BassTurd

@BassTurd@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to avoid having cat hair all over my house and clothes every 2 days?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk how different cat hair is from dog hair, but we have a Rottweiler and a German shepherd husky mix, and we vacuum daily. We have a Roomba that we don’t really use anymore, but it filled up daily with dog hair. Very little loose hair in the house now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm going to try not to swear when you're around. Is this a good apology to a coworker?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True in theory, but in practice, those are pretty much universally accepted curse words. I personally swear all of the time when I know the audience I’m around, and hear people swearing from across my office, so culturally it’s not a thing where I work or especially my previous manufacturing job. In places that have outside customers or patients, the expectation is generally different and varying levels of masking those outbursts is required, sometimes even saying things like "crap"is too much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm going to try not to swear when you're around. Is this a good apology to a coworker?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Until it’s escalated, and then it’s definitely OPs problem. Most jobs have something about professionalism written is their handbook. The coworker will win that fight with hr every time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you get better at debate without necessarily doing a debate?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Music theory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I took all the Cisco.com programs does that mean I can just apply for a cert?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You would still have to pass the cert exams. The programs are to prepare you for the exams.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm tired of every game being live service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Google search for good games and read through various results and see if there’s something you haven’t seen. Or in Steam customize your search for what you’re looking for and crawl through the options. If you get off the front page of Steam the entire catalog is available to filter and search.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Being poor is expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What to do with glassware that is impossible to clean⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I put the pipe into a baggie and cover in iso alcohol. I put water in my ultrasonic cleaner and then put the baggie in the water. My cleaner has an option to heat the water, and I do that because I think it helps, but not necessary. Then a 6 minute cycle, I’ll dump the alcohol, fill with water and run a short cycle to rinse everything well. Then just manually rinse everything off until I’m good. Sometimes after the first cycle, I’ll take the baggie out and give it a good aggressive shake, and run a second round just to make sure.

  I use a mighty vaporizer most of the time, so I’m usually cleaning the capsules and mouthpiece, but I do my pipe at the same time, so it usually doesn’t get a big tar ball between cleanings. The first time I used it, I had a peanut M&M sized ball that didn’t desolve, but everything else washed free, so it was loose inside. I put my air hose nozzle on the mouth, a quick blast in the trash, and it was done.

  A lot of people recommend little jewelry cleaners which I think are under $50, but I grabbed a larger one from harbor freight for a little over $80 and I think it was the right choice. I have a glass bubbler attachment for my vape that gets gnarly on the inside, and it’s kind of long and wouldn’t fit in a smaller cleaner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What to do with glassware that is impossible to clean⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Size depending, an ultrasonic cleaner and alcohol will do the trick. That’s how I clean my glass pipes from resin and debris, and it always comes out spotless with no manual cleaning effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why 🤷‍♂️ do users 👨‍💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Excessive emojis make reading difficult. It’s just as bad as posts. That. Are. Written. Like. This. My internal voice pauses for ever period, likewise, I have to interpret every inline emoji. It’s mentally tiring, and while forums like this aren’t formal, when I see abused emoji use, I instinctively write off a comment or post as juvenile and low quality. I’m more inclined to skip reading it entirely because of the extra effort required and my pre judgement of its contents.

  Tagging an emoji to the end or light use to help convey emotions is fine and intuitive. I personally like them for quick response and like you, to add a little more context to text where the “voice” may be missed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Google Photos popup⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s too bad for them, but at a certain point, people should be expected to have some level of understanding of the technology they are using. Giving people the information via a highly visible yet unobtrusive notification is more than enough to guide people that don’t understand. If they decide not to follow the clear instructions then that’s on them.

  It’s kind of like no child left behind. In theory, it’s a good idea to make sure everyone is in a good position for success, but it’s not good in execution because it negatively impacts more than it helps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Google Photos popup⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Having a notice that doesn’t occupy the whole screen and can be dismissed temporarily or permanently is a much better and less predatory solution to this problem. This isn’t looking out for the end user, this is urging them into a system where the host can profit off of the user’s data, that also happens to provide a benefit to the user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McDonald's Experience by non McDonald's patron.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think early releases of self checkouts were extremely poor and buggy. I have had minimal issues over the last handful of years, most of them would have been issues a cashier would have needed to call for help for anyway.

  I also don’t feel that I’m made to do extra work. I think having someone bag groceries is a luxury anyway, and most of the time it’s done differently than I would have. I can fit all of my stuff into two bags, while a cashier will split it across 5. Many cashier’s also don’t know the difference between various produce items that requires me to tell them, when I could have just done it myself.

