Zephorah
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- Comment on what a coincidence 1 day ago:
It was a rabbit hole I went down trying to find least viewed vids. Unless the search is very specific, searches usually lead to the same 10 people in whatever area. I honestly can’t remember how I got into it. But the boring lawn vids had me thinking some people were using YT as their cloud.
- Comment on what a coincidence 1 day ago:
If you dig into the unnamed YouTube uploads, there are many doorbell footage vids. Most, of nothing.
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 1 week ago:
You’re likely being hyperbolic but the new tax code proposal by Vought and Heritage is to that end. To financially incentivize marriage over single living especially in the presence of children. Leaving a bad marriage would be financially difficult at best.
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 1 week ago:
Alternatively, actually tax the top 10% at the 37% tax rate for everything earned above $600k, and let the working class try to enjoy a little life, with healthcare coverage.
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 1 week ago:
There is a Behind the Bastards on this very topic.
- Comment on Nurses Get Bitten, Spat on, Thrown. That’s Why We’re on Strike. 1 week ago:
This is a good article, what I could read of it before it was cut off by a pay wall. It explains the breakdown in the healthcare system, at the emergency room, quite well. The failures of the healthcare system end up in the waiting room of ERs, across the nation, because EMTALA says it’s the one place no one can be turned away.
Hospital administration is 100% aware, but since the solutions involve more payroll expenses, they do nothing, while pocketing millions or even billions. Clinics are often owned by investment firms hence the abysmal profit centered rules thrust upon doctors a in that setting of late, to the detriment of patient care. End result, patients suffer and nurses get hurt.
There are hospitals in which the security staff wears Kevlar for a reason. Sometimes, family members are the worst offenders, hence the visitor restrictions often encountered across the nation.
State law is highly impactful, but not many states implement such guards due to the everpresent hospital lobby. The baseline is the hospital administration is always represented in the state legislature. You can help by writing to your state reps, which is the only lobby available to patient care. The federal side is useless, more so now, but the state reps are more accessible and can have more impact than you think, on both your patient care and everyone else’s. If you’d like to assist the effort of these nurses, writing your reps is what you can do. Unions help, but the true long term fix is going to be state legislation reining in hospital administration profit hunger.
16-17 patients at a time is absurd. There can be no safety for patient, nurse, or doctor in that system. States that have put safety checks on their hospitals limit those numbers to 1-5 patients per nurse, depending on acuity.
No wonder nurses are in the streets right now.
- Comment on Five French Ubisoft Unions Call For Massive International Strike Over 'Cost-Cutting' and Ending of Remote Work 2 weeks ago:
Ending remote work adds cost.
- Comment on What is immersion to you? 2 weeks ago:
A good story with solid world building.
DA Origins. ME trilogy. Dishonored 1 & 2. D&D games always have some of that with complex character building to make up the difference when the story is less than stellar.
Like fun fiction, only you participate instead of reading.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 3 weeks ago:
Cue a bunch of AI vids.
- Comment on Anon is Trump 4 weeks ago:
The man is a sponge to any idea around him. Like an empty, soulless megaphone waiting for someone to shout through it.
Every time he blasts Truth Social about the insurrection act, I’m pretty sure it’s Stephen Miller whispering into the megaphone.
- Comment on Randezvous 📅 4 weeks ago:
One of my multilingual friends call English the mixed playdoh version of French and German.
- Comment on Dying Light 1 month ago:
Unless it’s Larian, it’s backlog or maybe an expansion. I haven’t even purchased the new Civ, and I’ve been playing that one since III.
- Comment on Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons. 1 month ago:
Maybe the answer is the same as the cases for the iPad mini. A little Bluetooth keyboard case that snaps closed over the screen, with capacity to flip the phone unit around, in case to lay screen up on top of it while closed.
- Comment on Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons. 1 month ago:
Feeling nostalgic for the blackberry?
- Comment on Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons. 1 month ago:
I’m fine with the phone as is, but vehicles need tactile control panels.
As for tablets, I just buy a keyboard case that folds open and closed like a laptop. That screen will twist around and lay flat to use as a proper tablet, if need be.
I don’t really want to sacrifice screen space on either mobile device, to buttons.
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 2 months ago:
I believe them. Larian has done well.
- Comment on Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’ 2 months ago:
Who is trusting the google bot that recommended glue on a pizza with their cooking instructions?
- Comment on Peas plz 2 months ago:
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 2 months ago:
The Skyrim mod that plays Danger Zone when a dragon shows up.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 2 months ago:
Single player do whatever you like. Play your way. Example: the old DnD games like Neverwinter Nights and Baldurs Gate, I’d start a game by console commanding a Light/Lore (scholar iirc) ring and a stack of identify scrolls. Do what you like to remove the irritating part. Bag weight mods in Fallout, anyone?
Multiplayer, no, never.
You could argue that mod use is cheating, in the same sense that console commands are. That would mean almost everyone who has ever played Skyrim is a cheater alongside everyone who modded out Inquisition’s beige pajamas before BioWare added an alternative.
- Comment on I dunno 2 months ago:
Alternatively, the poster calculated the wrong answer, thus assuming this guy was wrong.
- Comment on Booking.com cancelled woman's $4K hotel reservation, then offered her same rooms for $17K 2 months ago:
Booking.com seems great until something goes wrong. Then, there’s no remediation.
Show up and discover a dirty, roach motel homeless flophouse instead of a vacation rental. The pictures are of the hotel but from a different time.
Good odds you won’t be able to get a refund.
Booking.com customer services words: We just talked to the owner, and they say it’s not like that, denied.
Send pictures. “Your picture…”. You mean pictures, plural? “No, there’s only one picture.” Try again. “Ok, I have multiple pictures.” And? “I don’t see the problem.” Mold isn’t a problem? “The owner says there’s no mold.” And the picture? “The owner says there’s no mold.”
Booking.com is awful.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 2 months ago:
It exists. Or did. Menslib over on that other platform.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 2 months ago:
Ferengis are known outside of the Star Trek fan base. A well travelled species.
- Comment on Annoying dark pattern where no means maybe later 2 months ago:
Water useage by data centers in Georgia, cannot be revealed to the public because that information is under NDA.
Nothing is that useful.
- Comment on Annoying dark pattern where no means maybe later 2 months ago:
If local city council representation would simply vote with the wishes of their voters, then we would have no data centers.
These people are guilty of fraudulent representation and should be recalled.
- Comment on Annoying dark pattern where no means maybe later 2 months ago:
I’ve been listening to way too many Behind the Bastards podcasts in a row this week, but, apparently, Peter Thiel’s pick for the antichrist is a nebulous finger point towards the anti-AI movement.
All of it, the data centers going up faster than a fireworks tent on fire combined with decreased regulation and the dismantling of democracy reads as pure Thiel.
In short, this AI crap isn’t going away anytime soon.
- Comment on After Elon Musk’s Boring Co. was cited for serious safety violations, the Nevada governor’s office stepped in. Then someone deleted evidence of that meeting 2 months ago:
I had to look that one up. Trump blurted it out last year. Fits with present policy, which has Thiel vibes.
- Comment on After Elon Musk’s Boring Co. was cited for serious safety violations, the Nevada governor’s office stepped in. Then someone deleted evidence of that meeting 2 months ago:
I spent 4 hrs chaining Behind the Bastards on Thiel. My brain is still recovering.
The object is to dismantle democracy for a version if city-state style tech/corporate/billionaire whimsy rule instead.
Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal and all the rest.
If workers get hurt in the process, they do not care.
