TranscendentalEmpire

@TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in orthopedics and rehabilitation…for the most part the majority of chiropractors are harmless. If the patient believes a chiropractor is helping manage their pain, I don’t really care about the efficacy of the practice. Plus, most chiropractors are risk adverse enough to know not to work on areas where hardware has been installed.

  If we’re sticking to the format of items or activities that are a reason for a lot of our appointments… Ladders, motorcycles, bad drivers, trampolines, and electric scooters and diabetes are probably the top contenders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We had a local shop owner killed when airing up a tire with fix-a-flat.

  How? Was he working on an industrial tire or something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a fact checker⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t a male loneliness epidemic, it’s a loneliness epidemic. You’re never going to get satisfying answers to your questions if you accept the framing that it’s a male loneliness epidemic.

  My criticism was precisely aimed at people specifically claiming it to be a male loneliness epidemic…?

  but pretending that there isn’t a loneliness epidemic because it’s used to power some incel memes is contributing to the apathy about this issue which is causing harm to both men and women.

  I never claimed there wasn’t a loneliness epidemic, just that there isn’t a male loneliness epidemic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a fact checker⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If these idiots would stop equating being lonely to not getting laid there wouldn’t be so much resistance to the idea that there is a problem.

  The problem is that the vast majority of the time whenever you logically breakdown the actual complaints being put forth by people supporting the idea of a “male loneliness epidemic” they usually boil down to “i deserve sex”, or some other misogynistic ideology centered around blaming others for their misanthropy.

  Once you start asking questions like who is responsible for male loneliness? What’s the solution for male loneliness? Why are we specifying it as a gender specific epidemic? If there are so many men unified in loneliness, why not just befriend each other…?

  Usually the answers themselves will just be accusations of misandry or just beligerence. And then if they actually engage with any kind of honesty or self reflection, you will usually get down to “I deserve female companionship”…but it’s totally not about sex. But also there’s a difference between female friends and having a girlfriend… But it’s totally not about sex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the reasons my friend is in the position he’s in now is because he built a really good relationship with a couple people from the university of Tokyo when he was a grad student in Hawaii.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨project paperclip be like⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the Soviets didn’t offer them any guarantees. But I think that’s more of a byproduct of how they held leverage over the specialist, and more of a difference in how the two cultures choose to motivate employees.

  Despite this, the affected specialists and their families were doing well compared to citizens of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Zone, apart from the suffering of deportation and isolation. The specialists earned more than their Soviet counterparts. The scientists, technicians and skilled workers were assigned to individual projects and working groups, primarily in the areas of Aeronautics and rocket technology, nuclear research, Chemistry and Optics. The stay was given for about five years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, my buddy is finally on a tenure track at a really nice school and it’s the accumulation of like 15 years of stressful work that might have never really paid off.

  You have to be good at getting published, attending conferences, creating conferences, building relationships with different universities and that’s just to keep up with the competition. I think what seals the deal is not only getting funding for yourself, but showing universities how employing you would actually be a sound investment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨project paperclip be like⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The US is all about realpolitik

  Not to excuse the US’s history of foreign diplomacy, but I think it would be naive to believe that there exists any major power who doesn’t treat geopolitics with the same level of pragmatism.

  The Soviets hated the Nazi even more than the US did and yet they still had their own version of paperclip. Operation Osoaviakhim brought almost double the number of Nazi scientists into the Soviet Union.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨advertisement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Goodish news… You wouldn’t be eating the poop. It’d be thrown in a blender until it reached an enema appropriate viscosity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Debatable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, give me the “I want to see your manager” in the front and “I am the fire starter” in the back. Thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that it’s more that we’ve commoditized all aspects of community, and at the same time have stopped offering any sense of financial opportunities to young people.

  Social groups are now built around expensive hobbies or membership subscriptions. There aren’t even really any free spaces for people to organize around. Even the alt right groups preying on lonely people are usually just trying to sell supplements or merch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MD = oMega Dumbass⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She’s actually an ENT, but it really doesn’t matter what your specialty is. Mnra vaccines are new enough that unless you are actively researching them or are in a specialty like infections disease, most MD’s aren’t really going to be very familiar with them.

  I specialize in orthopedics and rehabilitation, I know about bones, joints and the things that connect to bones and joints… If anyone asks me about vaccines I’m going to refer them to someone who actually really knows what they’re talking about.

  I don’t trust the vaccines because I went to med school. I trust the vaccines because my colleagues in infectious disease trust the vaccines and this is what they do all day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next BioShock Game Suffers From More Development Hell After Failing an Executive Review⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, especially with today’s political climate. If the other BioShock games came out today they would be labeled anti-american and woke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon starts to believe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would be cool to see it make a comeback on some of the buffalo reservations. Don’t know if those places have quite the herd size to make it feasible. Amazing what some of the vast herds could do to transform the prairies back in the day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon starts to believe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s buffalo clover right? Isn’t that extinct, or like really close to it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon starts to believe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are native clovers, but they aren’t what you would really classify as ground cover.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon starts to believe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are native clovers, but they aren’t really what you would utilize for ground cover.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon starts to believe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Grass isn’t inherently a bad idea for a lawn, it’s just specific to your individual climate. The main issue is that most of the grasses people plant are native to much cooler climates in Europe.

