corsicanguppy
@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 4 hours ago:
I watch clips where people can be heard super-clearly on lowly clip-on mics.
There is no reason to hold it in your hand. You’re not Bob Barker.
Compare with the vapid influencerati trash holding their phones like pizza slices and shouting into them and turning the sound uploke they’re on some reality trash show. Telling them that they’re absolutely using it wrongly, that engineers have tuned the mic and speakers for a completely different orientation, is just lost. So I make fun of them.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 1 day ago:
Moist, as in “moist oily ointment.”
- Comment on What's your test for people? 2 days ago:
As a former waiter, I have a counterpoint:
- I can’t carry that wobbly precarious mess you’ve made, and it’s easier to disassemble and reassemble it because I know how to do this.
Thus, you’ve created work for me.
Thankfully I haven’t been a waiter in - oh look! - 30 years.
- Comment on If you are in the US, and a karen threatens to call ICE on you, what's the best course of action? 6 days ago:
Then once they are here
They don’t ask questions, so you don’t need to continue. They just drag people away, it seems. They scoop up a dozen kiwis a month, which means your even your non-kiwi pasty-white self gets none of the privilege you’re counting on.
- Comment on do you use non violent communication at the workplace? 1 week ago:
It’s charming to call some new communication style ‘non-violent’, as if it’s the first.
I learned to update in quick language in the army. I learned to argue a point in New Jersey.
In NJ, when I worked there, the staff of geniuses were incredibly passionate about doing a thing the best and right way. Sometimes the best route to achieving that wasn’t obvious ans a discussion would ensue. These would be obvious verbal heroism by the nerds in residence, but they only never argued the facts and the options; never the people.
It was effective and only sometimes needed a decision from above, and when everyone was done they didn’t hate each other.
I just don’t see where “I feel …” isn’t just slowing us down when time is short. But, if your environment has a surplus of time, then I hope you’ll see benefit from this idea.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 1 week ago:
But dood. Put a USPS fishbowl-connected car on the end with a sorter working inside and prepping for each stop, and watch FedEx sweat.
- Comment on New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state 1 week ago:
Voting blue no matter who turned out to not be a good strategy.
It’s funny how you relabel harm-reduction in voting, and imply the alternative wouldn’t have been far worse. It’s an art.
- Comment on Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man 1 week ago:
Thats the same vibe as: Don’t drive your kids to school, [because] you might get hit by a drunk driver.
Nope. The poster is choosing to put the PII online, and cannot guarantee privacy. In IT Security, “How do you know” is the most powerful phrase; and for Facebook/Meta/etc, you just don’t.
This is a fundamental rule since childhood (“If you’re coming home late from band practice, stay in a group because of the cougar”) and I’m not sure where you missed it.
- Comment on How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ? 1 week ago:
did … impacted
\sigh
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Dial up the fuzz until at least one source pops out. Need to know more on the mars rover? Here’s how to teach your dog to knit.
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 2 weeks ago:
I had a green DeCSS shirt. It was awesome. I ditched it while coming over the border.
- Comment on The Software Engineers Paid To Fix Vibe Coded Messes 2 weeks ago:
regular software engineers
Regular competent software engineers
Same thing. Otherwise there’d be air quotes.
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 2 weeks ago:
Savage.
I hate that my macabre subconscious is trying to cook up a sick burn about bullet points.
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office 3 weeks ago:
But, as per the Dead Sea Effect, they’re not gonna shed the people they think they are.
- Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve seen exactly one airport bathroom with private sinks, and zero airplanes where I think I can manage that.
- Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 3 weeks ago:
But unless the TP turns red to signal you’re done, how do you know? ;-)
- Comment on do you apologize, even if it's not your fault just to make the other person feel validated? 3 weeks ago:
Except outsiders don’t know we have 6 meanings for “sorry!” and one of them is “I’m sorry you’re not better”.
- Comment on do you apologize, even if it's not your fault just to make the other person feel validated? 3 weeks ago:
Bump into a Canadian at an airport and you’ll hear them apologize.
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 3 weeks ago:
The boy can’t spell “you’re”. We don’t need to challenge him on the content. Similarly, if the tenor can’t hold the first note, we don’t need to stay for the performance.
- Comment on Water Boil Advisory 4 weeks ago:
Useless with getting news out, useless in preventing a dictator from taking control.
American militias as mentioned in the second amendment are really no actual use, are they?
- Comment on The sheer amount of websites that are completely unusable without JavaScript 4 weeks ago:
no fallbacks is bad practice.
This is how you know they’re extra lazy – no “please enable javascript because we suck and have no noscript version”.
- Comment on The sheer amount of websites that are completely unusable without JavaScript 4 weeks ago:
“nah bruh this site is considered broken for the mere fact that it uses JavaScript at all”
A little paraphrased, but that’s the gist.
Isn’t there an article just today that talks about CSS doing most of the heavy-lifting java is usually crutched to do?
I did webdev before the framework blight. It was manual php, it was ASP, it was soul-crushing. That’s the basis for my claim that javascript lamers are just lazy, and supply-chain splots waiting to manifest.
- Comment on The sheer amount of websites that are completely unusable without JavaScript 4 weeks ago:
Same. This is the way.
- Comment on The Good Genes 4 weeks ago:
So much of the kid pidgin. Reading that makes my head hurt.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 4 weeks ago:
You fail the test.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 4 weeks ago:
We’re lured into a false sense of excitement, thinking it’s comedy. Instead, it’s tragedy.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 4 weeks ago:
Potty humour?
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 4 weeks ago:
Flair: the 32 pins and badges at TGIFriendly’s
Flare: a widening at the base
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 4 weeks ago:
When Reagan said “no child left behind”, he didn’t mean grammarly. That halfwit mess is toxic.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
In Canada, we have Medical Assistance In Dying. MAID.
In early COVID, my oncle was diagnosed with non-hodgekins lymphoma. It’s a cancer, I think. His blood transfusions got really frequent just as we were getting into COVID, and he knew he wouldn’t outlast it. And, every visit to the hospital in his condition would mean a deadly infection or virus that he could also bring home and afflict his wife or his girls or the granddaughter one was carrying.
So, on one random Tuesday, the family gathered and told stories and hugged. And the he hit the morphine button the nurse had set up. And he left shortly after 5.
It’s legal, but they’ll make you sit for a psyche first. It’s free. It’s humane.
Another uncle had cancer for 37 years. A model of modern medicine, he was the shell of a man but he’d lived a life. He got pneumonia one Christmas, and when the doctor asked what he thought, he refused care and asked for palliative. His care changed rapidly and he had a very comfy few days before departure.
I hope you’re living in northern Europe or Canada. MAID doesn’t stop suicides, but it makes them more humane.