corsicanguppy
@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Pluto's Orbit 10 hours ago:
It’s been a really rough year for Pluto. Let’s all wish it good luck next year (when humans are probably dead).
- Comment on I want a name for this 19 hours ago:
I think we’ve got some drivers around here who drive like that.
- Comment on I want a name for this 19 hours ago:
Justified usage.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 1 day ago:
The longer the rubes hold on to this pipe dream that the dems
That’s how far I got before I could hear the aluminium hat.
- Comment on How to avoid having cat hair all over my house and clothes every 2 days? 3 days ago:
- Brushing them
- Some diets can cut the hair down
- Clothing that matches the cats
- Lint roller
- ’inside’ vs ‘outside’ clothes, even if “inside” just means that shirt and those pants are halfway through their wear cycle and they’re now promoted to take the hair hit for the team until they’re washed or their relief arrives.
- Comment on How to avoid having cat hair all over my house and clothes every 2 days? 3 days ago:
Clearly. For science.
- Comment on How to avoid having cat hair all over my house and clothes every 2 days? 3 days ago:
You need to get one that knows not to jackson-pollack the hairballs.
- Comment on Four Dead In Fire As Tesla Doors Fail To Open After Crash 5 days ago:
Tesla has faced criticism in the past for the design of its manual release levers, which are considered poorly designed and unintuitively placed.
I like how the article delivered that fact in a way that focuses on their inadequacy while highlighting their existence. It’s like "we know they had a backup option, so shut up. They still weren’t good enough to be available for the emergency when they’re hidden behind shit.
If I put a half-wall up in my house in front of a visible window that can be used as emergency egress, I’m in shit. This hidden latch is no better.
- Comment on GOG launch their Preservation Program to make games live forever with hundreds of classics being 're-released' 1 week ago:
DRMs
Not pluralized. We don’t say “4 managements”
- Comment on somebody has to do it! 1 week ago:
Too busy, those beavers.
- Comment on if you workout and run, would you recommend a merino wool base or mid layer for autumn/winter? or am I going to break it? 1 week ago:
workout
‘work out’, here, with the space. It’s the difference between “what’s up Chuck” and “what’s upchuck”, and one of those may involve a hospital visit.
- Comment on Somebody has a case of the Mondays... 1 week ago:
Honestly, if ever I go back to Twitter, it’ll be just for the NatlParkSvc account and Susie Dent. Those two accounts are all I see from there that is wonderful.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This is what we call Survivor Bias.
- Comment on National Climate, Polling Points to a Trump Victory 2 weeks ago:
and was known
I know, right? Totally unrecognizable and with no history we can go check.
- Comment on Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce? 3 weeks ago:
It’s that like “Y’ever been ta tha SEA, Billy?”
- Comment on have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work? 3 weeks ago:
ITT: American HR vs the world.
- Comment on if you quit a job you didn't like or was toxic, didn't the financial hit scare you? 3 weeks ago:
This is true.
Look, the moment you know you need a new job, you’re done at the current shop. So get looking.
- Comment on if you quit a job you didn't like or was toxic, didn't the financial hit scare you? 3 weeks ago:
I see that in the bad spots, though – people are looking but not landing a new post, so they cope by doing the minimums, peacing out on the dot and getting their sleep. They no longer care about the success of the company, and while that’s admirable, it’s a social issue to abandon the tribe and it can eat on people.
I’m son happy when they land a new post, happier still if I do before I just … stop going. And that’s what I do: I lose interest in going if I can’t find a new post within the year I usually allow (I’m picky).
- Comment on if you quit a job you didn't like or was toxic, didn't the financial hit scare you? 3 weeks ago:
I had a miserably toxic job, and, yeah, I know that pit of despair and what it does to our decisions. I opened the search to the world, but came up with a domestic job about 3000mi away.
