s declaration illegal & federal agencies are rushing permits for fossil fuel projects under false pretenses 4 weeks ago:
There’s probably a data center or three in waiting behind this.
- Comment on Why do we tolerate it that Luigi Mangione is being held in prison. We know its absolutely the least safe place he can be? 5 weeks ago:
True. I think even if he gets off, they’ll kill him. Remember all the whistleblower deaths in 2024? Like that.
- Comment on After Federal Cuts, Food Banks Scrounge and Scrimp 1 month ago:
“Protein malnutrition” is becoming far too common a diagnosis already, the last two years or so. I’d love to look up some stats on it but I’m not sure those will even be available going forward, given the state of research right now.
- Comment on woolly mice is bioweapon 1 month ago:
That’s what I’m wondering. I’m also wondering why he’s tweeting what he’s tweeting.
- Comment on good morning bitches 1 month ago:
The wiki link said he went to prison and is forbidden from practicing. Why is he tweeting this while wearing the proverbial white lab coat?
- Comment on women are the devil 1 month ago:
Not if we’re quietly having babies and keeping house.
Only 50 years has passed since a good effort has been made to make us equal under the law and people are still losing their damn minds. This is the minor side of it, the rise of the far right is the worst of it.
I anticipate MAGA going full force on declining birth rates once their done with their sledgehammers and bank account fill ups. Trump probably cleaned out Fort Knox.
- Comment on A terrible guide to the terrible terminology of U.S. Health Insurance 2 months ago:
Coinsurance. You want a plan that includes none of this.
- Comment on Switch 2 preorders delayed over Trump tariff uncertainty 2 months ago:
What’s uncertain? He’s solidifying income for the executive branch sans congress. And thus gutting congressional power over the executive branch before midterms.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I strongly encourage you to at least scratch the surface on human memory data.
- Comment on What phones are the government people using that are supposedly secure enough to discuss war plans? iPhone? Android? Some special custom-made phone specifically for the government? 2 months ago:
They’re using Signal so nothing is recorded.
Basically there’s a government transparency mandate by We The People. It’s why info gets released to the press and eventually things like the JFK assassination are released years later. It’s why everything the president writes or says is recorded. Because, in theory, they work for We The People and have to answer to us. They can’t do that if no one knows what they’re up to.
Trump admin says, fuck that, fuck We The People, we will now use an end to end encrypted service that cannot be effectively subpoenaed. What we do is our secret, so no one knows what we are up to.
As a messaging service Signsl is as secure and private as the people using it. You want privacy you use WIRE or Signal. Your stuff isn’t recorded on a database like Facebook Messenger, for later subpoenas, it’s just poof, gone, as you delete it. You can even time delete it for everyone in chat after a few minutes, an hour, a week, etc.
As for the phones themselves, I don’t know. In general terms, out of the box, Apple is more secure than android but neither is private, unless the feds get a telemetry removal package or some such which would make sense. GrapheneOS on an Android device (strips all telemetry including that map app) is how we laymen do it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Another basic demonstration on why oversight by a human brain is necessary.
A system rooted in pattern recognition that cannot recognize the basic two column format of published and printed research papers
- Comment on Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in CA for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. The woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor with 16,000 citations. 2 months ago:
She’s medically trained, so she knows where to hit him. In addition, there’s a lack of barrier to entering the physical space of strangers and physically touching them just in general. That barrier almost doesn’t exist for medical. The rest of the world, middle of the bell curve, hesitates.
And if she’s done direct patient care at any point in her career, there’s a good chance she has no patience left for shenanigans.
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 2 months ago:
Heavy metals in artists’ oil paints.
You can always dig into true crime, see what methods are used to kill husbands.
Check out ChubbyEmu on YouTube. He’s a pharmacist who presents strange and interesting medical stories (with dramatic re-enactments) involving unusual chemical exposures that damage and sometimes kill people. Examples: soda, coconut water from a bad coconut, a fermented soup, ivermectin ordered online, lab chemicals stolen by a student and given to a disliked roommate, and so on. Maybe something there will inspire you. ChubbyEmu does a good job of breaking down complex medical into an easily digestible format.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows | Review Thread 2 months ago:
The challenge side quests. I could not pursue them in full. Not that the speed runs didn’t have enjoyment, it was just too much. And the brother was both irrational and grating to deal with for that long.
The Mirage info is simultaneously reassuring and infuriating. The latter for money reasons given probable content expectations after Odyssey and Valhalla.