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- Submitted 5 months ago to pics@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Aurora Australis turned it up tonight 6 months ago:
I am so fucking jealous right now. I have always wanted to see an aurora
- Comment on What do you see that you wish others saw? 7 months ago:
The world's population is getting significantly sicker and we're blaming the victims for "lifestyle diseases" as a way of dismissing the problem. But research needs money and time, so there will always be better and stronger evidence for money-making remedies instead of the slow and complex research into why people are increasingly experiencing disease.
We're hurting ourselves, and each other, and because disabled people are excluded from huge parts of society, we're also covering up the evidence. It's only when we're wounded that the reality is clear, but by then it's too late - you're just written off as someone who made bad choices.
- Comment on baby seals!! 8 months ago:
I've never felt so conflicted. On one hand, I want to hug the puppy. On the other, sand. It makes me sad like porcupines do. Why won't they let me love them?
- Comment on This was sold as a "fruit salad". Technically the truth, but not the best kind of truth. 10 months ago:
And I would prefer the manager is catching their staff's errors before they make it to the customer instead of making me do QA, but we can both only dream of a better world.
I'm also pretty convinced this was an intentional cost-saving move, given the rest of the food. Either way, I just won't be back a second time.
- Comment on This was sold as a "fruit salad". Technically the truth, but not the best kind of truth. 10 months ago:
Sealed opaque bag that I didn't personally pick up
- Comment on This was sold as a "fruit salad". Technically the truth, but not the best kind of truth. 10 months ago:
You know, I've never seen grapefruit in a fruit salad where I live. This had never occurred to me before, but I am grateful for it.
- Comment on This was sold as a "fruit salad". Technically the truth, but not the best kind of truth. 10 months ago:
Because I wanted a fruit salad and did not anticipate this level of cheaping out by the people who made it. Do you open your burger at a fast food place and count the ingredients in front of the staff to make sure the cook didn't short you?
- Comment on This was sold as a "fruit salad". Technically the truth, but not the best kind of truth. 10 months ago:
I assumed they would fill it with the cheapest possible fruit, which at the time I knew happened to be watermelon. If it were honeydew, I wouldn't have bought it at all, I think. I share your dislike of honeydew
- This was sold as a "fruit salad". Technically the truth, but not the best kind of truth.media.kbin.social ↗Submitted 10 months ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 61 comments
- Comment on i think im diabetic?? i dont want to be but its most likely 11 months ago:
Thanks, I try. I know what it's like to have subjective symptoms of something larger and medically very real dismissed by others to the point where more permanent damage is done than was ever necessary. While I don't wish that experience on anyone, it sadly seems almost a necessary experience for many people in order to be able to engage others with compassion.
I wish there were more empathy, especially in lemmy.world comments. I had hoped better for the fediverse than the current patterns of hostility in social media towards others with different life experiences.
- Comment on i think im diabetic?? i dont want to be but its most likely 11 months ago:
You don't have to apologise, you haven't done anything wrong. It is true that since people can experience sudden health issues very young, I was one of them. But if your only evidence for that happening is that you recently ate a common food that happened to be high in sugar, then there's no sign at all that this is something you are experiencing. You have no symptoms of diabetes, and blood tests as evidence that you don't have it.
You shouldn't ignore symptoms, which is why you need to look at the symptoms of anxiety that you seem to be experiencing. A panic attack is not something most people regularly experience, and definitely not because they broke their own omad rule with a food that has high sugar levels.
Please, look into deep breathing techniques fir the panic attacks and doctors who specialize in anxiety near you. I wish you all the luck and best, I know how anxiety can paralyze and negatively affect your life. But the good news is that you aren't powerless to change it.
- Comment on i think im diabetic?? i dont want to be but its most likely 11 months ago:
Friend, I mean this in the nicest possible way, with understanding as someone who has personal experience with both anxiety and insulin issues. I've noticed your name on a lot of threads which all demonstrate "catastrophization" and extremely high levels of fear over low risk situations. Levels of fear that are disproportionate. You need to see a doctor about it.