I grabbed the go-bag and all but bugged the fuck out, quitting on a Thursday, boarding a plane on a Friday and starting my new job on the Monday. She sold the house, got the movers (fuck moving) and shepherded all our worldlies to the new place. She’s not military but she faked it really well.
- Comment on if you quit a job you didn't like or was toxic, didn't the financial hit scare you? 3 weeks ago:
This is why I have two jobs. The second one fills with work until every 5 years it seems I abandon the day job and bulk up on the second job to make ends meet and burn its queue down.
It’s not intentional but it works out that way.
No. I haven’t doubled my salary, but I’m on the wrong side of 40 where I’m happy to be employed in this toxically ageist field.
My wife has done super well and sometimes beats my day job pay cheque, so we finally have that buffer too. And she doesn’t quit her jobs as she’s a super team player and instead gets promoted to fix problems. (Kinda got a crush on her for being so awesome)
- Comment on #notaseagull 3 weeks ago:
No one actually loves seagulls, but that’s got nothing to do with the fact there is no seagull.
- Comment on Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used? 4 weeks ago:
Can’t smoke on the balcony,
Legally you cannot smoke here within 100ft of a door or window that ventilates another’s workspace or living space as it represents carcinogenic pollution you’re willfully emitting despite knowing the risks.
In allowing it, the landlord would be subject to a number of complaints, some of them like human rights violations carrying no upper limit to the compensation – they could actually be sued for millions in the right extreme circumstances.
- Comment on Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used? 4 weeks ago:
We had a great balcony on 15 but wow, standing at the railing was only a sometimes-thing and only for a short while. Sorry of our guests wouldn’t go outside at all, and I completely understand why.
I used to be afraid of heights. Then, in basic training, we did some rappelling. Every second of the process was a trained and well-practiced task, orchestrated on the day by sergeants “speaking clearly” as is their talent. There were no mistakes, there was no fear while wrapped in the process, and there was no hesitation. The actual heights part was a few fleeting seconds.
This achievement stayed with me 20 years until I absolutely lost my shit while rock climbing a familiar route out in New Paltz, embarrassing myself, my family, my friends.
- Comment on Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used? 4 weeks ago:
Counterexample. We love our little balcony. We have some plants, a bench, and a hummingbird feeder. We take our coffee out there for ‘cocktail hour’ at 7, and sit, talk, watch the world go by a few floors down, and enjoy each other’s company.
If you’re not using your balcony, you really should.
- Comment on Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks? 5 weeks ago:
did […] included
Nope. It’s ‘did include’ .
- Comment on Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks? 5 weeks ago:
That really sounds like one of the flat-lander regions.
I get 21 holidays a year, not counting every second friday off because of my 9x9 compressed-time agreement. If I plan it right, and hit the stats with the comp days, that’s 7 weeks off a year. Why, that’s almost european. I’ve just finished my first year at this shop.
- Comment on [Discussion] Someone should have gotten sued over Kangaroo Jack for deceiving trailer 5 weeks ago:
They were “Look at the story we could tell and the wondrous adventure we’re embarking on together”
And then pod-racing, and puppets, and a jibber-jabber secret sith, and toys.
- Comment on If I'm stuck in the same area as someone who is clearly sick (runny nose, coughing etc) is there some combo of short/long breaths or nose/mouth breathing that's a better defense against catching it? 5 weeks ago:
True for someone flushing when you’re in the office bathroom too?
- Comment on why does every single flashlight have multiple settings that you have to scroll through? 5 weeks ago:
Just
- on off switch/button
- rotate the head for bright-dim-wtf
That’s it. That’s what I want.
- Comment on Why 'free' proprietary software will always end in tears 5 weeks ago:
true for open source software though, a lot of open source devs are mini dictators
When I ran my open source project, I was discerning as to what code I’d accept from people.
Does that make me a little dictator if I don’t want to then maintain shit code from someone who doesn’t know what a comma splice is, like above?
Sorry if you do code better than you write.