Zephorah
@Zephorah@discuss.online
- Comment on Hail math! 1 week ago:
To be fair, this was likely a reverse problem of today: not enough social media or freely flowing info via the internet.
People who did not know assumed much from manual covers.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 1 week ago:
The sticker shock on shipping from McMaster put me right off the first time I tried to order. Small things. Triple digit shipping even so.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 1 week ago:
Some businesses won’t sell direct, like 3M or most tool brands. But yes, you can often find things on the brand sites.
Amazon and Walmart are for things you can’t find anywhere else, but neither need the membership to make it happen. Strangely, Walmart is better quality lately.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 1 week ago:
Etsy has been more or less swamped with TEMU crap that can be shipped for free. If you don’t offer free shipping TEMU, I mean Etsy, wont show people your stuff. It’s like having the word dead in a YouTube vid, the Algorithm doesn’t like it.
Of course you can bake shipping into the price, but then you’re $5-$20 more expensive than the TEMU with better images section of Etsy.
Sure, there are real people, but they’re hard to find or be.
eBay is a mixed bag, and shipping is often $10-20.
- Comment on My brother wants to for Father's Day is volunteer at the local women's shelter. Not really a father but has two dogs. But is afraid to even ask because he is male. How does he go about this? 2 weeks ago:
Usually in a shelter you’re dealing with traumatized women who no longer feel safe around men. Do they need safe men around to re-learn trust? Yes. Is the point of their first housing after fleeing an abuse situation under enough threat that qualify for a safe house the time for it? No. Most are female staff only.
- Comment on insert mental health condition here 2 weeks ago:
I saw the big font item and thought this would be about colon cancer. Then I zoomed in.
- Comment on How do you pronounce 'Niche'? 2 weeks ago:
Neetch
- Comment on We're so back 3 weeks ago:
It spreads in secretions and poo of rodents, it’s not airborne like covid. That said, if you sweep up a dusty storage building with mouse droppings you can aerosolize it. Vacuums with crappy filters, the same. Bear in mind, any animal that grooms will spread their diseases with claw scratches. (Like when a bat passes rabies through a claw scratch…it’s because bats groom).
People can be dirty fuckers through. Not washing hands. Wiping their noses on the backs of their hands. Sneezing and coughing in public with no thought to cover, in any respect.
- Comment on Why is the US so into Israel? 5 weeks ago:
Imbuing governance with religion removes logic and reason from the answer to the equation. You’re looking for a logical reason where there is none.
- Comment on Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath? 1 month ago:
Religion is a primitive means of governance. Check out the Books of Laws in the Old Testament. This is literal civil code for the time lightly veiled as something mystical.
The problem is, the bigger a population becomes, the less wieldy religion becomes as a means of governance. It’s why cults work but the state of Iran (as one example) is rife with dissension and horrible enforcement laws. Too many people for stable governance via religion. Factions, insurgents, defectors will abound.
- Comment on How do I actually find a job that isn't retail? 1 month ago:
You’re right. Granted, consistent rotations or lack thereof will vary by both employer and manager. RN or CMA at a clinic will have consistent weekday scheduling. Same with the non-degrees roles.
Patient registration is an option. Retail experience will likely count in her favor.
- Comment on How do I actually find a job that isn't retail? 1 month ago:
If you can swing the time and tuition, every urban hospital needs CNAs. It’s probably the least schooling for the most job security. Phlebotomy as well. Hospitals also, historically, offer cheaper/better health care if you stay in house.
Mileage will vary a lot by location, in terms of pay and such, but it’s worth looking into. In adfition, it shows you options and offers tuition reimbursement.
Hospitals, not long term care. The latter is awful, in most locations.
Barring that, there’s no schooling options like EVS and logistics/supply runners. The latter will be among the first cuts if Congress allows further cuts to Medicaid or Medicare.
- Comment on Best or Worst case scenario how do you see the Lugi Mangionne case playing out? What do you think about him now being a millionare ? 1 month ago:
We’re not doing much now, even with:
- regime endorsed street executions,
- rollbacks on elections for midterms via postal service shenanigans,
- a pedophile and generalized rapist for President,
- religious threat, action, and rollback on the civil liberties of half the population,
- Healthcare,
- RFK and admin dismantling the cheapest most effective piece of healthcare we have: vaccines
- A war which will make transportation in this giant nation more onerous, and render more people homeless,
- impending collapse of the dollar,
- billionaires on their way to being trillionaires under the new tax code,
- Veterans disrespected and harassed and randomly ejected from their jobs weekly,
- A presidential police force stalking the streets, paid with our tax dollars,
- A partridge in a pear tree
And you think the 1% whacking Luigi will incite action.
- Comment on Best or Worst case scenario how do you see the Lugi Mangionne case playing out? What do you think about him now being a millionare ? 1 month ago:
Even if he gets off, jury nullification or whatever, the 1% will have him whacked.
- Comment on Shut. The. Fuck. Up. 1 month ago:
Twice, it was so loud we couldn’t hear anything. Ushers are high school kids, mostly, they’re not going to do anything. Twice the option wasn’t to do anything about it but offer us refunds instead.
Granted, it’s been awhile. I was near to teenager age those 2 times.
- Comment on Shut. The. Fuck. Up. 1 month ago:
People acting like it’s their living room, ignoring all the paying customers around them.
- Comment on Shut. The. Fuck. Up. 1 month ago:
David Sedaris talked about movie culture in France in one of his essays. He described the audience as absolutely silent.
Sounds heavenly.
- Comment on Is Kagi Worth It? 1 month ago:
The bot is so bad. I correct the bot and it always responds with. “You are so right, and now I’m going to repeat back what you just said to me.”
What is horrific is I know there are people, far too many people, who glance at it and accept it as the answer.
- Comment on Is Kagi Worth It? 1 month ago:
You search and there’s no ad based front loading. No AI bot at the top getting it wrong 51% of the time.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 1 month ago:
Some people mistake healthier with less calories.
I switched from a box of Little Debbie’s a day to a bag of trail mix! Why can’t I lose weight?
That olive oil you’re using is good for you, sure, but it’s not a freebee. It has calories. Things like this are often not even noticed or counted.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 1 month ago:
I put this one on the shelf next to the MSG.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 1 month ago:
It is complex. There’s a mix of biology & psychology. Some people eat because they’d die if they didn’t. Others, for pleasure. Still others, it’s the only pleasure they experience in a day.
What do you do when the dopamine hit only occurs when you eat?
Some people drown anxiety in alcohol or xanax addictions. Others do it with food. The problem there is you can’t detox from food and remove it from your life.
Dig into some of the research nuggets, in this area, it’s wild stuff.
In addition there’s work to try to parse out some answers by studying cats. Why is one of your cats a behemoth while the other is a normal weight, both eating the same food from the same bowl?
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 2 months ago:
Isn’t he allegedly drinking the blood of virgin boys or something to try to defeat death?
- Comment on I agree to wear clothing 2 months ago:
We once had a person arrive at the medical facility in the proverbial button down trench coat. Socks. Shoes.
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 2 months ago:
Vance (and Peter Theil by proxy) become president.
- Comment on it is me, I am the autistic child 2 months ago:
The lifelong work of women, to continue to fill in the #life training gaps not covered by parents of boys.
(As in, there are multiple ways to interpret this meme and not all involve autism.)
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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.