  The only time I don’t do self checkout is if I’m getting alcohol. At some locations, I would sooner wait behind someone finishing up their self checkout instead going to an empty cashier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McDonald's Experience by non McDonald's patron.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally love kiosk ordering and by proxy, self check-outs anywhere and everywhere. The less humans I have to work with the better, because humans are slow, social, and make mistakes. That said, McDonald’s kiosks kinda suck, and they are one of the least intuitive interfaces out there IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you agree with my unpopular opinion about height in fencing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew up in rural Iowa. We didn’t have a fancy side of town.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you agree with my unpopular opinion about height in fencing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither tall basketball players or high jumpers actively have someone actively trying to stab them in their larger mass sections. It would be better to compare with baseball where the strike zone can change depending on height. There are some good pictures of Jose Altuve standing next to Aaron judge in the MLB. Basically, tall people have a larger attack vector, and that doesn’t apply in the two sports you mentioned, where more height definitely carries significantly more advantages than disadvantages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this just how it’s gonna be till Election Day?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is easily the most important feature on my phone. The call screening and spam blocking is unparalleled. I don’t think I have had anything blocked that shouldn’t be, and it maybe messes up 5 or less times a year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pay for Lawyers Is So High People Are Comparing It to the N.B.A.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel an exception class actions. Lawyers walk away with way too much of damages that should be going to victims. If it were that same .2% it would be ok, but it’s not. It’s on average 25-30% of the total fee, and that’s disgusting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Horizon: An American Saga flopping in theaters?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t, but okay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Horizon: An American Saga flopping in theaters?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t experienced any of that in a very long time. The movie going experience has shifted significantly over the past decade. Again, it’s not for everyone and some don’t find the entertainment worth the cost, which is fine. I’m just trying to point out that the stereotypical they’re experience isn’t what it used to be. Some people go and spend hundreds at casinos for fun, I’ll occasionally drop a couple of tenners to watch a good movie it the format it was designed to be viewed in. That’s maybe once or twice a year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Horizon: An American Saga flopping in theaters?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The theaters certainly are not for everyone, but I haven’t experienced your description of a theater in over 5 years. Everywhere I’ve been not has leather recliners and have been generally cleaner. It’s not cheap, but concessions aren’t a requirement and no home theater offers the same viewing between screen and sound like a theater. I think my local place is $15 for the ultra wide, heated leather, Atmos audio screenings. Not something to do all of the time, but the occasional late night watch of an adult rated film is a nice treat sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was a child of the 90s when I feel this humor was more prevalent. Until now, I always thought of it as a common stereotype, like white guys in khakis, old white women and wine, or country folk and cheap beer. Something that does poke fun of a group, but generally in a light way. Now I know there’s a more significant back story. I figured it was just culturally something that developed in black communities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people throw out old motors, bicycles, anything metal into rivers and lakes instead of a junk yard or the trash system?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Best case, a load to my local dump is ~$15 min of general waste. Every appliance is $5 or 15 on top of that. I’ve tucked appliances in other appliance before to avoid the fee, but never dumped outside of the landfill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I permanently leave Israel?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Nobody owes their country of origin, shit. They don’t care about you at all. They don’t care about their own people. If you can flip a switch and make it better, do it, but don’t sacrifice your life, literally or figuratively, for a cause you can’t change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world’s best airline is paying staff a bonus of 8 months’ salary after record annual net profit of $1.98 billion⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I were eligible this year, it would have been >20k just given to me for retirement. They also contribute to 401k. It’s nothing crazy but it’s something on top of ESOP. I don’t want to need to work until I’m to old to enjoy retirement, but my wife and I like to travel now. This helps do both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world’s best airline is paying staff a bonus of 8 months’ salary after record annual net profit of $1.98 billion⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently started at a private company that does profit sharing through ESOP. This year to all invested employees, so those more than ~1yr, they contributed around 30% of their annual salary in stock to their retirement. The private stock price rose about 32% from last year as well. On average the stock goes up 20%+ and the contributions have been around 18%. The founder and IG CEO found that companies that have an ESOP grow faster than others, and are happier. It takes 6 years for full investment, but after that, when you leave, they pay out your shares at that stock price, over a few payments I believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chicken vs Egg⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What could possibly be more important than this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chicken vs Egg⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You established right away in your first post that Amy is a chicken. That means she came from a chicken egg, but it wasn’t a chicken’s egg until Amy was a chicken. Until the hatch it was her parent’s egg, whatever species they may have been.

  I think we’re saying the same thing, but in my version, Amy was the first chicken hatched from non chicken parents, and laid the first chicken’s egg, birthing Brenda.

  In the end, chicken came first, which in turn made the egg, a chicken egg, and coincidentally that chicken’s egg.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chicken vs Egg⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right. I just realized that I typed the opposite of what I meant. And then in another comment said what you did thinking I was defending my og opinion. I’m all over the place this morning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chicken vs Egg⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right and wrong. It was a chicken’s egg when Amy laid it, but it was a chicken egg when Brenda was hatched. So yes, the chicken has to exist for the first chicken’s egg, but the first chicken hatched from a chicken egg, that was not a chicken’s egg.

  To clarify, I’m assuming that in this case Amy was the first evolution of the chicken, therefore she laid the first chicken’s egg that was the second chicken egg, bevause her parents weren’t chickens, so what was laid wasn’t a chicken’s egg until Amy hatched. Schrodinger’s egg if you will.