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- Comment on Stephen Miller: Secretary Kennedy one of the world's foremost experts on public health. He is working hard to restore the credibility of the CDC as a scientific organization 1 day ago:
He likes his roadkill rare and his brain worms starving.
- Comment on Is the whole DC "cleanup" pointless? 6 days ago:
I’ve read fucking history books, thank you very much, and I’m not the idiot you think I am.
The US has always been a fascist country at it’s core. You can’t get Americans upset about fascism. Not enough care to make a difference.
Child rape may be a crack in their armor. The true fascists I know are pissed about that.
Hammer at what works.
- Comment on Is the whole DC "cleanup" pointless? 1 week ago:
It’s not pointless. The point is to get people to forget that the president is a pedophile.
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 1 week ago:
I wonder where he keeps his collection of Epstein souvenirs.
- Comment on How come glasses for hyperopia/farsightedness (reading glasses) are there on the shelves, but glasses for myopia require a prescription? 1 week ago:
I asked my retired, optometrist wife.
She didn’t have time to respond fully because she’s dealing with a plumbing hardware supplier to get a defective toilet tank replaced*, but she sent this:
Those are for adults with presbyopia and near vision. The PD is standard for average adults. If we assume people will get the right distance prescription via over-the-counter means, then who is responsible if they buy the wrong thing and get into a car accident because they couldn’t see at a distance?
I had to look it up, but “presbyopia and near vision” means you used to be able to see up close, but now you’re old and you can’t focus up close anymore. As opposed to: you’re young, but your eyes are the wrong shape.
PD would be pupillary distance, ie the gap between your two pupils. One of the things they measure when they’re ordering lenses for your glasses. As has been explained to me previously, if the PD is wrong, it’s adding prism to the lenses, and headaches to your experience.
* She didn’t retire to become a plumber. We’re getting a powder room renovated, and the tank for the new toilet arrived damaged.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’d argue it’s too young, purely from a neurological development point of view.
Your prefrontal cortex doesn’t fully develop until your mid to late 20’s. That’s what gives you the ability to evaluate future consequences of your actions.
- Comment on the eyes have it 4 weeks ago:
Conch has seen some shit.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’m going to play devil’s advocate and say it’s not like there’s a big switch that is going to switch us from the barely decent Internet we’ve had to a complete shit show.
The time to talk about looming disaster is before it’s too late to do anything.
However, from my point of view, the Internet has been steadily turning to garbage for a long time. We’ve reached the point where it’s starting to take human society down with it. LLMs are just the latest turd in the pile of shit.
Of course, my point of view is from someone who’s been online since the early 90’s. It’s more a “get off my lawn” attitude. Some of the younger whippersnappers might not realize how far it had fallen by the time they got online.
It isn’t LLMs destroying it, it’s capitalism. LLMs and the hype surrounding them are just the latest symptom.
- Comment on Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? 5 weeks ago:
I get that it was a typo, and you meant to say “disciples”, but I like it better this way.
Like Jesus was studying for a career in sex work.
- Comment on Shaming Crayfish 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 5 weeks ago:
At the beginning of COVID, when our CEO decided all non-essential staff should immediately begin working from home wherever possible, our CIO declared all of IT to be essential on-site. Shortly after the meeting when the CIO made that announcement, people at my level (bottom-level manager) essentially all announced to our supervisors that we were going to refuse to abide by that directive.
My direct supervisor told us to relax and essentially said that the entire management team was going to sit the CIO down and have a come to Jesus meeting. Shortly after that the directive was reversed, and it was left up to managers to decide if their team could be WFH, hybrid, or fully on-site. It’s hard to stay CIO if the entire IT group is in revolt.
For many months after that, in the regular management meetings, the CIO would talk about how difficult it was and how everyone was suffering due to the requirement to work from home. He would talk about how many people told him they were longing for the day when we could all be on-site again. I have no idea who those people were, because everyone I spoke to thought WFH was fantastic.
I have heard that when productivity didn’t drop, the CEO asked, “Why are we paying all these high rents for office space if everyone is just as productive and happier working from home?” It was around that time that the CIO started to talk about WFH like it was a good thing.
At this point, there’s no sign it will ever end. We are allowed to hire people from out-of-state and most people are WFH full time. They’ve reduced office space to the point where we all couldn’t work on-site even if we wanted to.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
If it helps, fatherly love tends to be annoying and cringe worthy.
At least, that’s what we’re going for.
- Comment on How would you take 'stfu' from a stranger online, provided what you said wasn't meant to be funny? 5 weeks ago:
I think it still depends on the intent and the setting.
