tmyakal

@tmyakal@infosec.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say, "You'll have to wait". It's a bullshit argument against Universal Healthcare.⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an appointment with a primary care physician on Friday. It’s my first one since 2004. Because I usually couldn’t afford insurance, and when I finally did get it, I couldn’t find a doctor that was: taking new patients; covered under my insurance; and less than 50 miles away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not saying this is Hell, but it's pretty fucking close⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Crossing my fingers that my wife and my insurance agent are plotting to kill me on a train, so they can afford the life they deserve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not saying this is Hell, but it's pretty fucking close⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the great thing: they keep raising the retirement age. Soon, I’ll be able to buy a house at 45 with a 50-year mortgage, literally work until I’m dead, and let the bank take the house because I still owe $150k.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y'all might not be ready for this⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And Tom Waits had the same name on a song twenty years before that. I don’t think I’m off base assuming OP meant the Semisonic one and not all the other songs with the same name that weren’t '90s Billboard top 10s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y'all might not be ready for this⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That song didn’t come out until '98. I guess Marty could play it, and they could change the name of the band leader to Marvin Semisonic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m hoping this means they legalize over-the-counter ephedrine again. I was a skinny little speedfreak back when I could pop three of those per day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t need self-driving trucks for this. This is already how intermodal shipping works: a driver picks up a container and takes it to a rail yard, it gets loaded onto a train, and then when it gets near enough to where it’s going, another driver takes it from the rail yard for final delivery.

  The reasons for not doing intermodal are the same as not being able to do self-driving trucks: oversize loads, document-controlled shipments (haz-mats, for example), and mixed deliveries along a route. Almost everything else could be put on a train, but it would take some infrastructure upgrades and likely unattainable levels of cooperation from shippers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About to ruin your whole day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In my state vehicles need to be re-registered every two years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About to ruin your whole day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My state won’t let you register a car that has a check engine light on. So, yeah, checkmate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't overdosing on Illegal Narcotics a crime? Technically they are in your position. If they blood test you for acting weird in public, they get you for public intox...and driving you get a DUI?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, locality-dependent, but it happens. My state will give Narcan to anyone who is willing to take a class on recognizing and treating an overdose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon can't go home again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone remember BIGmog?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Employers ditching health coverage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like they are actively trying to prevent me from finding a doctor

  They are. The less you use their services, the more money they make.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rich ppl live longer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alcohol on its own does not cause social occasions or reduce loneliness. Plenty of people drink alone, and plenty of people gather socially without drinking.

  That said, while the advice from a health standpoint is that no amount of alcohol is completely safe to drink, humans do risky shit all the time for fun or convenience. More people get hurt in car accidents than develop alcohol-related diseases, but no one is stopping driving. The difference in outcomes between people who have zero drinks per day versus 1-2 drinks per day is much less than the difference between 1-2 and 5+ drinks. So occasional/light drinking is still relatively low-risk. It’s just not actively good for you as previously thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rich ppl live longer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OP is referring to the j-curve historically seen in studies about drinking. Because researchers didn’t control for people who stopped drinking after years of abuse or people who couldn’t drink because of other health issues, it looked like having 0 drinks per day led to worse health outcomes than 1-2 drinks per day. Because of that, many health organizations spent decades telling people that 1-2 drinks per day was better for you than 0 drinks per day.

  Someone finally controlled for those variables a few years ago, and the j-curve vanished. Most health organizations now say they’re is no amount of alcohol that is safe to consume.

  So it’s got nothing to do with Gen Z drinking habit specifically, and the science has been corrected since. But a lot of people still internalized and parrot the “1-2 drinks is healthy” thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assmold fans being moldy.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to be buddies with a retired NYPD patrolman. One of the most funded and well-trained municipal police forces in the US. With regular range testing, they were expected to hit their targets 40% of the time.

  I’ll say that again: in a controlled environment, against unmoving targets, an NYPD officer can usually miss, and that’s fine. Does anyone think they suddenly get more accurate once adrenalin is pumping and a teenager is running away from them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is strong⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is either that or one of the scariest and most confounding things. Different strokes for different folks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brilliant‼️⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Big difference between serving alcohol and selling alcohol. When I was doing 3rd shift, we’d get out at 5AM, head straight for the gas station, and pour tallboys into paper cups and drink in front of the store.

