CombatWombat
@CombatWombat@feddit.online
- Comment on Do the major leagues have insurance for their players for life? If they get hurt on the field and it's something that will never go away? Or do they just cut the player and not worry about it? 1 day ago:
It’s hard to give a blanket answer because it varies from league to league. The NWSL does provide health and life insurance to all players under the current CBA and the league does cover injuries that take place on the pitch. Similarly, if a player takes an extended absence for maternity, they continue to draw their salary. Other leagues have other policies, generally determined by what their players’ union has been able to negotiate.
- Comment on What was the most suggestive "out of context" public conservation piece you've ever heard? 3 days ago:
“If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.”
- Comment on NOT SEEKING MEDICAL ADVICE. Doctors can prescribe a whole host of "downers" like xanax, methadone, the whole benzo family. Is there any uppers they can prescribe? 5 days ago:
Doctors can still prescribe cocaine as a topical anesthetic, and ADHD patients regularly get prescriptions for amphetamines. But I thought you were a nurse?
- Comment on Did 9/11 cause a statistically visible "anti-babyboom"? 6 days ago:
This study out of Duke University discusses some effects on births of 9/11. As best I can tell, the effects are mostly a reduced number of men relative to the number of women, increased prematurity, and reduced weight at birth, mostly attributed to the stress the mothers experienced during pregnancy.
- Comment on Why doesn't the NHL include playoffs from lifetime stats for players? 1 week ago:
To allow even comparison across teams that play a different number of games. It’s a very different proposition to get 138 points in 82 games vs 110. In soccer, it’s common to quote statistics as “per 90 minutes” for just this reason.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I couldn’t disagree with this sentiment more vehemently
So that in turn, makes it so the only kind of discussions and talk you see is just softball kinds. You know, like discussing sports teams, the weather and vice versa.
Dead internet theory is when everyone is a bot run by a political actor who is yelling about politics, or a bot run by a corporation to deliver ads. Real human beings talk about the weather and sports and their garden and their pets and what they’re making for dinner. I feel the most that I’m on the dead internet when everyone is talking about Big Ideas and Current Events and no-one is saying Go Reign or Look At This Cool Leaf I Found.
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- Comment on What happened to the snot I blew onto the grass? 3 weeks ago:
What happens to a snot rocketed?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. <strong>Or does it explode?</strong>(with apologies to Langston Hughes)
- Comment on Is it okay to have more than one account on here? 3 weeks ago:
You should have more than one fedi account. For sure a mastodon or misskey, maybe a nodebb or bookwyrm, possibly Pixelfed or Vernissage, if you’re feeling spicy a wanderer or funkwhale – cut loose, try out a few services. If you wanna have multiple lemmy accounts, no-one’s gonna stop you but a lot of people that do run multiple are kinda lame and end up using them as sock puppets and to manipulate voting and stuff so don’t be surprised if folks are skeptical.
- Comment on Reddit repost bots taking over entire communities 3 weeks ago:
We’re still here, but! do we have good taste?
- Comment on what does it mean when someone says their worried about your emotional well beans? 4 weeks ago:
Good news, I traded our only cow for those well beans because I know how fedi loves beans.
- Comment on Is there a difference between "comfortable space" and a "safespace"? 4 weeks ago:
Safe spaces, in my mind, are ones that are free of any language that could be construed as harmful, whereas a comfortable space is one that is free of any language that any member construes as harmful. Like, as a concrete but contrived example, I would expect a policy like: if anyone is uncomfortable, we’ll enforce that everyone says “person experiencing homelessness,” but until then, we understand that that being policed is uncomfortable and you can feel empathy and still say “homeless person,” so we’re allowing that, even if it is strictly speaking a signal of a safer space.
- Comment on Michelin-starred restaurant fined for serving dessert topped with ants 4 weeks ago:
Is “ant farmer for Michelin star restaurants” a job that is hiring? It seems like it might actually be pretty fun?
They estimated the dessert was served to 12,274 customers, using 49,096 ants, for total revenue of about 120m won.
