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- Comment on New York State Governor Hochul Pushes for Congestion Pricing Delay in Last-Minute Reversal 4 days ago:
When Cuomo got forced out, his Lt Governor replaced him.
I don’t know people expected less bullshit. The reason all the NY state Dems are so terrible is the money in the primary elections keeping anyone the voters want away from the general.
The faces in office rotate, the money behind them stays the same.
We need to fight against corporate money in primaries, as the DNC loves to say, they can do anything they want in the primary because it’s more of a survey than a binding election.
They can fix this problem themselves anytime they want to
- Comment on Why ‘poly-employment’ may be 2024’s next big work trend, working more than one job is getting a re-brand 5 days ago:
Indentured service paid for your food and housing…
- Comment on Biden Suggests Netanyahu Is Prolonging War to Stay in Power 5 days ago:
I don’t know why people act like Biden isn’t why this is happening.
They tried the same thing under Obama, and when Obama told them to cut the shit or it was over, they stopped.
Biden publicly went against Obama, and since then (post 10/7) even bragged about how recent events prove Obama was wrong. Which only makes sense if Biden is happy with how things are.
nbcnews.com/…/biden-obama-divide-closely-support-…
This shit literally wouldn’t be happening under any other president. Even under trump it didn’t, be cause trump isn’t reliable. Israel couldn’t start something like this with trump in office, because then if trump pulls out they’d be absolutely fucked.
Because trump is an idiot, but he’d realize they need him. And if Trump thinks you need him, shit gets very very expensive quickly.
Biden though?
It’s not money for him, he truly and completely supports Israel no matter what. His money wasn’t bribes for him, it was too keep him in office. No amount of money can buy Biden’s loyalty to Israel.
- Comment on Biden Suggests Netanyahu Is Prolonging War to Stay in Power 5 days ago:
So maybe stop fucking enabling him?
All Biden has to do is cut off aid, and they’ll cave.
They can’t act like this without Biden to hide behind.
- Comment on In Delhi’s Parched Slums, Life Hangs on a Hose and a Prayer 6 days ago:
John Oliver just did a really good episode on India.
Not sure if it’s on YouTube yet, but considering India is number 150 something in press freedom out of 180 countries, there will be multiple ways for the people of India to hopefully get it after his last episode was pulled by Modi.
This episode should be live in a few days.
I just wish it was in time to beat their elections. So many of them believe Modis lies, because anyone who speaks out against him is arrested, until they switch to his party at least. Then all charges were a mistake
- Comment on Mike Flanagan Says Netflix Was "Actively Hostile" Towards the Idea of Releasing Physical Media: "It Became Clear Very Fast That Their Only Priority Was Subs" 6 days ago:
Well, yeah…
The reason they drop all the money these huge shows need, is the only way you can watch them (legally) is if you have a monthly subscription.
If people could buy them, then that would hurt subscriber counts.
It’s why every service wants exclusives.
- Comment on Whats the difference between "English is not my first language" bad grammar, and "The only language I speak jmis english" bad grammar? 6 days ago:
Sure…
But when golfing for business, it’s about the social aspect, not the best technical play.
Which still fits with the example.
Someone that speaking over formally and paying real close attention to grammar/phrasing is going to seem “off”.
Like, recognizing “other” is something baked into humans. We’re still wired to be suspicious of people who don’t look like what we grew up around, or don’t act like we’re used to.
And just on a basic level, we don’t like people who “try to hard” because it makes us suspicious they have ulterior motives. Which, in business golf everyone does. That’s the entire point of it.
The best way for an ESL to fit in with Americans, is to just stop caring so much. Which pretty much brings us full circle.
It’s why rich Japanese families will pay random Americans who don’t speak Japanese to hang out with their kids. They don’t want the kid to just know “textbook English” they want their kid to know slang and idioms so that when the kid grows up, you won’t be able to tell them apart from a native speaker. They intentionally practice throwing in an “um” or “like” so even the cadence and speed sounds American. Like, intentionally teaching the kids to start talking before they know what they’re gonna say… Because that’s how you fit in with Americans. I had no idea where this was going when I started typing for example.
