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- Comment on It's becoming widely accepted that it's not safe to put pictures of your children on social media... (cont. in post) 1 day ago:
That would be better, but better still would be to find a solution that doesn’t enable surveillance of the uninvolved. Most people trust neither their government nor corporations to not misuse or abuse the power of their data. Certain public key cryptography techniques could be used, but because companies can’t make money from it, it’ll never happen.
- Comment on Fair Trade off 🧓🏻 2 days ago:
Do Asian women age like that, or is it maybe that there was a huge increase in childhood nutrition, medical care, personal care, and personal wealth hitting Asia starting several decades ago and the very old are those who survived the times before and the younger Asians have benefitted in ways that manifest in their personal appearance? (And also old ladies all over the world tend to shrink a bit)
- Comment on If the US Military can offer free money for college education..and is part of the government then why does the average Joe have to pay back a small student loan? 3 days ago:
It’s not free, and it has some limitations. You have to spend years in the military, risking being killed and agreeing to murder people for that money. If you’re a woman, there’s a significant risk of rape as well. Then, if you went to school before joining, but didn’t get it in writing that the military would pay for all your student debt, they won’t. Then, finally, if you survive, come out the other side in good enough mental condition to not off yourself, and go to school, your tuition is limited by certain stipulations. Depending on where/what you want to study, it might not even be enough.
- Comment on Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn 5 days ago:
It’s real, but it frames it as though it’s the employees fault for not doing self-promotion rather than the manager’s fault for not keeping track of all the team members it’s his job to support.
- Comment on What does "Woke" mean to you? 6 days ago:
To save time, we (as in the world of English speakers) are not on the same page regarding woke.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible to construct a self reproducing mechanical device? 1 week ago:
I think one of the most interesting questions that underlies this would be whether there is a material with correct properties to handle the mechanical forces necessary to perform mechanical computation to allow something like CNC and whether that system could then be complex/simple enough to assemble itself. It might be possible, but I don’t know enough about mechanical computing to even have a hunch.
- Comment on Bit harsh? 1 week ago:
Part of being powerful is a reduction in cognitive load. You don’t have to worry about what those strange foreign language speakers think or want because you have the guns and money. They have to worry about what you want. Being asked to learn another land’s language places them equal or higher in the hierarchy.
You just can’t allow that kind of thinking. I mean, what next, calling foreigners human? /s
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible to construct a self reproducing mechanical device? 1 week ago:
If your definition of ‘device’ includes biological machines, that’s us and basically everything else we call ‘living.’
If you mean purely mechanically, as in with just cogs, levers, etc? Maybe hypothetically? But probably not really. If you ignore a lot of elements it might be conceivable to design a factory that uses mechanical computing to produce and manipulate stock materials being fed into it, but mechanical things are notoriously finicky when it comes to tolerances, so it’d probably take on too much entropy somewhere and wouldn’t be able to repair itself.
If you allow electronic computers and actuators, it gets easier, but it’s still extremely difficult to the point of practical impossibility to build any system capable of self-maintenance and self-calibration, let alone one that can fully produce every part of itself.
- Comment on The way my partner eats avocado. 1 week ago:
As in you want to eat just ‘some’ and save the rest? You wrap it up or containerize it just like you would with any other method. As in you what to ‘just’ eat avocado, as in not with or on anything? You squeeze it, bite off chunks of flesh, like with anything else, and then squeeze the pasty parts into your slavering maw. Nomnomnom. Easy.
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 1 week ago:
It’s not random. It can be malignly motivated by colorism or classism but those still aren’t random. Overreach by those who have been granted a level of power is its own problem, but until we can get a better system going, police are what we have to work with. Pointing out a problem is not enough.
- Comment on The way my partner eats avocado. 1 week ago:
Such wastage.
It’s so easy to slice around the pit to split in half and then crush out the flesh. No left behind bits. It comes out as a few lumps and then paste.
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 1 week ago:
Don’t cite things on a gotcha response as if it were even momentarily researched.
- Police aren’t usually pulling over random people and randomly testing them. If you’re being pulled over for drinking it’s usually because they already suspect something based on your driving. The only exception are checkpoints, but we’ll come back to that.
- You would have to be doing something weird even to get a result from almost any of the items listed in your own source. An evidentiary breath analysis unit can read as low as 0.020. The highest ABV in that list (that is food, not an extract) is ~2% for soy sauce. You could drink a pint of that soy sauce, (eeugh!) and by the time the alcohol evaporated from your mouth (it lasts several minutes and would prevent an accurate reading) your BAC would likely be below the detection threshold. Procedure (at least where I was, but likely anywhere) would require a second confirmation test 15 minutes after the first to make sure the first wasn’t caused by oral residue.
