Pandemanium

@Pandemanium@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Russia wants to pit the US and China against each other to distract and destabilize them both. So all of this is great for Russia’s bottom line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piece work entry unpaid⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can she ask the coauthors how they’re dealing with it? Maybe ask the bosses if they can open the uploads earlier, especially if everyone is having a hard time getting their work uploaded in time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't apple a popular ice cream flavor?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s less popular because so many people buy ice cream to eat with actual apple pie, or some other kind of pie which might taste weird with apple pie flavors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon applies for a job⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But then the restaurant would be paying for that service, not making money from it. They probably wouldn’t even be aware the data was being sold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon applies for a job⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol restaurants don’t have time for that shit. Who would buy that kind of data from a restaurant anyway? Even if you had more than 200 applicants a month that would probably net you less than $10.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is my girlfriend gaslighting me?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … Nah. As a woman, this is not a question I would ever think to ask anyone, regardless of how unsafe I felt. How does agreeing to murder someone AFTER something happens to you help you feel more safe? It doesn’t, at all. Besides, she could have called him from the Uber when she didn’t see him outside. It’s not like they just kick you out of the car immediately.

  OP described this behavior as “the usual,” which means this is a thing she does regularly. I would say this isn’t normal for most people to do regularly. If the location is actually not safe, then the conversation should be centered around “when are we going to move somewhere safer?” rather than “how would you murder someone if they hurt me” and especially getting into the specifics of “what would you do with the cat while doing the murder…?” I think this might be some kind of recurring “daycare” or maladaptive fantasy that keeps playing out in her imagination. There are certainly steps she could take to keep herself safe. But because she doesn’t, she feels powerless and then blames OP for her perceived lack of safety. OP cannot be responsible for her safety 24/7. That is an unfair expectation to have of anyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s Allies Say They’ll Enforce the Comstock Act. Believe Them.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because there’s nothing automatic about our law passing process. How many years is the right amount to strike an old law from the books? You wouldn’t want something like the abolishment of slavery to ever become automatically unenforceable. So now you need someone to decide on a case by case basis which laws should still be on the books… well, that’s what the Supreme Court is for. They don’t reconsider every law, though. It seems to be at their discretion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So if I walked into a restaurant that specialized in a certain cuisine (choosing the right one out of hundreds is a skill, right?) and wrote down a list of ingredients, and the restaurant made me a meal with those ingredients according to however the restaurant functions (nobody can see into the kitchen, after all), does this make me a chef?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this a boondoggle or is it actually useful investment?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see your confusion. They could have worded this better, but it’s two grants being split between eight nonprofit financial institutions. My understanding is these entities will lend that money to communities to do ongoing infrastructure projects. The goal is “turning $20 billion of public funds into $150 billion of public and private investment to maximize the impact of public funds.” I don’t know how that part works exactly, but to me that doesn’t sound like a handout. Of course I would hope they would be held responsible for any mismanagement.

  As for why they need to create a financial nework to do this: These kinds of projects can take many years and sometimes need ongoing financing. Apparently, when Obama tried to fund something like this, there was a lending bottleneck where I guess banks didn’t want to finance community infrastructure projects or something, so a lot of the funding just sat there until the grants expired. This is supposed to prevent that from happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tax time⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol I never said ignore it. Just don’t blindly pay without looking into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tax time⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a PSA, the IRS recently instituted some kind of AI algorithm that is re-flagging a lot of things that have already been resolved… a friend got a bill for $1500 which they had earlier sent a letter of apology for. He doesn’t actually owe anything, it’s just the glitchy algorithm sending the old bill out again.

  If you don’t understand why you owe more, don’t just give up and pay it. The IRS can make mistakes too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube Depends on Ads to work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve tried. Marge’s voice is like nails on a chalkboard. Most of the voice actors are so old they don’t sound like the characters at all anymore. At least they stopped doing the trendy celebrity guest of the week on every episode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I strange for not loving Everything Everywhere All At Once?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. Beef had an Asian cast, and I thought it was way more entertaining and emotionally provocative than EEAAO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I strange for not loving Everything Everywhere All At Once?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But those kinds of plots (as well as the whole multiverse thing) have already been done in lots of shows like Rick and Morty, Futurama, Marvel, etc. I never understood why there was so much hype to begin with - the movie wasn’t groundbreaking at all. It played out basically exactly how I thought it would, except with some incredibly unrealistic parental apology fantasy tacked on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My dog is on an antibiotic for Lyme disease and he will not sleep at night because his stomach is upset⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if you are in a place where you can get CBD, but it really seems to help my dog when he has an upset stomach. It’s often the difference between sleeping through the night and getting up every hour so he can go eat grass outside. A lot of pet stores sell it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anyone else? i made this to represent my struggle.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t work for everyone, unfortunately. Lactose might not be the only thing in dairy that people have a reaction to.