RaoulDook
@RaoulDook@lemmy.world
- Comment on is this the right way to establish boundaries with my nosy coworkers at the hospital? 2 days ago:
The only one of those responses you listed that might not make people upset is this one:
‘I don’t talk about religion, politics or my private life with coworkers and I hope you respect that’
All of the others are going to go over poorly, if you are concerned about that.
- Comment on Blow dart 3 days ago:
I have actually done this too, I have pics of the darted roach somewhere. I think it took me 3 shots to get one to hit it.
The roach does not die from the dart, it’s just going to keep moving until you pull it down and squash it or something. I wouldn’t recommend it unless you just want to get some live target practice and need to kill a roach.
- Comment on Depending on how you count 1 week ago:
It was not a Bass Pro Shop then. It was The Pyramid, concert venue / arena.
I saw Jimmy Page and Robert Plant play there in the late 90’s. It was totally awesome, they played almost 3 hours of Led Zeppelin and Page/Plant songs. John Bonham’s son Jason was on drums.
- Comment on A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water 2 weeks ago:
That sounds like a problem with YOUR phone. Every phone I’ve bought has been faster than the last. Maybe you have too much bloatware?
I use open source Android only, will not use a phone with stock android. Bloatware is a non-issue on AOSP unless you do that to your own phone.
- Comment on A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water 2 weeks ago:
What’s so sad about it? You have the ability to securely send E2EE messages for free. I’m very pleased with Signal after using it for years.
If you mean it’s sad about the weed being hard to get / illegal… yeah, I concur. Hopefully Schedule III happens soon and nationwide Medical will be legal.
- Comment on Employees Who Stay In Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less 3 weeks ago:
Well, it’s different if you work for good companies. I’ve stayed at my last 3 jobs for well over 2 years each and my career is going great, making twice as much money as I need. IT / technical stuff. 6 years at one, 4 years at the next, currently at 3 years with current.
I’ve never lasted that long at any former employer though. My shortest employment was half of one shift at a factory, it sucked so bad I left on my first lunch break. The moral of my story is that it’s OK to stay with a good company, if you can find a good job like that. Experience counts for a lot towards getting hired to these good jobs.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 1 month ago:
I checked my privilege, and found that it was cool. I don’t have a carbonometer to check the other stuff so you can work on that if you want.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 1 month ago:
I can’t stand the produce from Walmart. They have to be doing something bad to it for it to taste so bland and go bad so quickly.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 1 month ago:
Don’t leave out Australia and Canada, since Australia is worse and Canada is next on the list after the USA.
Go ahead and tell everybody how Australia, USA, and Canada are such bad countries.
Meanwhile, with the freedom afforded to me as a land owner in the USA I work from home, harvest solar energy with solar panels to run my electronics, and am growing my own produce and eggs in a backyard farm. As an individual I’m probably doing more for the environment than most people reading this whole Lemmy post.
- Comment on R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain 1 month ago:
WTF?? He was mercury poisoned and had a brain worm? Was he doing some kind of 1800s-era science experiments at home?
- Comment on Number 1 Student 1 month ago:
I have no idea but I was surprised. Those originals or whatever they are were all in the $3k or higher ballpark. There were some pieces for sale for over 40k
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 month ago:
That’s just a fantasy that will never happen though. Guns are already here in the number of hundreds of millions, and we have the right to own them, and we choose to keep them.
- Comment on Number 1 Student 1 month ago:
It’s got Joan Cornella vibes
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 month ago:
If you look at statistics, it’s extremely unlikely for any school to have a shooting. 99.99999% of children from ages 0 to 18 in the USA are not harmed by firearms.
So you can waste your time and sanity worrying about that or just live without fear and find what makes you happy in life. Either way you and your kids will be safe so it’s your choice to be crippled by irrational fear or not.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 month ago:
Well go right ahead then. I’m going to stay in my comfortable home here in the USA though.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 month ago:
There’s no need to speak in online games anyway. I never use a mic or headset to play games like that, I still just use the chat. Voice chat always off.
- Comment on Come on, science! 1 month ago:
One idea I’ve heard is that telomeres gain increasing stress and damage after years of DNA replication, from the torsional strain of the spiral of DNA as it splits and reforms in the replication process. How in the world could you fix that? DNA lube?
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 1 month ago:
Shit I’ve been doing that at all my jobs for the last 20+ years. Apparently it’s not really a real problem.
- Comment on Meta wants to be the Microsoft of headsets 2 months ago:
No, the Index still has a higher resolution than the Quest2 and earlier standalone VR headsets, and the Index still has a class-leading 130-degree field of view and 144Hz refresh rate. It has excellent sound and the best VR controllers on the market. It’s still an overall great VR setup for those of us that have good gaming PCs.
I’ve been playing Dark Souls, Elden Ring, and Cyberpunk 2077 in VR on my Index recently using mods. It’s fuckin’ awesome.
- Comment on Meta wants to be the Microsoft of headsets 2 months ago:
Right but you can’t buy one of those, they aren’t on the market. What Valve has currently is excellent already but you can’t walk around town wearing it (as if anyone would need to)
- Comment on Meta wants to be the Microsoft of headsets 2 months ago:
Yeah no shit. Standalone isn’t as good as wired because you can’t fit a bigass Nvidia card inside a VR headset.
- Comment on Meta wants to be the Microsoft of headsets 2 months ago:
The Valve Index is here already and great. No bullshit like the Quest, just VR that works well. If you have a gaming PC with at least a quad-core and RTX 3060 then you should be good to get started with one. Mine works fine on a 9-year old gaming PC with 6 cores, 16GB RAM, and an RTX 3060TI. The motherboard is that old, the rest of the parts are newer (mostly GPU)
- Comment on Bro visited his friend 2 months ago:
It’s this guy:
- Comment on Why do people around me tend to increase their responsibility load (i.e. have children, become a manager, do charity, etc.) while I (30M) try to avoid it as much as I can? 2 months ago:
That’s not just Lemmy, it’s all of social media that isn’t focused on people’s self-promotion (Instagram, LinkedIn etc). The leftist stuff is fairly accurate, but that’s not a big deal to me.
Social media algorithms have driven the content engagement, and they figured out that controversy and anger drives the most engagement, so that’s what the algorithms tend to push to drive engagement, to get more ad revenue and data from people spending more time on their platforms.
- Comment on Dr 4Chan's Medical Advice 2 months ago:
I was thinking that a kidney dialysis machine might be able to filter out that stuff from your blood. I think the way those work is your blood goes out a tube into the machine and it filters it before sending it back to you. So you’d need filters in there that are fine enough to catch the microplastics.
- Comment on Don't call before 9, my minutes aren't free 2 months ago:
You still can if you want to. My phone uses an MP3 for ringtone that I selected. It’s music that I wrote and recorded in my home studio even
- Comment on I still don't get why people spend money... there's tons of it for free 3 months ago:
Nah, even if nobody paid for porn there would still be porn. In fact, there’s already enough porn already made out there that we have enough to last us for centuries. But even disregarding what’s already out there, people would still make porn for free because they want to show off and share their videos.
- Comment on Disturbingly accurate 3 months ago:
Haha, my favorite description of that style is “wearing your hair upside-down”
- Comment on Henry Cavill Is Playing Wolverine In Deadpool 3 | Giant Freaking Robot 3 months ago:
Danny DeVito with a VFX-enhanced muscular body and Wolverine hair wig
- Comment on Latest batch 5 months ago:
Highlander 2 haha! I watched an extended or directors cut version of that last year and it was bonkers.