corsicanguppy
@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me 7 hours ago:
you say Roberston enough times, without being an asshole, and even they will figure it out.
And, if you’re my dad, you say “the red-handled robbie” or “point the damned flashlight at the screw, genius”.
- Comment on Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me 7 hours ago:
Roberson
Robbie, if you’re not posh.
- Comment on Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me 7 hours ago:
Americans will do anything to avoid admitting Robertson was earlier, better, and easier to make.
- Comment on Treat your body like a data centre 6 days ago:
treat your body like a datacenter that has been planned poorly and pushed through local government
Fixed it for ya.
Remember, kids, if you like your health data to be safely stored so when you have a car accident you can survive with a drug allergy (long enough to get the bill, if American), then you want that data stored where it’s safe. That’s a datacenter. If you like the idea of criminals getting their just desserts one day, you want the evidence stored safely where fire/flood/tornado/theft/vandalism can’t destroy it and deny us justice. That’s a datacenter (and maybe a salt mine in nevada, but you get it).
If you hate evaporative cooling and diesel power generation, you hate bad datacenters, and you need to rail against councils approving bad plans and/or you need to ensure the new council you elect will slap the ratfuckers with legal challenge after enviro violation until they can do little else but sell it off to someone else (ohai code compliance on sold structures).
- Comment on Everytime 🤧 1 week ago:
Words in title: 1
Words spelled wrongly in title: 1
- Comment on I need an adult 1 week ago:
You need an English teacher.
- Comment on People who piss on the toilet seat in a men's restroom. 1 week ago:
Just lift the fuckin seat to pee then omg
Use your foot for that if you have to
- wipe seat. It’s fine.
- If you’re at a seat, be seated; standing is over there.
- wash hands like silkwood after
Is this only trivial for gen-X?
- Comment on In Open Carry states, is it also allowed to openly carry bladed weapons like Swords? Bow and arrow? 2 weeks ago:
In Alberta, Canada’s Texas, swords may be carried if sheathed. My buddy wore a broadsword to uni class - slung over the back in that way that you maybe slice off your ear if you need to draw it - until the uni banned it on their property.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
Are you trying to shoplift and you have a harder time now?
Careful, my dude. Lemmy promotes an ends-means justification on some crime, mostly via demonification. There’s no discussion on this particular ethical dilemma, despite a firm stance in other instances.
- Comment on What’s a reasonable tip for a barber? (America) 3 weeks ago:
Ha! I’ll tell my barber he doesn’t need to do Uber anymore, since his day job is paying so well.
- Comment on What’s a reasonable tip for a barber? (America) 3 weeks ago:
every 8 weeks and spend like $25
$35+ every 3 weeks here. I sublimate from Tidy to Schlub overnight on day 22.
- Comment on What’s a reasonable tip for a barber? (America) 3 weeks ago:
My barber has to do Uber on the side. He sold his shop and now works there for the new owner until his other barber gig grows. He’s a refugee from Mosul and a really great guy, but he’s not getting enough from the barbering.
- Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves? 3 weeks ago:
I think he is. Sorry.
- Comment on If your in jail and you have a heart condition, and they taser you and you die are they responsible? Even if they know you have a heart condition? 3 weeks ago:
Depends.
Non-US? Maybe.
US? Does your estate have a reeeally good lawyer? No? Then no.
- Comment on Republicans head home for the summer after a string of losses in Congress 4 weeks ago:
In related news, evolution is hard to see up close.
- Comment on How can people with ADHD possibly enjoy movies if they daydream and can't focus on the movie? 4 weeks ago:
Is “second screening” a name for people bringing bright screens into the theatre? Like, so they can watch tiktoks and disturb everyone else? Is every so ridiculously inconsiderate that they can’t even go to the movies anymore?
I sense if I still went to the theatre after covid that I’d quickly hate something new about it.
- Comment on Ghosted After a Job Interview? Report the Company 4 weeks ago:
They think with whatever the fuck makes you think of people as “resources”.
Yeah. They change their own titles, but I worry it’s still the same – they just remembered the ‘human’ part of ‘human resources’ is merely an adjective.
