farting_gorilla

@farting_gorilla@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wait, you mean workers *don't* love the automatic dumbass machines that constantly threaten their jobs?⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve started to think of it as the person sitting in the driver seat of a self-driving car. You aren’t actually driving, but you have to be paying attention at all times just in case you need to intercede. So you can’t (or at least aren’t supposed to) multitask, you just have to sit there, doing nothing but literally staring at the screen trying to read the “thinking” as it scrolls past, endlessly…for hours on end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two full raccoons y'all⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forty hours, one life...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Many years ago, a high school teacher gave us a speech on jobs - he said there were 3 reasons that you should have a job. Either:

  1. You love the job so much you would do it without being paid
  2. You get paid so much you would be crazy not to do it
  3. It gives you a living, and enough free time to do the things you actually like doing
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     I think about that speech a lot. I think maybe there are one or two other reasons to have a job as well (like you need it to support a family, it’s a stepping stone to something you actually want, etc) but in general I agree with this idea.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yoda can rattle off “fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering” in Episode 1

  The first time I heard that line from Yoda about sensing much fear in Anakin, I was pissed. Here’s this 9 year old slave boy, a child taken from his mother, his home, his everything and surrounded and poked and prodded by all these weirdos…of course he’s afraid you fucking idiot. How dare you spew that crap. To paraphrase a great Jedi, “Yes the Jedi deserved it, and I hope they burn in hell!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck yea bro!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I realized it when I sat down in a chair and sat on my balls. Ow my balls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lol⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was only me…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what’s your best “nitric acid acts upon trousers” moment?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was a student in a lab, so I was tasked with making the 10% HCL bath to clean the glassware. I learned that day why you should always add acid to water, and not add water to acid. The building was evacuated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dumb glasses⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like something Dom Joly would do :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I gotcha, boss⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agent641, I cannot hear this!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  His recent solar / renewable one is worth a watch, especially the extended version…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  making the reavers the intentional by-product of alliance experiments

  They were the accidental by-products, so I think some nuance is still there for the factions, although still clearly the browncoats were in the right …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a linguist⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  狗。走。了()

  There you go, you canine-centric bastard

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly Bizarre⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As some said once, a vanilla soy latte is technically a 3 bean soup

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hows keto working out for you⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll fall back on my default null hypotheses here.

  The effect is probably minimal if it exists at all.
  If there is any effect, it is probably negligible if you are doing the big things right.
  Your body is smart, and responds to changes in its environment with an eye towards improved survival and fitness. It is not a simple CICO machine.
  

  you could do hypothesis and these rambling thought experiments…or you could watch the video, and see there are several studies saying the effect exists and isn’t minimal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hows keto working out for you⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought this was interesting, TLDW is that exercising in cold (water/environment) increases appetite after, so it’s not great for a person that’s trying to lose weight

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV88178zjDQ

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump suggested people shouldn’t feel sorry for Joe Biden over his cancer diagnosis⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If some stories are to be believed, Trump was behind that attempt on Pence

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Andor' Season 2 Debuts to Nielsen Viewership High With 721 Million Minutes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They still have some long, meaningful glances and the romantic tension is there. Cass from Andor and Cass from Rogue One are not the same character.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “…ask if you have given every bit you have during the pursuit”
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  GTFO with that, no sympathy for them