b3an
@b3an@lemmy.world
He/Him (CIS Male) 🏳️🌈|🌍| ♻️
- Comment on in case of emergencies, light it. 1 week ago:
Aye lad. Now, have ye ever heard of transparent aluminum?
- Comment on Caption this. 2 weeks ago:
“René Descartes’ Model of Sensory Perception and the Pineal Gland”
This classic illustration from Descartes’ “Treatise of Man” (1664) attempts to explain how visual perception and physical movement occur via the nervous system. Light rays enter the eyes, converge within the brain, and transmit signals through hollow nerves to the pineal gland — which Descartes believed was the seat of the soul and the center of thought and consciousness. The dotted lines depict how stimuli trigger motor responses, such as raising a finger.
- Comment on Tried to order a part before the tariffs 1 month ago:
Right?? My first thought was, damn. That’s some good customer service 🤯
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
Fuck my student loans then. Seriously. Fuck you. Fuck you Drumpf. Fuck you. Aaahhhh! Asshole!
- Comment on Jon Stewart lacerates hand on air, for the second time. 1 month ago:
I love stuff like this! I saw this on my radar recently, It’s gross but cool! Engineers create new glue that mimics mussels and mucus to prevent bacterial buildup
Now engineers from MIT and Freie Universität Berlin have developed a new type of glue that combines the waterproof stickiness of the mussels’ plaques with the germ-proof properties of another natural material: mucus.
“Depending on how much cross-linking (chemical bonds) you have, we can control the speed at which the liquids gelate and adhere,” Haag adds. “We can do this all on wet surfaces, at room temperature, and under very mild conditions. This is what is quite unique.”
- Comment on Are "Lifetime" Cloud Storage Plans scams? 1 month ago:
I just dumped pcloud. Also a surprising increase in fake pcloud emails trying desperately for me to click them. My email provider flags them over real pcloud ones. Still. Someone is spamming the shit out of me for that. I’d say pcloud isn’t worth sticking with.
- Comment on Many workers would take a pay cut to work from home — some would forgo at least 20% of their salary 2 months ago:
They’ve saved a lot of money on floor space. A LOT of money.
- Comment on Many workers would take a pay cut to work from home — some would forgo at least 20% of their salary 2 months ago:
No, that’s the stupidest shit. Why should you take a cut in pay?? What warped mind fuck world are you living where you think you have to give up a fifth of your wages for this right??
- Comment on Many workers would take a pay cut to work from home — some would forgo at least 20% of their salary 2 months ago:
But the inconvenience of all that shit sounds horrible and unnecessary. Fuck commuting in traffic spewing CO2 to line some asshole’s pocket who doesn’t want me to have a normal standard of living.
- Comment on Many workers would take a pay cut to work from home — some would forgo at least 20% of their salary 2 months ago:
Really? I felt I should be paid more since I’m not getting electricity, coffees, internet, heat, subsidized by my job for the increased usage.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I mean. It’s different from most hotels I’ve ever seen. lol. I would be surprised that you guys legit didn’t notice…
- Comment on U.S. Employee engagement sinks to 10-year low 2 months ago:
“What if I can’t have gluten, sugar, or anything ‘meat’; surely you’ll reward all your employees equally, right boss?”
- Comment on The cost of college in USA makes no sense anymore 2 months ago:
Same, but likely you can demonstrate knowledge and understanding. We have some support from India, and it’s like… really hit or miss. One guy might know a lot (then leaves to better paying job). Otherwise with the low salary the quality is barely acceptable. Difficulty communicating, and often simple computer tasks are still elusive. So if you have and can demonstrate good knowledge and experience of the technologies, you can get a foot in the door.
Never ever stop self-educating in your field.
- Comment on The cost of college in USA makes no sense anymore 2 months ago:
Have to chime in. I never completed my CS degree because it got too expensive, and I have natural aptitude for computers. I ended up having to work to survive before I could even get the degree. Literally if I hadn’t taken loans at the time I would have been on the streets. I’m sure it’s harder now than when I did it in 2006.
The degree may have kept me from better jobs, but I kept applying out of my league because I have EXPERIENCE and KNOWLEDGE which you can’t fake. Someone eventually gave me a chance. Now I work there full time with benefits and I still never finished my degree. It was years of struggling. I even re-trained in medicine at the time and still had trouble getting PAID.
