AA5B
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- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 9 hours ago:
I thought I would change it with marriage
Then do it. Pick your celebrity crush, then get together with friends and family for a fake wedding and name change
- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 10 hours ago:
I used to think so as well, until apparently there’s another me in Chicago. He’s a bit older and a college professor
- Comment on Put your seat back or no? 3 days ago:
Very tempting, but I’ll take the knee pain preventing them from reclining, since there’s nothing I can do about it
- Comment on Put your seat back or no? 3 days ago:
Reclining seats don’t work that way. My knees are still the same place, my lap is still the same place, the tray is still the same place. All of them are infringed upon, even if I pay the entitlement back.
- Comment on Put your seat back or no? 3 days ago:
Personally I see it like …. As a bigger guy, I can easily shove my way through a crowd so I’m not delayed demanding that I not perform that action because it is more convenient for you not to be pushed to the ground is … well … yes, I do feel like it is a good analogy. In both cases an entitled person is physically infringing on close personal space to cause pain and make someone else less comfortable, and potentially damage their devices. The difference is that one of these actions has entitled people thinking it’s ok
- Comment on Put your seat back or no? 3 days ago:
But we don’t get priority on seats that fit. We used to but now airlines upcharge everything. Even if you can afford paying extra fees, they go fast: I have rarely seen them available.
FYI - on many planes the bulkhead isn’t even beneficial. The thing is it’s a flat wall. Even though there’s more room overall, there may be no place for feet/legs. Normal seats are much closer together, but there can be more room for your feet/legs
- Comment on Put your seat back or no? 3 days ago:
So, just like you adjust to more room and comfort, the person behind you should adjust to less room, less comfort for your entitlement? Do you really see them the same?
- Comment on Put your seat back or no? 3 days ago:
No. Should not be allowed. For some reason airlines have been allowed to narrow that space more and more to the point where it’s just not reasonable to use. You are infringing on the person behind you. Sure it’s mainly the airlines fault, and the government regulators that are supposed to serve the people, but don’t be an asshole about basic human courtesy
- for those of us on the taller side, you reclining can be painful on the knees. How is it any different than me walking by punching your shoulder. Should I do that? Not ok
- for those of us on the taller side, if you recline, we may no longer easily see the whole screen
- Even short people no longer have room for a laptop and reclining means you quite likely damage it. That’s not ok
- While the trays are supposedly independent, if reclining, they aren’t entirely. You reclining will bump the tray and potentially spill a drink. Not ok. On some aircraft the recline will partly crush a tall cup or can on the back of the tray or knock it over. Not ok
- those of us on the bigger side may no longer even fit a standard paperback. Now you’re not even letting me read because you feel entitled?
As someone both big and tall, I have had people in front of me recline so my normal breathing is in their hair. I have to admit to playing that up. My edgy revenge fantasy is to rest my novel on top of their head because it literally would be easier to read than in front of me
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I don’t remember the movie but I recently saw one where the protagonist reversed his rifle, swung it like a bat, and sent it back to the original thrower. It was good for a laugh
- Comment on If you managed to create batteries that can last for a century, will charging be redundant? 5 days ago:
A battery with the current power density but increased longevity
…. Is exactly what we need. People bitch and moan about how difficult it is to replace phone batteries, but this would make it unnecessary. More importantly, all those people who replace their phones every 2-3 years as the battery stops lasting a full day, would no longer have that excuse. If we had increased longevity, there’d be less electronic waste as people keep their devices longer
Or think about things like grid storage - a lot of the high cost is how long they last, so increased longevity is critical for that investment to pay off.
Or v2g. People are finally coming around to trust that EV batteries will last longer than they will own an EV, ut most of us still don’t trust vehicle to grid connections to not unnecessarily age our vehicle battery
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I always wondered about the approach I’ve seen in a couple movies …. Could you save yourself by tackling the bad guy onto the grenade and being on top of him. Aside from the impossibility of being in a situation where that makes sense, and reacting quickly enough, would the bad guy contain both the shards and the pressure enough to save everyone else?
- Comment on What is the deal with IPv6? 5 days ago:
because we all use 192.168.1.0/24 by default.
This is a bigger deal than you may think. Those of us stubborn enough to use one of the other defined internal network ranges already hit more obstacles than we should, and that difference should be trivial to non-existent.
For me the latest is a smart home device that hard-coded 192.168.1.x, so I am not able to connect it to my network
- Comment on What do you think goes through an animal’s mind and POV? 6 days ago:
She drove that thing back into your closet and that’s the best you can do? She saved your whole family
- Comment on What do you think goes through an animal’s mind and POV? 6 days ago:
Especially when you get down to insects, I imagine it as no thought, just programmed responses
- Comment on How my parents look at me when I say I dont like a food that I've openly disliked for years: 1 week ago:
That looks excellent, thanks!
