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- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 22 hours ago:
My apologies. The downvote was on my post in under 15 seconds after I posted it. I had assumed the only one that would see it would be the person alerted to it. I guess Lemmy is growing up there are downvoters waiting to pounce instantly! We’re graduating to the big leagues now!
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 day ago:
Did you downvote me because I pointed out the latest research doesn’t agree with your position?
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 day ago:
I know for me, I’m having more difficulty because of failing eyesight. If you can’t see the word you can’t perceive you’ve spelled it incorrectly.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 day ago:
You might want to look at the latest research. Its not favorable after decades of data from “whole word” reading techniques education.
you should learn it through reading text and remembering how words are spelled.
Thats the concept of “whole word”, yes, but in practice it severely limits vocabulary and comprehension apparently. That real world data tells the tale.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 2 days ago:
I got made fun of for using it when pulling out of my moms driveway once lol
I believe the socially acceptable retort is “if you don’t like my driving, you can get the hell out of the car. If you’re staying, you can shut up”
- Comment on Time to yeet your smartphone into the long grass 5 days ago:
I just tuned in on a web listener. The first conversation I heard was about a guy in Gainesville Florida going to a picnic tomorrow.
Mostly they talk about their health problems.
The second conversation where two guys talking about the health problems of one of the women in his life. “She’s going to need an epidural!”
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 5 days ago:
In email, I always make my questions the last thing right before my signature.
- Phrase your questions unambiguously
- Bonus points for phrasing them with a binary response: “Do you want A or B?” or "Do you approve that we can move forward with the plan as stated here?"
- Only ask the questions you REALLY need an answer to. Every next question risks losing a answer you really need.
- Make self liquidating statements instead of questions “If you want a different path let me know. Unless I from you by the next Tuesday, I’m moving forward with what I described in this email”
If you write open ended or ambiguous questions you risk your audience having to take time to think about a response and they get distracted. Risky questions in this area are: “So what do you want to do here?” or “What do you think?”
- Comment on Can iPhones receive files via Bluetooth? 5 days ago:
I believe OP isn’t asking a question about which radios files can be transferred over, but rather is it possible to use Bluetooth File Exchange, which is part of the Bluetooth protocol stack, for receiving files on iPhones.
- Comment on From a purely political perspective, if you oppose the US tariffs as a US resident, should you buy or avoid buying products subject to tariffs? 1 week ago:
Are you having trouble with reading comprehension? Look what you posted to. I had stopped that conversation.
You had to throw your little dig in here though. I was initially concerned, then I saw your post history and see this is just your regular habit. I hope your got your desperately needed dopamine hit.
- Comment on From a purely political perspective, if you oppose the US tariffs as a US resident, should you buy or avoid buying products subject to tariffs? 1 week ago:
I don’t think we’re communicating with each other. I’m reading your posts and it looks like you’re responding things I never said, some even contradicting things I did say.
My advice applies to some, and it doesn’t sound like it applies to you. I hope you have a great RV trip. Drive safe!
- Comment on From a purely political perspective, if you oppose the US tariffs as a US resident, should you buy or avoid buying products subject to tariffs? 1 week ago:
Yes this is realistic advice. Two scenarios you may not have considered:
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Vacation - you can still take this advice when you make occasional vacations which frequently required air travel except choose an international destination instead of a domestic one.
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Home geography - A whole bunch of people live right on the boarder with another country and can drive or walk across without needing a plane ticket. Just because this may not apply to you doesn’t mean it doesn’t apply to everyone.
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- Comment on From a purely political perspective, if you oppose the US tariffs as a US resident, should you buy or avoid buying products subject to tariffs? 1 week ago:
As an individual, you take your purchasing power and can go to that other country and spend your money on services and consumables there, and not bring any goods back. That would be tariff free.
- Comment on Middle-Aged Man Trading Cards Go Viral in Rural Japan Town 1 week ago:
- Comment on Does it make sense to persue higher education after 40 years ood? 1 week ago:
Yes, do it.
I got my degree as a working adult after traditional “uni age”. I did so while still working full time professionally taking a couple of classes at a time, never having to go into debt for it. I had decided a degree was something I wanted, so I used my skills as an adult to make that happen. I am better for it too.
Doing higher education as an adult is MUCH EASIER than it was when I tried it after high school. So many “adulting” skills you take for granted make it much smoother. Time management, prioritization, understanding of consequences, desire for the value of the money you’re spending, and more.
But I know myself. I like to work alone. I have no patience to deal with group tasks. Never could. I don’t mingle, I don’t socialize. And I really have something against stuck up people, be them be teachers or fellow students. I’d get in trouble really fast.
