BCsven
@BCsven@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Why do they ask questions they already know the answer to? 1 day ago:
To produce a pocket ledger listing dates you missed.
- Comment on Why do they ask questions they already know the answer to? 2 days ago:
My hygienist: Do you floss daily?
Me: I try, but there are times I forget to.
My hygienist: how often do you forget?
Me: well if I knew I was forgetting, I’d just floss
- Comment on Well would you look at that... 4 days ago:
I don’t take offense, nobody is going to have exact lived experience. And open debate is much better than division. Your point about younger age group is valid, because it could be they used it extensively but were self aware and refrained in front of a slightly older person.
I saw same decline in the work place with a large swath of age groups. Many rough shop floor types use slurs still, but internal office and customer facing had a large decline in R word and homosexual slurs in my era.
But there is always one guy dropping it and the group goes quiet. - Comment on Well would you look at that... 4 days ago:
We did where I lived. Was around the George Michael and other stars coming out, and people waking up about slurs, N word also was dropping out.
- Comment on Well would you look at that... 4 days ago:
Highschool mid 80s. Maybe I just lived in a more progressive zone, where language changed faster, or people realised it was not couth
- Comment on Well would you look at that... 4 days ago:
The terms moron and idiot are still used on the test reports, but nobody nowawdays associates calling somebody an idiot/moron with a slur against the mentally challenged, but the R word is.
Like under your argument we can still call people gay as a slur because it used to mean happy.
We stopped calling people gay or R word in the early 90s dude.
- Comment on Well would you look at that... 4 days ago:
I’m surprised Lemmy gave so many down votes, maybe its reaching reddit type users
- Comment on Well would you look at that... 4 days ago:
It no longer means the same though. Language changes, and the R word is used as an insult equating somebody to somebody with down syndrome (as an example) while Moron and Idiot don’t have a direct correlation to a group.
While all are still uses medically, there is context needed. Like the test might say your child is in the idiot, moron range. But a doctor will now say they have mental retardation or reduced mental capacity. They dont say hey parents your kid is ‘Re----"
People still using the R word (as non time related uses) are just behind the times, like when my mom called black people colored…at some point somebody has to confront you and say “hey, this is not how we do things now”
- Comment on Parent Meme 6 days ago:
I don’t personally see myself as old, but grey pubic hair has started.
- Comment on Parent Meme 1 week ago:
The old RTFM.
But actually I was referencing the manuals for the questions being asked.
When it’s the 80s and computers were ‘new’ to the home, seeing a data array in a manual didn’t explain how or what you do with it.
So next step ask parents, whom also didn’t know.
Next step go to the library and ask if they had a book on BASIC or computers. The librarian shakes her head but leads you to the only computer book, which is like the 1960s history of the Mainframe. LOL
Data Array question finally got answered in a 1986 computer course offered at the highschool.
- Comment on Parent Meme 1 week ago:
Lol.
I remember annoying my parents when I bought my commodore64 (no internet back then).
Dad, what does * mean as a default?
Dad, what does Default mean?
Dad, what’s a Data Array?
I figured adults had answers. Lol
- Comment on Anon owns a gym 1 week ago:
I say you are missing the fun.
I bought carbide studded tires for my bicycle, and rode all winter back and forth to work. -20C doesn’t feel cold once you start peddling, and you actually have to unzip layers to cool off.
The summers at 35C were hot, but the sweat and moving through the air cool you.
Very invigorating feeling compared to being in a gym.
- Comment on They say you can't hear images. 2 weeks ago:
Where is Nighhawk?
- Comment on Be better 2 weeks ago:
I think the point is though that after you move out you are in control of your own destiny, and can choose to be a better person than your parents, or just repeat their patterns in your life. I’m not negating trauma.
