alternategait

@alternategait@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is the romantic period due, in any part, to the high alcohol content of their food ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure there’s something to be said about inoculating water with known not bad microbes over boiling and then possibly reintroducing disease causing microbes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a rabbit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the other person said cost is not the highest on the list.

  You’re the one crusading for it to be “not a reason”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a rabbit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Twitter post by user @BravoCoolee “Twitter the only place where well-articulated sentences still get misinterpreted. You can say “I like pancakes” and somebody will say “So you hate waffles?” No bitch. Dats a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What about using heat from geothermal vents?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am someone who works out daily and sweats a lot. Just doing laundry doesn't seem to adequately clean the underarms of my shirts. What are some ways to clean these areas of my clothing better?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Babe you forgot about gerunds?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am someone who works out daily and sweats a lot. Just doing laundry doesn't seem to adequately clean the underarms of my shirts. What are some ways to clean these areas of my clothing better?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Old spice has given me chemical burns so YMMV

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How has Apple tricked so many people into believing that they "just need to get another Apple product"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wanted to add that I’ve been everywhere in laptop operating systems. The computer that I used before the first macbook was running Mint. I use a Windows laptop for work. I’ve had 2 or 3 major problems with my macs. I’ve have 3 major problems with my windows machine so far this year (and a dozen other smaller issues).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How has Apple tricked so many people into believing that they "just need to get another Apple product"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a nearly everything apple user. It started with a macbook air that I was gifted. It was an incredibly stable laptop that basically just always worked. I had no troubles doing things like finding the printers in my department or the library (something which was stupid frustrating with my prior laptop). I had that laptop without any other apple products for 7-8 years.

  The iPhone started my move into everything else. I used to have a fit bit but when the battery died, I got the apple watch because it was so much easier to connect/keep connected. I got airpods for the same reason.

  I want stuff that works the way I expect it to work and works all the time. Everything I’ve had is very stable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Many get paid much more than faculty.

  Universities are "adjunctifying many positions and adjunct professors are not paid well. Some faculty are homeless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buckle up, we're learning the hard way.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’ll just audit the hard drugs ruin lives course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨me looking at my 190 cm/110 kg daddy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife and I are the same height (slightly tall of average), and the best part is having to only minimally adjust all the car stuff. We are significantly different sizes though, so I did not achieve the lesbian dream of having double wardrobe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was starting to run low on the essentials⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But have you tried Malort?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buzz off⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, I like figs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You clearly don’t work in my office.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Damn straight!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I thought it was a rhetorical device used cunningly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Damn straight!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just said something along these lines in a different comment, but … I have been both a barista (1 week of training-ish) and a physical therapist (4 year bachelor’s and 3 year clinical doctorate). At times, I really enjoyed both. However, doing either full time either bored me or burned me out. I would love to swip-swap between those positions (and others) just because I could because my ability to stay in my home would not be dependent on having a “high skill” job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Damn straight!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think if you decouple capital and earning from skill this “more or less valuable” thing sorts itself out. If I’m hungry, I’d rather have a farmer and a chef around. If I sprain my ankle, I’d rather have a doctor and a PT around. My needs of the moment are not what I always need. My abilities at this moment, are not what my abilities always will be. for example, if I sprain my ankle, I probably can’t help the farmer bring in the cattle, but I could help the doctor by setting up the autoclave for surgical tools.

  I also feel like if my ability have a home and live in a community and not starve were separated from how my time is spent, I would get to choose both less specialized things and I would probably get to cycle through different things (and prevent burnout). I would adore a schedule that lets me do significant physical labor for 2-4 hours in the morning, child care 2 days a week, geriatric health care 2 days a week, barista another day or two, and creative endeavors the rest of the time. That’s not really a job that can or does exist these days and if I tried to cobble it together from part time work, lean staffing would never let it be regular enough to manage all of them without flaking out on someone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I constantly see testostorone being put into evreything from pills to candy bars but its illegal for trans men to get it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So I don’t know where you are or what your healthcare system is like, but I suspect it’s somewhere with a public system. Do you think it’s good for your system to treat depression and suicidal ideation/attempts? Because transition is the best prevention of suicide attempts for people who are transgender. Full stop. If there was any treatment that came close to the improvement for depressed cis people, it would be considered a god damn miracle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How plausible is a medical tricorder?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly the way they used it, I always thought the tricorder was just the reading part of other diagnostic implements. Kind of an all in one CGM, implanted pacemaker, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unappreciated in my own lifetime⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Historical image of a dog on a table and Pavlov surrounded by several people. Impact font text reads “I bet Pavlov loves that we think of dogs whenever we hear his name”