Yes there are group projects, yes they are annoying, yes sometimes people don’t pull their weight and you have to navigate that. Even with all of that the group work was maybe 5% of all the effort put into the degree. Its not that bad, and you’ll get through it and achieve your goal.
I actually got an education as well as a degree. I have an understanding of so many topics that I hadn’t planned on that don’t even relate to my field, such as:
- Human physiology
- Micro/Macro economics
- Consumer behavior
- Structures of Ethics
- Communication Theory
- Video production
If you’re like me, you may have been carrying some amount of shame for not accomplishing your degree in your early 20s as is traditional. You carry that for DECADES and you handwave it away when you focus too much on it. You worry a bit that maybe there is something wrong with you as most everyone else could get the degree, especially after trying a few times since then without following through. You may even worry about your employment prospects when prospective employers find out you don’t have a degree. This may also have limited your promotion in your jobs you’ve held.
All of that disappears when you finish your degree. You are, in an instant, just like everyone else that got their degree (irrespective of when). Also, if you worry that others may question you later on why it took you so long to get your degree. Unless you volunteer it, no one ever knows. When I say or write that I have a Bachelors degree, they always assume I got it after high school like everyone else. If someone asks, I’ll certainly tell them otherwise, but no one ever asks.
So in conclusion: Yes, do it.
- Comment on If you live somewhere that bans abortions try switching wifi network 1 week ago:
Texas made wireless abortion illegal. Only back alley coat hanger wired abortions are available in the state now.
- Comment on Are color palettes subject to copyright protection? 1 week ago:
Depending on how that color palette is used, it could fall into part of Trademark law call Trade Dress. The “look and feel” of a product can be distinct to communicate to consumers what it is and what brand it is. The colors used are part of the Trade Dress. Think about iconic consumer products like iconic Red Bull energy drink can:
Its a skinny 473ml can with the blue and silver colors with the red and yellow Red Bull company logo on it. If you see this even if the letters were in a different language than one you understand, you’d know immediately this is a can of Red Bull. This is Trade Dress.
Does this mean that other companies…
- … can’t use a skinny 473ml can? No.
- … can’t sell energy drinks in cans? No.
- … can’t sell foil covered chocolate bars with blue & silver packaging? No.
- … can’t sell energy drinks, in blue & silver skinny cans? YES!
So the color palette by itself isn’t trademarked under Trade Dress rules, but the color palette is part of a protected Trademark usage.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’m not sure I’m understanding what you’re saying.
Are you saying you’re having trouble with dry & sarcastic humor or are you saying the events of the days we’re living in are so farcical that you’re having difficulty determining truth from fictional statements someone says to you?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You’re right, but I didn’t want to dive too deep with a throwaway internet comment. I’m using the word “profit” here loosely not to mean only dollars. The act of distribution can negatively affect the rights holder if the person violating the copyright/trademark dilutes, tarnishes, or misrepresents the rights holder’s IP.
I touched on this a tiny bit with my comment in there “or negatively affect the profits of the rights holder with your work using their name.”
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Your thesis missed one important element right here:
As if the ability to restrict the creativity of others is a natural right like the freedom of speech.
Practically or legally speaking there isn’t a restriction of creativity. Its a restriction on the ability to profit from that creativity or negatively affect the profits of the rights holder with your work using their name.
If you call yourself the Burger King in your kitchen, there’s no trademark infringement there. However, if you start selling you food and calling yourself the Burger King, then that is a trademark violation. If you want to write Twilight fan fiction using the characters and story lines from the books, you’re free to do so. There is no copyright violation. However, if you want to profit from your expansions to another author’s work, you have to rename the characters and setting and call it “Fifty shades of grey”.
There is a reason respect for copyrights is at an all time low.
I’ll agree with this though. Large rights holders have been able to get changes to law that exceed the original IP mandates. This means extensions wildly beyond what was reasonable before, or getting things protected by IP law that are questionable at best.
- Comment on is it likely that someone like this will change? what would be her possible mindset for doing all this? 2 weeks ago:
she thinks i’m disgusting or inferior because of my disabilities.
If she said this to me, this bit right here is the “full stop” where I would have cut ties with her and she’d be gone from my life. At best she may be younger, and this may have been said as a tantrum of someone too young. She may grow out of it, but its not my job to “fix” her. There is much better use of my time, effort, and empathy with anyone else but this person. Its also possible this is who she is.
The result is the same: I’d simply never interact or talk to her again, and move on with my life. There are literally billions of other people in the world that aren’t this person. I’d like to get to know those other people instead.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 2 weeks ago:
My question is not contextualized against the original example in this thread. You’re welcome to create your own line of questions to them if you like.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 2 weeks ago:
Can I ask if you are part of a group that regularly gets belittled, made fun of, or generally disrespected? Do you embrace those jokes and stereotypes that are at your expense and laugh along with them such as “That is TOTALLY us! We are crappy just like that meme says!”?
