scarabic

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a list of problems. I guess I just have to keep bringing you back to “what should the next president do?” You know, about them.

  But if I ask you that are you going to compare me to a bully harming someone? That’s my WTF here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  What? I’m literally asking what the.l next leader should do to start improving the situation, not asking anyone’s forgiveness. If you can’t name one actual concrete thing, just admit it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’ll take decades to make up for completely but what can the next president do to regain some trust?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Window alignment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be. I struggle to imagine what would need to be bolted to the wall, only in that place, only on that one floor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Window alignment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That looks like where Cotton Eyed Joe kept The Subtle Knife.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even if we found a feasible way through physics to travel through time, wouldn't it still be impossible due to the evolution of bacteria and our immune systems?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This makes sense. What never makes sense to me is when people worry about viruses from ice cores that are a billion years old. Because it works both ways: viruses have to be pretty well adapted to you in order to harm you. There are no such viruses long before humans even existed. I’m sure there are exception, as with viruses that manage to jump species, but I wouldn’t worry much about viruses from before the time of mammals, yet some people freak out MORE the older the ice core is. They’ve seen too many movies about ancient evil escaping old crypts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird that I’m a tattoo artist but I still get nervous before my own sessions?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The more you know, the more there is for you to possibly worry about. Ignorance is bliss! Here’s a fun anecdote to calm your jitters.

  Once upon a time I was trying to reassure my coworker who had an upcoming appointment. “I’m scared! I want to do it but I’m scared of the pain! It’s going to hurt!” she groaned.

  I asked “where on your body are you getting the work?”

  “On my stomach,” she said.

  “Oh,” I said, “that’s a good place. It won’t hurt that much. You have a lot of fat on your stomach.”

  She just frowned at me. One of the other cooks walked in and she shouted “He just called me fat!”

  “The rhetorical ‘you!’” I tried to explain, to no avail. I never heard the end of that one from her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some drugs you think will make a comeback like qualewds or thai sticks or window pane? Does history always repeats itself apply to drugs?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a good example of how the past doesn’t go anywhere. Those drugs are still around as much as they ever were, or in even greater numbers. But we all know what they are now and what they do. There’s nothing to talk about so their names drop off the cultural airwaves. They’ve settled into the culture. You don’t hear about them, but that doesn’t mean they’re not around. The past doesn’t go anywhere. The future is just laid on top of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that’s what a rhetorical question is. You’re making a statement, not a query, but the best way to couch your statement happens to be with a question mark at the end of it. I’m not sure this is the best example of one, but at least they made an attempt to label it as such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Aren’t we as humans proving every year that goes by, that no matter how much power and knowledge you amass, you can still be an evil, childish, asshole? God is just a little further along that dotted line. He’s got all the power and knowledge. This doesn’t make him mature or good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am against rape or rapists or any such type of action or person. But my mom who has a daughter. Keeps questioning why these women wait so long before coming out with it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cutting to the chase, just ask your mom if any man has ever touched her inappropriate or gotten her to have sex when she would rather not have.

  Then ask her why she hasn’t ever told you this before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The person who mounted a spice rack into the fucking studs so a fridge won't fit there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s in the studs /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The person who mounted a spice rack into the fucking studs so a fridge won't fit there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This post is mildly infuriating. Unscrewing it is not even an “easy fix” it’s just plain and simple what you do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come some Corporation or some Business don't sponsor a protest? Like McDonald's sponsoring that No Kings protest. Or a hotel giving free room and board to protestors and so on?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The business of business is business.

  Businesses want stability, safety, and predictability. Protests really are kind of the opposite energy. Their whole point is to shake things up and reroute the direction of the world, sometimes in big ways. They can also be unpredictable and unfortunately in some cases even unsafe. I remember seeing every store window on Telegraph Avenue broken the day after a big protest. It was sad. The family owned grocery store got it just as bad as the corporate clothing retailer.

  Not long ago when the Hong Kong protests were off the hook and things were getting super tense there, some Hong Kong family visited us here in the US for the holidays. The younger generation were super informed and watching their phones and they told us all about the protests, the political actors, the demands, the rhetoric.

  Meanwhile, at dinner, the (very wealthy) grandma made a toast and said “Hong Kong needs peace! Doesn’t matter who’s in charge!” There was a super uncomfortable silence and you could see the youngs biting their lips. She has massive business interests there and just wants to keep manufacturing stuff. She doesn’t care about idealism or whatever else.

  If a political candidate is really pro business, they don’t go about their agenda by staging protests. The two really just don’t mix. Businesses lobby and donate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the world doesn't have a backup plan for the oil crisis?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Another way of saying it is that some things are so expensive you don’t do them even if they could be useful one day. Don’t have a second house? Your first one could burn down. You don’t? I guess you must be a greedy capitalist thinking only about short term money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Judge in the #Afroman case actually scolded the jurors for their verdict/⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, wow, wrong again, and co suddenly so.

  You seemed to think “legal experts” shouldn’t be surprised judges hate juries. And I was saying they aren’t, they’re shocked at the lack of decorum.

