NABDad
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- Comment on Friends. 1 day ago:
Imagine if Peter Dinklage got implants. You’d be in heaven.
- Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature? 3 days ago:
I scanned the responses, and didn’t see anyone who mentioned this.
The point at which the U.S. allowed you to “sign” your name by typing was when the E-Sign Act was passed. That was in 2000, long before LLMs were really a concern.
The reason was to make online commerce easier. Verbal contacts could and continue to be enforced, but enforcement requires more effort than with a written contact.
At the time I thought the law was passed by people who didn’t understand technology and how easy this made it for people to commit fraud or screw over consumers. However now I realize they just didn’t give a fuck.
- Comment on How to move a sofa 5 days ago:
In Philly you stop wherever you are and do whatever you’re going to do.
It’s not unexpected to find people just parked in a lane blocking traffic while they unload.
- Comment on How to move a sofa 5 days ago:
If you are moving ALL your stuff, hire movers.
In my experience, that’s what Dad is for.
It starts with Dad moving you to and from dorm rooms. Then apartments.
When my wife and I moved to our house I hired movers. It was a lot easier and not terribly expensive.
When my wife moved her business to a new building, my mom told me my dad insisted on helping us move, so I didn’t hire movers as I had planned. When we were moving the tons of furniture, cabinets, and massive boxes stuffed full of files, my dad mentioned that my mom told him I had asked him to help me move. I have never been able to determine why my mom manipulated us into nearly killing ourselves.
Now I’m the dad. I’ve moved kids to and from dorm rooms and apartments. I’ve rented trucks for huge moves. My daughter and I are moving a couch, a dresser, an end table and all her cooking utensils on Saturday.
Not only do I have a truck, I also have straps, furniture dollies, moving blankets, mattress bags, etc.
My most recent purchase was a shoulder dolly. If you haven’t seen one, picture two harnesses with a wide strap running between them. Two people squat on either end of the item being moved with the wide strap running under it. You take up the slack in the strap, and just stand up to lift it off the ground. It’s a game changer.
I’ve become my own moving company.
- Comment on The light at the end of the tunnel is getting much closer. KEEP PUSHING 1 week ago:
I take it to mean Democrats who are not Democratic Socialists, but it’s an odd way of saying it.
Maybe they are including people who aren’t registered as Democrats but tend to vote for them?
- Comment on Do americans living in Red States really despise american living in Blue States? 1 week ago:
Here there are no stupid questions, just stupid answers.
- Comment on Why was AID's pigeonholed to be a gay disease in the 80's? Even after knowing a person can get it from blood transfusion. 1 week ago:
Others have answered, but you reminded me of some disturbing audio that I had heard.
It’s audio from Reagan’s white house press conferences when a reporter asked for comments about the growing AIDS crisis. It’s disturbing because it shows how casually people joked about gay men dying.
It’s worth listening to. It both shows how far we’ve come and also shows how important it is to not lose any ground in the fight to protect marginalized groups.
- Comment on What is this Iran War really about? 2 weeks ago:
You have to understand, President Obama made a joke about President Pedo, and everyone laughed.
President Obama also made deal with Iran to ensure that they wouldn’t develop nuclear weapons.
President Pedo wants to convince everyone that he’s better than President Obama, so he trashed Obama’s deal, and now he has to use the U.S. military to kill Iranian children so everyone knows how tough he is.
- Comment on Where has the "www." gone? 2 weeks ago:
Newer, yes. Not very new.
The URL format of protocol://hostname.domain:port/path was defined in 1994. Prior to that you would use use an ftp client, usually on the command line like:
ftp hostname.domain
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Definitely. When we’re under-treated my wife and I both struggle to find words that we should know. Sometimes saying the wrong word without realizing it.
I started always using Google maps on my phone when I was driving because once day while I was driving home from work I found myself at an intersection and didn’t know where I was.
I typically don’t realize I missed a pill until the next morning, then when I see it all the crap I went through the day before makes sense.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The normal range for TSH is between 0.4 and 4.0 mIU/L. However, if my TSH is 4, I’d barely be able to move. I do better with it as close to 0.4 as I can manage. You could have a “normal” TSH and still have symptoms.
Also, did they check for thyroid antibodies? After my wife and I were both diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, we started pushing to get our three kids tested. They were young, and had “no symptoms”, so the pediatrician didn’t want to test them.
My wife chose to be a pain in the ass and harass their doctor until she gave in and ordered the tests. Imagine her shock when the two older kids had high TSH and our daughter, who was in the normal range, had positive thyroid antibodies (showing that she also had Hashimoto’s even though her TSH was normal).
Also it turned out they all did have symptoms. They all experienced personality changes when their thyroid levels were off. The oldest would get mopey, middle kid would get weepy, and the youngest would get angry. It was wild.
- Comment on The land before time 4 weeks ago:
I worked in the kitchen and did deliveries the summer after I graduated high school.
We had a map under a piece of plexiglass on the counter. You’d have to look at it and memorize wear you were going before you left.
