Zephorah
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- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 5 days ago:
Work and shared hobbies. I recently went to buy some hardwood from a work colleague. We don’t even work the same shift but they’re fond of asking what I’m building or showing me what they’re building because who else are they going to talk to about their hobby (I imagine).
We’re not friends, but there’s this hobby. I get there and it’s not a mere business transaction nor do we talk work. It almost had a kid feel to it. Like when you crossed the hedge to the yard of the kid next door and he welcomes you because it’s more fun if you can show off and share your toys. Only as adults. Kudos on reclaiming a small piece of that.
Adulthood is such a roadblock sometimes.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 1 week ago:
Fair. Even so. To what degree that was the case, or not, is anyone’s guess. They’ve not pulled the trigger on a mental health defense, last check.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 1 week ago:
That’s the idea of jury nullification: guilty, but we don’t care.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 1 week ago:
I think the assessment of “just crazy enough” to step past that boundary is spot on, but to say that the man is batshit? Not at all.
This is a man who looked at a complex societal problem and chose a path, very deliberately. He didn’t just snap and walk into a building, guns blazing.
He also very deliberately limited his damage to one guy. A woman with coffee walked right up to what was happening, he looked right at her, she left, he let her.
This is not the action of a batshit person.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 1 week ago:
It’s straight Jury Nullification within an hour of deliberation unless there are people on the jury who have been bought, by monetary means or otherwise.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 1 week ago:
Exactly so.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 1 week ago:
I think the billionaire class will have an assassin ready to go. We’re not supposed to fight back. If he can be an example of punishment via the legal system, great. If not, well, they’ll pay to make that example of punishment so.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 1 week ago:
That’s how all the thumbnails work now. Even HCR started a lighter version of it post Trump win, and she was very basic, straight up content prior.
Thumbnails/algorithm have killed hobby channels, like woodworking and sewing, all of it.
We need an “anti” algorithm slam on YT to fix it, but I doubt there are enough creators/makers/whatevers willing to engage such an operation en masse. Journalism/podcasts have always leaned on the present state of the algorithm.
The other issue is the thumbnails exist as they do due to the predominance of phone users over laptops/desktops. It’s a size thing. The thumbnail is designed for small phone screen reading.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 1 week ago:
Mine does the same with the left and feminism. Which is fine. The only time it’s gotten sketchy is after my deep dive into the manosphere and their birth rate decline stuff.
- Comment on "I pray they are cursed to never play the game again" Resident Evil 2 director Hideki Kamiya goes off on Resident Evil Requiem leakers 2 weeks ago:
RE1 on PlayStation1 was my gateway drug to games. I’m still going to buy it and play it.
- Comment on He Was a Climate Activist. One Day, the F.B.I. Came Knocking 2 weeks ago:
the man, who is no longer active in the group,
Mission accomplished.
- Comment on what a coincidence 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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! 4 weeks 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! 4 weeks 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! 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Ending remote work adds cost.
- Comment on What is immersion to you? 5 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 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 1 month ago:
Cue a bunch of AI vids.
- Comment on Anon is Trump 1 month 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 📅 1 month ago:
One of my multilingual friends call English the mixed playdoh version of French and German.
- Comment on Dying Light 2 months 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. 2 months 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. 2 months ago:
Feeling nostalgic for the blackberry?
- Comment on Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons. 2 months 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:
