Otherbarry
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- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 1 week ago:
Hans Gruber and the Die Hards
Got to see them when they did a tour playing with Escape From the Zoo, that show was wild.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 1 week ago:
Yup there’s already a pretty good list going in this post!
Not sure what to add, their sound is a bit different but I’ve been digging Playboy Manbaby and one of their newer songs Criminals definitely fits the post topic www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abj78ccwPbg they’re amazing live. Robbie also has a whole side project with Spaceman Bob, he’s going to be playing at the Leftover Crack show this weekend so that should be fun.
got into RATM around this time last year and nothing else has come close to scratching the itch of “maaaan fuck this shit.”
Coincidentally Tom Morello mentioned Kneecap earlier this year when talking about bands of the moment nme.com/…/tom-morello-hails-kneecap-as-the-rage-a… (around 20 mins in that interview).
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 1 week ago:
Plenty of punk and punk adjacent music still around, lots of local shows still occur if you know where to look. I’m in the U.S. but can say for sure this stuff is still happening here and other countries too.
Bob Vylan and Kneecap were banned from the U.S. earlier this year and Zionists are still going around trying to get their shows cancelled just for speaking out on Palestine.
In general Zionists seem to be easily triggered, last year while on their tour playing a show in New Jersey Apes of the State had a big FREE PALESTINE banner at their shows and some guy at the venue flipped out and tried to take it down.
On tour last month in the U.S. Bad Cop/Bad Cop was selling FUCK ICE shirts while the other band on tour with them (The Iron Roses) were speaking out on LGBTQ issues and the general fucked state the U.S. is in right now.
Later this weekend Leftover Crack is playing a show in Brooklyn, I’m sure they’ll have plenty to say on the current state of things.
- Comment on Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I was going to say the same. Currently work at a small business run by a boomer so if the random person walking in looking for a job happens to catch him there’s a 50/50 chance that person will get hired. Bonus if the person looking for work has a degree from a ivy league university, boomers love that shit. I don’t know why someone with that sort of degree would be applying for a low wage small business job but the job market is a bit crazy nowadays.
The practice can backfire of course - I’ve seen the same boomer boss hire other boomers that barely know how to use a computer and then proceed to fail at his/her job spectacularly. It’s interesting when you run into boomers looking for work and it turns out they spent most of their career relying on others to deal with the mundane tasks of dealing with email, spreadsheets, etc. So many of them spent their careers falling upwards into management roles until they were laid off/fired/whatever.
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 4 weeks ago:
A nutritionist will be better able to explain this but I’ll give it a try :)
You’re maybe overthinking the sugar part of the equation. Berries/fruits contain natural sugar that is a part of the fruit itself. Your body processes that differently since that sugar comes integrated with other nutrients (fiber, Vitamin C, antioxidants, etc.). And you typically won’t want to eat say a few buckets of berries in one sitting to equal the same sugar high you get in a processed sugar, all that fiber will feel much heavier and your body is just going to tell you to slow down on its own.
The much worse types of sugars are added sugars e.g. sugars that were processed and now exist separately, then re-added into something else. Take your berry example, process all the sugar out of them so only the sugar exists, then you add those sugars to some other food you wanted to sweeten. Now your body won’t absorb that as a natural sugar complete with the other nutrients the berry used to have… you’re only getting the bad without anything useful. So you can gobble a whole ton more of those added sugars to get your sugar high without your body getting any indicators to hey, slow down, maybe it’s time to stop eating these added sugars.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 5 weeks ago:
Never paid for streaming. Usually buy music and download the files to play on my computer or stream them from the computer to my phone or wherever. Mainly have been buying lossless .flac music files from Bandcamp.
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 5 weeks ago:
I liked it though it did feel that the series had a tenancy to take itself maybe too seriously. Trek is best when it knows when to keep things on the lighter side and/or create ongoing gags and themes to call back to during the series. Discovery didn’t really feel like it had much of that.
Despite that it was still a good watch IMO. Burnham tended to be at the center of the series the other characters do get interesting when they got more time during the series. You should just give it a watch and decide for yourself.
Also if you want to know the backstory of Star Trek Strange New Worlds you’ll want to watch at least some Discovery, SNW is a spin-off.
And giving credit where it’s due, Discovery was the first of what became a whole bunch of new Trek shows that came out afterwards. If Discovery was that bad then none of the other newer Trek shows would have even made it to air. Before Discovery it had been a while since any new Trek shows had appeared, at some point the Star Trek universe needs new blood to keep things going. Else it’s just going to be older people talking about the original Star Trek series and TNG and it’ll just be something that used to exist a long time ago.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 2 months ago:
With tips I generally do 20% across the board so a bartender would get 20% just like a waitress. And it’s better to have a happy bartender :)
That said I’m also in the northeast U.S. where everything is expensive so it sort of makes sense that the tips aren’t going to be cheap. Maybe I’d rethink the tipping if I was somewhere else less expensive.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
In the U.S. older people still get by fine without all this stuff. I have family that still has a landline, nothing else, so I guess maybe that’s #3 in your list. It does mean they physically have to go to places to get things done (e.g. physically go to a bank).