- Comment on No more Bosch for me.. 2 weeks ago:
Speed Queen brand still exists and is mostly what you’re describing.
- Comment on Taking huge cock is therapeutic 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t think a single word could be poetry, but here we are.
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to a therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 3 weeks ago:
Got it. Shitposting. I’m out. Enjoy your day.
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to a therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 3 weeks ago:
In another post you made here you said you had a silly original post to have interesting in serious conversation in comments. Are you just shitposting?
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to a therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 3 weeks ago:
I want money and want to have a mindset that will allow for a swift and easy accumulation
Almost nothing in life is swift and easy, and certainly not what you’re asking for here. You already know this. Since that’s the case are you okay with the possibility of going through your entire life still clinging to this idea without even getting close to it until you shut your eyes for the last time on your deathbed? I mean, its your life, but that sounds like a pretty sorry existence to me especially when there are alternatives available to you.
such as some kind of abstract ethics or whatever
You don’t need money to accomplish this.
- Comment on 'Captain America' star Anthony Mackie: 'We're lying to our kids' when we say success comes just from hard work—luck is key, too 3 weeks ago:
Here is a fun thought experiment. In any zero sum game there will be a Warren Buffet. And people will follow him or her around asking for their advice and writing books on it while ignoring all the people who did exactly the same thing that lost everything.
So for the experiment it’s a coin flipping championship with millions of participants. Heads you win and move on, tails you lose. All the coins are the same and totally fair. Someone will win far more than everyone else. People will follow this person around, invite them to speak publicly, write books, and so on. If they fail to understand the world properly they’ll buy into it and even tell people their secret to flipping coins successfully.
Thats an incomplete thought experiment for this topic and and in my mind it makes it invalid. Even your own followup statement (which i agree with) negates your thought experiment.
Don’t be fooled by randomness. Instead motivate against bad luck and position yourself to exploit good luck.
I agree with this but this is the opposite of your thought experiment.
I think of more of the concept of good luck (and bad for that matter) are harvested. If you make choices create conditions in your life that will give you more coin flips that others on both good and bad luck. If you get a college degree, you will have options to flip the coin for opportunities that require a college degree. If you don’t have the degree you don’t even get the chance to flip the coin. Keep in mind, I’m not saying getting a degree will absolutely lead to success. No of course not, but if the particular lucky opportunity in front of two people requires a degree and one person has it and the other doesn’t. The degree-less person doesn’t even have the chance at the luck.
The same thing occurs with bad luck. If you hang out with people that shoplift, even if you don’t, you run the risk of being unlucky enough to have to flip the coin when to be accused of shoplifting because of the actions of those around you. It doesn’t mean you’ll absolutely get charged with shoplifted even if you did nothing, but the chance increases that you will.
The article even covers lots of this for those that didn’t read it. Mackie wasn’t just some guy off the street that landed an MCU role. He did a WHOLE BUNCH OF THINGS that gave him more chances at luck.
- After graduating from the prestigious Juilliard School in 2001
- he performed in both on- and Off-Broadway productions
- and in Academy award-winning films, like 2008’s "The Hurt Locker."
- he worked his ass of acting: Mackie estimates he “put in 10,750 hours of training” before landing that life-changing job.
- He was proactive, too: He wrote letters to executives at Disney’s Marvel Studios over a decade ago in the hopes of landing a role in one of the studio’s popular superhero films,
Each one of these things and dozens more were his hard work that gave him more chances to flip the good luck coin. So while its true that someone else could have done all of these exact same things and still not succeeded where Mackie did, had Mackie not done these things it is highly likely he would never have become an actor we know of today.
So put the hard work into giving yourself more chances of flipping the “good luck coin” and few chances to flip the “bad luck coin”.
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to a therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 3 weeks ago:
A good part of therapy is having the problems accurately identified with possible realistic goals for how to improve your mental situation.
I need money and fearlessness, now give me that or at least ways to achieve it
Self diagnosis often leads to the wrong conclusions. A perfect example is that there are already many rich, powerful, fearless assholes. Not only is adding you to their ranks unrealistic but it may not lead you to a future where you are content with yourself. Therapy can help you find whats wrong, and help you with the tools to know what to do about it. They aren’t going to “fix” you though. If you’re going into it with that mindset you’re going to come out exactly as you went in. Therapy is work. Be prepared to put in the work. It can be difficult, but its always worth it. The alternative is what you are now or possible even a worse version of yourself if you go down the wrong spiral.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You’re right. I didn’t pick up on that. Thanks for that correction.
