EnsignWashout
@EnsignWashout@startrek.website
- Comment on Been looking into getting an "Indexed Universal Life" insurance policy. Are these trust worthy? 1 week ago:
I hate investing
Mutual Funds / Index funds are your best bet. If you can, pick out one named “target retirement YYYY” with roughly the year you will turn 67.
It will automatically follow investing best practices based on your current age - agrressive earlier, and very cautious later.
I’m not familiar with all the details of how it works
Perfect recipe to get ripped off. (Most people I know say this is a bad product you are considering buying.)
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 week ago:
I can’t prove anything, but:
- There’s evidence that billionaires are taking much more than they earn, and that we (everyone else) would be dramatically better off without them (whether we tax them away or… Come to some other compromise.)
- Billionaires own most media outlets and social media sites, even those these don’t actually make much money compared to everything else the billionaires own. This makes some people ask why they bother…
- There’s a noticable tendency in billionaire owned media to focus daily on divisive topics. The specific topic changes, but the divisiveness continues.
- There is history of powerful authoritarians investing heavily in divisive propaganda, primarily to break apart and distract groups of people who could overthrow them.
What I have laid out is not proof that today’s billionaires are directing their staff to verbally attack minorites at any opportunity.
But it certainly is something to think about next time a vicious rumor about a minority group comes along.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 week ago:
Would you accept “under-regulated capitalism” or “capitalism treated as an ideal rather than a tool” as a more specific root cause?
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 week ago:
the need to constantly change jobs to move ahead financially also keeps people on unsteady ground with relationships.
That’s a great point.
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 3 weeks ago:
Can I find a broken window and start sanding it with sandpaper, as an extreme example?
Yes, provided you have a way to polish it back TU transparent again, after changing the shape.
- Comment on OpenAI's 'Jailbreak-Proof' New Models? Hacked on Day One 4 weeks ago:
It also could be they’re both liars and incompetent.
- Comment on Republican Senator callously says 'biblically, we are supposed to work' to millions set to lose health care 4 weeks ago:
That would be one hell of a recruiting move, for any deity that feels low on converts.
- Comment on Why did our friends stop posting on social media? 1 month ago:
I text my friends. I assume that everyone else just thinks I died.
- Comment on Why did our friends stop posting on social media? 1 month ago:
The move between seeing “your brother in law took the kids to the zoo” to “your brother in law liked this trash article” was such a jarring transition.
It was awful.
“Oh, look. He’s a little bit racist. Now I get to know that. Thanks Facebook.”
- Comment on Off topic 1 month ago:
Exactly! If I’m not clutching the mute button for dear life, an I really having a relaxing movie night?
- Comment on Off topic 1 month ago:
Yes. It’s been a few years since I countered a video game that didn’t have separate volume sliders for dialog, for music, and for all others sounds.
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 1 month ago:
I see you subscribe to the Wolfwood school of pacifism: “I didn’t kill anyone!”
- Comment on nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore 1 month ago:
Yes. Web apps existed before JavaScript.
- Comment on What are you doing when you call someone, don't leave a voicemail or text, they call you back right away but you don't answer? 1 month ago:
Exactly. My phone is for texting and calling out. Receiving calls is an unfortunate bug.
- Comment on What are you doing when you call someone, don't leave a voicemail or text, they call you back right away but you don't answer? 1 month ago:
Perfect score. Social obligations fulfilled: 100%. Words spoken: 0. Emotional energy cost: 40%.
- Comment on Pittsburgh Will Be Transformed Into "AI Hub Of World" With $75 Billion Investment 1 month ago:
To me it sounds deeply stupid to bet on the future of the overhyped pleasant answer machines.
But uh… I would still take their money, of course.
- Comment on 'Our Hearts are Heavy, Yet Rejoicing': Pastor and Bible Teacher John MacArthur, 86, Passes 1 month ago:
For anyone else deciding how to feel about this:
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nobody just breaks out in song when they get dumped, for example.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
You’re one of today’s lucky 10,000!
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 1 month ago:
If you want my advice, talk to them constantly as if you are the narrator, and smile and make eye contact at every opportunity.
This is great advice.
I’ve always done this, and my kids all started talking surprisingly early.
But my motive is just that it calms them.
Some baby fussiness comes from insecurity, and I find that a running narration makes them more relaxed about being set down and returned to - that kind of thing.
Basically they get the same comfort from my narration as I get from leaving the TV running when I’m alone in the house.
I don’t know (or worry about) if it really makes any serious long term difference - but it was occasionally convenient as heck when they could tell me what they wanted a bit earlier than I (or anyone) expected them to.
With my last kid, I felt more brave and also mixed in some singing, and think they are more musically inclined because of it.
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 1 month ago:
You’ve shared the real life hack.
My kid was born with a love for the opening theme to “Star Trek: Enterprise”, because we were bringe watching it while the kid was in the womb.
Playing “Faith of the Heart” came in handy when the kid started teething.
- Comment on If You Want Me To Support You, Form A Union 1 month ago:
Worth adding - let’s all shop from unionized businesses whenever possible. There’s strength in solidarity.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 1 month ago:
a) I would not be driving a car with my child in it if I was so tired that I would forget I had a child. The fuck?
I hope you’re thankful for a lifestyle where you have that option. We should all strive to build a world where everyone does.
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 1 month ago:
I’m sorry you went through that. I’m glad you got your trapper keeper, though.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 1 month ago:
I felt the same, until I had my first lousy sleeper. After a month of lost sleep, I couldn’t remember my own name sometimes. I read once that sleep deprivation is effectively brain damage, and after that experience, I believe it.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 1 month ago:
The left shoe trick - throwing my shoe in the car next to the kid - probably saved my kid’s life more than once.
The kind of parents who have these tragedies are tired ones. Which is most parents with small children.
- Comment on Just trying to scan my TPS reports 1 month ago:
It still is, it’s a standard for imaging devices.
Oh, thank you. I had forgotten that!
And also a nightmare.
Yes. Now that the memories are coming back, I do notice most of them aren’t very nice…
- Comment on Just trying to scan my TPS reports 1 month ago:
It’s an acronym: T.W.A.I.N.
“Technology without an interesting name.”
And… That’s all I remember about it, at the moment.
Well, also that it broke often, and threw weird errors like the one pictured.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 2 months ago:
There’s no industry pressure to be on Gamepass, yet.
Microsoft doesn’t willingly lose money on something unless they think they can make it into
a market distorting rent extraction hellscape.something very profitable later. - Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 2 months ago:
Sorry. We need to learn to ask nicely.
Please upgrade to Linux?
sudoupgrade to Linux?RunAs -Adminupgrade to Linux?
