NABDad
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- Comment on On an open source platform, I'm supposed to be able to change my username/display name, right ? 2 days ago:
I think they’re just saying that open source doesn’t prevent crappy behavior by the creator. However, because it is open source, capable users can take the code, fix what they don’t like, and release their fixed version under the same license.
I don’t think not being able to change your user name is at the same level of “crappy” as the examples mentioned in that paragraph. However, the point applies: you, or anyone, could take the source code and add the ability to change usernames.
In previous discussions on the subject, I’ve read that the way Lemmy works makes it a very difficult feature to add.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Bummer. That sucks.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Just throwing this out there in case anyone needs actual advice:
One option is to sign with a buyer’s broker. A real estate agent that works for the buyer rather than the seller. That’s what my wife and I did when we bought our house almost 29.
The real estate fees of 6% are paid by the seller and split by the seller’s broker and the buyers broker, and the buyer’s broker has a fiduciary responsibility to the buyer
Our broker, Gary, made sure we understood everything that was happening and made sure we didn’t screw up.
I definitely recommend it for anyone buying a house for the first time. It doesn’t cost you anything as the buyer, and it doesn’t increase any costs for the seller.
- Comment on Just hanging with the boys 5 days ago:
I had to scroll way too far to find this comment.
- Comment on Lol she's gonna die laughing 1 week ago:
It’s just a prank,
brosis. - Comment on Handy tip 1 week ago:
I can hear cows in my head, but seriously it’s not that great. All they say all day long is, “kill them. Kill them all.”
It’s kind of monotonous.
- Comment on Handy tip 1 week ago:
Is the mind cow merely rotating in air, or must I imagine myself picking it up and rotating it physically? If I’m imagining physically rotating the cow, am I imagining exertion, or should I be imagining that I have super human strength?
In what plane should I rotate it?
Is the cow in a field or in a barn? Or is it in an empty void?
If I’m physically rotating the cow, how am I dressed? Am I wearing my normal attire, or am I dressed like a dairy farmer? How does a dairy farmer dress? Is the cow wearing any clothing?
Can I choose what season I imagine the cow rotating in, or must it be the current season?
I have so many questions and now I’m even more bored than I was before!
- Comment on Is there a word for people who will mess something up and blame the victim for it? 2 weeks ago:
Reminds me of when we sent a tech out to someone’s home to set up a workstation. The wife of the guy getting the workstation backed into his car, and drove off.
After seeing the damage to his car, our tech went to tell the husband, and before he could even say anything the husband said, “my wife hit your car, didn’t she?”
It’s happened often enough that this guy didn’t even need to be told. He knew.
- Comment on Can a puzzle with missing pieces be considered complete? 2 weeks ago:
Are you asking to get answers about the philosophical question, or did you argue with her about it and you want to find out what the lemmynet thinks?
As others have mentioned, “complete” does not have to refer to the puzzle itself. It could refer to the effort.
On the other hand, her puzzle, her frame, her wall: she gets to decide.
Personally, I’d want to craft replacement pieces and draw in the missing parts of the picture. Or maybe paint them gold like Kintsugi. That way the puzzle can be “complete” while still acknowledging the history of the puzzle.
- Comment on Larry Page, still a board member of Google's parent company Alphabet, had ties to Epstein. He successfully hid from subpoenas to testify about it. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, honestly, I wasn’t really trying to establish a cause and effect. More that the out-of-control wealth disparity appears to have enabled a large number of vile, evil scum to rise up the top.
- Comment on Larry Page, still a board member of Google's parent company Alphabet, had ties to Epstein. He successfully hid from subpoenas to testify about it. 3 weeks ago:
No the only thing that stands between me and child molestation is my morality, but that also stands between me and money and power.
- Comment on audition 3 weeks ago:
There’s a restaurant in Reading, PA with a men’s room that has a sink, two urinals, and a toilet. No stalls. One room.
There was a lock on the door, but it left me wondering about the kind of friends who would feel comfortable coming in with you to use the urinal while you’re taking a shit.
I didn’t see the woman’s bathroom, but apparently a few others did because the lock on that door didn’t work.
- Comment on ???? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve heard that hamsters will play dead so effectively, that they will convince their owners that they actually are dead.
So, assuming that’s true, some hamsters die horribly in a small box underground.
- Comment on ???? 3 weeks ago:
We’ve got two guinea pigs, and in my opinion, they aren’t that hard to keep alive.
