Professorozone
@Professorozone@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's the point of the "Airport Security" (aka: TSA) in the USA? Does the "Airport Security" ever actually scare away potential terrorists? 2 days ago:
Well as usual it’s all about money. You can look it up because I can’t remember the guy’s name but a former politician owns a substantial stake in the body scanners used in airports.
I think they’ve gotten better but I remember reports in the past that said they missed over 90% of the guns/weapons that were put through as a test. So I’m pretty sure it isn’t about security, especially when mail was loaded into the cargo hold essential unchecked( this could have changed too, my data is pretty old).
I mean none of it makes sense. You can only bring what 3oz. of fluids, like two or three people can’t just combine fluids. But you ARE spending $5.00 for a bottle of water in the other side.
- Comment on Selling as is. 3 days ago:
Seems a little high for a 2002 model. Is it 4 wheel drive?
- Comment on Excellent anti smoking ad 3 days ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 5 days ago:
I remember that. LOL.
- Comment on Is it ethical for a parent to distribute inheritance based on the child(ren)'s mental capacity (aka refusing to give an inheritance to child(ren) with reduced mental capacity)? 5 days ago:
I think it’s their money and they can do anything they want with it.
- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 5 days ago:
I really hate leaf blowers.
- Comment on Relevant advertising 🤪 6 days ago:
Many years ago I saw a report on an elderly woman that killed a bunch of people sitting on one of those concrete benches at a bus stop in Florida (of course). Apparently, she never hit the brakes. Only the resistance of the bodies, concrete bench and building beyond, stopped the car. She was essentially charged with a traffic violation. And it turns out this wasn’t the first time she had done something like this. This was literally decades ago so I don’t know if or how the laws have changed but I remember thinking at the time, if you want to get rid of someone and get away with it, that’s the way to do it.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Well, you kind of did when you said some people need to rent. Why would anyone rent to that someone for no profit? How would that landlord live? Government subsidies?
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
I also know at least one person who prefers to rent an apartment because he doesn’t want to mow the lawn or fix a faucet. He just called the superintendent.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
They may be what YOU are saying, but that is not what MANY here say. I’ve seen it many times that profiting on something essential for life is wrong/evil.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
I can see the evil in what these large corporations are doing but I have rented in the past when I was neither prepared for the burden of home ownership nor planning to stay in that location for a long time. If I couldn’t have rented what would I have done? I would have been essentially FORCED into owning a home or what, living in the streets? And what if you wish to move but no one wants to buy your house? More you are forced to stay out turn evil by buying two houses.
It’s ok to love your aunt. She didn’t make the rules she’s just living by them. If there’s a problem with the system, start at the top.
- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 2 weeks ago:
That’s why I’m very picky about donating. When I was at my very first job, pushing 1200 packages an hour at UPS for hourly wages, I donated to the United Way via payroll deduction. I was listening to the news in my car when I heard the CEO of United Way took his family on a $2M vacation. I had that payroll deduction removed on the very next shift.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
Yes. He murdered someone. Will I curl up in a ball and cry for hours if he’s never caught? Not so much.
- Comment on YEET 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t see that reference but the image is all blurry now.
- Comment on YEET 2 weeks ago:
Not according to Wikipedia. At Earth relative to Sun is 42.1 km/s = 94,175 mph. From the sun’s surface is 617.5 km/s = 1.38 x 10e6 mph.
- Comment on Am I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent? 2 weeks ago:
Nope. Name a company or even an investment that isn’t evil. Would you want to invest in it? If you tried to avoid all of them it would be a very difficult life.
- Comment on YEET 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on YEET 2 weeks ago:
Ummm, not sure where they got these numbers from but Earth’s escape velocity is not 7000mph and escaping the sun’s gravitational pull (leaving the solar system from Earth) is not 30,000mph. Respectively the numbers are approximately 25,000mph and 94,000mph. You’re welcome.
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 2 weeks ago:
And 10 at that!
- Comment on Subscribe now for more clicks! 3 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, you are out of keyboard clicks.
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 3 weeks ago:
Friggin immigrants again, I guess.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 5 weeks ago:
I have a “smart TV” and I plug it into my receiver and use it as a monitor. I use the term smart TV that way, because it is more than 10 years old when TVs were just starting to have these features. I should also point out that the receiver does all of the spying that the TV isn’t doing. Not sure what I’ll do when the TV dies.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 5 weeks ago:
I must say, your typing is flawless for a drunk person.
- Comment on Git good, son 5 weeks ago:
Or you could teach him. Better for both of you.
- Comment on I have a very strange question about washers, dryers and the Middle East. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s probably true of most of them. I haven’t really looked at mine.
- Comment on US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true? 1 month ago:
In their defense you would think just being against fascism might be enough. Turns out it isn’t.
- Comment on I have a very strange question about washers, dryers and the Middle East. 1 month ago:
My dryer is on the right, but the direction the door swings makes it better that way. If it were on the left I would have trouble moving the wet clothes from the washer to the dryer without hitting the door all the time.
- Comment on Is this what every election is like? 1 month ago:
I think most elections would have been as if a Kamala Harris ran against another Kamala Harris. In other words, two normal politicians so that the result wasn’t perceived as much of a difference who one. Also, in the past if a politician said things like, “you won’t have to vote again” or called the opponent names, he would have been shredded in the media and probably lost the election due to scandal. I mean a felon has never run for president before. Trump just somehow has different rules.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 month ago:
My problem is that most movies I like were never universally panned, they were just sort of so so. Movies like Fandango. I really liked it but I think it got like a 5.5 on IMDB.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 month ago:
Like most, I totally disagree. However, it had such great potential.
I feel the same about Valerian. The imagery was pure eye candy and then I watched it, so looking forward to a great flick, and what I got was… Valerian.