FuglyDuck
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
- Comment on Happy 20th anniversary to the Corrupted Blood incident! 12 hours ago:
Dammitalltohellinahandbasket.
I feel old now. (I was there, Gandalf. I was there.)
- Comment on Does free healthcare access increase or decrease the need for medical personnel overall? 1 day ago:
staffing issues aside, generally, “free” healthcare (or rather, government provided healthcare) generally reduces the over all costs- in part, as you noted, by allowing far more prevention and efficiency. Also remember, in places with health insurance like the US, you also have staffing for the insurance agency, and the half-dozen agencies providing support to them, as well.
- Comment on What possible evolutionary advantage is offered by my ears suddenly sprouting tons of hair? 2 days ago:
And there were still plenty of people who took the class to watch porn, I imagine.
- Comment on what a legend 4 days ago:
- Comment on Could a minority in US Senate essentially disolve the federal state? 5 days ago:
The record, the GOP could, if they wanted to, have a simple-majority vote to change the rules for this particular vote, such that it would only require a simple majority to pass.
They don’t want to do that, because this shut down gives trump extreme power to determine what is or isn’t “essential”. So, ICE, FBI, law enforcement, the Military will continue working/operating without pay. same with the fuckers building the ballroom. people who are not essential- like national parks, the government’s cybersecurity guys, people that support wick or snap or HUD etc… the courts…
yeah. So. basically it’s all just a giant cash and power grab. Nazis doing Nazis shit.
In any case, if somehow they manage to not ever get a bill past, yes, eventually the government collapses and shit gets real fucked real quick.
Thats more or less what the GOP want, though. which is why they made it incredibly objectionable and refused to negotiate with the Dems.
and yes, if the government gets funded again, you will still owe taxes.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 1 week ago:
Eh.
There’s levels of “bad thing”. Stealing a cookie might be a bad thing, but it’s mostly harmless. Stealing, I dunno, someone’s life saving medication…? Probably makes the thief a bad person.
(If some one were to steal, I dunno, putin’s meds, I don’t think anyone here would be particularly inclined to accuse them, but, details.)
- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 1 week ago:
Keeping a single corner of a room tidy isn’t that hard, and these are professionals, frequently making some very good money to keep that corner of a room neat and tidy.
- Comment on Has anyone Pooped in the shower? 1 week ago:
this is what the poop knife was made for.
- Comment on help 1 week ago:
It’s all ferns, all the way down.
- Comment on Which career to pursue? 1 week ago:
I suggest “World Domination.” If you start in the US now, all anyone will ever say is, “Well, at least he’s not trump.”
The only real advice I have to give is depressing as fuck: You don’t actually have to like your career. “do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life” is a lie. It can- and will- still be work. If you’re very lucky, you won’t come to hate it, if you’re doing what you love. but eh, yeah. The number of people I know who’ve stopped being passionate about it by forty far outweigh those that stay passionate.
Look at your options for stability in the short term, with long term goals to develop into the other things you want to work towards. (Writing, for example.)
- Comment on proof of wormholes 2 weeks ago:
Not only that. But the sheer number of kids who didn’t develop autism but had Tylenol (or the vaccines! Same shit different goat.)
Like, most kids in the US had Tylenol. Most kids don’t develop autism. Other things most kids are exposed to: going outside. Going inside. Having a pb&j. Wearing clothing. Eating ice cream. The incidence of going to McDonald’s for soft serve and being told the machine is broke.
It’s patently ridiculous, and even if there’s a correlation, it’s pretty clear something else is going on, and you don’t have to be a physician to see that.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 2 weeks ago:
Do you have any idea how common it is to give people, even kids, Tylenol?
I’m not looking up their meta, but I suspect it’s as informative as the meta that shows a “link” between autism and vaccines.
Might as well investigate a link between Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches or wearing clothes.
- Comment on How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ? 2 weeks ago:
Sorry. Wrong pub med out of the hundreds of studies on what kind of sex ed works. Here. Have some more.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3194801/
news.uga.edu/abstinence-only-sex-education-study/
www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/sex-education
researchgate.net/…/354741953_Comprehensive_sexual…
I’m not sure how you can do any kind of search on this and conclude that abstinence-only sex ed works. It doesn’t. We know that.
We know that kids are going to fuck. The only real difference is if they’re comfortable telling adults when something goes wrong; and also know if something is going wrong.
Shame and guilt doesn’t stop behavior- it causes people to hide it.