My daughter’s guinea pig just died, but he was an older fellow. He went with her to college and got her all the way through to a few months past graduation.
As George Carlin said, “You’re supposed to know it in the pet shop. It’s going to end badly. You’re purchasing a small tragedy.”
- Comment on If only the person who did this ceiling had their tools even half as well calibrated as I do 3 weeks ago:
The DIY’ers who owned my house before me were very confident in their ability and proud of their accomplishments*.
They shouldn’t have been. Inside corner trim cut at a 45° with the gap filled with wood filler. Chair rail molding installed in the dining room with up to a quarter inch gap between the molding and the wall.
Of course, I’ve had hardly any better luck hiring professionals. It seems like no one has any logic anymore.
To a certain degree, some screwups add to the character of the house. A closet door frame noticeably out of square becomes quaint when the finish carpenters match the odd angles perfectly when cutting the trim.
* Neighbors who live next door told us about the previous owners bragging about the work they did.
- Comment on Larry Page, still a board member of Google's parent company Alphabet, had ties to Epstein. He successfully hid from subpoenas to testify about it. 3 weeks ago:
as if anyone with such power would practice child molestation.
It’s starting to seem that way to me.
- Comment on If you could make a magic wish so that your crush liked you, would you do it? 4 weeks ago:
39+ years here. I think after another 21 years, I can be sure.
- Comment on 😉 😉 4 weeks ago:
Bed frames in college were squeaky. I found a little bit of olive oil took care of it.
- Comment on Their goal is to drive you crazy so you will just hang up and go away 4 weeks ago:
I called Verizon FiOS support
Spent 45 minutes waiting while their AI claimed it was fixing the problem.
Called the same number again, said agent and got connected to a human being. The human being told me I called the wrong number and that he would try to transfer me to the correct number, but it wasn’t reliable (phone company can’t get phones working), so he told me the number I should have called.
It was the number I called.
I called back again, but this time I managed to get someone helpful who transferred me to someone who understood my problem well enough to tell me there’s nothing they can do and I’m fucked.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
She’s a mutt. No big deal, most of us are.
It’s what we’re supposed to be. Blending, swapping traits, improving the species through diversity.
There’s no need to label the “type” of human she is.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk commemorative PEZ dispenser 4 weeks ago:
There are extra large Pez dispensers that eject full rolls of Pez candy.
For example:
- Comment on New York real estate titan likens the phrase ‘tax the rich’ to racial slurs 5 weeks ago:
The worst often are born with it.
- Comment on Do I belong in tech anymore? - On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal. 1 month ago:
AI is the symptom. Unrestrained capitalism is the disease.
- Comment on Is the "everyday stuff" supposed to feel normal? Do y'all just have a parent do things then when you're supposed to be the adult you panic? 1 month ago:
Most of the time, you can say things like, “I’ve never done this before”, and the people you’re interacting with will tell you what to do.
So, at the doctor’s office, just ask the receptionist what they need you to do. If you have questions, ask.
The trick is to not care about not knowing something. Everyone is born knowing nothing. Everything has to be learned. Ignorance is only a flaw if it’s a choice.
- Comment on 🐝🐝🐝 1 month ago:
Forbeeden
- Comment on Y'all ever have intrusive thoughts about accidentally dropping stuff in storm drains? (particulary when you have your phone out) And like if that happens, wtf is someone supposed to do? 1 month ago:
Years ago I had a little LED flashlight hanging from my keychain.
I was running cable in my house, and had wiggled along inside a wall in the attic. I was looking down a section of wall next to the bathroom and was using the flashlight on my keys to peer down the wall.
Luckily I realized how stupid I was being, and managed to put my keys back in my pocket before I dropped them down inside a wall.
- Comment on Is Vladimir Putin a good and professional leader? 1 month ago:
- Comment on No fear! 1 month ago:
It has happened years before, but it happened when he was an adult.
- Comment on No fear! 1 month ago:
I knew a kid in high school who was hit by a car while riding his bike in the days before kids wore helmets.
He was fucked up. He survived, but it was “learning how to walk and talk again” survival.
I also had a teacher in college who wasn’t wearing a helmet when he flipped his bike and landed on his head. He was alright as long as you think regular, crippling migraines are alright.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
“Donald Trump is bombing Iran because he wants to feel powerful”
No. He’s bombing Iran because Obama made a joke about him and everybody laughed.
Suggesting he’s doing it to feel powerful gives him so much more credit than he deserves.