We didn’t have a 30 minute or it’s free deal, but there was still pressure to deliver fast. Driving their car too fast, I hit the hump in the middle of an intersection and became briefly airborne. All four tires left the street.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 4 weeks ago:
This is also the way to put a real meeting your in on hold.
It makes it look like you got interrupted and had to step away.
- Comment on I bought a schuko plug adapter. They didn't read specs or even tried it: the diameter of the hole is too small! 5 weeks ago:
That’s what she said.
- Comment on Has anyone ever actually had their vehicle tabs stolen? 5 weeks ago:
They would cut the corner of the plate where the sticker was. They’d cut it off, and then I guess they’d put it on their plate or something. I don’t know exactly how it worked, but they were doing it to steal the stickers.
- Comment on Has anyone ever actually had their vehicle tabs stolen? 1 month ago:
I’ve never had them stolen myself.
In PA, when they used to still use them, they had little wedge shapes cut into them when you got them, so once you put them on, they couldn’t be removed intact.
Because they couldn’t be removed, you’d see tons of cars with the corner of the license plate cut off.
Pennsylvania finally stopped using the registration stickers a few years ago.
No point to the registration stickers anymore anyway. The license plate scanners already know everything about you.
- Comment on Library Apps are GOATed 1 month ago:
I’m currently streaming a show on Kanopy.com for free through my library card.
- Comment on Upgrade 1 month ago:
Yeah, I couldn’t remember the age he specified, so I guessed at the worst I could imagine. However, what he actually said was he wouldn’t be with a 12 year old, so that would suggest 13 is his lower limit.
Howard Stern: “Do you think you could now be banging 24-year-olds?”
Donald Trump: “Oh, absolutely! I have no trouble.”
Robin Quivers: “Do you have an age limit?”
Donald Trump: “If I— No, no, I have no age— I mean, I have an age limit— I don’t want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds”.
- Comment on Upgrade 1 month ago:
Trump would give it the face of someone he finds fuckable. His daughter from when she was
1614.FTFY
- Comment on Is America currently a Plutocracy? And is currently rounding the base toward an Ochlocracy? How did we let ourselves get here? Has any other country been through this? And came back? 1 month ago:
The piece missing from Idiocracy that makes it a comedy and not a prediction: an educated, wealthy class that profits from the ignorance of the people.
- Comment on Is America currently a Plutocracy? And is currently rounding the base toward an Ochlocracy? How did we let ourselves get here? Has any other country been through this? And came back? 1 month ago:
In my opinion,
Plutocracy pretty much.
Ochlocracy no.
The supremely wealthy in this country have an oversized amount of control. However, that’s mostly because we let them.
You only have to look at all the efforts that go into limiting voting in this country to see that voting still works. However, efforts to keep the citizens ignorant or limit their choices has effectively made the US a plutocracy.
The mob doesn’t get to have much influence now beyond what the wealthy elites are willing to allow.
There are some positive signs that American democracy isn’t dead, but I’m honestly not very hopeful. The vast majority of voters just want their bread and circuses.
- Comment on Do cops and soldiers go thru training to not freak out or get sick the first time they see an adult body? What about a kid or something? Or does it depend on the situation theie walking into? 1 month ago:
I work in Healthcare IT.
- Comment on Stories to laugh about later 1 month ago:
Only a little bit.
- Comment on Stories to laugh about later 1 month ago:
That reminds me of the most concern I’ve ever seen in my older brother’s eyes.
We were young. He punched me in the solar plexus, and I couldn’t breathe.
There was genuine concern when he thought he killed me.
- Comment on Do cops and soldiers go thru training to not freak out or get sick the first time they see an adult body? What about a kid or something? Or does it depend on the situation theie walking into? 1 month ago:
I’ve seen a bunch of dead bodies. You live long enough, people die, funerals happen. That’s kind of routine.
I also found a coworker who died at work.
I was his supervisor. He had taken Monday & Tuesday off to work on his house with his brother. On Wednesday I got a call from the police where he lived. He was supposed to meet up with his brother on the previous Saturday, but he never showed up. The police called me to ask me to check if he was in his office.
He had stayed late on the Friday and died there.
That workday was pretty much over at that point. I’m not sure I needed any kind of training to deal with it. Not really sure what form that training would take.
I had a week or two where I would see his body when I closed my eyes.
It was natural causes. He was in his sixties, and he was pretty much a functional alcoholic.
He had a GI bleed. We found out later that he had an appointment scheduled to see a doctor about it. From what we pieced together afterwards, he had been vomiting &/or shitting blood and hiding it. He should have gone to the ER, but I’m not surprised he didn’t.
I do kind of have most other managers beat when it comes to tough supervisory situations.
- Comment on Is the gripe against AI the same as CGI when first being used? 1 month ago:
To be fair, it’s nostupidquestions not nostupidresponses.
- Comment on On an open source platform, I'm supposed to be able to change my username/display name, right ? 2 months 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] 2 months ago:
Bummer. That sucks.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months 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 2 months ago:
I had to scroll way too far to find this comment.