tmyakal

@tmyakal@infosec.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am hungover and full of regrets.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to Taco Bell and I asked my buddy if he wanted me to grab him anything. He said, “No, thanks. I don’t want diarrhea.” I told him he should just order something else. I don’t even think diarrhea is on their menu.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the movie Falling Down with Michael Douglas was made today in these times would it be too meta on the current society? Or would it be seen as trying to push an agenda?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why Friendship is my favorite portrayal of toxic masculinity in cinema. It’s making the same points as a Fight Club, but the people who would normally identify with the protagonist craving a “macho” world are made to feel deeply uncomfortable instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon ruins christmas⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew up very poor. My mother made it clear that Santa wasn’t real, because there’s no way she’s giving another old white man undue credit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give the People What They Want⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Politics aside, it’s a terrible company to work for. I interviewed there a few years back, and they gave me real bad vibes with the usual buzzwords: “we’re a family,” “looking for a rockstar,” etc. I ghosted them when they tried to get me in for a second interview.

  A buddy of mine ended up getting the job instead. He was there for eighteen months, said it was the worst mistake of his professional life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of an era?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it won’t be. That’s literally the point. Publishers have viewed the second-hand market as craven scalpers for decades. Companies like GameStop make an absolute killing selling the same used disc 3 or 4 times at $65/ea than selling new for $70 once.

  Every few years there’s a new and more aggressive push to limit what people can do or get with a trade-in. It’s why pre-order “bonuses” have gotten to be such a big deal, why live-service games got such a huge push, and now why Sony is eliminating physical media. They think cutting the resellers out means they’ll get more customers, not that less people will play their games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam killed the second-hand market for PC, but PC only accounts for about half of the gaming market. All those other people? Capable of buying used and trading in physical media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s convenient for some customers, but the reason retailers like GameSpot have been able to hang on for so long is because it’s really inconvenient for other customers. People with smaller budgets rely on the second-hand market, buying and reselling one or two games at a time versus wanting to own forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have a stance on blind people, but I do think deaf people shouldn’t be allowed to drive.

  Part of that belief is the obvious practicality: not being able to hear sirens or honks mean they’re likely slower to react in an emergency situation.

  But I lived near a deaf college for a few years, where I learned the real terror: deaf people will talk to their passengers while driving. In a language that is entirely visual and mostly dexterous. So drivers are taking both hands off the wheel to gesture, then taking both eyes off the road to get a response. The number of near-misses I’ve had with deaf drivers is harrowing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  incredible, gutwrenching performances and they were driven by their mistreatment and pain.

  I’m reminded of the supposed exchange between Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier on the set of Marathon Man. Supposedly Hoffman stayed up for three days straight to get into the physical and emotional space of his character, and Olivier criticized the choice by saying, “My dear boy, why don’t you just try acting?”

  Actors are trained to deliver performances. Their job is to believably convey emotions. If the director can only get the performance he wants by abusing his cast, he’s a horrible communicator and has no business in the director’s chair.

  Alternatively, if we believe actors need real experience and emotional depth to draw on for a performance, we should get rid of stunt doubles and special effects. How can I believe Hayden Christensen’s pain at the end of Revenge of the Sith if he actually still has all his limbs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My partner absolutely loved Lost Records. I thought it took way too long to get going, so I fell off pretty early on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Differences of Opinion by Wendy Cope⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to work with a guy who was also a Methodist pastor. Most of our conversations were perfectly normal and fine, but every once in a while he would be like, “So where do you think the government is hiding the nephilim fossils?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be The Sunshine ☀️⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a quick bit of searching, and I found a Wisconsin sheriff who is far less definitive on this than you:

  According to state law, any vehicle traveling “at less than the normal speed of traffic” must be driven in the right-hand lane, or as close as practicable, except when overtaking and passing another vehicle.

  So Wisconsin does acknowledge that anyone going less than the normal speed of traffic should only use the left lane to pass. But, as the sheriff points out:

  “It describes normal traffic, so to say somebody going 80 is normal is going to be very difficult for me to say that. So normal being above the speed limit, you’ve got two conflicting sets of laws here.”

  And it’s okay that traffic laws conflict with each other because, again, the point is not the letter of the law, but the safe and predictable operation of the vehicle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be The Sunshine ☀️⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is also illegal to stay in the left lane when other people are speeding. If they are going faster than you, you are by definition slower traffic and obliged to keep to the right.

  Your job as a driver is not to police other drivers’ behaviors. It’s not even to follow the letter of the law. It’s to operate the vehicle safely. Creating obstacles for other people because you don’t think they should drive so fast is not a safe action.

