HubertManne
@HubertManne@kbin.social
- Comment on I this a firm and polite way to tell an opinionated coworker to stop pushing his agenda I don't care about? 3 days ago:
Its hard to say without knowing your restrictions at work. In an open office I would grab my laptop and go work somewhere else. I assume you can't do that? If I could not do that can I wear headphones and listen to music while I work? If not that can I wear ear plugs? I find ear plug ignoring the person becomes aware you really can't hear them and eventually they try to get your attention then you pull it out and say sorry you use these to help your concentration. im not sure after that this is a social situation that you sorta figure out as you are there so all I got is possible physical space hacks. Oh if you have any phone calls or meetings always apologize and say your coworker talks a lot.
- Comment on "Nuisance begging" and rough sleeping as soon to be illegal 5 days ago:
what. you want them to raise taxes just to do better water source management. Preposterous!
- Comment on "Nuisance begging" and rough sleeping as soon to be illegal 5 days ago:
people can finally be truly hung over again.
- Comment on Does it seem odd to track my lifespan? 6 days ago:
from a 15 year old perspective old was awhile ago for me.
- Comment on Does it seem odd to track my lifespan? 6 days ago:
I don't see why it matters if you say your 15 years old 5 thousand some thing days of like 100k odd hours. they are just units of time. could also just say your a decade and a half or on your second revolution of the chinese zodiac (btw it has 5 elements so your fully go through the cycle at 60)
- Comment on Is there any research on the possible market impact or fund volatility due to generational die offs? 1 week ago:
I think low payouts will though. its likely there will be thousands of low payout for every significant one. Its much more common. Some folks get into the lucky position where all said and done it cost them money or at least a lot of their time with nothing really to show for it. but your right its being pulled out of the market as the money is needed or even sooner in those cases. So it won't be a sudden it but more of a slow constant drain.
- Comment on Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles 1 week ago:
well and thats a bit easier than a building style. I can't just run something in the garage. I kid you not but a guy had insulation put above his unit in the attic and they spent condo funds to have a lawyer go after it to remove it and when he fought back they had a guy take the insulation out. its freakin nuts!
- Comment on Is there any research on the possible market impact or fund volatility due to generational die offs? 1 week ago:
I highly disagree in the sense of most people. Everyone I have known in the situation have put it towards a house or it was so low they just took the cash for bills. I think most will keep it in investments if its quite substantial maybe but many people die having already had to sell off assets and reverse morgages and all kinds of things.
- Comment on Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles 1 week ago:
I mean for myself I could not plug one in and if you ever have dealt with a community like a condo getting permission to one off is only overshadowed by trying to get the place to improve the infrastructure overall in impossibility. I sorta hope incentives or regulations come along to make such changes easier.
- Comment on Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles 1 week ago:
plugin hybrids to me are an important step. If it can do 10 miles without starting to use gas and the person plugs it in they will use very little gas.
- Comment on Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles 1 week ago:
I have never seen this except in the most gimmicky manner around me.
- Comment on Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together? 1 week ago:
Why does anyone who works not make their own company? It takes capital and a certain skill set as well as a risk tolerance.
- Comment on Rupert Murdoch is now a shadow director of the ABC after completing a takeover of ABC news programs 1 week ago:
non australian scrolling down all. Please tell me this is australian broadcasting company or something and not american broadcasting company that disney owns???
- Comment on If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible? 1 week ago:
Im athiest but I have no issue with conversation as long as its polite. I would regularly discuss christianity with a nice old lady who was a jehovas witness. she handed out slips but was not pushy or rude. I would discuss and even said I would for the sake of conversation assume the bible is real. She took my views in stride that you would think would upset someone from such a fundamentalist faith. If people did not want to talk to her though she did not bother them or such.
- Comment on Chinese network behind one of world’s ‘largest online scams’: Vast web of fake shops touting designer brands took money and personal details from 800,000 people in Europe and US, data suggests 1 week ago:
Ain't nothing but a phone number to me, and I can find all unseemly manner of use for it.
- Comment on The Guyver: 4K release coming from Unearthed Films 1 week ago:
its the tentacle thing in the tranformation im talking about.
- Comment on The Guyver: 4K release coming from Unearthed Films 1 week ago:
The anime always cracked me up because of the tranformation male and female. Males got to be the same right, just not showing it. I mean yeah, I know, but superpowers!
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 week ago:
why would I look for that. That is the extreme. left does not star way on the left more than right starts way on the right. Its like saying someone is not right unless they are against any social program or public property of any kind.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 week ago:
yeah they did not really outright embrace it till trump. what he says is terrifying.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 week ago:
yeah I was generally talking about us current left and right and not the super extremes. thing is our left as a whole is close to center and our right is wwwwwaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy right. currently.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 week ago:
I think this is us convervative/liberal. like bernie sanders is a liberal in the us.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 week ago:
I mean I would say it evolved from the thing starting in the 80's. Especially that nothing mattered but lowering taxes on the wealthy (since sometimes they push for "flat" taxes and a lot of what they do just moves the tax burden lower down). Pre 80's conservative ideology was not my cup of tea but had some merit. they used to be against deficits.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 week ago:
I mean plenty of lefty folks hate righties but they hate the ideology and not the people. They hate the people in so much as they hate the ideology they spout and its hate. There is a lot of hate inherent to right ideology but not so much in left ideology. At the end of the day I don't hate any particular person just them pushing things on me or the world that makes either worse. Take the old order anabaptist types like the amish. They are ultra conservative but keep to themselves. Is there bad things in the way their communities run. You betcha. But anyone can leave and sure they will be shunned but otherwise if they accept just not being part of it then they are free of it all. I am sorta losing where I am going with this but hope it helps in some way.
- Comment on Make Monday a spuddle Monday! 1 week ago:
I agree here. My thing is just to work at a civilized pace no matter the pressure. Get stuff done and work through the process but don't stress on artificial deadlines and such. Its somewhat hard though and what cracks me up is stressing about allowing myself to stress.
- Comment on All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Why? 1 week ago:
my phone and tablet both don't have one.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
yeah this is a real good example of what I was talking about.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
I think its the extreme. The idea of reducing meat consumption over eliminating it is not met kindly by many vegans and vegan communities. I also see a lot of down play of the nutrient challenge discussion. Now like anything on the internet the extremes tend to be the most vocal. I have personally known vegans who are pretty happy if people are even reducing meat consumption at all or being lacto/ovo pescatarians or such. Its really bad as sometimes the message is if your not going to go full on vegan than your personally responsible for destroying the planet (much like all responsibility for palastinian suffer is because joe bidens the one doing the genocidin) and you might as well eat meat at every meal. The reaction of this for non vegans is very often F these folks and you know what I think I will go out and have a triple bacon cheese burger right now because they taste great.
- Comment on So we currently have all these left wing folks claiming men are more dangerous than bears, why is the same group pushing multi gender washrooms so hard? 2 weeks ago:
to be fair. wild animals are not all that dangerous in the modern age.
- Comment on Did your taste in movies change over time? How did it evolve from your 20s, to your 30, 40's and beyond? 2 weeks ago:
Not really but ever since LOTR my expectations are way higher. Im the curmudgeonly old man now complaining about how everything sucks. or your average internetters.
- Comment on Come on, science! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but who was using those besides business folks. I think the thing with the iphone was the easy to use which made it more of a mass market thing. Granted they had the advantage of the ipod and a group they could sorta get to cross over.