DarthBueller
@DarthBueller@lemmy.world
- Comment on Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her 10 months ago:
Don’t worry, so long as you say the magic word “intersectionality” it will be okay. It doesn’t matter if progressives spend all of our energy on shoehorning every issue into racism and identity so long as we say “it’s okay, bro - INTERSECTIONALITY.” See? Couldn’t you feel the magic happening?
- Comment on Anon makes a dating app profile 10 months ago:
Just do what I did. Fuck around like Don Juan, marry a sexually incompatible person to stabilize your life, get fed up with incompatibility, divorce, do the same thing again, divorce, and luck into a new relationship with someone who knows how to both scratch your itch and not spiral your life.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
I’m just flat wrong. I’ll own it :)
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
I thought skoda is just Eastern European for VW? In 2000 all of the cabs in Israel were skoda which were just rebranded jettas.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
I have a metaboHPT Brad nailer and it was absolutely the most affordable I could find outside of harbor freight level, and at the same time one of my highest quality tools. Truly a joy to use.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
Green vs Blue.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
The Lidl tools give me some serious Harbor Freight vibes.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
Wait TTI does dewalt too? I thought dewalt was same co as Milwaukee.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop and for a Belgian or something to drop in here to say that they’ve had fully interchangeable batteries for the last twenty years, and then make fun of us for building houses out of wood because we didn’t clear cut our continent.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
Metabo
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
And sometimes the harbor frieght is a direct clone of the name brand but for inferior plastic parts where the name brand would have metal. You can often upgrade the knockoff to be a near equivalent.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
Maybe where you’re from. DeWalt is the premium brand, Milwaukee is the second tier from the same manufacturer.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
Disappointed metabo isnt represented. Used to be hitachi? I’ve got a pneumatic brad nailer from them and it’s both wondrous and affordable.
- Comment on inches plus coins equals metric system 11 months ago:
Since 2000, they’ve used all-American steel vs. our quarters, which are copper at the core. PS: I don’t really know if the Canadian quarters is made of all-American steel, I just like the ambiguity of the statement.
- Comment on How Long It Takes the Largest Companies in America to Make One Employee's Average Annual Salary 1 year ago:
Hey, maybe you would know… why are pharmacies/pharmacists being sued for the opioid crisis? I could understand suing pharmacies back in the day when pharmacists were able to dispense meds without a Dr’s Rx, but when Congress stripped pharmacists of basically all power except strictly following a written script in the early 80s as part of the war on drugs, it seems like modern pharmacies have two options with an opioid Rx. Do their jobs and fill it, or do their jobs and don’t fill it. And the filling it job seems like the more responsible choice. I am a lawyer and I really don’t understand the theory of recovery and I enjoy talking about it more than reading up on it. Is it just that the pharmacies have deep pockets?
- Comment on Voyager 1's Golden Record 1 year ago:
There is a cover on it. Also a stylus was included. Don’t know how much protection the cover affords, but at least they have a fighting chance of figuring out how to play the record since the stylus was included.
- Comment on Voyager 1's Golden Record 1 year ago:
I was expecting it to say “Sir, I do not have the intellectual property rights to play this mixtape to the public.” The golden record is like MLK’s speeches - we know they’re epic, and we’re not allowed to listen to most of it/them without throwing some cash around.
- Comment on Best of both worlds 1 year ago:
I definitely find myself hankering for a 4:3 monitor - I don’t care if its CRT or not, but are there any 4:3 LCD monitors that have a decent dot pitch? I’ve been spoiled by modern LCD tech and late-stage CRT tech - all the 4:3 LCD screens I see feel fuzzy fuzzy fuzzy.
- Comment on Could we use AI to update 4:3 media to 16:9? 1 year ago:
Actually, that was a wonderful summary. Thank you!
- Comment on Could we use AI to update 4:3 media to 16:9? 1 year ago:
Is the origin of “color timing” refer to a relationship between color and signal on ntsc or pal or something? Just curious about the word timing.
- Comment on Could we use AI to update 4:3 media to 16:9? 1 year ago:
Color timing?
- Comment on For some reason, I'm doubtful. 1 year ago:
Man that overdrive chip was off the hook. Took me from playing Descent frame by frame on my 486 DX 33 mhz machine to smooth as butter frame rates.
- Comment on Flame Wars: 1840 1 year ago:
Sounds more than anything like a couple trying to establish grounds for divorce back in the day when no fault divorce didn’t exist. You had to claim abandonment or infidelity or some other fault to give yourself standing for divorce.
- Comment on Windows: we noticed that you kept the useless search bar disabled since 2015, so we sent an update that re-enabled it without your permission 1 year ago:
I’d say it’s come a long way since Windows 3.1 and the days before PnP, to the point that I can actually clear my print que, where not that long ago clearing your print que seemed to be an option MS offered to allow us to experience the rage that arises from unadulterated powerlessness. Hell, half the time it even switches default printers based on whether I’m at home or the office. Now, if Adobe could make it easier to distinguish from settings that will only work in the printer’s driver settings, vs. the Adobe application’s print settings, we’d be halfway out of perdition.
- Comment on But my WiFi is just fine! 1 year ago:
4 Mbit/s baby! Now we’re working with power! Hachacha!
- Comment on there is Indeed a problem 1 year ago:
Careful, if you talk about how the USA’s H1-B visa program is a steaming pile of horseshit designed to allow corporate America to commit fraud and give away 80,000 skilled jobs a year to underpaid imported workers instead of paying market rates to well-qualified US citizens and green card holders, you might get downvoted. Folks here have trouble with balancing their hatred of corporate America with their hatred of the word “citizen” being used unironically.
- Comment on there is Indeed a problem 1 year ago:
Also, if you are the “first” in your family for something (first college grad/first grad school grad, etc.), you have a HUGE disadvantage to those who have family members that can give well-informed opinions and advice. This was especially true in law school - students with lawyers in their family did far better during and immediately after law school than those students (like me) who were first to graduate college, let alone first for an advanced degree. And by “far better” I don’t simply mean “daddy got them a great job straight out of law school,” I’m talking about better academic performance, better utilization of available school career resources, better networking skills, you name it.
- Comment on there is Indeed a problem 1 year ago:
Glassdoor has got to be the worst name for a job site. Evokes the phrase “glass ceiling” which is not something that anyone wants to have at their job.
- Comment on Wreck the economy because it only works for the billionaire class. 1 year ago:
I wasn’t playing a game, though. I was speaking in all earnestness. Peace.
- Comment on Wreck the economy because it only works for the billionaire class. 1 year ago:
The only boat fantasy I have is going in a speed boat from Miami to Havana on a whim, mainly because it’s illegal for me to do. And sailing.