Reyali

@Reyali@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no!! 😭😭😭⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it was! I can totally understand your confusion in that case, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your experience like for Jury Duty in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had summons twice now. First time (TX), I had to go to court. I sat there for half an hour while the judge figured out whether they’d have cases that required a jury. Someone came and gave the judge a memo and we were told no jury was needed and got released.

  The second time (NC), I just called some time before to find out if they’d need me to attend, and they did not.

  So just because you get a summons doesn’t mean you’ll have to show up in a courtroom, and even if you do you may not need to go through jury selection. However, you should show up unless you’re told not to. I’d suggest looking for state laws to understand repercussions of not doing so, as I’m sure it’s different everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please critique this in terms of its raising awareness of the less aware. It's old news to us, but will it help people wake up a little?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The “you” vs “them” column makes me think of the adage “if you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”

  The “them” side feels specific to be consumable by someone who knows nothing, while not having enough content to teach someone who does understand the basics.

  If you can simplify those columns even more, I think they could still be useful. The point is that rich people pay for people and systems that are able to make their money untraceable, but “you” can’t do that. So you pay taxes, they don’t. I like the column-based visual for this concept, I just don’t think the content is ‘there’ yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no!! 😭😭😭⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “My compass shattered.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you work with food, how can you control yourself so you don’t eat it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m citing the CDC with the years I gave, so if you got it in the US before 1995, it would have either been a trial or unlicensed version. It was approved for use in the EU in 1991 though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  “Hepatitis A (HepA) vaccines were first licensed for use in the United States in 1995.”

  Interestingly, 1995 was the same year the chickenpox vaccine was licensed. I grew up in the “everyone gets chickenpox” days too; in fact, I caught it at only 3 weeks old from my older sister, who caught it at daycare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you work with food, how can you control yourself so you don’t eat it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hepatitis A vaccine was licensed in 1995, available in the US in 1996, and recommended for all US children in 2006. Hep A is the one you’re most likely to catch from sharing food.

  So if children all got recommended vaccines (which sadly we know is getting less common), then ~21% of the US population should be vaccinated, plus anyone who got it before it was recommended for all.

  Hepatitis B became standard for all newborns in 1991.

  I’m showing my age, but I realize—even though I received all standard vaccines—it might be time to find out if I’m vaccinated against either of those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you work with food, how can you control yourself so you don’t eat it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is also a way hepatitis spreads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I re-establish peaceful relations with a family of crows?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Crows will eat cat or dog food (my local crows love the cat food we feed them!). If there aren’t laws against feeding stray cats, you could put a bowl on your porch with cat food and if you’re questioned, play innocent.

  As an aside, if you want to identify the fledglings, look at their mouth. Baby crows have red/pink mouths while the adults have black mouths!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If they are intelligent enough to communicate and consent, sure, why not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If online services (such as Netflix) only ever raise their prices, does that mean they offer less and less value for money as time passes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not wrong! I think ROI would be the business side, while value is the consumer side.

  In another response, someone told about a store that raised price on inexpensive mice, and they sold much more than when the price was lower.

  My partner and I tried a new restaurant a couple days ago. He had fajitas, which was only something like $12. Normally, fajitas are more like $20. It was pretty good, not great, but something he’d eat again.

  The cost was lower so even though the benefit (food quality) wasn’t as high as some places, the value was equal to what he gets at many other places.

  But clearly value isn’t all, because next time he wants fajitas, he might decide he wants really good fajitas and go spend more. Or he might decide the cheaper ones are good enough to fill the craving and go there.

  Anyway, perception is key here, and no one person can decide that for anyone else!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If online services (such as Netflix) only ever raise their prices, does that mean they offer less and less value for money as time passes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thinking through how “free” things fit into the equation is actually one of the things that cemented it for me. Your example about giving tech support is so familiar, and a great example of how people don’t value free things.

  Well, you can’t divide by 0; so if cost is nothing, then there’s no value.

  I’ve read the book Influence by Robert Cialdini a few times because it’s a fascinating take on what persuades people at a subconscious level. Your story about mice is spot on with some principles he shares.

  I think the example in the book was about a person who sold jewelry at fairs. I’m going to make up details because I don’t remember them perfectly, but it’s close: Her $10 turquoise jewelry wasn’t selling, so she told one of her workers to reduce it by 20%. There was a miscommunication and instead the price was raised to $20, and she sold out that day.

  People saw it as more valuable because of the higher cost.

  Humans are unfortunately easy to manipulate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If online services (such as Netflix) only ever raise their prices, does that mean they offer less and less value for money as time passes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been taught:

  Value = Benefits received / Costs incurred

  Costs can be price, time, energy, etc.

  Benefits can be a physical product, an experience, a feature, or less tangible like peace of mind or security.

  If you increase price, other costs must go down OR benefits must go up; otherwise value is lost.

  And yes, it’s all perception. Benefits don’t affect all customers equally, and people place different value on their time, etc.

  Your comment is spot on. I have just found this equation consistently holds up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If online services (such as Netflix) only ever raise their prices, does that mean they offer less and less value for money as time passes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an equation for value I learned from a boss of mine. Value equals:
  Benefits received / Costs incurred

  Costs aren’t always monetary; your time and energy is also a cost. And benefits aren’t always tangible; it can include things like peace of mind.

  In order to increase price, you have to also lower other costs OR increase benefits, otherwise you lower value.

  And value is a perception, not an objective measure.