If you learn English from a textbook and a class, an American will instantly notice. Because while it might not be perfect, weird shit we usually do wrong is what sounds normal.
Its all subconscious shit, it’s not like the native speakers do it intentionally, they might not be able to say why something feels off, it just is
- Comment on Whats the difference between "English is not my first language" bad grammar, and "The only language I speak jmis english" bad grammar? 6 days ago:
A lot of it is just level of attention and effort…
A native speaker isn’t going to give a fuck, or even read their comment/post for sending it. Lots of their mistakes involve autocorrect
Someone who is nervous about how good their English is, will review and catch stuff and fix it.
They’re putting time and effort, and still feeling self-conscious.
Which is why we’ll see an absolutely perfect English comment followed by: Sorry for my terrible English, I hope that made sense! When it’s written at a higher grade level than our newspapers are.
Like think of speaking English as golf. Someone whose been playing their whole lives, but never actually took lessons versus someone who started last year, but has been working hard and taking lessons.
They may get the same score, but it’s hard to say they’re equal. One is actively trying to improve, and will soon and eventually surpass the “natural”.
- Comment on Are shrunken heads a rights violation? 1 week ago:
They’re not.
The vast majority were fakes because demand was so high and supply was so low.
It was a lot less effort to make it out of a sloth or monkey, and back then there was literally no way someone could know, even if they had one they 100% knew was authentic right next to it.
So while some authentic ones were out there, no one could tell the difference. So it was way more likely any that made it into a museum or large collection was fake.
- Comment on Live updates: Biden Endorses Israeli Proposal for a Cease-Fire in Gaza 1 week ago:
The fuck is he still demanding Hamas surrender instead of Israel stop genociding?
Like, millions of people are actively facing a genocide with no hope of doing anything to stop it, and people kept acting like it’s anyone’s fault except for the people doing (Israel) or the main ones funding it (Biden).
This is basically telling Hamas:
Total surrender or we’ll keep indiscriminately murdering civilians on a massive scale.
So it’s hard to believe Israel and Biden when they say Hamas are the only terrorists in the room…
- Comment on Random black screens 1 week ago:
Straight to a black screen is likely graphics driver. Then windows rebooting after when it notices.
So no blue screen because the monitors already lost signal. Doesn’t mean it’s not trying to show up.
- Comment on Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago? 1 week ago:
Try to tell a kid about BBS boards nowadays and they start singing about something called a BBL Drizzy…
- Comment on Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago? 1 week ago:
“users” is a singular group in this context.
- Comment on Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago? 1 week ago:
Context.
Here it’s being used a singular group of things.
Like, a herd of cows is a singular thing made up of lots of individual things.
If you lost 50% of the herd, you wouldn’t say you had fewer herd
You’d say you have less of a herd.
But language is what we make it, it’s why the rules are blurry
- Comment on Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago? 1 week ago:
Shit, I remember Fark.
Which was basically what reddit was when it started, fark just stayed that way. I think it’s even still going…
- Comment on Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago? 1 week ago:
Yeah, but reddits more than 10 years old…
Here’s an article from 2013 talking about subs
- Comment on The Biden administration aims to better support small farmers while still aiding big operations and rewarding climate-friendly practices. It’s a tall order. 1 week ago:
Not everyone is on board with these initiatives, however. For one thing, it can be difficult for smaller farmers to take advantage of them. The methane digester at Savage View Farm isn’t cost-effective for dairy herds with fewer than about 200 cows, for example.
Also, scientists worry that the climate benefits are overstated, and that further subsidizing farms — especially those with methane-producing livestock — might actually increase the greenhouse gases coming from the sector overall.
“Farming in general, especially if it’s meat and dairy, has higher emissions than it sequesters,” said Matthew Hayek, an assistant professor at the New York University department of environmental studies. “The more money you put into agriculture, the more agriculture that’s going to happen.”