- Comment on Why do people hate the Kardashians? 1 week ago:
Most other celebrities at least have a reason to maybe they build a swasticar or monopolize the PC software market but there’s a reason they are rich and famous, even if you don’t like it
But why is kardassia? They are able to take up so much attention, so much time, so much of the internet, and make themselves ever richer, yet there doesn’t seem to be a reason, beyond the sex tape that kicked it off. They’ve somehow built a palace on a swamp and it hasn’t fallen over. They are the epitome of empty celebrity worship
- Comment on How my parents look at me when I say I dont like a food that I've openly disliked for years: 1 week ago:
I don’t know but I want the recipe. I’m picturing something like a tapenade……
- Comment on Do young people still say words like "taped"? 1 week ago:
My teen has used it recently …… he had no clue where it came from, and didn’t know there was a difference between CDs and DVDs
- Comment on Where are you supposed to put your eyes when you're not using them? 1 week ago:
Seriously this is the worst on crowded subway cars. When I used to commute by subway, there were multiple occasions where I got glared at for staring into space when some woman or her attractive parts happened to be wherever my eyes were pointing.
You might as well stare at the best boobs because you’re getting glared at for it whether you are or not
- Comment on Would you want to be Michael Jackson-level famous? Why or why not? 1 week ago:
Seems like Stephen king must have had nightmares about his fame
- Comment on Would you want to be Michael Jackson-level famous? Why or why not? 1 week ago:
No. Granted, michael Jackson seems to have had emotional trauma but you could argue a lot of his personal issues were directly caused by his celebrity
- Comment on Gonna be straight forward, how is Donald Trump not considered a Global/Donestic Terrorist? 1 week ago:
Or you could read all the way to the end of your quote
- Comment on Gonna be straight forward, how is Donald Trump not considered a Global/Donestic Terrorist? 1 week ago:
Sure , let’s move the goalposts
- Comment on Gonna be straight forward, how is Donald Trump not considered a Global/Donestic Terrorist? 1 week ago:
So, I see, you’re painting Trump and Putin as the underdog. Everyone pushing them around
- Comment on Gonna be straight forward, how is Donald Trump not considered a Global/Donestic Terrorist? 1 week ago:
Yes, that term usually denotes a person or group not in power.
Google says
A person, group, or organization that uses violent action, or the threat of violent action, to further political goals; frequently in an attempt to coerce either a more powerful opponent, (such as a citizen or group targeting a government), or conversely, a weaker opponent, (such as a government, or even an internal citizen or group, being targeted by a larger government).
- Comment on Gonna be straight forward, how is Donald Trump not considered a Global/Donestic Terrorist? 1 week ago:
He’s not a terrorist, doesnt match the definition. You may notice a lot of comparisons to hitler though. Trump is a better match for a despot
- Comment on Why doesn't more software support ODF / ODS files? 2 weeks ago:
But that’s kind of the problem. If it’s only supported in one or two apps, is it really an open format?
For example, I use Libre Office on my laptop. However the printer driver for my printer is no longer supported and Microsoft keeps installing a broken one over the one that works. I can no longer reliably print from my laptop.
But printing from my iPhone has been flawless for years. But if I try to look up how to edit and print open document format on my iPhone, the answer is “Microsoft Word”. How is the “open” format not supported, and why do I need to switch to a proprietary format?
- Comment on My brother wants to for Father's Day is volunteer at the local women's shelter. Not really a father but has two dogs. But is afraid to even ask because he is male. How does he go about this? 2 weeks ago:
Or a less douchey version is …. While this may be well intentioned, it’s really not going to work and he needs to find another way to contribute
- Comment on My brother wants to for Father's Day is volunteer at the local women's shelter. Not really a father but has two dogs. But is afraid to even ask because he is male. How does he go about this? 2 weeks ago:
This is the least weird thing … as a father, I always preferred an activity with my kids to celebrate Father’s Day, especially something that makes a difference. We generally did something like wilderness cleanup, or clean up grounds at community centers.
As my kids become adults and are less available, it would be easy to say that Father’s Day no longer applies. But it applies to me if I say it does: taking care of people doesn’t just disappear. In the last couple years I’ve been putting some thought into whether I’d continue to meaningfully celebrate Father’s Day and how.
If I were close to someone who was attacked, who I couldn’t protect, who I wasn’t able to sufficiently care for, who needed a womens shelter, why wouldn’t that be one of the possibilities?
- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 2 weeks ago:
The thing is we do have better options, but they’d need to spend money
- We have a pretty good commuter rail service, so one option is to just let the highway get congested. Ideally improve rail service but we shouldn’t even need to
- The real problem is bottlenecks. Let’s spend the money to fix some ramps and interchanges. We don’t need to worry about more lanes if the traffic moves