chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on load bearing worm 2 weeks ago:
This is why I’m a geographer. I get to gleefully embrace my role as generalist who fanboys over real science.
- Comment on You okay babe? 2 weeks ago:
How else are we supposed to pay oil companies and Monsanto massive subsidies to encourage them to keep participating in their wildly profitable businesses?
- Comment on You okay babe? 2 weeks ago:
No - they just pretend taxes are lower to justify not using the tax money responsibly to provide social services.
Between federal income tax, social security, and medicaid my taxes come out to about 40% off the top. Then I have to pay state sales tax, local taxes, and in many states people also have to pay state sales tax.
- Comment on Amazon started hiding ratings for some products 3 weeks ago:
My favorite example is the Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act, which requires manufacturers to honor warranty on products that you or a third party have worked on in the past unless the manufacturer can prove that the specific malfunction for which you’re seeking warranty service was caused by the previous repair or modification.
- Comment on Open Carry Loophole 3 weeks ago:
I usually use a summoning circle drawn from the blood of carrier pigeons.
- Comment on Miss me 3 weeks ago:
Yeah - the old, retired people wasting money on slots is definitely a thing, but another side of the market are people who are desperate and don’t see any way of elevating themselves out of poverty except to win big.
And gambling companies are 100% willing to take advantage of those people and take whatever they have.
- Comment on Wing boy 3 weeks ago:
They’d better be for turning the page.
Because eating wings with chopsticks is like putting ice in milk. It ain’t right.
- Comment on I want to believe 3 weeks ago:
That’s a very smart dog. Mine couldn’t handle putting multiple words together like that, so I had to get a dedicated “skinwalker” button.
- Comment on School of hard knocks 3 weeks ago:
Degrees don’t tell us everything we need to know about a candidate, but they tell us a hell of a lot more than not having a degree does. Candidates are unknowns, and candidates without degrees moreso. If I’m combing through 40 applications then a degreed person is way more likely to get an interview, all else being equal.
- Comment on School of hard knocks 3 weeks ago:
Did your afghan have strict, inflexible timelines for deliverables? Because college courses do. Did completion of your afghan require you to work on simultaneous unrelated sub-projects with shared milestone dates? Because that’s what a college semester is.
- Comment on School of hard knocks 3 weeks ago:
A degree is absolutely something I value heavily in applicants. Not because of the specific courses taken, but because what it says about the potential employee.
It says that they can complete a years-long project with disparate, often competing sub-projects, milestones, deliverable dates, and revolving team members while being self-managed. And due to core curricula, they’ve also proven a baseline knowledge unrelated to their specific degree. That may not sound useful, but someone who’s skillet is solely specialized work may have trouble navigating ancillary tasks that are part of the working environment. The best [insert technical skill] person in the world isn’t going to be a good employee if they can’t work in a team, prepare a report, respond appropriately and professionally to emails, document their work, develop/follow SOPs required for project handoff, deliver a presentation, etc.
Getting any college degree requires a baseline skillset that is valuable. Not having a degree doesn’t mean you can’t do all those things, but when I’ve got 40 applications I’m looking at, I can’t interview everyone. It’s a huge bonus to have a degree that tells me you have proven a minimum competency.
- Comment on You're supposed to say thank you 4 weeks ago:
Well… were you?
- Comment on Wait....IS that what I meant?? 4 weeks ago:
Acting President. One part of the 25th amendment that’s actually been used a few times (Section 3) is related to anesthesia. When the President is going under general anesthesia they can formally tell congress they’ll be temporarily unable to discharge the duties of the office, so the VeeP becomes acting President.
It’s been done 4 times - all related to the colon, funnily enough. George HW Bush was Acting President during Reagan’s colon-cancer surgery. Cheney was Acting President twice for W’s colonoscopies, and Harris was Acting President during Biden’s colonoscopy.
Between all 4 instances it still adds up to like 11 hours total that a VeeP has been Acting President.
