BussyCat
@BussyCat@lemmy.world
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 4 days ago:
What do you call people who wear red and black swastikas and say heil Hitler while doing a salute typical of the Nazi party?
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 5 days ago:
I’m not saying that is the norm but more so that it may not be just internal misogyny that causes the poster to reach their conclusion
- Comment on This should be true 6 days ago:
First everyone gets back pay, then people need to work a bunch of overtime after the shutdown to make up for work, so will actually cost even more money.
But even if that wasn’t true, employee salaries make up less than 5% of the budget so a 35 day shut down (the previous record) would make up less than half a percent of the budget
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 6 days ago:
Like the guy defenitely comes off as a dick but also if you check out conventional social media you will see guys who talk about being expected to pay for not just the girl but also their friend, and you will see girls talk about how if she brings a friend for protection then the guy should pay for the friend too.
So many variables exist that we don’t know but for some people there an expectation that if a girl brings a friend the guy needs to pay for both and I wouldn’t default that to just misogyny
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 1 week ago:
I could be wrong but isn’t Ha-Satan just the title for “the accuser” and not the biblical satan who is the fallen angel
- Comment on New phonetic alphabet just dropped 1 week ago:
But it isnt English focused and the reason it sounds militaristic is because the media shows the military use it
Alpha is Greek Bravo is Italian Delta is Greek India is its own country Kilo is Greek Lima is a city in Peru November is Latin Papa is decently multilingual Quebec is an indigenous word that was coined by a Frenchman Sierra is Spanish Tango is Spanish Victor is Latin Zulu is an indigenous tribe
Charlie, Juliet, Mike, Oscar, Romeo are all names that exist in multiple languages
Like it’s easy to think of it as being American since the American military uses it a lot but it was specifically designed to be useful by non English speakers for joint operations
- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 1 week ago:
Filters and stripping columns. It’s not that hard to do and if you have a clean source of plastics (not mixed with garbage) then it’s basically all just hydrocarbons with a little bit of nitrogen. Carbon + oxygen + hydrogen = CO2 and H2O which while we don’t need more CO2 it’s significantly better then generating that same energy from oil as it is cleaning up our waste vs extracting more from the ground.
Its a lot harder when you do trash incineration as that has a lot more nasty stuff in it but plastics are easy
- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 1 week ago:
Individuals are essentially useless on a global scale but companies like BP aren’t drilling for oil to accomplish their sinister goal of warming the earth they are producing a product that all of us as individuals are purchasing.
It’s like you are in a dog park that’s covered in dog shit, just because there’s shit everywhere doesn’t mean you shouldn’t clean up after your dog. Telling other people they don’t need to worry about cleaning up their shit because the guy with the dog training school doesn’t clean up any of the shit that those dogs makes you bad.
You cleaning up after your dog isn’t going to clean the whole park but doing nothing until a petition is done that enforces cleaning up your dog isn’t the way. I’m not asking you to spend all day trying to clean the park but you should at least do your best to not make it worse
- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 1 week ago:
Should just follow japans lead and incinerate the plastic for energy
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 1 week ago:
Personally still going to put the blame there on eraser eater, but the whole point of this post was to find something that actually works to curb the behavior
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 1 week ago:
It can easily be a chocking hazard, it’s unsanitary, and it can cause the child to be ostracized by peers which can limit their social development.
- Comment on If spiderman shoots webs from his wrists would not the tension of shooting and swingiing up a skyscraper pretty much break his wrist? Also why SpiderMAN shouuldn''t it be SpiderTEEN? 3 weeks ago:
I know this is probably googleable but I swear it was like strength of a man sized spider and like could lift a car. Also haven’t seen a spider man movie in a long time so could be wrong
- Comment on If spiderman shoots webs from his wrists would not the tension of shooting and swingiing up a skyscraper pretty much break his wrist? Also why SpiderMAN shouuldn''t it be SpiderTEEN? 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t he have super human strength which would require superhuman tendons and bones
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 5 weeks ago:
11.4% take anti depressants and between 40-65% experience some degree of sexual dysfunction so even using the highest numbers and assuming that the sexual dysfunction completely eliminates interest in sex (it doesn’t) that would only be 7.41%
- Comment on Water Boil Advisory 5 weeks ago:
Phone is really the only one of those that’s helpful. It’s not really considered common practice to regularly check your water companies website or Facebook and for something as important as a water boil advisory it should be sent out at least through email in addition to phone
- Comment on 2hot2handle 5 weeks ago:
It says in textbooks that in a vacuum water will spontaneously boil so arguing that it’s not spontaneous is wrong.