  First bus home came by at 6:30. I was usually pretty buzzed by then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Price of this Candy Bar⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even red meat. I’ve basically given up on beef and pork because it’s so expensive. Just tofu or poultry these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just not the case.

  That’s literally the point of the meme: that there’s a point where it’s gotten good enough that you can’t tell. And some models are at that point. That’s why legitimate artists are now getting accused of using AI and finding it very hard to prove to people that they’re not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, caloric measurement is always an approximation. No two servings will ever have the exact same number of calories. Even if they did, different gut biomes will also feed on those macronutrients to different extents. Couple that with everyone having different metabolic rates, and 2 calories is indistinguishable from a rounding error.

  And the guidance from the FDA reinforces this. The reason this panel shows 0 instead of 2 is not because anyone screwed up or is trying to mislead; it’s because any serving that provides less than 5 calories is supposed to be rounded to 0 per FDA regulation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need to restart my morning jog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Both bodies are valid

  Actually, I think that first guy really needs to drink some water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disc drive needed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got a similarly older vehicle. I ended up buying a little Bluetooth dongle that plugs into the aux jack for, like, $10.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One on the left line line Mike Bloomberg.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always have at least one good picture of yourself for display at your funeral memorial⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m down to three living relatives: my father, a sister, and a brother. I can tell you the most recent photo each of those people has of me:

  • My father - 7th grade yearbook photo from the '90s.
  • My sister - When I was an usher at her wedding 15 years ago.
  • My brother - A selfie I posed with him for on his first day of college 18 years ago.

  I’ve occasionally been caught in candids or group photos with friends since then, but it’s very rare because I usually offer to shoot the photos for everyone else. And it’s not like my family know who my friends are or how to contact them.

  So, yeah, if I died tomorrow, I literally don’t think they could have a photo of me at the funeral.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pikachu⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dr. King’s policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That’s very good. He only made one fallacious assumption. In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.

  Stokely Carmichael

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I love when someone has already answered my question in the comments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t you lie to me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The case would be thrown out if it made it to a judge with that evidence. But the stings were often a pretense to initiate a stop-and-frisk where additional charges are going to get trumped up. Then they’ll lock you in a room where they just need to convince you that any one of those charges might stick, you’ll have a criminal record, and your life is over. Now you’re plea-bargaining down to a misdemeanor because the cops lied and intimidated you into avoiding a trial where your evidence would be presented.

  The obvious answer is “lawyer up immediately,” but many people can’t afford lawyers. So now you’re getting an overworked, underpaid public defender who wants to spend as little time on your case as possible. You know what they’ll tell you? “Take the deal.”

  The system as it is right now is designed to favor the state. Judges and prosecutors have been trying to reduce the number of jury trials for decades, often arguing that they’re cumbersome and time consuming. Fewer and fewer people get their day in court. Around 95% of US criminal convictions these days come from plea deals where no one had to present evidence. Instead of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury, the police and the DA just need to convince the accused that the state is too tough to fight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t you lie to me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The article is from a site called “Police Mag” and quotes NYPD representatives. I would take what they say about how successful, fair, and justly enforced these stings were with a grain of salt.

  It literally says they stop-and-frisk if the “perpetrator” didn’t immediately return the wallet to the officer. On a crowded street or subway, it’s very possible to see a wallet on the ground and not see who dropped it, and now you’re getting pulled into one of the most bullshit warrantless search practices of modern policing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t you lie to me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  …what? Where do you live that cops get fired? Certainly not the US.

  And, yes, people have sued the NYPD. Often and repeatedly. That has only changed how they define their practices, not what those practices are. For example, NYPD officially stopped having quotas for stop-and-frisks after the lawsuit ~15 years ago, but everyone inside the department knows that if you have the fewest stops, you’ll get worse assignments and are more likely to be passed over for promotion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t you lie to me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. I should just stop using lemmy on my phone. Autocorrect continues to make me look stupid.