foggy
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- Comment on Is it expected to tip for furniture deliveries? 1 week ago:
Yes. Absolutely. There’s a fuck ton of things you shouldn’t tip for. This is not one of them.
- Comment on Blocking trash newspapers in Apple News+ just disabled the link but doesn't free up screen space. 1 week ago:
Them’s the rules.
- Comment on Blocking trash newspapers in Apple News+ just disabled the link but doesn't free up screen space. 1 week ago:
Hey, looks, a reason to uninstall Apple News+
- Comment on This scammer pretending to be Greenpeace 1 week ago:
That’s fucking hysterical.
The balls on that guy to try to float Bitcoin as good for the environment.
He’d be better off impersonating OPEC.
- Comment on What positive things do you expect from Trumps upcoming four years? 1 week ago:
The end of daylight savings.
Fuckhead almost did it.
- Comment on Many TV stations put a banner ad in the picture these days 2 weeks ago:
Maybe in news it is. My knowledge comes from working with a 3rd party for ESPN. I know ESPN refers to this as the bug. There are “bug operators”, and boy howdy does the producer yell at them when they’re not on their toes.
- Comment on Many TV stations put a banner ad in the picture these days 2 weeks ago:
That’s actually called a “bug”—not the software error kind, though. In sports broadcasts, we get the classic “score bug,” always been there, usually small and tucked in a corner to keep things low-key. But what you’re seeing here, this whole bottom-of-the-screen takeover, is way more like those old-school news channel bugs from back in the ‘90s or early 2000s. You know, the ones that would stretch across the screen with stock prices, news updates, whatever they wanted to throw at you, right underneath the main action. It’s more intrusive for sure, but not anything wild—it’s actually been around for decades.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Tech is a wild ride.
Index funds are boring but not stable.
S&P 500 is always a good bet.
- Comment on Is there as much enthusiasm for Trump online today as eight years ago? 2 weeks ago:
I dont know I think the crowds have been mostly siloed away from each other.
Try going on truth social, if you dare.
But who knows how much of that is bot traffic and LLMs.
🤷♂️
- Comment on What is your pet peeve in 2024? 2 weeks ago:
Fascism.
- Comment on Should we neuter everybody? 2 weeks ago:
No you’re right it’s called extinction.
- Comment on If Trump wins the election thru fraud how can the democrats refute it and prove they won? Or will it just be like another Jan 6 and four years of whining like Trump? 2 weeks ago:
If there is another jan 6th it will be a tragedy.
There will be many more casualties.
The incumbent office won’t hesitate to act like Trump did, tactfully. It will be a massacre.
That’s all I know.
- Comment on Why should we have to continue seeing people's replies when we block them? 4 weeks ago:
If I block someone, I want to see [blocked] instead of what they are saying. I want to receive no notifications for this. I should be able to view what other people in that comment thread are saying. I should be able to toggle the ability to read these people’s replies, but not reply unless I unblock.
They can still see my shit. That’s fine. Just stop making me see theirs in my inbox. And stop blocking the rest of the conversation where other good folks are continuing to discuss something I was interested in.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Crosses?! No, those are lowercase it’s, for “Time to leave.”
- Comment on If I was selling a bag of flower and sugar to a CI who thought it was meth or coke can I get in trouble? How or why when I am selling a legal substance? 4 weeks ago:
You can get arrested, you could be detained under a reasonable articulable suspicion of having committed a crime.
As to whether or not that would ultimately lead to trouble? No. Could it still cost you money, time, etc? Yes.
- Comment on Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks? 5 weeks ago:
Yes. And if you interview for an 8 to 5 job, you tell them that it sounds like a crock of shit and you don’t want the job.
So sick of that shit. Fuck any employer who pulls this shit.
- Comment on What happens when the US runs out of SSNs? 5 weeks ago:
Nope.
If you got your social Security number before 2011, your first three digits represent the geographical location you were born in. You share those three digits with each of your siblings who were born in the same geographical location before in 2011. Go ahead and ask them.