  I have a grass lawn, but it’s a native Buffalo grass. It’s much more drought tolerant than clover, flowers a couple times a year, doesn’t require any maintenance, and provides a natural habitat for native wildlife.

  Clover isn’t actually much better than most grasses if you are trying to support the natural biodiversity. It’s not native to north America, and thus only supports a small range of wildlife that’s adapted to it.

  A Lot of America’s natural ground cover is actually low lying shrubs and flowering plants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah… No. I’ve posted on that sub not knowing the community rules and had a mod thank me for my insight and then politely inform me of the rules.

  You know what I did…? I apologized for not reading the rules before posting and then took my leave. It’s perfectly fine if you’re not a whiny little dweeb about it. People deserve private spaces, especially considering I don’t own or contribute to the cost of that server space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where are all the successful "red cities"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s jobs. They’re safe. They have stuff to do. Some kind of reason.

  Nah, it’s just more affordable than most of the major cities up north. As someone who’s lived in Dallas/Fort Worth, it’s definitely not the safest place I’ve lived. It’s ranked moderate/high in violent crimes on a national scale.

  As far as Texas goes, San Antonio and Austin have a lot more to do than Dallas and especially Fort Worth. I wouldn’t really even say there’s a really competitive job market outside of oil and grass. Most of the people who recently moved to the area did so after work from home became normalized.

  It’s really just because it’s a larger city that people can still afford to purchase a home in, and that’s about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resources⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also ignoring the fact that we have already surpassed the limitations of what the nitrogen cycle could normally provide. So we would still be relying on fertilizers produced with fossil fuels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so weird seeing people making poor interpretations of another ethnicity’s culture their entire identity. I wonder if there are weirdos in India rocking lederhosen or milkmaid outfits at random music festivals and ranting to strangers about Calvinism?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the universe about to have a little minty b⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk, I feel like allegorical communication is a bit different than someone believing that building a telescope is going to destroy the universe because it takes up too much ram.

  I mean there are literal cults out there murdering people because they think AI is going to punish people who dont help AI take over the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the universe about to have a little minty b⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is something inherent about spending too much time with computers that warps people’s brains into compulsively perceiving everything around them in digital logic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shame 🔔⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Np, there’s companies who sell it as a wettable powder that you just mix in water and apply it with a sprayer. Works like a charm and doesn’t take much, think I bought a 25b bag like 4-5 seasons ago and it’s still at least half full.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shame 🔔⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  but do they actually let you have one?

  Haha yeah that tends to be the real problem with the dill strategy. Typically if we actually want a dill for ourselves we’ll plant one in a hanging planter away from the rest of the garden, otherwise the greedy little guys will eat it as well.

  We’ve also used fennel in the past as well, dill and fennel seem to be their favorite for some reason.

  Ultimately, it was Bacillus Thuringiensis (BT) which worked the best.

  We’ve tried to step away from any kind of active pesticide, just because we get so many monarch butterflies where we’re at. Usually if they get on a plant we want to try and save we’ve had luck using kaolin clay. Which has a dual purpose as a sun protection during real hot summers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shame 🔔⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why my garden has at least a couple sacrificial dill plants. A couple fat caterpillars wreck a dill plant, the little guys love dill and it grows fast enough to satiate them until metamorphosis.

  I think a lot of people get really attached to the plants in their garden and have a reflex to attempt to subvert nature by sanitizing it. But there’s an old rhyme that I like to remember when it comes to remembering that we are part of a working ecology, not the masters of it.

  Four seeds in a row: One for the mouse, One for the crow, One to rot, And one to grow.

  Basically, expect most of your plants to fail before harvest. That has been the expectation since agriculture has been a part of human existence. It’s only in modern times where we actually expect to reap all of which we sow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Debunking Trickle Down Economics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “prove trickle down doesn’t work”…cuts to me gesturing at my surroundings wildly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does one become a clown?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s really no longer any kind of gatekeeping preventing people from just being a clown. The proof is in the pudding, you are a clown if you can do all the things a professional clown can do. Now turning it into a career you can pay rent with is the real challenging aspect, which is true of most performing arts.

  My wife is in a professional dance company that focuses on aerial dance, and has performed around professional clowns in the past. If you want to just busk you don’t need anything but skills, but if you want to perform on stage or tour you will need to hook up with some kind of performing arts company or an artist co-op.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨all it takes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  dont see a reason not to, if its handled well.

  Big caveat there. The big problem is you don’t really know how people will really handle things until afterwards.