Trainguyrom
@Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 18 hours ago:
I mean the Great Lakes are truly inland freshwater oceans with tides, imense international shipping, famous shipwrecks, forgotten shipwrecks, folk songs about famous shipwrecks and even piracy
So the term “great lakes” clearly communicates that these are lakes (freshwater, not hydrologically connected to the ocean) but also that these are notable lakes as the “great” indicates the size, notability and gives a sense of wonder
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 20 hours ago:
The specifics will vary by jurisdiction. The state I live in, you can collect unemployment if fired but it has to be determined that you were not fired for noncompliance with workplace policies or illegal actions. For example if you stole from the cash register and got caught and fired you would not be able to collect unemployment. But if you were fired for poor performance you can receive unemployment
I learned this after a recent workplace decided to make up performance reasons to fire me. The state opened an investigation to determine if unemployment benefits should be paid out, which involved asking both myself and the previous employer about the stated reasons for the discharge, if any written or verbal warnings were given, etc. Hilariously my old employer dropped the entire line of reasoning and just said “it didn’t work out” when the investigator for the state spoke with them. I also then learned that the maximum unemployment benefit in my state is only $1200/month which won’t cover most folks rents so that’s practically useless!
- Comment on New idea 1 day ago:
I thought it was so quaint but learning that the reason for milk delivery was due to a lack of pasteurization (and therefore very rapidly expiring milk), and how many people died by drinking unpasteurized milk quickly dispelled that thought process
- Comment on New idea 1 day ago:
Just keep running the hot water, it’ll get the cooled water from the pipes out of the system at some point!
- Comment on New idea 1 day ago:
If you run the hot water lines under the streets it can double as snow removal in the winter to help reduce road salt consumption!
…We’ll just pretend we don’t have to worry about making urban heat islands worse in the summer
- Comment on New idea 1 day ago:
Need a strawberry milk line too! We don’t want the pink cows going extinct now do we?
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 5 days ago:
I mean it does reduce the value of the content that users created on reddit if a ton of random comments were deleted in protest. Every time you hit a thread like the OOP it reduces reddit 's value to the individual, and in aggregate it reduces reddits value
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 5 days ago:
Oh man /r/atheism was so bad for my mental and social health back in the day
- Comment on Thanks I hate it 6 days ago:
Oh man that just unlocked a memory! When I was in elementary school we’d have a world culture day every year and there were a couple of moms who’d do that on a table each year and I was always in awe at the intricacy and fragility of the design
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 6 days ago:
It could be they were in the process of relocating, but didn’t want to committ in a new city until they had a feel for it, renting the house in the old city while you rent an apartment in the new city until you decide on where you want to live is a very economical way to handle such a relocation, then you can be pickier about the new house purchase and you have more flexibility in buyers for the old house if you don’t have to sell the old house before you can buy the new one
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 6 days ago:
A client at work which is a local property management company (big enough to have 2 part time employees and one full time property maanger) lists all of their properties on Craigslist as well as many more commercial sites, so it’s not just mom and pops on there
- Comment on Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer 1 week ago:
Since about Windows 7 each major windows release has been a bunch of new annoying things you have to learn how to work around, and a couple of fixes for older annoying things that now work better. For example, Windows update on 10 and 11 is actually pretty decent at actually updating everything and finding drivers for fairly common hardware. Windows 11 has some nice window management features built in, etc.
Its easy, just make sure you select the right options during OS setup, hit an unmarked key combination to open a terminal and enter an undocumented command that Microsoft might remove at any moment to bypass certain online/account requirements, uninstall Candy Crush every 6 months or so, enter these registry values to fix the right-click menu, windows search, etc.
Y’know what, thinking about it, its been about 7 years since I last gave Linux a shot on my primary PC, might be about time to try it again…
- Comment on Can any scientists confirm this important fact? 1 week ago:
It’s based on way too many reinterpretations of descriptions of studies into how cats communicate. Basically cats without human interaction will only meow as kittens communicating to their mom and their mother might meow back, and as they grow older they will learn to communicate with each other purely by body language and pheramones. Cats who interact with humans have learned that meowing at us like kittens gets our attention and is effective at communicating with us.
Some have interpreted that to mean cats see us as really strange kittens, which of course gets miscommunicated by well meaning people repeating something they half-remember. It seems the reality is just cats have learned to adjust their behavior to better coexist with humans.