  Sticking to streaming services as an example since that’s what you put out there: Netflix does not integrate in the TV app on AppleTV, so I can’t search for their content and it’s a few extra steps to start playing things. All other streaming services I’ve used have that integration. If they all had the exact same price and I valued their content equally, Netflix would still have lower value for me because they aren’t offering a benefit all others have.

  So did they change anything meaningful to you when they increased their price? If not, then their value decreased—at least for you.

  But maybe they added some amazing kid safety controls at the same time as the price increase. If you don’t have kids, the value went down. But a parent who wants those features might have net neutral or even positive value perception.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It took me a long time and some kicks in the butt to make some of my donations recurring. Like I decided to give recurring donations to Wikimedia and the Internet Archive a few years back when Elon was attacking both of them. I’d given as one-offs when Wikipedia would prompt for donations, but was proud to make it a recurring thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I decided to cancel my recurring donation, citing these actions as why.

  Here’s the email I wrote:

  I would like to cancel my recurring donation in response to Wikimedia’s decision to fire Brooke Vibber and the Community Tech team. I love Wikipedia, but I have concerns around the anti-union and anti-community actions that are happening under the current leadership. I will not in good conscience continue to support a “nonprofit” organization that is following the big tech/Silicon Valley anti-labor playbook.

  1. The type of change you would like to make to your donation - cancel
  2. The email address that was used when the donation was made - [redacted]
  3. The full name used - [redacted]
  4. The amount and currency of the donation - $20 USD recurring monthly

  I hope the Wikimedia Foundation rethinks its approach to the community and its workers, and establishes practices of transparency.

  Thank you,

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on how a lot of adults act, I’d say we don’t get enough science education either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SBA #119 maths⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s why people are complaining about the division sign.

  It’s been decades since I took a math class so I am definitely not the right person to explain things, but I am using technology to confirm my understanding of the various notations:

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  So yeah, if you put 6 over a denominator of 2(1+2), the answer is different (1) because the equation is different. But if you write it out literally, it would be 6 over 2 times (1+2).

  What you wrote swapped the denominator to make it 2(1+2)÷6, which will always be 1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SBA #119 maths⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing confusion is coming from those taking PEMDAS literally as that order? Rather than PE(M|D)(A|S), like it’s supposed to be?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the simulation jumped the shark with the is Trump guy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. But because I still try to maintain some sense of whatever insanity is happening in the world, I checked and this one is real. 😞

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨phonetic alphabet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think B should be ‘bog’, because many people say “D as in ‘dog’.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨phonetic alphabet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe read it again? L is lima, no ‘g’. It and bravo are the only unchanged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a sports drink list sodium and chloride as separate ingredients, separated by other ingredients, is there a difference between that and just listing salt as an ingredient?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not OP but I’m wondering if perhaps they are mixing up ingredients with nutrition facts or just marketing content?

  Here are screenshots from a mix I was looking at just last night. Chloride is listed as one of the electrolytes, and it’s listed separately in the nutrition facts. But in the ingredients it’s just “salt”.

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  I’m just speculating though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Must be⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh jeez, your comment reminded me of something.

  My boyfriend used to tell the following joke: “Have you heard about the Mexican magician? He counted from uno to dos, then disappeared without a tres (trace).”

  It definitely has a “had me in the first half” racist vibe, while not actually being problematic. Except one time he told it to someone who turned out to actually be an idiot racist. He was too stupid to understand the language pun, but heard “Mexican” in a joke and took it as an opening to tell some truly racist “jokes.”

  I’ll sometimes tell the joke still by modifying it to “Spanish-speaking magician,” but I am very intentional about my audience after that experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Must be⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t love the “haha, women are hysterical” tone here, but also it’s a solid pun. So I say bravo to your shitpost. Anywhere else and it would not have been received well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Kagi Worth It?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My partner loves it; I have not been willing to change my habits to use it.

  One thing that I appreciate about them as a business is that if you don’t use it for a month, they don’t charge you. The subscription stays active, but doesn’t cost you anything until you start using it again. Makes it a low-risk subscription to get! (Please confirm they still do this, but it is how it worked when he signed up!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attention!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  US Mobile offers landlines for $10/mo (link). I can’t speak to that service but I’ve been on a cell plan with them for almost a year and my only complaint has been some weirdness on early auto-payments, but once that was sorted out everything was fine. I’ve referred several people who also seem to be happy with the service as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im stupid but have money⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe some of your money would be well spent on therapy and/or antidepressants.

  Yes, a lot of things suck in the world right now, but there are a lot of great things when you look at the micro level—unless you have depression. And that’s the strong vibe I’m getting from your comments. Therapy isn’t a total fix and finding the right drugs can be a pain, but they can both make a significant difference over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone recommend a logging blood pressure cuff that doesn't require an app or account?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have one that records the history on the device; up to 100 entries per user or so. I don’t know if there’s an export option though; I’ve never tried.

  If you’re interested, I’ll look it up. I’m not at home for a bit so I can’t just go look at it; I’d need to dig through emails to find the model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people with epilepsy triggered by flashing lights, drive past trees that are backlit by the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The time span differs. My mentor’s husband in Missouri is barred from driving for a year after a seizure; my partner mention that it’s five years in North Carolina.

  I haven’t looked up any of the rules, but those are just examples of what I’ve heard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did Cash for Chritianity become a thing? When even Jesus the son of god wouldn't stand for it in a church? If they preach why don't they practice from the bible?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate seeing the Quaker love on Lemmy! (UUs are awesome too, in my experience!)