I.e. had a guy doing Renos at our place, super guy, very kind. As the renos went on we got to chatting. His dad was an abusive alcoholic and he’d left home. I commented how he was doing amazing in spite of his upbringing, and his response was (paraphrased) “I went through stuff, but one day I had to choose not to be my dad, and not let what he did hold me back any longer. You can wallow and drown in the poor me pool, or climb out of it”
- Comment on How come manufacturers use base 10 units when calculating the space of a hard drive? Giving you 931GB per TB Hard Drive. Why not advertise the number windows reads? 3 weeks ago:
Yep, I think it was A&W, and we had this exact discussion at work, because the coworker wanted more beef with the 4 unit
- Comment on Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees 3 weeks ago:
We already see the effect with google. People get AI answers (gleaned from a website) and the website never sees the traffic, nor gets to connect with that user. I think google mentioned paying website owners as a method of keeping websites afloat since not traffic to a website means no sales for the company.
- Comment on Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27 5 weeks ago:
Where does Windows ME fit in?
- Comment on "Mom, we can just go back to burning wood" 5 weeks ago:
Nice
- Comment on "Mom, we can just go back to burning wood" 5 weeks ago:
Ha. I lived in Ontario back when they had a Provincial Hydro company, the bill was fine. For some reason the government sold it to a private company and that company bought the “debt” that the Ontario Hydro had. The private company added a debt retirement fee to our bills. Which was a huge portion of our bill.
To me if you are a private company and you buy a failing business you’d roll fees into the electrical rate to gather money from those using it the most, not just a fee onto anybody, even the smallest user.
Our Water bill was just as stupid, you got charged for amount used, then a sewer reprocessing fee on the same amount. So double billing. I argued if I water my grass or fill a pool then that water doesn’t reach the sewer for reprocessing.
Those two bills were the final straws in me deciding to move to BC. I was already considering the move and weighing options, but saving about $200 a month on utilities was a tipping factor.
- Comment on Life Hack #53 5 weeks ago:
If you find it too much to drink, some of these have a screw at the bottom holding the console in place. You can remove the screw and drain your drink into the carpet.
- Comment on What happens when you name everything Copilot 1 month ago:
And it all makes the experience worse.
- Comment on That’s just unrealistic… too few poop breaks. 1 month ago:
Yes, the company I’m at all employees are on a yearly salary. It simplifies accounting because you don’t me d to tally timecards and have unique payroll each period.
- Comment on Winter is coming 1 month ago:
We’ve had those temps, and sweating all day with AC unit running sucks. I’d much rather put on a sweater if I feel chilly in the Winter.
- Comment on Floating beard 1 month ago:
Lol. I don’t call people often. But when I have free time I sometimes think I should reconnect, however that is rare because I end up doing other things than phone calls.
Just saw my bestman from my wedding after not seeing him in 30 years. I should try harder to connect with others 😀
- Comment on Floating beard 1 month ago:
I hope this is “Hey babe I’m back from my hunting trip early, wanna grab some grub at our favorite place”, and not “yeah my profile showed a suit, but I always have to be ready when outside in case something kicks off, ya know”
- Comment on Floating beard 1 month ago:
I’ve tried explaining this to my wife but she doesn’t get it, because when she is alone she is lonely. When I’m alone I’m fine, I enjoy the moment or free time or however it unfolds.
She used to try to preset get together time with friends for me if she was out of town. Lol. Imma be fine. Movies, books, poetry, artwork, call a friend from 20 years ago, sleep,take hikes, sit on porch with cofeee watching leaves blow in the wind…etc
- Comment on Intuitive explanation for conductor diameter v. electrical wavelength? 1 month ago:
I guess you could think of it like blowing across a large bottle you get a deep resonance, and blowing across a skinny tube you get a higher pitched tone due to the wave change.
So on a large one, in wires, you compensate the length to adjust the “tone”
- Comment on US diesel prices hit a record high, pushing up transportation costs for a long list of goods 2 months ago:
Winning looks so good
- Comment on How do industries that provide goods like lumber or livestock maintain output when their goods take a long time to develop but get used/processed in a short period of time? 2 months ago:
It’s the difference between lead time and production period.
Let’s say GM rolls off 1 car out of the assembly line every hour, it doesn’t mean the work they do to build a car only takes an hour.
Maybe it takes a week? (I’m guessing) to get from frame to finished vehicle. It means the first six days are just filling the plant line, and 7th day they plop out a car an hour as they add one frame to the input at one an hour, but lead time is a full week to get car X from start to finish.
- Comment on Bunnies are metal 2 months ago:
What the animal’s skeleton looks like. Or How the animal’s skeleton looks.