andrewta

@andrewta@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a place online where I can download or torrent the Path to 9/11? Will buy if necessary. That movie/show is kinda my white whale.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not familiar with the show. But have you tried your library if they have a copy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you still believe in having friends despite there being long, long gaps of time between the last time you communicated or hung out?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m basically the same way. If they have gone for an entire year and there isn’t even so hello. Then as far as I’m concerned, they don’t care about the friendship. Now there’s obviously exceptions to that. Like if they are deployed in the Military and for a very long period of time they can’t really communicate. OK, that might be understandable. But even in the military you are (generally) allowed letters or something.

  But barring something extraordinary like that, yeah, as far as I’m concerned, they don’t care about the friendship. I’ll give them a year maybe two tops. After that, I don’t bother calling them again. I have one individual who used to be a great friend. But that person hasn’t called or visited in 25+ years. before that, I was the only one who ever called. So as far as I’m concerned, they don’t care about the friendship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had a tooth problem that needed a root canal and crown, how long would you expect it to take to get it resolved?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  About the same length of time for me. (I’m in the us in Minnesota ( just for reference))

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if I rip a fart, will putting a fan facing out the window or facing in from the window clear the stink out faster of the room?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It will depend upon how the air is flowing outside. So if the wind is into the window then setting the fan to blow towards the fan will do nothing. .

  To put this a different way

  Imagine one side your house is on the north, and the other side house on the south. Now imagine you have windows on both north and south open. Now imagine the wind is coming from the south. So it is blowing into the south window. if you fart in that room and you point the fan towards the South window nothing is going to happen.

  But if you turn the fan around and face it away from that window now you are using the air current in your favor.

  Most rooms don’t have windows on both north and south sides. So open the doors to the appropriate rooms and open windows in both rooms. The wind will blow through the house. The smell will clear faster with a fan of your point it with the air current.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For all the years it has existed, all the money spent on immigration and deportation why hasn't the US come up with a better system? And become an isolated country for a while to help itself?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Becoming isolated has literally never helped the US.

  As for why hasn’t the immigration system been fixed. Here’s the problem: everyone that goes to Congress has a different idea of how to fix it. And everyone thinks their idea is best. And no one wants to work together and hell no to working with the other side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you doing for digital estate planning?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please clean the tab button with rubbing alcohol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you doing for digital estate planning?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My browser history is fine for most teenagers. The other stuff i use incognito mode.

• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you would crash the economy . you would have a shit ton of people making a shit ton of money. making all that money basically worthless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to arm chair general it. How come the US doesn't get a bunch of helicopters over to the Lincoln with food meds and whatever? How did it get this bad where we can't supply our own ships?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  With that username I have to ask if you are prior service Navy? And I agree with your assessment, it’s a leadership issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Jail websites they let you know the exact address where a Pedo lives. But tells you not to go out and harm them. Has anyone ever used it as a list to go hunt down pedo's?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have much time for pedos, But if you wanna try vigilanteeism, the only thing that’s gonna happen realistically if you’re going to wind up in prison. Yeah, you might get a few good hits on them or they’ll even kill them. But the end of the day you’re still in jail or prison. So if they’re alive and you beat the shit out of them, now you get stalking charge harassment charge, assault and battery charge. And once you have those charges on your record, good luck on getting a decent paying job. You won’t even get the interviews. Might make feel good, but good luck on paying your bills.

  If you killed them now, you’re in jail for murder. Or manslaughter depending on.

  Exactly how was that successful? how is that a good thing in any way shape or form? Your life is fucked.