Older people don’t care as much about social life beyond visiting/seeing the people/relatives they’ve always been seeing. A smartphone isn’t required for that.
- Comment on I resigned to my last job and now I need to talk to my former boss to get the job back. Any recommendations? 2 months ago:
I’ve returned back to an old job but I had left on good terms, and in fact my old boss ended up wanting to keep me around as a freelancer… eventually when my newer job wound down and I needed something more permanent it just kind of made sense to go back to the old job where the boss there still wanted me around anyway.
So when it is on good terms it’s easy. In your case it doesn’t sound like you left on great terms, and it is quite possible your former boss is going to give a bad recommendation on having the company allow you to come back. Personally I might consider that a burned bridge at this point, but hey anything can happen so all you can do is give it a go. My suggestion is to talk to your former boss and just accept blame for whatever they want to throw at you, and hope they at least give a neutral recommendation on you coming back to the company. In the end you’ll have a different boss anyway so coming in it’s a new start for you.
- Comment on Is it worth selling on eBay in 2025? 2 months ago:
In the U.S. at least around me people tend to use Facebook or the Nextdoor app for selling or getting rid of things locally. I don’t like either app but that seems to be what the general public is into at the moment.
Haven’t touched Ebay in ~ 15 years or so and don’t plan to go back to that mess. Last I used it PayPal decided to lock my account in the middle of doing a few buy/sells on Ebay causing both my Ebay rating to tank and losing PayPal in the process. Back then Ebay was so integrated with PayPal that it was hard to do anything there without PayPal so I happily ditched both of them.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 3 months ago:
Yup, most times when a business gets set up for accepting credit card payments they need to set up a bank, merchant account, gateway, those things integrate with the CC companies. Often they aren’t even the same company so you’re kind of dealing with a bunch of different entities. I’m not sure if I missed any other middlemen.
Though I’ll say lately the new thing is for the POS system / website / whatever to sell you the merchant account/gateway under their own systems so everything besides the bank and credit card companies are integrated through them (& they collect more money).
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 5 months ago:
I actually kind of like that it’s a bit slippery, makes it easy to slide into my pocket. A case would just feel too bulky and and would need more force to get in/out of my jean pockets (IMO).
Regrettably, despite having a case, I managed to crack the screen anyway. It fell face down onto a pointy rock. My first broken screen, ever.
Oof yeah I sympathize :) My previous Pixel had a screen protector on it and I still managed to crack the screen by dropping the phone on a corner and getting a nice little corner crack. After that I figured why keep bothering with these protectors haha.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 5 months ago:
Most people I know have cases on their phones, yeah.
But in case it is helpful my own phone (Pixel 7) has no case/screen protector. Also my phone has cracks on the back and one corner so this tracks :P
- Comment on New Game Concept: JuryNow – Get a Verdict from 12 Real People in 3 Minutes 5 months ago:
Opt-in might work. But thinking more about it, not sure if it would be too much of a headache to manage… I’d think you may end up having to moderate what actually shows up publicly on the site else you end up with the sorts of questions/answers that the other commenter mentioned.
- Comment on New Game Concept: JuryNow – Get a Verdict from 12 Real People in 3 Minutes 5 months ago:
That’s fair, LOL.
- Comment on New Game Concept: JuryNow – Get a Verdict from 12 Real People in 3 Minutes 5 months ago:
So does it ever tell you what the jury verdict is? I’ve done like 12 answers and there’s no visible confirmation that there were other people answering the same question let alone what the final verdict was. Kind of kills the vibe, was hoping I’d at least see what the other random anonymous jurors responded to the same question(s).
Also would be more interesting if the site would publicly show the questions/verdicts as they come in.
- Comment on will i fit in more with china/japan or russia or their communities in terms of acceptance/blending in? 5 months ago:
Not a part of either community but I’d guess russian would be easier, assuming you’ve actually spent time to immerse yourself in russian culture/language/etc. Then again if you grew up with the general american upbringing and culture you may as well hang out with whoever you want, there’s no need to specifically search out a group of people if your life has been american culture up to now.
For what it’s worth back in my college days my old roommate was half black half korean. He really, really wanted to blend in with the koreans and other asians at the school but truth is most of the foreign students tended to avoid him. The asians that did hang around with him were the type that wanted to meet and hang out with americans and weren’t being picky about culture and whatnot.
- Comment on How important is it that cans are clean when i put them in the recycling. 6 months ago:
Not sure if you meant like cleaning them all out with the dishes using soap/sponges/etc. Just rinsing them out is fine IMO.