- Comment on What could the US get rid of to balance the budget and make prices drop very quickly? How is some trash or misspent money on thing we no longer need? 5 weeks ago:
You’ve gotta raise revenues. We’ve tried cutting our way out of this, and it just doesn’t work. Thinking of “how do we reduce government spending” is fundamentally the wrong mentality; we should reduce overall spending by increasing government revenues and expenditures. If we implemented socialized healthcare, as a nation we’d save in excess of $1T even though as a state we’d spend considerably more than we do currently.
- Comment on How come on pretty much all websites there is a way to report abuse, but not to report someone making a good comment or an inciteful post and then they get it advertised on the front page? 5 weeks ago:
Is… isn’t that upvote button does?
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I’m just telling you how I discovered his piece of information. It was a very normal household interaction but with a dash of source amnesia.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
thank you. I’m supremely annoyed that I’m reduced to posting to fedi to find good sources for a basic adulting question, but I’m equally grateful when someone comes through for me.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to [deleted] | 100 comments
- Comment on Where is the piefed.social instance based in? 5 weeks ago:
Generally speaking, it’s best to avoid using the default instance. The fediverse works best when there are many, smaller instances, instead of one large instance and a few smaller one orbiting it. We should try to avoid the problems we see with the centralization around mastodon.social and lemmy.world happening to piefed as well, if we can.
- Comment on The did a semi live action movie of the Lion King. Why doesn't hollywood do a movie or a couple seasons of Tail Spin? 5 weeks ago:
A live-action Gadget would create an entire generation of furries the likes of which the world has never seen
- Comment on How does a game server differentiate between multiple clients on the same network? Do they even? 5 weeks ago:
The internet is an inter-networking protocol. Your modem/router gets a single IP address to represent the entire network, but it assigns addresses to each device internally. When it receives a packet from the wider internet, it performs a translation to figure out which internal address to route the packet to. There are headers attached to the packet that your router uses to keep track of which internal addresses to send it to.
- Comment on If I could a buffalo chicken chili kale salad would the show off my cooking skills? 1 month ago:
Whatever you do, don’t make something for the first time. If you’re looking to impress, adding an array of side dishes, like rolls, potatoes, steamed vegetables, green salad, fruit salad etc is much more effective than one really killer main.
- Comment on Is there going to be something about potato buns tomorrow? 1 month ago:
Well, you will now — a bunch of people saw this post and they’re gonna make it happen.
- Comment on A couple mates and I run askhistorians.lemmy.world. How can we get more people to post instead of myself all the time? 1 month ago:
One thing you can try is to set hashtags on your posts so that users from other fedi softwares can find you. Most of the woso folks I see in !nwsl@lemmy.world are mastodon users.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Are employers able to do that without having to deduct taxes?
No. You can pay employees their wages with things other than money, which is often called being paid “in kind,” but the person being so paid still owes taxes on the monetary value of their compensation. Being paid in RAM would be extremely inconvenient because you would still have to pay your taxes in your local currency.
- Comment on Why are there so many shit posts about beans? 1 month ago:
Iirc, fedi bean posting predates lemmy, but I have no idea where it comes from originally.
- Comment on Train from Warsaw to Chelm costs £9. In UK this 250 km journey would probably cost at least 10 times more. 1 month ago:
Ah, I see. I thought we were talking about the relative price of 250 km train tickets between countries and struggled to figure out how your screenshot fit. Thanks for clarifying.
- Comment on Train from Warsaw to Chelm costs £9. In UK this 250 km journey would probably cost at least 10 times more. 1 month ago:
Imma keep it 100 with you, chief: I’m not smart enough to understand what you meant by posting a screenshot of bus prices underneath my question about the relative train prices between the US and UK.
- Comment on Train from Warsaw to Chelm costs £9. In UK this 250 km journey would probably cost at least 10 times more. 1 month ago:
A ticket for the 278 km journey from Seattle to Portland tonight is $71, or ~5.5x this price. If you plan ahead, it’s like $27, or ~2x this price. Surely US trains aren’t cheaper than UK trains?
- Comment on Every payment option has a fee 1 month ago:
It is exhausting. It would be nice to live somewhere with consumer protections, but shockingly those places aren’t particularly enthusiastic about taking immigrants from the US