  By the way to the original poster, I know you weren’t saying you were going to go do it. This message is really to those who are thinking about doing it. It’s just a stupid idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a website that can tell you the new names to I guess "classify" people? Like the R word, or the N word or skin color or nationaility? For ex. Is African American still acceptable and so forth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Google’s servers would be screaming for mommy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are these brownish speckles on my polyester shirt? How to get it off?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do not wash using the regular setting in a washing machine in the US in any machine made in the last ten years. Choose another setting. The regular setting doesn’t do a good job. That is from several washing machine repairmen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are these brownish speckles on my polyester shirt? How to get it off?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The extra rinse cycle was also my thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With all the things any politician has to vote on it’s impossible to know something about all of them. They just need to surround themselves with knowledgeable people. But like a said I will ding his staff on not briefing him on ai / ChatGPT

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I will give him points on admitting that he can’t know everything. And on admitting that he doesn’t know what ChatGPT is, and that he works to surround himself with people who can learn these things. I will ding him, and his staff are not informing him on what ChatGPT was or is.

  With as many people who are pissed off about AI, the fact that his staff is not informing him about AI and getting them to visit an AI data center that’s a problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad were the asylums that Reagan closed in his tenure? Were they really that bad? Did no one take a look at the staff and bed side manner? Or was it really like Born On The Fourth of July?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My grandma wound up in one. If even half the stuff that supposedly was done to her, was actually done to her, the staff needs to be in prison for life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I survive the US immigration?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Best advice I have for you is you look into soccer groups. That sounds odd, but we just had the World Cup here. Ask them how difficult or easy was to go through customs. As somebody else said how Caucasian do you look, Well, if you’re concerned about then Contact groups of fans that look basically like you and find out If they had any problems.

  The problem is you were asking lemmy . The problem here is there’s way too many people that have this mentality of US bad . You’re going to get a heavily skewed Perspective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the US Military can offer free money for college education..and is part of the government then why does the average Joe have to pay back a small student loan?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It would not surprise me if that benefit goes away. But at the same time, the difference here is for the military you serve, you get the benefit of a college education, then when you go to college, the college is paid for. It is not a loan. So in other words, if for some reason, the government pulled that benefit back then the veteran of the military would know that before they sign up for college.

  But yeah, it would not surprise me if the If the US government pulled that benefit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent answer.

  On a side note: if I could get my ant colony to build small camp fires we could create some ugly forest fires, or some nasty building fires in large cities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you buy PC games from third party key sites or from Steam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I cannot afford to buy directly from the manufacturer. Otherwise, yeah, Steam is my second option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think of the posting of easily searched questions here?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It does not bother me at all. The reason it does not bother me. Is because sometimes things that are easily googled, are also things where if you don’t have the right search words or the right search terms, Google won’t help you. And I’ve had that happen to me. Before I tried and tried and tried to find an answer and I couldn’t find it. Once I got the answer that I pushed that into Google oh there it is right there for me.

  Sometimes people prefer to talk to other people instead of googling. Given you’re not actually talking to anybody you’re typing into a forum, but still point is. So it doesn’t bother me. And if I have a chance and I know the answer, yeah I’ll answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it true that airport customs can legally demand access to your unlocked phone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. That’s why I don’t use biometrics to unlock my phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone ever actually had their vehicle tabs stolen?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My dad did once. Stolen off his pickup while on a work parking lot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it true that airport customs can legally demand access to your unlocked phone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, that is so true

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it true that airport customs can legally demand access to your unlocked phone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is true, in some countries they can demand that you use your biometrics to unlock your phone. In other words, if you can unlock your phone by simply looking at it or using your thumbprint, they can demand that you unlock your phone using that. From what I understand the United States now does this. They can’t demand to give up your pin number because they can’t require you to give up something that’s inside your head. But biometrics are not what is inside your head that is publicly available data. So they can use that to require you to unlock your phone. Personally, I think it’s a bullshit concept that they can require you to do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After updating CachyOS, I am unable to play games as easily as before. How do I fix it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for letting me know about this group

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Contact an attorney, and explain that you want to use inmates as a work release program. Or possibly to have the inmates work on your project inside the prison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I swear it won't hurt you if you use it for like a second⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a Linux user I approve this joke

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Watching this back and forth while I’m eating my chips 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you do check the store don’t look at the west wall, or in any glass show cases.