But either option is better than just dumping dirty cans/bottles into your recycling pile. I had a friend who was living in a shared apartment with 3-4 other people and there was this one guy that never ever cleaned or rinsed any of his recycling. Apparently the shared kitchen area where the recycling was stored would reek and attract flies and other insects all because of that guy.
- Comment on Developer of 'non-consensual sex' game withdraws it from Steam after bans in the UK, Canada, and Australia 6 months ago:
I really hate the idea of people not liking something and it being scrubbed from the internet.
It’s not, the devs themselves took it off Steam (and honestly I would have thought Valve might have removed it eventually). But it’s not like the devs disappeared from the internet, searching around I saw they still sell the game on at least one game platform outside of Steam. And those same devs could choose to sell it directly themselves if they wanted, to say they’ve been scrubbed from the internet is a bit of a stretch.
- Comment on How much are additional lemmy instances needed/wanted beyond what we have at present? 6 months ago:
More Tor friendly instances would be nice. Most Lemmy instances use things like Cloudflare that freak out over Tor connections so just registering/logging into the instance is a PITA, let alone browsing. Extra bonus if the instance actually hosts the Lemmy instance in Tor itself (though realistically the rest of the Lemmy instance would still run on the clearnet since it still needs to communicate with the rest of the Fediverse).
- Comment on What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US? 6 months ago:
Probably just need an executive order from the current U.S. president to rename the country “United States of Trump”. Going forward citizens would be called Trumpians.
Google will happily go ahead and update Google Maps with the new name.
- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 7 months ago:
Like the other commenter I pronounce it sen-tor. Just like the word “dinosaur” I would pronounce die-no-sor if that makes sense. Both words end in “aur”.
…though now you’ve got me curious about how you and your wife pronounce dinosaur :)
- Comment on Should I withdraw/stop putting into my 401k? 7 months ago:
Does your employer offer you a match on your 401k contributions? That’s free money regardless of how the 401k is invested so you definitely want to keep that going.
Even without that generally speaking you’ll still want to continue contributing to your 401k. Remember that a 401k is long term retirement savings, the market will continue to rise/fall during your employment over the next x years. You’re not required to invest 100% in U.S. specific index funds, in fact most people would recommend allocating a mix of U.S. / International / Bonds e.g. the “lazy” portfolio is one of the more famous recommendations www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Asset_allocation
Or for just set-and-forget you can invest in target date retirement index funds if your 401k offers them (most 401k plans offer those nowadays).
- Comment on Was Donald Trump ever cool? 7 months ago:
In NYC people never thought he was cool, he was just another rich blowhard in the NYC area. He has spent pretty much his whole life desiring some sort of celebrity coolness he never really attained.
I don’t know about people outside the NYC area, maybe they always thought he was some sort of cool real estate rich guy? Do people down south idolize that type of person? Seems unlikely then again stranger things have happened.
- Comment on how tf do you warm up plates? 7 months ago:
Usually what I do is put the plate in the oven towards the end of whenever I need to take food out so it heats up a couple of mins or so then take everything out. Use oven mitts in case you left the plate in there a bit too long.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I believe you meant that you have an internet speed of 81 MegaBytes vs 81 Megabits.
OP is confused but I’m pretty sure he’s right about that part. Most (all?) ISPs advertise service in Megabit / Gigabit speeds. Definitely here in the U.S. not sure if other countries do that differently.
Also most speedtest sites measure in Megabit / Gigabit. e.g. www.speedtest.net is a popular one and by default it measures bandwidth speeds in Megabit / Gigabit.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
When I download something using torrent though, the speed is shown as 10 MB/s
You forgot the i, qBittorrent displays speeds in MiB/s not MB/s.
Mb/s = Megabit per second
MB/s = Megabyte per second
MiB/s = Mebibyte per second
Anyway 10 MiB/s is ~ 83 Mb/s so you’re fine.
- Comment on If I use winrar to compress 80gb of tv and movies. Then can I compress it further by making it an iso? 7 months ago:
Zip bombs wouldn’t apply here, from what I understand to create those you’d have to start with uncompressed data. The typical example is using a bunch of zeroes as the starting point, not only is that compressible but the compression algorithm will look for redundancies in the data to increase the compression efficiency (a bunch of zeroes would have tons of redundancy).
Stackoverflow has a good discussion on it stackoverflow.com/…/how-does-one-make-a-zip-bomb
- Comment on If I use winrar to compress 80gb of tv and movies. Then can I compress it further by making it an iso? 7 months ago:
If I use winrar to compress 80gb of tv and movies.
You haven’t gained anything by doing so since video is already compressed. Compressing data that is already compressed will usually make it slightly bigger or if you’re lucky maybe you’ll save like a megabit space, not really anything worth the trouble.
Then can I compress it further by making it an iso?
ISO is not compression.