BassTurd

@BassTurd@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are lemmings so touchy about downvotes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I say what I’m gonna say, and sometimes I get downvotes and other times I don’t. I downvote bad takes, trolls, or other things that I feel I strongly disagree with.

  Use it as a barometer. If you’re constantly getting downvited for your posts, perhaps some introspection will tell you why. Otherwise, don’t worry about it. They’re fake Internet points and some people just won’t agree with you. You can’t please everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I could a buffalo chicken chili kale salad would the show off my cooking skills?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Make everything from scratch, and make sure you can do it successfully before trying it live if you want to show off.

  It’s not very flashy, but I make green bean casserole from scratch every thanksgiving. Instead of buying canned beans and cream of mushroom, get green beans from produce and prep them, make a roux, chop some fresh mushrooms and make your own sauce. I do buy fries onion rather than make my own, but that’s an option. All of that is extremely easy to do, looks impressive to people who don’t know how to cook, and tastes better.

  For lasagna, make the sauce instead of buying it.

  A buffalo chicken salad can be good an option, but you probably need to make the chicken yourself rather than just throwing precooked buff chicken on some kale.

  If you can make a dessert in advance that will add to your cause. If you have a spring form pan, NY style cheesecake is very easy to make and provides the option for people to choose their own toppings.

  Soups are a good choice. Most require some level of prep like making a mirepoix and can be made as a side dish. Most are prep and then wait, so the soup can cook while you’re doing other cooking.

  Salmon in a cast iron or stainless is easy and looks impressive. Start skin side down, butter baste, and finish by sticking the whole pan in the over. Just don’t over do it.

  Just make sure everything is cooked all of the way through and nothing is burnt. Whatever you decide, I say find a recipe, or something similar to what you have planned online, and get a good feel for time and temp, because those will ruin anything you’ve done prior if you get it wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Test Post Title⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like a bot. Makes is easy to block.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you take a water balloon filled normally at the surface of the ocean and take it down, like 100 meters would it deflate due to the higher water pressure? What if you popped it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything is compressible with enough force. I would say that threshold is when that compressibility is relevant to the discussion. So in this case, a water ballon under water. There is no depth in the ocean where the pressure will be high enough to make a notable difference.

  I would imagine in many applications when dealing with water and fluid dynamics, unless measurements have to be extremely tight and calculated, water would be treated as incompressible. I’m guessing a lot of the time, the force applied to water is not high enough for it to matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you take a water balloon filled normally at the surface of the ocean and take it down, like 100 meters would it deflate due to the higher water pressure? What if you popped it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, so for all intents and purposes, water is incompressible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t in any way a defence of low wages, but phone, internet, and food can all be had for cheaper depending on location, and if public transportation or close walking proximity to resources and employment are available, that can be significantly less too.

  That still leaves too little extra to do any activities that cost money, survive an emergency situation, or save for retirement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the m-word a slur for people with dwarfism? If so, what are more appropriate terms to use other than dwarf?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My first thought was of Tyrion from ASOIAF. I don’t know that he needed a label, but his short stature was relevant to his characters experiences and storyline. I do like the new word OP may have settled on further down the chain, poytle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the Grim Reaper hold a scythe? Was he or she farming or something when they became the grim reaper?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a different guy, he goes by POTUS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dana White isn’t a fan of college athletes getting paid: “It’s a problem. Money ruins everything”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad college athletes can get paid. What’s unfortunate is that it’s now another recruiting tool for colleges, favoring larger markets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know the difference⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Other than all of the medical equipment hooked up to his body. At the very least it’s a young person who appears to be dead or dying. It can be a triggering picture, hence the request for a heads up to potential viewers.

  OP didn’t have to do it, out of respect they did tag it. Just because you don’t find the image disturbing doesn’t mean other won’t .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Critics Trash Ivanka Trump’s Dolly Parton Tribute: 'Rich F**king Thing For You To Say'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I will have to temper things to a degree so I don’t get fired for my strong and vocal opinion, but there will be celebration. Nothing in writing, but I’ll tell anyone I don’t work with exactly how I feel about the situation. In my head, I’ve already had the argument/conversation with my conservative neighbors that will be upset about it. I will have no shame, and I will bury them in insults and facts. Burn every bridge that doesn’t pay my bills. They may not even be good arguments, but I can always fall back on them supporting a pedophile rapist. That’s indefensible.