  Jesus Christ if I have to spell it out for you one more time I’m going to puke. Get it or dont - you’re on your own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Judge in the #Afroman case actually scolded the jurors for their verdict/⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the reason that seems so hard to understand is because it’s a million miles away from anything I thought or said. All I said was that no one is shocked a judge feels that way about juries, they are shocked at the lack of decorum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Episode 3 Season 3 Star Trek Strange New Worlds has only a 7 stars? Is one of the best episodes of the serie.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I won’t say I disliked the whole episode but I found the Klingon’s behavior to be unrealistic and unbelievable. She had every reason to just kill them multiple times yet never did, and was motivated to make major decisions over “honor” when no other Klingon was there to know or care either way. The main character armor was just too strong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Episode 3 Season 3 Star Trek Strange New Worlds has only a 7 stars? Is one of the best episodes of the serie.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes it’s interesting to ask why people didn’t like something. Yes we all have opinions and we don’t have to agree but sometimes others pick up on things I don’t and it’s interesting to hear why we don’t agree. Sometimes there’s a really big obvious thing in the community that you’re somehow just out of the loop on. So I can appreciate why someone might post this question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Judge in the #Afroman case actually scolded the jurors for their verdict/⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The judge can give idiot-level instructions to the jury, warnings to the jury, reprimands to the jury, whatever, as long as the trial is in progress. Once the verdict has been delivered, respect the process and the citizens and STFU. The shocking part is the open disrespect, not the opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is stack overflow so horrible?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then social media happened

  Yeah, definitely part of the story. Another thing that happens to all user generated content sites is the following:

  • they start small and grow organically, attracting like minds
  • they begin to grow faster and they become hard to maintain as a side hobby, including server costs
  • they reach a size where server costs are beyond what anyone can afford as a hobby and at least one person needs to make the place their full time job
  • ads are introduced because you can turn them on and get money - maybe they’re only show to logged out users or something to control the blowback
  • ads on UGC don’t pay a lot so you need huge traffic to pay any actual salaries with them - this means SEO growth
  • search engines now shower the site with traffic because it has a deep well of excellent content from its early days, and this is welcome because it drives the ad revenue
  • costs also rise because the site’s software was never built for this scale and it needs professional attention and / or enterprise grade service. No one has the know how for the most meaningful performance optimizations or an appropriate caching layer - though many half assed tinkerers will fiddle around thinking they know more than they do
  • the shower of SEO inbound blows away any concept of organic growth, which is what made the place to begin with. Now you’ve got plain old anybodies joining and probably expecting instant gratification when they ask a question. Just as the operators are straining to grow the site to the next level, it rots out from under them
  • the true blue mods from the old days burn out on this and need to be replaced by rules-based systems and automation
  • that’s nowhere near as good and starts to erode the experience
  • heroic content creating users are now trapped between the unwashed hordes of the general public and shitty moderators, so they burn out too
  • everyone wonders gee what happened to this place and they come up with highly specific explanations, but this regression is nigh universal and you might say inevitable from the start. The only communities that avoid this fate are the ones that close membership and dole out new accounts incredibly sparingly by hand to select individuals. But this works against exponential growth and feels “elitist” and the bills may go unpaid
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people with college degrees and an education, still act so fucking stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In addition to the many other fine comments here, I will add that when you think someone is so stupid there is often something missing. You may not understand what information they are acting on or you might be interpreting the context according to different values than theirs. As an observer, not understanding someone else’s choice can feel exactly like “damn what a stupid choice.” I try as much as I can to take these as opportunities to dig further and use my imagination to figure out what they must be thinking. Occasionally I come up with something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people with college degrees and an education, still act so fucking stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the best answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethane⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought the point of the stuff was to avoid killing animals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And no paper towels to use on the handle⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The best is no door at all - like at airports where there’s just a barrier wall you have to walk around. I was about to say it’s not something you can do in every setting, but that’s only because we aren’t willing to dedicate the space to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for complexifying the stereotype of the mustache-twirling CEO, which most people can’t see beyond. There certainly are more people to blame than just CEOs - people with more power. The entire concept of a fiduciary seems like the seed of evil to me. Once you have a CEO beholden to pursue the interests of shareholders to the exclusion of all others, the incentives are in place for people to get hurt. The shareholders don’t really have to call a single shot (and they usually don’t). The financiers / shareholders are still guilty of participating in this system at all, of course, but surely the CEO is at least as guilty since he’s usually also a shareholder and will be the fiduciary in question to actually carry out the hurting. So I think it’s fair to hate the CEOs, actually, as much as anyone.

  But I would agree that the politicians and lobbyists have to be on this list, probably at the top of it. They are the only ones who can do anything about this entire system, which, as soon as it exists, is a recipe for hurting people. The people who drive the regulatory capture that allows our system to become so shitty are surely going straight to hell.

  What of the rest of us though, who don’t even run for office and give them a challenge?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When if ever did "Throw Money at The Problem:" actually work? Instead of being about 75 percent useless?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can impose that technicality if you want, but when corruption is perhaps the world’s top obstacle to funding solutions for things, I see little point except the joy of splitting hairs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When if ever did "Throw Money at The Problem:" actually work? Instead of being about 75 percent useless?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Corruption is probably the biggest thing that keeps it from working. Developed countries don’t have the slightest idea what corruption even is. We hear that word in the US and we think “oh dear, bribes!” But in many parts of the world the entire economy is basically spent on greasing every palm, high and low, to keep some regime in power. Whole generations of entire countries have basically gone up in smoke this way. It makes the army’s $400 hammer sound like an absolute bargain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After opening a jar of pizza sauce, how long would you trust it was still good in the fridge?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They go bad pretty fast. Mold spots within a week in my experience. I always try to use it all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It's gone baby... it's all gone"| Sigh .....‘Project Hail Mary’ Author Andy Weir Says Paramount Rejected His ‘Star Trek’ Pitch: Their “Shows Are Sh**”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He likes Strange New Worlds, Lower Decks, and Enterprise. When he says “the rest can go,” he’s talking about… Picard, Discovery and Starfleet Academy?

  Unless you believe he watched Prodigy, which I do not, it sounds like he likes about half of New Trek