tomenzgg
@tomenzgg@midwest.social
- Comment on Anon tries to save money 2 days ago:
To be fair, I’m also stateside and, while I knew enough to know not to do it with abandon, I’ve torrented without a VPN at least a handful of times and never got anything from my ISPs in two decades.
- Comment on Recession indicator 1 week ago:
To save you what turned into a whole year for me, – if you have anyone else who can help you – tag team applying. I only started to see consistent interviews once my husband started helping and we started not only flooding every listing we could but, also, routinely applying before a lot of people got to them.
Good luck; one of the worst years of my life.
- Comment on There he goes 1 week ago:
For real; have no idea what the caffeine amount was (very well could’ve been far less than both if you) but I took an edible with caffeine, once.
Tried it once, before, and barely noticed anything so I popped a second one, this time around.
Naturally, forgot I’d taken anything and only vaguely became aware, an hour later, than my heart was pounding. Trying to figure out why your heart is thundering out of your chest while stoned to Hell is probably not high on the Most Effective list.
- Comment on 7 for me 1 week ago:
Usually 20; been doing 5, lately.
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 1 week ago:
…wut? Really?
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 1 week ago:
I don’t know that I agree that breadboxes were solely used in times/cases where the risk of mice getting to the bread was present but I get your reasoning.
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 1 week ago:
To be fair, you originally said, “the real reason,” but have just listed three different equal reasons.
- Comment on Awooo 1 week ago:
This means that even in left-leaning communities like Lemmy, we’re seeing a majority of individuals speak out and very clearly say “This does not offend me.”
Has that been by people who are mentally disabled, though?
And that leftist spaces struggle with meaningfully engagement with systems of ablism has been a point of contention for…decades, now.
- Comment on Understanding your target audience when marketing 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Understanding your target audience when marketing 2 weeks ago:
I watched a recap of that on YouTube, one time; sleezebag is right.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Everything is political; how much you notice really is just a metric of how much a particular subject effects you.
This is such a great example.
- Comment on Anon indulges 2 weeks ago:
I mean, there are still obvious health benefits; you’re going to get vitamins from OJ a can of soda will never give you. But, yeah, there are definitely, additionally, health detriments, as well.
- Comment on Anyone? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah; when those lines are horizontal – though –, you may want to worry. But vertically, usually not.
- Comment on French culture 3 weeks ago:
In the end, it’s all subjective but – if you’ll hear me out –
thoghdoesn’t alter the current spelling very much while maintaining a linguistic heritage (as the “thogh” spelling was also likewise used, during Middle English); also, the number of words ending in just the “o” vowel is less common, I feel, and will probably look doubly foreign to a native English speaker due to the consonant digraph (though, again, subjective; maybe not).However, – additionally – saving “oght” for “thought” is giving that letter combination a sound already covered in English by another letter combination: “aught” (e.g. caught, fraught, taught, …thaught…?).
Finally, a single “f” for “tough” could work (certainly, there are examples) but we miss out on employing the Germanic linguistic tendency to indicate a short vowel sound with a double consonant, inherited by words such as “ball”, “fall”, “doll”, “call”, or “puff” (of course, there’s plenty of exceptions (“get”, “bet”, “mat”, etc.) but, so long as we’re making changes, firming up an existing rule (and avoiding the brief uncertainty of whether or not the reader is dealing with a prefix) would, arguably, be useful).
- Comment on French culture 3 weeks ago:
“Thogh thaughts are tuff,” in a more blessèd timeline.
- Comment on At least 4,500 Americans per year die from hydroxyl acid exposure 4 weeks ago:
Probably because that’s what some had been told they would be taking before entering the slaughterhouse; but just a guess, on my part.
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 4 weeks ago:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made."
is generally interpreted to mean that Jesus was there from the beginning. Or, to quote the Nicene Creed,
begotten and not made, consubstantial with the Father
- Comment on Do it 1 month ago:
I Remember Everything (in My Ass)
- Comment on Do it 1 month ago:
Thank you, Mario!
But our princess is in another cavity!
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 1 month ago:
Not unintentionally correct…because that was my very intentional point.
In spite of car manufacturers claiming seatbelts and air bags were unnecessary, the sheer number of resulting deaths caused us to actually do something about it. I don’t look at the lack of driver’s licenses as anything approaching a rosy past. I will never be sympathetic to the argument that a lack of common sense safety regulations which saves lives somehow grants us more freedom (other than to abdicate all of your freedoms instantaneously via early death, which overwhelmingly impacts the poor and marginalized); sorry.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 1 month ago:
Like all the car crashes that now require us to get a driver’s license…; can’t mow down the government if you’re trained on the rules of the road!
People can’t just use tools that impact the lives of others outside themselves in peace; smdh…
- Comment on Gen Z's safe space - Sick of Musk and Zuckerberg, Gen Zers are flocking to Tumblr 1 month ago:
It’s funny because, while not a 1-for-1 cultural fit, Mastodon’s site structure has felt much closer to Tumblr’s. I feel like the reason Twitter people keep saying Mastodon’s insufficient (while, eventually, flocking to BlueSky) is that BlueSky offers a more similar UX, in terms of shunting you along algorithmically. I don’t think there’s any issue with Mastodon’s UI (other than maybe PixelFed, I think it’s the closest Fediverse project to other mainstream social media UI) but I suspect the UX isn’t quite right for people expecting Twitter.
However, I, as a Tumblr transplant, felt right at home.
- Comment on Genius 1 month ago:
I was reading an article where he claimed he wasn’t as hardline, as some, and his immigration policies were actually motivated by the guaranteed safety to everyone when we follow the rules (he gave the example of a migrant nearly dying from falling down a ravine during zir trek).
…
Anyway, color me surprised~
- Comment on Genius 1 month ago:
Associating this man is an insult to the mentally disabled, actually.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
Dual-booting was how I first got into Linux; it truly leaves open the ability to keep everything you’re worried about not having.
What’s the VPN?
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 1 month ago:
If it helps, one of main arguments of the antitrust lawsuit against Amazon that the Biden administration opened was that Amazon routinely, actually, costs you money because they use their platform to offer more expensive options in your searches first and other means: ftc.gov/…/ftc-sues-amazon-illegally-maintaining-m… (I’m not sure if that link with detail or with a much clarity as wherever I first read it but I can’t recall where I originally read it 3 or so months ago, I’m afraid).
The only major advantage that I’ll fully admit Prime has is speed of delivery; I admit I do use it when our cats run out of food and I dropped the ball on making sure we had more or I need filters for our air purifiers that just noted they need new ones.
But, even if you can find cheaper versions on Amazon, it can become easy to fall for the setup of their site if you use it by default all the time.
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 1 month ago:
To be fair, Lemmy’s UI does it no favors; I can’t entirely blame your friends for thinking it looks sketch.
- Comment on Cathy, do the math. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Musk shares post that Hitler didn’t kill millions, public workers did. Union rages 2 months ago:
Void, that was a great show
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Hey, bud; maybe let’s not bring whorephobic and misogynistic euphemisms into this.