  I’ll have to get cameras and lights to keep on my flag to prevent someone from stealing it or lowering it. I recently played with a buddies slingshot on a camping trip. That would be fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Critics Trash Ivanka Trump’s Dolly Parton Tribute: 'Rich F**king Thing For You To Say'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve said it before, but I’m going to go buy a flag pole and American flag, and put that shit square in my front yard and put it full staff. Might even surround it by smaller flags to really sell it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Critics Trash Ivanka Trump’s Dolly Parton Tribute: 'Rich F**king Thing For You To Say'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The first thing I do every morning when I wake up is open Lemmy hoping to see the headline that Trump is dead. One of these days will be the best day of my life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Walmart math: Wrong price per ounce⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you suggesting just rolling over and accepting everything bad because fighting against Trump is an uphill battle?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it creepy when lemmings go digging through post votes to see who voted how on different posts and comments?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really comes down to whether or not I think someone is arguing in bad faith, but there’s a fine line between bad faith and complete idiocy. Like, if someone is a hardcore trump supporter, they could argue in good faith, but we are so far apart that there really is no discussion to be had. I can’t fathom any situation where anyone could support him without being a pedophile and/or a billionaire business owner. Then there are trolls that will just use strawman arguments to move the goalposts on any topic just to not be wrong, and that shit just isn’t worth ingesting, ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it really a big deal what Kyle Grass said on his birthday, that he wished the shooter did not miss (referring to Trump) in Australia? Kind of seems like he's been blacklisted along side Jack Black⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite part of the whole thing is that after KG posted an “apology”, he deleted the post and didn’t waste effort lying to try and save face with people offended by his statement. Fuck Trump, KG was right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we flipped the script, and the people working the shittiest jobs in America got Elon Musk money for working what would happen? Then gave the rich the same wage the lowly worker would earn?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even just being really conservative on the ROI and going with 4.5% gains, if a person has $1,000,000 invested, that’s $45k a year to do nothing. The US median income is around $65k for reference. In lower cost of living places, a person can definitely live off of $45 a year assuming no debt. It won’t be the most comfortable life and it’s probably not worth retiring, but any other income could supplement for QoL upgrades, or further be invested, meaning more ROI, and compound interest, which means even more money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we flipped the script, and the people working the shittiest jobs in America got Elon Musk money for working what would happen? Then gave the rich the same wage the lowly worker would earn?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you saying that Elon’s money is divided amongst the workers, or that each worker becomes a billionaire?

  I’m all for taxing billionaires out of existence and paying the working class more money, but there are a lot of really shitty people in the working class too. Think of someone you’ve worked with that was a complete tool shed, then imagine what it would be like if they had “fuck you” money.

  If we’re saying that all workers get fat pay raises to allow them to purchases larger ticket items like a car, house, vacations, and still have money to invest for retirement, then the economy would do better. If people have extra money, most will spend it, with puts cash into circulation that’s used to pay people. If people can buy more then companies can make more to supply. That creates more jobs, which means more income, which means more spend. Now, that doesn’t work if the dollar loses value because we just made everyone rich and a couple hundred billionaires poor.

  Basically, if we could get 100 billion dollars amortized out to people that need it most in the US, they could get out of debt, and start spending, boosting the economy. It’s one of the reason I think student loan forgiveness could have been one of the best things for the US economy under Biden, but Republicans couldn’t stomach helping people out, so here we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it creepy when lemmings go digging through post votes to see who voted how on different posts and comments?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll look at some users who post a ridiculous take on something. I mostly look to see if they are just a shitty troll or if it was a one off and decide if I want to block them. I don’t look through there posts for context, just the raw vote numbers. If someone is majority negative on their posts, then they don’t need to show up in my feed.

  There are a handful of other users on here who I see frequently that I don’t agree with on a lot of things, and the community agrees with me based on votes, but those users also make good comments that are beneficial to some conversations and sometimes I learn something new. I’ll put up with the bad for the good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s bad enough, I may drag them through the shower with me and then hang dry after, but I’d say probably not most of the time. I haven’t biked in a minute since I’m training for a half marathon, but I did a triathlon last year and was biking most days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Poop is water solable, so washing your bike shorts will wash out the poop.

