halcyoncmdr
@halcyoncmdr@piefed.social
- Comment on Facial recognition error: Customer misidentified by Sainsbury's 22 hours ago:
Yeah, 0.02% of 65 Million is 1.3 Million possible errors.
And that’s just based on the raw population, that accuracy rating could be based on raw number of scans instead. A quick search shows Sainsbury’s serves 16 million customers a week. That’s 320,000 errors every week if the error rate is just raw scans as opposed to unique scans.
- Comment on Nurses Get Bitten, Spat on, Thrown. That’s Why We’re on Strike. 1 day ago:
That was included in the show, as so many other things are to get people talking about it, but a punch isn’t a particularly out of the ordinary bad day according to all of the nurses I know. Even those that work in private practices have had to deal with violence fairly regularly from patients and/or family members.
- Comment on Ah, customer service 2 days ago:
20+ years in various customer facing roles has shown me that customers rarely know what they’re talking about. And they are not capable of reading either. The size of any sign is inversely proportional to their ability to even notice it exists.
- Comment on its a 1999 nissan actually 3 days ago:
I miss my old 1992 Accord. Should have kept it instead of selling it when I got my 2012 Civic.
Even with the weird start issue, turns out it was probably just a bad clutch safety switch that somehow multiple mechanics missed… Had the exact same issue come up with the brand new Civic.
- Comment on Draw! 4 days ago:
I’ve had several NDAs that also cover disclosure of the other party. And those weren’t even for proper “work” as you’d generally define it.
- Comment on Drug dealers hate this one weird trick! 5 days ago:
And build up like that is why you should limit artificial insecticides like that around your house as well. That build up happens to each animal up the food chain. Bug gets 1 insecticide, but the lizard eats a bunch of bugs. Lizard now has 100 insecticides, and gets eaten by a snake. Snake eats a dozen lizards, now we’re at 1200 insecticide. Owl eats a dozen snakes, 24000 insecticide in the owl.
Obviously this is simplified, but it gets the point across.
- Comment on It's my toxic trait 6 days ago:
Every time Mythical Chef Josh decides to regale everyone with a story from his childhood.
- Comment on No low ballers, I know what I have 6 days ago:
Yeah, but a specific type that we know doesn’t kill us.
Can’t say the same about that pizza.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 1 week ago:
It’s probably more about large variances in temperature over a shorter period. If it’s already -36 today and been similarly cold recently then the trees are already frozen. There isn’t a risk from internal liquid water freezing and expanding.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 2 weeks ago:
There’s a reason they focus so much on removing voters from the rolls, removing voting locations, making it illegal to provide water to those waiting in line (because they only have a handful of locations after removing them all) and making it just generally harder to vote across the board.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 2 weeks ago:
Sorry to remind you that Republicans historically do better in the midterms because more of their voters show up regardless. That’s one of the things the racist old fucks love to do with their copious amount of free time. Watch Fox News and head on down to the voting booths.
For many, it’s likely the only thing they have to look forward to now that many of their families have abandoned them over this shit.
- Comment on Trump Confuses Iceland and Greenland in Davos Remarks 2 weeks ago:
Just waiting for someone to finally say “Okay grandpa, go lay down”, or “Let the adults talk for a while.”
Public humiliation, on a global scale, to his face.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE Agents and Trump and such? 2 weeks ago:
They have a flair for the dramatic, which is exactly how fascists operate. Might as well match their drama.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE Agents and Trump and such? 2 weeks ago:
That won’t happen until they are personally affected.
That’s the single consistent trigger point for every Republican that turns against the party of you’ve been paying attention.
They have to be directly affected .. they have to feel it themselves. They are incapable of feeling empathy for others, that’s why they have the perspective they have and don’t do anything about obvious issues. They don’t think they are issues because it’s affecting the others.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Deep Space 9’s Game, Played Quark’s Bar & that He Dominates At. 2 weeks ago:
Tongo isn’t a fully fleshed out game, and the writers didn’t have anything concrete to go on when referencing it. It was written as a mashup of poker, mahjongg and craps.
There were never any “official” rules established; according to Ron D. Moore the writers had only a vague idea of what the game was actually about, and mostly just made it up as they went along.
- Comment on The hair even covers its face... 2 weeks ago:
For those that don’t know… And are too lazy to Google it, here you go.
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 2 weeks ago:
Knowing absolutely nothing about the model… My first thought was that she was trans. Because the dipshits run into that all the time.
They make no effort to actually understand anything and just live off vibes and beliefs with no factual basis whatsoever. Not doing a basic Google search to look up the model and verify before posting like an idiot is par for the course.
- Comment on I just went to the doctor's office and my copay is up $5 compared to last year 3 weeks ago:
Lemmiwinks!