- Comment on What happens if a world leader gets assassinated during a foreign visit by a *former* citizen of that leader's country? (Like: international relations wise) 2 weeks ago:
“Well, in that case, let me divulge all of our contingency plans, the exact layout and protocols for accessing camp David and everything else you need. For realism. Just don’t make us look like morons, Kay?”- secret service, maybe
- Comment on What happens when a cake is farted upon? 2 weeks ago:
You have to pay the store for it.
- Comment on How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hello there 2 weeks ago:
You know what makes a cult classic a cult classic, right? Very passionate but also niche fan bases.
It’s a great and iconic film, but most people have never actually seen it end to end.
- Comment on How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ? 2 weeks ago:
We may have been taught abstinence and shame, but, that didn’t stop us from having sex.
What it did do was make us stupid and have unprotected sex, which lead to all sorts of harm, simply because we didn’t know better.
- Comment on Hello there 2 weeks ago:
You haven’t seen Montey Python and the Holy Grail?
Relax. We’ve only ever seen it in clips. Though it is obligatory to insult you in a terrible accent: You’re mother was a Hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!
(Seriously though, it was one of those movies that almost no one has watched, but has seen most of anyway.)
- Comment on What is in for the antivax in a government? 3 weeks ago:
It also means selling merch for the leaders pushing it (like RFKjr.)
Frequently dangerous merch.
- Comment on What D&D alignment would my character(s) be? 3 weeks ago:
well, it epends on the person’s society and culture that they’re from. Natasha’s, not Catherine’s. If, for example, it was normalized like, say ancient rome- or basically anywhere else more than ~200 years ago- it could still be lawful. A foreign paladin coming from a land that had abolished slaves would be the odd one out; though if they do anything to stop it, they’d tip into neutral or chaotic good.
- Comment on to hell I say 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on We keep the entomologists in the basement. 3 weeks ago:
Somewhere in Poland, there is an ex-Soviet nuclear bunker which was sealed off for radiation. There was a ventilation pipe in which ants would fall down and then become cannibals.
The queen-less colony of worker drowns was about a million strong.
In 2016, they did an experiment, where they installed a wooden board to let them back out to see what would happen.
(I can only assume they did not watch enough trashy c-tier horror flicks, or any kaiju monster flicks, because this is how the world ends. )
- Comment on My Bank Recently Changed Their Interface to Move Money Between Accounts 4 weeks ago:
There’s an app for that,
- Comment on What's the Bechdel test equivalent for images? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think there is one test.
“Images” is too broad of a concept. Like what that judge said… “I’ll know porn when I see it.”
Beyond that, as an is using an attractive woman to sell makeup gonna fail? What if it’s just a totally bland photo of a face, just an attractive one?
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 4 weeks ago:
…. Are you reading what I’m saying?
Yes. For simple, common problems. You are correct.
But sometimes they’re not running simple problems. Sometimes, the run time on servers costs money. Sometimes, there’s no value to be gained by being any more accurate- and it increases those costs.
Now, in those times…. Are you really going to tell me that costing your organization more money without any useful gains…. Is “way more professional”?
Also? Don’t get me wrong, that threshold is getting and higher every year. I have more computing power in my cell phone than they used to put a man on the moon.
None of that changes that astronomers sometimes use 1 instead of pi, and that the barycenter of Jupiter-sun orbit is close enough to say Jupiter orbits the sun.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 4 weeks ago:
Sure.
But sometimes, the problems are complex enough that solve time becomes a concern. When they’re complex enough, you start asking “is everything these precise enough to justify that” and when the answer is “no”, then you don’t do that because runtime on networked clusters like AWS costs money.
And when you’re talking about scales that encompass the galaxy…. Well. There’s just not a lot of precision there to begin with.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 5 weeks ago:
Not when that definition of pi goes to all 300 trillion decimals that we have resolved. (To be fair, I don’t know of any that do… but eh…yeah. And I’m pretty sure it was defined by a masochist if one did.)
That leads to unnecessary time spent calculating even simple equations. That level of precision is almost never actually needed.
With fermi problems, usually that level of precision is moot and potentially a waste of time. (Particularly when the math is requiring some kind network cluster to do.)
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 5 weeks ago:
fermi approximations happen all the time in astronomy. The numbers are frequently so large that the only meaningful quality is how many orders of magnitude it has.
More to the point, using pi makes calculating things much harder. For example, we don’t really need a precise distance for most things; so using “3” makes the calculation unnecessarily spend time in computation.
It’s like the old joke, “what’s the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire?” (“About a billion.”)
