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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Makes sense⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been in the professional workforce since 2003 and haven’t been to one of these. A company I worked for in 2004 had one but since I was new, I had to pull the oncall shift so couldn’t attend. Pretty sure they were going out of style by 2001. If any company I worked for hosted one now I would just think it’s odd and say I was out of town anyways. I like my direct coworkers but can’t imagine a scenario where I would want to attend a party with the managers and execs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahhhh. That makes sense. I guess I had always assumed that it would be more efficient to have one centralized “burning of the gas” event to create and distribute electricity than numerous individual burning events to create heat but it makes sense that due to the efficiency of just converting gas to heat directly it would be more efficient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think my curiosity is more around the “why” of the gas lines. I put in another comment above but it’s a good amount of effort to run and maintain these lines when we already have and need electric. We’re adding an additional source of risk to these environments for what additional benefit? I’m not talking trash about gas I’m just wondering what the selling point is. Like I said, I have a gas furnace and it’s fine…no complaints. Is it much more efficient than electric? Hotter? There has to be some compelling reason to put in the effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess my question was more about the “why” for gas lines. I mean it’s a lot of extra effort to put them in place and maintain them when we already have electric coming into the houses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a reason I never understood modern homes in the US being built with natural gas furnaces and appliances. My house had a gas furnace even though most other homes around have electric. You have a flammable gas under pressure going through miles of pipe to get to each home. A leak anywhere could be really dangerous along those many miles. Yet, exceedingly rare to see fires from this (maybe I’m wrong in that I just don’t hear of many). Meanwhile, electric appliances use the electricity that has to come into a house anyways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For all of the shit people talk about the English language, this is a big thing I appreciate about it. What the hell was the point of even gendering random things from the start? In German, the main gendering are die, der, and das with das being gender neutral. I would like to see a world where in scenarios like that they just move everything to das.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone evil want to murder a lot of people, couldn't they just add prions to meat and slowly infect everyone with Prion Diseases?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s good to know. I was thinking back to that researcher that was infected while taking precautions. Wish I could find the old story. Either way, prions are insanely scary. No treatment, certain death, not even alcohol or fire kills them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone evil want to murder a lot of people, couldn't they just add prions to meat and slowly infect everyone with Prion Diseases?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure that same person would need to also be suicidal as exposure would also infect them. I’m not a microbiologist but from what I understand, they are pretty resilient to everything that would destroy anything by else and even a slight accident exposure and you’re screwed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s a key of all this, the realization that the misery doesn’t end with Trump. If he fell off the face of the earth tomorrow, there would be a power vacuum while his previous sycophants vied to be a replacement but likely none of them have the control over the base that he had. Someone worse will rise up that no one saw coming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI reportedly on the hook for $300B Oracle Cloud bill⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a number of companies requiring employees to use AI or face termination now. I keep seeing new reports on pivot-to-ai. The admins have dashboard metrics for enterprise accounts to see who and who isn’t using AI and the number of prompts. I see these types of reports but from the perspective of the security team that has to ensure nothing nefarious is taking place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates | The state would be the first to scrap requirements that children be vaccinated to attend school, among other rules.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they’ve come to the conclusion that they have too many old people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io .⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The excessive fees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are doing like a lottery selection or some time of raffle for this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The kid asks a great question⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not fresh. The fairy demands the freshest teeth but long ago ancient humans made a pact with the tooth fairy. In exchange for humanity to cease its hunt of the tooth fairy, the TF will stop hunting children in their sleep to pursue the freshest and most desirable teeth. Centuries later, with the advent of capitalism, the humans rebelled and demanded compensation for the teeth to be given to the children. The TF, seeing the advancement of human warfare capacity quickly agreed to a small stipend per child in order to continue its harvesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No looky for you!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t want you to know about the dish gnomes forced to work in tight spaces under terrible conditions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess is that by going fully onsite, they can probably avoid layoffs entirely. The majority of tech roles are hybrid or remote so the departures are going to be often and steady which will naturally select out anyone not interesting in making their life Amazon. They want employees that live and breath Amazon and this is how they get that (or just keep desperate people).