If the intent is to end the conversation, then it’s very rude. If it is just being used as an exclamation, then it wouldn’t bother me in a casual setting.
In a chat during an online game as an exclamation: no big deal.
In a response to a personal story shared during a church service: not a good look.
- Comment on How would you take 'stfu' from a stranger online, provided what you said wasn't meant to be funny? 5 weeks ago:
I think we’d need to know the complete context to judge.
I could say someone like, “my doctor says I’ve got stage 4 cancer”, and a friend’s reaction might be STFU, and that could be totally reasonable.
The only way it’s unreasonable is if the intent is to tell you to actually stop talking.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 1 month ago:
improving mobility increases production
Can you restate that in a way that makes it clear that the billionaire class will be able to utilize the project to rape and pillage society and increase income inequity? Otherwise, I don’t see how anyone can support it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This is probably not the kind of response you want, and it’s going to be a serious downer for everyone, but the first person I thought of was Kathy Change:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Change
Thankfully, I was not a witness to it, but I was working for Penn at the time, and I remember passing her dancing at 34th and Walnut many times.
Like almost everyone else, I paid no attention to what the dances were protesting. When I found out about her concerns after her death, it seemed like such a tragically doomed effort even back in 1996.
Of course, now we’re all hopelessly burning the entire world down, and I still don’t really expect anything to change.
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 1 month ago:
Oldest was told every day he was going to be murdered while walking home. That continued until he dropped his bag and told his bully, “today’s the day, put up or shut up.”
Youngest was blocking a bully to give her friends a chance to get away. He tried to kick her and got the karate demonstration he was asking for.
Middle child was harassed and mocked for five years from Middle School through high school. He spent years begging them to stop, because he didn’t want to hurt them. He finally told his bully he wasn’t going to put up with it anymore and warned him that if he said another word, he was going to punch him in the face. The bully opened his mouth once more, and my son closed it. No one ever said anything again.
Teachers did nothing. Schools did nothing.
Here is the quote they recited in every karate class:
“I come to you with only Karate, Empty Hands. I have no weapons, but should I be forced to defend myself, my principles or my honor, should it be a matter of life or death, of right or wrong, then here are my weapons, Karate, my Empty Hands.”
— Ed Parker
I see no conflict between the teachings and their actions. They have a right to defend themselves against harassment, and if asking for it to stop doesn’t work, escalation is necessary. All the bullies had the opportunity to just walk away. Some took it, some didn’t.
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 1 month ago:
There was some anxiety on my part when my middle child told me he punched his bully in the high school cafeteria. I had felt his punches through a heavy-duty punching shield, and I assumed it would lead to criminal or civil cases. However, when I asked if the bully was ok, he said he pulled the punch.
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 1 month ago:
I always knew shoes weren’t going to save my kids from bullying, so I got them karate instead.
The bullying still happened, until they decided it was time for it to stop. Then it stopped.
- Comment on Oatmeal 1 month ago:
I have a moral objection to naming guinea pigs after food, but…
Cheese Steak
- Comment on When is a community responsible for suicide to the point it should be shut down ? 1 month ago:
I could be wrong, but in the case of Mikayla Raines, the subreddit wasn’t necessarily discussing self harm, but was promoting online harassment which led to suicide.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Assuming the lenses can be removed and replaced, opticians should be able to cut prescription lenses to fit.
When my wife had her practice, we had a machine that could cut patterns using the frame. Then the pattern is used to cut the lenses. I’m sure it’s even easier today.
- Comment on Lorde Fans Are Complaining That Her New Translucent CD Won’t Play on Their CD Players 1 month ago:
People still buy CDs?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Microcenter, perhaps.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 2 months ago:
It’s definitely because you were raised on soda.
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 2 months ago:
I think our 2021 Honda Civic Sport looks pretty fancy. No one is going to mistake it for a Ferrari, but I think it’s pretty hot for the price.
I also wouldn’t fit in any real sports car anyway.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 2 months ago:
Duh?
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 2 months ago:
I had a class in college about Jesus. It was taught by a Catholic priest.
One thing he said that such with me is that people don’t see the real miracles.
When they talk about the miracle of the loaves and fish, people talk about how enough food for the multitude was created out of just what a couple people brought for their own lunch. People think the miracle is the creation of food. However this priest pointed out that the real miracle is that people who didn’t know anyone else there gave all they had so that others could eat. Everyone shared so that no one went hungry.
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 3 months ago:
Trump didn’t hire Dr. Fauci.
He was Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from November 2, 1984 to December 31, 2022.
- Comment on Finally. Its been keeping me up at night 3 months ago:
They should check in with Doc Hopper. Kermit isn’t the easiest frog to catch!