Anxiety isn't you being crazy or your fault. It could be something as simple as a chemical imbalance. You don't need to live like this though, it's exhausting being this afraid all the time and that energy could be far better spent on things that truly improve your life.
Please consider it, I know I'm not the first person to tell you this. Acknowledge the pattern, and talk to a professional. It's hard but very very worth it.
- Comment on My CO2 / Smoke Detector Scared a Year off my life today, and I have questions. Long. 1 year ago:
Smoke detectors frequently work by having a teensy little radioactive emitter and a teensy radioactivity detector somewhere close to it. It works a bit like a laser trap in a video game or movie, if you break the laser-beam by walking through it, it triggers the alarm because the detector can no longer see the beam.
But it doesn't have to be smoke. Water particles will do it, dust can do it, especially when there's construction work going on putting the dust in the air... it doesn't matter. It just needs to be enough to break the connection between emitter and detector.
Wet steam and the vapor from humidifiers is pretty effective at triggering it because the droplets are bigger than dry invisible steam.
- Comment on is there a useful way for tech workers to express interest in a union? 1 year ago:
Easy way to be identified, I wouldn't recommend that at this early a stage, especially in company code.
OP I suggest looking at other existing unions near your discipline and other countries that have unions for tech workers. If you look at how they have operated and achieved success, it may help you to navigate that in your world.
These are all long-fought battles with lots of lessons already learnt, find the people who have already fought them and you have a good starting point.
- Comment on Why don't laptops have proper low power states where useful stuff like downloads can run during sleep/with the lid closed? 1 year ago:
Thanks so much, this is extremely helpful. I've been separate from the entire Windows ecosystem for a long while, so a high level overview like this is perfect. I now have all the acronyms and names I need to research further instead of trying to figure out what acronym is responsible for what, which is always the most tedious part.
- Comment on Why don't laptops have proper low power states where useful stuff like downloads can run during sleep/with the lid closed? 1 year ago:
Thankyou for answering some historical mysteries for me. It has always irritated me that I didn't know why programs only sometimes drained battery while asleep - but it wasn't always like that, and I couldn't find a pattern in what programs affected it, and I didn't know why a Linux dual-boot on the same drive didn't cause the same issue. The backstory of this makes a whole lot of experiences make sense now.
What is involved in an app being S0 aware and running on DRIPS? Is this a badly-educated-developers-requiring-permanent-network-connections issue or a Microsoft-proprietary-certificate-bullshit thing or something completely different? I'm mostly curious for if I ever dive into desktop application development what performance optimisations I should be keeping in the back of my mind.
- Comment on Long Haired Men, How Do You Take Care of Your Hair?? 1 year ago:
Hormones can definitely influence hair growth and texture, but... neither of those have anything to do with OP's inconvenient dilemma or incomplete traction alopecia information.
- Comment on If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been? 1 year ago:
And I'm sick of living in a world where thought experiments are used to casually label people as dumb, disposable, but they're ok because they mention superheroes and that makes the whole thing outlandish. Until the atrocities occur, again and then it's "why didn't someone do something sooner?".
- Comment on If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been? 1 year ago:
My mistake, I misread.
I agree that discussion is important in deciding responses, but discussions like these are also used as testing grounds for gauging acceptability. It's how places like 'active clubs' recruit and promote far-right extremism, they start with gauging the response to lower-level discrimination and slowly escalate to larger acts.
- Comment on If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been? 1 year ago:
Entertaining for the people who are certain that they're not a member of an arbitrarily defined group. Whether their certainty is well-placed is a different problem, I guess.
- Comment on If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been? 1 year ago:
Can we please not hypothesise about eugenics and people's reactions to eugenics, with the current global climate?
- Comment on Do life insurance rules that deny payment after suicide discriminate against those with mental health issues? If those rules didn't exist would suicide rate increase? 1 year ago:
It's also painful to me, which is why I sat quietly through the training, gave the answers they wanted, and then made managerial decisions that were deliberately people-prioritising and at least somewhat inconspicuous. Luckily, they had trained me to know what they're looking for.