So my original like 40ishK is now 60K, and no degree. Cool! Right? That was only for 2-3 years of school. If it had actually been affordable instead of a pig slaughter for cash, I would have got the degree.
Hindsight, it was good experience learning in college. Not worth the cost though. Especially if you can’t finish. The majority of the money went to tuition, required multi-$100 books, gym fees (forced to every student), parking fee which didn’t guarantee parking availability, and many many other nickel-dime expenses they strong arm students over (fees). I didn’t have time to work as a full time student so whatever was left, went to rent. Food. Electric.
It’s very hard to do this without support from family, and inflation and everything else is worse today. So yeah.
Learn from my experiences if you can. Maybe it can all be worth it for me, if someone does just that. Bless you all and your journeys.
- Comment on Did Apple kill iTunes for windows? 3 months ago:
iTunes and such wasn’t working with accounts using self provided safety keys. I finally got Apple Music and iCloud in Windows 11, then promptly installed Cider. It’s not perfect but I can scrobble stuff and it still has lots of features
- Comment on This Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reason 3 months ago:
Ah there is a logic within the madness. Does this make me mad too, or was I crazy to begin with. He cries because he does not know.
- Comment on This Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reason 3 months ago:
Maybe they’ll further alphabetize it after sorting by color… hahah right. What a mess
- Comment on 1+1= 4 months ago:
Sweetie 🍯
- Comment on Two of the best VR games ever just launched, and you need to play them – my favorite Meta Quest 3 games and apps for October 2024 5 months ago:
Batman: Arkham Shadow Vendetta Forever
- Comment on I bought a freeze dryer so you don't have to [1:00:14] 5 months ago:
Not sure I can commit to an hour of this but I’m curious why shouldn’t someone, per the video?
- Comment on Volkswagen to shut three factories, axe jobs and cut pay by 10%, says union 5 months ago:
- Comment on Volkswagen to shut three factories, axe jobs and cut pay by 10%, says union 5 months ago:
So what is going on really? On the one hand we have this action in Germany. What has caused it in the first place?
Second, how does this factor in with EV? Meaning, how is the entire industry doing so poorly when we are in the cusp of EV world and battery tech and smart grids.
So frustrating. I kind of want a general overview. For example I’m aware of the EV pressure with China for example. But then with the changes is regulatory, how haven’t companies like Volkswagen not side-stepped to adapt?
I’m probably oversimplifying, don’t throw things. I’m trying to grasp the big picture.
- Comment on Probably 5 months ago:
At first I thought that was part of the transcription too and my brain was trying to make some sense of it. And for some reason threw at me:
San…Di…Ma…s High School football rules!
- Comment on Day 92 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 5 months ago:
Space Engineers. 👩🚀🛠️
There was just dropped an update, and those come only like every six months and thus are big ones. Also next week is their anniversary I think, and they teased something is coming.
Anyway, it keeps alive that child in me who played with LEGOS, except now as an adult I get the simulation of the environment and the brutal laws of physics like gravity and energy/fuel, and logistics, automation, etc. Mods make it even more expansive and customizable.
It’s the one game I come back to over and over again through the last decade. I take breaks of course, months at a time even. But I never stop wanting to play with Space LEGOS!
- Comment on Day 92 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 5 months ago:
It would be fun to watch you, by I totally understand. I don’t stream because I play only one game really and it’s so nerdy. Ahaha
- Comment on Day 92 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 5 months ago:
Does this guy stream stuff or just post?
- Comment on Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' 5 months ago:
Yeah… it’s also a new law in California is it not? Kill shot? Hahahaha. Right. Who wrote this headline xD
- Comment on CEO Pay Has Risen 1,085% Since 1978, But for Workers? Just 24% 6 months ago:
Existential crisis: Activated
- Comment on CEO Pay Has Risen 1,085% Since 1978, But for Workers? Just 24% 6 months ago:
So we should be paid what, 3x more? Or am I too reductive? I’m trying to understand how much we SHOULD be getting then (in 2020 btw), and now more actually, as shit got expensive af thru Covid and is still lingering today.
- Comment on Just a reminder... 6 months ago:
Those things still apply to robots too.
