adespoton

@adespoton@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The Germans are good at ending things, aren’t they?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not disparaging the dead or anything. But why does it seem in the US we are expected to feel sorry for a person who overdoses on illegal drugs? Didn't they make the choice knowing the outcome?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US, doctors were prescribing opioids for pain medication for decades, ignoring the addictiveness and decreased effectiveness over time.

  So someone who went in for surgery or had an injury could end up hooked on their pain meds… except the meds would become less and less effective over time, requiring larger and larger doses. Until the dose passed the “legal” threshold, at which point these people switched to illegal suppliers to survive. And eventually the doses got to be so large that their bodies couldn’t handle it, and they died.

  And then there’s people who got hooked on methamphetamines because they were a cheap but effective way to stay up all night and study for an exam when they were a teenager— and eventually they couldn’t function without them.

  And that’s just two common examples from two drug families, ignoring things like e-cigs (person gets hooked on something they didn’t even know they were consuming), regular cigarettes, or alcohol, all of which are legal but can also be addictive and deadly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did "Party time! Excellent!" come from Wayne's World or Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? Did one copy the other?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It all came from SNL and the characters they played on there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If trump appointments someone that doesn't last as long as Anthony Scaramucci do we measure that in fractional moochies or do we abandon the mooch system because it failed us?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a follow-up to my observation about appointments potentially terminating well before Trump is even sworn in?

  I think we landed on using negative mooches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you combine stair climbing with running when working out?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Any drawback doing too much stair climbing?

  If you do it before running, your muscles can be over-stressed at the start of a run, increasing risk of impact injuries. So make sure to give yourself recovery time after stairs before you do a hard run again.

  Done in this way, you can build up your support muscles which will actually decrease the risk of running injuries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you combine stair climbing with running when working out?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I do… my running route has flights of stairs in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MacBook Pro's Future: 2025's M5 Update Might Be Disappointing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is fine to me… 2026 is the year I start looking to replace my M1. I usually go 5-7 years between refreshes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is stopping a scammer from HTTPS certificating a "nonsense.ReputableBank.com"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The way DNS works, each dot is authoritative.

  So if you want the IPv4 for scam.legitco.com, your computer contacts the authoritative DNS for “com” and asks it for the address for legitco’s DNS. You then contact legitco.com and ask it for scam’s IP. Which it won’t have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To throw one more into the mix:

  “Left” and “Right” came from the UK parliamentary system where the representatives of the two major parties sat on the left and right side of the speaker of the house in the House of Commons.

  It just so happened that the ones on the right had conservative values (keep things as they are, don’t spend what we don’t have, local economy first, preserve traditional values) while those seated on the left had liberal values (let’s make things even better, spend for the future, improve the global economy, make life better for all our constituents).

  That was the starting point for what it’s all morphed into today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do the ultra-rich consume popular media?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they watch it as a comedy or an instructional video?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any word of the how the tariffs or taxes that will be imposed by next USA government affect consulting from external countries?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So… internment camps and deportations to keep foreigners off US soil, and tariffs to keep foreigners from working remotely.

  Have fun having to do ALL the jobs….

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would American culture change if the internet went down?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who pre-dates the public Internet and spent a lot of time dialling in to BBSes when most people thought personal computers were for nerds…

  The Internet will fracture, but not break down. What would happen is balkanization of the Internet, with physical areas running their own networks, and a bunch of poor “dark” areas. Some of those networks would likely have low bandwidth interconnections, such that digest data could still spread, much like the early days of usenet and fidonet.

  Local culture and tribalism would increase, and information would skyrocket in value. The rich would still have access to, and control, the information. The poor would be left out completely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what should I consider before buying winter running gloves?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed; after using various running and other gloves, I settled on a set of work gloves that are thin nylon weave on the back and dipped in nitrile on the front, similar to gardening gloves.

  They let the steam out while keeping my hands from getting too cold in -10 weather, AND I can use my phone with them on (although I don’t recommend doing that below freezing).

  I do 3 hour trail runs through the winter and they’ve worked better than my running gloves or my merino wool cutoffs. And they’re $3 a pair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are movies where the time loops over and over considered time travel movies?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s one: where do you put things like The Long Earth where it’s not time you step through per-se, but all the possible futures starting from the beginning of the universe?

  I really want to see someone make that series into a movie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is mexico not treated the same way as canada??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One part of this is history.

  Canada and the US were British colonies; Mexico was a Spanish colony.

