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- Comment on Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk? 2 days ago:
I felt this warning in my bones. I am weak.
- Comment on A secret, never-mentioned fact is that the people who voted for Zohran are also taxpayers. 1 week ago:
These comments are a shitshow. It has become not only acceptable, but the norm, to counter common sense argument with “your mom”.
Idiocracy was supposed to be a satire, we were supposed to be smart and educated, the kind of people that can’t be easily fooled. Every day we return to monke a bit more.
- Comment on he's SO handsome!! 1 week ago:
Became what he ate, one round mango birb.
- Comment on To what extent has Smartphones replaced Computers? Has Smartphones replaced Computers for you or people you know? Will Phones and Computers eventually merge into one device? 1 week ago:
A guy from work (millennial) has smartphone, tablet, and gaming consoles, but no computers at home. He works in IT tech support, and is really good, but the only computer he uses is the one at work. WTF.
I suspect that from time to time, he does need things only a proper computer can do, but he simply uses the work computer.
- Comment on Especially during this heat wave! 1 week ago:
She’s manifesting against self care, obviously.
- Comment on Moon Dust 1 week ago:
I think moon dust doesn’t qualify as an allergen because breathing sharp glass dust is not something people are supposed to do without harm. IIRC ithings that are intrinsically irritant, like smoke or pepper, don’t qualify as allergens.
- Comment on How do you do? 1 week ago:
How young a child? My cactus could outthink any newborn.
- Comment on Can confirm 1 week ago:
I thought chillet was a style of pillow, saw many google images with Pokémon, tried to refine my search… I ended with an image search page full of sexy and furry body pillows… Pokémon was a crucial part of that search.
- Comment on Another reason to love Linux 2 weeks ago:
Firmware update: am I a joke to you?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Link for the lazy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene
- Comment on Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth” 1 month ago:
I don’t get why producers see prequels as a safe haven, they nearly always end up trashing decades-old canon, instead of adding to it.
Enterprise was one of the exceptions, it fit nicely with established canon, and added to it gracefully.
- Comment on Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth” 1 month ago:
Except blue isn’t scary anymore after the Andorians. I can only fathom that they thought brown Klingons look like black Klingons and people will think that’s racist.
Oh how I wish people stopped separating humans in races and just stopped thinking in races and colors at all.
“There is only one race: the human race” - Robert Sobukwe, South African anti-apartheid activist
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 1 month ago:
Taped animals were the most interesting of the set.
- Comment on Anting 1 month ago:
It would be funny it it weren’t so sad.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Those are like the most superficial layer of propaganda. The real danger of propaganda is that it doesn’t look like it, it looks like other regular people making you support their interests without you realizing it.
Do you like engines? Do you dislike electric vehicles? Do you like guns? If so, when and where did those ideas come from? You weren’t born with them.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I think the real problem is, people don’t know how to manage their emotions, and they end up swaying them left and right.
Stop thinking with with your gut, take a pause to analyze your body response to emotions. Are you sweating? Are you afraid or is it actually warm? If you’re afraid, what specifically do you fear? Etc.
Propaganda, echo chambers, peer pressure, and even vicious cycles of self-pity, anger, sadness…will have a weaker hold on you.
Feel, but don’t forget to think.
- Comment on Tesla Stock Price Reaches 'Death Cross' Status 2 months ago:
I’ve always suspected these are attempts at stock manipulation. Release scary news, make the stock go down, buy, stock rebounds quickly as the scaremongering dissipates, sell.
The most mentally-challenged businessmen love pump and dump (and the reverse on this case) because it doesn’t require any talent whatsoever, just insider trading.
- Comment on This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual” 2 months ago:
That’s sad, because it’s not like he could go blind from the surgery. He’s already blind. Most persons would risk the surgery if there was a chance to see again, I guess he would too if he could choose.
- Comment on This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual” 2 months ago:
Frederick got the moves!
- Comment on This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual” 2 months ago:
Dumb question: can his cataracts be fixed (a routine surgery on humans) so he can see his mate is a guy? As a bonus, he could see food morsels without the need of olfaction.
I also wonder if the loss of olfaction and sight mean he couldn’t recognize the sex of a partner even if it was right in front of him.
I understand he might really be a gay tortoise, but he could also be gay by necessity.
- Comment on Make gravity your bitch 2 months ago:
Is that simulation in the room with us ri
WARNING: Unexpected false vacuum decay. Reverting current state. 3,245,333,345,728,345,876 recoveries until reboot.
us right now? Hurrr durr
WARNING: Unexpected false vacuum decay. Reverting current state. 3,245,333,345,728,345,875 recoveries until reboot.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 months ago:
Dude, tell me you haven’t been in a management position without yadda yadda etc.
They’re not genius or more valuable, their workflow is different. In development I could solve the same problem for days, and know the ins and outs of it; as a manager. When I pivoted to management, I understood I have people who know their shit, so I don’t have to worry about the details while I make sure they have everything they need to accomplish our compromises.
I had to learn to let go of the tech work so I could be more effective as a manager. I’d love to talk about Postgres optimization during dinner, but I can’t devote much time to that during the work day. That’s someone else’s job. I’ll just give them the resources.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 months ago:
This. OP is mistaken if he thinks all people had to carefully read all email. We techies love to explain things too much, but executives are administrators, they don’t delve into technical details unless needed.
My technique to get busy executives to answer my emails is being direct and brief.
- Subject: As concise as possible, and then more
- In bold, one thing I need from them. Asking three things is a sure way to get two unanswered things.
- Two line breaks
- In bold “Details”, another line break, and a bullet list of any info they might need, but not necessarily read.
That’s it. If they need more, they will ask you. If you need more, send three emails, or make it very clear in the first line that you’re asking three things, and make them a bullet list.
- Comment on Doggo of Theseus 2 months ago:
Okay, it’s not a dire wolf, but it might qualify as a concerning wolf, don’t you think?
- Comment on Disappointed 2 months ago:
BREAKING NEWS! AUSTRALOPITHECUS HAS JUST BEEN DE-EXTINCTED!
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 2 months ago:
Lobster: I can’t understand what you said, please piss it slower for me.
- Comment on Why didn't *I* think of that? 2 months ago:
Pro tip: build your house in an alternate dimension, and no one will make you pay taxes; although the commute is somewhat inconvenient.
- Comment on RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE 3 months ago:
I always hear the wolf howling despite it happening quite a bit later after that phrase.
- Comment on How would you do this Technically? 3 months ago:
There are telltale signs of AI generation in images, much in the same way image editors leave fingerprints of its use. As image generation improves, its detection will too.
It’s not much different than the arms race of spam or malware, for example, tools like wasitai.com have a pretty good detection rate right now.
- Comment on BYD announces charging tech that’s twice as fast as Tesla’s 3 months ago:
Darth Vaders’s main power was not lightning, but telekinesis. I’d bet he would have a greater output spinning one (or more) industrial generators.