  Really, we need to collectively get rid of the idea of a “fast lane.” The left lane is a passing lane. You should only be in it when you’re attempting to pass someone, and when the pass is complete, you should move over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I get one of those jobs where I send an email and then go to a meeting then draft an email then leave work and get paid $98,000/Year and have a badge on a little cord that says senior deputy analytics coordinator supervisor of marketing and sales?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Even without a degree, supply chain and logistics is the answer. I didn’t finish college, and I’m comfortably making six figures. I literally spend five hours a day playing on my phone. No one cares, and my boss tells everyone how great I am.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the appeal of the game. These characters having protracted discussions about existentialism, the nature of free will, and death, and Goofy’s just there going “Gawrsh, Sora!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's with black superheroes and lightning powers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can someone name 10 black superheroes with lightning powers?

  Miles Morales / Spider-Man Storm (plus other weather, but lightning is there) Static Shock Black Lightning Thunder Black Vulcan

  Off the top of my head, I can only get to six. But I don’t think I could come up with that many white heroes with lightning powers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if people stopped working at the Mega corporations..⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If only there were something between mega-corps and Mom-and-Pops… you know, something where people cooperate and all the people working there can reap the benefits of their work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨POV:You are about to pull your car in a middle of a busy road picking up a friend instead of looking for a normal parking spot:⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve pulled into open parking lots and left my car to go get assistance twice. The first time, a cop left me a parking ticket. The second time, the lot owner had my vehicle towed.

  Being courteous to other drivers has been disincentivized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation Plus price increase announced for new customers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  PS+ does have higher tiers with more benefits. The mid-tier one gives access to a ton of PS4 and PS5 games, and the top tier adds older games and cloud gaming.

  And even base PS+ has SharePlay. That’s got to be my most-used feature, but I never see people talk about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Vanilla Sky. It’s a remake of the Spanish film Open Your Eyes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a big fan of Cameron Crowe’s, but this movie was a hell of a ride. And Diaz’s performance was no small part of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its a circus and we're the clowns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have never gotten a job from referral or recruitment. I think I might be too autistic for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How prevalent are cash transactions in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  U.S. dollars literally say “this note is legal tender for all debts, public and private.” That sounds to me like a cashless business should be illegal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From the article you linked:

  Shareholder wealth maximization is a standard of conduct for officers and directors, not a legal mandate. The business judgment rule [which was also upheld in this decision] protects many decisions that deviate from this standard.

  This is why the Golden Age of American manufacturing throughout the '50s and '60s was able to raise so many families into the middle class: business decisions were made for the good of the business as a whole, because a well-trained and fairly-treated workforce was more productive and less likely to strike. Preserving the maintenance of the business is what improved shareholder value.

  Union-busting and Reaganomics gave us Jack Welch and the pump-and-dump bullshit we see now, not a hundred year old court ruling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Different companies have different policies based on their needs. I worked at a factory that couldn’t get enough skilled labor in the door, so they instituted mandatory overtime for two years: everyone had the option of 5 days at 10 hours or 6 days at 8.5 hours. Everything beyond 40 was time-and-a-half, but if you didn’t work at least 50 hours in a week, you got written up.

  Some people absolutely loved it because it was “extra” money, but a lot more left for other factories, only exacerbating the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to not know who a famous person is?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tig Notaro used to have a show where celebrities would come on, she would interview them, and at the end she had to guess who they were. So, yes, even famous people who live in LA don’t necessarily know who other famous people are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Autism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Magic Missile normally burns a level one spellslot. If its cost is decreased by 2 points, does that mean your Magic Missile recovers level one spellslots?

  If so, your DM is way too nice and also likely to deeply regret giving you such an ability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🫪🫪🫪⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Patois is a catch-all for non-standard languages, like a pidgin, a creole, or a dialect. It’s not one specific dialect.

  OP is saying MAGAs speak in a unique language that only shares superficial similarities to American English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Batman fans, would you want to see a TV-MA Batman show where it takes inspiration from the Silver Age?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, then you need to buy a book written by a sexual predator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I ACTUALLY get hired by the United States Postal Services (USPS)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked there twenty years ago, so things may have changed. But back then, you had to take a civil service exam.

  They’d do them 3 or 4 times a year, usually on a Saturday at the nearest big city. On the exam, you demonstrate your ability to read house numbers, understand traffic laws, and in general not be a complete idiot. Then you pick your top three post offices you’d want to work out of.

  When one of those offices has an opening (which can take months), they interview candidates starting with the highest-scoring people who took the exam and working their way down until the local manager finds a good fit.