corsicanguppy

@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it be silly of me to get a small dog if I am a little afraid of bigger ones?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Anecdotal evidence being what it is, trends have smaller dogs being more prone to biting – small dog syndrome. Bigger dogs can be dicks if they’re raised poorly, but are less prone to bite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it be silly of me to get a small dog if I am a little afraid of bigger ones?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop by a shelter or pet store (don’t buy from a pet store)

  Pet stores in my area exclusively stock shelter dogs with the most personality so they can facilitate adoptions (for a transaction fee). So, ‘buying’ from a pet store gets you a shelter dog.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which wired earbuds do you recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I absolutely love the Apple 3.5mm wired earpods. I have several spare for when apple decides it’s bored of them and stops supply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is us rail travel so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I sense you haven’t seen Canadian rail travel. Go look.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come I can vote a yes or no vote for new taxes or bonds? But cannot choose where the money I give goes to? Should that also be my choice?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You vote for that by choosing the political team with the spending policy that best represents you. But it’s a bundle and not spending decisions a la carte.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it wrong of me not giving a shit when cops get killed? They signed up for the job know what it entails. Same with Firepeople. I feel bad 4 families but no one gives a shit about Nurses or DRs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the person who was robbed to assemble a little group to catch the robber

  Vigilantism isn’t the answer … to anything. It’s a romantic idea best consumed in pulp form.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it wrong of me not giving a shit when cops get killed? They signed up for the job know what it entails. Same with Firepeople. I feel bad 4 families but no one gives a shit about Nurses or DRs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The world would be better off without them

  This is a fantastically naive thought. I hope you learn why, some day, but not in a way that causes you harm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s the difference between anarchy and libertarianism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  political words are contentious and can have multiple definitions have been assigned new made-up definitions for us to ignore .

  FTFY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don;t more presidents put stuff to a national referendum like Clinton did a couple times? A person would get time off work to vote, show what americans actually want and so on.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because what they want to do rarely aligns with what people actually want.

  False consensus?

  Politicians only run referendums if they’re sure the outcome will be what they want, or if their hand is forced by the opposition.

  Ah. APAB .

  Evolve your politicians better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon listens to British music⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that Rockabilly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turpentine story⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes you control the Candida, but sometimes it controls you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But I think even the worst case did not have “world war” into consideration.

  Specifically “blowing up regional methane storage” was probably unexpected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do wealthy people know if the people they meet are wealthy or not?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their house will be nicer than average, probably not crazy, but just a lot more than a typical person would have.

  I hear Michael Bublé lives in a modest house he inherited, and he’s a great neighbour. But he seems as un-Hollywood as people can be, so he may be a bad example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do wealthy people know if the people they meet are wealthy or not?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or if you live in a crazy expensive neighborhood or building, your neighbors are pretty much guaranteed to be rich.

  Careful. We’re paying $4.10/sqft/mo rent and we are NOT rich; just in a very overpriced area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This happen to anyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There aremany benefits to a siloed operation that all relate to preventing overwork and scope creep.

  This example is part of the cost.

  We use copy and paste a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there ice cream on it or in it? Spoon. Otherwise, fork.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you ever call your son a disappointment?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. “Being a disappointing,” yes. “A disappointment,” no.

  The difference is one is a fixable behaviour, and the other is an identity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shoutout to yall⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And he wants it all dry-cleaned ? He should go to the fluff-n-fold instead if it’s just blue collar gear with the cover-alls and such.

  I wish I had a fluff-n-fold when I was at the fish farm, as downtime in town was short. But, then again, some poor Laundromat would have to suffer all my fishy smelling gear!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm bogmaxxing rn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  maxxing

  Spelled like faxing, taxing and relaxing? Why the added letter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everytime⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everytime

  Not a word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s Atlassian, which we call Half-Assed-ian. They make Flatulence and Jeer-a.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you think they’d actually bring back the draft?

  The important question is whether THEY think they’ll bring back the draft; and the answer is yes, they are thinking of that very thing. Young men - they’ll bar women - will go and die, just to keep the Epstein files sealed by any distraction possible. Any fight, any time, anything big and bloody.

  (Because if you listen to the one witness, it’s just eve such more more heinous than even this)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbucks Rewards enshittifies into 3 shitty tiers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They forced an update that won’t run on my phone.

  • can’t run the required version
  • old version just tries to update

  So I’m almost out anyway.

  I like their chai lattes. I can’t get the same taste anywhere else, and if I try to make it it’s a “we have mcdonalds at home” result.

  So about twice a year, now, I get a fucking c$6 latte as a treat. I miss 2019 with the many locations - one 80m away in my walkable block - and a really nice barista who made the effort to smile and chat directly. Now I have none of those things and this is like dia de los muertos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The price of oil is skyrocketting. People in Alexandria, Virgnia, are worried about bike lanes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mixing squishy people and big steel trucks will definitely impact one group a lot more than the other.

  Good luck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I LOVE EATING STIR BARS⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh! Stir bars are the magnetic things at the bottom of lab jars when you’re missing stuff, right?

  I thought Stir Bar was a nutrition bar or a chocolate bar like a Boost. Stir isn’t a great name for a protein bar, but it’s not the worst.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Although it’s been shown learning another language as a child changes the way your mind works, there’s only so much money in the teaching budget and so many hours in the day. Conservatives want to take both from our kids, for their own ends, so justifying the value of the resources to the student is a perennial challenge.

  Given the low proficiency of current grads with their first language, and basic skills like punctuation and spelling, I say we’re a LONG way before we can open a second language in the curriculum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It appears dementia has set in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  libertarianism

  I’m sorry to say you lost me at this word, so super-charged that my brain now filters the content and speaker.

  But I came really to say: Dude. FOOTNOTES?!? We can do that here? Beautiful example; Legend. Thanks for showing me how.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  such measures are much simpler than fixing the current education system

  it’s harm reduction while we also work to build a tolerance to the drug … through learning and reasoning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also used in healthier ways, like search results, chat logs, and so on.

  That’s an excellent point. Viewing a log file over the web, particularly when it’s still growing, absolutely needs infinite scrolling. The Old Way is UX poison.

  Is RedHat the company in on this? Is it because they can’t figure out how to scroll text well in their AAP/Tower/whatever platform and are annoyed with people chanting YOU HAD ONE JOB at them? (no need to look it up – that entire Tower product and the tech behind it would be hot garbage 20 years ago and is hot garbage now, so I’m just dunking on them)