rekabis

@rekabis@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It took me until the early 2020s to realize that men even have body washes in the first place.

  Keep in mind that I abandoned broadcast TV around 2001 or 2002, so I completely cut all commercials out of my life.

  Then when the first adblocker became available for Phoenix (later Firebird, then Firefox) around 2004, I was all over that like white on rice. So since 2004 the only ads I have had to suffer were when I set up a new system whose browsers needed configuring, and later once my browser protections became too strict and I needed a “naked” web browser for user-hostile sites that tied spyware and near-malware into site-critical functionality.

  So I have been “out of the advertising loop” for a very long time, and always saw bodywash as a female thing. I quite literally never “got the memo” that body washes came for men.

  And I’m not likely to get any, either. And not for any stupidly sexist reasons - after five decades on this rock, I am just habituated on bars of soap. I just don’t like the showering/soaping-up experience without bar soap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Something like host over half of all Americans cannot read above a 5th grade level. Almost a third are functionally illiterate.

  It’s not that they don’t have critical thinking skills. It’s that the entire lower-90% have been badly nerfed such that it is increasingly difficult for anyone to get to a point where they can educate themselves without copious assistance.

  And that’s exactly how Republicans prefer the population - uneducated, illiterate, ignorant and gullible. The better with which to scam them for their votes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Haiku OS stumbles into the room, gags at the PearsonVue stench, beats a hasty retreat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ONE OF US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look into the Demon Core. Chunk of refined nuclear material that was perfectly fine to handle so long as it wasn’t bumped.

  But bump it even slightly, and the part that got bumped became dense enough to experience a minor amount of sustained fission and throw off a lethal enough dose of radiation. Several scientists died because of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It didn’t involve me It’s not my fuckin business.

  And that is exactly how things should be.

  Unfortunately, ChristoFascists are inordinately obsessed about the “morality” of other people, and tend to demand that the government gets involvedved in regulating what goes on in those bedrooms.

  Just not their bedrooms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did a simple phone call become so problematic?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. There are only three modern/common communications channels which are truly synchronous:

  1. In-person communication
  2. Phone calls
  3. Video calls

  Everything else is asynchronous, and does not necessarily involve an interruption or a disruption of your time - you can get to it when you want to, within polite reason.

  And with the fragmentation of our attention due to social media - to say nothing about the broader nature of our modern culture - being able to handle communication asynchronously is becoming very important to people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what unbiased media sources do you use?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In Canada, the CBC has the least amount of bias of any domestic news source.

  Going International, I would say AP, PBS, NPR, Reuters, BBC.