The other parts of the 25th Amendment that have been used are Section 1 (Presidential sucession in case of death, resignation, or removal from office) for when Nixon resigned, and Section 2 (Vice-Presidnential succession) following Spiro Agnew’s resignation and Ford’s elevation to the Presidency following Nixon’s Resignation.
Section 4 (removal by the cabinet) hasn’t been used. It probably should have been when Reagan was shot and incapacitated, but Bush was on a flight and wouldn’t have been able to do anything, so it was tricky.
It definitely should have been used with Ttump on January 6th - and about 900 other times.
- Comment on Wait....IS that what I meant?? 4 weeks ago:
Harris at least held the powers of the office for an hour one time while Biden was under for a Colonoscopy. So that’s something.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 4 weeks ago:
Some things require years of specialization and simply can’t be done by novices. You don’t want volunteer engineers, pharmacists, etc. Some of those specializations are also unpleasant. We need to support people and not require that all humanity be profitable, but we also need to incentivize people to do shitty and/or difficult jobs. That balance is extremely difficult to find, and the most effective solution we’ve found is paying people for that work. There’s an incredible imbalance in our system right now that values non-productive ownership over all else, but the solution to that isn’t saying “Fuck it - nobody gets paid and it’ll all work itself out.”
The easiest solution is to tax the shit out of the uber-wealthy. Right now we have lower classes defined by income and an upper class defined by wealth. If we remove the wealth and make work and productivity more valuable than ownership, it moves us much closer to equity.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 4 weeks ago:
Everyone can’t do everything, and some specialized jobs with specialized skills are extremely unpleasant. Are you suggesting that we just hope things get done, or that we force people to do it while giving nothing in return.
One is delusional - the other is just slavery.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 4 weeks ago:
Who’s gonna volunteer to go through years of training specializing in commercial diving in wastewater for repairs on treatment plants for free?
- Comment on Some things were better in the good old days 4 weeks ago:
They were way more repairable though. We had a gas dryer that lasted 40 years and was only replaced because we moved somewhere without gas.
It was basically a big egg timer with an electric mover and a gas burner. You could fix anything on it with a crescent wrench, screwdriver, and off-the-shelf components from the hardware store for about 9 bucks.
The replacement dryer has had to have $1000+ circuit boards replaced more than once.
- Comment on There are still good people in this world. 4 weeks ago:
Do they even keep it dry back there?
- Comment on There are still good people in this world. 4 weeks ago:
Probably a tricolor silk filament of some kind.
- Comment on 🫤🤬🥴 5 weeks ago:
There’s a huge problem with staffing and insurance bullshit in the medical field. 20 years ago, if I got sick I could see my GP usually the same day. Now it takes months to get an appointment, so people go to urgent care or the ER.
A doctor friend explained to me years ago a huge part is insurance companies. He explained that if he prescribed an MRI, he personally had to speak to an adjuster on the phone that had a literal timer requiring them to be on the phone for 20 minutes. They want to inconvenience the doctors into not prescribing procedures or medicines that cost more money.
- Comment on 🫤🤬🥴 5 weeks ago:
I mean - it already takes months to get an appointment. If they schedule even fewer patients I don’t see that improving either.
- Comment on Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, but how far will it go if you try to power it with gasoline?
- Comment on And no paper towels to use on the handle 5 weeks ago:
It’s harder to tell a woman she’d be prettier if she smiled if you can’t see her mouth.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I lost access to my PSN account because they want me to do third-party verification with an authorization app that I apparently had linked to it like a decade ago, but don’t know what it was.
Their alternative verification is to verify purchase histories on my PSN account, which is hard to do when the whole problem is I can’t access my PSN account.
- Comment on The future was yesterday 1 month ago:
I just do January first of however far it goes with a quick swipe.
The distressing part is how that’s shifted from saying I’m way older than I am to saying I’m way younger than I am.
- Comment on PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible" 1 month ago:
There was 9 years between the release of the 360 and the Xbox One. Might was well do the same thing this generation.
- Comment on PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible" 1 month ago:
AI datacenters and greed.
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 1 month ago:
Pensa you some welwala, ke?
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 1 month ago:
So what you’re saying is we should drop rocks on the data centers, right?