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- Comment on What do zoos do with dead animals? 4 days ago:
It is a large Division 1 university. I don’t know exactly how big the incinerator is. Thankfully I wasn’t the one who handled that particular task.
I assume it comes down to our hazmat clearances, though. Just a guess.
- Comment on What do zoos do with dead animals? 4 days ago:
Bingo.
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 4 days ago:
Yup. And not just those voters. It’s an issue in most groups.
There are even plenty of women that won’t vote for a woman.
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 4 days ago:
Would liberals support him? Sure.
Would liberals support her? No.
- Comment on What do zoos do with dead animals? 6 days ago:
I have direct experience with this.
In college, I got a job on campus in their Environment, Health, and Safety department. Mostly, I just calibrated fume hoods in labs.
During my time there, a hippo at a nearby zoo passed away. I don’t want to be too specific because it can be a bit icky, but they essentially shipped it to us to incinerate.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah. It will be bad for everyone, but I meant for liberal candidates in the future.
I should have been more specific.
If the next term doesn’t actively harm people in the public eye, I guarantee they will make it next to impossible to ever win again.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
I’m worried about this too. It wouldn’t be surprising if Trump dies in the next four years. Vance is not qualified for the job. He’s smarter than Trump though so scheming would be much worse.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
He controls one. Hand picked asshats on the bench, and his supporters won Congress. It’s really hard to see a world where this doesn’t get drastically worse for liberals.
- Comment on Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years 2 weeks ago:
It’s the same in Kansas City. I just checked a random house in my city and it’s up almost $100k in 4 years.
- Comment on A scammer just tried to scam the Kroger pharmacy to get my info out of them by pretending to be my insurance company. 4 weeks ago:
UnitedHealth had a massive ransomware attach in Feb and millions of people got their data leaked.
- Comment on What is the stock market? 1 month ago:
This is a pretty solid explanation.
To add some context, you used to be guaranteed a portion of profits in the company but that doesn’t happen now. Some stocks pay dividends but unless you own a lot of those, it won’t do you much good. Owning stocks now, does give you the right to participate in voting. Mark Zuckerberg owns voting control of Meta, meaning he can’t be removed from his position by shareholders because he owns enough votes (shares) that he can’t be overridden.
Another thing you hear people talk about in relation to stocks is capital gains tax. Taxes on stock depend on how long you owned the stock. Less than a year, you get charged a higher tax rate on selling because you’re flipping it for profit; short-term vs long-term gains. Those taxes is only applied to the profits of the sale.
Stocks are assets, however, and investors can borrow against it without selling in the same way you can get aa home equity loan against your house without selling your house. Since they aren’t actually selling the stock, they aren’t paying taxes on those profits.
Thats why some politicians, like Kamala Harris, have suggested a tax on unrealized gains (profits on stocks that haven’t been sold yet). It would be a way to close the loop hole of billionaires not paying their fair share. It sounds kind of shitty to pay taxes on assets you don’t have in hand until you realize how stocks are used to avoid some taxes.
- Comment on Corporate greed is killing RuneScape. What do people play instead? 1 month ago:
I’ve been playing this! It’s a bit hard to progress sometimes because I don’t have the time to walk as much as I want, but it’s really nice when I do.
- Comment on I make games and this literally happened to me this morning 1 month ago:
This is what I assumed,but if it helps in any other way, I’m happy to wishlist more games from small time developers.
I use likes and subs liberally on apps like YouTube or TikTok, even if I wouldn’t normally want to subscribe. It costs me nothing to do and gives someone else joy. Why wouldn’t I?
Eh, it messes up my algorithm but I don’t care. These Corporations know too much about me anyway, might as well give them a curveball.
- Comment on I make games and this literally happened to me this morning 1 month ago:
Does Wishlisting a game help the developer in anyway other than indicating excitement for a game?
I’d love to know if there an any incentive to interacting with a game’s store page other than buying a game, obviously.
If Steam gives a bonus for that kind of thing, I’m going to be a lot more generous with my clicks.
- Comment on meow_irl 2 months ago:
Idk…some animals are just like that. I have two dogs. One is unquestionably a dog. One might be an animorph or a human trapped in a dogs body. He’s so much smarter. I don’t teach him things but he figures it out in his own. Ex: opening doors, making trades, knowing individual names of people/animals, etc. I didn’t teach him any of that.
And when I adopted the “dog” dog he would look at what the “human” dog was doing and copy it to get treats.
It wouldn’t surprise me if a cat wanted attention so it acted like someone else. Sometimes, I suspect animals are a lot smarter and more aware than humans give them credit for.
- Comment on I'm not a good liar but need to pretend I like my current job and not rant about how much I dislike it till I find a job I like more. How do I make my coworkers and supervisors believe this lie? 2 months ago:
No advice but for what it’s worth, I’m doing the same thing at work now. Just wanted you to know I relate. Sorry your job sucks. I hope you find another soon
- Comment on I fucking hate the job search 5 months ago:
My favorite is when the title says remote or local to you, but then the body of the posting says you would be required to relocate and that it was intentionally posted in multiple cities to reach a wider audience.
If I wanted to work in Minnesota, I would have searched for jobs in Minnesota.
- Comment on The First Borderlands Movie Clip Looks Like An SNL Skit 5 months ago:
Supposedly he met the creators at a party after the first game came out and asked to play claptrap. I don’t have a source to share with you, but if that’s true then I’m fine with it.
But yeah, most of this movie looks very bad.
- Comment on Why are people talking about flying a flag upside-down? 5 months ago:
I grew up near Westboro Baptist in Topeka. We all knew where they lived because they fly the US flag upside down. They say “the US is in distress because of all the sinning”. Basically, because they hate LGBT+ people.
- Comment on I'm not your pardner, guy! 8 months ago:
Thank you!!
- Comment on I'm not your pardner, guy! 8 months ago:
I use kagi and that hasn’t been happening. Do I need to change a setting?
- Comment on The absurdity of the return-to-office movement 9 months ago:
Companies that say they care about the environment but insist on unnecessarily forcing employees drive to an office everyday are infuriating. Everything is awful.
- Comment on The data is in: Return to Office policies don't improve employee performance or company value, but controlling bosses don't care 10 months ago:
This. What’s the point of finally getting that corner office if there’s no one to feel superior over?
- Comment on YouTube: 5 ads the norm now? 10 months ago:
I got a VPN and got YouTube premium for like $2.50 on an Ukraine server.
I would just try ublock but I watch in my tv a lot too
- Comment on Stop using Fandom 1 year ago:
TLDR; Fandom has a lot of QAnon articles written to make the scams seem legitimate to less computer savvy people.
My mom has fallen in a Qanon conspiracy world. The people from that world write Fandom articles about themselves to make it seem legitimate. I found them when I started investigating these people trying to convince her to steer clear.
I don’t trust a single thing on Fandom anymore.
- Comment on You didn't bought it you rented it! 1 year ago:
Yeah. It happened to me too. And they wouldn’t let me use the full ink cartridge I had because it was tied to the subscription. I had to go buy a completely separate ink cartridge and disconnect some other thing to print a stupid form. Fuck HP
