mechoman444
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- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 day ago:
No it wasn’t just one study. The 2016 WHO trial is just the one that got the headlines because it made for a catchy story. There were several other male birth control studies going back to the 80s and 90s where men dropped out because they didn’t want to deal with the side effects. Things like acne mood swings and injection pain.
In the WHO study around twenty out of three hundred twenty men quit over side effects. Earlier trials saw the same thing a few percent tapping out for the same reasons.
So no it wasn’t some isolated case. It’s been a recurring theme across decades of research. The numbers are small but it’s there. Pretending otherwise just tells me you stopped reading after the first article title.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 day ago:
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 day ago:
Yeah, neat math, but biology isn’t a group project where everyone gets an equal share. Female birth control exists because it’s actually doable. One egg a month is easy to manage, shutting down millions of sperm without wrecking everything else? Not so much.
And every time male birth control does make it to trials, guys tap out the second they get a mood swing or a cramp. Meanwhile, women have been tanking those side effects for decades just to keep the rest of us from multiplying like rabbits.
So no, science didn’t “target the wrong gender.” It just went with the one that could handle it.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 3 days ago:
It’s so other lizard people know.
- Comment on PC Master Race 3 days ago:
I mean ya… That’s pretty much how I feel.
- Comment on PC Master Race 3 days ago:
It’s possible to build a competent gaming manchine if you’re ok with 1080p. A ten year old card still runs 1080p perfectly fine.
I have a Ryzen 5500 on a radeon 550. It plays mostly everything at 720 to 1080. It’ll do lite 4k but it does what it needs to do.
I bought a Acer nitro with a 3050 in it for my teenager. 🤷 It’s perfectly fine. She plays mostly counter strike anyway.
I play a bunch of indie stuff and remasters… Unless you want 60fps in cyberpunk in 4k ultra ray tracing… You can get into a pretty decent build for well under 1k.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 1 week ago:
Ok. Thanks. Good luck to you too.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 1 week ago:
That’s because I’m agreeing with the person and not rebutting the original comment. Which I have no desire to do.
But I will say this if you think high speed rail will impact housing in California you’re an idiot.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 1 week ago:
It’s not.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 1 week ago:
I tired to rent an apartment once. I had 100k in liquid in my bank account. I showed them this but it wasn’t good enough. I’m 1099 and officially make very little money (it’s all above board and legal. I have a CPA.)
They needed paystubs. I don’t have pay stubs. I don’t even get paychecks.
It’s kind of a weird catch 22 for them. They’re ok with some bloke making 20 bucks an hours with nothing in savings as long as he can “prove” his income but someone with actually money is just too much of a risk.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 1 week ago:
Yes but he said “high speed rail” which is popular here so now you’re getting downvoted.
You’re right of course. It’s an idiotic take.
It’s kinda like saying housing would be a lot better if there were more forest rangers.
- Comment on English moment 2 weeks ago:
English is a terrible language and I really need to get gooder at it.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Remove the word AI from the meme and you will have people in the comment section totally in support of self-checkout and self-driving trains.
The reality of the situation is that you do want these things because they’re very popular you’re just painting it with the word AI making it unfavorable on this particular platform.
What other nonsense.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 4 weeks ago:
Well… is suppose it is a good way to get the wrinkles out… I’ll give it a shot.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 5 weeks ago:
Not racism. But that’s on point for you.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 5 weeks ago:
You’re not Jewish.
I’m Jewish.
- Comment on Incorrect? 5 weeks ago:
Kid saw an opportunity and they took it.
- Comment on Has this happened to you? 5 weeks ago:
I often have this discussion about DEI on this platform, and someone always responds with, “That’s not how it’s supposed to work.” And you’re right, but what happens in practice and what happens on paper are two completely separate things.
The bottom line is that these lower to mid level employees are given a list of criteria and very little training in DEI itself. They’re then required to fill these slots so it looks like the company is making progress, when in reality it’s very likely they’re hiring someone underqualified.
It’s true that many companies implementing DEI have seen an increase in profit margins, but I think that’s happening because DEI pushes back against nepotism—which, in my opinion, is significantly worse than hiring someone who may be slightly underqualified.
