BlameThePeacock
@BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Why are Clark and Lois such terrible people and parents in Superman & Lois? 2 days ago:
Now THAT’S a stupid question.
Good Job.
The answer to your first question is yes.
Children don’t get to set their own boundaries, that’s why we consider them children. Once they’re ready we call them adults.
If I allowed them to set their own boundaries, they’d probably already be dead. They get some pretty stupid ideas sometimes.
- Comment on Why are Clark and Lois such terrible people and parents in Superman & Lois? 3 days ago:
I’m laughing so hard right now.
You’re so idealistic. When you grow up and join the real world you’ll realize that what you said was funny too.
- Comment on Why are Clark and Lois such terrible people and parents in Superman & Lois? 3 days ago:
A) You clearly don’t have kids.
B) If everything they did as parents was perfect, people would have felt it was unreal, more so than even the super powers part.
C) It’s a TV Show, conflict and drama keeps people paying attention.
D) Homelander… you’re a fucking idiot.
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 1 week ago:
100% inheritance tax on any value over 5 million, and slam shut any loopholes that get found.
Force them to either spend it stimulating the economy or give it up to society directly.
- Comment on How do left-leaning—or not even left-leaning, but pro-choice, pro-life people who don’t care about fornication—who are also Catholics and Christians justify their religion? 2 weeks ago:
The whole thing with religion is not needing to prove or justify anything to other people.
It’s a social “team” and teams need goals to exist.
When it wasn’t the Gays or abortions it was something else.
The crusades are an obvious example.
The church has cycled through enemies for the entire time its been around. Hell, they even split the religion into different religions just to have someone to play as the “other” and to consolidate power under new leadership.
- Comment on What should Israel have done in response to October 7th? 5 weeks ago:
Opened the gates to Egypt, and pushed every single Palestinian out of Gaza.
There is no peaceful end game here, it will never happen. Both sides hate each other and no amount of talking is going to change that.
The least deadly option is to remove the smaller group to other places. Especially since those nearby places are far more culturally similar, and many Palestinians have family or historical ties there already.
- Comment on Can turkey motion machines be used for producing electricity? 1 month ago:
They’re a type of heat engine using evaporation.
Technically it would work, but it wouldn’t scale up nicely no.
It would be far less efficient than everything we currently use for power.
- Comment on Why is Minecraft able to be forced to put restrictions on online servers, but web browsers aren't held accountable for providing access to the web? 2 months ago:
You need to use minecrafts game files to access minecraft servers.
There are hundreds of browsers available, and since the standard is open it’s easy to create a new one.
- Comment on Are there any reputable cybersecurity experts that I could just email them to ask for free advice? 2 months ago:
My authenticator app requires my fingerprint, which is biometric, so fingerprint plus device for the MFA.
- Comment on Are there any reputable cybersecurity experts that I could just email them to ask for free advice? 2 months ago:
Fingerprint + Authenticator as well.
- Comment on Are there any reputable cybersecurity experts that I could just email them to ask for free advice? 2 months ago:
Fuck passwords, use proper MFA.
Phishing training is good though.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 2 months ago:
I don’t see your argument against teams.
It sounds like:
“It’s all together in one place, how dare they.”
At this point I don’t even bother using the desktop version of outlook, the web app is easier for emails and my calendar is in teams.
You act like cloud services are bad, they aren’t. If they were terrible, people would be switching away from them. They’re adding value beyond their cost and everyone knows it.
Could Microsoft be better at some things? Sure.
But they’re already far better than the alternative, which is a janky ass system of 30 different products from 30 different vendors.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 2 months ago:
Total number of businesses maybe, but they account for something like two thirds of all employees.
You can’t really say it’s much of a business IT stack if it’s just a single freelancer using a Mac.
They wouldn’t be setting up teams in the first place.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 2 months ago:
“lots of businesses operate on macOS”
No, they definitely do not. If you go into any business in Canada or the US with more than 200 employees, they are running windows on the computers sitting in front of every office drone they have.
Very specific industries or business may, especially those who are stuck on Adobe’s software, but “lots” is extremely far from the truth.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 2 months ago:
There’s no mass exodus towards Linux in the business user space.
It’s still 99.9% Microsoft Windows.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 2 months ago:
Lync, not Lynx.
And technically Lync got birthed from the corpse of Office Communicator, not MSN messenger.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 2 months ago:
I quite literally teach and consult on Teams, and have for 8 years now. I worked with Lync, Skype for Business, and Communicator before that.
People complain about it all the time, and yet… I’ve never had any significant issues with it.
Other than M365 outages, which impact everyone, I’ve never seen it crash. I’ve never had issues not loading. I’ve never had sound or sharing issues that couldn’t be resolved by clicking the dropdown and selecting the correct option.
