Septimaeus

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some things I can do as an apartment dweller to fight climate change/deal with the coming effects?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I’m not aware of any designed to be permanent, since most films eventually have to be replaced. The easiest to remove use static cling without adhesive. Those can just be ripped off in one piece, if you needed to demonstrate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some things I can do as an apartment dweller to fight climate change/deal with the coming effects?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a combination of full mirrored rejection film (often not allowed in urban apartments) + prolonged intense sun exposure + certain types of sealed double pane windows which can lead to overpressurization of the interior chamber by both doubling the intrapane greenhouse effect while thermally insulating one side with film. Though IIRC this usually results in the glass perimeter seals failing (like a “blowout” which defeats some of the thermal barrier function of the double pane glass) rather than glass cracking (usually associated more with rapid thermal changes, such as from certain styles of compact vertical ejection window ACs).

  But the type of thermal rejection film described above is not so aggressive as that. If the window is double pane and has a lot of direct sun exposure, you could ask an installer or consult with a store that sells these window treatments in your area to get an idea of the risk given local climate and specifics of your window for peace of mind. They might be able to recommend some film specifications as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some things I can do as an apartment dweller to fight climate change/deal with the coming effects?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not the commenter above but can answer this. Film is nearly always applied to the inside of the glass. Most film types, if placed outside, are quickly destroyed by the sun and elements; i.e., will eventually peel or flake up and fall off. Exterior films are a specialized and generally more expensive product, and likely not necessary for the application described here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sometimes nature is a tattle tale⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So much similarity though. I mean their smiles are identical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bloomberg tells corporate lawyers: Republicans will soon control the US Labor Board. We expect them to be more employer-friendly⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surrounded by people working to prevent this. It made me realize that all the cowards and bots and edgelord babies on here saying “no one is doing anything to prevent!” are just doomers who should put us out of their misery, because if they were lifting a finger to help anyone but themselves they would have the faces of these ordinary heroes in their minds as I do and couldn’t bring themselves to say something so offensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Don't unionize, just get a better job." When you unionize, you ARE getting a better job.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Accurate. But to soften the blow a bit, two things often left out of the story that are sort of particular to this city:

  1. When you’re surrounded by third spaces and cheap food, studios can be more livable than elsewhere.
  2. Roommate living is way more common here since it’s the only reliable way to score sub-sub-market rent (like well below studio prices) which means a lot more options to choose from than in most cities. Also a useful hack for new arrivals who want a few months to scope out different neighborhoods before settling.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Taoish equilibrium

  While the most obvious explanation of the incoherency is that SW exhibits a mostly haphazard implementation of a philosophical aesthetic only loosely related to Taoism, an artifice on loan from the cultural fixations of the era, if we set that aside and assume the premise charitably in an attempt to reconcile, we arrive at an inevitable conclusion.

  The Jedi order of the republic represented a decaying and overextended ideal terminally corrupted by its marriage to the state and its crusades. The council’s inability to see the coming reign of fascism, a future “shrouded in darkness,” should have been evidence enough, but they were blinded even to that, and incapable of setting aside their Force goggles long enough to reasoning deductively about current events. A new order was thus necessary which entailed near-complete destruction of the old.

  That is to say, the council’s misunderstanding of the prophecy of “balance” as an event that could only increase their power and influence was just another symptom of their corruption. Their obsession with hierarchy and use of violence to maintain order in the galaxy through their various holy wars, for example, predicted the Imperial reign of fascist terror. Through that lens, restoration of balance required their apparatus be drawn to its inevitable conclusion and dismantled before the galaxy could begin anew.

  I know nothing of SW. I just made this up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel First Hakeem Jeffries in a nutshell. The Democratic Party needs new pro-worker leadership.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Til Bibi has a wojak

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC that’s why most labs require multiple samples but IANAMD.

  Transient elevation is possible without long term aberrant effects, though the result will have to be explained to future doctors and insurance underwriters who will want to know if it was due to poorly-managed / self-administered HRT or an unchecked gonadal growth. If neither of those things, and no other symptoms present, it’s treated as normal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The body of a contortionist while performing a trick. This X-ray also shows that a significant part of the spine does not bend.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Calcification of the chest wall is holding our contortionists back from their true cat-like potential.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the show Mr. Robot, just started watching I'm on episode 9, are all the hacks or whatever actually possible in real life?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen that scenario play out multiple times now.

  In every case management’s paranoia was a result of their inability to comprehend employee departure as anything short of personal betrayal and thus, drama ensued. Cringe-o-rama

  Practical takeaways (tips for non-IT knowledge workers)

  While avoiding toxic management in the first place is great, ultimately the best advice is to protect yourself in every case by learning better habits/hygiene: if possible, use only personal equipment for anything personal; otherwise, learn how to encapsulate personal activity/traffic effectively. Effective methods include portable or web-based encrypted remote to a home PC, lightweight virtual machine with a killswitched VPN that you run exclusively from an encrypted drive that travels with you, and so forth. Mistakes include: 1. Any personal web browsing — trackable in enough ways that it’s best to just assume no countermeasure offers complete privacy. 1. Storing personal data on disk — outside of security and privacy concerns, this has often been used by companies to claim employee IP as their own. 1. Personal use of workstation/client software — least problematic, but much of this is trackable at the system and network level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Title⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, I suspect this is voicing a much older consensus about effective storytelling and good art:

  If you want to send a message, use Western Union. — Frank Capra (director of message-heavy films like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It’s a Wonderful Life)

  Given his filmography, it’s pretty clear Capra didn’t mean that politics should be avoided when telling a story, just that the story should come first. The idea is that any “message” a writer might convey will naturally be embedded in the stories they tell, whereas writers who attempt to construct a story around a particular message tend to fail at delivering either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨not so free thinking now are we?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well-outside my wheelhouse mate, but since it’s been 3 days I’m likely all you’ll get…

  Patellar reflex.

