NABDad
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- Comment on Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’ 7 hours ago:
Well, Americans are nothing if not terribly uneducated.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 hours ago:
I guess I’d recommend watching Banshee.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 hours ago:
In the years before the US existed, when the land was colonized by European powers, Europe had a lot of really annoying, prudish types who were a major downer.
Someone had the bright idea to encourage them to move to the colonies where they could live their prudish existence free from the naked bodies of Europe.
We ended up with all of Europe’s biggest prudes. Europe’s prudes have been trying to reestablish themselves, but they are at a serious disadvantage. Meanwhile, we in America have to deal with an overwhelming population of prudes that we’ve struggled for centuries to extinguish.
While we’re on the subject, Europe also found it convenient to dump their criminals here. So we end up with a culture in which full frontal nudity is unacceptable, but gun violence is just fun entertainment.
I say that as someone who loves some good violence. Nothing quite so enjoyable as living vicariously through some bad ass beating the snot out of the bad guys in a movie.
I never would have thought of myself as a prude, but recently stopped watching the series Banshee because the amount of gratuitous sex in the show was exceeding the amount of gratuitous violence to such a degree that I began to feel uncomfortable.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Also you need to love licorice and sauna, that’s a rule
TIL I’m Finnish.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Your concern seems strange to me.
Looking at “British” for example, you’re taking about four culturally diverse groups (English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish). “Ethnically British” doesn’t really make sense.
That doesn’t even consider the multitude of people from everywhere around the world who are British and perfectly comfortable identifying as such.
- Comment on How effective would sanctions on US by the international community be? 1 week ago:
Why would anyone bother with sanctions? Nothing a foreign government could do would be worse than what our own is doing.
Just wait it out and hope you manage to find a way to secure our nukes after everything disintegrates.
- Comment on Oops, something went wrong! 1 week ago:
You’ve got it backwards. Once every interaction is like that, you stop showing error codes.
I have trouble with my colleagues in IT doing the same crap. They come to me to ask me to help them with a problem, and they don’t have the errors!
- Comment on can you guess my favorite animal? 1 week ago:
Parrot
- Comment on Oops, something went wrong! 2 weeks ago:
I wasn’t saying it was a solution, I was just offering a possible explanation. I understand why someone wouldn’t bother telling the user what’s happening. For my code, I log everything that happens, and tell the user to call me. When I get the call, I check the log and use that to figure out what went wrong.
Distressingly typical user communication:
User: There was an error message.
Me: What did the error say?
User: I don’t know. Something about the problem.
- Comment on Oops, something went wrong! 2 weeks ago:
Users ignore error messages.
I have seen my users request support, proceed to demonstrate the issue they’re having, and click through error messages so fast there isn’t even enough time for me to say “WAIT!” Forget about being able to actually read even one word of the message before it’s dismissed from the screen.
They treat the error messages like they are just an annoying mosquito to be swatted away as quickly as possible. This despite the fact that the whole reason I’m standing behind them is so I can see what it’s going wrong and, you know, read the error messages.
- Comment on What exactly are they teaching in our schools? 3 weeks ago:
Obedience and conformity.
Same as always.
- Comment on Almost done 3 weeks ago:
I think I’m down to 2 hours and 12 years, 9 months.
Assuming it’s still possible to retire by then.
- Comment on Vin Diesel Claims Marvel Wants to Make a Groot Movie 3 weeks ago:
Perhaps. If the purpose of making the movie is just to make Vin Diesel happy, then they shouldn’t make the movie.
- Comment on Vin Diesel Claims Marvel Wants to Make a Groot Movie 3 weeks ago:
As I understand it, Groot has complete and complex thoughts and emotions but only three words with which to express them.
I can imagine a movie in which we’re hearing his thoughts rather than his words. It could be interesting, particularly if another actor voices his thoughts.
- Comment on Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never worked for a for-profit company since I graduated college. There is variation in non-profit employers, but there are some that are great places to work.
I got a job at a university after graduation (different university than where I got my degree), and I worked there in different departments until I took a job in the university hospital. I’ve worked here for more than 25 years.
The pay tends to be a bit lower than what you’d get at a for-profit company, but not as bad as some would lead you to believe. I’ve been able to buy a home, raise a family, and live fairly comfortably.
The benefits are very good. There’s a strong focus on education and growth, and work-life balance isn’t just a lie they tell people in the interview.
- Comment on fireflies 4 weeks ago:
I’m doing my part. Haven’t raked leaves in at least 20 years.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Sometimes an actual medical condition makes the difference.
At a yearly physical, my doctor noted, “no one could gain that much weight that fast without something wrong”. That’s how I got tested for and diagnosed with a thyroid disorder. It’s also the explanation for why I could never lose weight. I thought the reason I could hardly move was because I was just getting older.
For years I had been unable to lose weight by dieting. After getting my thyroid levels corrected with medication, I became more active. I started casually intermittent fasting, and I lost 30 pounds.
There’s also been research that shows your gut bacteria has a lot to do with whether you gain weight or not.
- Comment on People complain that it's poor design that humans eat and breath through the same pipe(throat). Are there any animals which don't though? 4 weeks ago:
Guinea pigs are obligate nasal breathers. They only breathe through their mouths when in extreme respiratory distress.
They are also absolutely adorable.
- Comment on I love the future. 4 weeks ago:
Well, the grifters don’t. The multitude of morons they’re scamming do.
- Comment on Whats the green shape in between the three circles ? 4 weeks ago:
It’s called a circular triangle.
- Comment on Are conservatives mad about trans people or they just mad they get walk around out of the closet while they have to leave the white sheets at home? 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely. It’s fascism. There’s no doubt. However, the points I mentioned are, I believe, the ones most relevant to the question of the post.
- Comment on Are conservatives mad about trans people or they just mad they get walk around out of the closet while they have to leave the white sheets at home? 5 weeks ago:
Check #5, #7, and, of course, #12:
- Comment on UK citizens say it is more important to support Ukraine than to maintain good relations with US, survey shows 5 weeks ago:
Absolutely. Please for the love of all that is good in the world, don’t side with the US.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Your parents wiped your ass. There’s no reason to be embarrassed about anything.
Just say it quick, like ripping off a bandaid:
“I need to see a doctor about a hemorrhoid that won’t go away.”
It’s not even in the top 1000 worst things kids have to tell parents. If you can’t tell them about a hemorrhoid, how are you ever gonna be able to tell them about the gay prostitute you accidentally knocked unconscious, thought you killed, and then tied up in the basement after they woke up while you were trying to bury them?
If a hemorrhoid is the most embarrassing story you’ve got, you have no reason to be embarrassed.
- Comment on Add a new wall and just ignore the light 5 weeks ago:
I want to see how they change the bulbs.
- Comment on Be honest. Your first thought was would this be an advantage or disadvantage during masturbation 1 month ago:
Yeah, that was my first thought too.
- Comment on What is the weirdest argument you’ve overheard? 1 month ago:
Your friend might be a Nazi.
- Comment on What is the weirdest argument you’ve overheard? 1 month ago:
Shouldn’t that be “So are we”?
- Comment on Anon watches The Terminator 1 month ago:
They cosplay as tough guys.
- Comment on Anon watches The Terminator 1 month ago:
No. That wouldn’t happen in a gun store.
You’d have to go to a gun show.