- Comment on Has this happened to you? 1 month ago:
My friend, who works as a license renewal and hiring manager at a large tech security firm, once shared something interesting with me. He said that when hiring under his company’s DEI standards, he sometimes had to bring on someone who wasn’t the strongest candidate for the role. The goal was to meet diversity requirements, but the tradeoff was that it occasionally meant hiring someone less qualified.
According to him, if a hire brought in under those standards didn’t perform well, it could be harder for the company to let that person go. The emphasis on maintaining diversity created extra pressure to hold on, even when performance wasn’t where it needed to be. That situation, understandably, can affect the rest of the team.
Personally, I don’t have anything against DEI. In fact, I think it helps reduce nepotism, which is a positive. But I also don’t think DEI always works out the way people imagine it will. Like many policies, it has both benefits and downsides.
The reason I bring this up is because I think it’s a slippery slope when governments start drawing hard lines about who can and cannot be fired. At the end of the day, what tends to matter most is whether someone makes the company money.
Take my friend as an example again: he’s only required to bring in $250,000 each quarter, but he actually brings in around $4 million. Because of that, he has survived multiple layoffs and has even been moved to different departments, simply because his performance makes him too valuable to lose.
- Comment on Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
Also just announced: new patents on covers opening and closing and adjustable legs.
Virtual Boy games will all release at full price individually.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
👍
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
You’ve got to be a bot. Seriously.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
I’m assuming you’re the competent one.
Believe it or not it’s really hard to get people to compare another person to a Nazi you really have to jump some hurdles to do that.
For example Thomas Midgley, Jr. (Look him up) Is probably one of the worst human beings ever produced by our species and yet nobody really compares him to Nazis.
On the other hand there is nothing more universally compared to Nazis than our current sitting president his rhetoric and the people that support him including your boy Charlie.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
I’m not here to hand you evidence or play research assistant. I’m responding because your own tone was condescending and I’m not going to let it stand unchallenged.
Charlie Kirk was a bigot and a racist. That is not an opinion but a matter of record. His rhetoric makes it obvious and your defense of him makes your position clear.
If you think I was calling you tolerant or care if you are tolerant or not you completely miss the point of what I was trying to say.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
Your prose comes across as deliberately nice and tolerant, but that only highlights how shaky your stance is. You frame “tolerance” as though it excuses supporting Charlie Kirk. It doesn’t. Using tolerance to shield a bigot and a racist is not a virtue, it’s complicity.
Opposing Kirk’s rhetoric isn’t hatred. It’s simply refusing to let prejudice masquerade as principle.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 1 month ago:
Well. They’ve secured the local woods so we’re good.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
Ya man. Mental health. Your boy Charlie was big in putting homeless people and transgenders in insane asylums.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
Lol! Fantastic. This is wonderful thank you so much for commenting.
So the big argument is cars and alcohol? Brilliant. Because when was the last time someone walked into a classroom holding a Toyota Corolla in one hand and a bottle of vodka in the other?
Cars exist to get people from point A to point B. Alcohol exists to drink. Guns exist to kill. That is the design. Pretending they are all the same is a false equivalence.
We also happen to lead the world in school shootings and active shooters. Canada, which looks a whole lot like us culturally and legally, manages fewer gun deaths per capita. Maybe the problem is not cars or booze. Maybe the problem is metal health. Because guns are the end of the day are just tools used by humans.
- Comment on Not trying to disparage first responders on 911. Why aren't nurses included with fire and police departments? Did we not take care of people on the backend of the rescuing? 1 month ago:
Of course you did. And nothing can away the heroic and amazing thing you did that day.
BUT! Being at ground zero and simply doing your job as a nurse during a crisis is not the same thing.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
So no. That’s not it. A right is something that is guaranteed by law, such as freedom of speech or running water for your home.
A privilege is something provided by law that isn’t totally necessary. Like a driver’s license or a concealed carry permit for a firearm.
For the layman the two terms carry similar meanings but in law they are completely different things. The distinction is important.
also let’s not get it twisted Charlie Kirk was Luigied.