- Comment on Gamer Logic 😡 4 weeks ago:
See: Survivorship Bias
- Comment on Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie. 4 weeks ago:
As I’ve said before: HOW ABOUT NO
- Comment on Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening? 4 weeks ago:
There are five things you should ever say to police:
Is that a request or an order?
I don’t answer questions.
I don’t consent to any search.
Am I free to go?
I am exercising my right to remain silent.
Note that. Outside America, the rules will be different. Even in Canada, rights are very different. Less bearings and shootings, but our Article 5 is nowhere near as powerful at the 5th amendment.
- Comment on How do I survive the US immigration? 4 weeks ago:
if they decide that you should strip down to your underwear, there’s nothing you can do about it (I’ve heard that this happens).
This definitely happens, but it’s nothing new. I have a piece of steel supporting my ulna after a bad fight (and I can’t fight anymore). It sets off metal detectors, or it used to in the 1990s and 2000s, and definitely the ones that cropped up after 9/11 in NYC.
TSA people are so great; very focused in their efforts to kinda be power-trippy dicks at times. I can confirm that if you want to be swimsuit-level strip-searched in an out-of-the-way corner in full view of everyone, just flying into America is how we do it; ask to skip the cancer box for extra fun. CALL it the ‘cancer box’ if you really wanna be sure. I’m thankful for my brief military stint as it has removed all shame from my being and I was able to get processed quickly enough each time.
I’m super-rural and super-white, so that may be the super-power helping me avoid the worst of problems, and I’m sorry their racism makes everyone else’s experience that much worse than even mine.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Linux is safer than Windows
Yes and no. Security through obscurity doesn’t innately mean its more secure.
Linux cannot leverage security through obscurity, since its source code is open, so this point is not pertinent.
Aur isn’t Linux. Aur is a feature of a distro and not Linux code.
But I get your point: Aur is a product of dark-pattern app coding that flies in the face of established best practice, of ISO, and of SLSA. Had we not fired our mentors and documenters 20 years ago we would not have had such a Lost Boy generation of system engineers growing up in that wasteland without mentors to tell them why something is a really dumb idea.
Supply-chain exploits are preventable, but only if coders are led by proper system engineers who follow and enforce standards; but this is boring and costly so neither VC money nor the kids building these really bad tools are gonna magically support such a notion.
- Comment on Bit harsh? 5 weeks ago:
America has 300 different answers for “what language do you speak at home with family”.
Three hundred.
You could have 6 different languages per state, with no overlap, just by shuffling people around.
- Comment on Why is gun violence lower in Switzerland than in the US? 5 weeks ago:
It gonna be education, training, and respect for firearms.
- Comment on How did you guys deal with the death of a parent? 5 weeks ago:
Mom and dad are separated, physically and matrimonially, for a decade or two now. Separately, they’re each on their slope.
I have NO hope of coping with their loss. I’m mom’s PoA, so we’re somewhat ready, but I’m not ready.
The fact that billions of people have gone through this in the last 30 years, that doesn’t help one little bit. I’m scared as hell.
- Comment on What is the hate against Pit Bulls? Everyone I've met are super friendly like my BC. Or are they the new Doberman for this cycle? 1 month ago:
They get joy from killing other animals.
You seem to be psychic; or you can talk to them. Which is it?
My family has vet hospital people and spca people in it, and they don’t have your level of certainty.
- Comment on Urine Luck 1 month ago:
Ouch. Sick burn.
- Comment on When people die in wildfires, is it that the fire spread too fast for people to mobilise escape? Or more that people were delayed leaving? 1 month ago:
The code is concrete.
- Comment on Settle a debate can potato's and noodles go together and taste great with sauce and other things? (I say it can) However my mother says two starches should never be cooked because it's too much. 1 month ago:
potato’s
Why the apostrophe?
- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 1 month ago:
That’s when you hold the phone to your face - like a phone - so you can talk at a normal volume and hear people really well.
phones were designed to be used, well, like phones. People holding them like a slice of pizza and shouting into them like some narcissist ‘reality’ TV contestant are carefully defeating all the optimisation and annoying everyone on the same city block as them.