corsicanguppy

@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who live in hot climates, how do you deal with the heat?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually yeah.

  1. Get dry.
  2. Get into an air stream like a fan

  Your perspiration into dry air has an evolved cooling effect. It’s the same principle used by the ‘zeer’ pot to keep stuff cool in high temps with no electricity (and that’s a freaking magic trick, lemme tell ya).

  But, now see why the rising “wet bulb” temp is an issue in the lower US and toward the equator with the rising temps: if it doesn’t evaporate, you’re in trouble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨May not be the right place but here it goes. One of my brothers passes or get extremely tired if he sees porn. Even a sex scene in a movie he has to go lay down. Is there something wrong with him?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s very American. We sat “family doctor” here as of everyone has one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha ha ha, generalizations are fun and hateful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can cats see color?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’ve seen the right cheesy porn, there’s a yo-momma joke in there somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For French origin words like "meter" American English inverted the last letters of "metre" to better match the pronunciation. Why isn't it also the case for other similar situations like "possible"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Go ask your teachers why they taught you the wrong pronunciation; and why they didn’t equip you to hear the correct one and adapt.

  #noChildLeftBehind?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets corrected⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets corrected⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Only in the right class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The future of Blu-ray is looking bleak (and that's a bad thing for everyone)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Case in point: of all my Cult CDs, only “Ceremony” was super trashed when it fell outta my discman and onto gravel on the way to school. “Sonic Temple”, “Electric” and “Dreamtime”? Played a million times and still pristine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The future of Blu-ray is looking bleak (and that's a bad thing for everyone)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Blu-ray won over HDDVD via payola. Then it dried up. This decline has been foreseen for a while, but I’m disappointed Phillips hasn’t been muttering about super-dense DVD or a similarly shiny-sounding format to keep a sales channel and sell new IP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The future of Blu-ray is looking bleak (and that's a bad thing for everyone)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t lose or wreck the good ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The future of Blu-ray is looking bleak (and that's a bad thing for everyone)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The server I just bought has one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't throw me off the scent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In a world where correlation does not equal causation, crime would pre-date capitalism.

  Oh. Wait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's PC works⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We replaced my mom’s warcraft machine 3 years ago. It replaced an athlonII from 2k7 at 14 years old. Your tank may be a 74yo grandmother so be nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's PC works⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just bought a new machine!

  It’s a 2020 to replace my 2016 that I got in 2016.

  This one should do for a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was raised Rural. I can confirm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Temba, at rest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is feeling disrespected reason good enough to change jobs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Work relationships are built on trust. This is a rough time to be looking for work, but in your case please consider finding another job and only then quitting this one.

  I peaced out of a job almost 2 years ago, something very toxic as well, and I’m 100% better for it. I hope you can find an environment that’s better for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A majority of migrant workers employed with H-1B visas are paid below-median wages: Large tech firms, including Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, use visa program to underpay workers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a former h1b worker, everything you said was absolutely wrong.

  Like, all of it.

  Not one bit of that is true. Where do you get this stuff?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This message will not go away unless I agree to their spyware.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I ditched them in 1998. I don’t hate them like BMO or CIBC but they’re down on the list. I still do Blue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This message will not go away unless I agree to their spyware.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Green Bank is outside Canada too? (The T stood for Toronto, when I checked)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨84% of H-1B Visas Go to India and China: Is It a Scam in Disguise?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The county with the insane I.T hustle gets a lot of I.T jobs.

  Weeeeird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Job application or high school test?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is 100% what I went through for my gov job, way back. It was dumb then, and it’s dumb now.

  And they still do that. One of my contract peers got a gov spot a few years ago, and I guess making everyone do that rinkydink shit is how they kept it ‘fair’.

  I seem to hear of this ‘behavioural’ style a lot at unionized shops, and I really think it’s to avoid challenges and backlash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is road or rail more expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Road use is subsidized, as the trucks who weight much more do pay a little more in licensing and gasoline to fund road maintenance, but nowhere near to the level of their added wear-and-tear.

  2. Rail use has no subsidy.

  There’s the math.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have diarrhea and you hold it in will your body retain some of the water?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  … in an expedited manner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y'all get those "Weird Amazon Shenanigans" where ordering later get you an even faster delivery? (like wtf?!?) Well I just witnessed this shenanigan.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve got you thinking they’re the only store you need. That’s how we got this monopoly.

  Well, that and the fact I can occasionally order replacement gear and get it overnight. Given my local stores only stock consumer shit, that’s a huge win.

  But yeah, service, and that monopoly thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you beat the record?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I call ‘faked’:

  • left hand is weird
  • keyboard is weird
  • great big speakers on the desk
  • no one wears hats indoors and is smart enough for knowledge work
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the amount of slop saying "wait till the end" is too damn high⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  till

  If they could please just spell the word correctly, that’d be great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alec Baldwin's Rust Case Is Over, Prosecutor Drops Manslaughter Appeal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Producer == investor. It’s the only way acting talent gets real pay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically, if you are a witness or whistleblower who's adversary was a very big corporation (such as boeing), what measures could you take to prevent yourself from being "suicided"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  who’s

  Who is?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cotylorhynchus, a genus of late Permian synapsids. It's herbivorous and it's huge gut was possibly necessary to digest the nutrient-poor plant life it fed on.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s

  Yes it is.