If memory serves, and all we would really need to do is check a Wikipedia article, the middle two digits were done in some weird sequence, and then the last four were pseudo-random.
So basically, any people receiving their social security number any multiple of 100 people apart from another (prior to 2011) in the same geographic location have a 1 in 10,000 chance of having identical social security numbers.
Basically, if you live in a large city, you definitely have a few twinsies out there.
This was changed in 2011, because of this, but it is still not a unique identifier. It’s just more random.
- Comment on What happens when the US runs out of SSNs? 5 weeks ago:
Social Security numbers are not unique identifiers.
- Comment on What is the stock market? 1 month ago:
It is a living, breathing holograph of commerce. It speaks, it eats, it shits. It gets horny, sad, and angry. But it is a hologram. A projection of humanity.
- Comment on So now I have to PAY you to NOT store files on my device that I don't want? 1 month ago:
How is that not extortion?
- Comment on Why am I seeing "plan your voting day strategy" so often? 1 month ago:
If you live in a swing state there might be a lot being done to make voting difficult.
- Comment on The HELLDIVERS™^©®^³ 2 EULA is a URL 1 month ago:
I’m all about that 301 baby.
- Comment on The HELLDIVERS™^©®^³ 2 EULA is a URL 1 month ago:
Technically, if you’re internet is down or finicky, you could be simply agreeing to a 404 error.
- Comment on I didn't know HOW bad Google search has gotten. 1 month ago:
I think it’s most evident when you do something like search “(venue name) Events”
Where you would normally get the venues events page as a top hit, Google tries to get you to get that info without ever visiting their page via a card.
- Comment on How do you scream? 1 month ago:
If it hurts, stop. Don’t practice in pain.
- Comment on How do you scream? 1 month ago:
I am a decent metal vocalist. I have taught all kinds of people to do deep guttural growls, from children to adults male and female.
Without creating a wall of text that will only confuse you… Two words: Exasperated sigh.
Sigh like you just died on the final boss and realized you never quicksaved.
Sigh like your dad just made the most anguishingly bad pun you’ve ever heard. There needs to be some disgust in this sigh.
Kind of say “uhhh” and “eww” and “ugh” at the same time.
The goal is to push air hard and leave the throat muscles loose. This will make your throat flap about and distort the sound coming out.
Okay we’re getting toward wall of text, but, have you ever had a cough for a long time? And your cough got nasty sounding, even after you were all better? You trained your muscles to relax, thats why it sounds different, and you did it to help push mucous out. Screaming is pretty much the same. Once you’re comfortable with all this, give it a nice loud: “Ahhhhhhhhhh!” But relax your throat as you push more air/push harder. That’s where the distortion comes from.
- Comment on Do rotating plates in microwaves help when heating food? 1 month ago:
No you’re completely missing the point.
It’s about how much of the volume the object can take up due to the plate spinning.
If it’s perfectly centered, it only takes up its own volume. If it is off to the side it swoops around and takes up the volume that it takes up but on every quadrant of the plate as it rotates
I don’t have any interest in discussing this with you any further
- Comment on Do rotating plates in microwaves help when heating food? 1 month ago:
You’re missing the point.
The issue isn’t just about the physical center of the plate or the microwave itself. The key point is how microwaves heat food unevenly. Microwaves create standing waves, which result in hot and cold spots. The center of the microwave tends to be one of the cold spots, regardless of where the turntable is.
When the plate rotates, the food gets exposed to more areas where microwaves are stronger, leading to more even heating. However, if you place something directly in the center, it’s less likely to move through those stronger areas, which is why the center tends to be the least optimal spot for heating evenly.
It’s not about whether 99% of the pie is centered—it’s about how the energy is distributed within the microwave.
- Comment on Do rotating plates in microwaves help when heating food? 1 month ago:
The center is the least optimal place for even heating.
- Comment on Do rotating plates in microwaves help when heating food? 1 month ago:
As long as you don’t put it in the center, yes.