So, worst case scenario, you chug a pint of soy sauce in your car, immediately drive up to a checkpoint on the way to a hospital because of the amount of salt, they test you randomly and get a positive result from the oral residue, and then get nothing when they retest unless you are so small and light that you are probably a literal child.
- Comment on In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer 1 week ago:
Thanks for angrily strawmanning what I wrote. It tells me I can just drop this thread. Toodles.
- Comment on How would you evaluate having more pay vs an easier job? 1 week ago:
The best thing would be shorter hours for the same total pay. It has the freedom to add more hours if they want more income, spend more time with the people or hobbies they love if they don’t, and makes whatever headaches the job may include more tolerable. If that’s not an option, it depends on what the headache is. Taking 100g off the scanner I have to lift 50 times each day vs taking home an extra, let’s say 5~10% pay? I’ll take the cash. It’d let me take more time off, do more fun things, etc. and the weight isn’t that much unless you have a prior condition. If it’s something that will make it so I can eliminate the need to scan anything and just get to the more important parts of the job, maybe.
Let’s be real here, though. If the option was there, any slackager (slacker manager) is going to do neither because that’d take effort. Any company serving manager is going to just not give the raise and tell the employees they complain too much and should be grateful for the work. And any human serving manager will be fired for wasting company funds on unecessary comforts or raises.
- Comment on In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer 1 week ago:
An NDA is a contract in which someone agrees not to disclose information on a certain set of topics, under penalty defined in the contract or civil liabilities for breach of contract. “Have to talk about it” is an odd phrase for the subject. An NDA doesn’t force someone to talk/not talk about anything. It just creates a strong incentive to not talk about the topics included in the NDA or anything that might arguably fall under those topics because it opens one up to penalties. Many people can and do use NDAs as an excuse not to share information, with some even using a false implication that an NDA exists which prevents them sharing inconvenient information.
- Comment on In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer 1 week ago:
Nope. All of it. It should be unappetizing to take power over others. If someone wants to have authority to afflict thousands if not millions of people with their existence, they don’t get to have any space to hide their crimes. If they don’t want to make that sacrifice to keep us safe, they can just stay home. No one is forcing them to seek public office.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 1 week ago:
We can only hope. Trump has so many people who despise him, it would be an incredible feat for America to elect a president people hate more.
- Comment on In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer 2 weeks ago:
No NDA necessary. That’d be under other laws/systems. Some would be under things like HIPAA in the US if they learned the information in the course of their work. At minimum, it would fall under civil liability if they publicised private information of private individuals and those people claimed that it caused them harm in some way.
- Comment on In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer 2 weeks ago:
It should not be legal for elected officials to sign NDAs
with corporations.Part of the price for being given the power of office should be the loss of privacy. If you are an official, you are no longer a private citizen. You are a representative and should not be doing anything you want to keep secret from your constituency.
- Comment on Is America going to have a population problem like other countries are have nowadays? 2 weeks ago:
Could you be more specific what the ‘population problem’ you are referring to is?
- Comment on Why Does Everyone Seem Ahead of Me? ??? 2 weeks ago:
People always had variable schedules. The phone has always been a disturbing projection of one’s presence into another person’s home or office. But if you want to have connections to people who don’t live in your house, you pay the price of a few seconds of unreasoning terror as you listen to the ringing and think 'Oh, gods, I’m such an asshole for invading their lives. What if they’re trying to put out a grease fire and my phone call makes them feel like they have to let their house burn down with their pets and kids in it to answer my pathetic, needy demands for their attention? What if they’re having sex and answer anyway so I’m just this disembodied presence in the middle of their coitus? What if they–" and then they answer and are happy to hear from you. Even if they don’t spend six hours on the line, letting them know you had a joke to share with them can make both of your days better and you can say, ‘No worries. Call me back when you’re on the road and we can BS about ostriches for your half an hour of commute time. It’ll at least be better than listening to the news.’
- Comment on Do you buy PC games from third party key sites or from Steam? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been moving toward GOG to prevent DRM/update annoyance, but I’ve used isthereanydeal to find some other places to get things I want on steam.
