turtlesareneat
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- Comment on If you were born after 1990, you've never had this experience 15 hours ago:
Yeah I loved on capitol hill a dozen years ago and even then, all the hardcore hippies and weirdos were being wrung out of the neighborhood by developers and the bubble they bring. All of Seattle is totally different from 10, 20 years ago, which is totally different from 30, 40 years ago. None of it is for the better.
- Comment on Anon saves up 4 days ago:
Hell - here’s how fucked up it is - my SO worked in clinic that wasn’t open on holidays, but offered no holiday pay, so employees had to use the 10 or 14 vaca days they got to cover their 7 holidays, which they couldn’t have worked if they wanted to. ‘Ready, able, and willing’ is how the law is worded, for salaried employees. But these things are meaningless relics of old times when labor had some power and wasn’t just the fleshlight of the rich.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 1 week ago:
If you’re going to get nitpicky we could focus on how much heat the concrete retains vs plant life which can absorb and use the energy. All the people with concrete or rock yards around here are super hot, my dog and I have to run by in the summer. Paving vast surfaces is a poor alternative to landscaping. The soil underneath will dry and the animals, insects, microflora, etc will all be forced out and that part of the earth will just be dead.
But really it just looks dumb and Jackie planted some of those trees.
- Comment on Mice 1 week ago:
Having no way of finding out if you’re telling the truth or not, I choose to believe
- Comment on Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content 1 week ago:
Cancelled my account this morning, enough is enough.
- Comment on Spare a moment for all the children who were never born because their would-be fathers sterilized themselves imitating this show 1 week ago:
I remember being in a small casino watching Steve-o perform on a tiny stage, like 5 feet away from me. He wound up staple-gunning his scrotum to his thigh. I blew chunks all over a police officer, and had to be rushed out because I was drinking, in a casino, on a fake ID. Steve-o thought it was hilarious. Good times.
- Comment on That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on! 1 week ago:
Discovered this when I had to find a hedgehog specialist and wound up in a bunny doc’s office instead. Lagomorphs.
- Comment on The woman in the center of this pic is Dead 1 week ago:
Here’s a great Atlas Obscura article about it.
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 1 week ago:
Good news readers can help you get lots of the content you want with only a quick passing glance at the headlines so you can still carry a conversation/contemplate the inescapability of this planet
- Comment on The woman in the center of this pic is Dead 1 week ago:
This is mostly a myth propagated by the idea of “posing stands” which were actually meant to keep living people still for portraits that took a long exposure time. Victorians loved some goth shit like hair jewelry tho.
- Comment on get sum 1 week ago:
It might be 5%, it might be 16%. Those are basically the same number, moving along
- Comment on They even got their own island 2 weeks ago:
They would have sex with him.
- Comment on They even got their own island 2 weeks ago:
One of the dudes in my gay group tonight:
“My momma cleaned hunter’s cabins and those hunters were real nice men if you know what I mean.”
He was talking about a time when he was early teens.
So it’s not just girls who get this treatment! If that makes you feel any more egalitarian.
- Comment on Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist 3 weeks ago:
That’s exactly it, they’re making themselves “indispensable” at the consumer level to hold on for dear life.
But, on the other hand, you have companies like Klarna that are successfully using AI to replace, in one case, 700 humans or 3/4 of their tier 1 support staff. And every other company perks up at that. There is definitely a use case for AI, it’s still improving, and business will keep it going in some form (which will be great for the poor neighborhoods they put the data centers in).
- Comment on I can fix her 4 weeks ago:
Twice this year, it’s a him but yes. They make borderline in boys too.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
America doesn’t do free market capitalism it does late stage capitalism, where profits do in fact need to be record high every quarter, even if that means people are gonna die (like 10m people becoming uninsured, plus us borrowing a bunch of money from China, so we can give more to the billionaires that own us and don’t need it).