  When some of the British colonies declared independence, they still had to trade with the colonies that hadn’t. People had relatives on both sides, the postal systems were integrated, indigenous people were mistreated in the same manner, and the list goes on. Culturally, the two remained very similar while the political systems differed.

  Stuff coming from England often ended up in Toronto or New York; both of these cities became hubs of publication.

  This is the way the relationship stayed pretty much up until NAFTA in the 1990s; books had already had over a century of being published in Toronto and New York for distribution across English North America.

  Mexico had a different history, and a different relationship with California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Instead of Mexico being a route for culture and European goods to enter the US, it was a source of cheap labor once slavery was abolished.

  Unlike Canada where the most influential Canadians lived right along the border, in Mexico the influential Mexicans lived further south, with itinerant workers living along the border.

  NAFTA changed the balance of trade somewhat, but it didn’t change the already established cultural norms or the places people lived.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is wearing crew socks over your leggings when training in the cold simply aesthetics or actually functional?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Less functional than leg warmers though. Leg warmers were for athletes, especially dancers, to keep their lower legs warm between their slot for warmup and a performance. They always came off for the actual event.

  Socks have the benefit of keeping your feet warm too, but you can’t pull them off quickly over your shoes.

  Track pants are for essentially the same thing for track and field events (and later for basketball) - a covering to keep you warm while you’re inactive that can be quickly removed once you’re ready to move.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you workout and run, would you recommend a merino wool base or mid layer for autumn/winter? or am I going to break it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends? If you want it to keep its size, softness and insulative properties, yes — wash by hand and hang to dry. But being wool, it binds to oils well, including body oils.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you workout and run, would you recommend a merino wool base or mid layer for autumn/winter? or am I going to break it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What type of weather are you running in? In my area it gets just below freezing in the winter, and I run with a full length compression shirt, then a technical running tee, then a fleece jacket. Works in wind, rain and snow between around 12c and -4c. Leggings and head/face covering are also often needed.

  Biggest thing for me is really socks and runners; socks are wicking insulated running socks with an ankle, shoes have GoreTex uppers to keep my feet warm and dry.

  Something to also take into consideration is how hard you’re pushing/sweating.

  Merino wool will definitely work as a mid layer, but you’ll likely overheat pretty quickly, and it’s hard to get the sweat out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do most celebrities/influencers & some normal people have those fake-looking teeth?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not painted or bleached… just its natural “off-white”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do most celebrities/influencers & some normal people have those fake-looking teeth?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Perfect teeth” to me look an awful lot like bad dentures.

  Give me a nude tooth any day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pluralistic: Antiusurpation and the road to disenshittification (07 Nov 2024)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is, once the middlemen gain power, they’re never gonna give you up. Music producers are a great example of this, as are telecoms companies.

  All the current SaaS stuff is similar; the offerings LOOK similar, but they’re explicitly designed not to be a 1:1 match, so you can’t just take your business elsewhere.

  We’re even seeing this play out in the streaming video market, where each player has its own differentiator, moreso than we ever saw with traditional cable TV.

  Standards are great, but middlemen have no incentives to not subvert them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My mind keeps coming up with tag lines for X….

  X:

  … where the fruits of piracy can be found

  … - rated best for quirky images

  … where you’ll find that special someone you realized you DON’T want to spend the rest of your life with.

  Anyone got more?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Until the public short message service no longer exists?

  This could happen in a number of ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the rare cases where mayo is the correct answer… it’s not that difficult to just whip up a small amount and use it. No need to have a big jar of it going rancid in your fridge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I tell Pennsylvania I no longer live there?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they’re sending political messages, the number is already confirmed as matching a PA voter. Testing STOP is the way to go. If that doesn’t work, THEN mark as spam. If it gets too annoying, set up a wall of shame on Twitter. (Almost) No politician wants bad publicity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you like/dislike about lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But what do you dislike?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I moved to Telus when Rogers bought Shaw and screwed up my billing plan, and were unwilling to be competitive.

  Both Rogers and Telus have capped plans and more expensive “unlimited” plans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where does a man get a proper shoe horn that will not break⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you ever worn a pair of Florsheims or a pair of riding boots? You can totally remove the laces and you’ll still have the same difficulty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So… doomed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where does a man get a proper shoe horn that will not break⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use a shoe horn. It’s stainless steel. It’s never broken and I’ve had it for over 20 years.

  I don’t use it often, but for those times when your feet are wet/swollen or the shoes are leather dress shoes, it’s the only way to go.

  Plus, anyone with high arches will need that extra assist. It’s not a nationality thing, it’s a foot and shoe type thing.