  It’s a [muscle] stretch [-correction] reflex (sympathetic response) which occurs in the bones protecting the spinal cord (vertebrae depicted in OP) of many animals that have them.

  Your doctor activates this reflex on purpose by gently striking an exposed tendon beneath the patella (the knee bone) to observe the strength of the response.

  A lack of it (the joke above) is always abnormal and merits further investigation, as it could suggest neuropathy or injury to the central nervous system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith II⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah the heady experience of a virgin clown-sighting. We all remember. Bring on the rainbows, Little Bobby Tables.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith I⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait but… is that actually a thing in Kenya? I only have heard first hand accounts of school systems in a handful of countries in Africa (not Kenya, mostly west side) but consistently I’ve been shocked by either the severity of punishment for basically any form of failure or dishonor or for the prevalence of fear as the administrative motivator-of-choice. (One was just a few months ago I think in c/offmychest where a high schooler was describing their beatings for tardiness, bad grades, and other minor infractions. I think I commented on it.) Maybe she’s for real?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I LOVE EATING STIR BARS⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess was backseat of car. Parent has lab supplies back there, including a few 10-pack boxes of these, which also work as an improvised distraction/toy just like rare earth magnets or monkeys in a barrel. Unfortunately they weren’t checking rear view mirror because work it’s stressful, so kid put quite a few down without their knowledge. They didn’t even notice until day 2 migration to large intestine and rectum. This parent is overworked and under-appreciated and I’m so glad I’m not responsible for children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I LOVE EATING STIR BARS⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wherever their parent left them unattended, presumably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I LOVE EATING STIR BARS⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Children eat weird stuff

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The irony⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget the bread and the milk!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Glide Ratio Optimization in the Olympic Ski Jump via Cosmetic Penis Enlargement”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Red Bull gives you diiiiiiiiiiiiicccckk…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Glide Ratio Optimization in the Olympic Ski Jump via Cosmetic Penis Enlargement”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tuck and strap queen this bout bout to get real

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh you mean the two-syllable thing. That was more for the joke lol

  I think it works as a rule of thumb: if message is simple enough that context makes it obvious, two blinks will suffice. But no, it wouldn’t be useful as an actual lexical cypher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL. Doesn’t that mean it’s completely ambiguous?

  Well granted, it’s high-context communication. But I’m willing to bet you’d know what I meant if you were trying to merge and I double-tapped lights.

  Three would make me wonder if it’s an ongoing flashing light.

  Yeah IME three is less general, usually reserved for a problem or need for caution, like if someone is driving at night with all their lights out or a visible chassis/drivetrain issue, or there’s a cop/wreck ahead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d certainly interpret it that way if it fit.

  The only issue I’d see with that convention is that in many scenarios in which you’d use it — other driver makes room for you to merge, brakes early to let you turn left, and so forth — you (should) already have half of the hazard lights actively repeating, which could muddle the message. But otherwise I like it.

  Another random convention I learned early on was rapid triple-tap beams (i.e., like a strobe) = “speed trap ahead”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rock on. Were there any instances of local parlance you found peculiar or surprising?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mount one of these in your rear window? Neon style LED wall art script saying “chill”

  Real answer: double tap a light (beams, brakes, or hazards) because most things you would say to them are two beat’s long:

  • “Thank you”
  • ”Sorry”
  • “My bad”
  • ”Go on”
  • ”Nice drift”
  • ”You drunk?”
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every example of human interest profile targeting functionality that humanity has ever invented, even if it begins as a way of legitimately improving the user’s experience, eventually is gutted and retooled to cyberstalk and pimp them out to voyeuristic clients.

  The clients? Mostly rich pay-per-view incel corporations that could never hope to reach their desired audience organically, much less hold their interest, so they are absolutely willing to pay for non-consentual attention control.

  Once we reach this phase, your pimp has less and less interest in delivering on promises they made to you a long time ago about relevant content. They know you’ll keep giving them juicy data to help pair you with clients that they can prove have the best chance at manipulating you and getting what they want from you.

  So yes, you’ll probably find that the convenience you could once purchase by giving them more of your data will slow. Ultimately, all it will purchase is more intrusive advertisers stalking you everywhere you go.

  Your idea of sticking to DDG sounds like a better option

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh look, a fiscal conservative. I remember them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know. I was clowning on the dude mad about the arrows by offering one of numerous other meanings outside Boolean Algebra that sounded even more absurd in that context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French Anatomy⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I know the video, it is mildly disturbing mostly due to the sudden death. The stallion stiffens and collapses after the mare brains him and the person filming happened to capture a lot of detail of the dying CNS including the stallion’s face.