That middle.one is the big one.
We’re throwing billions to corpo farms for stuff that we legitimately don’t even know will work to help fight climate change, but throwing the money at it is going to grow an unsustainable industry that cause climate change…
And since it provides more benefits to large operations, it’s just going to let them expand more and buy out the small farms they claim to be trying to help.
This is terrible policy if you actually think about it.
I’m happy the article managed to include it even tho it’s buried at the end where some people might not get to.
- Comment on If we get two sets of chromosomes, how does our body decide which genes to use? 1 week ago:
They reside in the X chromosome and sometimes one is defective or missing. That’s why color blindness is more common in males.
Yeah. That’s a little out of date.
Colorblindness isn’t worse vision, just different.
You got more rods for the missing cones, it’s not just blank space.
That helps lowlight vision, and the colorblind are also better at differentiating shades of brown.
Like, my dad was colorblind, and he could spot a deer in the woods from like a mile away. To him it was completely obvious and he never got why other people couldn’t see the deer.
- Comment on iphone 15 pro has something called "always on display" . what exactly is "always on display" i tried to google search it and it didn't really tell me 1 week ago:
Samsung has it on OLED screens.
For OLED it takes very little power to dimmily illuminate a small area of the screen and the rest is the same as it’s off.
So you can do stuff like have a clock always display without having to drain your battery as much as always having the screen “on”.
But this is Apple, so who knows if they mean the standard definition or it’s like Musk’s “full self driving” that cant drive itself.
- Comment on I’m 43 but everyone at the workplace thinks I’m 25. Is this something I need to change? 1 week ago:
Yea, but my question is why does this actually matter
Because coworkers need to trust each other, especially in healthcare.
You aren’t entitled to any private information about your coworkers
Literally no one has said differently.
It’s just ironic a random 25 year old would have the majority to just decline to answer.
OP is 43 years old and can’t handle that, so instead they claim to be 20 years younger, which very few people are probably falling for.
- Comment on New Delhi Sweats Through Its Hottest Recorded Day | For weeks now, temperatures in several states in northern India have been well over 110, and hospitals have been reporting a rise in heatstroke. 1 week ago:
Alright man.
So I’m just gonna have some faith that you understand pollution doesn’t cause heat.
Small steps.
Have a good night, look forward to your next post about climate change, someday you’ll understand the basics.
- Comment on I’m 43 but everyone at the workplace thinks I’m 25. Is this something I need to change? 1 week ago:
Bro is saying he’s 20 years younger than he is…
He’s not passing for 25.
Lots of middle age guys lie about their age, very very few are cocky enough to lie by this large of amount. And the amount that actually looked 25 at 43 is statistically zero.
Like, yeah, Paul Rudd is real person, but we know who Paul Rudd is because he’s the exception.
He could have easily just said “I don’t want to say”. But now he probably has a reputation as the creepy dude who thinks he looks 25.
I’m not saying that’s right, I’m saying that’s most likely what’s happening.
He said he even told his direct supervisor he was 25, date of birth is pretty basic information. A direct supervisor in a medical field is eventually going to see it on a form somewhere if they haven’t already
Even OPs supposed reason for doing this, could just be solved by saying “I don’t want to talk about it” to those questions.
So it doesn’t seem presumptuous to think he might not be that great with social interactions and cues.
He might just be another middle age dude that thinks people are falling for his obvious lies about his age.
It’s not exactly a rare thing like I said, the only rare thing is the balls to go 20 years younger.
- Comment on New Delhi Sweats Through Its Hottest Recorded Day | For weeks now, temperatures in several states in northern India have been well over 110, and hospitals have been reporting a rise in heatstroke. 1 week ago:
This is in no way sealioning, this is where the term comes from:
Selioning would be like if what I said about India made an Indian keep insinuating the only reason I mentioned India was because I’m racist and hate Indians.
What country are you from btw?