  When I bike ride, I just put in my bike shorts and go. I’m about to get really disgusting anyway from the sweat and road gunk flinging up. I’m going to stink and regardless, my bike shorts will probably be shoved in my crack for an hour or more.

  I’ll go further into disgusting and also say that since I only have two pairs of bike shorts, that if I’m training daily, I will hang dry them and put them back on the next day and get a couple wears between washes. I’m gonna shower when I’m done anyway, I don’t have sensitive skin that gets irritated by dirty shorts, and my exposure to others is not existent when riding.

  I’m sure I’m not alone, but I’m probably in the minority.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who get "happy ending" massages, is there like a common keyword or process?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL. I didn’t know that about the word masseuse. Not that I talk about massage therapists on the regular, but now I know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My student loan is gaining interest while I'm in school but I'm not allowed to start paying it off yet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US, I’d say good health insurance, retirement benefits, and fair pay. Bonus points of it’s something you enjoy, but that’s more rare I think. I’m as close now as I’ve ever been to checking all of those boxes, pay is a little low for what I do, but liveable with a little extra. I got my degree about 13 years ago. I did get a job about 6 months out of school with a livable wage, bad retirement, good health insurance, but I didn’t like it. Took a little over nine years for an opportunity to come up that I applied for and got. Maybe could have moved sooner had I put in effort, but my job now isn’t directly related to my degree and I got it because I know a guy that got my foot in the door.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do celebs commit crimes and such like Tony Romo and his DWI? He had a 180 million dollar deal. Why not hire a driver or stay at home and buy ridiculous shit?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the dumbest shit I have heard, no offense.

  ^ that’s you before you posted your insulting, dumb AF take.

  OP is saying that when you have enough money and fame, the idea of consequences starts going away. That means that some people could go get drunk and not believe they may face the same consequences because they never have. You thinking you could pay for blowies from a bunch of pornstars while smoking a tobacco and weed cuban cigar (?) is just another example of something a person that can do whatever they want might do. The endless possibilities in Romo’s case is that he’s rich and can drive where and how he wants, but he got caught. There’s a sense of feeling invincible at a point of wealth and fame. Also, while this is in no way a defense for his actions or anyone else that drunk drives, but alcohol is well known for altering a person’s inhibitions, making it more likely for them to take the risk. It is extremely easy in today’s world to order ride share or find a ride, so it’s inexcusable especially when you’re wealthy, but my reasons above are some of why it happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What to put on a CV when I have nothing to put there?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re over thinking some of this. Create a resume in libre office to confirm to common practices. Don’t put in fancy shit with draw or do something fancy with latex. Unless an employer specifically requests something nonstandard, you’re just going to get filtered out or upset whoever has to review your art project.

  You must have some level of education like highschool, GED, or equivalent depending on where you live. Put any job experience you have or formal positions you’ve held. If you can find one, I would heavily recommend going to a professional to help you write your resume. I worked at a company for a little over 9 years and was applying at a different company. I thought I had a decent resume until I worked with a guy that does this for a living and he humbled me. It was a complete re-write but I ended up with the job. If you can’t find someone, I’d start at your local library and if they can’t help, they may be able to steer you to good resources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Cong…⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agree. In this political climate, getting any positive change is tough. This is a good first step that would have affected me at the first two of three FT positions I’ve worked. It’s not good enough long term imo, but it’s positive and I’ll celebrate the hell out of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There’s a lot of confusion about what democratic socialists want, and that’s fair. Even within our group, there are differences among us.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even for people that think that they are against democratic socialism, there’s no way they read this and think that’s a bad thing. This reads like something that’s used to promote DSA rather than fear monger. It’s out of character for Republicans to slander something so softly without any sort of hate rhetoric or other blasphemy.

  Really, who can read this and say, yea, I want the power to stay with the wealthy and not be with the people other than wealthy people? I would have guessed this were satire if I just saw it in passing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who play videos and podcast loudly in cafés and restaurants: What's your deal?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m at an event right now that involved thousands of people queuing to check in with carts of gear in a large hotel atrium. One person walked by with their cart and a stupid JBL Bluetooth speaker blasting music. The main character syndrome some people have is insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do posts continuously end up "*Permanently Deleted*" here?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some instances are hosted and paid for by people that don’t have lots of money. Purging old posts to save costs is a valid reason to do so. Whether or not that’s the case, I have no idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And those words are written in what experts call, “English”.