- Comment on Do life insurance rules that deny payment after suicide discriminate against those with mental health issues? If those rules didn't exist would suicide rate increase? 1 year ago:
From a dictionary perspective, you're right. From a business legal risk-avoidant and financial self-protection perspective, you're dead wrong. Words are often used with a context-specific definition, and you're not supposed to use the word 'discrimination' at all in a workplace. Because it will cause the legal and HR departments more work, and therefore cost the organisation more.
Just let the HR rep do the script and teach you how to avoid accountability when prioritising profit over people. It's less painful that way.
- Comment on Do life insurance rules that deny payment after suicide discriminate against those with mental health issues? If those rules didn't exist would suicide rate increase? 1 year ago:
Just because I loathe systems such as capitalism that reward antisocial and exploitative behaviours, it doesn't mean I can't have a nuanced take on language history and use. 😉
People don't understand how expensive having a disability is, and all the little ways it messes with your existence beyond the medical symptoms themselves. It creates additional unnecessary stress and suffering. Like, just for a small insurance example, only being able to find one expensive insurance company willing to sell you travel insurance for a work trip and having to negotiate that with your employer's HR department. Lucky I found that one company at all, I guess.
- Comment on Do life insurance rules that deny payment after suicide discriminate against those with mental health issues? If those rules didn't exist would suicide rate increase? 1 year ago:
Discrimination is the insurance industry's entire business model.
Discrimination as a word doesn't mean a bad thing, it literally just means "to choose between 2 or more of something/someone". As long as there is choice, there is discrimination. If I needed a plumber, and two people wanted the job, I would discriminate against the one without a plumber's license and/or experience. I think that's probably sensible discrimination.
These days discrimination is used to imply some form of social harm, especially towards a marginalised community, and the word "against" frequently follows it. The question really is though: Is an act of discrimination harmful or not, to whom it is harmful, and do the harms outweigh the benefits?
Is the insurance industry's decision to choose prices for people based on their medical situations harmful discrimination? For the customers? Definitely. For the insurance company? Definitely not.
And then the choice really boils down to which of the two you think are more valuable, for whatever it is you value most. People, or insurance companies?
As someone who values less suffering in the world and thinks all people are worthy of dignity, safety and equitable experiences, and huge profits for a private business are not constructive in delivering those values, profit-seeking health and life insurance companies can burn to the ground for all I care. Bankrupting people for things they didn't choose causes far too much suffering in this world.
Stress drives people to suicide in the first place, and insurance companies feed on that to live like social parasites.
- Comment on Porn is harder to access 1 year ago:
Because people don't want to look at other people's unusual niche kinks and try to identify if it contains children or other non-consenting participants as a part of their employment. And then try to explain to the people about why the unusual niche is against the rules when they receive a complaint about its removal. Amongst so many other reasons.
Programs and apps on the internet are not simple things and user-generated content can be a very malicious and dangerous thing to have a copy of. The legal risk alone is not worth it, let alone the effort required to enable a slightly easier masturbatory experience for total strangers.
- Comment on You can't imagine how much this annoyed me... 1 year ago:
They used to be very big and dominated search results for various technical information, before stackoverflow was a thing. It was so infuriating when the only possible clue to your niche bug was an experts-exchange paywall. And that happened a lot for way too long, after it went bankrupt and was bought by venture capitalists.
I'm so very glad they're mostly irrelevant now, they made the early 2000's internet more painful than it needed to be.
- Comment on Would the Re-Walk exoskeleton work for patients without full balance? They are able to stand and walk, albeit very slowly. ( cerebellar stroke patient ) 1 year ago:
Oof. US$3980. I'm glad it's working well for you though.
Imagine if public spaces and businesses just had adequate seating at different levels instead. A few cheap barstools (or normal chairs) scattered around would make a world of difference to so many people.
- Comment on What's good in small concentrations, but lethal in higher? What's a glaring red flag you're encroaching on a lethal concentration? 1 year ago:
Sadly no, the entire NSAID class are off the table. I'm one of the "lucky" few who gets one of the rare but serious side effects.
