fratermus
@fratermus@piefed.social
refugee from lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Should the next President of the US pardon Trump for all his crap like Ford did Nixon? 2 weeks ago:
No.
- Comment on Do most Americans vote just based on name recognizing without any thinking of the platform? Or pigeon hole a candidate to one issue and vote for them? Even if that issue is way against beliefs? 3 weeks ago:
What a great site!
I added them to my reading list. It’s not mentioned on the site AFAIK but the RSS feed is https://www.nationhoodlab.org/feed/
- Comment on Is "American posing as a Canadian" a real thing? 3 weeks ago:
When I was stationed in [the former West] Germany in the 80s one of the guys in my platoon was an avid & considerate traveler. He never claimed to be Canadian but
- he had a Canadian flag patch on his traveling pack
- listened to the Dayglo Abortions and knew all the words to Proud to be a Canadian
He didn’t want to lumped in with “Ugly American” a-holes. And he wasn’t. Probably more due his considerate behavior than flag patch but who knows.
Other proof of his excellence: he took me to my first Fields of the Nephilim, Sisters of Mercy, and Nitzer Ebb shows.
- Comment on Do most Americans vote just based on name recognizing without any thinking of the platform? Or pigeon hole a candidate to one issue and vote for them? Even if that issue is way against beliefs? 3 weeks ago:
Do most Americans vote… without any thinking…
Yes. It’s rare for a US citizen to be in a different political party or religious denomination than their parents. <- not happening by accident
Also, most people I try to have good faith discussions with speak solely in soundbites they heard in their favorite news ecosystem. No critical thought occurring at all.
- Comment on What is the most common stupid question you hear/see? 3 weeks ago:
Questions with my BOFH answers when I’m annoyed. And I’m often annoyed.
Q. I downloaded [whatever]. Where is it? A. Wherever you told that dialog box to put it. I wasn’t there.
Q. What’s “any key”? A. It’s any key on the keyboard. Pick at random, or pick your favorite letter if you have one. [note: this isn’t exactly true but I’ve never seen anyone pick CapsLock or some other key that might not result in continuance.]
Q. Why isn’t my computer working? A. It’s not turned on.
Q. Why can’t I run a microwave, air conditioner, and blowdryer off a walmart marine battery in my campervan? A. Because math.
Q. how big is a millimeter? A. It’s a unit of measurement, so a millimeter is exactly 1mm. You can see them as small hashmarks on most rulers. One inch is roughly 25mm, if that helps. (narrator voice: “It didn’t help.")
Q. What time is it? A. [/me, the 8-12 substitute teacher, turns to look at the classroom’s wall clock. I point to it.] The clock is right. Q. What does it say? Q. Well, you might remember that [/me visualizing the sweet nothingness of death or at least a tequila & NyQuil blackout] the short hand shows the hour and the long hand shows minutes.
Q. [dead teen eyes staring at clock, jaw slackening, brain melting] So…. what does it say? A. [reconsiders life choices] - Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Be careful about trusting flash drives. I’ve had several crap the bed. My understanding is the data is still there but the internal controller has fallen over.
I agree with others that say make multiple copies in multiples places on different media types.
- Comment on Why do we assume paper towels are sterile, or at least clean? 3 weeks ago:
Unless it’s been autoclaved or packaged in a “clean room” I don’t assume anything’s sterile . I would say that mass produced paper products like that are closer to sanitary.
- Comment on My BC is very sound sensitive espicially to the turn signal. My brother and I can't get in a disagreement because he'll run. Are all BC's this way, or did I just find a unique one? Any way to fix it? 4 weeks ago:
You use too many unnecessary acronyms.
TMUA
- Comment on Does the USA have gifted schools or was Spider-Man Homecoming lying? 1 month ago:
My own experience is that there are “special” classes for the learning impaired. Never heard of any “genius” schools unless it’s fiction
Special classes for "gifted" students within a school is/was common in larger districts. FWIW I never heard anyone in the programs, student or teacher, describe the students as geniuses .
- Comment on Does the USA have gifted schools or was Spider-Man Homecoming lying? 1 month ago:
half of My polycule says that magnet schools are all fake
US magnet schools are real, although controlled by the local school district rather than the federal govt. They tend to be organized around subject (STEM, performing arts, etc) rather than cognitive gift per se . One might argue that a pre-law/pre-med magnet could have substantial overlap with cognitive ability.
Services for the cognitively “gifted”, to the degree they exist, tend to be located within a given school. They have a special curriculum, the flipside of one might have for kids who are cognitively challenged.
and only serve the rich. There’s no way a low income white boy
I assure you that isn’t true, both from direct experience and from working in magnets. Rich folks can likely influence any situation but magnet != private school for rich kids.
it doesn’t have any dumb jock types
They typically don’t have competitive sports teams so any jock-ness is individual rather than collective. Kids geographically local to a magnet can often attend automatically so there is a subset of Normals at a magnet, including jocks.
- Comment on how to watch less youtube on my tv? 1 month ago:
I find YT a valuable resource for my geeky/tech interests. My approach to avoiding time suck is:
- use RSS rather than browsing to catch new vids from creators I value
- download with yt-dlp
- pull down “talking head” vids as audio-only and add them to the podcast queue instead of video queue
- work around the house wearing headphones for most vids, looking at the screen only when something visually important is happening.
While I’m writing this yt-dlp is pulling down the day’s video queue and storing it on the media server for later consumption.
- Comment on How to deal with people who obtusely miss your point on Lemmy? 1 month ago:
I’ll spend time clarifying a point for person who
- seems to be asking/arguing in good faith
- seems to be capable of understanding an answer
When it’s not immediately obvious what kind of commenter is asking I glance at their posting history and annotate the account with a note/tag so I remember.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I was imagining a Little House on the Prairie bonnet.
- Comment on People who play videos and podcast loudly in cafés and restaurants: What's your deal? 1 month ago:
self-absorption
- Comment on Firearm Advice 3 months ago:
xtreme defender… can be a good option for weaker calibers like .380,
That’s my use case. I load the 68gr defender over 4.1 grains of Win 231. These chrono 1,181fps out of the LCP’s 2.75” barrel. Feeds flawlessly, which surprised me a bit.
A couple months ago American Reloading had 68gr Defender pulls for 27.6 cents each which is about half price and in the ballpark of top-tier hollowpoints.
- Comment on Traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck driving above the speed limit or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. It belongs to an NYPD cop. 5 months ago:
Only people I’ve seen buy ram trucks are ones who do not care about others and want to be seen as big and tuff.
The brodozer phenomenon is real and lamentable.
At the moment I am getting a reprieve from it. I moved to a small agricultural town* where the pickups are actually work trucks. Hay bales, animal feed bags, and farm dogs in the bed. It makes this grinch’s heart grow a little larger.
*actually just a Census Designated Place
- Comment on I was told it would be a cultural experience 6 months ago:
I don’t know what the rumors were in the 70s, but in the late 80s it was AIDS.
and satanic panic