It can be a bit slow, especially loading file related stuff, but it’s not any worse than a network drive.
Placeholder avatars in different parts of the App? Teams doesn’t even support task assignment, tasks are handled in MS Planner which is an entirely different product that just happens to be visible inside Teams if you want.
Touch? Mac? Airpods? What the fuck are you doing? You aren’t doing real business tasks if you’re using an iPad.
Maybe the people with problems are the ones running 10 year old hardware with a barely supported operating system?
- Comment on I just went to the doctor's office and my copay is up $5 compared to last year 2 months ago:
America is funny.
And by that I mean you’re the joke.
- Comment on Without getting into current politics can someone describe to me what an authoritarian regime looks like? 2 months ago:
A single person, or small group, control everything.
Dissention is not allowed. Those people are removed via various methods from threats, to the jailing, and potentially all the way up to accidentally falling out a window or off a balcony.
- Comment on Where are the marketing volunteers? 2 months ago:
I mean, half the people who work for charities are technically doing some sort of Marketing.
- Comment on Easily available 940 nm transparent films? 2 months ago:
Most IR pass through filters are for 890-900nm not 940.
I ran into this issue myself for a slightly different use case.
The thing I found worked surprisingly well was a scrap piece of car window tint. I literally just walked into a local shop and asked for a small piece of scrap.
- Comment on What is the champagne of champagne? 2 months ago:
Prosecco
- Comment on Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes? 2 months ago:
I hate having anything inside the sink when it’s not actively being washed. Anything dirty that doesn’t directly go in the dishwasher sits on the counter to the right of the sink until such time as it can be washed.
My in-laws house is terrible for this, both sinks full of dirty dishes all the time. You have to remove them all before you can start the washing process, it’s absolutely stupid. You can’t even wash your hands in the sink properly because of it.
- Comment on Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes? 2 months ago:
Do you only have a single sink? Most homes here come with double sinks (left and right)
I put hot soapy water in the left, and then pull things out and wash, then rinse in the right.
The soaking makes it significantly easier to scrub/wash grime and grease off.
- Comment on Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes? 2 months ago:
See them? Zero
The most common problem I have with other people’s dishes (often relatives) is that they are greasy after it’s been washed because they use the same water for the entire set of dishes and especially if their dish washing order sucks.
When hand washing I always do it in a particular order:
Re-usable Water Bottles, Pot lids which are not visibly dirty, Glasses/Cups, Utensils.
If the water is now greasy, I will drain and re-fill at this point.
Then Plates and bowls, Baking pans that are not greasy, Pots, Frying Pans, then Baking pans that are greasy.
- Comment on Is "depress" ever used in this context? 2 months ago:
Tongue depressor is a common example of this use case.
- Comment on Is there a self-help way to deal with fear of germs/"contamination"? 3 months ago:
Is there a specific location where you’re worried? Kitchen? Bathroom? Public transport? Work/school?
- Comment on If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle? 3 months ago:
The administration of a basic income sitting outside of the government?
The government already has a list of every citizen registered via birth or immigration, and provides identification for people. They’re always going to need to do that. There’s really no reason to replicate that level of information outside of the government.
Most people would just go online and register where you’d like your money to be sent (Direct deposit, Mailed cheque)
However, you would still need a few call centers to handle issues, and If someone needs in-person support, the government already has common government service offices like DMVs and service centers that can provide in person service if required, saving significant money on needing dedicated service locations just for this one service.
Tl;dr Economies of Scale matter, and it doesn’t make any sense to replicate the parts that the government already does and has to continue doing.
- Comment on If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle? 3 months ago:
It depends on what you mean by social welfare programs.
A basic income system requires very little administration, and what parts of it are required wouldn’t make sense to have it sitting outside the government.
I’d rather see a basic income than need non-profit food banks needing to exist. Grocery stores already exist, are reasonably competitive, and are enormously more efficient if people have the money available to use them.
For things like helping people with disabilities, where economies of scale are mostly irrelevant, ngos and non-profits can make more sense because they can specialize according to the need.
- Comment on If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle? 3 months ago:
Because you can’t really have parts of both.
Either you have wealth redistribution, or you don’t. A lower amount is still wealth redistribution.
You can have a government, or you don’t. A smaller government is still a government.
So if someone wants some wealth redistribution, and some government. They are just arguing how much of a Libertarian Socialist they are, not how much of a anarcho-capitalist they are.
I personally am a Social Democrat. Capitalism is good most of the time, just make sure you’re holding the reigns tight so it goes in the right direction. Skip capitalism altogether for specific industries where it just doesn’t do very well and have the government run those ones directly.
I’m neither a libertarian socialist, nor an anarcho-capitalist. Not even close to either of them, because again, it isn’t a spectrum.