Impressively, cats and their humans also will develop complex enough communication that humans can interpret the need of the cat purely from their meow
At least this is my memory of research I half-remember reading about
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s more a question of individual values in where to spend money. From my memory as a kid in the 90s I did not see very many TVs bigger than 30" in family’s homes. I did see a couple of projection screens that were massive but those of course had their own problems
- Comment on US education 2 weeks ago:
1890 would also be about 30 years after the invention of the telephone and 2 years after the invention of the strowger switch (first automated telephone switch)
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 2 weeks ago:
$500 in the 90s would be equivalent to around $1000 today. That’s a very expensive TV and more than I’ve spent on displays in total across my adult life (which includes some nice IPS computer displays)
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 2 weeks ago:
Realistically what the United States really needs isn’t high speed rail but just passenger rail service. Standard speed mainline passenger service to more places and with more frequency than three times a week at 3am (which I wish was an exaggeration)
If I were totalitarian dictator of the US I’d first have the federal government sieze control of the entire rail network, including all dispatching and all of the private rail maintaince companies and lease trackage rights back to the railroads, keeping rail construction, dispatching and maintenance in house. Next I would create a true national passenger rail network, restoring service to every city possible that still has active right of way. Then, I would use my ownership of the rail network to force the class 1 railroads to construct and operate their trains in a manner condusive to actually moving freight and not blocking other trains (it’s incredible how railroad company executives seem to hate railroads and do everything they can to avoid operating a functioning railroad) plus open up the rail network to new private freight and passenger companies, and finally I’d build new rail coordidors first following the existing interstate network and as those new rail coordidors bed in I’d start reducing lanes on the interstate and introducing tolls to further discourage the use of private vehicles. Maybe some would be converted into bikeways, maybe some would be re-greened. It would be a decision made on a case by case basis what to do with all of the space reclaimed by the highway network
We used to dream big and our governments used to undertake projects like this to improve our countries. And despite our governments being richer than ever they choose to stagnate and not take risks on big public projects like this
- Comment on She's a keeper 2 weeks ago:
Personally I found it entertaining but mostly in a junk media kinda way, much like candy where you enjoy it while you eat it but afterwards just feel a little sick because you shouldn’t have indulged so much.
There were some interesting sci-fi ideas mixed in that hopefully some future person will tease out into a better and more fleshed out story
So basically, if the show looks interesting give it a go, but don’t expect any highbrow grand scifi epic because it just burps in such media’s face while directly pulling inspiration from the same media. Oh and the fans tend to suck.
- Comment on She's a keeper 2 weeks ago:
I switched from the Sam’s Club 30 minutes away because I was tired of getting Walmart grade crap to a Costco 50 minutes away. Prices are a little higher, quality seems not quite as much higher and when we do the math, the savings over just going to Target or whatever aren’t always there
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 2 weeks ago:
The UK recently passed a law requiring submitting a photo ID to access adult content. It’s also super unclear on very important specifics
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 2 weeks ago:
Heck even friggin Musk stopped accepting crypto to buy Tesla’s!
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 3 weeks ago:
it is a book which is long enough that its broken into “chapters” so that you have a good stopping point to pause your reading for the day.
Or in the context of OOP, a book containing many^1^ pages of text and no pictures^2^
- greater than 30
- more than 0.5 pages of text per image
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 3 weeks ago:
If I was as bad at reading and responding to emails as the folks I support…
- Comment on What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I’ll frequently pop a private window when watching something I don’t want mucking with my recommendations and I’ve only ever been prompted to sign in for age verification
- Comment on Choose wisely 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I lost my job a couple of months ago as a mid-level IT person and I’ve been struggling to even get an interview. I had one interview 1.5 months ago and that’s it. Heck I’m even starting to struggle to find positions to apply for to begin with, and I’m scanning as far as 100 miles away.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 4 weeks ago:
- My area had upgraded to DTMF exchanges too soon for me to use a rotary phone, and my parents were to cheap to own an encyclopedia when you could just go to the library to read one, although we did have a few of those encyclopedias on CDs over the years
I literally just wrote a check today to pay for a vehicle inspection. And a couple recently to pay some contractors for some house repairs
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
When I was younger and worked at a grocery store, I had a coworker confide in me that they stop home on their breaks for a shot of vodka. At the time I saw it as “whatever you have to do to survive!” But now I see it as the massive red flag that it is that she’s a functioning alcoholic.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
How is being a school bus driver? I lost my job recently and I’ve been struggling to land another thanks to the current job market. There’s a part of me that’s hedging and looking at what else I might be able to do for work if I can’t land another IT role quickly enough
- Comment on im frend :( 4 weeks ago:
Naaah it’s more fast typing and not correcting. The only abbreviation I see is shorting “have” to “hv” which honestly could also be a typo
- Comment on EA reportedly shelves Need For Speed completely to focus on other projects 4 weeks ago:
Project Rene was literally the biggest news in the Sims space a couple of years ago, it’s not hard to find info about it.
But you know what is hard to find? Anything supporting the wild story you spun to dunk on people who are trying to be decent to their fellow human