corsicanguppy

@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s a reasonable tip for a barber? (America)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 😡⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  See: Survivorship Bias

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It gonna be education, training, and respect for firearms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did you guys deal with the death of a parent?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  potato’s

  Why the apostrophe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We were at a restaurant just tonight next to a table where a man had a FaceTime on speakerphone for like a half-hour.

  Remember when that was impolite?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As a mainer, and a progressive, this is like the ending to "Ol' Yeller."⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s neat to condemn people as criminals on a simple timely accusation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I bought a schuko plug adapter. They didn't read specs or even tried it: the diameter of the hole is too small!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but the standards are listed somewhere, so, uh, that’s job-done, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the weirdest thing in english?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s that it’s being driven by influencers and popularity, and not being improved incrementally according to consistent rules and patterns.

  Other languages have steering committees; we have vapid tiktok influencerati trash steering the evolution of English.

  Fucking hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  laundry mat

  laundromat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BREAKING: Canary debanked by Lloyds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  mostly factual

  quite dishonest at times

  Yeah. You know the difference between ‘mostly’ and ‘always’ does allow for some ‘at times’ exceptions, eight?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Royal Family to get a 94% surge in taxpayer-funded income whilst 'it's subjects' must expect less⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s subjects

  Is it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the fundamental difference between sudo and doas ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dedicated Openbsd Application Subexecutor

  That’s got to be a convoluted Backronym.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Security! Yeah. The guy in the bellbottom jorts. Get him out.