Professorozone
@Professorozone@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is it generally safe to walk through a field of cows? 6 days ago:
Don’t know anything about this from personal experience, but I thought I heard a report a while back about a fairly large number of hikers in the UK injured or killed by cows. So I’m guessing, not as dangerous as crocodiles but still best to be careful.
- Comment on Objectivity 1 week ago:
I meant there definition in graphic from the OP.
- Comment on Objectivity 1 week ago:
That’s not how I define science.
- Comment on Marla Maples watching her stepdaughter give her husband a lap dance (1996) #SaveTheChildren 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, missed the prefix STEP in the title. But, do you think 3 years old would be too young for Trump to make a play for?
- Comment on Marla Maples watching her stepdaughter give her husband a lap dance (1996) #SaveTheChildren 4 weeks ago:
Ahh, I somehow completely missed that it said, “STEPdaughter.” I apologize unreservedly.
- Comment on Marla Maples watching her stepdaughter give her husband a lap dance (1996) #SaveTheChildren 4 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s not what you meant, but if this is Marla Maples daughter, then that would be Tiffany Trump, not Ivanka.
- Comment on Falling 4 weeks ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on Meet my new puppy: Ass! 5 weeks ago:
Oooooo, I just ate a Kind bar.
- Comment on Anyone else? 1 month ago:
Does Will Weaton count? Wesley Crusher want supposed to be hated, it just turned out that way and Weaton took a rasher of shit for that role.
- Comment on Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn? 2 months ago:
Mine’s the same. For some strange reason, full of hot chicks. I also don’t watch shorts. Maybe they know I’m male and figure that will draw me in.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Did you mean "… For people who earn 100k, and are living at their means, it WOULDN’T be a big jump…? "
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I wasn’t actually replying to you, at least not intentionally. However I do see what might be considered a flaw. I can see some part time jobs only paying say $15k a year. In your scenario the employer would only have to pay those workers $3k a year. This would be great for the employer, cheap labor and it would be easy to kick someone to the curb because he only has to cough up say $4k a year to attract a new employee. It sounds like this would reduce his social security outlay too, unless your suggesting employers have to pay a base SS tax on $1k a month?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I own a house. I don’t think $12k is going to keep me from starving or more importantly, I’m no more likely to walk out on a job once I reach a certain income because it just isn’t enough. It may work if your flipping burgers.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Not sure I really understand that. So I’m working and making a decent wage, say $100k/yr. Now for some reason I can easily tell my employer to take a hike because $12k of it is guaranteed? How does this suddenly make $110k jobs available to switch to?
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 5 months ago:
Thank you for the suggestion. It looks like this is a two year old phone. I’m a little concerned about security updates.
- Comment on How does a SO feel different from a very good friend? 5 months ago:
OK, perhaps I was exaggerating a bit. Perhaps it’s more like 10 to 12, but the point still remains that you have to occupy the rest of that time and it’s best if you have a good friend to do that with.
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 5 months ago:
I think the US is more limited than the EU. Right now I only see those and older phones are out unless you have a liberal attitude toward using a phone with no security updates.
- Comment on How does a SO feel different from a very good friend? 5 months ago:
Opinions vary, but it’s my opinion out of all the things two people need to be compatible, friendship is by far the most important. At best sex only lasts, what eight to ten hours, the rest of the time you need a friend. When you are younger, you may be doing it all over the house but when you’re older things typically slow down or there may be times when someone is injured, tired, stuck at work, whatever. In those times understanding, compassion, commiseration and cooperation are important. If your partner is your best friend, you’re never lonely and you can share things. It’s so much harder when you have very little in common with your partner.
Guess I’m rambling now, but this is how I see it.
Good luck to you.
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 5 months ago:
Yeah, but I’m android. I don’t hate on apple but I don’t want to change my whole ecosystem.
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 5 months ago:
Yeah thicker would be nice but only if it got smaller, too, otherwise it doesn’t fit in my pocketses.
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 5 months ago:
Yeah, I seem to only have four choices atm, Google pixel 8, galaxy s23, Asus zenfone 10 or an iPhone. They are all expensive and I don’t want the iphone because I would have to change ecosystems. If prefer NOT to buy a new phone but mine keeps messing up in the middle of a call and requiring a reboot.
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 5 months ago:
For me it’s the small size. They are so big now I can’t fit them in my pocket or use them with one hand.
- Comment on What makes a bicycle so expensive? 7 months ago:
In a nut shell, I had an older but better built bike at work I used to get around campus. Someone borrowed it and did not bring it back. Eventually it was found in a work area where it was destroyed by a steal beam they dropped on it. The construction supervisor gave me $100 to buy a new one, so I went to Walmart. It appeared that they were all built the same. I noticed the warning sticker on the bikes were identical between makes leading me to believe they were just the same cheap bikes with different brands. So I bought the one that did not have coaster brakes. I hate coaster brakes. I still have it and use it as a spare bike. It’s trash, despite being the most expensive bike I’ve ever bought. My current bike was given to me by a friend who was not using it. She said it was a $400 bike. Anyway, I digress, but that’s why I bought such a cheap bike. The circumstances were just right. Don’t want an expensive one just sitting outside at work. Plus I could use a company truck to go get it during lunch, instead of shopping around for a better used one.
- Comment on What makes a bicycle so expensive? 7 months ago:
To be fair, the OP did say “some brands” not ALL bikes. Also, I have one of those Walmart bikes and I pity the foo who owns one. On my very first ride, my pants tore the chain guard off. Pretty sure it was there to protect my pants. Then when I came to a stop, the seat exploded. Springs, nuts, bolts and washers went flying. I had to gather them up again and try to piece it back together to keep the seat usable. It’s ridiculously heavy too. If you can’t afford a nice new bike, I recommend buying a decent used one at a garage sale or something. I don’t agree that they will serve the vast majority of people just fine.
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 7 months ago:
It’s probably a combination of many factors already mentioned. If like to add to it the idea that our food supply has changed.
- Comment on Why is there always that one part of an urban neighborhood where the 5G cell coverage suddenly ceases to exist, even though you can clearly see a tower nearby? 9 months ago:
Antenna engineer here. You are correct. Also there is something called multipath. Because urban environment was mentioned…This is where signals bounce off of objects and combine constructively or constructively creating dead spots. There are many more reasons but most of them have been covers by others.
- Comment on Don't Make Me Tap The Sign 10 months ago:
I’ll say it and I’m not a liar.
Upvote= needs to be seen more. (I could disagree strongly but feel others should see it. )
- Comment on People who back into parking spots: Why? 10 months ago:
Like most everyone here, I feel that I can see the parking space better when I arrive than the roadway when I’m leaving. Seems safer. But the best is pulling through. Win/win!
- Comment on Almost all remote-work news is negative now but was positive in the beginning of the pandemic. Have you noticed this or am I going crazy? 10 months ago:
This is why it costs a lot less than people think, to retire. A lot of the costs of working go away.
- Comment on Almost all remote-work news is negative now but was positive in the beginning of the pandemic. Have you noticed this or am I going crazy? 10 months ago:
I’ve never worked from home, but it seems to me that even if everything else were kept equal, you just saved an hour and a half commute plus the cost of doing so, every day! When you add in the lower cost of food and healthier diet eating at home and a whole host of other advantages. It’s a huge win! Congrats.