- Comment on Does people doing things that upset others also upset you? 5 weeks ago:
Last year on the 4th, I was walking home from the big fireworks show, and I saw a teenager on a scooter, who was briefly crouching down and not being safe. But he came up beside a lady and surprised her, and she swatted at him and tried to push him over, which would have crashed him into several people walking. More than just a startle response, and the kid stopped, looked back, angry - but he was a black teenager and there’s this white lady and her beefy white boyfriend/husband staring him back, so he turns and disappears back into the crowd.
And I’m instantly furious.
“That’s assault,” I told her.
“Mind your own fucking business” she says. Several other people are watching.
Thankfully my husband and her husband pulled us in different directions and the crowd separated us.
But I was so fucking angry, and that lady looked like she had started a fight or three in her life. Her boyfriend looked like he wasn’t happy to be there in that moment.
So yes, but it has to be something serious.
- Comment on 4D Salmon 5 weeks ago:
I am high now.
Source: dispensary
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 1 month ago:
Claude can spit out powershell scripts up to like, 400 or 500 lines without errors or with minimal, easily debugged errors. Adds things like error correction, colored text, user interaction, comments the code pretty well. Saves me hours every time I fire it up, so that I can in turn save myself dozens of hours with the scripts themselves.
But as far as I tell my boss, there is no AI use, and that’s how we’re keeping that for now/indefinitely
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 1 month ago:
You got a dog? Still smoke?
- Comment on It is what it is 1 month ago:
That was actually their lawyer’s argument, that “incognito mode” being private was just something people assumed and ran with, not their fault.
- Comment on the seven deadly companies 1 month ago:
Front end, back end
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I ordered a laptop from BB for an executive at work, they tried delivering it on a Saturday and texted me about it, offered to deliver elsewhere instead, so I’m like, sure bring it to my house. Then when they get there, it’s a third party delivery service (not Doordash but like it) - woman and her boyfriend - hat out looking for a tip. Umm I didn’t ASK for some weird tip-based delivery service, I thought they were UPSing that shit. I can’t put tips on my corporate card, for laptop delivery fees?! So I looked like the asshole after they booked it across town. Haven’t ordered from Best Buy again, what a terrible customer experience.
- Comment on Banned across multiple communities, posts deleted, for upsetting a mod 1 month ago:
I told them their “MEN DON’T POST HERE” posts on the frontpage are hostile, which is the reaction they got from a half dozen folks who were talking about the subject. I talked about my experience as a gay man, wanting more community here on Lemmy, but that I wouldn’t start communities or threads saying “NO STRAIGHT PEOPLE POST HERE” to do it. And I pointed out their community has decided there are only two ways to deal with it.
I get that I broke their rule, and I can be banned there for that - but they didn’t ban me for being a man, they banned me for hurting their feelings.
And now I can’t use LGBTQ and Trans communities as a result. OK, fuck turtlesareneat, he shouldn’t be allowed in queer communities cause he hurt a mod’s feelings.
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- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 month ago:
Yep food pantries will repackage food but rarely process or cook it because that’s a whole different animal.
But, many food pantries I’ve worked with had ways to offload large amounts of things creatively, it’s how I got the best pear gelato I’ve ever had in my life.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
I’m gonna put two jars down, one that says DO and one that says DON’T, y’all can vote with dollar bills
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 1 month ago:
They will just disable the mute buttons. It happens around here all the time, marking them accelerates it.
I now avoid any gas station with immutable ads. But if I am in a pinch. The longest sharpest key on your key ring can slide right in and puncture the speaker, thus solving the issue more permanently.
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 2 months ago:
These make you stupid but they do help
- Comment on ‘King of the Hill’ Revival First Details: Hank and Peggy Are Retired, Bobby’s a Dallas Chef, Dale Was Briefly Arlen’s Mayor and More 2 months ago:
It’s going to be a lot of “that homespun wisdom being ratcheted up to 11 and slathered onto topics of today” which will likely get patronizing quickly, especially if they try to make fun of the younger generation without understanding them.
Maybe I’m wrong but