- Comment on Why Does Everyone Seem Ahead of Me? ??? 2 weeks ago:
Call them. Talk as humans with your mouth flaps. It’s weird now because people have fallen out of practice, but it’s always still an option to just connect like people have for thousands of years, and feels so much more meaningful than poking a like button.
- Comment on What is it like being drunk? How much control do you have? 2 weeks ago:
I have a particularly weird view on this so I don’t know how helpful it will be, but I share it when people discuss alcohol.
You, as a person, are basically an imaginary construct given meaning by consistency. Your friends trust you because you consistently behave in a way that says they can trust you. The pattern of behaviours is you because the physical parts swap out all the time. When you drink, you distort yourself a little, because it distorts the behaviour. Anyone who says it doesn’t is delusional. For some people, the distortion is minor. For others, it distorts them a great deal. The drunk you is always so distorted as to be essentially a different person, but one for whom you have total responsibility, because you ‘gave them the keys’ as it were. You are letting the funhouse mirror version of yourself take control of your body so you can be amused by the distortions. Everybody’s mirror is different, but they are all distorted. How much do you trust someone who is much like you, but distorted?
- Comment on Why Does Everyone Seem Ahead of Me? ??? 2 weeks ago:
If you were ‘connected’ via instagram, you were not connected. You were pretending.
- Comment on Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground? 2 weeks ago:
In a number of places, it’d be great in a number of ways.
The big issue, as usual, is cost. Want a house? Fast growth wood frames can be built in a workshop/factory, stood up quickly, capped with more fast growth wood roof frames, skinned with thin boards made from woodchips and sawdust, or just chickenwire and cement, roofed with tar, and slathered in cheap acrylic paint. The engineering is all off-the-shelf at this point because it’s so common.
Want a U-house? You’re going to be digging. Digging down a foot or two isn’t that big of a problem but tends to get more difficult the deeper you go, so expect a lot of excavation costs compared to the stick-built house. Then you have to make all those walls strong enough to hold back the surrounding earth. Get ready to spend a lot more time doing engineering tests to make sure the retaining walls will hold, the water won’t turn it all to mush, etc. There is an earth pressure underground just like there’s water pressure in the ocean. Then there’s the roof. If it’s really underground, that’s a lot of weight to support. All that support has a material cost. All the engineering work to make sure it’s safe has a labor cost. Hiring workers who have the kind of training needed to do more than run a nail gun and a paint sprayer has a labor cost. The finding of those people at all can be a difficult task for the contractor/developer, and can be quite difficult when most house builders haven’t been doing that kind of construction.
And at the end of all this you have to get someone to pay for it. Getting people to pay even the same cost as the stick-built house for a house that doesn’t fit into their dreams of looking like the vision of success implanted in their brain by the pop culture of their youth is way harder than just cutting corners and being the Walmart of housing. Being a slacker sometimes pays incredibly well. Greatness can never succeed in capitalism because the one-size-fits-most model is always more profitable.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Up and down votes are intended as indicators of quality that people abuse as markers of taste. If you downvote because the post/comment is unhelpful/useless/etc. that’s just voting as intended. If you are about to downvote because something is hateful, just report it to the mods instead. If you use certain clients, like Voyager, you will also see cumulative totals for your personal votes on users, which can be a great way to spot people you shouldn’t interact with, and probably just block. If you can’t tell the difference between people who are willfully nasty vs ignorant, maybe focus on learning to tell that rather than participate too much.
- Comment on Something kept poking my leg on my mid-morning flight to Nashville 2 weeks ago:
If you’re going on down to Nashville looking for a sole to steal, look under your seat.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Read before responding, guy.
- Comment on Why Aren't there More Fem-Focused Werewolf Stories? 2 weeks ago:
Tapping into another response her but adding on: there are a lot of bits of werewolf media that make little jokes about ‘the time of the month’ for werewolves. It’s an easy little joke to make. (Angua from the Terry Pratchett novels) But the other elements of werewolf tales are far less feminine. #notallwomen and all, but there isn’t a very prominent portrayal across all of fiction of women’s anger as savage or brutal the way there is with masculine anger. The most common portrayal of an angry man is shouting and open violence. The most common portrayal of an angry woman is the silent seethe or the shrill read-to-filth, rarely with open violence. The only sector I can think of that portrays women’s cycles as turning them into something to be feared is boomerhumor comedy about how wives and girlfriends become scary and irrational every month. There are older ladies who might have internalised that enough to identify with it but targeting them with that portrayal would be at odds with the demographic that seems most interested in supernatural fiction which trends young.