It happens as pressure decreases but unlike conventional boiling where you can see nucleate boiling it can instead happen all at once without you adding heat to the system
Most importantly he’s trying to argue semantics with a person who is much smarter than him and then ends it with a condescending “simple thermo”.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 1 month ago:
He has dementia which is an easy enough word for most people to be able to say. If you want to know the location of the dementia it’s in the frontotemporal area of the brain. But why that complex word well the front of the brain is called the frontal lobes which is a fairly logical name then the temporal lobe is the part that’s near your temples which is also kind of logical.
Historically medicine has been bad about being less specific with names and instead just naming things after people which while they are easier to say don’t actually describe what’s happening
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 month ago:
I was just as confused when I first heard the terms lol
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 month ago:
Can you describe what you mean by “disconnect with the image of masculinity you’ve been taught”
That is a very interesting statement but does not align with how it’s been described to me which is men can’t get laid and are horny and give up on women and just watch porn
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 month ago:
Cis means same as opposed to trans which means opposite it’s commonly used to describe the shape of molecules in chemistry but is also used to say if a persons birth sex is the same (cis) or different (trans) then their gender
Het is short for hetero which means different vs homo which means the same so if you had homogenized milk it’s all uniform and the same vs a heterogenous mixture which would have some areas of extra fat. Those are used as hetero and homo sexual where a homosexual likes people of the same sex and heterosexuals like people of the opposite sex
So a cis het male is a dude whose not trans who likes banging chicks
- Comment on Is it realistic to hope that lemmy grows to the size of the bigger social media platforms? 1 month ago:
Being the size of current reddit is bad but having more content would be nice
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 1 month ago:
Because if it’s a closed loop then the heat doesn’t leave the system so at some point you need to open the system. Your options for getting heat to actually leave the system are: evaporate water, air coolers (not efficient with large systems or in warm climate), or water coolers.
The water coolers sound good but then you are heating up a local water supply which can kill a bunch of local wildlife
- Comment on Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons? 2 months ago:
My engineering classes had one time option a year (not just per semester but only offered once a year) and none of them were offered later than 2pm
- Comment on Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons? 2 months ago:
High schools run early because one of their primary functions is childcare while parents work and parents commonly leave for work between 7-8 so kids need to be on the bus before then. They then stagger primary, middle, and high school so they can use the same bus drivers for all of them and high schoolers leave first so that they can arrive home first without parents. This is being changed as high schoolers need more sleep but it’s not for sports.
In college you need professors to teach classes and most of them want to work a more traditional schedule so want to be there from 7-3
- Comment on Stanford Professor: The idea that Stanford University owes its graduate students a "living wage" is preposterous 2 months ago:
I worked at a university, did research at a university and was a student. There is obviously waste and definitely some amount of grift but the auditing requirements in place to prevent grift are arguably so strict that they cause as much or more waste as they save in grift.
- Comment on Stanford Professor: The idea that Stanford University owes its graduate students a "living wage" is preposterous 2 months ago:
They are paid for by meal plans that count as income and are paid out as an expense… that’s how a budget works
After you mentioned the private chefs I tried searching for private chefs at Stanford and there was no prior job histories for it or current job openings for it. They have an executive chef but that is a dining hall position.
They aren’t hosting constant galas and most schools have contracts with companies like Sysco that require all catering events on campus to be supplied by Sysco so it’s not like it’s super high quality food either
- Comment on Stanford Professor: The idea that Stanford University owes its graduate students a "living wage" is preposterous 2 months ago:
They get regularly audited which is why the scandal was caught, they still can’t misuse tuition funds either. Travel and food expenses mimics gsa travel expenses but then they also have multiple dining halls and catering. Why are you trying so hard to make mountains out of mole hills it’s like you are begging for everything to be a giant conspiracy
- Comment on Stanford Professor: The idea that Stanford University owes its graduate students a "living wage" is preposterous 2 months ago:
You know you can just look at their budget right?
- Comment on Stanford Professor: The idea that Stanford University owes its graduate students a "living wage" is preposterous 2 months ago:
They also have 12.8 square miles of campus to maintain… which requires a lot more than just the 2300 professors. They also have adjunct professors, lab managers, researcher techs, facilities, and a ton of other expenses that are required from an R1 research university.
The grad students while they don’t get a “livable wage” do get their tuition comped and get a housing stipend. Like we can always do better but undergrad students are being done much dirtier than grad students as they are going into huge amounts of debt to try and even afford tuition
- Comment on Stanford Professor: The idea that Stanford University owes its graduate students a "living wage" is preposterous 2 months ago:
It’s an endowment, they can’t just empty that pool of money they take around 4% of the money each year that they get from investments which ends up being around 10% of their budget