But back to science (although I do live etymology) do you now understand that the only way any kind of pollution could cause heat to generate is very specific types of radioactive contamination which is rarely just called “pollution”?
This is fundamental, and you truly seem to care about climate change, so I want to help clear that up.
- Comment on I’m 43 but everyone at the workplace thinks I’m 25. Is this something I need to change? 1 week ago:
If I need to change this, why and how?
Why:
You’re lying to your coworkers, and why you think you can pass for 25, you said you’ve been using it for 3 jobs now and have graying hair?
Like, lots of older guys drastically overestimate how young they still look, and people go along with it because why have the awkward conversation calling out an obvious lie?
How:
Just stop lying to everyone?
Like if you meant how to do that without everyone thinking negative things…
You shouldn’t have told people you’re almost 20 years older than you told them.
They’re going to doubt everything you tell them, and in a medical setting that’s a big deal.
You can try to keep pretending, but at some point it’ll come out, if they don’t already all know.
- Comment on New Delhi Sweats Through Its Hottest Recorded Day | For weeks now, temperatures in several states in northern India have been well over 110, and hospitals have been reporting a rise in heatstroke. 1 week ago:
Do you understand that no type of pollution (except some nuclear fallout technically) actually create heat?
- Comment on New Delhi Sweats Through Its Hottest Recorded Day | For weeks now, temperatures in several states in northern India have been well over 110, and hospitals have been reporting a rise in heatstroke. 1 week ago:
Didn’t click that because it might be another YouTube link.
But you are right, particulates don’t create heat, it’s not magic.
It traps heats…
Like, that’s kind of what climate change is…
None of it is creating heat, it’s retaining heat from the sun.
I honestly wasn’t going to reply again, but if you think any type of pollution honestly creates heat, that’s a big enough misconception I feel obligated to point out
It all just traps and retains heat from the sun. Because of it temperatures don’t cool as much as night, and makes the next day hotter.
And it just keeps stacking, day after day after day…
- Comment on New Delhi Sweats Through Its Hottest Recorded Day | For weeks now, temperatures in several states in northern India have been well over 110, and hospitals have been reporting a rise in heatstroke. 1 week ago:
Eww, why use a YouTube video as a source?
But to expound on my point…
Participate pollution is what’s fucking India up, and that is a very local issue. In India it’s majorally from coal/wood/cow manure being burnt for heat and it cooking. When you do that (especially with inefficient methods) pieces of unburnt fuel get carried into the atmosphere, that is particulate pollution
But you never seem to see my word on this stuff, despite me spending a significant amount of time explaining climate change and pollution to you.
So here’s some studies and articles, you don’t have to take my word.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/…/d2ea00027j
www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47785-5
news.yale.edu/…/yale-scholars-help-test-mechanism…
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…/2021JD036195
energy.mit.edu/news/indias-particulate-problem/
You don’t have to argue about this, you can view it as an opportunity to learn something your apparently already passionate about. Learning is a good thing, and it’s a bad thing if anyone ever stops.
- Comment on New Delhi Sweats Through Its Hottest Recorded Day | For weeks now, temperatures in several states in northern India have been well over 110, and hospitals have been reporting a rise in heatstroke. 1 week ago:
Remember when India said they only care about Indians when the world tried to get them to stop buying Russian fossil fuels When Russia first invaded Ukraine?
Now they want sympathy from the world because their reckless fossil fuels usage and pollution have caused the effects of global warming to be much much stronger locally?
Maybe they shouldn’t have bought all those cheap fossil fuels?
- Comment on Is there a way to read all of Trump's Truth Social posts without actually visiting the site? 1 week ago:
www.creedthoughts.gov.www\creedthoughts
But if you ask Ryan he might just email youa copy of the word doc.
- Comment on Alito Refuses Calls for Recusal Over Display of Provocative Flags 1 week ago:
Friendly reminder every single SC justice recently said none of them need any oversight in any situation…
They all know Alito, and he’s not even the worst one.
They achieved a position that’s literally above the rule.of law, and more than anything they all agree it should stay that way.