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The massive U.S. port strike has begun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It sure sounds like the trade association needs to bring a better offer to the union if the impact is going to be so severe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon mows lawns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a good price here in Seattle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the purpose of this plastic piece?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m of the opinion that it’s just to improve the perception of package quality. I don’t see those cheap plastic pieces as keeping the prongs from accidentally warping or bending but I guess they could keep moisture away. I’ve never received a corroded set of prongs before their use though so my theory stands as they are upping the packaging visual aesthetics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boeing Union Wins 25% Raise in Tentative Contract, But Possible Strike Still Looms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the workers want their pensions back. That is reason enough to strike.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan is having a hard time convincing employees to take 4-day workweeks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t imagine working for a company and not having the thought of layoffs in the back of my head. Article states that companies are encouraged to provide life long employment which is pretty great. Here in the US, I hop to a new job every 2-4 years since I don’t think a single company is invested in the worker. So we get both the constant threat of layoffs as well as a five day work week. Sounds like Japan is heading in a better direction since at least the government is behind a four day work week. I can’t imagine a single Republikan being in favor of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite energy is easy. Point a flashlight at a solar charger that charges a flashlight pointed at a solar charger that charges the first flashlight.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I use my neighbors hose to power a water wheel for infinite energy. No one knows where the water comes from but i assume it’s free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Russia takes out all the Internet cables like the news is saying. How much of that traffic can be re-routed to satellite?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to remember that the cloud is just a series of data centers owned by cloud providers. If you are Netflix, you’re not hosting Stranger Things for audiences in the US from the EU. You have a copy of it in both places and leverage AWS regions in each area to server geographically closer users (it’s typically called latency based routing). If the undersea cables are cut, the EU still watches Netflix because the content doesn’t need to travel undersea, it’s already in the EU, same thing in the US. The challenge comes in at the end of the month when people pay their Netflix bills and the banks needs to process international payments. End users are largely not impacted by direct service outages but big companies are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you like a receipt?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Similar but I scan mine for reimbursement as the majority of times I am buying stuff while outside the house it is a business expense. This statement makes me realize I need to leave the house more often for non work purposes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boeing Spacecraft: They'll never let you down!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  NASA and Boeing disagree on the safety of the return trip. I think I’ll side with nasa on safety related questions here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get Pasteurised⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This whole raw milk thing is truly breaking my remaining faith in humanity. Like I saw how we responded to COVID and everything we’ve done across the past hundred plus years in destroying environments, greed, and selfishness but for some reason this raw milk saga is kinda like the straw that broke the camels back. Just intentionally trying to work against the whole species.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Megadonors Are Unfazed by Donald Trump’s Guilty Verdict | Money flowed into the former president’s re-election campaign from Wall Street and Silicon Valley following Thursday’s historic conviction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re saying that criminals are likely to support fellow criminals? This should be a sociological study. They are upset that a wealthy criminal may face repercussions which doesn’t fit in their world view. To them, only non-wealthy criminals should ever face justice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨adapt. overcome. improvise.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternatively, if she cracks cold fusion. Have to give her some options to make it more realistic. Solve two-of-three problems type of thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we have to do the health insurance company's job for them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked in healthcare tech for a long time and I would say that healthcare facilities should focus on delivering healthcare. We had so much administrative overhead from dealing with this insurance bullshit that it drove up costs to staff a ton of people to deal with insurance bullshit and thus increased costs. If we had single payer it would be a single process that couldn’t possibly be more convoluted than what we have now. Sending shit to insurance clearing houses with exact ordering of diagnosis matching procedures so that they don’t get kicked back. The hospital doesn’t want you dealing with this shit either they just want the money that the insurance provider said it would pay for your treatment. It’s 90% insurance bullshit all the way down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Craigslist to make a band [13 Min]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That was a fun watch. It’s nice to get a wholesome video in the depths of the internet recommendation list.